The 3 lovely girls spent the rest of the month punished, going from home to school and from school to home, until March 5 arrived and the mail clerk handed her the magazine of her subscription to Mrs. Add "Selections from the reader's digest" Among other things, and a regular mail letter envelope destined for Romaia.
- Is Ms. Adelina going to lift our punishment? Look, we've already behaved well and we want to go to the movies to see the ET movie The Extra-Terrestrial. –says Romaia.
- And the Poltergeist! –says Érika .
- Okay, but they go to the 5 o'clock function so that they arrive at 7 o'clock at the latest, they just watch one movie today and the other tomorrow, no Poltergeist, no terror, because then they don't love each other sleep and go around inventing things! And let it be in Plaza Mocambo, which is the one closest to yours.
-Thank you Ms. Adelina, you will see that we are going to arrive early.
- You got mail! –Ms. Adelina tells her, handing at Romaia the letter.
- Who or what? –asks Romaia, checking the envelope to read the return address. - Nathan Verch? It's the american guy Érika, the american guy answered me!
Say and the two girls, run up the stairs before the complacent gaze of Adelina, who saw all of them as her daughters.
Érika was looking for a letter opener, when Romaia was already pinching the envelope on the side to open It, and the first thing she took out was the photo of Érika, the same one that had been sent to her.
- That's weird? Nothing else is your photograph. –says Romaia.
- Hello girl of my dreams!
-I will give you back the photograph of your friend, you tell her that she is very pretty and you greet me, I wish she had also written me in another letter to meet the girl of my dreams and a sincere friend at the same time, I was very happy to receive your letter and I got ready to answer it as soon as the postman threw it through the mailbox, you seem very nice and special and I would like to get to know you completely, I do not have an instant camera, but I sent you a photo from a little over 2 months ago.
-Where I am with my brothers, celebrating my 19th birthday, I hope you also know who of the 4 I am, to know if I am also the man of your dreams or just a sincere friend.
-I have already reviewed in my world atlas book that precisely my brothers gave me that day, the location of the port of Veracruz and I realize, very happy that it is not very far, increasing the chances that one day I can go to see you.
-A hug and I hope you answer me soon.
-Nathan Verch.
-P.S. I hope I am also the man of your dreams.
- He gave it back to you, incredible, but he gave it back to you! And I mean the trap, not the letter, but; How the hell did he guess which of the 2 you were?
Erika says as her friend silently stared at the photograph Nathan had sent her.
- I already feel like I hate him!
-But right now I will return it. –says Romaia. -And I mean the letter and the trap.
- Hey wait! Calm down, count to 10 and tell whoever you trust the most, first we have to know who of the 4 beautiful gringos who are here is he, so for now you leave me that notebook and that pen alone, we have to do our homework if we want to go to the movies because you already know that Ms. Adelina is not going to let us leave if we don't do it first.
And Romaia, trying not to think too much about the matter, prepared to do her homework for that day, to be able to go out to Plaza Mocambo and without incident they had fun watching the movie of: Poltergeist and after dinner, while they watched a chapter of the serial on the television in their room; Gabriel and Gabriela; Romaia was thinking about how to return the trap to the cunning Nathan who had guessed who he was, and not only guessed, but assured him and the more he looked and looked at the photograph that showed 4 brothers with different clothes, with a coastal landscape in the background, different haircuts, and a close age difference, he could not guess, or even imagine, which one was this Nathan.
-A pity sincere friend, but I am the other one, in this letter I will return my photo to you so that you can return my friend's, I am also very happy that you have answered my letter, I will also return your photo, I would have also I liked that you were the man of my dreams, but you did not guess, so that was the divine sign that indicated to me, that the man of my dreams cannot be that far from me, and in a situation so impossible to know.
Same kisses from your most sincere and more distant friend:
Romaia Montero Sobrevilla.
- Let's see what you wrote to him? –Erika asks, snatching the notebook from her. - How, just like that, are you going to give up? The great Romaia Montero Sobrevilla, the unelected leader of the 3 drunketeers, the most terrible hunters of infidel men of the 20th century, you disappoint to me!
