CHAPTER 15: THE RED PHOENIXES.

(Isa's voice)

After having gone through Christmas at the burrow, the day of taking back to my duties towards the Spanish Phoenix Order came. This time, I told the elders in the house and so I was not just told off but also they offered to come along with me. So me that first had planned to attend by flying over a broom, had to end up making a 'traslator' in order to move so many people at once, linking the burrow with my own home at Spain.

It would be the first time I went back home after... well, after what happened in summer, and it was a bit hard for me. Now we've been on the private ceremony of the order member's burial where the pearl grey coffins are mysteriously surrounded by flames, orange in the adult ones and red in the youngster ones but for Eloy's that was yellowish flames as I suppose will be in mine when I die.

The young squad and the 'NO' (New Order), we are wearing on our deluxe uniforms and we are completely silent as the flames rise. Me, as squad leader, the only one now, had to read a speech for the burial; I still can't understand how I found the voice to read it, my most beloved order mates have been murdered on "Family Holidays" or "Mysteriously"; just us know what the truth is.

Why did they have to die? For how long will I last too? How long will it take I'm found again and I'm also murdered?

There are thousand questions flowing my brain, however, I can't find answer to any of them.

(Harry's voice)

It was all a bit weird those burials... they were a bit weirdly similar to Dumbledore's one. Isa wore a weird uniform with red and yellow cloak, a black gauntlet on her right hand and a black glove on her left one.

She tried to show still and serious all the time, but she was really touched. Her voice was a sign of what she was carrying inside: deep, sore and sometimes even weak. Her eyes were bright on tears she's been holding and blood injected.

I don't know any of the people being buried there but I suppose she must be really touched cause they were something as family for her.

When the ceremony ends, the people remaining wearing those uniforms plus four other men are standing there, shaking hands with the people attending. Then we saw Isa being hug by a man and another, the rest just pattered her shoulder or back before leaving.

Soon the man that hugged her came with her.

"So, here we are our English mates." He said. "It's a privilege you've came so far. I'd rather we had meet for another matter."

The adults then began chatting with the two men.

"Mr. Igartiburu was my co-headmaster and D.A.D.A. teacher back in my school here." Isa explained us. "The man next to him is his brother, an auror; both of them are part of the Original Phoenix Order and were friends and school mates of my mother."

We just nodded, and after a while, a woman came and she called Isa to speak a lot with her.

(Isa's voice)

"But... I can't accept it!" I said. "It's your family's and..."

"Oh... Holly was my husband's for years." Mrs. Palacios said smiling with her eyes full of tears. "When he was killed working for the organisation, she began singing and then flew away. I would have given this to Juan but..."

"Maybe you should keep it, Amaya." I told her trying to hand it back to her. "I already have Takato, and Sora, and Horus and..."

"Believe me." She said making my hands close around the warm shell. "They would have wanted you to keep it. You are a really skilled girl on magical creatures caring; furthermore, you are the young leader, you need to have your own mark."

I tried to refuse but it was impossible, I was left there with the egg, till Professor Igartiburu held my shoulder softly.

"Ah, I see you've finally been given it." he told me. "Old Holly's child. I know you will take care of it as it deserves."

Suddenly I cried against him. I think I've just allowed three people seeing me cry: my brother, Harry and him. I don't know why but he was always that family adult presence I had at the school.

Still holding the egg and being surrounded by his arms, he chose to break the silence.

"It's always hard to see everyone around you fall when you can do nothing but to survive." he told me.

"But... they were... still... young." I cried.

"We all knew this could happened since the very moment we joined this." He confessed. "That's why we didn't want you kids to join the order."

I knew what he was speaking about, now I was elder I could understand that reasons too; but I said nothing.

"When you are young you think you can do anything." He kept on. "But when a mate is murdered you realise of truth all of sudden, and truth can be a brutal hit."

He was true, all the time. Maybe we were still not ready for that, maybe I was still not ready for being a leader if my mates were being killed too.

"Do not even think of it." He said reading my mind. "Your intention was good. You as your mates as all your family wanted to help fighting and getting a better peaceful world. Now, without you to guide us, we will have not the slightest chance."

That was maybe what I needed to hear, maybe he told me just what I wanted to hear, never mind; that made me feel better.

"I think someone is waiting for you." He added looking over my shoulder. "Some mates need some good words too."

Then I looked to a side, there were my now best mates, ex-school mates and two of them, ex-boyfriend of mine.

