Once upon a time a girl called Luana lived in a small town in the interior of Minas Gerais. She had a tranquil life, studied at the 8th level of the first grade. Her best friend was called Gesebel.

Every afternoon Luana went to Gesebel’s house to talk, to study or to exchange secrets. They told one another about their boyfriends and counseled each other.

Her life went on like this until the day she had to move to another city to study.

Far from the family, in a unknowen city and without her friends, Luana had lots of trouble to adapt herself. She encountered several difficulties because she was a shy girl. She wasn't able to make friends easily because of this.

Her first months were very sorrowful, she didn’t talk with anyone since she lost the contact with her best friend Gesebel, who was living in another city to study too. Gesebel was living so far away.

Her first contact with someone after so many months was with Aline, a happy girl that was enjoying the friendship and the reliance of Luana, which slowly made Luana more herself and less shy so that she began to go out and distract herself during the weekends in the big city.

Luana neglected her studies and lost in some subject matters.  That was the reason that she stopped going out at night and dedicated herself more to her studies.

So much dedication wasn’t sufficient, because she had departed from an interior school to a capital school. She had some reinforcement classes that began to show results and she returned to going out to distract herself.

On one of those nights she met a boy she knew called Jorge, who her best friend Aline had introduced her to, and was now in love for the first time and they began to court.

After three months of dating Luana met a new pupil that had entered the school that day. Luana felt herself attracted and wanted to conquer that boy called Luis.

Now Luana had a problem; she had two boyfriends and little time to divide between them with so much work to do.  The situation began to get complicated and her two boyfriends began to suspect that they were being betrayed.

One day, during a soccer game at the seaside on a Saturday, Luis and Jorge began to talk of many themes until they reached dating. In this they realized that they had something common.

Until then no one of the two boys had told the other the name of his girlfriend. That same day Jorge went out with Luana at night and said that he knew a boy in a soccer game called Luis. Luana didn’t disguise the fright and asked to go to the bathroom and Jorge thought about that fact and began to be suspicious. Luana returned to the table they were sitting at and right away she changed the subject.

Arriving home at 1:30am Jorge thought about calling his friend but saw that it was too late and went to sleep. The same night Luana passed restlessly and woke up very worried.

The next day Jorge called Luis to try to clarify the situation and discover if they were really being betrayed. After a lot of talk and lots of confirmations, they discovered the fact that for four months it was hidden.

After the discovery they made a plan to catch Luana. At six o’clock Jorge made a meeting with Luana and the two boys, Luis and Jorge, appeared at the place.

They showed her what they knew and Luana almost died of shame. The two boys broke up with Luana and she went to her house desperate, and passed the rest of the night crying. After some time of sadness Luana was recovering with the help of her friend Aline, that already wasn’t so much her friend.

When classes were finally finished, the group of Luana had a big party, and that party was at Luis’ house. Yes, exactly.  Luis, one of the old flames of Luana and she was ashamed to go to the party but Luis asked her to go and said that he had already forgiven her.

At last, Luana decided to go to the party.  There at the party Luis asked to make up with Luana, and guess what, she said yes. You probably are thinking that she was crazy to accept, and he was crazier to ask, but you are going to understand.

After they made up, he said to everybody that she was a tramp starting with the fact she made up with a boy that had abandoned her and that had made her suffer so much for a long time. Luana was devastated because she still was in love with Luis.

After this, Luana resolved to go back to live in that small town where she lived before. Then she called her mother and explained the whole situation and said that in a week she would be arriving home again.

When she arrived, guess who was living there? Exactly, you are right. Gesebel was back in town too. End of the story because the two friends were back to their customs and finally were happy.

      The End

Isabella and Ulisses
 

Story corrected by Margaret Ann Doty