IV Nocturnal Adventures

      She watched an action movie about some thieves that entered in the house of a rich guy. In the movie they showed how they get away with alarms and bodyguards until the room where they have stolen values objects and no one saw them.

      What if she would have tried that?

      She was aware of the crazy idea, but during her childhood she felt in love with an older guy. He was living next door. He was very mysterious, he didn’t talk to anyone, nobody knew anything about him, he just smiled sometimes to her. She decided then that she wanted to know him better, to see how was he in private, how his home was. In her child mind, enter in his house meant discovering his mystery… she didn’t had difficulties to go up until the window of the mysterious neighbour. The window was open…she went in without making any noise. She admired him sleeping and she let him a letter where she confessed her love and she sign: your neighbour.

      The next morning she was waiting with impatience for him but he never came. She learned later that the neighbours moved. The young guy left, his very first love. She tried to inform about the letter but she never found anything. She learned in that moment that love it’s not just nice things and pinky heart, but it’s also pain.

      Inspired by these childhood memories, Selena decided that also now the feelings for Mihai wasn’t love…she didn’t feel butterflies in her stomach when she was thinking about him. It was mostly curiosity; she needed to know more about the man she was spending time daily. She didn’t know so many things about him, just that he was cold and bossy, a good actor and also a good friend to pass time with. She felt that seeing his house, she would have discovered his dirty secrets that media would have paid a lot to have. Like that she would have had him in his hands.

      She found easily his address; she looked in Emilian’s office where he was keeping the dossier of each teacher.

      Mihai’s house was in city center…it wouldn’t be easy. She was wondering if his house was a huge expensive one or a classic and simple one. She wasn’t far from the truth; it was a one floor house, modern and simple. He had a huge garden though full of grass, flowers and trees. Selena thought it was a perfect place for children and a dog. She was thinking that should have been nice to live in a house with garden. Mostly in city center, next to everything.

      Pretending that she was looking for an address, she did a couple of tours around the house. At that time of the day there was no one. She just was a little old man around that probably was the concierge of the house. She also saw the balcony that Mihai was talking about…it was very beautiful. That would have been the point of her mission.

      She decided to do it that same night.

      It wasn’t easy. She needed all the courage in the world.

      Dressed like a ninja or like a secret agent in special mission, in the middle of the night she was in front of his house. The backyard of the house was less illuminated so she decided she would have entered by there. She didn’t see anyone. Selena tried to stay in the shadow succeeding on passing unobserved.

      All the windows were in the dark. She was just hearing the wind’s noise. Perfect to attack.

      It was very easy to cross the yard. She felt like a thief from movies. She passed next to the silent trees and she was expecting to fall in a trap because she was in enemy territory. Just like in the movies. She managed to get on the balcony. From there you were able to have a nice view of the city, a perfect place to meditate. She understood why Mihai liked to stay there in the morning drinking his coffee.

      But there was no time for meditation. She took a thing from her backpack and she placed it on the iron table next to the fresh flowers. He would have seen this the next morning.

      Then she heard some noises. She froze. Earlier there were no lights and zero noises…She stick on the wall and she slide in the garden. She heard steps. Someone woke up, probably Mihai and he was going to the balcony. Omg, he was going to catch her and she would have been ashamed all her life.

      She started to run. She felt and hurt her knee but she didn’t want to scream even she would have wanted to. She turned her head a lot of times because she had the impression that Mihai was following her. She took the taxi that was passing there. Perfect timing. Finally she was home after a while and she felt on her bed exhausted.

      The next days, nothing happened. Mihai didn’t really realize that someone entered in his house? Or her adventure was just a dream and never happened? That couldn’t be because her knee hurt like hell. She felt like a hero from action movies…she managed to enter in a celebrity’s house without being caught. She was already thinking to tell Mihai that was pretty easy to get in his house and that he would improve his security.

      Nervously, she went to Mihai’s class. She blathered more and she was red all the time, but everything seemed the same. Mihai didn’t seem to have something to say.

      The answer wasn’t arriving. She checked her email every day. Nothing. The message didn’t arrive? She risked her life for nothing? She was frustrated a little bit.

      Even if she didn’t want to, she had to concentrate on her work.

      The next days she studied the script of the movie. Mihai was one of the producers of the movie and still he chose her for the role. Such an honor! She was still trilled. He intrigued her more and more.

      She was trying to feel deeply the sad love story that could be anyone’s love story. She was scared by the role, but most of the time she felt trilled and she couldn’t wait to play in this movie. The movie was going to be emotional and she was going to play next to a famous actor; but she was also feeling sad thinking about the tragic Lorelei’s role. She didn’t expect someone like Mihai to contribute to this kind of project. She didn’t know him at all…If she would have seen his place that night maybe she would have known more about him.