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December 31 Carolina Arango
them what we were going to do to celebrate this wonderful moment. They told me that we
were invited to a party.
I got very disappointed because I thought that we
were going to do something all together, as a family, only the 5 of us. Thats weird,
but Im not into meeting new people and spending the most significant new years party
ever with complete strangers, so you can see how disappointed I was.
My parents were getting ready very happily, talking
about other things, but I was so mad about it that I couldnt get it out of my head.
All I could think about is me, in a room full of strange people hugging them and saying
"happy new year".
When I arrived at the party that night, I greeted
everybody and I started talking to them so I wont feel like they were complete
strangers. While I was talking to them, I noticed that everyone in the party was form
Cali, and that was a real surprise because, I mean, the party was in Miami after all. That
made me feel comfortable already.
It was 10:30pm and I was not having too much fun
because everyone was older than me. Everyone was the age of my parents so there wasnt
anyone I could really talk to. I over herd my mom and a friend of hers talking, saying
that her son and his friends were gonna be here any minute. That made me feel great
because I had herd that her son was very cute. The only problem was that I didnt
know his age, I was afraid he was older like everyone else.
Soon, the party started getting good. Like everyone
was from Cali, most of them know how to dance and the host loved to dance so the party
totally changed into what I called a real "party".
After dancing with my dad and brother a hundred
times, I was getting kind of bored and I thought that I herd wrong about the boys coming
but in that exact moment, when I had my hopes down, I herd a voice behind me:
"hi".
I turned around and it was the cutest guy I ever
saw. I felt relieved because he looked 15, and of course I love older guys so I never made
a bored face again.
First, all his friends danced with me, they were
really nice and cute too but I had never seen a guy so good looking as him in my life! So
I was certainly waiting for him to ask me to dance.
I was always starring at them because when a song
ended, they all went and gathered together in a group, like if they had to discuss about
everyone they danced with. While I was looking, I noticed that they were talking and then
looking at me, then talking some more. I felt very nervous because I was the only giro
teenager at the party and they had no one else to look at.
I was siting in my table with my parents and
brothers and they started to come forward, when they were almost arriving to my table, all
of the cute guys friends went other directions and soon he was the only one walking
towards me. I tried not to look nervous but I guess I had no way to hide it, my eyes
spelled nervousness. When he finally arrived, he didnt say a word, he just
passed me his hand. I looked at it and without even thinking my hand stretched out and
grabbed his.
In the dance floor he was great, I had seen him
dance before with other women, one of them my mother. Once she finished dancing with him
she told his mom that he is a great dancer.
We were very quiet while dancing. When the song was
almost ending he asked me my name; I told him and asked him his. His name is Ricky. I didnt
even like that name before I met him, but now I love it! I was kind of sad because the
song was ending but as soon as it ended another song started and he never let go of me,
and of course I didnt either. The second time we danced I was a lot more conformable
therefore we talked a lot more. He told me who his friends were here in Cali and I knew
them so we could really comprehend each other. We had the same taste in music and liked
the same TV shows.
We danced a lot together. I spent most of the night
in his arms and that was great because that had never happened to me before.
It was time to eat. That meant no dancing, which was
sad, but I was hungry so that was ok. When we stopped eating, and the music started again
we danced together and he told me that if I was doing something the day after. I told him
I had no plans so he asked me out to a club near my house. At that moment lots of things
went through my head, like: "Do I look that old?"
I told him that we were to young to enter and he
said that if I was going with him, there was no problem. His brother is a DJ of the club
that he asked me out to so we could enter with no problem.
First of all, he asked me if my parents let me go
out. The truth is that I had never gone out like in a date and less if it was in a club,
but I told him yes anyway. What was so sweet was that he went and asked my mom personally
if I could go and she said yes. She didnt tell me about it so I thought that there
was no way I was going but when I found out I was very happy.
My father didnt know yet, which was good
because theirs no way he is going to let me go out to a club with a 15-yr. old. When he
called me he found out because he answered and he was going to consider it but when I told
him that he was going to pick me up and 11:30, he went ballistic on me. So I had to call
him up and tell him that I couldnt go which was really embracing because my mother
had said yes already.
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