It has always been him

CHAPTER ONE

June 1999

"Eliene!" I heard my mom yelled from the upper level of the house.

The house is a two stories structure, on the upper level it's the actual house and the first level is the garage, well we don't use it exactly for the cars; they are not allowed to be a park inside the garage, on mom's order.

"Eliene!" Jeez, doesn't she know any other name in this house? "What?" ugh. "What do you need Mom?" "Mom?" I scream back at her from downstairs, but she doesn't respond.

Oh well, I'll keep playing with my cousin Victoria. Wait where is Victoria; oh yeah, she is in the bathroom. My gosh, these doll dresses are ugly. Why my grandmother keeps sewing those ugly ass dresses; I guess Vic likes them, and this is her dolls, but I would be fine if Grams just sew some shorts and shirts for my dolls. Oh, there she comes. "Hey Vic, what does my mom want?" I asked my cousin, I'm not going upstairs if I don't have to. "She sends me to tell you that she needs you upstairs ASAP; it's an emergency," My cousin tells exasperated, she can be dramatic sometimes.

Ok let me introduce myself I'm Madeleine and I'm currently 10 years old, this is Victoria my baby, crazy and loyal cousin whenever I go, she goes we are inseparable. Let me keep narrating my story well my sucky life story...

Oh, Mom what do you need now. I though frustrated. There are 13 steps to claim to get to the upper level. I always count them no matter if I'm going up or down I'll count them. "Yes, Mom?" I started asking here from the porch. "What do you want, Mom?" I asked her again.

"Madeleine! Gosh, you silly girl. You startle me." She told me holding her chest. "What is it mom, I'm playing with Vic. What do you want?" I asked her for the million times.

"I need you to take this to your brother." She told me showing me a bunch of snacks "Can't he come upstairs and grab it by himself?" this is stupid he can claim those same 13 steps I claim to get here, those stairs are stupid, this is so stupid. I'll be playing with dolls all summer long. Why did my aunt have to go? Where did she go? She always leaves in summer. What am I doing, I should be at summer camp or with my friends not with my baby cousin. Right my friends don't live around here. God, I need a pool or the beach maybe mom can take us to the beach, Blue crystalline water and fine almost white sand oh, how I like to be the right now. I think I hear the beach calling me.

"Eleine! Eleine! Madeleine!" My mom yelled at me. It wasn't the beach it was my mom.

"Oh yes Mom, what's up?" I asked her. I looked at her and she is looking me like am crazy "Go and take those bottles of water and snacks to your brother, He must be thirsty out there, it's almost nighty degree outside" she tells me as I care. I just want to be in a pool. I guess I'll have to take the water to him. "Ok," I answer, mom is going to be the death of me.

"Vic!" I started to yell from the stairs upstairs. "Victoria!"

"Yes?" she answers me indecisive like I was going to make her do something she didn't want to. "Hey, can you come with me to the park, so I can give this thing to Andy and his crew?"

"Yeah sure!" she answers eagerly. I just hope that Eric isn't there. Neither Lance or Rhandall those stupid boys they always annoying me. Jeez what am I thinking, I'm just Andrew's baby sister; here for them to annoy the hell up. "Come on Vic. Let's go."

Mom was wrong, the heat outside it's like a hundred degrees here. Oh, these Puerto Rican summers are the best. Just here the note of sarcasm. I need to get into a pool and fast.

We walked to the Basketball court and then there were my tormentors Lance Rivera, Rhandall Ortiz, they were all big and muscle guys, well for me they were big I'm currently ten and everybody is taller than me. Those goofballs usually stay at my house on weekends; they are friends with my oldest brother Andrew and Eric Knight my brother's best friend.

Yes, the Eric Knight my knight in shining armor. It's silly but I hope that one day we get married. He's the one who always makes me laugh with his silly jokes. Those blue eyes like the crystal clear blue water at Playa Buyé, look at that smile he is showing the dimple; Oh, that dimple. Eleine, stop staring! Look else were fast; fast before he notices and see that you've been drooling all over the grass. Oh, look my sisters are here. "Lisa! Belle!" Lisa well actually her name is Lisandra, she's my oldest sister and Isabelle or Belle that's how my family calls her. There is Damon my cousin; he is Vic's big brother. I should have brought more water there is like a battalion of kids out here. What have they all been doing out here? It's so lame just watching these idiots play basketball and sweat like pigs, EW!

"Hey, guys! Mom send's water." I yelled at them, so they take a break from the game. My sister Lisa came and took a couple of bottles and started throwing it to the guys. My brother looks my way and started jogging to where I am standing. Oh, no he is getting to close to me, Oh, man he is sweaty and stinky. My brother picks me up and swings me around like I was a sack of potatoes. "E! about time I thought Mom forgot about us." My brother tells me at the same time he was letting me down on the floor, let me rephrase that he was throwing me at the floor. "yeah, yeah! Watch it you are going to bruise me you monkeybutt."

I was starting to get up from the grass when a hand appears at my face. I looked up and my heart went so fast, I could feel it at my... feet yeah, feet. "E! you crazy kid, What have you been up to?" Eric ask me while lifting me up from the grass. "Nothing much, just playing dolls with Vic, Right Vic?" I ask my cousin. "mmhm" Victoria respond to my question while trying to avoid all the sweaty guys who were coming our way for water. Eric ruffles the hair of both of us and started walking to the group of girls that were giggling on the other side of the park at the shade of the big tree. I stood staring at his back that was retreating from where I was. I stood like the innocent girl that I was; standing there without any idea of what was going to happen next. Has soon has Eric reach the tree, he hugs a girl from behind but not just any girl, Lorna; the most popular girl from our neighborhood.

That June afternoon just at the beginning of summer, the longest and most heartbreaking summer of my entire life. That afternoon Eric planted a kiss on Lorna's mouth like it was the most exquisite candy from the shop. I thought at the time I was having a heart attack. That kiss just gave me a heart attack. I felt my heart broke into millions of pieces. Oh, this is what mom was talking to Lisa the other day when she arrives from school crying a "heartbreak." Oh God, how am I supposed to fix this before mom notice that I broke my heart.

I turn and crash on to my brothers back he looked at me funny "Madeleine why are you crying?" Andrew asked. I wasn't crying, was I? I sniffed and touched my face and my fingers found my cheeks damp, I didn't know what to do.

So, I ran.

I ran as fast as I could, leaving behind the shouts of my brother and my cousin Vic. Leaving behind a chunk of pieces of my broken heart, just lying there at the grass of the basketball court of my childhood neighborhood.

Let's get this straight people, I never found how to fix a broken heart, well not yet...

But I can tell you this for sure that heartbreak wasn't going to be the last one in my life.

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-E