Chapter 2

 

Year 2011

Taking into consideration that I was depressed, but I was too afraid to tell anyone about what had happened and how I felt (I just told one friend, who was my best friend at that time), I went to college the next year, I made a lot of friends.

Sometimes I couldn’t hide my feelings for some girls and just cried at night. Remembering the girl that hurt me. I was traumatized. But that wasn’t going to stop me being happy and successful, we haven’t arrived at that point of the story yet.

I decided to study mining engineering at a local University near my area. I entered without problems and had to study hard, the time went too fast, because I was for the first time enjoying my life. Some of the friends I had and I, used to play billiards and video games like Counter Strike and Dota, at the time it was still Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne.

The first semester went by, I still get in touch with friends of this epoque. The days were passing very steady, I used to ride the bus to the university, then walk for 15 minutes until the entrance. The first day I didn’t have the ID, so a guard told me that I had to explain myself and let out what I needed, to get to the point. I just needed to go to a conference for my career orientation, I was still afraid, I was shy and now 16 years old.

The first days passed, I had one friend of mine in class and surprisingly, the jerk of the class I mentioned before was in the same class. We all had common courses, because we had done baccalaureate. The jerk had his own circle, I had mine, so we never got into touch until the midterm exams, when I had to explain to him the subjects, so he didn’t fail. I was meant to help him, he refused to be friends with me, even though I never interposed with him and the girl I liked.

I never ever put myself in contact with her and tried to make a new life, knowing people from a lot of social circles, knowing the reality of my country. Furthermore, I am not going to lie, I had pretty much all I wanted at that time, friends and time, I felt productive and had high self-esteem.

Second semester was a bit of a deception, I didn’t make a lot of friends, but I had a chemistry group, and we used to hang out together. My friend was Jewish, tall, skinny and pale. A girl from the group now sings opera, curious about that, now I sing opera too, but not at the same level, I guess. She was already in university choir at that time, I liked Metal. In fact, one day I went with my friend from both school and university to an Iron Maiden concert, he didn’t have money at that time, but I had saved 300 bucks, so I told him we could sneak up to the concert and ask for entries, a man came to us, he sold us entrances for 100 each. Then we bought two T-shirts for 50 each. That was all my savings, but the experience was worth it, I was never in a concert before, wait, I was… you can look up chapter 1.

Another girl from my chemistry group, she now hits the gym and so, was in a relationship with one of the twins, some people would know who I’m referring to. And he was later with a friend of mine, the engineering circle is weird, I know. She is probably reading this right now; I don’t know why I’m telling this, but I think it’s curious and funny.