Chapter 3

The water was rolling high and the waves were gigantic. The boat swayed side to side, making them slide from one side to the other. Another wall of water was coming, it seemed as if it would go over them. A boy fell out of the boat landing in the water and nearly drowning…. The giggles of the boy where heard, bringing everyone out of their imagination and back to the playground.

Letty laughed with him and she ran over throwing herself on the ground and rolling around with him. They laughed for what seemed like forever, then finally stood up. "Come on." he shouted to her as he walked up the stairs towards the giant slide. She tried to run put the big fluffy pink dress and white tight shoes kept getting in her way. It didn't help that her hair was pulled so tightly it made her head hurt. But her mommy said she had to look good because today was her special day, whatever that meant. All she wanted to do was be able to play.

"Letty come down from there, you need to eat something." she heard her mommy call. She walked down the big steps holding on tightly to the railing. "But I no wanna eat." she exclaimed, she just wanted to play. "You have to." her mommy took her hand and pulled her towards a table, were what seemed like millions of people sat or stood around. A plate of chicken, rice and beans was put down in front of her. "Por favor no te ensusies." please don't get dirty She felt one of her pigtails being pulled and looked up with a glare to find her very old brother looking at her with a smile. "What's up little ruca?" he sat next to her, she looked up to see what was up, he laughed. "Enjoying your birthday?" he asked her. She shrugged "I don know." she pushed her plate away not wanting anymore food. Her brother laughed again "I see you're not hungry." she shook her head.

Then she spotted Dominic and his mom with Mia coming towards them. Her eyes became bright and her smile grew wide. She got up and walked over to them were her mom was greeting them. "Hi Letty, happy 4th birthday." Dom's mommy said, then both of them walked off leaving her and Dom alone.

"Whatcha doing?" Dom asked her. She shrugged "Nothin." "Oh." They both stood in silence for awhile. The boy she had been playing with earlier walked over to them. "Hey, wanna go play with the water?" he asked them both. "Ok." they both said in unison and followed the boy towards a table that had four water guns. They each took one. They began to run around spraying each other, until finally all three were drenched in water. They walked back to the party, where Letty's and Dom's mother stood staring at both of them.

Isabella tried to suppress her laughter as much as she could for Marisol's sake. "Isabella…please tell me that Letty does not look like she just came out of the pool." At that Isabella started cracking up. "Leticia!! Look at you." Letty frowned and looked down at her dress it was wet along with her white shoes and socks. "Oh my…I can't believe this." Letty's mom walked over towards her and gently took one pigtail in her hand looking at it, remembering how hard it had been to get Letty to stay still that morning. "Um…mom, I think it was my fault. I…We kinda left the water guns lying around and well yeah." Letty saw her father walking towards them a big smile on his face. "Don't worry Marisol, they're kids they're just trying to have fun. Right princesa?" princess He squatted down in front of Letty and Dom. "Okay you two, why don't you two go over to the presents and open them." Both of them smiled and ran over to the presents.

Marisol looked at her husband "Aye no, I can't believe this happened. I tried so hard to keep her clean and then for her to just get all wet in a couple of minutes." Eduardo kissed her on the cheek and put his arm around her shoulder. "Mi amor, kids will be kids and you know ours can be a little devil when she wants to be one." my love