Sunday

My apologies I have not written in last two weeks, I suddenly got busy at work that didn't give me a lot of time to write. Currently, I reside in San Diego and hopefully in a few months I'll might move to Seattle. After college I decided to take a year off before I applied to Medical School and now that the year is almost over, I hope I'm able to get into the program that I want. Anyways, let me go back to the story...

After an amazing brunch that my mother prepared for me we moved the celebration to the living room. I offered to help clean the kitchen but my mother insisted for me to entertain my guests. I walked in the living room, I glanced around the room but Ricardo was not there. "Where is he?" I whispered to Karina. "He is outside." For a second I thought Ricardo wasn't thrilled with the idea of me leaving. I wanted to talk to him but I was engaged with the conversation with Melissa and Lucy.
     "What's wrong?" Lucy asked.
     "I just feel like Ricardo doesn't want me to go."
     "Don't say that. If he loves you like he says, he wants you to go." Melissa said.
     "Yeah and if he doesn't, well he's not the guy who you thought he was." Lucy added.
I looked over to the window and see my boyfriend standing there looking up at the sky, I wondered what he was thinking about. My friends were right, I could not let one person affect me because they didn't like the idea of me leaving to another state for 2 months. An hour later my friends began to leave, I walked them to the door, "Congrats again amiga." Lucy gave me a hugged. "Thanks guys for coming." I told them as they were leaving. "No problem, your mom is a great cook." Melissa added. I stood outside, as I watched my friends leave one by one. "Thanks mom." I gave my mother a hug. "Welcome mija." My mom walked back inside; Ricardo and I stood outside talking, he held my hand, "I'm sorry, I know it seems I'm not supportive, but just think what am I going to do without you for the whole summer." We sat down in bench that was next to the door, "I know how you are feeling babe. It saddens me that I'm not going to grad night." He held my hand, "I'm so proud of you", I lean my head on his shoulder, "I'm going to miss you." "I know me too, but hey we have a month." he added. That morning Brenda decided to call her contacts in New York to make sure everything was going the way she had plan. "Uncle Charlie, it's Brenda, I was calling you regarding my friend Reyna application?" she asked. "She must have received the letter by now." Brenda smiled. As part of her plan, Brenda contacted her uncle who works at NYU and decided to call in for a favor. Reyna didn't get in the program by chance by but Brenda's uncle.
     "What happen?" Stephanie asked her.
     "She is in. If all goes according to plan,she be out of our lives for the rest of the school year and Ricardo will be available again." Brenda smiled.
     "Why are you so interested for Ricardo to be single again?" she asked her.
     "Oh no reason." Brenda replied. 
Brenda could not let Stephanie know anything, especially she was in love with Ricardo. Stephanie walked over to the window, "Brenda look,  isn't that Reyna's brother?" Brenda looked out the window. "Yeah." Brenda walked away from the window. "What is he doing?" Stephanie asked. Daniel was trying to get Brenda's attention by throwing rocks at her window. "I don't know." Brenda got her phone and text Daniel to leave. "What was that about?" Stephanie asked Brenda. Brenda just looked away. "OMG." Suddenly Stephanie got it, "Don't tell me that you're dating him?" "Of course not." Brenda replied.
"So then why was he looking for you?" Stephanie asked. "I'm just sleeping with him." Brenda smiled.
"What? Are you crazy?" Stephanie started to lift her voice. "Be quiet." 

