The long-distance relationships

I have a friend who has a problem very common in our age. This name's Mike, lives in Barcelona and when he was sixteen he met a girl who changed his life. She's very beautiful and nice. He met her when his friend Tom introduced him to her. The first time that Mike saw her he fell in love at first sight. Later, when he knew her well, he fell in love with Anne. Their relationship seemed to be going well, but Anne finished her holidays and she had to return to Madrid, the city where she lives. That’s the problem.



When she went back home, Mike felt bad because he had a crush on her. He spent a difficult moments, and his friends too. He missed Anne and, as a result, he didn’t pay attention to other girls. Anne was his world. Their friend tried to talk with him and say that he should forget her, however, he continued being obsess with her. Really, he was so bad. Despite the distance, he thought of her every day and, sometimes, they talked on Facebook and on the phone. He didn’t dare to ask her if she missed him too or if she felt the same. Mike wanted to die when he imagined Anne in the arms of another boy; nevertheless, he didn’t talk to her about this.



Actually, they grew apart for a year and the problems went again with the summer. He thought that things would be like last summer ans she would jump in his arms. All the same, it seemed that she had forgotten him and she spent all the summer flirting with a friend of Mike’s and mine. You can imagine the situation. He spent all the holidays trying to win her heart, but she didn’t want to smitten. In addition, Mike had a kind of relationship with another girl, Mary. She was really smitten with Mike, but Anne was Anne. In the last days of their holidays, Mike and Anne had a big row on telephone. He rubbed it in her face and she, crying, got really angry with him. Consequently, they passed a day afraid each other until he cleared the air and apologized for his behaviour.



As a result, they patched up their differences and passed together as friends the rest of the summer. Mike hid his feelings as good as is possible. Finally, she left Barcelona returning to the routine. He went to say goodbye to her. Moreover, he had bought her a gift. Nobody knows what it was, although I have heard that she cried of emotion. Now, they are friends and have a good relationship, he misses her though. Oh love! At that moment, I realized that long-distance relationships don’t work...