NICE LOVIN STORY

The story of a young woman and a young man, their names are Maria Jose and Emiliano. This happened in Madrid, many years ago, when life was absolutely different from now.
It is the year 1968, a nice young girl, Maria Jose, is attending a class to improve her knowledge for Bank´s operative. Another young man is sitting at her side, his name is Jose Luis, and they have come to the class together. He is in fact her boyfriend.

For Emiliano, who is behind this couple, is his second day in the class, but not for Maria Jose who is coming every day for the last three months.
Sitting with Emiliano there is another young man who’s name is Jesus. The two seems to know each other from before this occasion as they are talking.
When the class is finished and there is a ten minutes relax till the next lesson the Jose Luis gets up and left the class with Jesus. They are talking of football aloud and Maria Jose and Emiliano remind alone.

Maria Jose is conscious of the new comer Emiliano, she wants to be kind with the new student, so relax her body on the wall and turning her head to the right said to the new who is Emiliano.

He, you are a newcomer, aren´t you?
Yes, I am, it is my second day here, but yesterday you haven´t come haven´t you?
No, I can´t, I was with flu in the bed resting.

I am so sorry, are you o.k. already?

More or less, thank you.
So the work is yours?

What do you mean?

The writing about the garbage´s strike in New York is yours?

Yes, it is, why do you say that?
Because I listened to it yesterday and I like it, I like your style of writing so funny, it is a good work.

Thank you very much, by the way what is your name?

My name is Emiliano, and yours? Mine is Maria Jose, but in family use to call me Cuca.
It is a pleasure Maria Jose, or Cuca, don´t you mind if I call you so, do you?

Of course, not, you may call me so. But, sorry emiliano, you have started very late the class, we are attending the lessons for three months already, why are you coming so late?.
Just, because I am in the army, I am doing my duty as a soldier now and it will be till next December more or less that I am going to be a soldier, afterward I´ll return to the bank.

 So, being a soldier you want now to increase your knowledge about the Bank and get a better job inside?.
Yes I would like to do so, the same as you I suppose but not being a soldier, it is enough to be so intelligent and writing so well as you do.

Thank you Emiliano, you are really nice.
No, please, you are the nicest one in this class, Maria Jose.

 

HOW A GIRL LIKE THIS....., SO SHY?

What is this?
How a girl like Maria Jose so shy and respectful as she is, could turn her body to the right and start to talk with a young man she doesn´t know before?
Incredible could think everyone who knows Maria Jose by those time, even now knowing the story and thinking how this shy girl was it seems like odd such a behavior.
Maria Jose was only twenty one and her character was sweet and shy, she is slender nice girl with an incredible smile that Emiliano likes so much, her eyes are clear without a definitive color, it depends of the light.  
Is there something special about this first meeting with Emiliano? It was like a first feeling of what is going to happen years after?
Nobody knows what is life and why these events happens but it was really extraordinary that the girl turned her body right, relaxed on the wall behind and started to talk to the boy that was behind her.

Emiliano is really pleased with that attitude and the only thought he has on his mind is about how much appealing girl she is, how nice and beautiful girl was talking with him the first time they meet and what a pity that this girl he likes a lot is with a boy that now is out.
Keep out as much as possible unknown young man because I want to continue this conversation with this sweet heart for hours.
Being on this thoughts Emiliano is smiling to her and having not sense of time.
But time go on and another class starts too soon for his taste, she turn back to her position, looking to the front and everything is over to him. The unknown boy is again to her right side and there is not any conversation till the end that they said each other bye, see you tomorrow.
Something happens after that moment it is that Jesus  who is with Emiliano, a boy he know just a little, said hello to the couple that is leaving the class as he knew them, that´s good, they start to talk together as leaving the academy and going down the stairs to the street.
Of course, Emiliano changes his mind and thoughts in going on with them till the end of the world if it is necessary as he wants to continue his talk with that incredible nice girl that is Maria Jose.  

WALKING UP THE STREET

Leaving the class and steeping down the stairs to the street, Emiliano’s mind is out of reality.
He likes the girl and nothing more is important at the moment, so he lets the other three free to go where they want to go and he doesn´t ask anything about where they are going to.  
May be it is better to talk in pass, as all these happened a long time ago….. (Once and again we could talk in present to give the story a vivid feeling or reality)

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It was cold and the academy was far from his house, he needs to take the subway to return home and have nearly an hour's subway ride to be his parent´s house, but he doesn´t care about all this now, that wasn´t important as it could be in other different circumstances.
He likes to return home early as getting up at 7 a.m. to go to the army office it was necessary to sleep well at night.
Nothing about this subjects were in Emiliano’s mind now, he only wanted to be close Maria Jose talking, he looks at her face as long as possible, it was like being in heaven, he is thinking.

Maria Jose´s boyfriend was going ahead with the other young man, Jesus, they were talking about football, nearly the subject every man talks about but that wasn´t the theme emiliano likes very much, in fact he knows nothing about sports in general, less about the first one that is football.
The other two young, Maria Jose and emiliano, were walking behind the other two and talking vividly between them.
What were they talking about this couple? Let me see....., yes it is easy to remember because they were talking frequently about the same items that the two were interested.

