Florencia Fuentes was far from stupid or dumb. Yeah sometimes she said funny things. And sometimes she didn't get the jokes the other Bella's were making.
It wasn't because she wasn't smart. Actually she was pretty smart. It was because she still needed to learn how American people were.
She came from a small town in Guatemala. She grew up an a normal family. They weren't rich but she got all the love and support she needed. Although her brother tried to sell her for chickens multiple times.
She already lived longer than she expected and she was the first one of her family to go to college. And the first one to go to another country. The difference between her life in Guatemala and her live in Barden couldn't be bigger.
She missed her family back home like crazy. But she was glad that she became a Bella. She was surprised how fast she had felt home in the group. She loved to sing and perform with them.
They really were a sisterhood. And the girls made up for the family she missed. They accepted her for who she was. Even if she sometimes didn't get what they said. But they explained the things patiently to her. And sometimes they made fun of her but it was never in a bad way.
She loved those girls with all her heart and she would never leave them. And yet that is what she did. Not voluntary. She left them because she didn't have another choice.
She came to America on a scholarship. And she had a temporary visa. She had some rules she needed to follow if she wanted to stay here till she graduated.
Now she was willing to risk losing it all. There was only one reason why she would give up everything and the reason were the Bella's. The love she had for those girls were more worth for her than her education. She could always go to a college in Guatemala, but the love of her girls was priceless.
That's why she had to go. The safety of her fellow Bella's came first. She sighed as she put the last things in her suitcase.
She looked back one time when she left the house. She was going to miss them dearly that she knew. But it was better to miss them because she was away than to miss them because one of them ended up dead.
That was eleven years ago. She neve expected that she would miss them so much. Yes, she got on with her life. But there was never a moment that she didn't think about them. She would keep track of them as some of them became famous.
She never expected to see them ever again. And yet she did after eleven years. She was just enjoying a holiday in Spain when she ran into Ashley and Jessica.
She was drinking a cocktail when familiar voices spoke to her.
"Flo?!" two voices said in unison.
