Broken Heart: A youthful love story Chapter VII

It had been several weeks after that meeting of Abel with his best friend in the hospital. After several days of not attending classes for refusing to leave her alone there; for he hoped he would awaken from his long sleep, and wanted to be there when he opened his eyes. He spent the nights with her, talking to her while she held her hands, other times she cried begging him to forgive her for not avoiding her being there, for Abel she was a sister, she had always been next to him in her hardest moments, when she felt that everything was on him. Sometimes when Abel could not face his barriers and tribulations his best friend told him "if your sky falls, I will hold it for you and if I can not, then we share mine". In the young man's thoughts, he did not cross by any means to have to say goodbye to her, even to say goodbye in an airport for having to emigrate.

Those weeks were hard for him and for the family of his best friend, Celeste did not give any sign of waking up, the room during the days only the peculiar sound of the vital apparatuses was heard, Abel tried not to cry during the day, he only did it at night when he was alone with Celeste's inert body. Her parents had to cover long night shifts to be able to pay for the clinical expenses, because despite being an average family, the expense was considerable with respect to the passing of days, Abel provided the help of taking care of her so many times it was possible, both So I neglected the university for a while, but had to resume the possibility of losing the entire semester.

—What is happening? Why he has not come anymore?— Edward asks, thinking of all Abel's faults; the boy was a little dismayed at the absence of the other, every minute checked his cell phone in the hope of seeing an answer of the many calls he made to Abel, which none were answered.

—You may not have liked anything about that time, maybe I've gone a little over the line— he says himself remembering the erotic scene he had with the young Edward. To his surprise while he kept the cell phone in his pocket sighing a little exhausted by the wait, he fixed his eyes on a car he recognized in the distance, it was Mr. Heldut leaving Abel in the entrance of the premises, which made him feel A little relieved, I wait for the car to make its way to the main road to approach the young man.

—Hi Abel, is everything okay ?, when time without seeing you, you almost miss the entire semester. Abel simply went sullen and kept walking leaving Edward with the word in his mouth and a little worried to see that his face was somewhat haggard. He tried to take his arm, but Abel immediately rejected him without even looking at him and entered the classroom. Surprised again he did the same thing, he entered classes because it was time to enter science.

—Good morning guys, today we will do the class a little different, please get in pairs to start.

Immediately Marta went to Abel's side to make a partner without asking him, knowing that he would not refuse either because he had not studied anything at all, he did not even open the notebook that his classmate had given him with his notes, even though he was trying normalize his life, the situation of his best friend Celeste prevented him from concentrating. Edward got one of his friends, but he kept staring at Abel.

—Well guys we started, for this occasion I will ask a question and each member should give an answer according to their perspective.

—I thought we would have a surprise test —Marta says to Abel, smiling at him, to which the young man replied with a grimace. Marta was not surprised by her few words, she was the only one in the class who knew the situation the young man was going through; I just tried to make Abel feel comfortable, ask how he felt or if he knew anything else about his best friend, it was touching the sore of hidden despair.

—Dell Abel, what do you think about the theory of relativity?— the teacher asks the young man, but he was completely distracted.

— Abel! ... Abel Heldut!

—Hey Abel wakes up— Marta says shuddering with her shoulder.

—I am sorry

—Excuse me, is that I feel bad —the young man responds to the teacher taking his bag and going to the exit of the classroom.

Everyone was surprised, because Abel was known to be a boy attentive to classes, good grades; not everyone could notice at first glance that the boy really felt bad, but not physically, only Edward perceived hours before something bad happened to him, and he could not stay with crossed hands.

—Excuse me teacher, I need to go to the bathroom— Edward says as he hurries out of the classroom without his bag and without waiting for any response from the educator.

He left in a hurry, in search of the other young man, but he did not get it in the corridors, he thought that he had only escaped to go home, so he went to the roof, where he always went after that meeting with Abel . On the way he asked many more questions, he did not know whether to call him again, he did not want to be rejected that way again, but his insistent heart told him to call him one more time, which he did on the way. As soon as he climbed the stairs, he noticed that a cell phone was ringing and he knew it was Abel's, an obvious coincidence because he was still calling him and in the horn the tone was heard ringing.

Edward climbed quickly and found an Abel crouched like a child crying inconsolably, he simply approached and without a word he hugged him, positioning a hand that passed behind his neck. Abel did not reject him, rather crossed his arms across the back of the other and his taciturn crying drowned between the pressure of his lips against Edward's chest, interlacing his hands wielding the other's clothes; something that transmitted the internal pain that it was carrying. It was there when Edward knew that what Abel needed least was reproach, much less questions.

—Everything will be ok, I am already here.