"Break it, break it, do what you like with it, my heart is yours now,"
Ana told her friend Ardenson.
"I didn't mean to hurt you, if I said anything to confuse your feelings I didn't mean to, I apologise, I love you, but not like this."
Anderso had grown up with Ana and saw her as a sister.
As time went by Ana forgot him and when she turned eighteen she had become a book lover, she already had entire collections at home but her favourite place was the library of the institute where she studied, there she offered to help the librarians in their work, she organised the books of all kinds, sometimes in alphabetical order, sometimes by date of edition, she had already read all the books in the room, this gave her the ability to guide those who were looking for information in the library.
When he saw someone confused, he would go over to greet them and say:
"Hello, good morning, how can I help you?".
"Hi, I'm looking for a book on whales.
"Any whale in particular or in general?"
He always provided them with the study material that any student needed.
One day a shipment arrived at the library, the staff had a lot of work to do and as expected, Ana volunteered to help, asked her parents' permission and stayed to unpack and organise the new learning material.
She was busy until late at night when she looked at her watch, it was already eleven o'clock but no one seemed to be tired and as she was organising a bookshelf she saw a student reading a book on the other side of the room.
"Who is that student?" asked Ana.
A librarian replied
"He's like some kind of ghost, he always comes here at midnight, reads for a while and disappears, we are used to seeing him at this time"
For Ana it was an object of fascination so she stopped what she was doing to observe the ghost, she realised that it only read part of the books and then dropped them and picked up another one. Ana furrowed her eyebrows for a while and put her hand on her chin and after a few seconds she could deduce that the ghost was looking for some kind of information, information that could not be in the library but in her collection of books that she kept at home.
The next day, Ana brought some books on paranormal studies. She put them on the table where the ghost had perched to read the other day and saw that they were only half open, then asked permission to go to the institute in the middle of the night. She was afraid, yes, but she was true to her ideals as an apprentice librarian and intended to give him the guidance he needed.
She filled her bag with books and when the clock struck twelve o'clock at night she opened the library and there was the spirit of perhaps a student reading a book as Ana expected.
"Hello!"
The ghost did not respond.
Ana tried to approach him but his mere living presence was to the ghost like light to the darkness, pushing him hard into the less visible corners.
"I'm sorry, I'll keep my distance so I don't hurt you again" Said Ana.
The ghost stood up from where he was pushed and returned to his place. Ana threw the books at him and when he finished looking through them she shouted at him.
"Don't disappear yet, I have another book here that might help you"
But among the many she brought there was one in particular that he read to the end: Oscar Wilde's The Fisherman and His Soul.
Then he stood up and for the first time in front of a person he spoke.
"I am not a ghost, neither was I alive and I was never dead, I am not the wandering soul of a man in love who exchanged it for the love of a mermaid, of many things I miss, yet I know them, and love, love is what I envy most, because I have no heart nor can I be close to those who have it"
Ana saw his eyes as blue as the peaks and could understand what he was saying because she was immensely in love with her friend Anderson who did not love her back and she was also envious of the girl he loved.
"If you lack heart I'll share mine with you and if it's not enough I'll love you twice as much so that it's enough for both of us."
"Even so, if you loved me for two, only you would feel it beating, because in the end there is only one."
Ana took a good look at him and there was much goodness in him, then she said:
"What you look at fills the heart, if I come every night and you see me, your breast will be filled and a heart will be made of me."
Every night she visited him to say "I love you" until one day he came closer and the barrier that repelled him no longer existed, they stretched their hands until they touched each other's skin and they loved each other forever.