her; Alex Alvarez [discontinued]

[chapter twenty seven]

[her; Alex Alvarez]

Alex and I were cooking pollo con ajo with abuelita. She gave us both some of it to taste. "My abuelita taught me how to make this when I was a little girl. The key is to add just a little bit of cigar ash." I swallowed it as she said 'cigar ash.' I cringed and looked at Alex. He looked grossed out then actually liked it. He looked so cute doing that. We went back to cooking.

"My abuelita used to put vicodin in her coffee." Dad started. "And her lemonade and her sandwiches. Maybe she had a problem." i-. Dad went over to Elena and they started talking about something.

As lupe walked in the apartment. "Mami, where have you been? We'be been cooking these frijoles for 20 minutes. Ugh, we try to make a house a home." He sighs and walks to where Elena is. I go over to Abuelita to help her.

Lupe was talking about something about her parking space when dad said something he shouldn't have. "Why don't you just park in your garage?" jdjdjd DAD SHUT UP. Abuelita and I kept motioning and shaking our head for him to stop. Lupe questioned him and he kept going. "Don't be ridiculous. I use my garage for pickling and sea horse breeding. I looked at him weird.

Abuelita went up to him and hit him mid sentence. "Oh... There seems to be a misunderstanding. See, um... Little parched. Let me just hydrate here." He gulped down his water as I said, "What do you not get about this." I did the hand motion that he clearly should have gotten.

Alex and I were searching around the garage while Lupe and Abuelita were arguing. Dang she hid a lot of stuff in this garage. "Come on everybody, let's get this junk out of here so I can park my car!" Alex and I grabbed a box each but Abuelita took our boxes and printed the others?
"Really mami? you need a whole box of gardening gloves." Lupe asked. Abuelita reasoned that Alex might want to be Michael Jackson for Halloween. He put on a white glove and did the hehe thing. It was pretty cute. "I'll be Spider-Man for Halloween." He told his mom.

Elena and Abuelita were arguing and I've grown to  that. I started getting sad and Alex could sense that. He held my hand and squeezed my hand to reassure that It's okay. I smiled at him and we kept looking around. Never letting our hands go.

Abuelita grabbed us and said that we would help her clean out the garage. Wait what? "You make sure she does it." She told Papito. "And you make sure he makes sure she does it." I nodded and giggled at the same time.



"So did you get rid of some stuff." Lupe asked. "Even better then that. No" Abuelita said. "They helped me arrange everything so there's plenty of room for your car." there really wasn't.