SUMMER IN MADRID

Well dear friends, something more about this young couple in Madrid 1968, the year when everything was changing out the world.


SUMMER 1968 IN MADRID

It is summer of 1968, Cuca has taken her holidays already, made her exam at the Bank and now she wants to study the second test to get the goal of being official at the Banco Hispano Americano.
She has approved the first test that seems the most difficult and now she needs to memorize a lot of themes relative to the Bank´s commercial administration.
It will be necessary for her to study two or three hours by day all the commercial subjects necessary to be in one of the Bank different sites, like cash, foreign exchange, commercial credits of import and export, commerce, and so forth till October, that will be the second test.
Jose Luis her boyfriend has failed his exam and for him is very frustrating to see his girlfriend studying so many hours, he wants to go out and day after day is telling Cuca he wants to walk, to go to the theatre, to the swimming pool or to the park. It is so boring for him to be indoors looking at her studying. Cuca is thinking that this boy doesn´t understand she has to study, to study very hard as she wants to pass her exam.  
It is tiresome for her to be fighting with a frustrated boy that have not past his exam and finally she decided to be in doors that summer studying hard every day.

Emiliano is doing the same, every evening of this summer he is studying the same exam than her, even he is thinking about Cuca, has her past  the exam or not?. He knows nothing about the girl as he is still not working in the Bank and he doesn´t know anybody who could tell him about Maria Jose.
At the morning Emiliano goes to the office where he is doing his service in the army looking to the end of his time in the Spanish Army Forces that will be next December if all goes the right way to him.
Summer in Madrid use to be very hot, nobody goes to the streets if it is not necessary till seven  p.m., or even later, as the sun burns. It is better to have a nap indoors after lunch and await till late to go for a walk.

Soon will be July, the hottest month, it takes a big effort to study so many items that soon, next exam in October will be over, will be forgotten by the majority of these candidates.
Some of the army officials that are working in the Secret Service, are taken their holidays, so Emiliano has in mind to ask for fifteen days of liberty to be with his sister in the mountains near Madrid. He has the idea that the colonel could give him these days if there is a good reason for that. To look after his sister in her holidays could be a good reason for this official and surprised it happens and the colonel signed the permiss to him, and he has fifteen days of holidays to rest in the mountains close to Madrid but also to study full day the Bank´s themes.

Nice holidays indeed, he has lot of ideas inside his mind without being aware that none of them will be accomplish in future.
Softly the summer is going on and October will be soon ahead announcing some changes in the life of Cuca and Emiliano.
Autumn is the best season in Madrid, hot is finished and people likes to walk through Retiro´s Park where there is a symphony of colors everywhere.
It is a nice place to take a seat in the middle of the park and start to read one again the themes it is necessary to remember for at least another week, just enough to take the exam and be free to forget which ever subject you don´t need to remember.
It is not going to happens that Cuca and Emiliano meet each other in the exam, too many candidates have passed first exam and it will be a good chance for them to meet each other doing their exams.

The results will be in November and finishing the proof Cuca and Emiliano were happy if they have done a good test.

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DECEMBER IS COMING
    
November is going on in the city and news are good for the girl, she has approved, so now Cuca is happy thinking in her next future.
A future being alone, as she is breaking inside her mind with her boyfriend and she wants to make it soon and without hurt for him or for her break.

Reality has been over their acts and Cuca knows already that this boy is not for her, she likes to have a good friend at her side, a friend to talk, a friend to love, a friend to live together for long and this boy is not appropriate for her feelings. There is not any confidence or solidarity inside him with the fact she needs time to study and can´t go outside as he lately has requested her. No, Jose Luis is not her boy or her love any more, so the best action to do is to cut soon, in fact she is doing that little by little without hurting his feelings.

Being approved her exams means more money, also more consideration at work office among her partners and this is even more important for her. She likes her work at the Bank and she wants to give the best of her doing her task at the office.
Good for the boy Emiliano too, he has approved and Emiliano was happy. It means just what he wanted, more money to save for his final trip to get his site in the world, working in Canada?, it is possible, but he doesn´t care where if he goes out this vulgar world he lives in Spain.

What it had happened with the girl, has she aproved ?, he was thinking, and the image of her was inside his mind frequently. Is it was in July the last chance he has to see her?, yes, it was, he was going to the Bank to get his month´s salary and Cuca was in Sol Square with that boy of hers, they were chatting each other ten meters from Emiliano that cross Alcala street fast,  going short of time and seeing that the girl was with her boy friend he preferred not to go and meet them as by chance.
It was not easy to him just to see Cuca that way with her boy close to her, never Emiliano has talked with that boy Jose Luis, it was not his type to talk with, less to be friendly.
There was something he dislike about him, but of course this was natural knowing what his feelings to the girl were. Easy to understand after all.

So, that has beeing last time Emiliano saw Maria Jose and was not possible to him just to know if she has passed the first exam or not and if so, what have happened with the second?, not any news about that.
 
Being already in the first days of December winter was ahead, soon Christmas will be in the air and everything will be going to change about the lights, the shops, and of course the feelings of people who lives in this big city of Madrid.
For Emiliano it was the time to get his freedom from the military army service that was so troublesome for him. At that moments the boy is going to an English Academy where he attends two hours by day of conversation and English grammar. His intention of going to the British Columbia in Canada remains inoculated in his mind and it seems nothing will be enough to change his will. That´s what he is thinking now when he is going to learn more English and have to pay a lot of money for two hours of class.

They are good classes with very few people inside them, so the boy could talk a lot and even sometimes he is alone with the teacher, and Australian girl with a very good English accent.
Curious, he thinks, my first will was going to Australia so in accordance with these thought he have lots of question to ask for to the girl and their conversation is always vividly and nice. His improvement is going fast with so many chats. English grammar class is good enough to prepare the Lower Certificate of English a subject that is also in Emiliano´s mind.

Emiliano is not aware that relationship between Cuca and her boyfriend is going to its end. The girl has realized that there is not any future for her with this boy, she can´t married him only by gratitude that will be sure a hell for him and for her.
Having that fact in mind for a long time, may be Emiliano has something to do about her feelings, she has talked with Jose Luis asking him for a period to think, she needs to think if their relation is good and she needs time, the same as him, she told.
Just we need to take some time to think about our future, if it is a good idea to continue or it is better to cut our relationship amicably before it advance more. Jose Luis thinks it is the final and she is saying him that on the right way, so says her that´s o.k. by my part.

So now Cuca has done her first step to finish her relationship with her boyfriend, that is her idea absolutely but she prefer to cut with him in the right way, not hurting his feelings after all.

She has passed  the Bank´s exams and now she is aware that is going to be a meeting in the Jorge Juan academy, among the guys that have succeeded in their exams. It will be on 20th of December and it will be a good occasion to see which one has approved after all.
May be that boy Emiliano has approved? It is sure she said for her, he seem smart to pass, sure he did a good exam.
Will be he in the meeting? she asked herself, may be and we´ll have a good talk together if there is time enough she is thinking. 



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