Only You- (Robin Arellano x you)

Prolougue

My name is Elena Woods. I was born in Boston, to my immigrant Spanish mother and my east Texan father. Accourding to nearly every person, who was friends or related to my parents, they were both extremley beautiful when they were younger, my mother with her chocolate brown eyes, tanned skin and dark brown curly hair, and my father with his bright green eyes, fluffy shoulder length hair and tall figure.

I dont have many pictures of them together, mainly so because my parents never married. You may be asking yourself, why they didn't marry, but had 3 kids together, well because after they had my brother Luke when they were only 18 as a rebellion against both their own parents ( well, sort of, thats what they said, but I think they were just both wasted at some party or something) they didn't have enough time or money to get married, as having a kid was more expensive and time consuming then they expected. So they moved from the small town in east texas to boston. To start a new life. That was in 1950.

It was in the summer of 1958 they had my other brother, Josh was born. By that point my father was working in the military and earning a really large sum of money, just so my mother didn't have to work.

Then on September 6th 1961, I was born. Luke was 11, and Josh was only 3 when I was born. Josh says I was an accident and our parents weren't expecting me. I know that was probably true. My mother started working after I was born. As a waitress in a local diner, and it paid just above minimum wage but, she wanted to save up. I never really understood why. When my dad had more than enough money.

However after I was born my Dad started to take longer breaks from the army and got promoted to an official officer, after I was born. Giving him more money and more time. I used to feel my mother didn't like me very much. I don't think she really wanted me to be born. I mean who could blame her. She already had her two perfect sons. They still didn't marry, and I didn't know why until I was in my late teens.

I guess growing up with 2 older brothers and a mother that didn't pay much attention to me at all, left me to copy my brothers and growing up very much a tomboy. When we would play knights and castles, I would force my dad to be the damsel in distress. Or the fairy princess. Or Josh would have to be the prince, but I would always be the Knight in shining armour. Needing to rescue everyone.

My life was pretty much perfect, until the christmas of 1966. I was 5 years old when I found out my dad had gone missing in the midst of the Vietnam war. I still remember the moment we found out. It still plays fresh in my mind.

Christmas day, I was sat on the couch, sat inbetween my 15 and 8 year old brothers. We were watching 'a christmas carol' on our box tv. Christmas music could faintly be heard from the kitchen as my mother cooked dinner and my abuela and abuelo were sat in chairs playing chess and chatting with eachother. They had come to visit us from Spain for christmas.The telephone rang from the Kitchen. My mother answered it. And then we heard a my mother cry out from the kitchen. Luke went to the kitchen to see what had happened, quickly pausing the film and getting up from the couch. Me and Josh follwing behind.

We found her leaning against the wall, tears streaming down her face, cradling the phone in her hand. Luke went over to her, while me and josh just stared from the doorway. Luke took ma in his arms and hugged her while crying. Abuela appeared behind us and steered us back into the living room where abuelo still sat. Observing the situation, when he saw us he tried distracting us from what was going on in the kitchen. Playing games with us and all sorts, while abuela and Luke were with ma in the kitchen.

A little while later, when ma's crying had calmed down, and you could only hear muffled talking as abuela and ma spoke. Luke appeared in the room again. He had tears streaked down his face, and his eyes were red and puffy.

"Dads gone missing"

From that point foward, my life only got worse.