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El Match Imposible

Part 5: Domingo de verdad

Carmen doesn't show up to the café. When Miguel receives her address—'Apartment 4B'—his face goes pale. They finally meet face-to-face and discover that their perfect match has been next door all along.

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1El perfil perfecto2Conexión inesperada3Señales en el aire4La voz conocida5Domingo de verdad
Sunday, 10:45 AM

Sunday, 10:45 AM

Miguel
Miguel

I'm already at the café

Miguel
Miguel

😅

I arrived a little early 😅

Miguel
Miguel

I'm on the terrace

Miguel
Miguel

I'm wearing a blue shirt

Miguel waited. He ordered a coffee. He looked at his phone every thirty seconds. Carmen wasn't responding.

11:05

Miguel
Miguel

Miguel
Miguel

is everything okay?

11:15

Miguel
Miguel

I'm worried

Miguel
Miguel

did something happen to you?

Miguel
Miguel

please tell me something

11:22

Miguel
Miguel

Miguel
Miguel

if you don't want to come it's okay

Miguel
Miguel

but tell me something please

In her apartment, Carmen looked at the phone. She had read every message. Her heart broke a little with each one. She could feel Miguel's pain. But she didn't know what to say. How to explain. Finally, she wrote two words.

Carmen
Carmen

Apartment 4B

Miguel looked at the message. He read it again. Apartment 4B. His apartment was 4B. She lived in... No. It couldn't be. He wrote quickly.

Miguel
Miguel

what?

Miguel
Miguel

that is my apartment

Carmen
Carmen

Carmen
Carmen

it is YOUR apartment

Carmen
Carmen

I live in 4A

Miguel stopped breathing. 4A. His neighbor. The woman he fought with every week. The woman from the radio, the parking lot, the jasmine. Carmen was... his neighbor. CarmenFlor was Carmen from 4A.

Miguel
Miguel

Miguel
Miguel

Carmen
Carmen

yes

Miguel
Miguel

your voice

Miguel
Miguel

that's why it sounded familiar to me

Carmen
Carmen

and yours to me

Carmen
Carmen

I recognized your voice this morning

Carmen
Carmen

when you sent me the audio

Carmen
Carmen

complaining about your neighbor

Miguel
Miguel

my god

Miguel
Miguel

I called you selfish

Miguel
Miguel

this morning

Carmen
Carmen

and I called you bitter

Miguel
Miguel

Miguel
Miguel

I don't know what to say

Carmen
Carmen

me neither

Miguel left money on the café table and ran out. He took a taxi back to his building. He went up the stairs quickly, without waiting for the elevator. He stood in front of the door of 4A. His hand trembled when he rang the bell.

Carmen opened the door. They looked at each other. In person. For the first time since they knew the truth. Miguel with his blue shirt. Carmen with her hair down and her eyes red from not sleeping.

Neither spoke. The silence was long. Then, Carmen made a strange sound. Like a laugh, but also like a cry. Miguel looked at her without understanding. And then he also started to laugh. A nervous, absurd laugh that he couldn't stop.

They laughed until their stomachs hurt. Until tears ran down their faces. Because it was so absurd, so impossible, so perfectly ridiculous.

Carmen invited him in. They sat on the sofa, still laughing once in a while. They talked for two hours. About everything. About their fights, about the app, about the deep conversations. About how it was possible that two people hated each other and liked each other at the same time.

14:00 - After talking

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14:00 - After talking

Miguel and Carmen continued talking through messages, now from neighboring apartments, knowing exactly who the other person was.

Miguel
Miguel

do you know what is the strangest thing?

Carmen
Carmen

what?

Miguel
Miguel

that all our fights

Miguel
Miguel

were because we are very alike

Carmen
Carmen

what are you saying?

