Chapter 32

As we decent thought the mountains to get to the town, I feel my hart race. I don't know what's going to happen, but it feels like I'm going thought a tunnel descending at a very high speed. My hart feels like it wants to beat out of my chest. The scenery is beautiful, the white houses and the endless green fields are a sight to remember.

My father tells everyone that he we will know take a break since we've traveled for hours with out stopping. I get of the cab and walk around, I feel like I've been here before. It's not necessarily a déjà vu thing, it's more like a memory, like I lost or unwanted memory.

I walk down the road a little the sun beats high above us. I can fee the coast from up here. It's beautiful, it feels like we are closer.

The others have started to get out of the vehicles, and are all stretching the stiffness off there bodies.

I hear my mother complain about the heat, my father immediately brings out the old hand held fan and starts fanning some air to her face, always trying to help her, always loving her with everything he does.

Now that Nona Machuy has left us, we are orphans. My father being the eldest male of our tribe will serve as leader to the family. My mother being his spouse will serve as the caretaker. We haven't picked up any new people since before I was 12 so the couples and young people that make the family are all used to the traveling, most of us have been here since birth, so this is all we know.

I walk a little farther, and hear my mother call out my name.

-"Eduardo Antonio, please don't go too far"- I hear my father's deep voice telling her not to baby me too much. She complaints about my fainting and that she is still worried about my health. He distracts her by kissing her.

I hear Carmela's loud whistle when she catches them kissing. She is a little younger than my mother, she is also a performer; she was once a gymnast and ran away after an accident killed her parents, and had been send to live with an abusive uncle.

She's been with us since she was 17 and is Regulo's wife, they have an act together just like my parents do, and he is also a gymnast and contortionist. They are Leopold's parents, he was chosen for Sara, Maria and Stefano's daughter. Sara is a flamenco dancer just and was taught by my mother.

Maria is one of the fortune tellers and spiritual guide, Stefano is a bullfighter, they are a very strange family, they never argue, but also they never speak.

Sara is very quiet and Leopold is very much in love with her. He wants children but she thinks they are too young.

Then we have Angelica and Guillermo who are natural healers, they have knoledge of plants, and roots, and make special potions and elixirs to cure different ailments.

They had two daughters, who live with there husbands in Portugal, they married outsiders and left the family. Both Angelica and Guillermo where sad but they knew they had to have there own lives. They keep to themselves. They are quiet and very calm.

They are our personal doctors. There potions are very well received, and they are very good at diagnosing there patients.

And then we have the four brothers, Mario, Manuel, Miguel and Santino. They are all bullfighters and horse riders, they are not really bothers by blood but since the first "brothers" had lad left our tribe some of them by death others by love, So in keeping with the tradition of the act, this four brave men, became brothers in the act of bullfighting and acrobatics on horse. They are excellent entertainers; they are all married to two dancers and two singers. Amelia and Mario where meant for eachother, since the moment there eyes met, they where together. They cannot have children, but they are very happy that way. They are always the life of the party. Amelia has the voice of an angel, she was studying to become an opera singer but she left her home under very sketchy circumstances, she's never talked about her previous life and I doubt that even Mario knows her real past.