Music of the Sun

Chapter 4

The next day... Damn. I wake up beside... Bruno?? Pinch me, now. Is this even real? Is this really happening. Bruno grabs a pillow and starts to hit me with it. "Cassandra. Wake up, honey." It came out from his mouth, but it didn't sound like him. It sounds like Bueno. My eyes blurs for a couple of seconds. "Bruno?" I had to ask. "No... It's not that Afro kid. It's Bueno, baby." I see him, right in front of me. "You've fallen asleep, while we were finalizing the new version of six in the mornin'." I look at him, so confused about what he just said. "So, I had to carry you home." "That's so sweet of you, but I really need to tell you something." "What is it?" he says, blushing a little. "And please, don't get made at me." He chuckles, "I won't Cassie." "I..." "Go on." "I think that I've fallen in love with Bruno," I say, letting it out, easily. "WHAT?" Bullshit!! "Are you crazy?" I look at his shirt on the bed. "Probably?" I shrug. "You just only known him for a day, and you don't no nothing about this boy." Did he really say that? I can't think straight. "And what do you really know about him? Is he better than me? I want to see you try." "Bueno... All the I know about him... is that he's Jaime's brother that is all, that is all that I know," I explain to him. "Bullshit. BULLshit. BULLSHIT, CASSIE." I got off his bed with my dress on. I walk over to the door, I feel his hand holding onto my arm. "Please, Cassie. Please, don't you dare leave me." I turn around. "Please?" He keeps on saying. "I'm not leaving you." I feel his relived breathing. "I'm just leaving your place." I remove his hand off my arm and left.

As I walk towards the park in Bueno's neighborhood. I see Jaime, pushing someone on the swings. I look at her, waving my fingers as a shortcut, just to say, Hello! "Cassie. Come and meet my brother," Jaime says when I was walking towards her. "Sure, do." I stop walking when I got beside her. She pulls me to the pathway, near the swings. She steps back, a little. There he is. Bruno. Standing, right in front of me. "Cassie, this is my brother. Peter," she smiles. "Hey," I say, drawing a small arc with my left foot. "Bruno, this is my friend's cousin. Cassandra Lopez, she's an actress, a dancer, a model and a writer." Bruno puts his right hand, in front of me. I stand still for a while. "You shake the hand, Cassandra," he notices. "Oh..." I play dumb. I put my right hand, in front of him. He grabs it and shakes it. "OK?! I better push my son, whose on a swing, now. Don't mind me," Jaime says, sneaking towards her son. Bruno walks towards a park bench, still holding my hand. "After you," he says. "Sure thing, Bruno," I smile and sit down. He sits down, beside me. "Does she know that we already met?" I ask him. He shook his head. "Go, tell her." I push Bruno towards Jaime. "I will... Soon." "Now, Bruno. Now," I demand. "No... Not until I tell you, something." "Go on," I say, sounding like I'm not interested. "I love... your dress. Cassie, did you wore that yesterday?" "Come on, just spit it out." "Damn it..." I look at him. "OK! Fine, your hot and you deserve a better boyfriend than Mr. Six in the Mornin'," Bruno says, mocking Bueno and Margaritte's attitudes. "Ya dig." "Uh huh!!" I DIG YOU, BRUNO. "So... Me, you, movies, Sunday." "I'll be there," I smile.