"If you don't mind, I suggest holding a meeting tonight, at my home." I told them. "Some of the order English members have came and they are at my place too."

"It's ok with me." One said.

"Yeah, me too." Edu added.

The six of us remaining would come that night to my place to see what we could do.

(Lupin's voice)

I've seen what Minerva's niece called the remained 'chicks'; they are certainly elder than her, at last three of them, the rest look about her age, maybe one more. They really looked as men during the burial, but tonight they arrived to the house she used to live and that now we are spending some days at.

One by one they arrived and sat around the table where we were chatting at. The first one was the one looking elder; he had long straight white hair and sunglasses. When he was took his leather jacket off we saw he was also strong and musculated; and silent.

The rest were also silent; maybe they looked as men, but they were certainly still kids.

The last one arriving was Isa, she was carrying a stone dish with something liquid in it and she put it in the middle o the table. Then she took something off her pocket and put it ahead and so did the rest of the 'chicks'.

"Feathers?" Ron asked.

"I think they are not just that." I said seeing they were all the same but different shades of red with some golden glitches.

Then they put them in the bowl and nothing happened so she moved her hair and we saw an earring with a feather, it was more likeable to be golden with red glitches. She then put it in the bowl and the substance turned red as blood; finally she rubbed her back and her lips trembled a split of second before taking a black feather she finally put in the bowl and it caught in fire.

"Now I'm happy to declare this Phoenix Young Squad's meeting officially open." She said. "First point is to welcome our brothers from England and the D.A. which are their 'chickens'. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, Lupin, Tonks, Moody, Kingsley, Bill, Fleur, Charly, Fred, George, Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny."

"Welcome." They all said at once.

"They came to show their respects to the now fallen members and some of whom they once knew." She kept on. "And now to a second point."

"We are facing a great amount of murders at our side." The elder one said. "Our adults have been killed, some and most of our squad mates and friends have fall too. We are facing tough times even when the Dark Lord has finally disappear. And our heads have a prize between deatheaters." He said high and still. "Specially our leader's head." He added softly and looking to Isa who was now silent.

"Why do we keep on risking our lifes for?" A black haired guy said. "Our dear ones are most of them now dead! We see each time more of us are missing! Why do we keep on with this for now?!"

"You have forgot about the point of all this, haven't you?" Another one said then. "We wanted to help fighting those murderers in the shadows, not just our dear ones but any one's ones too. We'd sworn not to give up on this even if we were to be killed. All of the people missing today have died fighting for that. If we give up now, those deaths would have been for nothing."

"And what do you mean to do?" A forth one said. "They will take not long to find us and end with us one by one."

Then they began arguing while the only girl there was still silent as a grave. Suddenly the guys fell down on their seats and stopped arguing.

"Ok, ok." He then said. "I caught the idea."

"Hippogriffs don't fight among them." Isa said calmly.

Then someone hit the window and it opened to close again after nothing got in or out.

"You're late." Isa said.

"Sorry, I brought a present for mistress." A cold and deep voice said at our backs while a thug wrapped on a cloth landed in front of Isa making her close her eyes.

"Mel!!" The elder guy said a bit angry. "She's told you a million times not to show her those!!"

Then the other friend took the though to remove it from there leaving a stain of something blood like on the place it was a second before over the table.

"I thought mistress would like to know I took care of some of her enemies." The voice said back her.

"Mel, show up, please." She asked him.

"I rather..." he began.

"Melfaroth, please." She added again on a calmed voice.

Then we saw first an eye glowing in the shadow at the wall back her and then slowly a weird man on his middle twenties appeared at her back. He was certainly appearing human but blood curling because he was dark and covered in blood as if he had been fighting for long.

"I'm sorry mistress." He said bowing. "I didn't meant to make you sick."

"I'd rather you didn't brought me those prove of your actions." She said. "A non cut one would be just better."

Then she took of her wand and aimed it at him so we saw how his wounds lighted and closed slowly.

"The orchid labelled jar would do." She then told him. "You've your name written on it."

"Yes mistress." He said before walking away.

"So, where were we?" She said.

"They were arguing about keeping the group or dissoluting it." Bill remembered her.

"I personally must agree with those two chaps." Fred said. "You look like the D.A. if you created this union for helping then that would be what you should keep on doing."

"Yep." His brother added. "And if you've got lack of members then you could try at the school."

"That's right." The other 'for' member said. "Mr. Igartiburu is part of the Original Phoenix Order, he could help!"

