MaluSummer is here, bringing joy, expectation and longing: joy for my new friendships, expectation for my oncoming exhibition and a sense of longing for Rafa, who I haven’t seen in a while.
After that day at the bistro, Gabriel is a familiar face at my apartment. Clara, Gabriel and I are now great friends. We share dinners, conversations, and hopes. In the beginning, it was complicated. He was very clear that he was interested in having a relationship with me. But, little by little, he understood, just as I did, that Rafa is the one I really like, plain and simple. I know that there’s no future in this, that Rafa doesn’t want relationships and that our story is kind of suspended after “that” night. I don’t even understand how I could let myself feel something so deep for another person. I
