FORTY ONE
It had been one week since Pedro broke the news to me, the news about him going abroad for his studies, it broke me apart but at the end of the day, one had to choose their own destiny and I couldn’t choose it for him at least not where he could study, I was already getting used to the fact that I was to go alone to the military now that Elena had decided to join her dear brother in California. The results were out just three days before and like I expected, I passed with flying colors, my sister Talia was so happy I remember her congratulating me over and over again, can you believe she bought me a brand new phone, my dream phone of course, she said she had been saving since and now that she didn’t get the chance to buy me a proper gift on my seventeenth birthday, she bought me
