Wow. Really?
Cassidy was walking side by side with César and holding the hot blonde girl’s hand.
“You know, I thought he looked vaguely familiar for some reason,” I said to Alejandro who laughed.
“And hello again,” César said with a grin as he stopped in front of us.
“How did you know?” I asked bluntly.
“American, heavily tattooed, and short,” he shrugged, “not many of those walking around Pamplona. Besides, I figured that you would be here to see this so I suggested to Alejo that we stay alert for you or your friend. Plus our family comes ever year.”
“Did he also tell you that we have a deal?” I asked
looking up at Alejo seriously.
“Yes. But the deal was not with me so to be honest it’s not broken. I’d like to invite you to keep me company all day and if my brother just so happens to be with us, so be it,” he replied with a mischievous grin.
Cassidy and her blonde were standing there staring at us. She had a curious look on her face and I suddenly felt bad for not saying anything to her about the deal I made with Alejo.
“Who’s your friend?” I asked smiling at the blonde.
“This is Feliciana,” she said quickly. “What deal,” she asked in confusion.
“Hola Feliciana, mi nombre es Olivia,” I said with a warm smile.
“Hola Olivia,” she replied with a shy smile.
“Hello, Liv? What deal?” Cass asked again.
“I’ll tell you later, it’s a long story. It’ll be good for the train ride back to Barcelona,” I said to her.
Alejo put an arm around my waist and pulled me close to him, “We could start tomorrow you know,” he whispered into my ear.
I looked up at him and contemplated the idea. Starting tomorrow would get me one more night of intense passion with Alejo before we left next week.
“Well?” he asked squeezing my hand.
“I don’t know,” I replied uncertainty. “I mean we did agree on yesterday. And I mean even that didn’t work because we saw you at the hotel.”
“I have a solution,” César suddenly said.
The four of us looked at him expectedly. He grinned at his brother before he turned his attention to me.
“You want to keep your deal with Alejo and I understand, so how about this? We all split up; your friend included, and if we meet up again at any point today that means we spend the rest of the day with the person we run into. That way it’s still keeping the deal and we let fate decide.”
“That sounds fair,” Cassidy said thoughtfully.
I sighed. César had a point. If we let fate decide, it would actually help my decision in the long run anyway.
“Okay,” I agreed.
Alejandro nodded and we all said good-bye to each other before we parted ways. Alejo pulled me to him and kissed me softly on the lips again before he turned and walked away.
I stuck my hands into my shorts pockets and headed back toward where the bulls had come from. I smiled as I could hear the excited cheer of the crowd a few blocks away as the bulls kept running.
It felt nice to actually be by myself wandering around aimlessly while I thought about my imminent decision. It wouldn’t be easy but I had to think with my mind more than my heart, because the heart is the most irrational organ in the body.
I was by myself for an hour, wandering the streets and taking in the architecture, when I turned a corner and smiled.