Chapter 4

Getting to know the dark world(chapter 3)

Mari sits up in bed and thinks about whether the same thing is happening to her as in the movie. After a few minutes, the bitter taste in her throat starts to go down and her teeth and tongue immediately go numb, Mari, scared, runs out of the room towards the kitchen, opens the refrigerator and steeps the water pitcher, believing that this would cut off the effect of the mysterious white powder. She returns to her room and lies there for more than three hours waiting to see if something bad happens.

The next morning she was awakened by the knocking on the door of her room by her mother who warned her that it was getting late for class. Marie could not believe that she was still alive.

It became a habit for Mari to do this every morning and to get up endlessly to the bathroom to vacuum the dust, she kept the money for the snack and with it she bought a portion every 2 or 3 days as a clown, Mari was changing and from being that shy little girl who did not speak or think everything now altered her character was like that of a volcano that erupts every time it wanted, she responded badly to the teachers, she fought with the boys in the classroom and constantly argued strongly with her mother and for Rosalinda her daughter was simply uncontrollable.

However, in her interest to change Mari, Rosalinda forced her to go with her to the Christian services she attended every Sunday and with that try to convince her that she was a demon of lust that possessed her, she presented boys as future candidates and even organized meetings where she invited those future candidates to see if Mari would dare to go out with one of them, mari was already tired of the situation, one Sunday one of those candidates came to visit her and Rosalinda practically forced mari to receive him, mari full of rage sat down on the furniture next to him, she looked at him with some annoyance and he said

-mari my mom left you this black bag with all your clothes and told me not to let you in.

Mari was impressed and just said

- don't worry jose i won't come in brother let me get a change of clothes and hide the bag under your bed i'll see if i can get a place to sleep today

-that's right sister.wait!!!!

Jose entered the house while Mari was taking out a pair of jeans and two shirts and when he returned he gave her a bag with half a loaf of bread

-take it so you don't go hungry

Mari gave him a big hug and told him tomorrow I'll be back by this time to get some clothes, please don't let mommy see them

And so Mari went out to nothing to the good of God that night slept in the park and covered herself with the two shirts that she took out of the bag gave the bread as much as she could, at dawn she waited sitting on the bench until noon and almost fainting from hunger and as she promised at that time she arrived home and played

Jose opened the girl's room, let Mari in to clean up, and told her

- don't delay my mom called and she was already on her way

Mari took a shower, grabbed a purse, put in as much as she could and told Jose

-I don't know when I'll see you again, but I know we'll meet again. Don't tell Mom you saw me, don't throw away your phone, when the time comes I'll look for you, I'll be a big boy and I'll come and find you and my sister.

On another night, Mari didn't know that she would be afraid that something would happen to her or that someone would try to abuse her. She remembered the gay club she once went to, which had everything from prostitutes to jibaros, but at least she felt that if she got there, she wouldn't be in as much danger as she was walking around, She waited in the plaza of the large savannah for night to fall with a simple loaf of bread in her stomach and the bag hanging on her back. She walked to the place and stood in the entrance.

She turned around and saw that girl with the yokel and answered

-I don't smoke

The woman asks him

-I'm waiting for someone ?

-No, but I got my ID card

The woman grabbed his hand and said

-come I am with my friends

He stood in front of the security and said

-she is coming with me she was waiting for me outside

The security signaled him to come in and finally he entered, immediately that macho woman introduced him to other girls and among them a transvestite with brown skin and long extensions of skin not very graceful in the face but with a very good body, Mari observed her and held out her hand

-mucho gusto maricarmen

And with a subtle handshake

-very good taste in jet

Mari did not drink alcohol so she asked for a futpoins that obviously was paid for by the woman who took her there and that during the whole night tried to seduce her at a certain moment of the night jet tells mari

-company me to the bathroom that I don't like to go alone

Mary follows her and they go in together, Jet tells her

-Hold the door that is unlocked while I knock on it and from her bra she takes out a straw with white powder sucked through both holes and. Then he said

-you want

Mari nodded her head yes and as she was sucking up jet fuel she asked

-you really are a couple of the fat one

Immediate mari responds

-I don't even know her, she just didn't have a license to enter and she did me the favor of passing me

- and you are alone where you live

-I don't have a house my mom threw me out because I told her I don't like kids and I thought that if I came in here I would be safer than wandering around in the street at night

-and where will you sleep when they close?

-ummmmm I don't know in the park can be