Stable : Chapter 7
Roberto's p.o.v.
The man and lady were very nice. They let me stay and they taught me English. He said I didn't have to tell him about before, but I could if I wanted to.
I told him about how the three of us came on a boat, but there was a storm and tia and rosa got sick. I told him how I had to be very quiet on the boat and how tia told me not to cry and I had to stay quiet while we rode in the truck. I cried when I told him how tia and rosa didn't wake up one day and how I ran away when the men who drove the truck opened the door.
The man didn't laugh at me when I cried. He said he was sorry that bad things happened to my family but that he was sure they were in heaven now. He said he missed his tia and his mami and papi too.
He asked if I wanted to live with him forever because I could if I wanted to.
I told him I wanted to if Alicia could come back and live in the house with us. He said he wanted her to stay but she was the one who didn't want to live with him. Then he told me that maybe she would stay if I asked her to, but not to be sad if she didn't.
Everyday I asked Alicia to stay. Everyday she said, "One more day Roberto, then I have to go."
At first I was sad when she said that. But she staid everyday.
Dominic's Spanish got better, but my English got better faster. We talk in English now at our house. Dominic says it's my house now too.
Alicia is my friend, but she's not Dominic's friend always. She is helping me to stay with him. She is a lawyer.
Dominic told me that she fixes families like he fixes cars. That's when he first told me its what you know, not who. I don't know what that means exactly, but Dom says it's a good thing cause it means that if I study and work hard I can do anything I want to when I grow up.
But I don't want to be a lawyer. I want to be a mechanic just like Dominic.