The soft summer breeze brushed against my arms minute after minute. It was nice feeling the cold wind onto my warm skin. The rays of the sun shone onto my face making my skin glow a golden color. It was a mid July summer day and I have been sitting at our front porch for almost two hours already. days like these reminded me of how much I loved summer. How much I missed those days that my father would read to me when the sun goes down. How he said 'just one more minute' every time when he actually went on sitting there with me for a whole lot more minutes. I missed that man he was back then. A fearless man who made it appear he had everything in control. Now, these past years he never had time to even eat breakfast with me or watch a movie on a Saturday night. He was busy with work he would tell. I could never complain about my father because he indeed was a hard working man. Ever since I was a little girl we would move a lot, city to city, just because he had such a busy job. I switched schools, made different friends and lost a lot of them too. I appreciated what he did for me, especially because he was a single parent. Things would have been easier with mom on our side but dad swore never to love another woman because he had mom in his heart.

"Elena?" His voice rang through my busy mind, I cleared my mind and took a second to turn around. My eyes were a bit blurry from the sun that had been on my face for a long time. "Padre? What are you doing here? I thought you were at work" I said as I stood up from the stair I was sitting on. My father sighed, "I've asked the day off tomorrow because of your birthday, I don't want to miss that"

"Padre" I smiled at him as I went in for a hug. I hadn't hold my father in my arms for so long. His way of affection had been different from how it was. My father tightened his grip around me and held me for some seconds, this felt different. It was almost as like he didn't want to let go. "Are you sure you want to do this?" I asked him to be sure he was okay with taking the day off. I never asked him to do this but still it was a lucky surprise to me. He worked a nine to five job six days in a row. My birthday shouldn't be in the way of this.

My father let go of me and smiled just by seeing a smile on my face, "I want to do this, for you" he began, "you're turning twenty this year. How could I not be there on your birthday"

"Elena! Eleeennaa!" I heard my name being called from a bit away. I turned to look who it was and I was right. My two closest friends Andrea and Carlos just parked their car in front of my house, they came up running towards me but their pace slowed down the second they saw me and my father so close to each other. Andrea had a confused look on his face whilst Carlos was concerned. I chuckled by seeing the two. They were everything to me, those two had stuck by my side since I moved here four years ago. We immediately clicked since then and they never left my side.

I felt my father loosen up his hug and not much later he let go of me. "Spend the day with them, tomorrow I have planned something fun for us if you don't mind"

I placed a kiss on my fathers cheek and smiled, 'Ti amo Padre, I would love to spend the day with you tomorrow" my father placed his hand on my shoulder and whispered 'I love you too' to me before leaving me and my friends alone on the porch.

"You have to spill the tea about this cause what!? Since when do you hug with your father?!" Andrea asked surprised.

"I don't know, he came up to me and said he took the day off tomorrow so he could spend my birthday with me" I explained them, "your father is something special girl. Do you think he has something planned for your birthday?"

I shrugged not sure what my fathers idea was behind taking the day off. Maybe he is trying to be happy again. "I have something to say about Fernando" Carlos then blurted out. I raised my eyebrow curious to know what news he has, "what has he done now?" I asked, assuming the worst. Carlos took a big sigh as his eyes told me that it was bad already, "I didn't mean to blurt this out but some friend of mine saw him with Leila in the club again" I sighed as well by hearing what Carlos had to say about him. I had nothing to say to this, my words were lost just like they were lost every other time I heard something like this about him. Andrea grunted, "come in Elena, how many times has he done something like this. He doesn't stop doing this and you know that. Fernando is bad for you and we all can see it. He had been crushing your heart over and over again these past couple of months. How many times does he need to do this before you realize it for yourself?"

"Andrea" Carlos gave her an elbow as he whispered to her. They were right. I keep forgiving him for everything he has done. I am selfish for believing he is going to change.