Miguel
Miguel

the two of us are stubborn

Miguel
Miguel

the two of us want to be right

Miguel
Miguel

the two of us get angry quickly

Carmen
Carmen

and the two of us defend our space

Miguel
Miguel

exactly

Miguel
Miguel

that's why we used to fight so much

Miguel
Miguel

two similar people in the same building

Carmen
Carmen

two similar people that didn't know each other

Carmen
Carmen

they only saw each other in the hallway

Carmen
Carmen

when they were already annoyed

Miguel
Miguel

and in the app

Miguel
Miguel

we met for real

Miguel
Miguel

without fights

Miguel
Miguel

without reasons to be annoyed

Carmen
Carmen

just talking

Miguel
Miguel

yes

Miguel
Miguel

Carmen
Carmen

tell me

Miguel
Miguel

the connection that we felt

Miguel
Miguel

was real

Miguel
Miguel

right?

Carmen
Carmen

yes Miguel

Carmen
Carmen

was real

Carmen
Carmen

everything that we talked about

Carmen
Carmen

everything that I felt

Carmen
Carmen

was real

Miguel
Miguel

so

Miguel
Miguel

what do we do now?

Carmen
Carmen

we can try it again

Carmen
Carmen

the café

Carmen
Carmen

but this time

Carmen
Carmen

as neighbors that know each other

Miguel
Miguel

neighbors that know each other for real

Carmen
Carmen

yes

Miguel
Miguel

and this time

Miguel
Miguel

I promise not to complain about the volume of your radio

Carmen
Carmen

and I promise not to steal your parking space

Miguel
Miguel

well...

Miguel
Miguel

😂

maybe we can't promise that 😂

Carmen
Carmen

hahaha you're right

Carmen
Carmen

but we can try to talk before fighting

Miguel
Miguel

that I can indeed promise you

Miguel
Miguel

then

Miguel
Miguel

coffee next Sunday?

Miguel
Miguel

at 11?

Carmen
Carmen

yes

Carmen
Carmen

but this time I am going to arrive

Miguel
Miguel

😊

I hope so 😊

Miguel
Miguel

and Carmen

Carmen
Carmen

yes?

Miguel
Miguel

I am glad that my son created that profile

Carmen
Carmen

me too

Carmen
Carmen

😅

although it almost gave me an attack when I discovered the truth 😅

Miguel
Miguel

me too

Lucía and Diego - 15:30

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Lucía and Diego - 15:30

Lucía
Lucía

Diego
Diego

tell me

Lucía
Lucía

mom wrote to me

Diego
Diego

and???

Lucía
Lucía

she says thanks

Diego
Diego

THANKS??

Lucía
Lucía

yes

Lucía
Lucía

they are going to have coffee next Sunday

Diego
Diego

it can't be

Diego
Diego

it worked??

Lucía
Lucía

it seems so

Lucía
Lucía

mom says that they talked a lot

Lucía
Lucía

that they laughed until they cried

Diego
Diego

my dad also is in a good mood

Diego
Diego

he is whistling

Diego
Diego

he hadn't done it for years

Lucía
Lucía

Lucía
Lucía

we did something good

Diego
Diego

yes

Diego
Diego

😂

although it was a disaster at the beginning 😂

Lucía
Lucía

the best disaster

A week later, Carmen and Miguel met at the café. This time, both arrived on time. They sat on the terrace and talked for three hours. About books, about cinema, about their lives. When they finished, they walked back to the building together. No longer as strangers. Not as enemies. But as two people who, after all, had found something special in the most unexpected place: on the other side of the wall.

Three months later

Three months later

Lucía
Lucía

mom, jasmine again?

Carmen
Carmen

😊

now I like the smell 😊

Lucía
Lucía

😏

of course 😏

Lucía
Lucía

because it comes from Miguel's balcony

Carmen
Carmen

💕

maybe 💕

And so, the jasmine that once was a reason for fighting became the symbol of something new. Sometimes, love appears in the most unexpected places. Sometimes, the perfect person is closer than we think. And sometimes, we just need a dating app, two worried children, and a jasmine plant to discover it.

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