- But I have no idea who of the 4 he is! Although I don't care because all 4 of them are very handsome.
-Look little girl; Not me or my best harpy! I mean, not even my best friend is going to win a nerdy gringo beggar like this one, and you are not going to answer the letter until we are 100% sure who the guy is, tomorrow we will start the operation to find out the identity of the gringo. –Erika says.
- Tomorrow I am going to find out in which room I am going to accommodate them to separate them if they do not sleep! –Adelina says from the door. –You always inventing things.
And so, that day ended for the 2 musketeers, with the difficult mission of finding out the identity of the gringo nerd.
- Let's start with you Pamela! I need you to read this letter that was sent to Pomaia and then you will tell us who of the 4 gringos it is. –Erika says, the next day after leaving school.
- Mmmh? The first one looks smaller apart from being the shortest, the second I like better, but, although he seems the oldest of all, it seems to me that he is only one of those big guys, the third one seems to me that he is a nerd, because Bring a book, but the fourth seems to me to be the most intelligent, it also seems to be the oldest of the 4, I vote because the one who set you up was the fourth, that is, the most handsome.
Pamela says and thus, they went asking each of the other pensioners, the maids and the majority voted for number 4 and for the highest number 2, leaving the nerd who carried a book in third place and to number 1 last, for being the youngest.
-Well, we have 2 possible candidates. –Romaia says, already with scissors in hand.
-But Although the one I like the most and I think is the third one, 19 heads think better than one, so I am going to cut the photo to keep the gringo on the right, and I will send him the part of the photo where are his other brother's.
- Let's see, let's see, listen to her that photo! I tell them that you are always inventing things; Let's see what photo it is and why do you want to cut it?
Adelina says when she entered the terrace where the girls were, and when they explained the situation to her, settling in a chair she took a look at the letter and the photo.
- Mmmh? –said Adelina looking at the letter.
- Mmmh! –she said now looking at the photo.
- Mmmh? –she said again, reading the letter for the second time.
- Mmmh! –she said again, looking at the photo again.
- Oh, Ms. Adelina! –Pamela says, realizing that she was making them repel.
-It's the third, without a doubt.
Romaia accepted it gladly since she was the one she liked the most.
-Wait Roma, before you cut the photo; Why do you think he is the boy who wrote the letter?
-Because he's the only one who brings a map book; Or did they not realize that the book it brings says World Atlas?
-And that was what his brothers gave him on his birthday, it says in the letter.
- I knew that!
Romaia says already cutting the photo, keeping the silhouette of the third of the boys and putting the 2 pieces that were left in the envelope with the answer.
- Yes, will you let us go to the movies, Mrs. Adelina? It serves that I take the opportunity to go to the mail to send the letter.
Romaia says, already putting away his things, preparing to leave that terrace where Mrs. Adelina had found them.
-But they arrive before dinner time so you can give me the key to your car, already know that you don't move it on the weekend, by the way, you bring me this from the supermarket right there in Plaza Mocambo.
Adelina gave them an errand list and some money to buy her some things, and Erika, seeing that what she ordered contained something like snacks, meats and ingredients to prepare some drinks and alcoholic beverages itself, anxiously asked her.
- Bacacho and Tehuacánes, (Mineral water) are you going to reward us for being good all month long, and are we going to have a weekend party?
-Yes, of course, since I have not let you or any of the others leave, I know that the worm is already going on and as they are not the only drunketeers in my pension, I prefer that my girls get drunk here at my house.
-To let the Salty Dog discotheque escape me, as some did last year, after a while I put on the dining room table the list of boys who can invite, not one more, because I will not accept guests from Guests, some of my friends are also going to come with their sons and daughters, and they will take care of me, you slimy, because if ladies gave them to me their parents, ladies I'm going to return them. –Adelina tells them sententiously.
- We have a great party in the house, Pamela!
Érika tells Pamela as soon as she was able to dial the pension's general telephone number, and they left happily along with other fellow pensioners to go to the movies and do the much-anticipated purchases.