Chapter 20. The visit.

By Lina.

After two months of honeymoon in our beautiful Mexico it was time to travel to Europe, specifically Germany, the trip to Turkey we postponed since the problems in the company are "more urgent", so we have to go as soon as possible If I'm honest, I would have loved to go and extend the honeymoon, the time alone we would have in Turkey, more specifically Istanbul, but I don't even hope that later in May we can travel.

We spent Christmas as a family, just for that day we returned to Guadalajara, our parents welcomed us delighted, my sisters, as always, every time someone arrives from a trip, the first thing they do is ask what we brought them as a souvenir.

We brought something to all of us, to our mothers some quarry supplies and key chains, to our parents some shirts and ties as they asked, I brought my brother a shirt that says "I was in the Huasteca", to Natt an image of the Virgin from Guadalupe made from quarry, to my sisters typical sweets from Zacatecas and Aarón brought some photos of Zacatecas from the 1800s to his sister (since his sister loves old photos) to my brother-in-law some bracelets made by indigenous people, a picture of a mountainous landscape, those were all gifts.

He wanted to buy me something for Christmas but after getting to know the Huasteca, Zacatecas, Puebla and Yucatán in these two months they were more than enough, on the twenty-sixth of this month we were married for two months, today December 24 "Noche Buena" we will have dinner as a family Natt's father will come, my in-laws and brothers-in-law, I invited my friends Irina and María, the first to tell of fleeing from her family I gladly accept, María, good! María is something else, she is strange but what can I do to her? She says that her family is super perfect and she does not know what the problems are, so no way.

I see that we have reached the house that saw me grow up, you can see the lights in the living room on, the TV light, the lights on the front door are on, everything is very well lit, the door has a crown adorned with Spheres of characteristic colors, it has little lights around it, the ceiling is decorated the same, the trees that my mother has on the sidewalk are more arranged than years ago, I can see that we are the last to arrive, if my grandmother were here " We would have to ask for an inn ", without wasting any more time we got out of the truck. Aarón waits for me to get in together, he takes my hand and without wasting any more time he rings the bell, the" beep "is heard indicating that the door is open, so We go in, my dad doesn't wait at the other door, dressed in a custom made suit and his red tie, apparently my mom wants to take the house out the window this year.

- Hi daddy, I missed you a lot.- I say hugging him tightly.

- My girl, the house is not the same without you, I miss you a lot, the house is very silent without you, and look at your sisters are not very silent.

- Good night father-in-law, happy good night.- Aaron hugs him with that typical male hug.

The more the three of us walk together, you can hear the noise in the kitchen and living room, in the living room my sisters are watching the special Friend of Mickey Mouse or whatever it is called, they are so attentive sheltered and very well accompanied by Sasha and Flor his pets who are next to them curled up asleep, Carlos meets them "very excited" since he is asleep, hahaha who would say my friend has not let him sleep.

I walk slowly and silently or at least as far as my heels allow, I am three steps from where my Elos is very deep, I am even holding my breath, only one step left, when I am about to scream, I hear my mother say.

- Don't even think about it young lady, let your brother rest in peace, the poor guy hasn't slept in days, so you better come say hello to your mother and help me, or do you think that the food takes itself or what? - like always defending my brother, I can see that he has his arms crossed with THE LOOK so I slowly take two steps away from my goal, I feel like a scolded child and I am already a married woman, but as my grandmother used to say "even if the chicken leaves the chicken coop does not stop being of the hen "or well something like that, I don't remember well.

I hear the laugh of my brother who as a good actor was pretending to be asleep again, I don't know why he doesn't study acting.

- Apparently the princess has not been made to scare the prince of breast. - he gets up making a face of sorrow and a hero pose, the prince is rather a tadpole, elusive and loud.

- Hahaha that's funny, where is the prince that I can't see? I only see a tadpole with the face of my brother. - I say crossed my arms with the tone of my voice a bit shrill.

- There is a dwarf, I miss you a lot, how good we will be in Spain together.- He surrounds the chair to hug me very tightly, he almost took my breath away.

- I like Elos, and tell me how was your honeymoon?

