They tell me that they have been together for a year and seven months, with that conviction that young love has to count the days, celebrate months, and give roses, as he does, as tangible proof of what a daily conquest is.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- They are united by the complicity of the classroom, their passion for Chemistry, and the pleasant path of pre-university, which is almost over for them because they are in twelfth grade; but it still saves them, as a happy excuse, for discovery, the ease and “let's conquer everything” that at that age you know is possible.
They are two successful students. They became boyfriend and girlfriend during the happy days of what was their first National Preselection in Havana; between the scare of the exams, the door to new knowledge, and the friends from all over Cuba that were born to them.
They are both competing in Chemistry; although he likes Organic more and she likes Inorganic. The truth is that they dedicate many hours to elucidating knowledge, understanding the magic of compounds, and their many contributions to life.
Héctor wears, among other awards, the gold medal of the 27th Ibero-American Olympiad in the specialty while she shows the two silver medals from the national events.
Both have been part, in tenth and eleventh grades, of the National Preselection of the subject, and they aspire to make it also this year because they have the dream of studying for the Bachelor's in Chemistry and climbing together, when he completes his period of the Active Military Service, the exciting steps of Higher Education.
For now, they are happy, and that is enough for them. They share the half-broken desk in the classroom and try to be comfortable like that, even when she, who writes hard, makes a mess and it's up to him to be patient because that's what love is all about; but also that Melissa pays some attention to the Naruto series and the entire fabric of Japanese culture that amazes Héctor; to get him not to object when he has to watch an episode of Friends, and why not, to find the right amount to study Spanish, the class they enjoy the least.
Young and in love, they surely also exchange messages on WhatsApp that no one else can read, they are moved by a song in the wind and smile out of nowhere because only they understand its truest intricacies. Thus, little by little, they build love.
