The girl with the smile
Spring is here, flowers are already falling from the trees and making a carpet of colors along the long road I have to walk.
It’s a lovely landscape, feeling the sun as it begins to warm my skin and the soft breeze impregnated with the smells of nature, it’s a gift from God to be able to appreciate all this with the senses that have been given to me.
Walking to work is not uncommon here because the cool weather lends itself to some morning exercise. Every day I walk for about 30 minutes, when I get to the building where I work I go to the cafeteria and there I have a cup of coffee before I go to my office and read some of the headlines in the newspaper.
This morning was a little strange, there in the coffee shop I met this girl who seemed full of energy. She talked and emitted such a radiant light and gave everyone a big smile. As she passed by me, she also looked at me and made a smile that simply invites you to return it.
These are fleeting moments that don't allow us to draw quick conclusions, I get up and head to my work and carry in my mind the memory of the girl with the smile.
Without wasting any time, I get to my office and settle into my computer to see what is planned for today. And so my hours go by until it's time for noon, which is the time we meet for lunch. I usually order my lunch and it arrives just in time to share with my co-workers.
As I pass by the tables at the lunch spot I meet the smiling girl, she is there. She is accompanied with other girls and smiles as much as she can. As I pass her, she notices me and smiles at me and I smile back. It seems silly to smile at someone I don't know but it looks so good on her.
The guys who always accompany me to meals arrived before me and we greet each other, save a place for me and there at a table for four, we share experiences of the day. I listened animatedly to each and every one of them and when it was my turn to tell, I could only tell them that I met a girl in the cafeteria at the entrance of the building and it was the same girl who is sitting two rows of tables over there.
"Ah yes," they tell me, "That's the girl, new assistant to the senior chief. Better not see her, the boss may retaliate against you as he doesn't like his direct staff to have anything to do with the floor staff."
"Wow, too bad, she seems like such a nice girl to me."
I kept thinking but desisted from approaching her because of my friends' recommendations. The next day as I was walking straight to work and already entering the cafe again. She always lends me her beautiful smile, now she knows we are business partners and greets me with a big hello.
“Hello, where do you work?”
And I answered.
“In the IT department.”
And she ran out and said goodbye with three coffees in her hands.
Days went by and I didn't see her again, I don't know what happened, we didn't see each other anymore, but at the end of the week the girl with the smile appeared. She had something different, her smile was gone. Her head was down and she didn't look up.
This is the first part of the fiction story and soon I will tell the final part.
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