A few days later, Socorro was playing music with her cousins in Santa Cecilia. She is now eleven years old, with medium length hair, like her mother's. She wears a blue headband which matches her skirt. She wears a white short sleeve shirt with pink floral designs. Like the rest of the Rivera family, she wears the Rivera brown shoes.
The plaza has been renamed from De La Cruz Plaza to the Rivera Plaza. Enrique felt that the plaza should have been given a different name because he believed that the plaza belonged to every musician-not just the Riveras. Usually it was the whole family that would be performing their music but today, only the Rivera children would be playing. The adults have to finish the last minute shoe orders for Dia Los Muertos was coming up soon. Besides, someone had to also manage the Hector Rivera museum.
Socorro and her cousins have just finished their warm ups. Abel still played the accordion, his wife, Flora is a guitarist, Rosa was the violinist, Manny and Benny play the trumpets, and Socorro is a singer.
"What song should we play today?" Abel asked his wife and cousins.
"My Proud Corazón!" Socorro beamed.
Flora sighed and ran her fingers through her long sandy brown loose curls. Rosa and the boys looked like they were about to cry.
"Oh chiquita, yo no se…," Rosa's voice broke.
"Por que? Por favor…?"
"That song is too upsetting for any of us to play, Socorro!" Rosa barked.
"Let's pick a different song!" Manny suggested.
"Si!" Benny nodded.
"How about Somewhere Over the Rainbow?" Coco finally asked, after pondering for another song.
"Sure!" Flora and the boys nodded, after thinking for a bit.
Rosa still didn't look so pleased.
"I don't know, you guys. This was the last song Miguel sang before he...crossed the marigold bridge."
"I know, but it is less painful to sing than the other songs because Miguel didn't write this number," Abel explained softly. "It was from an American classic movie."
Once they had the audience's attention, the Rivera children began to play their instruments.
Socorro took a deep breath before vocalizing her notes.
" Somewhere over the rainbow way up high
There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby
Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true
Someday I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far
Behind me
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me
Somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh, why can't I?
If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow
Why, oh, why can't I?"
When the song ended, the crowd broke into an applause.
"Fantastico Riveras!" a woman shouted.
One man, in a mariachi blue suit, that was in the front row, made eye contact with Socorro.
"Your brother would be very proud of you!"
The little girl's heart swelled up with joy, at the man's praise. Her cousins agreed with him.
"...And here is the man, Hector Rivera, that wrote your poems, that later became songs, not just Remember Me!" the tour guide lady explained. People were taking photos of the Hector Rivera museum that Enrique and Berto host while their Mama handles the shoe shop.
"That's right!" Enrique notes. "He wrote Un Poco Loco to his wife, Imelda to express his love to her!"
"The only song he wrote for the world was The World Es Mi Familia," Berto added. Actually that song was written for Ernesto to perform for the world but Berto was not telling them that. The whole family had agreed to never never ever speak of that evil man that killed their beloved Papa Hector and made Mama Imelda and Mama Coco suffer for a century!
Little did everybody know that someone was spying on them, from around the corner. That person was in a trench coat, wearing sunglasses, and a hat.
"Oh you Riveras, think you have it so easy!" the disguised figure whispered bitterly. The voice was of a young woman. "You have the whole town pity you for your son while my brother died in jail!" She took a deep breath to calm her herself. The figure didn't want to cause a scene or else she'd be spotted. "But I will have my revenge! You will pay!"