WHEN DADDY LEFT

Total strangers

           Y'vania's POV

They say everyday you learn something new. It's true. So cliché but true.
Of all people I know, I mean family that is Mum,Mia,Nisha and maybe abuela( I insist on maybe) Mia is the only one who cares for now. I don't blame them. When you get to hear shocking news about your daughter or sister from the media, you react differently.
My mother chose to distance herself. She felt like it was too embarrassing for her. She doesn't even want to pick my calls.
Nisha knew about all this and among all my sisters she is the only one behaving like the matured adult about this whole situation. Mia is also supportive but she wants to fight and injure the people hurting me.

Nisha assured me that everything will be okay as soon as news got posted online. I was still with Mia and Tessa when the first post came up and the negative comments started coming in.

Mia and Nisha are my supportive pillars. When it comes to the Quezada siblings there's war. Uncle Vin is taking my side, supporting me and he's even around and he visits me everyday. Aunt Lucretia says it's not too late to mend things up and get Anthony to pay for his mistakes. My sweet aunt Carina says I am an embarrassment to the society, aunt Lucretia defends me by saying no kid is an embarrassment.

Uncle Luc and Allesandro say I should be banished from the family. Abuela says no one is getting banished and she is trying to bring peace among her children and my mother is silent. Not saying any comment. I know she is beyond angry. I don't even think she will ever want to see me or Elio ever again.
Anger is her only weakness but she is the best mother on earth. Anger can make her cruel sometimes but I don't blame her. She went through a lot and she didn't get time to heal. Sometimes she tried being nice but then something triggers her and we go back to square one. I usually don't get angry at her. At first I used to get angry at her we used to have fights a lot, especially in my adolescence period. I used to be the rebel child and she used to say that I was possessed by an evil spirit.
Slowly I started to heal. I healed myself from seeking her approval, from trying to win her over, from trying to prove myself to her.

I claimed my own power back and stopped complaining. I minded my own business and slowly we got back to being friends, not much but at least we could handle sitting at the same table.
Right now I am stable. She comes in and goes out of my life whenever she pleases. I am always unbothered by her stunts.

She tried getting close so I could see her as a good mum. She always makes these efforts. She buys me presents to make me feel good only because she needs something from me. I didn't say she's bad. I grew up being the easy to please kid so I never got much attention. She always made choices for me without consulting me and due to me being me, I always agreed and walked to my room. No argument.

Okay main story.
News reached almost everywhere including my home. I imagined seeing my mum's face the next morning especially with the new 'I promise to be close to you' she came to LA with but turns out I was wrong. That promise blew up into ashes somewhere between my home and the airport on my way back.
Okay at least Mia was here. She had to go back because she has a fashion house to run and an upcoming wedding to prepare for.

Three weeks and I'm still seated here on my bed and the only walks I take are around the house to get something or to my window just to see if I'll see a familiar face. Even Elio is privileged to get out for walks with Javier, Daniel or the house staff.

Mum texted the other day. That was after leaving her a ton of voice messages telling her that I missed her and all she said was:

    I know you're going through a lot. I'll visit you if I get time. Right now I'm handling Nisha's suspension case.

She never picked up my calls or replied to my texts after that.

All I said was wow okay.

Oh yes Nisha got suspended because she punched a boy who called me a slut. I don't applaud violence but at least I know my baby sister is very capable of defending herself and her family.