Again, to keep things short and sweet, I do not Rio nor any of its original characters, but, hey, a girl who grew up on these sorts of movies can dream, can't she? Anyways, here we go!
It had been weeks since the musical event and summer vacation had just started, and the Monterios could think of no better way to start out the vacation then a family outing, and better outing was there during the summertime then a trip to the beach? Inside the home, to be pacific, in the kitchen, Linda, who was wearing shorts and a robin egg blue tee over her swimsuit, was packing lunches in the traditional wicker basket, while Tulio and Fernando, who were wearing their trunks and tees, were loading up the trunk of the jeep.
"I can't wait to get in the water," Fernando said excitedly, "This is going to be so much fun!"
"I feel the same way son," Tulio agreed as he packed the umbrella into the jeep, "Can't wait to spend some quality time with my favorite people."
"All set boys?" Lind asked coming out of the house, basket in hand and her favourite sunhat on. "Oh yea, can't wait to get in the water," Tulio said as he took the basket from his wife. "Can't say I blame you, I knew Rio was naturally hotter, but this is ridiculous," Linda remarked as he packed the basket in the jeep.
With the packing done, they were off for the nearest open beach. Almost everyone in Rio were at the beaches, playing in and out of the water or relaxing on recliners or on towels, enjoying the beginning of summer vacation., and the day in general. As Tulio searched for a close to the beach to park, Linda was putting on sun-block.
"Come here sweetie," Linda said turning as best she could in the seat to put sun-block on her son's face, succeeding with his nose and cheeks, "No one wants a sun burn."
Fernando smiled, rubbing the sun-block in without complaint, instead, he said, "Thanks mom." Before giving his mom a kiss on the cheek, which made Linda smile.
"Oh good, I found a good spot," Tulio said parking the car.
When they got out, they grabbed everything out the jeep that they needed and walked down to the sand area. Once they found a nice spot, they set up everything, before rushing for the water. Linda and Tulio smirked as they grabbed their son, who had tried to run, guessing what they were planning to do, but was too late as Linda grabbed him by the legs and Tulio by the arms and they threw him in the water. Fernando tried to get them back, teaming up with his dad to throw Linda a few times.
After a while, they went back to their spot to eat lunch. Fernando had a chicken sandwich with a bag of chips and soda, whilst Linda was eating a Philly cheese steak with mini blueberry muffins and a simple bottle of water, and Tulio was eating a plain PB&J sandwich with slices of apple and a carton of milk.
With lunch eaten, they posed for a family photo at the beach, Tulio setting the camera's timer, giving him time to run to his family to make it for the photo. "Say Rio!" Tulio said. "Rio!" Both Linda and Fernando laughed and not a second later, the picture was taken.
"What now?" Fernando asked as they packed their stuff back into the jeep. "We're going biking," Tulio answered. "Alright, I loved riding bikes back in Minnesota!" Linda cheered as Tulio drove them to a center to find bikes to rent.
Whilst browsing in the center, Fernando spotted the perfect bike and tugged at his dad's shirt to get his attention, pointing to it, "Hey, dad, how about this one?" Tulio looked at the bike that caught his son's attention; a classic bike built for three painted a lovely shade of blue.
Tulio patted his son's shoulder, voice full of pride as he answered, "That's perfect son." Fernando smiled, practically beaming brighter then the sun at his father's praise so hard, the smile threatened to break his face in half, serving as a painful reminder for Tulio the dark life Fernando had lived prior and when his son turned around, Tulio quickly served to frown darkly in the other direction so Fernando couldn't see should he turn around again.
Tulio idly wondered how long he would continue to curse Fernando's grandfather, if he could call the man that, but shook his head, the man didn't deserve the added thought in his opinion, abusers never did, no matter who the victim.
Taking a deep breath to calm himself down, Tulio relaxed back into a smile as he went to the person in the front to rent the bike. As they left, all three of them were pushing the bike together before hopping on.
"Ready?" Tulio asked being up front with Linda behind him in the middle and Fernando behind her, taking the rear. "I'm super ready!" Linda answered practically boucing in her seat in anticipation. "Same here!" Fernando added leaning to be seen over his mother's shoulder.
Nodding, Tulio said, "Okay, off we go!" He then started peddling along with Linda and Fernando.
They rode around the entire city of Rio, enjoying the view and ride as a family. Little did they know, two people in particular had snapped photos of them. One was hiding up on a hill in the foliage and was quick to make tracks before someone could notice him, the other was a man giving away pictures of people for free when he noticed them and took a perfect family photo of them. When the time came to end the bike ride, the Monterios returned the bike to the center and went out for ice cream.
"Officially the best summer vacation ever!" Fernando said happily, eating his chocolate ice cream cone in one hand and holding his mother's hand with the other. "More like the best family outing we ever had," Linda chuckled enjoying her plain vanilla cone. "Can't argue with either of you, I loved every second of it," Tulio shrugged unwilling to choose sides, even if there technically wasn't a side to choose as he enjoyed his own cone of rocky-road ice cream.
Just as they were about to get in the jeep, they were stopped by a guy who had been clearly running for a while, a paper in hand and little out of breath as he leaned and balanced against the hood of their jeep. "Err, hi…can we help you?" Linda asked surprised and on-guard at the sudden appearance, subconsciously pushing Fernando behind her, learning of what had happened to him had made her increasingly protective, not that Tulio could blame her, he could be just as bad, especially when seeing Fernando around new employees or volunteers he didn't know all too well.
"I…I forgot to give you your free photo," The guy said once he caught his second wind, handing them the picture he had taken of them on the bike, making Linda smile and relax upon seeing it, especially seeing how beautifully it had captured Fernando's happy and almost blissful expression at the time.
"Thank you very much sir," Fernando said once he caught a glimpse of the photo for himself. "The pleasure was all mine," The man smiled back then waved as he walked away, "Good night."
They waved him off in turn, "Good night." Before piling into their jeep and heading home.
Once everything was put away and Fernando was sound asleep, Linda quietly entered the room and smiled softly at Fernando, who was peacefully asleep with the biggest smile she had ever seen on his face. It made her wonder how one so small and young have such a dark and troubling past look so peaceful and happy.
Arms encircling her made her smile up at Tulio, whispering, "He is so cute when he's sleeping."
Tulio chuckled warmly and lovingly in a low tone as he whispered back, "Same to you." They shared a kiss on the lips before heading for bed.
Okay, I just want to start off saying, I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO sorry this took so long to update, first you get caught with one thing, then your dog decides it wants to take a walk across your keyboard and somehow deletes all your work, still don't know how that one happened, then a storm shuts off the power and I lose what I was working on, again, then, I lose all that work once again, when my new laptop crashes, now I've been working with my old one and let me tell you...it still works rather well, actually.
This is officially the shortest chapter I've ever written, I kid you not, but if my original work (RIP), was longer, I honestly don't remember and I felt bad for making you guys wait this long, so, this is the best I've been able to put together with a deadline I promised myself so I'd remember to get it done.
Be brutal, be honest, but keep it PG, is all I ask. Please review!
Until the next one!