They share their time on that green bench, she energetically moves around as he reads hanging upside-down in "acrobatic excesses- and performing various other stunts and at all times Carlos' eyes seeming fixed on occasional views of skin and her underwear. He describes how his memories of her are fragmented by the stories he read and her childish actions provoked by his lack of attention to her. He shares when he initiated feelings for her, " I moved from indifference toward my childish companion to an acceptance of the child's grace and seriousness and from there to an unexpected rejection of a presence that became useless to me."" Then he finally feels annoyed by her: "She irritated me, finally. I, who was fourteen, was irritated by a child of seven who was not yet memory or nostalgia, but rather, the past and its reality."" Yet again, he comes back to his feelings of "love upon togetherness."œ Amilamia was on my chest, her hair between my lips; but when I felt her panting breath in my ear and her little arms sticky from sweets around my neck, I angrily pushed away her arms and let her fall."" She cries and leaves and returns the following day with the famous card only to "never- see him again. The author sets up a setting in which they shared their time, a place they shared, and feelings that they shared for each other. It seems as though he certainly has a crush on her, and she seems to love him as almost a brother but yet would almost tell her second grade friends that she has an older boyfriend. When he gets mad at her it can be seen as him getting in fact mad that he cannot have her because of her age. Fuentes may in fact be this Carlos, or have had these feelings about someone younger than him, however, there is little outside analysis of this issue. .
Next, Fuentes focuses on his journey to visit her again. He tells of his visit to the park and of the bench that has yet been replaced.
