The day, Noelia woke up from his fortable sleep, he got off from his bed but when he looked around, Maria wasn’t there. He looked for Maria around the floor but still couldn’t find her anywhere.

  “She woke up early…” Noelia thought.

  Noelia went downstairs but still didn’t see Maria. Noelia asked his mother who was cooking, Rosa answered that Sebastian asked her to get groceries for us and that they were about to get busy soon.

  “Where’s Sebastian?” Noelia asked.

  “He’s in the garage.” Rosa replied.

  Noelia went to the garage to see Sebastian who was trying to find things. Noelia khe opened door, Sebastian notioelia at the door.

  “Oh, good m Noelia!” Sebastiaed him.

  “Hey Sebastian, mama said Maria went to the grocery store, is that true?” Noelia asked

  “Yeah it’s true.” Sebastian answered.

  Sebastian asked Noelia if there was a wrenoelia looked around and found the wrench which he ha to Sebastian. Noelia asked what Sebastian was doing aian showed Noelia a bike.

  “What’cha guys doing?” said Maria as she suddenly appeared with the grocery.

  Noelia looked at Maria and shrugged.

  “Oh, you got the groceries. Great! Just put it right there, thanks by the way.” said Sebastian.

  After putting down the groceries, Maria asked again about what they were doing.

  “Fixing a bike, Noelia’s bike.” Sebastian answered.

  “Yeah… it’s pretty old…” said Noelia.

  Sebastian chuckled, “He used to love riding this bike everywhere. He even fell oime." said Sebastian.

  Maria chuckled but Noelia felt slightly embarrassed. Then Maria told them that she was going to head back to her apartment to have lunch. As Maria was about to go, Noelia suddenly stopped her. Maria was fused and asked what was the matter. Noelia shyly asked if Maria could go have lunch together somewhere. Maria would love to but she had food at home which she didn’t want to waste. Maria came up with an idea, Maria asked if Noelia wao go with her for lunch at her apartment.

  Noelia looked at Sebastian aian said “Go ask mother.”.

  Noelia went to his mother and asked “Ma, Maria invited me to go to her apartment for lunch, I please go?”.

  Rosa gave him a nod of approval, Noelia thanked his mother a with Maria.

  “You really allowed him to go, huh?” Sebastian asked.

  “Well, he worked hard enough tely. He deserves some free time.” Rosa replied with a smile.

  Maria and Noelia were walking to the apartment, it wasn’t far from the bakery and it only took a few blocks. Getting there by foot was already enough. After some minutes of walking, both Maria and Noelia arrived at the apartment plex. Maria led Noelia to her room, they walked in and Noelia liked the atmosphere. It was and tidy.

  “Make yourself feel at home, I’ll prepare the lunches,” said Maria.

  Noelia looked around Maria’s pce as he sat down at the couch. He could feel the softness and fort from the furniture. He felt rexed as if he could take a nap there. Then Maria called out that lunch was ready. Noelia looked at the lunch Maria had prepared, he admitted that it looked delicious. While eating their lunches, Noelia brought up the topic about the neckce.

  “What information did you obtain?” Noelia asked.

  “All I got was that it beloo a man named Francisco Ballesteros Aguado but there were two neckces. His friend the other one. Francisco has the moon neckce while Nofre has the sun neckce. I didn’t expect that the book said their reasons were ridiculous. Somehow the book said Francisco was a greedy man so he kept the neckce for himself after realizing its worth but then he lost value of it and just decided to give it to his children and his children gave it to their children and so on until now." Maria expined.

  “That sounds like a long expnation even if you shorte.” said Noelia.

  “Yeah, there were quite a lot really but I still think there are more.” Maria replied.

  “I’ll look it up myself at some time.” said Noelia who finished his pte.

  They fiheir lunches and they went to the living room. Maria asked Noelia if he wao do something. Noelia remembered that he had work so he wasn’t sure. Noelia decided to go back to the bakery. Maria nodded and led him to the exit. They bid farewell to each other.

  Maria went baside her ft. She washed her hands then she saw Noelia still outside her apartment through the window. Maria was fused so she decided to che him who was standing on the sidewalk. She appeared behind Noelia which scared him as he wasn’t expeg her to go down.

  “Oh, Maria! It’s just you. Is there something I do?” Noelia asked.

  “I saw you standing on the sidewalk through the window. Weren’t you going to the bakery?” Maria replied.

  “Oh…ha…ha… to be ho… I wasn’t paying attention on the road, so… I fot which way to the bakery.” said Noelia nervously.

  “Do you wao show you the way back?” Maria offered, crossing her arms.

  Noelia embarrassingly nodded. Maria started walking in the dire of the bakery whioelia followed. They walked for some minutes, Maria also taught Noelia the dires so he wouldn’t get lost if he tried to walk to her pce alone.

  Noelia thanked Maria for showing him the dire after they arrived at the bakery. They waved at each other as goodbye. Sebastian and Rosa notioelia had finally e home.

  “Finally! e help us with the orders!” said Sebastian while w.

  “Mijo, quickly serve these to table number 2 and 5.” said Rosa as she hahe food to Noelia.

  As Noelia was hahe order, he immediately did his job. Noelia tinued w until the bakery closed. It was going to be tiring as the bakery was busy with ers.

  “So what happened in her pce?” Sebastian asked.

  “Nothing special, we just talked about stuff and watched TV.” Noelia replied

  “Are you sure? You guys aren’t actually doing something right?” said Sebastian with a grin.

  Noelia’s face became red after hearing that ent. He denied any of those as aed what he was doing with Maria. Sebastian ughed and nodded. Rosa saw them and told both of her sons to stop pying around as they still got more orders. Sebastian and Noelia hen they tinued w.