Signals

My morning at the restaurant was quiet and when I was about to finish my aunt Selene told me that my cell phone was ringing, I went to look for it and when I came back my mom had brought me a cold guava smoothie to stay fresh; While I thanked her I turned on the screen to see several messages from numbers I didn't know, logically the first thing I thought was to ignore them but my curiosity won.

I opened the message application and began to read

Mental voice of Casandra: -reading the first message- Hello Casandra, I hope you are very well, I know you miss the number because it is blocked, that is, it is a ghost number and it is not easy to trace, don't be scared Hehehe... read this calmly, I have sent you via email and correspondence 2 very important things. Maybe by these initials you know who I am (MOE).

I wanted to laugh when I read the MOE, clearly it made me curious, so I read the other message, clearly when I started to read it I wanted to cry because of those words

Cassandra's mental voice: -reading the second message- Hello Cassi, I know I don't have the right to call you like this, I know you must hate me to death and believe me I don't blame you, I know I have been a coward, but... If you would give me just one chance to explain everything, absolutely everything, I know you will understand things better, please forgive me... Claudia.

I suspended the screen and thought about a thousand questions and possible answers from What happened? My mind was confused and although trying to act "normal" was very difficult, I didn't remember MOE and Claudia had been more than a shock.

I went to the car with Carlos and as soon as I got in I exploded, I told Carlos everything and listened to his opinion.

Carlos: first of all get your ideas in order, secondly see that I send you that EOM, while we make a list of who can have those acronyms and thirdly think calmly about Claudia.

When I heard Carlos' words about what could be MOE, I understood that it was not a nickname but the abbreviation of her full name, partly I felt like a fool to forget something so obvious. When I got home he took the package and inspected it, when he saw that it was safe he gave it to me but he kept it close by just in case, when I opened the office size box I noticed that it was a complete file with a lot of information, attached to it was a letter, it was a mini index with abbreviated titles and in its post data it said

Cassandra: According to what it says here I must first see the video.... Video?, now that I remember, there is something I wanted to see but...

Carlos: What is it Cassi?

Casandra: There is an old video that I'm afraid to watch, it's not scary but just thinking about what it will say makes me want to not watch it.

I went into the house with Carlos and downloaded the laptop along with the video, from there I hit play, clearly the camera lens was focused on a fixed point that was not my friends, I heard them arrive and Claudia crying, while the others were using something to clean their stalls, then I heard the door again and when I heard the laughter I knew it was Estela.

Estela was not alone, I just didn't know who she was with because she never talked, Estela told the girls that they were good girls by not telling me anything, I hear how the girls fight and then I hear blows, I realized that Estela knew Karate by seeing what she was doing on the floor with Claudia, Then Estela stands up and says

Estela's voice: don't look for me, besides... if I leave them blows I will lose points, the idea is to make Cassandra desperate, let's go girls.

Then I saw them go to their places and calm their desire to cry, I was stunned seeing that, I wanted to cry but I had to see it to the end, I heard them copy and tell them to read the note, I noticed that one of the girls saw the camera and was only a little surprised, at break time I saw that she covered the camera and took it with her, I felt her steps until they said

Claudia's voice: here is a good place Luisa.

Luisa's voice: Casandra doesn't go to class, but seeing this makes me be sure that she saw it girls, so it's not worth it anymore.

I saw them nodding with certainty and one by one she explained when the bullying started, Estela's threat was not at school level but at a higher grade, clearly at the beginning they did not believe her, and one of the girls' parents was robbed, they took it as a simple coincidence and continued firm in not believing her, the serious thing that left them cold was an anonymous letter saying that they had seen them drinking and with people who sold drugs.

The letter also reached the police and with the help of Carlos everything became clear that it was a joke in bad taste, there was where they feared that their parents would be in greater danger and agreed to be their messengers.

The last threat was to get them away from me, only they didn't count on me to be faster, in the recording they told me what they were going to do and beforehand they asked for forgiveness, but they asked for time to be much stronger.