- Wonderfully, I think Natt will tell you better, now step aside, I need to say hello to the hottie that you have as a husband. - he says all that, pulling me aside with a little force but not so much to throw me on the floor.

- Okay, mommy, what did you do for dinner?

- Turkey with grandmother's stuffing, pasta, salad, jelly with strawberry yogurt and guava atole for the girls and for us wine among other things, since your father does not estimate expenses when it comes to food and drink. - That's right, my father is very rough, we are walking to the kitchen, where Natt is making some cookies, Irina is taking the cake out of the oven, my mother-in-law is beating the bitumen, my father-in-law is talking on the phone.

- Mmmmhh that smells good, good night everyone, how can I help you? - all say in chorus "good night".

- Lina my heart how beautiful you are.- says my mother-in-law approaching with open arms.- Tell me, how was the Huasteca?

- Very beautiful, the waterfalls, the water is delicious and not to mention the food, of the four places that I loved the most was Zacatecas, with its beautiful alleys, food, buildings, archaeological sites, they are beautiful, the truth is, all the places are beautiful .

- I imagine my girl, but well I'll let you say hello to your friends, they are waiting to greet you.

She is right we have a lot to talk about, I see how she returns to the bitumen, my mother approaches her to talk about I don't know what, I approach my friends who are talking, Irina is carrying a tray of cookies in the oven.

- Hello beautiful merry Christmas.- Irina embraces me very effusively like Natt.

- Hello cuñis, until you let yourself be seen.

- Same here, and tell me, what did Carlos tell you? How do I take it? - I can tell that when you touch on that subject your face changes, has something happened?

- This I think we continue to make cookies, right? - Irina comments who makes me sign not to continue down that path, ups apparently happened from what they haven't told me, well she will know when she tells me.

- Yes, hey, those are the gingerbread cookies that you showed us off, right? - I ask Natt because she told us a week ago that she was taking baking classes, she has to fulfill a promise that she made me and that was that she would bake a cake for the anniversary of my marriage, we just got married and she already thinks about it anniversary, I know there is another more personal intention but I will not say anything.

- Well Irina, tell me how did you go to my wedding with your ex? Wasn't he supposed to be past? That what you throw away you no longer pick up, what happened? - says a more animated Natt after my comment too many.

- Well ... the ... I don't really know what they're talking about. - The first thing he says stammering, that indicates nervousness and insecurity with the subject in question.

- Hahaha don't tell me sweetheart! That was the fruit of our imagination, we are so crazy that we didn't see anything, there aha, tell us.- That's Natt who puts pressure after feeling a bit insecure. I only observe, because the truth is not good to get the truth, that only Natt.

- Well, the truth ... if we walk, or well I think so, he only arrived a week before your wedding, with roses, with my favorite chocolates and I took a serenade, do you know how difficult it was in our courtship to be that detailed? And now he comes out of nowhere and does that, the truth is, I don't know what to believe, I don't know if I'm stupid enough to believe that the change, or I'm just making stories in my head, I don't even know what to think, what do you think? - Everything began to say with his face of illusion which was withering little by little, until leaving one of confusion.

- The truth is, I think it brings double intentions, or what are you saying Lina? - As always Natt distrusting, but only in this I agree, it is very strange.

- Natt has a point, because look when they were dating, he only looked for you when he wanted to, you know, and you were always there, that was when their relationship was "stable", but what happened with Maria and her bad decisions that resulted that you did not give him the time that he demanded, because he did not ask, he demanded, so as he said "you neglected me baby, you left all this fresh meat adrift, and someone would take it" .- I say all that with a look from "think things over", the latter with a very bad male voice imitation.

- There are girls! I already needed his advice, I know that I am very stupid, when I return with him after what happened with Maria, but that is already past and the truth is I notice it more mature.- It is impossible we have lost it again.

- Okay, then there is nothing left but to say luck, you will need it. - I tell her while I give her a hug, Natt sees her disapprovingly so she only pats him on the shoulder.

We are talking about the next trip to Spain, what we will do and how much we will miss each other, we will miss the meetings every Friday on movie night, which we did before my accident and the weddings, but hey I hope it's only for a short time . Irina pulls out another cookie sheet when the doorbell rings.