Remember Me?

After a whole day of emotions at the zoo, we all spent the night at the Fuentes's house. I met my grandparents, and I fell in love with them immediately.
"Who's this?" A older woman, with short blonde hair said. "Momma, this is Alia." My dad said and I smiled. She gasps and puts her hand on her heart.
"My little star." Now I know where I got that nickname from. "You're so big." She walks up to me and stands infront of me. "You don't remember me huh?" She asked.
"Honestly I don't." I admitted.
"Victor!" She called out. "Look at this girl! She's gotten so big!" An elderly man, with tan skin, just like Uncle Vic's, came inside the big room.
"Que paso mujer?" He said in Spanish.
"Me llamo Alia." I told him. "Soy su nieta." My grandpa smiles at me and opens his arms, in which I walk up to them and he hugged me tightly.
"I don't know who taught you Spanish, but I'm glad, your father and uncle don't like to speak it." He says and chuckles. "Since I have my granddaughter, whom I haven't seen in years." He shots a look to my dad. "We must celebrate..."
"But tomorrow." My grandma said. "It's late, and papa Fuentes has to sleep."
"Vivi..." My grandpa complained.
"Oh stop being such a kid ,Victor, you have work tomorrow." She kisses his cheek as he sighs.
"Okay, but only cause you say so vieja." He says. "Buenas noches." He calles out and we all mumbled night.
"You wanna go sleep?" My dad asked.
"Nah, I think I'm going to talk to Mama Fuentes."
"Okay." He kisses my head. "Ima go crash, goodnight my little star."
"Night dad." He smiles and walks to the hallway. Mama Fuentes was outside, drinking from a cup, looking up at the sky. I open the back door and she turns around.
"Sit little Alia." She says and points to a chair next to her. I sit down and she hands me a blanket. "You look like Beatrice, identical." She says.
"Yeah, my dad says that a lot."
"Mike says a lot of things, Alia." She says and we chuckle. "But he sure did love your mother."
"I bet he did." She puts down the cup.
"Mama."
"Yeah?"
"Do you know the reason why my dad left me in the orphanage." She sighs and nods.
"Can you tell me?" She sighs.
"Alia, after what I'm going to tell you, I don't want you to change your view of your father okay? I know he just got you back, and I know he will die if he loses you again." I nod. "Mike was deeply in love with your mother. I think he called it love at first sight."
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"I'm Tris." Seventeen year old, Beatrice said.
"Mike." Mike, a seventeen year old, said shocked.
"You okay Mike? You got hit pretty bad." She asked as she helped Mike up from the ground.
"I think so." Mike couldn't stop staring at at Tris. Her black hair went up to her waist, her hazel eyes gleamed, her button nose, cute and small, her hourglass body was amazing, her band shirt fitted her loose. She was Beautiful. He thought to himself.
"Well, here." Tris grabs Mike hand and takes out a blue gel pen. "If you want to talk later, text me." She wrote down her number in his arm. "Okay? I don't want to see a handsome boy like you being beaten up." She said and her out her pen back in the bag, making her sleeves expose her bruises. Mike noticed them, but said nothing.
"Bye Mike." She waves and leaves. Mike stares at his arm and then at tris who was now far away. She's going to be mine. He thought. She's going to be mine.
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"So he like her instantly." I said.
"He says so, that day he came to me smiling. His lips were busted but since he had a girls number, he didn't mind." I chuckle. "they dated for quite some time, they did have fights and didn't talk for days. But that was normal. He was the happiest man in this house, oh and when he found out Tris was pregnant. I think he was sugar high of all the excitement." Mama Fuentes smiles.
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"What?!" Twenty year old Tris, was smiling down at her long time boyfriend, now fiancé.
"I'm pregnant." She repeated. Mike was so happy, he started to yell and carried Tris around the house. He couldn't be anymore happy with Tris.
"I'm going to be a daddy." He repeated to himself.
"And the best one." Tris said, while kissing Mike fully on the lips. That afternoon, Mike arrived at his parents house and told the news. The Fuentes family couldn't be anymore happier. First the birth of Stephan Vincent, the three month old son of Vic and his girlfriend, Laura. But now the arrival of another bundle, from the youngest one, Mike.
"Nine months till I get to hold my baby." Mike said as he cuddled next to his love.
"That's all we have to wait." Tris said.
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"Your mother was very careful on whatever she did. She didn't wear heels, she excerised, oh! Her belly was so round. It seemed fake!" Mama Fuentes laughs. I smile as I picture my dad celebrating and yelling. "Nine months passed like a turtle crossing a street, but we were ready to receive you.we always were, since the very beginning. One night, your mom, yelled from the bathroom and her water broke. We knew it was time for you to be here." She smiles. "But not everything want as planned."
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"MIKE!" Beatrice screamed from the bathroom. Mike ran to the scream and went to help his now wife. "It's time." She said. Mike carried his wife to the car and rushed to the hospital. The doctor and nurses quickly helped Tris on a bed. "Just a few more inches Mrs.Fuentes." The doctor said. Mike didn't know what to do, his wife was in pain, and his daughter was going to be born. After ten hours, his daughter was ready to come to this world. "I want you to push okay?" The nurse said. Tris got hold of Mike's hand and gave it a squeeze. She knew she had a probability that this was her last effort in her life. "Push." Tris pushed and squeezed Mike's hand at the same time.
