Love Triangles by David Connor

Author:David Connor
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2016-01-13T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3

By December, I was ensconced in the family business. I wasn’t much help, but my parents seemed to like having me there and the tips were good. I was still single. Paco wasn’t. He’d gotten back together with his ex and things were going well. I was happy for him, during those moments when I could muster the maturity and decency to be so. I had no clue what was happening with Malcom. I was back to thinking of him as Mr. Darcy when I pictured him out of his shorts, all alone in the tiny bedroom at my parents’ house in which I’d spent much of my youth. I was moving out right after Christmas. That much was definite. How I was going to afford it, well, that was still up in the air. It was December 22 when I got an early gift, and a way out.

“Mr. Hernandez?”

“Hold on. I’ll get him,” I said into the house phone.

“Juan Hernandez?”

“Oh. That’s me.”

It was the secretary at the high school. The woman they had given my job to quit that day, after only a couple of months. If I wanted the position, it was mine. The kids made her bolt only sixteen weeks in? I wasn’t sure I did, but I accepted.

“Excellent. You’ll start January third. It’s basically a floating position. You’ll be with different teachers—sometimes math, sometimes science, correcting tests and so on.”

“As long as there’s an answer key, sounds good.”

She didn’t laugh at my joke.

My parents were happy for me. I think my papá might have been a little sad, too, however, that I’d be leaving Hernandez’s. I didn’t tell Paco about my job. I’d started avoiding him as much as possible, truthfully. I wanted to touch him every time I walked by, like I had that first day. I wanted to watch him smoke and talk to him about music and theater and other stuff, but I couldn’t. I guess I was one of those guys who couldn’t be friends with someone I found desirable. Months after our one night, I was still hung up on him.

I faced that same dilemma on my first day at work, when I was assigned to Mr. Darcy’s class. We hadn’t even had a night, yet there I was, with my brand spanking new leather brief case and a sweater and tie my parents had given me for Christmas, my leg shaking as I was equally frightened of the hoodlums that had scared off the last aide and my crush on the teacher. It all went well, though. I was able to answer any question the students had. I even remembered the Side-Angle-Side postulate that states if two sides and the included angle of one triangle are congruent to two sides and the included angle of another triangle, then the triangles are congruent. I not only had it memorized now, I knew what it meant, and did a bang up job of explaining it, I thought. I hoped.

Lunchtime was pretty much like back in high school.

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