Tom was a normal person... 3

Everything happened so fast that I can hardly remember what went wrong. Tom was a normal person, at least he was until then. He had recently graduated in architecture, but was working at a small advertising company designing logos and slogans since nobody wants an architect with no real experience. 
Tom didn't like his job, actually, Tom hated his job. He had studied to design buildings, skyscrapers, towers...

One day he decided to give up that crappy job, what he didn't know is that on that day he not only wouldn't leave his job, but also would regret that day for the rest of his life. 

That was the first day of the new secretary, Kate. Tom was cleaning his desk just before going to communicate his resignation to his boss when he saw her, he thought she was the prettiest girl he had ever seen, long black hair and a smile that would brighten the day of a death row inmate. Tom was feeling strange, he had never felt like that before, was it love at first sight perhaps? 

During the following days Tom had done more photocopies than in his entire career. He and Kate began dating a few weeks later. They went to the movies, restaurants, even talked about moving in together. 
They had been dating for over a year, Tom was the happiest man in the world and thought he had already waited long enough, and that it was time to settle down. 

He bought a ring and thought about the best way to ask her to marry him, suddenly the phone rang, it was her, she said they needed to talk and that she would be waiting at the cafeteria where they had their first date, Tom thought that it was the perfect place to propose, the place where everything began and would end. Tom went happily to the cafeteria with the ring in his pocket, planning to surprise her with the proposal, he was sure she would say yes.

Tom arrived  only to see Kate crestfallen sitting at a table at the bottom of the cafeteria. Suprised, Tom asked what was wrong and she replied that they needed to talk. Kate explained that she saw no future in their relationship and that they should break before going any further. Tom was silent, he couldn't believe his ears, then without saying anything he walked out of the cafeteria and realised men and women are from different planets.

Sebastián Luque 2 BTX C
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True love isn't always the first 4

One day, three years ago, Kate was walking down the street in a hurry, when she bumped into a guy. By the impact, she had closed her eyes. But, when she opened them, she looked at his eyes, brown with orange details, and she fell in love with him.

Four months later they knew each other better, they started dating. They walked together, sometimes with their dog, they went to the beach, they went camping, etc. they were able to understand each other.

But that understanding was declining, because he did strange things that she didn’t understand perfectly. That's when he worked up the courage and he asked her to marry him. She said she couldn’t accept, because they had only been dating for a few months. So, he had said her awful things and she ended their relationship.

Nowadays, kate is married to a man who makes her happy every day and, sometimes, when she thinks of her old relationship, she thinks that’s why she’d never rush into marriage.

Cristina Sánchez 2 Batx C

Better off as friends 1 - WITH HELP!!!!!

A long time ago, when I was going to a different school, a really important event changed my life completely. I will never forget about it, since it has helped me evolve so much. I was an innocent high schooler without that much experience with life, and I had never had never really close to a female; they were usually only acquaintances of mine. However, my group of school friends started to open up a bit more to other people. Soon, the small zone of the playground that used to be "ours" started being a bit more convoluted, although it was refreshing moreso than it was a bother. Along with these new people I was meeting thanks to my buddies, was a really pretty girl one year younger than me, with long blonde hair and beautiful chocolate eyes. Her name was Marcia.

Marcia and I quickly bonded with me more than anyone else in the group. We got to know each other swiftly, and found out that we enjoyed a lot of the same things. We thought we were soulmates almost instantly and, shortly after, started to hang out more outside of school. Obviously, it wasn't long until we started to flirt with each other. At first, it was in a joking manner. I don't think neither of us thought that the other one would be a suitable partner: we were pals, and nothing else! However, feelings change with the passing of time. One random day, I just found myself hoping for her to be in love with me. It took me a bit to realize that, if I was thinking that, was because I was the one in love with her. The reason I wanted her to fall in love with me was because I've always found it hard to talk about my feelings. I didn't want to be the one to come out to her.