"Andrea is right, but it's hard to accept you know. I just always have wished to have a person by my side who loves me as much as I love them" I sighed. Andrea rubbed my shoulder with her hand and smiled at me, "you'll find someone like that some day, come on you're Elena Russo for god sake. Boys are kneeling for you. Fernando should be lucky you picked him instead of the others waiting in line"

I chuckled, what would I have done without those two idiots.

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The three of us were getting ready to go out tonight. Close to where I live is a small bar where people pass by once in a while and the three of us go there often when we feel like it. Carlos and Andrea love to go out and check out people and I just dance and drink everything away. Usually we go there when Fernando hurts my feelings but tonight we're going because it's the night before my birthday. No thinking about Fernando tonight. We're going to have fun and drink a lot tonight.

Andrea was straightening Carlos his shirt whilst waiting on me to come out of my room. I stared at myself in the mirror, I wore a tight red dress which was a bit too small but fuck that cause I'm old enough to come up for myself if a man tries to touch me.

"We're waiting!! How long does it need to take bitch we're ready to drink!" Carlos shouted from outside the room. I rolled my eyes with a smile and came out, their jaws dropped down the floor when they saw me. "You look—'

"Like you're gonna get laid tonight" Carlos finished Andrea's sentence. I chuckled by their reactions and walked passed them. "I better"

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The music was playing loud tonight and the lights were everywhere. The club was known for their great dance floors and their cute bartenders. Andrea and Carlos have flirted their ways in many times before. The two immediately dragged me to the bar for our first shots of the night. "Mister bartender give us nine shots for now... please" Andrea said to the bartender who was serving us. She only said please because he was cute.

"Three shots already? You guys want me dead before the night even starts"

"Come on Elena you're such a party pooper, three shots is nothing and besides it's your birthday tomorrow so please live your life before you're old" Carlos said rolling his eyes, the bartender gave us the nine shots and we all grabbed three to start with. Andrea and Carlos held up their shot glass, "to our pretty best friend and to the future breakup of Elena and Fernando!" They said in unison.

We took the shots and the night went by pretty fast. We have danced for hours and they got me pretty drunk. So drunk that I couldn't even care about anything anymore. Carlos and Andrea pushed me into some guy cheering for me to kiss him and fuck it I did. I kissed him like he was the man of my dreams and damn that kiss was great. He kissed even better then Fernando and that's weird since he has kissed so many girls in his life. If you're a player you would expect you're a great kisser but that idiota kisses like a dog.

Not just a few hours later I was still with that guy they hooked me up with. We went to a booth and I was all over him.

"Elena Russo you need to leave now!" A familiar voice spoke to me, at first it didn't bother me but when a hand tried to pull me away from the guy I was kissing it did bother me. "Leave me alone can't you see I'm busy!" I shouted through the music. My eyes widened as that wasn't a great idea to do. "Fernando what are you doing here?" Behind him stood Andrea and Carlos with guilt on their face. Fuck I'm in so much trouble.

"Are we like this now!? What the hell is going on with you Elena you have distance yourself from me these past months and now you're kissing some weirdo at the bar!" Fernando shouted.

"As if you're as loyal to me, I know you hook up with other girls behind my back so don't pretend this is weird to you" I shouted back at him as pissed as I was. How dare he come up to me, ruin my night and think that I'm weird for kissing another man. Who is he to tell me what to do!? This side of me took me over and I liked it. Drunk Elena has so much more balls then sober Elena. "And you know I've been crying over you for months now, hoping you would change into a real man but all this time you were just a little boy. You don't deserve someone like me and you definitely don't deserve my presence. I'm disappointed in you Fernando and I've changed my mind about you. We're done" I stepped back to the stranger I was with all night and grabbed his hand, "he's even a way better kisser then you! I'm sorry for all those girls you have been with!" I dragged the stranger over to Andrea and Carlos who were standing across the room with the biggest smiles on their faces.

"Elena wait" Fernando called me.

"It's over Fernando, go home" I said to him as I went in for a hug with my best friends. They rubbed my back as this tragedy was finally over. Fernando was finally gone in my life.