It was fifteen past four when I took my car and started driving without a destination. I was very desolate and despaired with the mysterious disappearance of Rachel, my girlfriend. I was on a business trip in Buenos Aires, and her mother sent me an email, she was very worried because her daughter hasn’t returned home since last night, without giving any notice. I was just leaving the Alvear Hotel, where I was lodged. I felt very guilty for when  I was on the train to have a dinner with a pretty woman, who was the manager of our enterprise’s branch in Buenos Aires. Until this day I had been completely loyal to my girlfriend, but I knew it wasn’t merely a business dinner. So I drove very fast by  July Avenue, until I left the city. I was very sad and preoccupied, and I supposed that running on this way I would forget my own sins, and all would return being like it was before that astonishing news. It started raining, and suddenly my car, a rented one, broke. I just had time to park the car on the side of the road. I stood motionless, without knowing how to act, in the middle of the storm.

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It was raining too much, and I couldn’t see anything fifteen inches beyond the car glass. Suddenly a hand knocked on the window at the driver side, where I was. I was very frightened with this occurrence and if, in one hand, I didn’t want to open, in another hand I couldn’t move the car. So that hand, insistently, knocked again and again. I even couldn’t hear what that person out there was saying, supposing he (or she?) was really saying anything. But I didn’t have a choice, so I opened the glass, very afraid. “Mi coche no va más.” Said a black-dressed lady, supporting an enormous and equally black umbrella. “I don’t speak Spanish, I’m sorry”, I answered, finally tranquilized. “Oh, no problem, I speak English too. My car broke, and I’m very afraid of being on this road. So I saw your car parked, the only one here, and I intended to ask for help”, said the woman, with a Spanish accent. “My car just broke too, and I really don’t know what to do”. I said. So she suddenly vanished, and reappeared in the seat next to me, after opening the door and entering very fast. Read more