At the end, however, I worked up the courage to tell her. And she agreed! But I was soon deceived by what seemed to be so perfect at the beginning. She turned out to be really greedy. She made me buy everything she desired. I even discovered she had cheated on me, even if it was while she was drunk Our relationship became poisonous, and we had really big arguements. Two or three times, we even hit each other. One day, we sat down and started talking about it: we realized that, as friends we were so much happier. We had an open relationship for a while, still meeting up sometimes as boyfriend and girlfriend, but most of the times we just acted as friends and let the other his or her space. And, finally, after two shaky years, we broke up. However, we are still good friends, and I'm glad we were able to maintain that.


Guillermo López, 2nd Batx D

Temporary love (4)

Four years ago when I was living in Puerto Ordaz, a small city in Venezuela, I met a beautiful girl with bright eyes. We clicked as soon as we met. Quickly I wanted to know everything about her but I didn't want to talk about my life  because I've always found it hard to talk about my feelings so I decided to go slowly, unhurried.

First date, we went to watch a film, a horror film, it was funny because we laughed all the time. When I was laughing she stole to me a kiss then came another, and another. It was the first time I was with a girl. I was really smitten with her. The following weeks, I'd started to rely on her, and we spent happy evenings. We  understood each other very well and life was easier by her side.

Suddenly, changes came into my life again and my father told me that I had to return to Colombia. In a couple of days I'd had to say goodbye to my first love. I felt empty and  powerless to leave that incredible girl. On the other hand, she was too angry with me and wouldn't stop crying. Once in a while, I visited her facebook and I thought about all the people I've left behind in the past, including her and smile.

Daniel Cuevas
Group: D

Difference in thoughts 4

Anna was 15 years old when she met John in a summer camp. John was 17 years old. She was from London and he was from France. For the two weeks which they were in the camp they got to  know each other better and John became the best friend that she had never had. After the summer camp had finished Anna and John kept in touch by letters.

They sent each other letters every week for six months. In the messages they talked about things which they had done during  that week and strange things that had happened to them. Every week that passed Anna started  to fall  in love with John. She wanted him to tell her about his  feelings but she was afraid of being rejected by him. She continued as if nothing was wrong so as not to change the relationship which they had. Meanwhile John stated to fall in love with her too but he didn't want to say anything because he thought she did not feel the same.

Eventually, Anna got the courage to tell him that she was falling for him. From that moment the relationship changed because John stopped writing letters to her. A few months later, John answered one of her letters and he said that distance was their worst enemy and he realized their relationship wouldn’t work.


Ruth Alquinga 2D

Love story 4

Last summer Mike and his friend James needed a new flat mate because they could not pay the rent. After a few weeks, they found a flat mate. The new tenant was a girl called Alice. From the first moment Mike fell in love with Alice but he didn’t dare to tell her.

Mike spent all day thinking about Alice but she did not notice him. James advised Mike to forget about Alice but he couldn’t. They lived together; they saw each other all the time. Mike thought he had to say what he felt about her. After a few days James told Alice that Mike was in love with her ​​and they had to go out together because otherwise Mike would leave the house. Alice eventually fell in love with Mike and she confessed her love to him and Mike also told  about his feelings for her. They had a relationship. It was a very nice relationship, they loved each other very much and had many plans for the future, but the relationship began to have problems. Alice thought that the relationship could not continue if Mike was not able to talk about his feelings. He had always found difficult to talk about his feelings. The relationship couldn’t continue, so they broke up.

Finally Alice left the house and Mike and James found another flat mate. Now Mike only has memories of something that could be but never will be.

                                                               

Iker Letamendia Andrés 2n Batx D

Impossible love 1

My history (WW)starts t) three years ago when I met a boy in(PREP) a party. At first he dind't seem important but after this party we started to talk and go out.

Then a month after i got on well with him. He asked me to be his girlfriend. I was so excited! In the early months everything were (G) incredible I trusted him and he in me. However one day ____ changed because we continually had many discussions (WW) . In the end he split up with me because our relationship ended in failure because of communication problems. But one day we reconciled and we tried again. Until one day he kissed another girl in a party. I was very very sad at the news and I hate (T)his guts.

