Short Stories - Flaritza

Bandaid part 3

Maritza sat on her bunk fidgeting with her fingers not having anything to do, Caputo had talked to Flaca after lunch and the woman had disappeared. Now it was around 6.30 and the girl still hadn't showed up

The girl kept reciting what she wanted to tell Flaca, she even wrote it in bullet form on the palm of her hand but decided to wash it off and keep a check list at the back of her mind.

Flaca stomps into the cube and throws her jacket on the cupboard, the girl looked exhausted

"Hey can we talk?"

Maritza blurts out, not what she should've said seeing how tired and kind of mad Flaca looked. The girl turns around as if she never even heard Maritza's questions

She gestures her hand at her body, pointing at the whole thing, her hands moving upwards and downwards quickly

"Am I strong? Do I look strong to you?"

She asks clearly upset, Maritza closes one eye not knowing what answer Flaca wanted

"You're stronger than me for sure-"

Maritza says carefully

"Okay but I'm not the pick up boulders and do that kind of labor strong"

She says stomping her foot like a little girl now opening her arms

"Look at me! I'm just tall! Why does tall mean strong in this society? I'm literally just a noodle. Yeah piggy back rides are the bomb with me but guess what? You can't have them cause I don't have strength to carry another human let alone work in construction"

Flaca says removing her hoodie leaving herself with grey sweatpants and a white tank top

"You wouldn't give me a piggy back ride?"

Maritza says kind of upset

"Well yeah, but you're like half a human"

Flaca says pointing at Maritza, the girl gives her a shy smile and opens her arms, Flaca huffs sadly and crawls into Maritza's arms pushing the girl backwards

"They moved you to construction?"

"Yeah, I'll barely see you now"

She says her voice quiet and muffled as she laid her head onto Maritza's chest

"Don't say that"

"I start at 4 in the morning till 12, I wake you up we have lunch together and dinner and then you're off again and once you're off your shift at 3 we'll only have 1 hour. It's bullshit"

Flaca rambles letting out another huff at the end, Maritza holds her a little tighter

"We'll make it work. Maybe this is good"

Maritza says, Flaca jerks her head up

"Thanks I guess"

She says lowering her head again thinking Maritza meant they need time apart

"What? No. I mean even when we're out of here, we'll have jobs with different hours until we get back to YouTube and maybe stick to that, Juliana will take up some time too so you know, this will like- prepare us-"

Maritza struggles to explain, she looks down to find Flaca looking up at her with a pair of glassy eyes, naturally Maritza asks

"The fuck you're looking at?"

Flaca who caught dumbfounded for a second blushes, then a warm smile spreads along her face as she laid her head, her chin in Maritza's cleavage as she looked up at the other girl with big brown eyes filled with nothing but love and longing