They took a shower again. Héctor asked the guy if he should go back home, and he said that when they left the sports center, he had WhatsApped his mother and told her he would be late, that he had met up with a university classmate who had asked him to come over to explain some topics for a subject. The mother knew he was doing well in his exams, understood, and even congratulated her son for being a good person. And he really was; he had well and truly emptied the balls of a guy he had just met.

• Héctor: "Then stay for dinner with me and then you can leave... I cook well and dinner is half made."

• Bernardo: "I accept, but on the condition that I take care of serving, clearing, and washing the dishes; it will be my pleasure, but not so much for the food, but for serving and spending more time with a macho like you because for me, the bigger the guy is, the more I see him as a man… besides, spending more time with the one who just wrecked my ass and left it burning like I have it right now is a pleasure."

• Héctor (smiling as they both went to the kitchen): "You don't look like it at all, but you're a tremendous fag, and I don't say that in the sense that word is often used because you don't have any flamboyance, but in the sense that you like macho guys, cocks, and being fucked."

• Bernardo: "Well, in that sense you're right, I'm a big fag."

They came out with the food from the kitchen. Héctor placed it in the center, and Bernardo set the plates, glasses, and cutlery. Héctor sat at the head of the table, and Bernardo served him his plate, then his own, and sat down beside him. While they ate, it wasn't a hearty dinner; they talked.

• Héctor: "Hey, what are you studying at university?"

• Bernardo: "First year of Economics."

• Héctor: "Well, I'm a teacher, but not at that school."

• Bernardo: "What do you teach?"

• Héctor: "Algebra, in Mathematics."

• Bernardo: "Too bad you're not my teacher."

• Héctor: "Do you know what your name, Bernardo, means?"

• Bernardo: "No, I only know they named me that because my grandfather was called that."

• Héctor: "It means strong as a bear... I have a little book in the library with the meanings of hundreds of names."

• Bernardo: "And what does yours mean?"

• Héctor: "Possessor, the one who has."

• Bernardo (smiling): "Well, from what I see, you have... and if you want, starting today you can have something else in your possessions, you can own, among your things, a fag bear" (then changing his expression and becoming serious)... "although I don't know if you like it, with the way I look... in reality, I don’t even like how I look, nor being seen like this... besides, no man has ever looked at me, I've seen how they look at others but nothing for me and that pisses me off more each time."

• Héctor: "You h...