Nora

Peter and Jane met in a chat room and some months were enough to travel to London to get to know each other. Then, they decided to make a trip to Brazil. They both were students: he was from Germany and she was from New York. They got Rio at night on Ryanair plane. They had planned stay there until they spend all their money. They chose that city because of the carnival. In fact, what they were looking for was fun and adventures. Next day was a summer time noon so it was sunny and clear but a bit humid. The temperature was around 30ºC accompanied by a gentle breeze. The streets were full of people and loud noises from the traffic and the party. Everything was colored: gold, red, yellow and tons of glitter everywhere. The city looked surprisingly small because of the overcrowding. They were quite excited letting their bodies moving with the samba sound when Jane realised Peter was not near her. She searched for him all along the place but he had disappeared. The more she looked for him, the more she got frightened. Men caught her to dance although she was crying while shouted that she did not want. After some eternal minutes, she thought she had seen Peter laughing with a Brazilian women group. She ran towards them to make sure he was him but, as soon as she arrived there, she realised that guy was a stranger. She felt unsafe and tried to think about what should do in such situation, then she decided to go back to the hotel and wait for Peter there. After few minutes, she understood that she was acting in the wrong way. She was desperate, she started crying. Suddenly, she heard someone calling her. It was Peter. Finally, they were together although Jane was absolutely furious. She told Peter that she had been looking for him for more than two hours and that is why she had become disoriented and got lost. After some excuses by Peter, they decided to go for lunch. When they found a restaurant, they sat in a table and Peter said that he needed go to the bathroom. Few minutes later, Jane could see that Peter had disappeared again. She went back to the hotel and packed up. She did not want to know anything more about Peter. She wanted to go back to New York though she desired to enjoy other aspects of Brazilian culture. First, she wanted to visit the Sambodromo so she asked at the hotel reception where she could buy the tickets. Just when she left the hotel, she found Peter’s wallet on the floor. She thought he has been behaving in a quite bizarre way but he had not told her anything about the time they had been lost in the crowd. Jane could not move any part of her body. Fear had paralyzed her. She knew she had to go to the police station to report his disappearance. She felt she was seriously in danger. Everybody had advertised her about Brazilian carnivals. Jane had heard it was completely risky to walk along the city being a lonely woman. In fact, she had been realised how people look at her while she was going alone towards the main place of the party. Their faces expressed astonishment and worry. Few minutes later, she saw a pair of policemen so she decided ask them for help. Unfortunately, it was the worst mistake she could make. They were policemen in disguise, she was so nervous that she didn´t notice that. They told her that they would help her, but she first had to go with them to make a report and she agreed. They ask her to get into the car and she did. She was thinking she is doing well in informing the police, after all,she was the only one who knows Peter there and if soemthing wrong happened to him, she won´t feel guilty about it. Suddenly, she remembered that she isn´t in a police car and asked them who were they and if they can show her their identity. The men laughed, and start talking in brazilian. She asked them to stop the car but they were ignoring her, she tried to open the door but was locked she couldn´t believe what was happening to her again. She started beating them with her bag, she was scared about what could happen to her. The car stopped and one of them took her out of the car, threw her to the floor and took her bag and left her there. She took a look around, she saw a countryhouse 1 km far and she wondered to ask for help or not.  When she arrived at the house she knocked at the door, but nobody answered her, she decided to take a gander around the house. The big rear windows were broken and a strange smell came out of the interior. She came back to the front door and pushed it. It was opened! She came into and looked around. The furniture seemed to be very expensive and not very old. When she was near the kitchen she heard a noise. The noise came from the top so she followed the noise. When she arrived at the last room, she saw a man lying on the ground. She took his pulse, he was still alive. She saw his mobile phoned and she stuck the emergency button. Half an hour later the emergency services was there. At first Jane was suspicious, but then she realized that this time they were real. Jane told them her story and the emergency services helped her to come back to New York. A month later she was walking in Central Park when her mobile phone rang. Paolo, the man who she had saved, was in New York, he was a business man, and he wanted to compensate Jane for her help. Jane accepted the offer. One year later Jane and Paolo got married. Jane never Knew anything about Peter.