Leandro: The one who suffers patiently

Adara: Beauty

Guillermo: The one with the will to protect

Leandro felt satisfied, comfortable, with the life he was leading. He had only had one homosexual experience when he was a teenager. It was only because of a bet he lost, which made him have to masturbate two of his friends. That, despite making him feel a thrill at the time, he later wanted to erase from his mind. Now he was married to Adara, a beautiful woman, and he was very proud to have her. When they went out on the street, he bragged about having her on his arm. He lived for her, going from work to home and from home to work. On weekends, he always took her shopping, indulged her every whim, and then took her out to eat or dinner.

The marriage lasted about five years. Unexpectedly for him, one fine day she said, "I’m leaving, I found a man who makes me feel what you have never made me feel, among other things, with a better dick than yours, but he also knows how to use it well and take me to touch the sky." That felt like a cold shower being poured over him; he neither expected it nor felt that he could bear it. He immediately fell into a deep depression, living as if he had to drag a very heavy slab. He spent more time at work because that was the only place he could think of other things, and the worst for him were the weekends, when he felt the roof was collapsing on him. He became reluctant towards women and vowed never to have any kind of relationship with anyone. He told himself, "a bull alone licks itself well," but he even masturbated little.

One fine day he ran into his friend Guillermo, who asked him how he was doing, about his wife, about his life. He told him what had happened, almost holding back tears. Guillermo found extremely cruel the way Adara had left him, and after a long conversation trying to cheer him up, he advised him to find something to do, to sign up for a gym. He told him that he would come by the next day to pick him up to go together, and indeed he did. He ended up going with him several times.

Leandro started to notice that the gym was doing him good and that he spent less time alone at home; he would come home, have dinner, and soon after go to bed. He started going every day; his friend Guillermo only went twice a week. Besides, he was spending more time there; in the end, he had nothing else to do. He also went on weekends, and in addition, he spent more hours doing sports. As the weeks went by, it was not just about filling his time, but without knowing it, he started to feel the effects of dopamine, serotonin, and endorphins. He felt better, and that made him addicted to the gym. His world was almost limited to work and sports.

Three years later, he was in the locker rooms of the sports complex when he heard someone talk to him.

• Guillermo: "Hey, are you Leandro?... don’t mess with me, man, I didn’t recognize you until I saw you...