Jesse walked over to Karla's house, he was determined to tell how he felt about her, "Hey." Karla opened the door. "Are you ready?" Jesse asked. "Yup." Jesse and Karla along with their other friends were going to Pasadena. "What's wrong? You're too quiet." Karla told him as they walked to her friend's Pedro house, "Nothing, I'm just thinking." he replied. Karla looked over at him, 
       "Thinking about the girl you like huh?" Jesse smiled.
       "No..." he lied.
        "When are you going to tell me who is she? I need to approve if she's the right one for you." Karla laughed. "Soon." he replied. That afternoon, Ricardo and I walked to Belvedere Community Regional Park that was just a quarter mile from my house. In that moment I felt sure how I felt for Ricardo and I know that Diego was always going to be in my heart because he was my first but I owed Ricardo my loyalty. Ricardo turned to me, "I love you." I smiled. I hugged him tightly, "I'm so happy with you." I told him even though I was not so sure. Brenda made sure that Stephanie had left before letting Daniel back in her room. "What were you thinking?" Daniel grabbed her by the waist, "I'm sorry babe, I wanted to see you and I thought you were alone." he replied as he began kissing her neck. Brenda stepped away. "Just be careful next time. I don't want anyone to know about us." Daniel pulled back, "Why not?" "I'm not sure if I'm ready for a relationship." Brenda lied. "Can you just settle for what we have right now?" 

Daniel thought about the first time he was with Brenda, it was the graduation party that one of his buddies had thrown a year ago. Brenda had been standing in the front porch for a while, Daniel approached her with a cup of beer in his hand, "Hey, why are you by yourself?" he had asked. "Just needed some fresh air." she smiled. "Do you need a ride home?" he asked her. "Nah, I'm good. Anyways you can't drive you'v been drinking." Daniel laughed. "True." As he walked back in, "Wait up..." Brenda went up to him." Do you want to do something fun?" she said to him. "Like what?" Brenda whispered something in his ear. "You sure?" he asked. "Yeah, why not?" Daniel was not conscious what he was doing at that point, he only knew that a girl wanted to be with him and he couldn't say no to her. 
Ever since that night, Brenda had Daniel in her hands, basically he did whatever Brenda told him. 
"What are you thinking about?" I asked him as we sat down in the bench at the park. "How much I love you." he held my hand to his heart, "You have no idea how proud I am of you." I smiled. I put my head on his shoulder, "Are you ready to dance next Saturday?" "Yeah, I finally got the steps right." He laughed.Even though Stephanie was not my favorite person, I told him that I would go to the party to support him. "So at least can I know her name?" Karla asked Jesse as they drove back home from Pasadena . "What are we talking about?" Olivia joined in the conversation. "Jesse is crushing on a girl and he has not told me anything about her." Karla replied. "Oh the mystery girl." Jasmine smiled. Karla looked over at Jasmine, "You know something..." Karla said. "Um, no I don't." "She does." Pedro added. Karla and her friends had a good 20 min conversation about it. Jesse felt like that day was not a good day to tell Karla how he felt about her so he just forgot. 

Diego spotted Reyna and Ricardo as he walked out from one of his friends house; a part of him is happy that Reyna is with him but the other wishes he would still be with her. Diego still remember when she first met Reyna, it was at a party that his friend Francisco had invited him to, "Reyna, come over here, I want you to introduce you to someone." Karina said. "Reyna, this is my cousin Diego. Diego this is my good friend Reyna." 
      "Hey." Diego said.
      "Hi." Reyna smiled. 
"Reyna, come over here." One of her friends had called her. Reyna walked away. Diego could not get his eyes off from her. "What do you think?" Karina asked him. "She's pretty." he replied. "Is she single?" Diego asked. "Yeah but she told me she doesn't want to date anyone right now." Karina replied. Few weeks passed and Diego convinced Reyna to go out, and a month later they were in a relationship. 

Diego could not forget that night. Later that night, I received a text from Diego, it was a picture of the two us at my cousin's quince a couple years back when we were first dating. "Reyna, introduce us to your boyfriend." my tia Conselo asked me. I smiled and look over at Diego. "I don't mind." he told me. I held his hand, "Tia, este es Diego mi novio. Diego this is my tia counselo." As Diego pulled out his hand to shake my tia's hands, my tia immediately grab him and hugged him. "Tia." 
"I'm sorry." I mouth words to Diego. That night I felt like I introduced Diego to my entire family. I would never forget that night, it was truly a night to remember. I stared at the picture for a while then put my phone away.