Music, books, freedom movements like hippies, and so forth.
This walk was not going to be repeated frequently as Emiliano can´t say anything about going on or repeating the walk when he wanted. He was at the will of his friend Jesus, and the will of the couple, so what can be done to be more time close to the girl? nothing in fact, along several days he had to wait to repeat the same walk and of course doing the same thing just talking with Maria Jose, going at her side, looking to her eyes.

Soon these nice walks were going to finish and Emiliano return home as usual, taking the subway in time to be in his bed much sooner than later.

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Looking to these four people walking up the Jorge Juan street it was something very strange.
Jose Luis, Cuca’s boyfriend, was talking with Jesus, the friend of emiliano. Maria Jose and Emiliano were behind them, two meters approx., talking peacefully about different subjects.
The first theme was about her work of the New York´s garbage strike. In Spain all kind of strikes were forbidden.
He said to her that New York was his dream city where he would like to go in future and be familiar with all aspects of this incredible city.
It seems that the girl, Cuca, and Emiliano know each other for a long time when in fact it was the first time they were walking together, close enough to listen clearly what one of the other were talking about.
In fact this situation was peculiar, we could say, Cuca´s boyfriend talking about football with Angel two or three meter ahead and the other couple, Cuca and Emiliano together talking about different subjects they like to touch and of course for them there were a lot of good subjects instead to be interested instead of football.
Emiliano, more that walking, was floating over the street, talking close near this nice girl as it was Maria Jose.
Where have you been till now? My dear, he was thinking simultaneously to his chat with her.

For him everything was changing inside his mind and heart and he was brilliant as he wasn´t other times that he has to talk.

With her all was different, easy, nice, cool, warm, exited, just falling in love without having sense of it.

Poor boy, soon he was going to see that things were not so easy and it was difficult to repeat this kind of feelings.

It seems there wasn´t anything round him, no people, no cars, no time, nothing, only this nice beautiful girl whose name was Maria Jose, or Cuca? like she was called by frieds, but that boy who is at her side doesn´t call her Cuca, he always says Maria Jose, is he the excepcion? Thinks Emilliano, and where have gone him between class and class. That is a mystery but it has been so good giving them the chance to talk, it is possible that he use to do this way, thinks Emiliano, giving him a good opportunity to talk more time.  
Their talks goes to the end, the other boys wait for them and Jesus says good bye to the couple, Maria Jose house it is near and now Emiliano knows they were going till the girl´s house.
Yes, that was the end of the walk, Cuca´s home in Hermosilla Street, ten minutes, may be some from the class till the Maria Jose´s house.  
Short walk, very short if we have in mind he would like walking with the girl for hours of for his full life with that girl called Maria José, he likes so much.

These feelings were inside him, being not consciously known by this young man who was son fascinated by the girl walking at his side. What could happened if this man, emiliano, could be fully aware he was falling in love?
Nobody knows as love wounds are very painful and hurts a lot in the heart of a young boy or girl by those or always ever time round the world.

DREAMS.

It seems this world is a joke, this boy emiliano was a difficult one, he has tastes that not other boys have.
He doesn´t like football or bull fights, he doesn´t like flamenco or other Spanish music, he does like classical music, rock, folk, and other kind of music not one knows round him, he likes to study English instead of French that was the language that was studied in Spain for those years, no body he knew was studying English, but what he most likes it was just to read, always reading with a book under his arm, in the subway, in the bus, in the short times when there was a rest, and so forth, he doesn´t find his place in the world he was living so he wanted to go out from it. Just to be off as soon as possible that was his inner desire.
In fact he was waiting to finish his military service in the army, it was obliged for that time and without doing this service he couldn´t go to the foreigner as it was impossible to get the passport to be off from his country. First military service, being in the army nearly two years was an obligation to all the boys when they were twenty years old. No one could elude this subject and Emiliano was really angry of having to be in the army like a soldier.

So yes, emiliano was somehow odd, serious, studying English by those time, thinking in going far away from his land immediately he finished in the army and return to the bank work previously to obtain his absence once a period of five year working inside the company were fulfilled.
He was going to ask for and absence of two years at work as soon as he could and have his work assured if he return back after the two years. For that it was necessary to work in the company for five years as it is said above and it was his goal in a short period of time. Just improve his knowledge of English, get more money in the company, and ask for his absence to go...., where to go?, easy for him as he was thinking the possibility since a long time.
Inside his mind wasn´t the idea of any return to Spain, not, but who knows about future, it was better just to have something to grasp here if things in Canada could be go badly.
Canada was his will, Columbia Britannica and if could be possible to Vancouver.

He have finished his studies of designer in the high school and wanted to work on this profession instead of a Bank which was really boring and difficult if you don´t know the language perfectly.
Looking at him we could say he was a young with a fix idea in his mind and he was working to realize it, nothing about girls, romance and so on. The way was clear for this boy and there was a long time he didn´t think in other things.
Just going out from this his world that he doesn´t like at all. So it was a long time he like a girl, it is a subject really difficult as there is not one that really like to him. A problem as year were passing and real love was out from his life.
Suddenly, without noticing it, a new feeling was growing up inside his heart or his soul, a feeling it was going to change his life for ever and ever.
All his projects were going to be off and he will remain in Madrid for all his life.
That´s life after all, we have our dreams that frequently can be real because something happens, it could be for good or not, who knows but somehow we are not owners of our destiny despite we think we are.
Great mistake, we don´t know anything about future. What about the girl?
Just a good question, as this two persons were absolutely different in their thought of their own world, the city were they were living, and their idea of future.

gatufo