Finally we patched up our differences and he told me that he was very sorry and I decided to belive him. Althought I was heart-broken and still distrusted him. We carried on arguing and I worked up the courage to split up with him. I think ___ was the best i could have ever done. Nowadays we talk sometimes and try to be friends.

Alina Achig 2batch D

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In love, nothing happens just because 2

This story goes back at beggining of this summer. I lead  some months a bit desperated because I had start the course get off to a good start, had noticed a big change with the level of the studies and I still loving a boy who I had met in theatre classes in secondary school and although we knew that we loved each other we never told it for the other because we had fear of the other's reaction and  finally we grow away with time and it was  difficult to overcome.

Well, back to the present, I didn’t know that this year I will met a boy that would become my boyfriend. We met one day in June, I went out for a walk with a friend and then we  went dinner at a bar in which we went frequently. We two sat at a table and suddenly we saw a young guy with black hair and we thought he was attractive. When we spend a time in these place carried and we had already asked for the what we wanted he started talking to us and when we went out there he came and asked me  my mobile number. And I started went out with him and we got on well at the beginning of the relationship but as the weeks passed I think that we realized that we were two different worlds but neither of us said anything to the other because we didn’t want to hurt some other’s feelings . And finally our relationship ended in failure because of communication problems.And now, when sometimes I remember it I feel some nostalgic. However, I learned that before starting a relationship with someone you must first know this a person and if a relationship ends that is because you and this person didn't destinated to been together  because it will be in destiny's hands and  the only thing we can do it's waiting and when we meet a special person wouldn't let him or her go.

Alexandra Pons 2n Batx-D

Is this possible? 4

I will always remember the day I met Sandra. She was such a beautiful and smart girl that I fell  in love two weeks after we met. We we're just a couple of guys in a summer school but it was obvious that something more especial was appearing inside us.

the days go through to the last week of the summer school. We had to to take a trip to a forest called Los Alcornocales near  Cadiz .While we were on the tour she told me to climb a tree with her to watch all the city. When we were at top of the tree she asked me what  I desired most, as I was hungry I replied, "a hamburger". After that she  stepped down  from the tree and started to act strange for the rest of the week.

After some time I realised what had happened and I said to myself: "Damm, I was so naive" but anyway she could have said  something instead of being silent for a week...At that moment  I realised men and women are from different planets especially when telling ugly things to the other one.

Nacho López Sánchez 2D

Happier days 3

Nine years ago, I was living in Boston, working for the USA government as a history expert, collecting data about the civil war. The first and the second year were so hard. I missed my family a lot. Some days I thought that living in USA was a mistake, that I should return home. The third year, I met Sandra, who was working with me. 

Quickly I fell in love with her, and a few months later, we began dating. Everything started to go better. Sandra was completing me. I didn't feel sad, and my boss promoted me. I simply couldn't stop smiling. I'd never felt better. We had a dog, and a penthouse in the center of the city, in one of the tallest buildings on in the city, with incredible views of Boston. Life couldn't get better. That September 24 was a rainny day. At 8 in the morning, my father phoned me. My mother had died. Everything turned into black. I felt again the sadness. That pain of feeling away from home. Sandra couldn't understand me, because I've always found it hard to talk about my feelings. She told me that I had it all. But I didn't listen to her, I came back home two years ago. We haven't spoken since I left. I began working in a secondary school, as a teacher. I got married, I have sons... But I never did feel so happy like those days when I was living in Boston with Sandra.


Carlos Sintes González, 2ºD

A broken relationship 4

In June 2013 my friends and me went to one of our friends birthday. In this party I met a girl whose name was Anna, she was so pretty, friendly, polite… She was the girl of my life or this is what I thought at that moment.

