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Summer had presented itself a lot faster than I had expected. Six months of hard working had already passed by and the time to take a rest finally was here. Of course, I found myself in no hesitation to celebrate and make up for all the headaches during the past semester.

I stood outside, under a big tree that covered about half the road right in front of my house, and waited to be picked up. The clear dark sky took a hold of my attention. I thought to myself I couldn't have picked a better night. I counted each car that passed by until I finally saw him. He switched the lights from low to high back to low again, letting me know that it was him, as he slowly stopped the car. As soon as I reached to open the door and got in, my hands raced to grab his cheeks, and I gently pressed my lips against his, pulling his head slightly towards me. I immediately felt warmer than before, which was my body's usual behavior when he was around. As I got comfortable in the seat, he took my left hand and pressed it against his right leg, and simply held it there.

On our way to the old city, between every stop light that caught us, our eyes met, with a soft smile, occasionally kissing before noticing someone looking in from the next lane... yeah, that was weird. Eventually, it got to the point where I just didn't care who saw what, regardless of the fact that we weren't the usual couple you often see kissing in public. As far as I was concerned, it hadn't brought up problems for neither of us.

In a few seconds, the car went from 70 miles per hour to about 15, and I could see a long line of cars ahead, all trying to get to the same place, a parking. Luckily, it only took us about 10 minutes to get to one. And so we walked from there to meet the others. I grabbed my phone and called Ayn, who was supposed to be with Ony and Ed already at the bar where we were meeting. We rushed there, almost sweating from the rough steep path we had to walk, but we managed to get there alive, at least I felt okay, Aryn looked a bit exhausted though. The bar was completely crowded, it was evident everyone's misery was over, at least for the time being. The guys had saved seats for us, but they couldn't wait for their beers, which, by the time we got there, were already in half empty glasses. I walked up to order my favorite strawberry brew, and so did Aryn.

"My god, look at that guy over there... if I had a chance to lay a finger on him, there wouldn't be anything I wouldn't do to him." -Said Ayn, who usually spent time looking at other men and commenting about how there wouldn't be anything he wouldn't do if he had the chance. At this point, I figured he was slightly drunk, but that wasn't keeping him from being himself.

Aryn looked at me confused, he was about to burst in laughter. Ayn had actually planned to break the habit of just fantasizing, and so, he went up to speak to the man, whom I was almost certain didn't want anything to do with another man. The loud music couldn't let any of us hear what was really happening, but their faces sometimes said too much. Proving me wrong, next thing I knew, Ayn and the stranger had disappeared, perhaps he did want something with another man. We were all just sitting there, looking amazed at what had just happened.

"Haha, this guy knows his shit!" - Said Ony in a high pitched voice.

"Wow, I am just in shock!" - Replied Aryn - "I can't believe this."

"Yeah, after all these years of going out, I had never seen him in action." - I said. "He either was too desperate, or really drunk and... well, desperate."

Ed just looked at us in shock, opening his eyes wide and softly lowering his lower jaw.

I was on my fourth drink before we decided to go walk outside (and yes, I carry the habit of counting my drinks). We got to the old and famous XVI century castle San Felipe del Morro and sat on the grass right in front of it. Aryn, laying next to me rolled about enough to be almost on top of me and laid a kiss upon my , he surprised me with a soft lick on my upper lip, which made me really warm.

"Okaaay... don't play dirty you two" - Said Ed. "We're still in public here..."

I simply laughed, while Aryn just laid his eyes over me and smiled back.

Time passed by so quickly, as it usually does, and we were all getting very sleepy. Ayn's whereabouts were unknown. He did not pick any of our calls or texts, but we figured he'd be back home safe soon, after all, he is quite the risk taker. Ony, Ed, Aryn and I were all falling asleep. So Ed decided we should get going.

"Let's go Aryn, time to show Alex your little secret." -Said Ed, looking into Aryn's eyes, of course, hiding something from me.

What secret? I asked myself before repeating the exact words aloud.

"Well..." - Aryn turned to look at me. "It is a secret, you won't know until we get there." -He said.

"Until we get there?! Where are we going at this hour?" - I asked very innocently.

I had no idea what was going on and I kinda hated when he kept secrets like those from me, but at the same time, I kinda liked that the secret was for me, or at least I could say the situation revolved around that idea. Anyways, we walked up to the car and got in. Ony got in Ed's car.

As the minutes passed by, it looked to me that we weren't going anywhere near my house, or his.

At this point I was about to freak out and just tell him WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU TAKING ME?! But I did calm myself, besides, I always feel secure of his decisions, he is very analytical, so I knew I wasn't in any kind of danger, but the feeling of just being taken somewhere everyone else knew about but me was just killing me and my sense for curiosity.

"This is going to be a long drive, we should get there soon but if you're too sleepy, go ahead and rest, hon, you will need it." - Aryn said to me, lowering the radio volume a little.

And so, I did what he said. I knew I was a far way from home, on a Friday night, with no classes and a bit drunk... I mean, what could go wrong? I'm gonna live this weekend.

And so I closed my eyes and got disconnected for a while.