Chapter 21

There was a football game the week after the one I spent totally involved in Edward's interests, and, consequently, a higher frequency of rehearsals for the cheerleading group began. That's why I could barely get back to your calls.

I almost didn't always leave school at the same time, and I got home so late that I couldn't do more than take off my uniform and fall into bed. As soon as it appeared in my life, Edward began to withdraw, thinking that I had new plans and that I would not like to include him in them.

We didn't talk about it. We never said if he believed, even for a second, that I would have enough willpower to get him out of my life so abruptly. I just couldn't get enough time to tell him the motivations for that disappearance.

I was all the time surrounded by girls who urgently needed to learn how to stretch their legs and perform stunts, or else our team would not receive the necessary points from physical education. The school subjects were killing