La Santa Muerte

Questions

maricela got back to the house as giovani got back

giovani: your up early?

maricela: huh vivi woke me up freaking me out maya was crying in the kitchen with everyone shes pregnant and scared i get why but still ya know?

giovani stepped back

giovani: she is?

maricela: yea she is i called the nurse and doctor but they said they can go to the office later today so im gonna take her meaning vivianas going to

giovani: vivi should be in school? why is she going?

maricela: she decided to skip i allowed it but shes asking questions up the ass about how maya was adopted how we found her i dont know if maya said anything and it was a hard night the last thing i need is this

giovani: i would say ill handle it but you need to handle it babe you have to

maricela: i have to? viviana is to young

giovani: shes 16 maricela shes going to be 17 soon she has questions the other day the whole ride home from school was her asking questions about my childhood about Mexico about it all and then when it came to you she wonders and she wonders why you dont tell her she thinks you shut her off but i tell her its other things ya know

maricela: i dont want to lie to her more than i already have

giovani: lie how?

maricela: we run such a successful construction company been running it hard for over 13 years haha

giovani: ok that part i get but i think its time you open up about that side and stop being hard about it you need to soften up shes still that babygirl and she wants to know about her mama i know she'd be proud

maricela: proud her moms a drug queen pin that had to fucking kill 10 people last night for fucking money you know how draining it fucking is

giovani: you did the dirty work i fucking cleaned it up do you know how hard it is to clean that much up and not get followed for it? haha

maricela looked at him

maricela: whatever its still tiring shit

they walked in viviana was sitting at the kitchen counter

marta: viviana

viviana: i dont understand i dont why does maya tell me her part butyou dont

maricela: what are you talking about?

viviana: shes adopted and im glad you guys adopted her and saved her fromt he life she was stuck in but how did it happen how did you happen and why dont you talk about yout mother? or your dad? why dont we have pictures of them?

marta: mari

maricela sighed and leaned on the counter

giovani: it was going to come out eventually

maricela: look

viviana: and i know you werent adopted or in the foster system i did my own research on our last name well yours

maricela: oo you have? haha what you find?

viviana: some weird things but no conecttions

maricela: good and wheres maya?

marta: i told her to go take a seat on the sofa and relax shes overreacting this did you talk to the doctors?

maricela: yes later today at the office theyll be there can you tell her for me? and you come on lets get this over with my office

giovani: remeber you both have the same attitude shes you babe

maricela: shut up haha

viviana followed her upstairs maricela closed up some drawers and turned her computer screen off and sat down

maricela: ok sit down

viviana: no your gonna talk to me like im some kid im not

maricela: ok what do you want from me then? what do want me to tell you? im not comfortable its not a fairytale its not viv theres reasons ive kept its tied up and put away somewhere im sorry i am i dont mean to be cold ever not towards you or javi maya knows everything sadly but yea ok? so sit down you want know i hope i dont traumatize you

viviana: why didnt i find anything when i researched our last names

maricela: did you look up your dad?

viviana: only tatas death ..

maricela got serious

maricela: you know?

viviana: im sorry ok i was curious and i didnt think it would come up i hit the link and it was in Spanish so i had it translated it was his picture .. a famous druglord gunned down

maricela sat back and looked down

maricela: fuck.. ok huh first you had it translated when you where born in Mexico babygirl? what?

viviana: ive never heard you cuss?

maricela: dont tell your dad im not losing that bet i swear ill never hear the end of it

viviana: i know spanish i just forget how to read it sometimes.. but at a doctors office he was attacked?

maricela: yea we where attacked i was with i was 8 months pregnant with javi i went into labor that second

viviana: you where there? you where pregnant mom!

maricela: it was plotted they wanted to kill him since we had moved to Mexico he was retired he was living his grandpa life you know and your dad had you and tata had gone with me work things also but yea i was they paid the doctor off and they ambushed he got infront of me and covered me and they killed him i hugged him as he died your dad came running less than 5 minutes later we weren't far from home huh he had just dropped you off at you kinder class i think

viviana sat back

maricela: see this is why i didnt want to talk about it its alot and its alot to process babygirl thats why im protecting you from alot from everything im holding ya know? and thats my job baby to protect you i was never protected and i know tata wouldnt have wanted you to know thats how he went

viviana: how wouldve he wanted me to know then? he went in his sleep after smoking a cigar?

maricela: was his smoking in the article?

viviana: no i remeber when he would pick me up from my school and he would be standing at the gates smoking a cigar smiling down at me he would give me money and i run off to buy all the ice cream i wanted he would laugh i still hear his laugh here and there .. but i understand mom i do but i think i need to know to understand you more

maricela: understand me more? what do you mean?