Burned pieces

Chapter 6

"Puede entonces no hacer nada bien?! Mira lo que has hecho. Gasto innecesario de oxígeno es lo que eres. Oh mi gran dios." My aunt yells at my cousin and me. "Pero mamá..." My cousin, Luca, says. "No, no hablar de nuevo."

After a while we just look at the floor in embarrassment. "Go to your rooms." Aunt Olivia says in a thick Spanish accent. Now you must be wondering what happened that caused all this yelling. Let's rewind back to when I left after I went iceskating.

- 3 hours earlier-

"I'll see you, Mary." I say before skating away and returning my iceskates to the lady behind the counter.

Walking down the road my stomach starts grumbling. I think I might pay that Chinese restaurant a visit. Inside of the restaurant the delicious smell of all kinds of spices and dishes hit my nose. The restaurant is almost empty with only two customers. I walk towards the counter and wait for someone so I can order.

"How can I help you?" A voice says but I don't see anyone. "Uhm... yeah..." I mumble looking around. "Oi, down here." The voice says and I stand on my toes to look over the counter to see a short old man standing behind it.

"Oh! There you are. I missed you, my bad." He grumbles something incoherent under his breath, ignoring it I order some Ku Lou Kay. Suddenly someone shoves a bill in my face and says "Can you order me the Foe Yong Hai." with a Spanish accent.

"Wait a fucking minute," I say whilst slowly turning around. "Luca, I totally recognized your voice this time."

"I still can't believe you didn't remember last christmas." This people, is my cousin. He is what people call a mistake. His mom walked away after giving birth leaving his dad to raise him.

When Uncle Nick went to Spain to release a bit of stress he accidentally lost Luca. A woman, Olivia, found him and now that woman is my uncle's wife. They moved back to America just 8 years ago.

"Let's have some fun, now." Luca says after we finish our food and catching up, and he's right. It IS time to have some fun, "What do you have in mind?" I ask. Luca answers me with a smile, he stands up and takes my hand, "You'll see." and then he pulls me out of the bar.

We're passing a lot of shops which I never even saw before and to be honest, I don't even know where I am right now.

"Man, where are you taking me." I ask Luca. "Hey, man. Never heard of the word patience? Just wait and see for yourself otherwise it'll just ruin the fun." I sigh and won't even ask anymore, I guess I'll just wait till we're there.  After another 15 minutes of walking I hear Luca say "Okay, mate. We're here."

I look at the place in front me, it says 'Shisha lounge'. "Uhm, what are we doing here?"
"We're going to smoke shisha, duh." I'm not sure if I want to smoke shisha.

I heard it's bad for you and I never did it before. Girl, what happend to 'having fun'? Having cold feet already? Just shut up and get in there.

I made up my mind and for this time I DO wanna have some fun, and it's only once so why not? "Alright, let's go." Luca looks surprised at me, "For real? You're not scolding me? Wow, who are you and what did you do to Makayla?" I smile playfully at him "For once I shut the boring Makayla off. Don't complain, let's have fun."

Luca and I get in the shisha bar, there are a lot of people in the bar. Everyone is occupied with themselves, we go to the barman and ask for a shisha. After 20 minutes which seemed forever, our shisha finally came.

The barman placed our shisha, "Have fun." then he leaves. Luca takes the pipe and starts smoking, I don't even know how this works.

I take the pipe and do what Luca is doing. Apparently I did something wrong because I start coughing. Luca just laughs. "You've never done this, have you?" I look at him feeling really embarassed. "Yes, I go to a sisha bar to smoke whenever I want to have fun. "

Luca laughs, "Here, I'll teach you. You take the pipe and just breath in for a long time. Then you take the pipe out your mouth and slowly breathe out."

He is making some kind of clouds with the smoke. "Not bad," I say, "let me try again." So I take the pipe to my mouth and do exactly what Luca told me to do.

And this time I didn't fail, I feel proud of myself. After half an hour we paid the barman and leave the bar. When we walk home we see a group of guys. Luca takes my hand and we walk past them, I so hoped they wouldn't say anything just when I hear them say "Psst. Pretty girl over there, why don't you leave that loser and come join us. You'll have a lot of fun." he says playfully while pointing to his dick.

I just ignore them and so did Luca. When I didn't react they got mad, "Ey, you whore!" they just kept calling me, so I just couldn't keep still anymore.

But before I could say anything I see Luca walking up to them. "What did you just call her? Huh?! You filthy bastard, spill it! What did you call her?!"
"You heard me. I don't have to repeat myself." the guy says.

"Oh yeah?" Luca says and punches the guy, he falls on the ground and Luca straddles him and keeps punching without a stop. I want to go to Luca to stop him just when someone takes my arm. I look at the guy who took my arm, it is one of his friends.

"Let me go." he wouldn't let me go, "I said let me go." I struggle so he would release my arm, but it didn't work, he was really strong.

I didn't see any other option, so I hit him in his balls with my knee. He finally lets go, but before I could run away I feel a strong punch on my face.

I fall on the ground, at that moment I didn't think of anything, just that I want to punch him so bad that his brains get out. I stand up and throw a punch at the guy who hit me. We keep fighing till the police took notice of us. They take and bring us to the police office.

Luca and I are in the same cell, I just look down when I hear Luca say "Does it hurt?" I look at him, he is looking at the ground.

"It just stings a little. Don't worry about it." I hear Luca laugh "I didn't know you could fight like that. That was quite a show." he finally looks at me.

I start laughing too, "Thanks for standing up for me. It was really cool, you know."
"Of course, you're my cousin. I can't just let them get away with what they said to you."

This is why I love Luca so much, he always worries for me. And the best of all, even in this situation we laugh. Our aunt finally came to the police office to get us, she looks really mad. On the way home it is really quiet, no one dared to talk.

We finally arrive home just when my aunt finally starts talking. "Puede entonces no hacer nada bien?! Mira lo que has hecho. Gasto innecesario de oxígeno es lo que eres. Oh mi gran dios."

My aunt yells at my cousin and me. "Pero mamá..." My cousin, Luca, says. "No, no hablar de nuevo." After a while we just look at the floor in embarrassment. "Go to your rooms." Aunt Olivia says in a thick Spanish accent.

We walk to our rooms, I look in the mirror. I saw my bloodlip and swollen blue eye. How in the world am I going to show myself to The Conservatory of Music like this tomorrow?

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Spanish translations
"You can't do anything right, can you? You are such a waste of oxygen. Oh my great God."
"But mama..."
"I don't want to hear it."

Well this was chapter six, we really hope that you enjoy reading our story. Let's see if we get to finish this book.