Another goodbye in Side Effects

Saturday night we had a great evening with some new friends we got together with. But when I came home I read shocking news on Facebook. Since then I’ve been in a nostalgic trance.

I wasn’t the popular gal in highschool, and in college, I pretty much stood out for being the smart one, or the tall girl. But I wasn’t popular, the dorky shy girl was always in me. Around 2003 I started dating Juan Luis, a guy that was quite popular. It was my first real boyfriend experience, I guess. I’d had a serious relationship before him with Ary, who was 11 years older than me, but he didn’t even live here so it’s not like we went out a lot. When he came it was just going out for dinner, but when he was gone, it was all work and school for me, pretty much.

Juan Luis introduced me to a bar called Billa Bar. I’d heard of it before and a lot of people went there and talked about it, but I had no one to go with. I loved it. It was a small family run bar, where they played live rock in spanish. This is music I liked, and the peole around me didn’t listen to it, they listened to the regional “banda”, so I never fit in and resorted to listening to my music by myself in my room. But this bar....they had new up and coming groups playing; great music, new friends, good drinks.