Sunday, 10:45 AM
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.
Sunday, 10:45 AM
I'm already at the café
😅
I arrived a little early 😅
I'm on the terrace
I'm wearing a blue shirt
Miguel waited. He ordered a coffee. He looked at his phone every thirty seconds. Carmen wasn't responding.
is everything okay?
I'm worried
did something happen to you?
please tell me something
if you don't want to come it's okay
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.
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.
what?
that is my apartment
it is YOUR apartment
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.
yes
your voice
that's why it sounded familiar to me
and yours to me
I recognized your voice this morning
when you sent me the audio
complaining about your neighbor
my god
I called you selfish
this morning
and I called you bitter
I don't know what to say
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.
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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.
do you know what is the strangest thing?
what?
that all our fights
were because we are very alike
what are you saying?
the two of us are stubborn
the two of us want to be right
the two of us get angry quickly
and the two of us defend our space
exactly
that's why we used to fight so much
two similar people in the same building
two similar people that didn't know each other
they only saw each other in the hallway
when they were already annoyed
and in the app
we met for real
without fights
without reasons to be annoyed
just talking
yes
tell me
the connection that we felt
was real
right?
yes Miguel
was real
everything that we talked about
everything that I felt
was real
so
what do we do now?
we can try it again
the café
but this time
as neighbors that know each other
neighbors that know each other for real
yes
and this time
I promise not to complain about the volume of your radio
and I promise not to steal your parking space
well...
😂
maybe we can't promise that 😂
hahaha you're right
but we can try to talk before fighting
that I can indeed promise you
then
coffee next Sunday?
at 11?
yes
but this time I am going to arrive
😊
I hope so 😊
and Carmen
yes?
I am glad that my son created that profile
me too
😅
although it almost gave me an attack when I discovered the truth 😅
me too
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Lucía and Diego - 15:30
tell me
mom wrote to me
and???
she says thanks
THANKS??
yes
they are going to have coffee next Sunday
it can't be
it worked??
it seems so
mom says that they talked a lot
that they laughed until they cried
my dad also is in a good mood
he is whistling
he hadn't done it for years
we did something good
yes
😂
although it was a disaster at the beginning 😂
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
mom, jasmine again?
😊
now I like the smell 😊
😏
of course 😏
because it comes from Miguel's balcony
💕
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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