I was working in front of my laptop, tucked in a small corner at Moises' house in Puebla. I could hear my cousin Hector playing in the distance, and I thought I'd go to say hello after I finished some work. A skinny, tall woman of curly hair passed by and searched for something among a pile of books. She turned around and I recognized Vicky, but she looked pale and neurotic. We hugged and I had to stand on tip toes, she was significantly taller than me, I looked down and saw that she was using huge platform shoes. I looked at her face and she had lost her average beauty, she had wrinkles and her eyebrows, hair and eyelashes had lost color, and she was even skinnier than before.
She said that she had separated from her husband, and then retracted. It made me thought she was signaling availability, but I wasn't interested so I just left the follow-up vague "yeah we should meet some time". I went back to the desk to work, and my laptop had become my diary, but I didn't seem to notice. I flipped through the pages trying to find where to resume work.