BLANCA RASISMO

Pipe Dream

Strelitzia - a flower that means freedom and joy

Tugurios - slums

Amor - love

Armonia - harmony

Being a woman in a strict household taught her to be more respectful, to be courteous, to learn manners and ethics, and anything of what society could call a lady's personality.

She felt entitled by the tradition that was passed upon her since she was the eldest and the only woman in the family. But she soon realized the wonders outside of the four walls of her room when one day she looked beyond the frame of her window and saw a beautiful alien.

She had milky skin that glowed under the sun and straight hair that has the same shade as the sand. But what captured her sight was the stick that she was holding that held a boxed shaped metal, the attractive woman was talking to it as she passed her window. Blanca was mesmerized by her actions and recognized her language.

Her deceased father used to teach her new dialects when she was ten and fell in love with language when her father brought her an English book. Now that her father passed away she picked up the last of her father's books and taught herself with them but her duties as a lady stopped her from reading the rest of it and were forbidden to pick another book again.

A knock from her window broke her from her unending thoughts as she looks up from her clenched hands to find two brilliant orbs staring at her

" Hey there, do you speak English?" the woman said with the metal in her hand.

It made her forget the English lessons her father taught her as she continues to stare at the woman in front of her.

A high pitched sound came out from the metal, the blonde woman looked down and pressed on it, she tapped on it so fast with her slender fingers before looking at Blanca with big doe eyes and asked the same question again. This time she stuttered an answer.

"Y-yes..what can I help you with?"

The woman asked her for direction as Blanca noticed the metal reflecting them like a mirror. She gave her the direction without stuttering again and finally gained the courage to ask.

"What is that thing you are holding?" She asked timidly as she gawks at the device.

The woman was taken aback by the question. It was twenty-seventeen and by now everyone should be holding one but for some reason, the woman noticed very little technological development in the area as she toured the ethereal place.

It was full-on greens and trees as if it was Eden itself, the woman chooses the place to travel to since It was considered the most beautiful place on Earth but she would never think that the timid girl in front of her wouldn't know what a smartphone was.

The woman was afraid that she would give the girl a culture shock but she couldn't look away from the girl's curious glittering eyes. The woman sighed and finally gave in to satisfy her fascination with the technological knowledge from her country. They talked for a few minutes until it turned into a conversation that lasted for hours.

The woman that Blanca met was a so-called 'Vlogger', she traveled the world and broadcast herself as she interacted with her fans online. When Blanca glanced at the clock, it was already time to say goodbye to the foreign streamer as she apologized for taking her day. The sun was setting its place between the comfort of the mountains as both women waved their last goodbyes to each other.

The blond woman was eccentric and a maverick woman that made Blanca feel something.

It was an unknown feeling, an emotion that she hasn't felt since she was thirteen after her father died in a plane crash. She was always sad to see a complete family at school but she felt something other than sadness that day and never knew what the dark emotion was.