Diana, born in Catalonia in 1993, was an extremely intelligent woman. She had inherited her mother’s passion for languages and her father’s abilities for maths. She had brown eyes and red red-cairly hair. Everybody said she looked like her mother and took after her father. At school she was the number one, however, she always wanted more and more. This ambition took her to study Chinese: her first-best decision in life. After having passed the First Certificate with 16 years old, Diana stopped studying English in her school academy. She focused in the first year of A levels, but she realised that she needed more activities to improve her skills and she took up the Advance Course: her second-best decision in life.
The first day of class, the 11th of January, Diana had to introduce herself to the rest of students. As normal she said her name, age and the languages she was learning: “Hi, I’m Diana, I’m 16 years and I’m learning German and Chinese” she said a bit nervous waiting for their reaction. Suddenly the teacher got over and pointed out a boy that Diana hadn’t even noticed was there. He stood up and started introducing himself, “I’m Albert and I’m 19...”, and finished saying that he also studied Chinese. During the whole presentation, he was looking at Diana. She felt like time had stopped. It was magic moment, for both.
Before finishing the second term, Albert and Diana were almost all the time chatting. Classes finished at 22.00 o’clock, that’s why one night he decided to accompany Diana to her house. That was the beginning of the most beautiful romance and also the cruelest nightmare.
After the second term exam, Diana had been to Italy for two weeks and Albert was going to Menorca the following week from Diana’s arrival. During one moth they didn’t see each other. When they met in May, Albert was totally different. He would go and hug Diana; instead, he just passes through. She was so upset that she didn’t feel like going on with her life. Since that day, Diana had changed. The funny and enjoyable English class became boring and dull. Albert used to speak with her, but that magic relationship between them had disappeared. Albert different and Diana depressed, they changed from the happy couple to the sad couple. At the beginning of June, Diana found out why the magic had disappeared. They met in a well-known ice-cream shop. He told Diana that that relationship wouldn’t work because he was three years older and that she was too young. Diana couldn’t believe it; she just didn’t imagine her life without Albert. She said “Don’t you love me?” in the middle of tears. Albert explained her that he really felt in love with her but that it couldn’t be possible. He went with her until her house and just said goodbye.
Diana was convinced that Albert would come and tell her: “let’s try it again”. Days and nights were an eternity. Diana hadn’t slept well one single night sine the ice-cream day. She would wake up from a nightmare sweating and crying. That’s why she had to take tablets. She waited for three weeks and then learnt of that he was in Chicago. With any doubt, she caught a plane to the Windy City. Both of them love travelling and visiting new places, but Diana knew perfectly why she had gone there: she was going to demonstrate him that love had no age and that their lives belonged together, one to each other. The adventure had only begun. First she started looking at all the universities there. No more and no less than 35 in only one city. She found out that only 5 of them had contact with Albert’s university. The 29th of July she visited the two universities that were nearer to a famous lake and asked for him. Unfortunately he wasn’t there. The next day she visited the other three with the same previous result. Diana couldn’t understand what was happening. Had she done anything wrong? NO, it couldn’t be! The problem was with Albert! He had moved. Diana went back to Catalonia. She didn’t know how to feel, why was that happening to her?
She started the second and last A level course with no evidence that Albert had even existed. She thought that maybe he was studying abroad, to make matters worse, his telephone number didn’t exist and his e-mail was deleted. Diana kept on living. She studied translation and marketing in Shangai and Beijing. Even though she just remembered him as an adventure in her teenager’s life, Diana wasn’t able to fall in love no more. Her heart had been broken and those types of scars have got no solution. When she was getting on for thirty years, she heard in the news that a Catalan man was making good money by having many offices in Song jiang, the Water World, just where Diana was living. Her heart began betting furiously when she had heard his name: Albert! She couldn’t believe it! It was him! All those feelings, that she once had, had flourished again in her heart. She wanted to see him, she needed it. Diana wanted to change her job and decided to apply for a job in Albert’s company as a translator. With her stunning curriculum, she could get anywhere. Finally she started working in his company. Diana wasn’t idiot and she had just assigned a mission to her. First of all she began to get up better positions inside her department. Two years later she was the boss of her own department, she had to do only the special translations and to prepare campaigns for the company to spread through the world. Being 35 years old, Diana had to go to her first general and most important meeting with the other big bosses and with Albert. Although she was preparing her speech for the meeting, she couldn’t get him off her mind. How would he look like? Did he marry? Did he have children? She would found out the next day.
When she opened the doors, she only saw Albert in a huge and enormous room, all alone. He explained her that this meeting would be only between him and her. His attitude was like nothing had happened. Firstly Albert thanked the work she was doing for his company, but, before he could finish Diana was handing in her resignation and leaving the room.
She had learnt that she could survive without him and that she wouldn’t go behind him like a dog anymore. That was the past.
Three years later Diana
created her own translation company, married to a Chinese man and had two beautiful daughters. Albert’s company started going down and finally bankrupted. That was the best way of killing her past and her pain.
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