Chapter Fifteen: Narrated the Thiago, Aline e Ester

Thiago

My name is Thiago, I am eighteen years old and I live in Sete Lagoas-Minas Gerais. I lived with my parents and my sisters: Aline, Ester and Marina.

Everything was going well in our lives until the day of my youngest sister's birthday and we found out right away that our mother had passed away. I was devastated, but I would have to be strong for my sisters, because as I am the eldest, I have to take care of them in this very difficult moment in our lives.

Just when I think that everything is going to be okay, I find out that my father has an incurable disease and I have to keep it a secret so that my sisters don't suffer even more.

I had to mature faster than my age would allow, leave my soccer games and the girl I was meeting named Rayssa in the background.

I didn't have time to get involved with someone with everything that was happening to me and after my father also passed away I was very bewildered and didn't know what to do, how to support my sisters if I didn't even have a job.

For this reason I lost custody of my sisters and they were sent to the orphanage. There was a hearing beforehand, but only to decide where they would be taken. I had hoped that I could win custody of them, but they didn't even give me a chance and separated me from them. I suffer a lot from this to this day, but since then I have put it into my mind that I must keep the promise I made to my father: that I would take care of my sisters and we would always be united.

I am not managing to fulfill this, but I hope that soon I will be able to, even if I have to fight in the courts for custody of my sisters.

I went to the orphanage a few days ago, because I can't swallow this story that the place is under renovation and soon after tracking my sister's chip I was startled to realize that she was not with the girls and decided to go get her myself.

I thought I would manage, that she would want to come with me, but she doesn't want to because of her new family, but she needs to understand that I am her real family and I won't give up until I have her near me.

I know I can't force her to live with me, but I don't want to be away from her, isn't it enough what I am going through here and still have her far away from me?

Aline

My name is Aline, I am seventeen years old and I am very sad not to have my sister near me. I miss her a lot and although I know that she now has a family, I am happy for her, but at the same time I am sad, because she is our little sister and I wanted to protect her, but unfortunately it is not possible.

I know that she is happy where she is, because she always tells us so, and I also know that here she suffered a lot with a girl who disturbed her a lot and her name is Lucia, but I love her and I want so much for everything to be resolved and for our brother to come and get us and for us to become a family again.

Since we have been living here, I have been very upset and my sister is very worried about me. I can't eat properly and I am taken to the infirmary almost every week because of weakness, and I miss my friends from my school a lot. I had a friend named Luca who was super sweet to me and my friend Lais who had her tough way but deep inside was a melted butter. I communicate with them by message when I can, but I still miss our old life very much. Our parents took us for walks almost every weekend and we went to church together. There was a very handsome boy that I am secretly in love with named Arthur. He is beautiful, light skinned, with blond hair and blue eyes, but unfortunately he only saw me as a friend, since right before my mother passed away he had taken up with the girl from the dance group.

My sister doesn't know what to do anymore, but she always has a gentle way of comforting me with her words and says that we will get some of our life from before back, that everything will be fine.

I wish I could be like her, who can keep her feelings to herself, but I just can't and it's been too hard for me to live here.

We are not treated badly, but it's not so easy either as we have all the free time, we have chores to do like homework, tidying our room, but it's not so bad. Of course I prefer what we had before, but we can't have everything we want, and I worry that in a while we will be older and will have to leave.

I wonder sometimes: Where will we go? I think about living with my brother, but will he want us around? That I will only find out some time from now.

Ester

My name is Ester and I am Aline's twin sister. We are living in the orphanage and it is not as bad as we thought it would be.

I saw in the movies that people suffered a lot, but here we are loved and we are even studying.

After our sister was adopted things have changed a lot and there are some teachers who give us classes and we have some gymkhanas on the weekends, which is a lot of fun and helps us to soften the problems we face internally.

I know that someday my sister and I will have our own family, together with our brother Thiago and our younger sister Marina.

I matured faster than my sister Aline when we came here and I know how much she is suffering and I try not to show my feelings so as not to worry her and I always try to get in touch with Mari to see how she is doing.

Since Thiago found out that she was adopted he was very upset and went after her.

Just today he came here and demanded to see us, which didn't work out so well and then he sent us a message saying:

-She is fine and didn't want to come with me, but I will bring her back and get you out of there-10:30

I didn't quite understand what "I will bring her back" means, but I hope he doesn't do anything crazy or else he will put everything at risk. Thiago, when he has an idea in his head, it's hard to get it out of his mind. I worry a lot about him, because he is going through all of this alone and he couldn't even stay with us at the orphanage, because he is older, but I really wish that they would have rethought and let him stay here at least until he gets a way to support himself, but they simply didn't even worry about him, because they said that since he is already eighteen, he is already responsible for himself. I really hope that everything turns out well in the end.