OLMatters - The School Paper
Capturing Memories for the Future
Vol X
Aug 2014 - July 2015
That is life
Maria Fernanda Nazar (´21)
I woke up to Lily, my best friend, turning the lights on, and screaming something I didn’t recognize. I was so tired! I felt my eyes burning as I tried to open them. I had stayed the whole night watching my favorite TV show, “The Vampire Diaries”! As I started to understand what was happening I realized that it was the day of our trip to Miami! I started to dress myself since we had to be at the airport in exactly forty minutes. As I saw, Lily was already dressed up, and I think she was so excited she had already woken up three hours ago. I do not know how she does that! After I was ready, we headed to the airport.
I was so happy that my parents had let me travel with Lily. Well, I was already 17 years old. I felt like I had won the lottery. Our trip would be fantastic! Then, I remembered the worst part of the trip: I would have to go to Lily’s favorite band’s concert, the One Direction concert. I don’t even know how Lily likes them, I mean, they are so stupid! They pretend to be cute guys, but I know that they are all pretending. The One Direction consists of five people: Louis, Liam, Zayn, Niall and Harry. Oh, there is one thing I cannot stand, Harry. He pretends to be all full of charm with that marvelous hair and he attracts all girls to like him. Poor fool girls. Poor fool Lily. That concert would be awful, but I guess you have to do everything for your best friend. We were going to stay there for one week alone. It was going to be the best trip ever, unless the One Direction part of it.
As we got there, in our hotel, I was so excited I wasn’t even tired, even though it was 1:00 in the morning, and I hadn’t slept during the plane. But Lily didn’t feel that way. She went straight to our bedroom, the one we would share the whole trip. Because it was my first time there, I decided to take a stroll around the hotel.
That hotel was stunning! Thank God Lily’s parents paid for it. It was the best hotel in Miami. After I looked at every single part of it, I decided to go back to our room, since tomorrow I would wake up early in the morning (well, at least I will try my best), and stay the whole day at the beach.
As I entered the elevator, I started feeling a bit dizzy. I guessed I was just tired. I was wrong. Suddenly, I felt my arms feel week and my legs start to wobble. It seemed like I was floating in the middle of the sea, and the whole world was spinning around me. That was when, everything turned black.
I had just woken up, and as I stood up, I realized there was a note at my bed. Before opening it, I realized Lily was still sleeping. Oh, it’s still 6:00 in the morning. I opened my note and this is what it said:
“I wanna save you,
Wanna save your heart tonight”
“I can't be no superman,
But for you I'll be a super human”
XX, ME
Oh my gosh! I have a secret admirer! And this person had saved me last night, but when? This was so romantic! I let out a little scream, and by that, Lily woke up. She was a bit confused, because she was usually the first one to wake up, and by my huge grin she asked why I was so happy, and I jumped out of bed and started screaming, “I have a secret admirer”. But then, I felt a huge pain, and fell. Lily immediately stood up and helped me.
When I went to see what that huge pain was, I saw it. All around my back, there was a gigantic bruise. Then, I remembered everything. How I felt dizzy in the elevator, to how I fell. I must have hit my back. I told Lily everything. She was hysterical. She is so romantic, and her whole life she had dreamt of this. She got even crazier, when she noticed that what was written on the note left, was part of a One Direction’s song lyric. She was just a bit worried about my back, but that wasn’t important. The thing was who had saved me?
We went to the hotel’s restaurant, to get some breakfast, since it was all included. That was when it happened.
As we got to the restaurant, Lily freaked out. Apparently, One Direction was staying there. She looked at them, and started screaming and what had five girls, now had 50, crying, screaming and laughing. I gave a quick glance at them, and Harry´s eyes immediately turned to mine, as he smirked. All of the girls around him looked at me. Some were angry, others were happy. How I hated attention. I didn’t know what to do, so I just ran away, and started eating at the farthest table from them, alone, while Lily tried to get a picture with them.
As I ate my breakfast, I thought, why did he smirk at me? Was he my secret admirer? This question didn’t go out of my head, but still, I forced myself to think that it was obviously an illusion. And that no guy would ever be my secret admirer. Someone must be joking.
As I finished my breakfast, I went to my room to change to put my bikinis on, so that we could go to the beach. Lily took a long time to come back, so I just sat around, and watched TV.
As she got back, she was crying of happiness. Apparently, she was able to get a picture with her favorite from One Direction, Niall Horan. I waited until she calmed down, and we went straight to the beach.
The sun was shining, and the sea was calm. The beach was perfect. However, I guess Lily just couldn’t keep still. She just kept talking, and talking about One Direction, and showing me videos of them and pictures of them. I guess maybe they weren’t that bad… They were even good, but… Well, I didn’t know! I guess I kind of started to like Harry from the band, but I just didn’t want to admit it.
I begged Lily to stop talking about them, so she did. The rest of our day was fantastic! We had lunch at restaurant close to the beach we were, walked around the beach, and then, went to a bus, where we would pass through all touristic places of the city. I had such an amazing time!
When I got to the hotel, I was exhausted. I decided to sleep, since, tomorrow I would have to spend my whole day, at the line of that (not so) dumb concert!
The next day, Lily and I woke up eight in the morning, and went straight to the concert, that would only start at six in the afternoon. Because we got there so early, we were able to be in the first row, in the best seat.
As the concert started, I just kept standing, with my arms folded, staring at them. Wow! Harry was even prettier live. At about the middle of the concert, I decided to sit down and watch Lily while she cried, and screamed. I just stayed there for the rest of the concert, and when Lily didn’t notice, I took a quick glance at Harry. When I noticed the last song was the next one, I decided to stand up again, when I noticed Harry started a speech. He said, “There is one girl at the crowd that I would like to call up here. I don’t think she really is enjoying our concert, but, I know she is a very sweet girl.” My heart started to beat really fast, and it felt like it would go out of my mouth in two seconds. He continued, “I saved her from an accident and I would like to save her many more times,” I was crying, when he pointed at me and said, “You, I don’t even know your name, but I already love you. The first time I saw you, I knew you were my soul mate, and I was yours. As I said, I would like to save you many more times and would like to spend the rest of my days with you” I was almost sinking in my own tears. I think everyone was staring at me, but right now, I couldn’t pay attention in any other person. Now, I knew it was him. He was the one. I forgot my shyness and went straight to the stage, where I kissed him, in front of about 7,000 people. All I saw afterwards was Lily crying and waving at me. I called her to the stage, where she hugged every single one of them and we stayed at the stage until the last song was sung.
Now, I’m fifty four years old, and I’m still married to Harry. After that concert, I started dating him, and three years later, he proposed me. Lily actually did marry Niall as her dream always was. Until now, I have lived a fantastic life. Because of this trip, I learned that life may surprise you. You have to not hide your feelings, and let life lead you to your destiny, because that would be the best place.