I started to go out with her and everything was perfect, we were always together. We spent the whole summer talking about ourselves. We found out that we were equal , we even had the same tastes. As summer went ahead I fell more in love with her. She completed me, with her aside I could do everything I wanted, I was unbeatable. When the summer finished, it was time for her to travel to Barcelona to start her university studies. Each day without her was too painfull for me, I couldn’t believe that my love had gone out of my life. She said that we could try a distant relationship but everybody knows how they finish.

A month later, I couldn’t continue with this horrible relationship, distance was our worst enemy and I realised our relationship wouldn’t work. “I will always remember you, you have been the person who’s made my heart have crazy thoughts.”




Victor Casals Manzano 2Bat-D

The return of love 4

It was 5 am and we went to the airport. I saw him and he had crying eyes and he gave me a huge hug. I started to cry and then he kissed me as if it were the last time we saw each other, then I grabbed my baggage and I started to  get on board the airplane and I could hear him crying and I turned back before I went and I said "I love you". After that I went to Barcelona to start my studies at university and I had really good times but I missed having him next to me,  and seeing him at any time, hugging him looking into his eyes and  saying that we loved each other. For a while a good solution to this problem was Skype but then I didn't have too much time to connect and when I had I felt very sad because it was always like a cold relationship without hugs and kisses.

After three months the situation was getting worse day after day, it was something that was eating my mind and I couldn't concentrate on my studies and then I decided to put an end  to this situation because I saw that distance was our worst enemy and I realised our relationship wouldn't work. I called him and told him what I was thinking and I added that I couldn't wait for him for two years. He didn't answer me and then he started to cry and me too , but he admited that we had just grown apart and maybe it could be the right solution. 
When I returned to my city we never saw each other anymore, but three years later in Barcelona, I went to the café were I used to go and drink my coffee every morning and I looked around me and I saw him, and I couldn't believe it, he just smiled at me and I gave him a huge hug. We decided to drink our coffee together and talk about our life: he met a new girl but she wasn't the love of his life and he had finished his studies, I told him that I was in my last year at university and I was planning a trip to Mexico for a few weeks in summer. When we had finished he asked me "Shall we meet tomorrow?" and he was looking at me with these big brown eyes and smiling at me that I couldn't resist it and I said "Yes".
After that we started to go out almost every day until one day during my final exams, we met in the square and he was waiting for me and the first words he said to me were "I miss you". I couldn't understand and I asked him why he said that, and he said that he missed hugging me like in the past and being more than friends. I started to cry and I hugged him, he told me "I love you and I don't want to lose you" and I just kissed him.

Today, being in Mexico, I'm enjoying the heat of the sun on my skin lying on the beach with a tequila cocktail and by my side after 4 years I have the boy with whom I fell in love the first day that I saw him.


Elisa Alcaide Stumpf 2batxC

Distance never helps 2

This is the story of a ballet dancer, Nina, NBA player, Will, and their passionate but short love.

The story started when Will’s brother organized a party for the presentation of a new ballet, “Swan Lake”, in Menorca. Nina was the lead dancer in the “Swan Lake” and she gave a speech on the party. When Will saw her, he was surprised , because of her beauty,sweetness, for her words… And he decided to introduce him to Nina. After talking during hours , they gave to each other their phone numbers to keep in touch.

After two weeks they met and talked during hours, but they realised that distance was their enemy and they realised their relationship woludn’t work because he lives in USA and Nina has to live in Russia.

After three years without seeing each other, Will decided to move to Russia and look for his true love, Nina. Finally, when he found her, he discovered that she had get married and she had formed a family.

Cynthia Vargas Ferrando   2ndBatx.C

Nothing lasts for ever 4

Last Christmas holidays I went to Andorra with my family for two weeks because we had wanted to go to skiing for many years. When we were there I met a gorgeous girl, at the skiing resort and we became friends very fast, her name was Alice. On the 5^th day I went to have lunch with her and we spent all day together and it was  fun. That night I kissed her because I thought that I had nothing to lose because I wouldn't see her anymore when I came back to Menorca. But surprisingly she liked as well, so the following days were the best of holidays because we were together all the time. But, finally, I had to return to Menorca, then I realised if she hadn't liked me.

