How to be a bitch (English translation of Como ser una perra) By Srta.Tess

France

Flashback

Mom said that the fly took longer than expected, Dad was really pissed off, but in my case it might have lasted twenty-four hours and I wouldn't had noticed

I was too tired to think, too tired to care that I got France

- ¿Savannah?

We were walking trough the airport to go for the package and direct us to Aunt Amelia's house

- ¿Yeah?

- The glasses sweetie - She smiled at me

- My eyes are burning mom - I answered, right now my eyes were extremely swollen

- ¿Are you okay sweetie? - She looked at me puzzle

- Absolutely - I smiled

She nodded and kept walking beside dad

My mom knew that I broke up with Brad, but she didn't knew why or that I was in depression; when we got to the luggage strip we picked up our package and got out of the airport to get a taxi

Aunt Amelia was like a second mom to me. Unlike my mother and I She and my cousin Alessa had Jet- Black hair and a skin as white as porcelain, they both spoke English, like us French; in an exchange trip my aunt met a hot French for which She was completely in love and a few years later they ended up married

My mom always said: "No matter how hard I tried to like a French guy, I never could get your father out of my head" and looked at them now twenty years later they are happy and married

I had the perfect example in front of my face, but that didn't meant that something similar was going to happen to me

When we got out of the taxi and walked to the most colorful and full of flowers house in the entire neighborhood before we even get to knock, the door opened.

- ¡Bonjour my little Anna! - My aunt kissed my cheeks, both my uncles and my cousin called me Anna, they said that Savannah was a name too American for them - Look how pretty you are

- Hello aunt - I smiled

- ¿And those glasses? - She tried to remove them, but I stepped back

- My eyes are burning - I just said

- Don't worry honey Alessa has an incredible medicine for that ¡Alessa your uncles are here!

Steps were heard on the stairs and my cousin smiled at me - What's going on with that face little cousin - She joked and took my package

- Mother we will go to my room to leave Anna's things - We walked to her room and she left the things in the bed

- I just wanna sleep Alessa - I let myself fall on the bed

- Okay little cousin ¿What is going on? - She sat next to me

- I'm just tired

- I don't believe you

- Then don't - I couldn't avoid answering like that, but my mood was not the best

- ¿How are the things with Brad?

And just like that, I started to cry

- So that's what it is

I nodded - ¡He slept with my best friend Alessa!

- ¿You saw them?

I nodded - In the act

She hugged me and strokes my hair - Don't cry

- It's the only thing I wanna do

- Don't do it - She stepped back and looked at me - I know how you feel Anna, something like that happened to me once, and it hurts, it hurts like hell

- I loved him so much - I couldn't avoid crying remembering that day

- I know Anna - She took my hand - And I have no doubt that he also did, and no doubt she also did, but sometimes love is not enough, sometimes people are not what they say they are

- I never thought that we would end up like this ¿You know? I dreamt that we would go to college together, travel together, and get married and have a beautiful family - I laughed at how ridiculous it was - I think that is never going to happen

- Maybe you can't change what happened, but you can change yourself

I wipe the tears from my cheeks - ¿What you mean?

- I'm not going to tell you that you can't believe in love again, I'm not going to tell that you should push away the people around you, I'm just going to tell that you should change with the people who hurt you, don't let them see you hurt, don't give them that satisfaction, change the whole you, be a new Savannah Monroe

- I don't understand Alessa

- I will give you three advises, take them or leave them, it's your decision

I nodded

- Be a kid in mind, a lady in class - She smiled at me - And a bitch in attitude

- ¿Are you telling me that I should sleep with the first guy the cross in front of me?

- Of course not - She laughed - ¿You don't wanna get AIDS or something like don't you?

I shook my head

- There is a very thin line between being a Slut and a Bitch Anna and you should never cross it

- ¡Girls, go down for dinner! - Aunt Amelia yelled from down stairs

- Now go, wash your face, do your make up and smile Anna, it doesn't worth that you are like this for a horny idiot and a Slut - She stood up and she walked towards the door

- Alessa - I called her

- ¿Yes? - She turned

- ¿What happened to you?

She leaned on the door and smiled shaking her head - Last summer ¿Remember I date this guy... Anthony?

- Sure

- I found him in the same way as you, but instead of my best "girl" friend was his best "boy" friend

I opened my eyes

- That is the same face I did - She laughed - So don't get depressed, show that idiot what he lost and that Slut you are better than her - She winked at me - Don't take long, I will wait for you down stairs

She got out of the room leaving me alone, I stood up and went to the bathroom, I wash my face and sat in the dressing table, I brush my hair and I did my makeup

Maybe I couldn't change what happened, but there is something I could change - I smiled in front of the mirror - Me