"Mr. Igartiburu will never provide us of members." Isa said them on a soft way. "He is with the elders and doesn't want students to join us."

The discursion went for longer and longer.

(Harry's voice)

I don't know for how long they were discussing about what they should do from that moment on about their order; for me it seemed ages.

Finally that Mel guy came back, all we could see of him was movements on a corner back Isa, and so I saw how something appearing wings spread and folded over his arms to resemble a cloak, a short one.

I couldn't sleep and I couldn't understand everything they were speaking; whatever charm they performed for us understanding their words seemed to have gone off and I ended up falling asleep.

When I woke up it was next morning and most of us were sleeping there. None of the last night guys or Isa were anywhere to be seen and so I went nervous.

"They've ended a while before." Charlie then said. "The meeting was over."

"And how have they ended it?" I asked interested on it.

"They will look for more people." He told me. "They will requite more people and they have been promoted into New Phoenix Order. Anyway... she's going to catch deatheater's attention to make them not see what the rest are doing."

"But that could make her to be put on real danger!!" I exclaimed astonished and worried.

"That's why the idea took so long to be accepted." Bill said. "None of the guys wanted her to risk herself so much."

"And where is her now?" I kept on asking them.

"Out." Bill told me. "At the back garden doing something. However..."

Paff, when I tried to open the door leading to the back garden something hit my hand.

"I tried to tell you." Charly said. "There's something guarding the door. And that Mel-guy is around too. He is not going to allow you to lay a finger on her."

Then I tried to look out of a window but it was useless, however, I kicked a bit bucket and spilled what was in so I quickly began putting everything back in the bucket; until I came across the thug that Mel-guy gave her as a present the previous night.

It was a bit unwrapped due to the rolling way it made when the rubbish bin fell down. I then saw some hair falling our of there and I tried to pick it but the cloth fell down and I screamed in terror when I realised it was two human heads of a man and a woman, cut off apparently by careless cutting with something sharp.

To my shout someone else came, mainly everyone there that were woke up by my shout. Anyway the dark guy was faster and kept the heads hiding them from sight.

"What's wrong, Harry?" Mr. Weasley asked me.

"There were... human heads... at the rubbish." I muttered.

"There's nothing in here." Moody said after looking through the bin with his magical eye.

"Well, he took them!" I said realising on the truth.

"They were mistress present." The Mel-guy said a bit angry. "I'll keep those for her."

Then something seemed to catch his attention and just disappeared again.

"Oh, I can't believe it!" Mrs. Weasley said angry. "What a rude guy!!"

"Well mum, it seems something else caught his attention." Bill said while someone knocked on the door. "And he seems a bit weird on my opinion."

"I don't even think he is human." Lupin said then.

(Bill's voice)

When I opened the door I saw four men there, one of them a bit smiley until they saw me that I found two wands pointed to my heart.

"It's ok." One of the men that I could remember speaking with Isa during the burial said. "He is a fellow of our club. From England."

"Man!" The smiley one said relaxing a bit. "This days you don't know who to trust at. A man at her house! I thought she could be on danger."

"Can we get in?" The other man I could recognise said. "It's safer in than out."

"Oh, sure." I said stepping aside. "Feel as in home, I suppose."

"Thanks." They said getting in one by one.

"Ok, where is our 'chick'?" The auror one said rubbing his hands cheerfully.

"We've come here to deal about something." The shortest one said. "But we can't wait."

"What the...?" The smiley man with glasses said. "I want to first welcome her as she deserves!!"

"Well, she is at the back yard, but somehow nobody can follow her because when you try, something hits you."

"Melfaroth." The auror said. "He has managed to run away from ministerial control once and again."

"He... enjoys... cutting... human heads... off." Ron said babbling as he seemed to have seen the blood stains at the floor.

"Oh, if he has dared to give them again to her, I swear I'll kill him!" The auror man said going from smiley to angry.

"Easy, easy." The Igartiburu teacher told him. "Why don't Pedro and you don't go to gather the maps and papers?"

"Ok." The smiley one with glasses and the auror one said standing up and leaving.

"I'll bring the lady." The smiley one said standing up too. "Even if that damned thing is trying to keep her close to him."

"Why do you all seem to fear that dude?" Fred asked the remaining Igartiburu teacher.

"Yeah." George said. "You all seem to rather that Melfaroth-guy away from Isa."

"Melfaroth is a highly dangerous ent." The man said. "He is a demon yet some vampire and witch blood run through his veins. He can become rather... vicious sometimes, but he is just loyal to one person."

