La Santa Muerte

Who are you

viviana: i feel ike i dont know you ..

maricela: well im your mom? thats who i am?

viviana: i know and your a good one im not saying your not but its like i can never read you its like i know your my mom duh we look so much alike i look more like you than i do dad or javi

Maricela nodded nervously

maricela: genetics was strong with you it was

viviana: it was javier started saying i was the adopted one

maricela: why do you call him javier its javi javier was your tata

viviana: i know but he likes being called like that at school and it stuck its him

maricela: o now i know my babys all grown up now he just needed me the other day

viviana: back to the topic stop trying to get out of it

maricela: i love you you know that right?

viviana: duh i know that mom

maricela: dont look at me any different after this but i dont have a mother or father there dead no i wasn't in the foster system because your tata took me in after they died they died in a tragic car accident when i was like well your 16 im gonna say 13 i think but yea there you go there dead

viviana: mom you cant just say there dead? like nothing? that just adds on like how did you meet tata was he a family friend? how was your mom? how was your dad do you have pictures do you have family siblings?

maricela: i had a sister she died in a car accident also i think i didnt like her we didnt get along at all she was a shit person

viviana looked at her surprised

maricela: see what i tell you haha im not huh ok ive kept it away and shut off because i wasn't raised with love or anything like this i give my all to you 3 because i never wanted that for you guys ok? im ok with them being dead because well they deserved it

viviana: they did?

maricela got up and pulled up her shirt and showed her a scar she had on her stomach

maricela: this scar is from your grandmother she hated me she hated me so much she abused me since the moment i could speak a sentence i was there slave i always had to have straights As i would come home to a beating if dinner wasn't made or the house wasn't cleaned up oo and church dont forget about church i was beat for anything and everything she hated my existence and so did my father .. this is one of many scars and many storys but they werent good people

viviana: im sorry

maricela: theres nothing to be sorry about my love absolutely nothing .. i survived and became who iam i did my all to be better for you guys opened my heart to maya because she was from the same place ya know i wasn't sold they kept me i swear some people dont deserve to have kids

viviana: you where young when you had me right?

maricela: yes

viviana: how old?

maricela: im gonna say 15 i think

viviana: mom

maricela: yes?

viviana: why dont i remember you

maricela: what are you talking about?

viviana: my earliest memory's aren't of you

it all came back to maricela ..

maricela: my earliest memory's are of my mother throwing a bowl at my head i was 6 do you remember mexico? you remember tata? i was there? well he had you alot

viviana: where was i born?

maricela sat back and went quiet as it all started to come back to her..

maricela: um let me look for your birth certificate i dont know if it was county hospital or Glendale

Viviana: where was javi born?

Maricela:mexico hes a duel citizen just like you the day tata was killed he came into this world

Viviana froze

Maricela: youve never done the math youve seen his stone?

Viviana: i never put thought into it its like he never really left us

Maricela: yea ..

she said as she looked threw her paper work and pulled out her certificate

Viviana looked it over

Viviana: this is fake

Maricela: what? haha how is it fake Viviana?

Viviana: this doesn't look like javiers or my friends and they where born here?

Maricela: first off your brother wasn't born here so his is Mexican no you dont get a new one when you move you get a social security number and you where born in Glendale it says right there whats wrong?

Viviana looked at everything Maricela wasn't lying ..

Viviana: its just all such a blur mom it is and i wish i could tell you what i mean

Maricela: well im right here you can tell my love? do you wanna ask me anything else? im sorry there wasn't really much about my family im just glad there dead and not around now

Viviana: not even like extended family either?

Maricela; uh no completely shut them out havent spoken or seen anyone in years more than a decade actually

viviana: no pictures?

maricela: haha vivi?

viviana: i wanna know who i look like thats why..

maricela: well you look like me? and your dad?

viviana: no i dont i looked threw all his old pictures i dont look his mom or aunts

maricela: he showed you his mom?

viviana: yea

maricela: let me do some looking maybe i can find something for you to see that ok?

Viviana: yea thats ok

maricela got up and pulled her up and hugged her

maricela: i promise ill do better than shutting off its just hard for me .. i dont like thinking about it all i left that behind me and started my own family with love ya know?

viviana: i understand i just have questions but i get its hard but you should work threw it and let go of that darkness mom i know tata loves you and us but i know he would want you to be at peace

maricela stepped back and nodded