The glove

When winter came, there were no students in the gardens, the frost of ice covered the small bushes, but the cold that Rafael felt inside was greater than that of the desolate scene, suddenly a girl approached him to offered him a tissue to dry his tears, he had not realized that he was crying. Several months later he did not recover, sadness overwhelmed him so much that he was thinking of leaving high school,

-Hello, I'm Veronica,-" said the girl to Rafael, "

-Please accompany me to the cafeteria, if you stay here you can get sick,- she added,

He accepted the invitation and they went together for coffee. They spent several hours talking, rather it was she who did not stop talking, the Christmas parties were near and she was in charge of planning some of the events of the Christian congregation to which she belonged, he only stayed listening most of the time of time, while observing her beautiful green eyes and her white skin, who would have thought that the help to get out of her depression would come like a fall from the sky.

Christmas came in as the blink of an eye, he had already mated with Veronica's friends and had even been selected to sing in the choir, apparently the song was given naturally, but not so easily to play an instrument, he first tried the guitar, then the mandolin and at the end with the transverse flute, but he didn't give one, in the end he decided to just sing.

Veronica had already introduced her boyfriend, who was one of the youth leaders of the group, with that notice he lost all hope with that beautiful girl, but well, he thought, -at least he took me out of the freezer I was in,- however a month later something happened that left him somewhat confused.

It was the end of January, the winter cold was more than usual, the choir practices had extended much more than expected, eleven o'clock at night came when Veronica approached Rafael to ask him to accompany her to his house, because she had to go through the top of a hill where there were no houses and she was afraid to walk around alone at that time of night, he accepted and said goodbye to the others without much trouble, but on the other hand she seemed somewhat impatient. When they left the living room where they sang, the cold made Rafael shrug, he brought a thick coat, but he did not bring gloves, when she saw him she offered him one of her white cotton gloves, which were not exactly for that cold but at least reached to cover something, he put it in his left hand and she took it in her right hand to warm each other. Two blocks later they began to climb the hill, the lighting was increasingly scarce until nothing could be seen anymore, then she suddenly hugged him and began to kiss him on the mouth, he also hugged her and began to gently touch her. everywhere underneath the clothes, she shuddered at the same time that she responded in the same way, so it took about half an hour until she asked him to continue walking. When they got to the corner of the block where she lived, she asked him to wait there for a bit, she went to her house. Fifteen minutes later, when he was about to leave, she arrived and invited him to come in. She explained that her parents were not there because they had gone to a wedding and that they would arrive later, about two in the morning as was her custom when they went to these events, already in the house she guided him to his room that was on the second floor, threw him on the bed and took off his clothes in front of him, he did the same, the girl's skin was all bristling with the cold, she got on top of him and they started having sex almost immediately.

Rafael took the last bus that was passing at about one in the morning, when he got home he found that on the table his mother had left him a piece of sweet bread and a message that said, "Your uncle Alfredo had dead, your father and I went to accompany your aunt, drink coffee and go to sleep, tomorrow we talk.

The next morning her mother saw the white glove that Rafael had left in the room.

And this glove? ... She asked