"Isa." All of us said at once.

"Yes, he is 100 per 100 loyal to our Isa." He agreed. "He would kill himself before hurting her the slightest; and he is really helpful if she asks him to do things. Yet he uses to also act on his own and kills enemies of his 'mistress'. The heads might be belonging to the two deatheaters that have appeared on pieces at the sewage system near the church. If you could just show me the heads..."

"He took them." Harry told him.

"Ok, then I'll ask her to ask him to show me them." He said while we heard some shouts on rage coming towards us from the corridor.

"So you see it normal for a girl to have such dangerous end around her?!" Mrs. Weasley asked white in fear and fury.

"Well..." He then said. "We are not completely through but... you should see her pets. She has not showed you, has she?"

"Well, we know about her two cats." Ginny said. "They are always going here and there freely at the school."

"Takato and Sora." He nodded. "Well, they are the less dangerous. Yet they could really hurt if they were on their real size."

"And she also has a bird for mail." Harry added.

"Ah, yes." The man nodded. "Horus, her mailing hawk. Nah, he is not too dangerous either."

"Then what else?" I asked finally giving up.

"Moira." The man said. "Or her babies."

"Her babies are well cared on our reserve." Charlie said. "And Moira can't be around so freely."

"What is that Moira thing?" Hermione asked him then.

"A Swabra." Charly said. "A mix between swam body with snake head. Really vicious and dangerous."

"And I suppose you have still not seen her little friend, Lucifer. Have you?"

"Jaime, please." Isa said getting in the room. "Stop spreading such rumours about me, please."

"Sure." He told her. "We've came to deal with an official thing with you, dear."

"We?" She asked.

"Yes; Matias, Pedro María, my brother Andrés and I." He told her. "They want to say welcome back to you."

That made her smile slightly for some seconds.

"Ok, I suppose you will not mind dealing it while we have meal." Isa told him. "Meal time is near and personally I have not had yesterday's dinner or today's breakfast."

"Isa!!" The smiley man with glasses said running to me and hugging me cheerfully. "Oh, dear, welcome back!!"

"Hey, mate." The auror one added dropping the things at the table to the walk to them. "Leave a bit of girl for the rest, mind you?"

"It's so long I don't see her..." He said then.

"Welcome back, lil' one." The auror man said hugging her tighter and raising her from ground.

"Andrés... you are... drowning me..." She said with little voice.

"Sorry." He said then.

(Isa's voice)

"So, that's what we have now." I asked the four extra-official 'godfathers' I had.

"If you consider the last Original Phoenix Order's head is now death, now you've been left all this money and belongings for being the New Order head." Matías explained me.

"Of course, there are some belongings left for you for being yourself, but the rest are for the Order." Pedro told me.

"Wow... you are rich now!" Ron exclaimed to be hit by his girlfriend, sister and brothers. "Ouch!"

"Well, the truth is the truth." Andrés said. "And it is you now own five different flats on muggle capital cities. Three more houses at wizard communities apart from your family house... And three big storing buildings on two towns and a port. Plus a lot of belongings and lot of gold."

"Ok, I allow you to use them for Order benefit." I claimed. "And one of the storing rooms will be for my using, if you don't mind."

I could see how the English mates were a bit astonished now we were speaking about my belongings, and that when we where not speaking about the belongings left for the order.

"So now... if you please sign here and here and here and..." Pedro told me showing me a bunch of papers placed over the table for me to sign them and getting all those things officially.

"Is it enough?" I asked him after signing the last paper.

"Yep." He said. "Ok, we will make all the belongings you have just received to be kept safe at your new vaults in Gringotts and any of us will get you the keys to England when we are given them."

"Fine." I said.

"You are now rich and you don't seem to be happier." Harry told me then.

"I'd rather not to be so rich and the people giving me this as inheritance being alive." I answered. "Damn... why do I have to do all this?" I then whispered sighing.

"By the way." Andrés told me. "We should think on a better place to settle de headquarters other than meeting here."

"You are the expert on this kind of things." I told him. "Chose it and then you tell me."

"Ok." He said. "By the way, nice coffee."

(Tonk's voice)

We had ended the meeting when Isa asked for forgiveness and left for relaxing a bit.

"Now she is not here..." The man called Jaime Igartiburu. "I'd like to ask you something. Have you watched her lately?"

"Sure." Mrs. Weasley said. "We've took care of her during New Year's eve until now."

