Strangers

I was only going to try on some jeans. She was on the other side of the curtain, with a smile unlike the one she gave any ordinary customer.

I went to the terminal to meet one lover. Two hours later, I left with my body burning from another man who didn’t even know my name.

She climbed three floors to a door with no sign, thinking she knew what she was there for. What she found in that room wasn’t in any ad.

It started like any other night in front of the screen, but when I hit send on that message, I knew there was no turning back.

She’d been dimmed for years by a deep pain, until that grave voice filled the room and I saw her eyes shine again like when I first met her.

I was looking for something temporary while I studied. But that night, when he left the avatar and called me with the camera on, I knew I could never go back.

In the airport bar, only one seat was free. I took it, not knowing that the redhead across from me was about to destroy my entire life.

Mateo promised he’d watch everything from his table, but when two strangers started touching me at once, his silence scared me as much as their hands.

I’d been on the paper for twenty minutes when I saw her walk through the door. High boots, camouflage dress, a smile that wasn’t accidental. I had just enough time for one call to make my move.

I closed my eyes on the wall and spread my legs a little farther. The wind did the rest. I knew they were watching me, and that was exactly what I wanted.

In that narrow stall, with the stranger’s footsteps echoing just beyond the partition, I learned that silence can be a desperate kind of orgasm.

I walked in wearing only a red velvet cape and nothing underneath. The rule was clear: nobody knew who anyone was, and that changed everything that night.

I arrived at the park ten minutes early and thought about running away three times. When I saw them approaching hand in hand, I knew I was going to say yes to everything.

I got on the bus thinking I’d just have one beer. By the time I wanted to get off, it was already too late to pretend I didn’t want to stay.

I’d spent years looking for someone willing to truly watch me, not through a screen. When Lucía said yes, I knew I’d never forget that day.

When I entered the director's office that afternoon, I knew the question wasn't whether I would accept his deal. It was how much I was willing to give for a crown I no longer cared about.

My grandmother, my mother, and I thought that trip to the mountains would be the break we needed. Until the storm trapped us with two strangers.

When she turned on the camera, she was already lying on the bed, waiting for me with a smile that was anything but innocent. And I knew I wouldn’t be sleeping alone that Saturday.

When I put on the mask in front of the mirror, I stopped being myself. What happened after in that garden I didn’t tell anyone until today.