La Llorona

Part 1- An introduction

It was a dark, gloomy night. 3 kids decided to sneak out in a graveyard next to a river. Those 3 kids were me, my brother and my sister. I do not remember why we decided to do this. My siblings were often bullies for being scared of almost.. everything. They wanted to prove everyone how wrong they were. I, like any other sibling, wanted to come along with them. My sister was 14 years old. My brother was 15 years old. And I was 11 years old. As being children who were bought up in Mexico, we have heard the legend of La Llorona. La Llorona, the weeping woman is a tale of a woman who drowned her own children. Her husband left her to marry a woman of a higher class. This frustrated her and lead to her drowning her children. Realizing what she has done, she cried and wandered the water banks hoping that they would come back to her one day. She forever walks the riverbanks and lakes in search for her lost children. We wanted to test our courage. If only we knew what faith had in store for us...