Chapter 4: Business to Take Care of
When the concert ended, Miguel brought Gabby with him backstage. "You were great, Senior Rivera." said Gabby. "Gracias, Gabby. Glad you were able to come." said Hector. "It's been great meeting you Gabby, it's too bad, we'll be leaving the day after tomorrow." said Miguel.
"Si, but maybe we'll see each other again someday." said Gabby. "Si, and if you're ever in Santa Cecilia you can come by the Riveras." said Hector. "Okay." said Gabby. They walked her out, and Gabby caught the bus back to the orphanage.
"I'm really gonna miss, Miguel. Carina." said Gabby. Carina barked to comfort her owner, and Gabby gave her a pet on the head.
The next morning at the orphanage, the nuns called all the 12-year-olds to their office. "Now I'm sure you're wondering why we called you all here." said one of the nuns. The kids were wondering why they were called there.
"Tomorrow a bus will be coming to transport you all to another permanent living facility." said Hermana Marisol. "Que?" asked the kids. "There's no easy way to explain this, so I'm just going to say this. Since you're all twelve now, you've outgrown the orphanage." said another nun.
"Outgrown the orphanage?" asked Gabby. "You see ninos, it's really hard for 12-years-olds to get adopted since you'll be teenagers soon. And this is an orphanage for adoptable children, so you'll have to go."
The kids were shocked at what they heard, especially Gabby. "But Hermanas, you're saying that there's no chance of us getting adopted?" she asked. "No, that's not what we're saying, it's just how things work." said one of the nuns.
When the kids were dismissed they went about their business, but Gabby went straight to her room. Carina was lying under the bed, and was surprised to see her girl in such a bad mood. "Carina, you won't believe what just happened. Tomorrow I'm gonna be transferred to another orphanage, one where adoption isn't a possibility." said Gabby.
Carina whined to show she felt sorry for her. "I can't believe it, just because I'm twelve doesn't mean I don't deserve a family." said Gabby. She sat on her bed, and put her hands on her cheeks, wondering what to do now.
As she thought, she noticed Carina was sniffing at her bracelet. "Stop that, girl." she said. But when she looked at her bracelet something hit her. "Whoever gave me this bracelet must've really loved me. They must be family." she said.
Then she realized something else. "I was brought here when I was 6, so I must've been somewhere and with someone before that. Maybe I can find those people." said Gabby. If she was going to discover her past, she'd had to go back to where it all started, the train station.
With Carina in her bag, and her bracelet on her wrist Gabby set off for the train station. When she got there, she looked around. There wasn't really anything special about it, people were sitting around waiting for their trains, talking to others, buying maps, souvenirs, snacks, and tickets.
"Nothing really seems familiar here." said Gabby, as she walked around. But as she walked around the platform, something lying on the ground started to glow. It was a black skull talisman, as it glowed green smoke came out of it.
It floated off the ground, and levitated through the people, and out of the train station. It went through the city, in the slums, where it eventually found its' way to an old abandoned building. It squeezed through an opening in one of the boarded up windows, and landed on the floor.
"Huh?" asked voice. A man walked over to the window, and saw the talisman lying on the floor. "The talisman!" he cried, as he picked it up. "I haven't since this is six years." The man none other than Ernesto De La Cruz.
After he'd lost the talisman he hid out in the slums, and had lived there ever since, hiding out from the evil spirits. "But why have you come back to me?" he asked it. Smoke came from the talisman, and it from it came a scene from the train station.
Gabby was walking around, looking for a sign. "Gabriella Lopez?" He was confused, he thought all the Lopezes got away. "Oh, Carina there must be something around here to tell me about my past." said the figure of Gabby.
"Hmm, looks like Senorita Gabby has a case of amnesia." he said. He paced around the room, and tried to think. Then he got an idea, using the talisman he summoned the evil spirits. They all appeared out of the talisman in their black, dark green, and misty forms.
"De La Cruz, we've been looking for you." said one of them. "Yes, now it's time for us to feast upon your soul." said another. They were about to get him, when De La Cruz stopped them. "Wait, there's still a chance you could eat the Lopezes' souls." he said.
"Que?" they asked. "You see, Gabriella Lopez is still here, and she has amnesia. Apparently she doesn't remember her family or us. You could still feast on her soul. That way you could get a Lopez soul and I'll still get revenge on the Lopezes." De La Cruz explained.
"Hmm, un momento." said one of the spirits. They huddled together to discuss the situation, and then they broke a part. "We'll make a deal with you, De La Cruz." "If you can get Gabriella to us while she still has amnesia we'll spare you soul."
"But if she begins to remember, or if anything happens to the talisman, then it'll be your soul we'll feast on." "Deal." said De La Cruz. He was going to get his revenge on the Lopezes on way or another.
That's chapter 4, plz review