Was MC Quixote back home to stay? Will father and daughter live out their dreams close to family and friends in the glow of their Mexican sun? No one in this family approaches this looming question, or anything related to the subject. No one wants to spoil this time together.
Back in The Navel of the Moon, the reunited family walks the streets of DF, from the stones of the Zocalo to the waters of Xochimilco.The Cervantes spend most of their time on the patio of the interior courtyard at Abuela Adela's house in Coyoacan.
They just sit together in the open-air patio, potted garden, just off the rustic kitchen where Abuela and Caylee's mom serve the family's coveted moles, posoles, arroz, and frijoles. From this kitchen come the soothing sounds of tortillas being slapped into circular form throughout the day.
This is home. The comal, the stove, and the sunlit patio form the sacred triangle of origin for the Cervantes family. This triangle is beginning to mutate into a square because of a newer area that has become an increasingly important space inside this home. It was the desk that Caylee's dad used to sit at to study and write but now it has transformed into her mom's computer area, which has become information and communication central while father and daughter were in Utah.
Caylee is updating her MC Quixote Facebook page when she notices a message posted from Tammy asking Caylee to call her. Caylee's heart sinks a little, there's a heaviness in making the call. Caylee can sense that it might be bad news, why else would Tammy have her call?
Caylee takes her cell phone out on the patio to make the call from this padded lounger that she can lay down on. As she dials, she can tell her signal is faint, so she wheels the lounger to the corner of the patio that she has figured out is the network sweetspot.
"Tammy, how are you?"
"It's good down here, I don't know if I can come back to Salt Lake; this feels more like home than it ever has."
Caylee just listens for a while, lying down, facing the sky, closing her eyes, still.
Abela can sense that something is up so she sits down at the end of the lounger and just listens to Caylee's quiet sighs and watches her eyes shut and downturned expression on her mouth grow.
"OK Tammy, I'll book a flight and see you as soon as I can get there."
Abuela reaches for Caylee's hand and then embraces her and they both start to sob. Caylee murming,
"Sancho, Sancho, Oh Sancho." Caylee's mom walks in on the scene and asks,
"What happened baby?"
"Tammy said Sancho has been missing for two days. I have to go back and find him."
Caylee just starts pounding her hand with the phone in it against the lounger cushion sputtering,
"Sancho needs to be with us, I need to go find him. I hope to god he'snot dead."
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MC Quixote
General FictionThis story is about a fifteen year old moving from Mexico to the United States with her deaf father. She experiences many challenges and turns to writing songs and creating music to overcome the difficulties of moving to a new culture while growing...
