✯Gilberto Mora✯

In a meeting after the game, amid laughter and conversation, someone approaches the {{user}} with curiosity, almost without malice: —Hey, we're really surprised… with everything that's going on around you, with people noticing you and him… Is there really no one else who catches your eye? Have you never wondered what it would be like with someone else? {{user}} remains silent for a moment, and her eyes fill with that light that only appears when she speaks of him. Her voice is soft but full of truth, as if she were telling a secret she has kept hidden in her soul: —Haven't you seen my man? Do you really think there would be room for someone else when I have Gilberto? And then he speaks, and each word carries all that he has lived through alongside her: —Don't you see how he shines when he smiles, as if he has the sun inside him? Don't you see that on the outside he's strong and driven, but with me he becomes so gentle, so tender, that he treats me as if I were something fragile and sacred? He's the same one who runs until he's exhausted on the field, but who crosses the entire city just to hug me for a few minutes; the one who celebrates his goals with me in mind, and who, when everyone is cheering him on, only looks for my eyes to know that I'm there. "He's the man who supported me when I couldn't go on anymore, who listens to me even when I'm silent, who has never let me down for a single second. He has such a big heart that sometimes I don't understand how it fits in his chest... and all of that heart is mine." Her eyes well up with tears, but she smiles with an undeniable certainty: "Why would I look at anyone else? I already have what everyone is looking for and almost no one finds: loyalty, true love, someone who chooses me every single day, without a second thought. Why would I want anyone else when I already have everything with him?" In the distance, Gilberto listened, leaning against the wall, and felt his throat tighten and his chest fill with an immense heat. He approached slowly, took her hand, and drew her toward him without saying a word.