When I arrived in Menorca it became very hard for me to think that I wasn't going to see Alice for a long time. We used talk on skype, and it made me deal with her absence more easily. She told me that she wanted to come to Menorca in Summer to know Spain and to be with me and I was very excited about that idea, but when Summer arrived her parents sent her to an english camp in the UK so she couldn't come to see me. We kept the contact as we could, but we both had to study very hard so we didn't have too much time to talk and we started to grow apart. We didn't know if we could ever see each other again and it was killing us inside, distance was our worst enemy and I realised our relationship wouldn’t work, so I decided to try to talk less with her and not to remember her pretty eyes. Alice noticed that I was becoming cold with her and I had to tell her what I thought. She took it a little bad but then she understood it. And that's how we lost contact.

Now, I have another girlfriend from Menorca, but she is at the University studying in Barcelona. Once in a while I go to visit her, and last week, when I was there in a club in a party I couldn't believe what my eyes saw. There was Alice standing in the middle of the dance floor and she was staring at me, I think she was as surprised as me, then she walked to me and we spent some time talking about ourselves. Now she has a boyfriend too and next year she is going to study biology in Oxford. We've a very good friendship now and I've promised her that me and my girlfriend are going to visit her in Oxford the next year because I've always wanted to visit UK. From that relationship I've learnt a lot of things even though it didn't end as I expected.

Ismael Derhali Conforto 2nd C

Living together 4

The first time I saw Aiden I thought no boy as good-looking as him could exist. He was tall, dark-haired and he had big blue eyes and a broad smile. We met at the university graduation party. Immediately, we started going out and we swiftly fell in love. The first five or six months were fantastic and Aiden decided to propose. I couldn’t believe it…I was so happy! We rented an old flat in the city. We bought some furniture, we painted the house and we made it into our new home. Four years have passed since those happy days.

Repairing and cleaning the old flat was fun but when we started to live day after day together, cohabitation became difficult. At first we solved our problems talking and kissing but then arguments became something usual. I couldn’t understand his behaviour. He was disastrous: he  could neither cook nor  fry egg , he never made the bed, he wanted to play videogames twice a week, he didn’t want to visit my mother, he made a strange (and very annoying) noise while eating and last but not least he always stepped on the wet floor. I resisted until my 25^th birthday when I ran out of patience because of his present. He couldn’t think of anything else than giving me two tickets for a football match: Manchester United vs. Chelsea. “The best match of the year, he said”. Tickets for a football match for my 25^th birthday? It was at that moment when I realised men and women are from different planets. I felt very angry and upset and I decided to cut off. Nevertheless he couldn’t understand why and he cried and cried and pleaded me an explanation but I could just answer: “Just because you are a disaster and you don’t know how to deal with a woman!”

Now, when I think about it, I realize I treated him very bad and I recognize I was unfair because I had got angry for very silly things. Fortunately, three days after the last quarrel I became conscious of what I had done and I called him to apologize . He accepted my excuses and we made up like we used in the past: talking and kissing. He admitted some of his fixations and I admitted mine.  At present we respect more our ways of life and we try to please each other. Just on this way we can live together happily.  

Ariadna Pons. 2nd C

If I could...4

Now that he is not here it does not make any sense to make coffee for two. Now he is not here it does not make sense to go for a walk in the city as we did in Paris. And now nothing makes sense without him.

I remember when we first met five years ago. I remember that when he met me, he said that I was the  shyest boy that he had ever known. I was not shy but, my body trembled and I couldn’t speak. We became friends at once and then I fell in love with him. I wish I had said what I felt before because I’ve always found it hard to talk about my feelings. I miss going to the cinema on Sundays with him, going out with our friends and dancing like Mia Wallace and Vincent Vega in the dining room of our small flat. 

If I could go back in time, I would try to spend more time with him. If I could go back in time, I would have liked to die in the accident.

