Truly yours

he always chose to sit in the fourth row, next to the window, with a new, but ordinary, notebook from the kind they sell at the supermarket and a new, sharpened penc

receive invitations to parties that were announced last

pair of triplets with white skin and light eyes,

ost handsome was Adrián, the one who ruled the roost; Luciano, the most

and the windows were fogged up. Selena was copying down the professor's words when a murmur, thicke

laugh forced her to look up. She saw them out of the corner

ssor said, "do you want

w, clear voice. As she spoke, a strange, electric sensation ran down her ne

nting in favor, but further back there was a male whisper that she couldn't decipher. When cla

gainst the wall to let a group of perfumed girls pass by, talking abou

ells don't go,

her re

alwa

lt comfortable among the tall bookshelves, the smell of ink, and the long tables where she d

ld try to engage her in conversation, and began to write an essay. Every now and then someon

a man standing t

was Elías, holding a notebook, a pencil between his fingers, and his

ing away her backpac

egan to write something restlessly, writing, erasing, and rewriting. Meanwhile, Selena tried to concentrat

n in class," Elías commen

linked,

replied in a ba

d at the corne

hand on the back of Elias's chair. At that moment, the air ten

oth hands. He wore an open jacket, his hair damp from the rain, and

moving. "If you're not go

oached Selena, leaning in as if

He does, though," and he p

g. He needed no introduction; he was the leader. There was a quality to Adrian's silence that made the other

n commented, his v

sooner or later," Lu

gaze and calmly cl

," he said goo

to him, hadn't even spoken to him before. Maybe the teacher had said it out loud during class. Maybe.

ng. She found her reaction to the presence of the most popular kids amusing. She closed

ee and toast permeated the counter as she hung up her apron. The supervisor greeted

people," he comm

asn't distracted even by her thou

red first and nodded; Luciano followed, playing with his keys, a

?" Selena asked when she had

án, who hadn't been looking at the menu, looked up at t

yes to honey and felt like swallowin

," he ordered

he dark liquid filled the glass. As she placed the lids, she concentrated on her work routine and handed out the o

he took her glass, and Selena pulled her

ly said, "

bustle, as if the volume had been lowered

on the counter, and greeted the nex

of the water, and Selena sank down onto her bed in the darkness. The silence of their shared room gav

howl, but couldn't determine which direction it was coming from. And through the trees, she

someone had been watching her from very close. She placed

asleep. In one of the buildings, three shadows c

fferent," one

the other voice c

eard from the

out Friday's party, and although she didn