Tap Through The Beat

Prologue

Angelita woke up from the sound of the ship roaring. Rubbing her eyes, she stood up and stretched before she saw the outline of an island.

"Isn't Mexico beautiful?!"

She jumped to the sound of her Abuelito and nodded absent mindedly. Closing her eyes, she heard the sound of waves crashing and birds chirping nearby and her feet began to tap to the beat.

"Ahem!"

Opening her eyes, the disapproving glare of her Abuelito made her pause from continuing any further.

"What were you doing?" Angelita gulped before trying to smile her way out "Um...drifting my mind?" Ay Dios mio!, it sounded like a question!

Abuelito gave her one last look before walking away bit not before ordering her to help out in bringing the boxes to their old home.

Angelita frowned as soon as her Abuelito disappeared around the corner. She leaned against the railings before she began tap dancing again to the beat of the natural music.

Her family was...strange. Aside from them hating music and banning it, they actually think of it as a bad omen.

Angelita groaned again, she hoped that Santa Cecilia wouldn't be so bad unlike their home in the states.

Mama Coralie was a Tap Dancer in states while Papa Fernando was a musician in Mexico, they met during a trip and fell in love and had Papa Jose.

However, that perfect family was torn apart when the Mama died while Tap Dancing on stage while the Papa was playing in the Plaza.

Sadness fell and it caused the Papa to suddenly resent music and left Santa Cecilia with his son and start up a business.

What are the odds that business was tailoring.

The ship came to a stop on the docks and all at once, Abuelito called for all of us to help out.

***

The house looked abandoned.

That was the first thing that crossed Angelita's mind as she stared at the house in front of her.

"For decades it lay abandoned yet it is still liveable"

Antonio, Angelita's cousin, muttered before Abuelito opened the door and dust went flying to our mouths and eyes.

"Dios!, were gonna be sick at this rate!"

Angelita coughed but neither of her family members took notice as they went inside.

Angelita and Antonio decided to check upstairs while the adults settled the ground floor.

The two went through different room and paths until Angelita stumbled upon a room that was filled with women dresses and the furniture looked feminine enough.

"This must be Mama Coralie's room when she and Papa Fernando lived here."

Angelita muttered as she inspected the floors until she caught a lose slab with something inside.

Curious, she pulled the slab to see a secret compartment filled with items needed in dancing. What caught her was a pair of worn out Tap Dancing shoes, its steel was already rusty but she could do something about it and the shoes needed refurbishing.

She could head to a shoe store and fix these up.

"Encontré mi propio cuarto!"

Angelita yelled as she placed the slab back to its proper position to avoid the rest of the family members what she saw.

"Buena, ahora ayuda us con el cosas Angelita!"

Angelita saw a shoe shop just across the house and smiled. She could ask the owner to fix the shoes!

She went downstairs, already wondering what her life would be like in the Gonzalez's old home in Santa Cecilia.