A sunny day…
It's the morning at La Casa Madrigal… Some members of the family have already woken up- such as Julieta, whose task is to prepare a delightful breakfast, and Antonio, who've been woken up by Parce who had a terrible nightmare…
As Julieta is waking everyone in the family to tell them that it's time for breakfast, she stays for a little time in a member's bedroom… Looks like it's hard to wake her up !
« Wake up. Julieta says in a very calm voice, Come on, wake up, you'll miss the breakfast. »
As I hear that, I hide myself under my pillow to express my displeasure. But then, I hear a second voice, probably Bruno, asking me to wake up too :
« Wake up hermana, he says, cheerful. We're just waiting for you to have our breakfast !
-Or, we could also eat all the empanadas and you won't get any, said Julieta to tease me.
-Ohhhh yes,I missed your empanadas Julieta ! Answered Bruno »
As I hear that, I'm jumping from my bed, leaving a thunderstorm to express my excitement to eat empanadas from my hermana Julieta which scared her (and woke Félix from his deep sleep!):
«Wow, uhm…. Lo siento Julieta, I don't wanted to scare you…. I was so excited that I let you know this accidentally…
-Don't worry Pepa, I'm okay… I wouldn't say the same of Felix!»
I look towards my bed and see Félix, looking at me insistently, then, I notice a little flame on his hair:
«Wow, Pepita, that was…. Uhm… Surprising, haha!
-Sorry, sorry! I blame myself for what I did to both my spouse and Julieta»
Looks like I still can't fully control my gift, even if it's been a month that we rebuilt Casita…. In the space of two seconds, a lot of things are coming in my mind… What if I'll never be able control my feelings, or my weather? What if I seriously hurt someone because of that?
As I blame myself for having scared Julieta, and almost burnt Félix's hair, I feel drops, falling at the top of my head:
"Noooooooo, I say, don't tell me I have to descend my long cloud stairs, to reach my door, to chase that damn cloud…"
Julieta, Bruno and Félix started to laugh, I looked at them, and started to laugh too! A beautiful rainbow replaced that bad cloud at the top of my head:
"Do you feel better Pepa?" Asked Julieta.
"- Yes, thank you! I answered…"
Someone suddenly entered in my room, we all looked towards the door, surprised:
"MAMA! I'm hungry! What are you doing?! It's been over a half you're here!"
It was Mirabel! Before she got angry again, we decide to go to the kitchen to finally eat the breakfast. After all, we can take our time now, my chores at the field can wait. Since Casita was rebuild, our gift changed with it, it's not only about the candle now, it's about the family, and our love.
After the breakfast, I slowly go to the fields, to make my daily chores: water the corn. Once I'm here, I concentrate myself to make rain fall, but just on the field. I'm happy, but I have to do rain, it's abstract, but I know I can do it. After all, even though I was happy, I was able to bring down hail one day! Why not doing this with rain? I close my eyes and deeply breathe and… oh? What's this? A drop? I open my eyes and see a big rain cloud, letting rain fall, as I wished it to be! For now, I can't control it so that it only goes to one area, but I manage to control the weather I want, it's already not bad, right?
As I walk to the Casa Madrigal after I successfully completed my first task, a woman is calling me, and some people are coming to me:
«Hola Pepa, could you raise the level of the river a bit? Recently, the level is quite low, it is worrying! Says the woman,
- Pepa, could you adapt the climate to my coffee plantations? I need the weather warm enough, and humid enough ! Says a man,
-Good day Pepa ! Could you warm up the weather towards my vines ? Says another man »
I was about to answer to them, but a woman came to me :
«Pepa, my children are bored, do you think you can make the snow fall from the side of the big hill?»
I agree to each of their requests, but without really knowing how am I going to manage every of these. I start with the closest one : the river is just next to us. I concentrate myself, thinking of how far we've come, so that I'm finally able to use my gift as I see fit, and that the townspeople finally trust me, because, yes, before, they weren't trusting in me. As I concentrate myself, I see a big cloud of rain above the river, making it grow to reach a sufficient water level:
«There you go, señorita! I say, happy of what I've just done!
-Thank you! She says»
After this task, I'm accomplishing the three others: making snow fall to the coffee plantations, adapting the climate to the big hill and… wait… Not sure if this is the right order. No, it was, making snow fall to the big hill, adapt the climate to the coffee plantations, and warm the weather for the vines!
