Chapter 10

He entered his assigned bedroom, and started unpacking when he heard the front door close, but nobody coming inside, that's weird he thought.

So he left the luggage on his bed and went towards the front door, as he passed through the kitchen door he saw Mirta and Justin inside going through some papers, possibly documents for the funeral, thought before asking them where were Betty and Hilda

None of them knew, but told him that they possibly went to the graveyard to find a place to bury the Suarez matrimony.

He nodded and looked at them, they seem rather calm, considerating the circumstances that reunited them around the kitchen table.

Daniel admired their strength, and also Hilda's and Betty's, to maintain composure and carry on with the arrangements without bursting into tears or having nervous breakdowns

Thought he swore he heard some crying coming from the ladies' s bedroom and from Justin's as well, during the night before, but he had decided not to bring the subject to Betty or any other member of the family as he saw them rather well that morning during breakfast.

He sat down around the table and, after insisting them a lot, managed to help them with the documents.

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Morning passed rather quickly and time to lunch came, but Hilda and Betty where nowhere to be seen.

So they had lunch just the three of them, and as none of them spoke for a while, he attributed the silence to the fact that going trough the documents might have opened the wounds, he tried to make conversation by asking Mirta some words in Spanish, and made himself look like a buffoon trying to repeat them, with the hope of making them feel maybe a little better.

During the rest of the day the old lady amused him and Justin, with some pictures of her and her family. He saw little Ignacio and Mirta playing happily in the desert, while the lady between little sobs and tears reported anecdotes about them

As he saw the pictures, he remembered the anecdotes he share with his brother, now became sister back in the days when they where little.

To his own surprise he found himself telling them some of those, and he felt good as the young boy and the old lady slowly started to laugh more and more about them

That's how the night caught them, and there was still no sign about Betty and Hilda

They decided to start making dinner when they arrived, with their eyes red, sign that they where obviously crying

Hilda, after waving at Daniel and Mirta, called Justin to talk with him apart

Betty, who also waved them, went straight to the kitchen and started cooking

Leaving Mirta and Daniel giving each other surprised looks about the behavior of the Suarezes sisters