Chapter 1: Mexico

Max's Point of View
we finally arrived to La Langostra. It was a small town perfect for blending we arrived last night the whole town was in a upbeat mood. The whole town gathered around the placa they called it which was like town square. There was a stage where a Latino band was preforming music. The party didn't end until really late.

We all understood slight Spanish thanks to our small bit of school, but I was the best besides Ella. She was to arrive at the Guatemala airport sometime tomorrow morning. Anyways I asked around for a place to stay at but all I ever heard was that they built their home or that it was passed down to them. Guess we were in for a night on the benches that surrounded the town square at least that's what i thought until a lady said there was an abandoned house left to the church.

We headed to the house. When you came into the house from the front you saw a dust living room. To the right of the living room was a bedroom filled with dust furniture. there was a small step that led to a smaller living room. That room had two bedrooms that surrounded it. When you exited out of the small bed room there was a big open area. In the area there was a small kitchen to its right and a bathroom to its left.

There was also another smaller house behind the open area. The small house held two bedrooms and a bathroom. The small house was beside a garage door. The first house was two stories high but the top floor only held one big room and one small house was a bit run down but after a whole nights work of six flying bird kids the house looked like new.

"I wounder why this house was abandoned. It's so big and pretty even better than other houses." Nudge asked out loud.

"Oh well that's because" Iggy starts, but I cut him off.

The lady who told me about the house said an old crazy lady use to live here. Her sons and grand sons fought for the house when she was elder. The rumor says she died in the house and the sons came together for the lost of their only mother.

"It's because everyone like tradition and it wouldn't be traditional to live in a house you didn't build or inherit" I finish for Iggy.

Iggy shrugged it off and announced "I'm going to call Ella" He went to his room in the small house in the back where Ella and him would stay at.

"Okay Iggy" I say dismissing it i know if Ella was Fang I would be calling him every second.

"Hey Max I was talking to the nice old lady who owns that store and she said that this week was a celebration she called it El diecinueveavo De Marzo"

"Yeah that translates as 'the nineteenth of march' it must be some celebration" I explain.

"Yeah and she said that there were going to be a lot of stands with games and rides, and i wanted to ask you if i could go hang out?" Angel asked.

"Okay but take Gazzy and Nudge with you" I said and the hurried through the doors to the town hall.

I opened the door watching them run off to the nearest ride which happened to be a boat ride in front of the house. All of the neighbors sat outside of there homes in plastic chairs listening to the music and watching their children play. The whole street was filled with bright lights from rides stands the stage performance.

At night Iggy slept in the small house in the back alone, Nudge slept in the room down stairs to the left of the smaller living room, across the room Gazzy claimed the room, Angel slept on the top floor in the smaller room where the only phone in the first house was located.

We slept around two in the morning and still did the music nor the happy shouts from children die out as the night crept. The noise was completely gone around six in the morning i started to drift into sleep for the first time that night when i hear fire crackers going off a Church bell ringing and a loud speaker announcing something from a car.

I got up first. The whole flock was still asleep for they slept late. I trudged down stairs to take a quick shower. I had been talking to a young Mexican girl around my age who lived next door. She had told me many things like that there was only hot water from six to ten in the morning or where to go shopping,a place called Zamora, or where the best beach's were. I finished taking my shower and saw it was already nine the flock was already awake and it was already blazing hot. Guess that's Mexico for you.

"Shower up hot water stops at ten" I announce and see Nudge and Angel run to the bathroom.

The guys snicker at the immediate need to shower. I sit down by the table we set up by the fountain in the area between the small house and the big house. It was the only place outside the house where it was cool because of the shade provided by a tree planted in front of the small house. I notice Iggy is gone and Fang guesses what I'm thinking.

"He left to pick up Ella" Fang said.

Later on Ella arrived. Everyone was so happy to see her besides the fact we misses her she was the only one of us that had ever been to Mexico before. She had been her Five minutes and she already told us you had to fill the fountain so you had water later on, you had to set up close lines to dry close for they had no dryers, and that you had to cook outside because it heats the kitchen up too much if you cook in there.

After doing everything Ella ordered and everyone taking their showered i asked aloud "So who wants to go to the beach?"

The flock shouts yes in a instant. Maybe from the heat. Maybe from the sense of having fun. When we had moved into the house there was a black pick up truck parked in the garage. Fang had spent a lot of time fixing it up with Iggy last night and it worked perfectly fine so we could easily all go to the beach in the car.

"I know the way I'll drive everyone else in the back" Ella ordered.

We all piled in on the back and enjoyed the ride. The roads in Mexico were every bumps with sharp turns and step corners. It was very dangerous but if anyone could drive through it it was Ella after all she had driving the same roads when she was only eleven for everyone in Mexico could drive at young ages.

"Max?" Angel said.

"Yeah?" I replied sliding off the sunglasses i wore to keep my eyes from hurting on our way to the beach.

"I think I'm going to like Mexico" She said looking out to the open Fields filled with the beauty only Mexico could hold.

"Yeah me too" I smile at her.