"And we are class mates in the school." Harry told them.

"And how is her reacting to all that?" His brother asked. "Is she eating well? She certainly looks skinnier than before..."

"She is not having much meal lately." Ron said. "Even when we have tried to force her more food."

"Guys..." Ginny said then as giving up. "Of course she is not eating well. How would you be if all of your friends and family began being killed?"

"She has been a bit depressed." Hermione said. "Yet it seemed lately she was beginning to improve a lot. At least until she got all those mailing birds on New Year's."

"Geez... I knew." Andrés said.

"What happened in summer was a great shock for her." Jaime explained us. "His brother Eloy and her were very close."

"Close was not exact." Matías said then. "They were like twins. Despite of him being a year elder than her it was as if they were such perfect twins that they shared even a kind of telepathy and empathy link. The day they were murdered... I bet she found out before anyone else, she nearly fell from the broom once, maybe while he was being killed."

"I must ask you, specially you kids that go with her to the school, to keep a close eye on her." Andrés Igartiburu said. "She will look for a way of reversing the murders of her family."

"How can she find a way?" Ron asked him.

"Yeah, there's not a way." Hermione said. "That's imposible."

"Well, if there's a way be sure she will find it." Matias said.

"I'm sure she has already be looking for it." Jaime said. "And if she finds the way..."

"Wait a moment." Harry said. "There's not a way of bringing back death people to life... Is it?" He added doubting it when the people didn't answer.

"Tell them." Pedro said.

"It's not fair." Andrés said as growling between teeth. "She has the right to..."

"They are her friends." Pedro said. "They must know."

"It should be her who told them." Jaime said.

"To tell us what, exactly?" Mrs. Weaseley said.

"What she can turn into." Matías said then. "It's been really top-order-secret and just her close family and us four when the moment arrived were told."

"I must insist she would not want it to be told." Andrés said. "It's not fair for her. She must not know we also know."

"But she already knows you know." Jaime told him. "Someone couldn't kept the secret for her, could you?"

It was amazing, so afterall there as a secret; something they knew but were not found of sharing with us.

"You can tell us." I said. "Really, we will not tell around."

Then the four looked at me and also to the rest that were now back me, supporting my words.

"Do you know about the legend of Zorohabs." Jaime asked.

"Ok, I don't want to have anythign to do with this." Andrés said. "I'll go with her and be sure she doesn't catch you. Just watch out for her prey dogs."

"Prey dogs?" Harry asked while we were looking for the dogs and the other ones were taking out their wands.

"Yes, this house is not just protected by charms or magic you can see." Jaime said. "She, our friend, managed to get some kind of... alliance with some... other creatures."

"Try getting into your room and you will die before you reach the knob." Matías said.

"Ok, what's up with that Zo-whatever?" Fred asked.

(Isa's voice)

I was relaxing at the top of the roof when I heard some noises aproaching.

"Hello Isa." Andrés told me. "It's me, Andrés. May I get there?"

"Sure, the place is free." I said. "Forgot telling something?"

"The things in there were begining to get a bit boring; I felt like a bit relax too." He told me as he sat down next to me. "Everything ok up here?"

"Hum." I noded. "I was just relaxing a bit, but it seems the animals have ran away."

"Well, the ministery came and hunted all the magical ones round here in order to protect muggle people from them now the family has died." He told me.

"Oh, sure." I said. "Pitty, I wanted to see if the aerothan cub grew up."

"Your animals are being kept by some friends." He said picking something from my back and hair. "And if I were you I would be a bit more careful about this." He added showing me the coulple of black feathers.

"Sorry." I said concentrating more on not showing off. "I've been finding myself hard to control those things since..."

"I'm not telling you off." He told me. "You already have Matías and Pedro for that. All I want to tell you is you should try to be more careful. I know how hard must have been this."

He was now surrounding my back with his arm while rubbing my shoulder.

"We all miss your parents a lot." He said. "Dark wizards were terrified on their names... And your mother was like a sister for us."

(Harry's voice)

"Isn't that whole thing just a fairy tale?" Ron asked. "I mean... how is it suposed to be such a creature as that beast around?"

"Moreover, being such a dangerous one." Hermione said.

"My poor girl!!" Mrs. Weasley said letting out a little shout. "She can't be that! She is not a killer!!"

"Of course not." They all said. "Anyway, if she was to be really mad... I'm terrified on what someone like her could do." Pedro added.