It's kind off new to me: before the rebuild of Casita, I never had so much tasks to do!
The morning passes, and I'm executing my last chore. Once I've successfully accomplished it, I take a look at the sundial of the village: it's noon! Time to go to Casita, and have a good lunch! Before, I'm going to Julieta's stand, to pick one arepa because I'm hungry… And of course to see how she's doing! After going to see her, we go back to the Casita, together, and I help her a bit with cooking, even if I'm not good at all at that. She is learning me a lot of cooking things: it allows us to spend time together, and it's fun!
We share the lunch all together, in the patio, and we tell each other, in turn, our morning. In the end, it looks more like a cacophony, because no one respects the "tell each other in turn" thing! Everyone speaks as they wish.
I really like this atmosphere: it changes from before, where Mama was telling us what we were going to do the afternoon, we didn't necessarily had the right to speak during the lunch: we had to listen to Mama, and that's it! Now, I hear everyone laughing, sharing their morning adventures, and have fun!
We slowly finish the meal, before returning to our work, only if we hadn't finished what we planned in the morning. Unlike before, where we had to work all the day, we can now "chose" how we work. Usually, we're planning a certain amount of things to do during the morning, and we only accept the townspeople's requests in the morning, except if there's an emergency of course. The afternoon, we have the choice to finish our morning's tasks, or to rest. Also, things changed for Julieta: Félix is working with her now. He wasn't helping much before, he was just helping me with my mood problems. She taught him the bases of medecine, and healing. In the morning, she's at her stand, but in the afternoon, she stays at home. She still heals people, but she managed to heal them differently: if it's something serious, she heals with food, but otherwise, Félix takes care of it, with some medicinal plants, or ointments, and always with a joke!
For my part, I like to know that someone's help Julieta, she's been so overloaded by the past!
To relax myself, I decide to go at a sunflower fields near Casita. It's a peaceful place where I stay alone, taking a nap, or reading, or listening to the different birds singing. Sometimes, a capybara, probably Chispi, comes to visit me, and I pet him for a long time!
I stood all the afternoon in this sunflower field: today, I read a book there, before dozing off to finally sleep at the foot of a tree. At around 5 PM, I come back to home, because this is the hour where my children are coming back from school. I wish to be there, to help them doing their homework, and listen to what they've done today.
Back home, my children welcome me with joy, while they savor their snack prepared by Julieta (By the way, I wonder if the snacks she prepares are healthy when I see all this dulce de leche flow from their obleas!). I listen to Camilo and Antonio, who tell me about their afternoon at school. We enjoy this time for about an hour. Most of the time, we're cut by Félix, telling to childrens that it's time for them to make their homework. Camilo goes in his room, and call us if he needs help, and we stay with Antonio to help him doing his homeworks. Once everything has been done, we go for dinner. This night, it's Bruno who helped Julieta cooking! She must be happy to spend time again with our hermanito!
Even if it's night, the dinner is, as the meal, always a sharing time, but we are telling us random things. It can be what we think of doing tomorrow, or what we enjoyed doing today for example. We stay at the table for a long time, because we're enjoying the remain time we have all together before going to bed. And when I say for a long time, it can be for one hour and a half! Every days, I'm voluntary to help Julieta washing the huge pile of dishes: it's something I've never though of doing before, because I wasn't able to realize that she really needed someone to support her. And for that task, my gift is really useful! I make rain fall over the sink to wash the plates, and the dishes, and I dry everything with the wind and the sun! I'm happy to help Julieta, even if it requires me to use my gift, and exhausts me more or less, but it's not disturbing because anyway, it's time to go to bed.
Speaking of that, now that all of the tasks have been finished in the kitchen, I can go to my room and join Félix. Before sleeping, I like to write what I've done today in a book with all my feelings, what I liked, and what I disliked. Of course, I'm also adding some anecdotes, that makes this day special. This book is like a memoir, and I hope my future grandchildren will read it! While writing, I doze off, little by little, before falling asleep in Félix's arms: "Good night, mi vida, he says quietly. -Good night to you, Félix, I say" I close my eyes, and enjoy this time. I hope tomorrow will be as great as today!