Short Stories - Flaritza

A peculiar gift part 2

The two of them took a long nap locked in each other's embrace, they slept through dinner having no idea they did.

Flaca was first to wake up because of a bad dream she had about the bad vibe she had been feeling lately, she woke up her body shaking as she felt cold sweat leaving her body, she took a few sharp breaths and gulped multiple times even though her mouth was dry. The tall woman turns her head to the side to find her bestfriend still asleep

Panicked Flaca shakes the girl awake tears forming in her eyes as the girl didn't move right away

"Mari"

Flaca chokes out still shaking the small girl's body frame, Maritza lets out a tired moan and hugs Flaca by wrapping her arms tightly around her neck and crushing her lips against her forehead

"I'm ok baby"

She lets out almost in a whisper as she buried her head into her chest about to fall asleep again, Flaca was now laying on her back breathing heavily and holding tightly onto Maritza's waist her eyes tightly shut holding her tears back

After a few minutes of Maritza tossing and turning not being able to find a good position to fall asleep again Flaca had now calmed down a little

"You still have a bad vibe?"

Maritza asks putting a leg on the tall woman so she's now half spooning her, Flaca twitches her lips

"I'm not sure if it's a whole new vibe or if it's the same one"

Flaca says confused but not really caring, what mattered was that Maritza was next to her, safe, breathing and looking as beautiful as ever, the small girl leaves a small kiss on her cheek and lets her head fall onto her chest, they stay like this until Gloria comes into their cube

"The hell happened to you?"

Maritza asks her head shooting up as she saw Gloria with a bleeding nose and forehead along with a busted lip and a black eye forming on one of her eyes

"Where have you been I've looked for you all over the cafeteria you had me shaking with fear mamis"

Gloria says her voice shaking and weak

"We slept through dinner who hurt you?"

Maritza asks again her vision blurred, it hurt to see her mother like this, in pain and worried about them

"Oh thank god, I thought they did something to you since you're both so young and attractive, oh my god I need to sit down"

Gloria lets out as she pulled a chair from under the bed, opened it and sat down next to them, Maritza immediately took her mother's hand and held it tightly

"What happened mama?"

She asks worried and mad at whoever hurt her

"You know the whole Blanca situation, making her stand up on the table, some inmates stood up for her and protested, and it ended in a big fight against the guards, poussey was trying to stand up for the inmates that were being beaten up and she ended up choked to death by a CO"

Gloria starts to explain what happened, hearing that poussey had died made Flaca breathe a long sigh of relief, did she feel bad? Yes, was she glad that it was her and not the woman laying next to her? Yes.

She turns her head to the side finding comfort in Maritza's chest, buries her head and cries silently hearing her heartbeat, she was alive, Maritza also lets out a deep breath and hugs Flaca tightly to her, crying when she feels Flaca's embrace tightening around her love handles as the younger woman left pepper kisses allover her stomach as small sobs shook her body frame