"You're doing great baby." Mike said, and kissed her head. "One more." The doctor said and she did as she was told. Once she couldn't push no more, her vision was blurring and she felt weak. "One more, I can see the head". The doctor said. Tris took a deep breath in and pushed with all her might. Once she heard the cry, she wanted to hear she started to cry. "Congratulations. It's a baby girl." The doctor said. They wrapped the baby girl in a blanket and handed her to Tris. "She's beautiful." Mike said as he kissed the tiny forehead. "What do you want to name her?" He asked his wife.
"Alia... Alia Micelle Fuentes." Tris said and kissed once more the head of her daughter. The nurse took the baby away from the parents.
"Mike.." She said weakly
. "Tris? Are you okay?" Tris shakes her head.
"DOCTOR!" Mike yelled.
"Mike.. Don't."
"Tris.. Don't go okay?"
"Take care of her Michael" Mike didn't want to hear such words coming from his wife.
"You need to as well Tris. Please."
"Take care of our little girl. Take care of my little star." And Tris's eyes closed... Never opening again.
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"That's why I call you little star." We both turned around to see my Dad standing. "It's because your mother called you that." He sits down next to me. "So you want a story huh?"
"I was just asking why you left me in the orphanage. I have a right to know, and Mama Fuentes told me about mom and you."
He smiles. He takes out his wallet and hands me a small picture.
"That's her." He points to a medium sized girl, with long black hair. She was very pretty. "That's your momma." He said and I touched her face. "Keep it. You need a picture of her, I have memories."
"Why did you leave me dad?" I said as I continued to look at the picture of my deceased mother.
"If mom told you to take care of me?"
"Alia, I loved you, and you were the only thing that kept me sane." He started to say.
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"DADDY!" Four year old Alia, yelled for her father. Mike turned around, put his luggage down and opened his arms fir his daughter. Alia runs into his arm and wraps her small arms around his neck.
"Me miss you." She said.
"I missed you too little star. Come on. I have a present for you." Small Alia smiled and kissed her father on the cheek. Mike smile was real, ever since the passing of his wife, he couldn't be any happier or at least he thought he was.
"Is it a giraffe?" Alia asked as Mike put her on the counter top. Mike shakes his head. "A turtle?" He shakes his was again. "STEPHY!" She stopped guessing and yelled for her five year old cousin, Stephan.
"Hi Ali!" Stephan said. "Look what I got." He showed his cousin a helicopter. "My dad said he was going to teach me." "Cooool!" Alia said amused.
"Daddy? Where's my present?" She asked her dad. Mike opens the luggage and takes out a princess trunk. "What's this?" Alia asks as she looks at the purple and pink box. "Open it." Mike said. Alia smiles and starts ripping up the paper. Once she opens it, she takes out a variety of Disney princesses dresses.
"IT HAS BELLE!" Daniella, three year old daughter of Jaime and Jessica, exclaimed.
"HAHA!" Alia said to Daniella. She held her dresses close to her, and Mike couldn't say anything. This was the last present he would give her
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"You and Dani would fight for those dresses everyday!" My dad said. "So we had to buy one for Dani." He smiles. "But it still doesn't answer my question." I insisted.
"I want to know why."
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"I can't do this anymore." Twenty four year old Mike said. "Mike please, she's your daughter."
"And the fact that she reminds me of Tris doesn't help me Tony!" Mike yelled at his best friend. "I can't do the dad business anymore."
"Mike, you have us!" Jaime said. "We can help you."
"No, I made my Desicion, I'm going to put Alia in an orphanage, where they can find a better family for her." Mike looked over at his sleeping daughter, and sighed. "She'll be happier without me. She'll go to school, and have a normal life."
"Dude, have you thought of this through?" Vic said as he held his wife's hand. "I think she'll be happier with her biological dad."
"I made my decision Vic, she's going to be happy without me."
"I don't think so." Laura, Vic's wife said.
"Well you better start too. I'm leaving her tomorrow." Mike said and walked up to his room.
"I just hope this doesn't affect Alia when she grows up." Tony said as he got up from the couch to set his baby girl in her car seat.
"I know one thing for sure is that he's going to regret this."
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"So the next day, I left you in the orphanage and I wanted to go back, but I just couldn't see myself doing so." I wipe my face from the tears that had ran down. Mama Fuentes came to my side and whispered in my ear.
"Remember what I told you." She kissed my wet cheek and went back inside the house.
"I don't know if you saw me, but I would go back everyday at night and see if you were okay. Until I went back to tour and didn't see you anymore. I had pictures of you sent to me by the ladies from the orphanage, so I could see you how you changed and grew."
"But why didn't you adopt me back?"
"Because when I didn't go back, I thought you were already adopted. You were probably living a normal life."
"What if I never wanted the normal life?" He stayed quiet. "What is I wanted to tour all the time or be the outcast from school, but I would've been with you. That's all that would've matter."
"Alia... I know, I made a huge mistake." I got from the chair and walked where he was. He lifts his head up and smiles weakly. I kiss his wet cheek and he wipes away my tears. "But I'm glad I have you."
"Me too Daddy. Just don't fuck this up okay?" He chuckles.


"I wouldn't dream of it little star."

Notes

Okay, so a little thing to set out there.
The third person ones are flashbacks.
I did put them in italics but I don't know if that will help you guys.

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