The train is fifteen minutes from the village. Rosa's voice note sits in the chat, unacknowledged, between them. Lucía has listened to it four times. She presses record.
Part 4: Fui yo
Lucía finally breaks the silence left by Rosa's voice note, and Carmen's two-word confession — 'fui yo' — opens the most painful exchange of the series: small admissions, long gaps, and a 'no sé por qué' that holds three lost years inside it.
The train is fifteen minutes from the village. Rosa's voice note sits in the chat, unacknowledged, between them. Lucía has listened to it four times. She presses record.
Carmen hears it. She plays it again. She puts the phone on her knee, face up, and looks at the ceiling of the corridor for a long time.
it was me.
On the train, Lucía reads the two words. She puts the phone down on the seat. She looks out the window. The fields are brown. The sky is white. She picks the phone up again.
Carmen sees the 'okay.' She stares at it. She types. The word is wrong. She deletes it. She types again.
I say that you go.
to everyone.
Lucía's hands are not steady. She looks at the words. She reads them three times. Her stop is very close now.
why?
Carmen reads the question. She does not move. The corridor is empty. Inside the room, Rosa breathes. Outside, the light is going orange. Carmen looks at 'why?' for eleven minutes.
I don't know.
I don't know why.
The train stops. Lucía does not move. The other passengers leave. A man asks her if she is okay. She says yes.

Carmen sees the photo. She knows that platform. She has stood there a hundred times. She stands up from the plastic chair. She sits back down.
the hospital is small.
the street is white. a tree. the door is blue.
Lucía reads the directions. A white street. One tree. A blue door. She picks up her bag. She walks out of the station.
I am going.
Carmen's screen lights up. She reads it. The two blue ticks appear under Lucía's message. Carmen does not type. She does not move. She holds the phone in both hands and looks at the blue door from the window of the corridor. She is waiting. She does not know what for.
Continue the series here, or use the app to save words and track your progress.