i remember this day very vividly.
it's probably one of the first memories i have with mila

we were ten, exactly. it was pretty late at night and we were at her old apartment in ipanema. i remember she shared the room with her younger brother, eric and they had a bunk bed i thought it was really nice cause you could touch the ceiling fan while it was spinning.

we had a pretty full day and decided to go take a shower.
i took my shower and when it was her turn i saw a bag of balloons over the sink and i told her we should fill one of them with water and throw it out the window to hear the loud splashing noise it would made for falling over ten floors high.

mila wasn't very convinced but i remember insisting until she said yes. it wasn't very hard. one of my arguments was that i had done it in the past and it all went fine (which was a complete lie cause when i did that i got grounded, but since it wasn't my house, nothing was gonna happen).

okay, so we filled the balloon with water and we stuggled to take that huge, heavy blob over to the window.
it was pitch dark outside, we couldn't track the balloon going down, but as soon as it hit the ground we saw this bright light coming from down there.

we got really confused, thinked a little and we came to the genius conclusion that we set something on fire.... with a water balloon.

it was only until someone shouted from down there "HEY! WHO THREW THIS WATER BALLOON DOWN HERE? IT BROKE MY FUCKING ROOF AND WENT THROUGH MY CIELING".
we got desperate. we were so afraid of getting caught that my first instinct was to run to the other side of the bathroom, turn all the lights off and lay on the ground to delete every trace that i was ever there.

very worried that we would go to jail with our 10 year old life baggage, we decided to write on this big white board she had on her room a escaping plan. we even did math to see how much we would have to pay to fix the roof compared to how much our fine would be.

they never actually found out it was us, but mila's mom paid for the roof either way.







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