Maria Pereira Hernández 2batxC

A broken friendship 4

I still remember two years ago when I lost one of my close friends, Clara. She was friendly, happy, funny and we used to spend a lot of time together.

One day, she was offered to study business in London and of course she accepted. But this experience meant that we couldn't see each other for a while. At this point, there was nothing that I could do, so we decided that we would speak every week through phone or skype and that we would tell each other everything just to keep our friendship on. And that was how we spent the whole year. We spoke every week and through those conversations, she used to tell me that she had made a lot of new good friends, all of them from England and other countries. At Christmas, she returned to see her family and, at that moment, I was very excited to see her again. But our reunion wasn't as I expected because we were so used to being separated from each other that, when we set a day to meet , I felt that she wasn't the same girl I used to hang out with and speak for hours. She was a different person. So finally I decided that I had to talk with her and tell her that she wasn't the same. At that moment, when I had said everything that I felt like saying , she told me that she felt humiliated and that she needed time to think about our friendship.

That night I thought about it and I came to the conclusion that distance was our worst enemy and I realised our relationship wouldn't work because distance not only can affect a couple but it can also spoil a friendship.

Maria López, 2nd Bachillerato D

The bad distance 3

This story is about a boy and a girl: Maria and Carlos. They are living in Los Angeles in a very beautiful neighbourhood. Maria works at a bank and she works from nine to five every day and Carlos works as a publicist, he works at home but he usually goes on business trips.

They have known each other for 15 years, now they’re 31 and 32. Maria studied at a private school and to do the baccalaureate she went to a public school; Carlos was in the public school since he was 3, when he studied the third course of ESO he repeated, but this didn’t stop him from doing baccalaureate. This course is when Carlos and Maria met in the same class and began to get on very well and after a year they became close friends. When they finished baccalaureate, Maria and Carlos went to university. They didn’t take the same degree, but they shared a flat and after a few years they realised that they had fallen in love with each other. So they began to go out and had have had a relationship up to now.

Carlos’s boss offered him a work place in California where he could earn much more money. Maria and Carlos didn’t know what to do, eventually they decided that Carlos should go and Maria would stay because they were having economic problems. At first the relationship was very good but after some time they began to drift  apart and they realised that the distance was their worst enemy and realised that their relationship wouldn’t work so they splitted up, and for some time they stopped talking. When they have get over had got over it ,they made friends again and they sometimes phoned  each other   and talked for hours, despite their good relationship they decided not to be a couple again.

Alfonso Hernández 2ºC

The most emotional decision of my life 4

A few years ago, when I went to a party, my friends introduced me to a guy, called Josh. He and I chatted during all the party and after that he took me home. We seemed to get on well and I felt really happy to meet him. He was very kind and intelligent.

Later, we arranged to meet to drink some coffee. From this day, we became very close friends and we enjoyed doing different things together. Little by little, we began to fall in love with each other. However, I knew he had  to go away to study and the relationship would be quite difficult. When he went to study, we phoned each other every day and chatted online.

But a few months later, I realised we were growing apart because he had made new friends and was busy with university. I didn't feel good. I knew that the distance was our worst enemy and I realised our relationship wouldn't work. I felt really sad but I hope we can always be good friends.

Mónica Mascaró Pons 2nD

An unpleasant change 1

Two years ago I was living in Barcelona with my family, my group of friends, my school, the basketball team... And especially with my girlfriend Jennifer.

Because of the economic crisis my parents lost their jobs at the hospital where they worked , however the headman of the hospital offered them the chance to go to work in another hospital, my parents agreed that, but the problem was that we had to leaft to another city. As soon as they told me, I get angry because I would have to leave my friends and my girlfriend, who told him that he would send messages every week.

When we were in the new city everything was different for me, I make new friends in the high school and continued playing basketball but I was losing contact with Jennifer, until our relationship ended in failure because of communication problems. At first the change didn't greed me. Finally I learned that you have to go page and go ahead.

Joan Cases - 2nd D