CHAPTER 13 Monday 19 December 2016 Time: 3:00 pm Sofía It’s almost lunch time and, normally after school, we go home immediately as we would have been up from very early and would be hungry by this time. But today, the five of us have stayed chatting at the school gate to talk about what […]
CHAPTER 12 Friday 16 December 2016 Time: 3:30 pm David “Who’s answering the phone?” I am already at home. The first thing I hear is my mother calling out from her room. The house telephone can be heard everywhere. I look in the living room. My brother isn’t there. The door to his room is […]
CHAPTER 11 Thursday 15 December 2016 Time: 18:30 Sofía “It was good, wasn’t it?” Erik’s voice whispers in my ear, bringing me back to reality. I’m lost in my thoughts again, thinking about what happened in the ice cream shop. I don’t know what surprised me most – the behaviour of the hysterical man, the […]
CHAPTER 10 Thursday 15 December 2016 Time: 17:00 David Since they pedestrianised Alfonso Street a few years ago, people in the city are more willing to walk through the old town. They stop at leisure in the old shopping centre. They walk down to the river and then end up at the Basilica. […]
CHAPTER 9 Thursday 15 December 2016 Time: 16:30 Sofia “Okay Mum, I’m leaving now.” “So soon, dear?” she asks me as I stand up from the table. Today, she looks prettier. For the past few days, she seems worried, as if expecting something to happen. She can’t stop pacing around the house. She goes in […]
CHAPTER 8 Thursday 15 December 2016 Time: 15:30 David If it had not been for rowing training set for today, I would have stayed longer. I would have liked to have been alone with Sofia. She would have told me, only me, what exactly the guide at the museum had told her. I would have […]
CHAPTER 7 Thursday 15 December 2016 Time: 11:00 Sofía Going into a museum is normally really boring, especially if you don’t have a clear mission. It was my dad who made my brother, sister, and me look for something more in such places. Not that we had not travelled a lot in our lives. In […]
CHAPTER 6 Thursday 15 December 2016 Time: 10:00 David The first thing that strikes you when you enter the Provincial Museum is the enormous hall. It is more than five metres high, lined by tall columns with capitals of the ancient kind which, they told us in class, were decorated with a species of leaves. […]
CHAPTER 5 Thursday 15 December 2016 Time: 09:00 Sofía Erik’s arm has not been on my shoulder for more than five minutes when, in the distance, as we are going down Joaquín Costa Street towards Plaza de los Sitios, we spot the others who we’ve agreed to meet at the entrance of the Provincial Museum. […]
CHAPTER 4 Thursday 15 December 2016 Time: 08:55 David As luck would have it, we arrive 10 minutes earlier than the time we arranged to meet up with Sofia and Erik. Elsa spots me and smiles. I smile back. As we wait, we sit down on one of the benches in the Plaza de los […]
