I arrived at the apartment and saw Liliana crying on the couch, I don't want to ask her what's wrong because I don't care, but I think I'm probably the only person who can ask.
She has no friends, she is a foreigner, she sees her family once a month and well, her boyfriend is not the most attentive in the world, he talks to her every time he remembers her.
So I said to him: «And now what are you bringing, are you all right?
Liliana turned around with a shitty face, snot running down her nose and tears were not even talking about, she threw herself into my arms and started to cry harder.
-chale, I wouldn't have asked her anything- I said to myself as I held this girl in my arms.
Lili did not speak and I did not insist, after a few minutes she began to tell me in tears that she had seen her boyfriend Daniel with another girl.
I felt ugly, I wouldn't want to be in his place, their relationship was over a year, it's not a long time, but being with a jerk weighs. So the truth I felt bad thinking about all his wasted time.
-I don't know what to tell you Lili, you know it's not good for you to make me talk about these things because I'm going away like a sock thread«. I told her as I wiped away her tears.
She stared at me and kept crying, sat down on the couch and started crying worse. After a few minutes she told me that she had gone to her boyfriend's house unannounced and when she walked in she heard moaning, she immediately knew something was wrong.
As she went upstairs she entered the room and realized that indeed her boyfriend was screwing someone else.
Liliana tells me that at that moment she felt her blood rush to her feet, she says she had never felt like that before.
- «I just turned around and ran out of the house, Daniel was bare behind me, he stopped at his door.»- . He said.
I said again chale, I didn't want to tell her that we all knew her boyfriend was cheating on her. I don't want to be the one who always delivers the bad news.
Like the time her mother called the apartment to tell her that her grandmother had passed away. That day I told Liliana: «Hey, your boss spoke, she said that your grandmother Carmen died, if you go to the ranch let her know».
Now that I think about it, I'm not tactful, I don't get that fart no matter how hard I try.
Anyway, I told Liliana that it was not worth crying or feeling miserable for having “lost” him, but that if she wanted to cry all the time and get depressed, it was her right.
-Chance, and with this you'll stop eating a bunch, go to the gym and stop stealing my food from the fridge. I told him with a chuckle to make it look like I didn't mean it.
She just laughed and told me that I was her best friend, I snapped, I have done nothing but give her a hard time all this time.
But heck, I took a beer out of the fridge and went to my room gladly because at the end of the day I was able to restrain myself and avoid telling Liliana that everybody knew that her boyfriend was cheating on her and with whom. Who is the cruel one now? Because I'm not.
By the way Lili, if you read this, it's not you, it's another Liliana who used to live with me.
Photography by Martin Canova
