the other Alvarez

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i was sitting in the living room reading a book, well i was reading a baby book but i had put another book behind it do Abuelita cant see, today will be my official 9th week of pregnancy, its getting harder to hide it from my siblings, and abuelita is being nosey like always, she walked in while i was changing luckily i covered myself before she saw my small belly, it was starting to show.

the door opened which caused my to close my book, making a loud slap that startled Abuelita.

"sounds like alex is home" the elder said before mami corrected her "no mami that's elena" she says from her stop at the table, she had been trying to cram in as much studying as she could.

"but i hear friends" abuelita teased, i giggled.  "hey flaquita, who are all these...peeps" i say, shes really been on my case about using gender non-binary greeting terms.

"whats up peeps" mami said standing up from the table and walked towards elena.

"okay stop saying peeps" elena snapped. i smiled, idiota. "oh, cause peeps are candy treats used to celebrate pagan fertility, and women are more than just baby-makers. i get it" mami brags, i snorted and rolled my eyes.

"so maybe don't say anything" elena says giving mom a warning with her eyes.

"anyway this is the advocacy group i was telling you about, the feminist gamers of echo park, we've been hanging out online and this is our first time meeting irl" she bragged stopping for a second to give the girl who was standing next to her lovey-dovey eyes.

"welcome, whats everyone's name" mom asked

"I'm dani, my pronouns are she and her" the girl who Elena was admiring said then "Syd, my pronouns are they and them" 

"I'm Margaux, pronouns are ze and zir" the next person went.

i looked up at mom to see she had a very confused look on her face. "I'm Penelope and my thoughts are huh and what" i laughed at that when elena glared at me to which i put my hands up in surrender. 

"seriously what is happening" mami said.

"well some-" elena started before i went "d-d-d-d- i got this, some people don't feel like they fit in the girl or boy category to they go by they them, some don't feel like they them fit them so they have neopronouns like ze and zir" i say, elena laughs impressed with my knowledge.

"i know I'm amazing, by the way I'm Xiomara and my pronouns are she and her, but they and them are fine aswell" i say informing the group, Syd nodded and Margaux smiled that i knew what neopronouns are.

"ahh, I'm lydia. pronouns ly-dee-ahh" she sounded out her name, i giggled and got up from my spot on the couch to walk into the kitchen, when i stood up my shirt raised with my movement which exposed my stomach just a tiny bit. mami eyes shot down which made me look so i could discreetly pull it down.

"were going downtown to protest the release of a new video game" my little sister said as she marched over to a bunch of signs i help her make.

"blood-splosion six" marguax said 

"ohh i guess you think its too violent huh?" mami said looking down at zir

"no we love that part" elena says looking at our mother like duh

i zoned out of the conversation as i made some food.

by the time i came out alex was standing in the middle of the hallway, we stood next to each other.

i was about to take a bite out of my sandwich until alex took it out of my hands and took one big ass bite.

"sup" alex said triggering his swagger.

"papito estas ladrando tantos arboles equivocados, tambien devuélveme mi puto bocadillo" i say snatching back my food.

after that i left the room to take a nap.

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when i woke up elenas activist group had just gotten back.

"so how did it go"  i asked

"amazing, we delivered a powerful message and got rad t-shirts" dani said 

"dani was honestly inspirational" elena said once again giving her googly eyes. dios mio.

elena invited her friend over but when dani delinced she said everybody shouldn't stay.

"we can meet up next week" she said waving her arm around, after everyone left i walked into the kitchen as i passed alex i ruffled his hair

"ay not the hair Xo" he complained to which i laughed as he picked up a spoon and fixed the mess atop of his head.

i kissed him on the cheek, "what ya gonna do about it papito" i teased.

i hear Abuelita and Elena talking about crushes, so i approach.

"i think somebody's got a crutch on her" abuelita said using speech marks.

"dani!, no i don't. i don't even know her. you have a crush on her" elena said getting very defensive. i rolled my eyes at her antics.

"no, no no, when it comes to detecting romance I'm like cousin lorencio at the beach with his metal detector" i giggled because that certain cousin of ours, he's blind and cant find shit with his dodgy junk yard metal detector of his.

"so  you found nothing and sweating though your shirt" i said sitting next to Elena swinging my legs over hers. "don't be bashful bonita" abuelita scoled.

"by the way we can teach you things because your flirting is, how do you say 'me hace querer morir'" i say looking at elena, she squints her eyes ryiing to translate the Spanish in her head, when she found out she gasped really dramatically.