"Hush." Jaime said pointing to the ceiling. "She is going through dark times, maybe she would to a crazy thing if she feels to miserable." He added sadly after some seconds.

"Well, then if we don't let her be such state there will be no problem." I said.

"We all sincerely hope it's like that." Matias said. "While she was at our school we two used to keep a close eye on her."

"By the way, who is that Andrés for her?" Charly asked. "He seems a bit too close to her."

"He is like her second father." Jaime said. "In fact, she has been like our daughther too since she was born, all her brothers and her."

"Well, he doesn't look like father." I pointed out. "Looks like... an elder brother."

"Just as Black." Lupin said.

"Black?" Pedro said. "Sirius Black?. The runaway murderer from Azkaban?"

"He was not a killer." I said a bit angry.

"Well, that was what she said, anyway... Black could have easily fooled a little girl." Matias said.

"I'd love to see the one trying to fool her when she grew up a bit." Jaime added. "She is kind hearted, but she would never forgive anyone fooling her with such things."

"Yep, that's true." The other two said.

"Well, I think that if it's certainly true she has something to do with Malfoy, then she must have changed her mind." Ginny said. "Not so hard to fool then."

"Are you kidding?" Fred said. "Malfoy is just an sneaking dung-eater deatheater."

"Deatheater??!!" Both glassed men said. "No way!"

"What?!" We said.

"We mean just that." Jaime said. "You must be mistaken. There's no way she can have anything to do with that Malfoy."

"No way, no way, no way!" Pedro said. "She can't be having anything to do with him!! No!!"

"How can you be so sure about it?" Lupin said. "I mean, we know she is not evil."

"Oh, she can get along with demons, evil creatures or maybe a bit evil wizards." Jaime said. "But no way she would have anything to do with a deatheather. Never ever."

"Why not?" We asked then.

"She hates them deeply." Matías said.

"Believe us, keep that guy far from her if you want to keep both safe." Pedro said. "Otherwhise you will have problems."

"Problems?" Hermione asked then. "What problems? What can they do to eachother?"

"Oh, she will kill him." Jaime said. "She would kill any deatheater crossing her way."

(Andres' voice)

"It's unfair." Isa told me while she laid her head at my shoulder. "Why all this had to happend? Why my family?"

"I think you know the answer." I told her while I wrapped her with my arms. "Just you don't seem to want to believe it."

"It's not fair... I didn't ask to be born like this..." She muttered softly while I wrapped her with my arms.

"Think about it." I ended up telling her. "Think about your friend Harry. He didn't ask for his life either. He had to lose everything he minded while fighting, at least you had kept your family for long and you have treasured a lot of good memories with them. And we are still here too."

"Thank god." She muttered holding her tears as she always did, the poor of her. "I don't know what I would do without you guys..."

"So, you want anyone to get there so as to keep a close eye on you, to guarantee us you are safe and sound?" I asked her.

I knew what her answer was before even asking the question. She would never allow anyone to do such thing. She was a free spirit and just had allowed one person to get enough close to her so as to keep a close eye on her: Eloy; well, him and the tons of boyfriends she had (for those who know the spanish term, "Royos", it's not exactly boyfriend but something less formal). Anyway, there was not a chance of getting a student there without her knowing him.

"No, unless you want to come and keep an eye on me." She said.

"Hum?" I said.

I really didn't expected her saying such thing. Maybe any of her ex-boyfriends... but me?

"You know I can't." I told her.

"Your work." She noded. "When are you going to give me a brother then?"

"Another crying, eating and dung fabric? No thanks." I said joking. "I like my life this way."

"No wife, no children... just your work." She said. "I also like my freedom, but one day I expect to have a child or two."

"God save us from a little copy of you!" I said roaring on laugh.

Then she hit my ribs bothered to then smile.

It was amazing, when she smiles it seems as if day was brighter and you are filled with warm waves. I've always liked her smile, she reconforts me.

Still smiling, I held her by the back tighter while I smiled and she laid her head at my chest softly.

Our relationship was deeper than anyone else... it was not we were in love, no; it was more like... father-daughter or even brother-sister... anyway, I knew that if I had not been her mother's age, if I had been her age and be a school mate... then maybe I would have thought about something else than just that with her.

(Isa's voice)

It was funny that Andres and I got along so well, he like Pedro, Jaime and Matías, like fathers to me. After what happened to my family they've really behaved as parents to me. But Andres... he was special.

We were back at the livingroom playing cards after dinner when we heard a weird noise coming towards us and...

(To be continued on next chapter)