Beloved

I will never put out of my head that day, I remember it as if it was yesterday, even worse, as if it had happened just a few minutes ago. This story will provoke different reactions on people, they can think it’s comical, unexpected, tedious, but... for me it’s still a far-fetched story.

The Physical Education class was over and we had to go to our next class, History, as I spent a long time on the shower and as the bell rang I couldn’t get my sneakers on, so I went upstairs with them on my hands. As the teacher was an extremely relaxed man, he didn’t mind if I didn’t use my sneakers during his class, so I didn’t get into them.

As the class never got underway because other classmates hadn’t shown up yet, I asked for permission for going to the bathroom and I went there leaving my marvelous black and white Converse-type sneakers on the classroom, however, when I got back they weren’t anywhere, they were faded away!!, I looked for them in everywhere even in the garbage trash, but they never appeared. They did a bang-up job hiding my sneakers - I thought in that moment-.

After spending a lot of minutes checking for them out, my teacher and classmates own up their crime! They had hidden my sneakers, but anyone seems to know where they were. Some of them broke silence telling that they were on the window, the teacher said they must have fell down to the first floor, others declared that they didn’t even take part in the “joke”. They dared to name it a “joke”, for me was the most pitiful crime that I have been part in.

Once and for all, they got me the left one back, and nobody had any idea of where the right one could be.  I couldn’t make heads or tails of how 9 people can lose one sneaker. That’s how I lost one of my beloved sneakers, despite the fact that they were not pretty new, they together were my supreme and the best partners that I ever had.

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