eyes without a face

PARTE 17

March 25, 1981

I woke up with a headache and a stomachache. I quickly went to the bathroom as I threw up. I felt disgusting. It was early in the morning. I was worried about my sister. I haven't seen her in a couple days. I cleaned my face as I wiped my mouth. Andrea comes in, looking at me. "You sure you're not the one pregnant?" She said laughing. I looked at her serious. "Dude don't say that." She smiled. "I'm just saying.. you didn't even drink yesterday.." I groan, getting out the bathroom as I laid down on the bed. Could I be? Hopefully not. I got up, going to the kitchen as I see my brother. "Where's Juli?" I ask him. "She's still at Damian's place." I go over to the stove as I cook some food. "You seem so.. tired." I look at my brother. "Yeah.. I wonder why." He slightly laughs. "My bad. Just saying, if Andres is coming over.. he's not gonna want to see you like that." I look at my brother, full attention now. He stops what he's doing. "What." "Nothing." I said. I sit down on the table as I ate.

It was 3:00 pm. I was on call with Kali, filling her in with all the chisme that she's missed. "Shit. What are you gonna do?" I sigh. "I don't know. Andrew's coming over later and so is Juli. I'll see how it goes, tonight I just want to party and forget about him." "Cata, you love that foo. I know you're not gonna let go that easy." I softly laugh. "I know, but if he really wants me that bad, he's gonna have to come over here. I don't know why that bitch made shit worse as soon as I got there." She sighs. "Alright pues. I gotta go. Te cuidas chulaaa." "Alright bye." I hang up.

I get up, going to the couch. My sister sees me as she hugs me. "CATALINAAA." I hug her back. "Dude.." She pulls back. She looked high. "You got any coke?" I raise my eyebrow at her. "For what? Where's Damian?" She groans. "That foo.. he cheated on me but you know.. I beat his ass up and his sister kicked me out and.. pues.. you got any or nah? Where's Richard? Tell him, I'll finally join him." I look at her confused. "Join? Uh- foo what the fuck?" She sits back down on the couch. I sit down next to her. "I don't wanna talk about it." I groan. "Well tienes mala suerte.. Richard ain't here. He uh.. stayed." She looks at me confused. I laugh. "Why tf he stay? He got someone over there o que?" I nod. "Yeah.. he supposedly got some bitch pregnant? I don't know.. I came over here quickly cuz I didn't wanna deal with that shit." She nods slowly. "I feel you.. órale pues let's fucking party then! I wanna forget about everything.." I smile. "Me too.. but you're only smoking.. I won't let you get any coke.." She scoffs. "Eres mala.." she stood up as she grabbed a beer. She grabs an extra one for me.

Few hours pass and we were smoking our third joint. I was high as fuck already and Juli was too high. We suddenly hear door knocks and my sister panics. "Shit it's the cops" I look at her serious. We both hurry and lean on the window as we look outside, it was just some guy. My sister groans as she gets up to open it. "Aver quien es.." I was too high to focus and I walked over to the kitchen to get another beer. My sister screams and I immediately look up to see why. "ANDREW???" She yells as she hugs him. I suddenly cough, running to the bathroom. I was throwing up again. Fuck fuck.. I hear a knock on the door. "Yooo Cata, come out!" I move my hair out of my face and wash my mouth, looking at the mirror. What the fuck was wrong with me.

I open the door. I saw my sister and she grabs me as we walked to my room. Andrew was sitting on my bed. I sat down next to him. Juli looks at me. "Uh.. I'm gonna go get another beer.." She leaves the room.

Andrew looks at me. I was not focused on him at all. My eyes were slightly closed as I groaned softly. "I'm guessing you had fun without me already?" He says. I open my eyes to look at him. I smirk. "Yeah... te tardaste.." He laughs. He focused on something in his hands. "I missed you.." I said to him. He doesn't look at me. "Is it true you have a boyfriend?" He asks, still not looking at me. "Had.. I mean.. I don't know. It's complicated." I lean in foward looking at him, he had a necklace. "What's that." He gives it to me. "It's for you. Why is it complicated?" I grab the necklace. "Uh.. he has.. he got a bitch pregnant and I guess.. uhh.. I don't want to talk about him." I look at him. "I missed you.." he says. I look at his lips, I shouldn't be doing this but fuck it. I leaned in as I kissed him. He slowly pulled away. "Cata.."  I lick my lips as he pulled away. "I'm sorry.." He looks at me, grabbing my hand. "Don't apologize.. I want to kiss you too but..." He says softly, I look at him, leaning to kiss him again. "Don't think about it.." I mumbled softly. He kisses me back, grabbing my waist, I softly groaned. He moves his kisses towards my neck but stops as he looks at my neck. I didn't pay attention to what he was looking at. He lets go of me as he stood up. I was confused but sat down on the bed. "I'll be back." He says before leaving my room.

Couple minutes later, Juli comes in. She tells me to turn my face up, which I do. She winced slightly. "Oh shit.. he did.." I look at her. "What?" She sits down next to me. "Andrew asked me to ask you if you know why..you're not fully.. but you're kind of bruised and you still have a hickey near your fucking boobs dude.." I scoffed. "No I don't.." I got up, looking at my mirror. She was right. I walk out the room, Andrew was in the kitchen. I go up to him. "Andrew.." He looks at me. "I'm sorry.. I didn't realize-" He cuts me off. "Does he hurt you?" Now I know why Shelly asked. "No he doesn't.." He scoffs. "Andrew. I'm serious." He shakes his head. "You deserve better. This.. that isn't good." I nod. "I know.. but I didn't know.." He leans in, "I was hoping to find you waiting for me. Well.. not really but tu sabes.." I softly laugh. "I'm serious." He says. I look at him. "I met him and he's different.. he just doesn't know.." He looks at me, before leaning in to kiss me. I knew I had to let go but I didn't want to. We both didn't say a thing. He slowly pulls away. "I missed you.."

Before I could say anything else, Beto comes to the kitchen. He sees us together and has a confused expression on his face. "Que paso?" I pulled myself away from Andrew. I look at my brother. "Can I talk to you?" He nods as he heads out again. I follow him behind leaving Andrew in the kitchen.

Beto sat down by the bench we had outside. I sat down next to him. "What happened." He looked at me. "Nothing." I said to him. He crosses his arms, looking away from me. "Richard called again." I looked towards him. "Why?" He coughs slightly. "Dice que no va venir." I looked at him confused. "Hm? Did he say why?" He shakes his head. "Nah. He just said not to tell you but.. I'm telling you cuz.. of Andres." I look at him confused again. He finally looks at me. "What's going on with you and him." He says. "Why." I told him. He sighs. "Nothing." He says walking off. I groan walking behind him. "Beto I thought.." He cuts me off. "If you're gonna be with Andres, call Richard and tell him it's over." He says as he walks off. I stop. Shit.