Chapter 73: Sweet Nothings

Fernando walks out of the gate in front of his house, and takes a left to head down the hill toward where the pool, mall and school were. In the past days he would have taken a few running steps before launching himself into flight but today he walks, tapping the cane in front of him. Across the street Edna and Edward were about to get into the family minivan to go somewhere with their parents. In seeing Fernando, Edna breaks away from group and run across the street to talk to him. It forces Fernando to stop when his cane hit her feet.

“Hi... I want to talk to you about what happened.” Edna begins to say.

“I don’t want to talk about it.” Fernando tells her as he feels about her feet with the cane.

From across the street Edward calls for his sister as he checks the street to cross it.

“But...” Edna begins.

“No, I want to be left alone.” Fernando tells her as Edward finally approaches them.

“Look, Edna, we got to go.” Edward tells his sister as he takes her by the arm.

Seeing this, Fernando makes his move to go around Edna and takes a premature launching step into flight. It was not enough to get high into the air but fast enough to get away from them faster than running. He manages to land a couple of blocks away as they watched him fly away from them. He does not see a New York City taxi turn up on the street behind him.

In a couple of minutes the door bell to Fernando’s home rings. Startled, Rosita looks up and around before getting up. She was about to answer the door but realizes what she was wearing. She takes the see through camisole and mini skirt, putting on her polo shirt and skirt over her see-through bra and panties before scurrying to hide the camisole and skirt under the mattress.

The doorbell rings impatiently as she steps out into the hall. In seconds she is running down the stairs. Checking the side windows she sees it was their mother. She opens the door.

“About time you answered the door!” Mother all but yells at her, “What kept you so long?”

“I was taking a nap...” Rosita tries to answer before she was pushed away as Mother enters the house. Her friend walks into the house after her.

Mother eyes about the house, seeing the house empty, things are not on and dark. She then looks at Rosita, seeing she was in a polo shirt and pleated skirt but not wearing sox or shoes.

“Where’s JD and Fernando.” Mother tells her.

“JD is with the girls at the movies, I think and I don’t know where Fernando is. He just got up and left.” Rosita tries to explain. 

“Got up and left...? Probably to stick his dick into that white furred hoe.” Mother states, referring to Cathy. Then she turns and approaches Rosita, “Grandma has you sleeping with that pervert? Has he touched you? Tell me, I’m your mom.” The alcohol in her breath was more apparent as she approached the girl.

“We still sleep together, we’re twins.” Rosita tries to explain.

“You should not be sleeping with your brother. You’re at an age where you are developing, growing up. And so is he, but he’s a boy and boys who are developing want to stick their dicks into any girl they can, including their sisters. So watch yourself around him. If he touches you in any way, tell me and I’ll put that little pervert in jail!” Mother tells her.

Rosita does not believe what she is hearing. “No, he has not touched me in a perverted way. He’s been very nice to me, I am his twin sister.” She tells her.

“You even know what that kind of touch involves?” Mother asks.

“Not to let anyone touch me in my private areas: my vagina area, my tail area, or my breast areas. I know mom.” Rosita answers as she points at them.

Mother gives her a stern look for the moment. “Good.” She manages to say.

“Mom, what are you doing here?” Rosita asks.

“I wanted to check up on my girls.” Mother tells her, and then asks, “Where’s Grandmother? And why are you here alone?”

“Grandma is out shopping for food and things. I was taking a nap because I got a headache and took a pill for it.” Rosita answers.

Mother steps up to her and lowers herself on bended knees, grabbing Rosita by the shoulders, “You better not have what your brother has! I’ll take you to the hospital right now!”

“I’m fine, mother. It’s just a headache. It’s not like what Fernando gets. I’m his twin sister, I can feel his headaches, and what I got is nothing like what he gets.” Rosita tells her, adding, “But I do not feel well, so I’m going back to sleep. Grandma should be back in a couple of hours.”

“You kicking me out or something?” Mother tells her.

“I’m just reminding you that Grandmother does not want you in her house unless she is here. You can come back in a couple of hour and see if she has returned if you want to talk with her.” Rosita tells her.

“I wanted to take you and Jorgina out.” Mother tells her.

“I’m don’t feel like going out.” Rosita tells her, reminding her, “I got a headache. Mind letting me go so I can go back to bed?”

Mother just looks at her and sighs before letting her go. “Alright. I’ll wait for Jorgina to return.”

“I do not know when JD will return. Grandma might return before she does.” Rosita says to her.

“I’ll take my chances.” Mother tells her.

“Alright, what ever.” Rosita says to herself. She manages to get away from Mother and goes into her room.

Once in her room, she gets on her bed to lay down on it and for the first time in a long time in her implanted memories can remember, she feels alone.

A little more than a half hour later Fernando returns from his walk, with a small paper bag of candied nuts that he knows his twin sister likes. Walking into the house he finds Mother on the couch with her boyfriend cab driver.

“And where were you, young man.” Mother tells him sternly from her seat. 

“None of your concern.” Fernando tells her.

Mother gets up and walks over to him, seeing the bag in his grasp.

“What is this?” Mother says as she tries to snatch the bag from his grasp. She misses as he pulls it away from her.

“It’s not for you.” Fernando tells her.

“I’m going to teach you not to get fresh with your mother.” Mother tells him, throwing in, “Julio – get him.”

Mother’s male companion gets behind Fernando as Mother takes off her shoe to hit Fernando with. Julio grabs Fernando by the upper arms as she walks up to him. As she tries to take the bag, Fernando pulls back for her not to get it.

Rosita gets up from the bed in hearing the commotion downstairs. She gets to the top of the stairs and sees what’s going on.

“When I Tell You Go Give Me Something, You Hand It Over!” Mother tells him as she smacks him with her shoe with every word spoken.

Rosita runs down the stairs as fast as she could, managing to get between Fernando and Mother as she tries to hit him again.

“What are you doing?!!” Rosita yells at her Mother.

“Teaching a disrespectful perverted son a lesson! Now stand aside so I can finish!” Mother tells her.

“NO!” Rosita yells at him.

They stand there for the moment in a Mexican stand off, each one standing and staring at the other waiting to make the first move.

Rosita turns slightly to check on her brother, who was in bad shape. His face is bruised and he is knocked out cold; blood had begun to trickle down the corner of his lips and nose.

Somehow something deep inside her made her react as she reaches behind Fernando onto Mother’s male companion, and push him away off her brother with a super strength only Fernando is known to have. “Get Off My Brother!” She yells at him. In a single move she, she catches Fernando before he could fall and takes his limp body to living room couch where she lays him on her lap.

“Mother. Leave.” Rosita tells her.

“And who are you to tell me what to do? I gave you life, I can take it away.” Mother tells her.

“Mother. I’m calling the police. It’s best you leave before they come.” Rosita tells her.

Mother was about to say something but her male companion whispers something in her ear and they both leave the house after Mother puts on her shoe again. Rosita watches them walk out the house then past the gate through the window where they go down the block part way to a yellow New York City Cab and drive away. Rosita counts to one hundred, an amount of time that passes she thinks Mother will not return after. Rosita looks down at Fernando and wipes the hair from his forehead.

“Fernando, if you can hear me, give me a sign, any sign, that you are OK.” Rosita says to him.

There is none.

None for the next couple of hours.

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