Adelina Román de Villalobos, a 43-year-old widow, with a 21-year-old son who was studying in Houston Texas, a distant city in the south of the neighboring country, of average height, white, thin complexion, brown eyes, dark hair, short and attractive, she spent her days tending to that group of high school students, most of them in a school of nuns like Erika; Pamela and Romaia, but it seemed that they were studying in a school of demons, the house was huge, with large gardens, rooms, balconies and terraces, where more than 16 girls who slept in shared rooms of 2 by 2, lived under the iron guardianship of her owner, who was like his second mother.
- Girls, we had balcony operation and it was a success!
Erika says to the group of students who occupied the huge table in the boarding house's dining room, while proud Romaia showed them the photo of poor Gael, all covered in stinky substances.
- I owe you a lipstick from the fayuca, but you would have warned me to see it!
Pamela says that, although she did not live there, every time it was time for lunch or dinner she was invited by Adelina, like any other girl in the pension.
- You owe us lipstick! Remember that I already bet on Roma. –Erika says.
-I couldn't dial you in time, because it didn't occur to her to give you more time to arrive.
- Too bad you can't do a balcony operation in my house. –Pamela says. - If not this would have happened to Mario.
-No operation Queco. –Adelina says from her place at the table. - Because well he managed to bite.
And so, that group of young women spent their day and night was falling, while Romaia was reading an illustrated novel of love stories; Lágrimas, risas y amor (1); Erika told him, glancing at the pen pal section on most of the back pages of any magazine.
- Is it possible that in other countries if there are faithful men? –Asks Erika who was reading another magazine.
-I don't think so, Erika, imagine if here, that we are the prettiest in the school, and that we are constantly watching them, they cheat on us even with our closest friends; What won't they do when they're so far away?
-Well, I'm going to write to someone who seems very sincere to me.
Érika says taking paper and pencil to write a letter on a notebook sheet, while she read the letter to her friend.
"I am a serious boy, my name is Nathan, I am 18 years old and I long to meet a nice girl who is sincere and educated, with whom to make a nice friendship, I currently live with my parents and 3 other siblings in a community on the East coast from the United States, I am studying the tenth grade at the Arthur Harbor high school in Texas, I promise to answer all your letters, you do not need to send your photo, because I know that if you are the sincere girl I am looking for, you will only write to me being the girl of my dreams.
Nathan Verch. 678 Street Maine, Arthur Port (1), Texas.
Zip code 77640; United States of America"
-Looking at it, it seems to me that I am not writing to him. –Erika says. -Because if he doesn't want me to send him my photo, it's because he doesn't want to send me his either, because he must be a nerd without a joke, fat and with glasses.
- Let's see? - Romaia says asking for the magazine. –Well, if I'm going to answer this one that you didn't like it, but I'm going to set a trap for him, let's see; Let me take a picture of you!
And Érika posed for Romaia to take a picture of her and then she posed too, and already when they had the two snapshots from her Polaroid camera.
Where they looking out very well and very beautiful, reloaded on the window sill of her room, writing a letter On a page in her notebooks; Romaia wrote to the boy that he claimed to be sincere.
"Hello! My name is Romaia and I am also a nice serious and educated girl in search of a sincere friendship, I study the third year of high school in a religious school, and I live in a pension for misses in the port of Veracruz, and if you guess who of the 2 it's me in the photos I'm going to send you, then we'll know if I'm just that sincere friend you are looking for, or the girl of your dreams.
Little kisses. Romaia Montero.
Bowlevard MAC. no. 100, Col. Costa Verde.
Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico. Postal Code no. 91700"
Érika was left undecided about what to write and who to write, while Romaia kept the photos and the page torn from her notebook, to post as soon as they left school, and send her letter with cheating to that boy who promised to be serious and sincere, and so between talks and comments they fell asleep.