The morning breeze in Spain was quite wonderful.
Jose walked around the castle enjoying everything about it, trying to ignore the cars that passed by. He had enjoyed the previous evening talking and eating with the people who once were his family.
Today was his birthday and his birthday was the date when this part of the family had broken off.
Was he happy or sad?
He didn't know he didn't like to think about it, no one did.
Suyapa would surely wake up and start screaming at the top of her lungs happy birthday to her siblings, Jose knew this because it always happen ever since Spain left and wasn't there for them, Suyapa had taken responsibility over the four of them to make them happy, the reason being that Itza had a break down and could not do anything for the siblings who were kind of trying to get themselves together.
Jose was thankful for Suyapa at the time, they all needed her enthusiasm.
It was good to be free once and for all, but it was sad that they had lost another dear person: first their mother and then their big brother.
"Feliz Cumpleaños!" Suyapa said at the top of her lungs "We officially are 193 years old!"
Jose smile at the sound of the voice of his sister. She sounded happy, very happy to be specific. Back home she tried to sound happy but her eyes and manners said otherwise.
"Dios santo Suyapa!" Isidro said smiling while hitting his sister "Cállate, is barely seven in the morning"
"Is our birthday!" Suyapa said happily "aren't you happy? I love this date because we got closer to each other and we depended for a while on each other too… It just makes me happy to think of this day… because I have you guys with me, even though we're separated, we're still very close."
"Yes" Isidro said rubbing his eyes with a smile "I'm happy to be free"
"Let's celebrate" Suyapa said with a smile while grabbing Isidro's hand
She looked really happy. Her face showed something he had not seen in a long while: true happiness.
"Shut up, Suyapa, besides isn't it rude?" Tomas said entering the porch that faced the center of the inside of the castle "to celebrate it here, we're in Antonio's house after all. We are not in our home so please…"
"Also" he thought "is early in the morning and you just waked me up"
Tomas looked at Suyapa directly in the eyes.
Suyapa sighed and turned around to face a wall.
Maybe he was right, but Antonio knew how she gets pumped up with their birth date. He knew she would do something like this.
Antonio knows how they all are.
"We were under his rule once, and he was kind of sad when we ran off to the sunset without him" Suyapa said in a low voice, the happiness long gone from her tone.
"Suyapa…" Isidro said touching his sister's arm he knew that Suyapa's mood had fell to the ground with Tomas' comment
"I'm pretty sure" she said angrily "that he would not mind me celebrating my birthday while I feel happy and free, after all he did wanted to see us happy. He wouldn't have invited us to his house for this date if he didn't know I was going to do something crazy."
"Suyapa, calm yourself" Tomas said "I am just telling you to calm down and to lower your voice."
"Mira desgraciado…" Suyapa said turning around slowly to face her little brother "For once in years I feel happy; a happiness that, I thought, could not be penetrable and you querido Tomas have come to destroy my happiness just like those fucking gangs in my home have destroy it. Little. By. Little."
Tomas didn't know what to say he had learned throughout the years that getting Suyapa angry wasn't a good thing.
Suyapa walked back to one of the doors that led to her room.
She wanted to stayed there and not go out. Her birthday had been ruined by her own brother. She was angry.
Jose walked to the porch where his siblings were with a smile on his face.
"Where is Suyapa?" Jose asked smiling
Tomas looked at Jose and then looked away
"She went back inside a minute ago" Isidro said looking at nothing
"Oh, I wanted to said Feliz cumpleaños to her" Jose said "she always get's happy around this time a year"
"Yeah… She does." Isidro said looking at Tomas
"Her flag shows it." Tomas said heading towards a doorway "She has all of us in her flag… all of us"
"She still dreams of us coming together" Jose said with a melancholic look on his face
"She does" Itza said from a doorway to the left. "But, we do to sometimes, don't we?"
Everyone turned around to see her. Her long black hair flowed around her. She was wearing one of her typical clothes.
"The food is ready. Elizabeta and I have prepared it." She said smiling
"That's great!" Tomas said with a fake smile "let's go eat"
The four siblings headed towards the kitchen.
Abel and Belle were talking with Gilbert and Feliciano.
Antonio was with Roderich and Romano setting the table.
Ludwig was reading the news paper
Elizabeta and Amaral were helping in the kitchen.
"Well, I am going to go help Amaral and Elizabeta with the food and you three stay here and talk to the relatives" Itza walked off and then stopped "but do not said anything about the past, not at this hour."
Tomas nodded without paying attention to Itza
He knew he had made Suyapa angry in one of the days that were special to her; he also knew that he had made a mistake. Suyapa would revenge her happiness… at any cost.
"You do know she's going to do something" Isidro said in his ear
"Si" Tomas said looking at the floor.
"What happen?" Jose asked "Suyapa's not here"
"She won't be here at all if we do nothing about it" Isidro said
"Kids!" Antonio said the moment he noticed his babies were standing there "Happy birthday!" he said smiling.
Isidro, Jose and Tomas hugged Antonio and thanked him.
"I heard Suyapa scream her heart out this morning she must be very happy" Antonio said with a big smile on his face "I'm so happy she's feeling great! After all she needs that! All of you need that."
Tomas was feeling down already.
"Go apologize for whatever you did" Jose said when Antonio left their side to go see Abel "You know she loves all of us like no one in this world does… well expect when soccer is going on"
"Yeah… I think that goes for mostly all of us" Itza said approaching her siblings "But Suyapa and Isidro have shown that they're hardcore about it."
Isidro smile towards his sister
"Happy birthday Itza!" he said hugging his sister
"Happy birthday to you as well" she said happily
The Central Americans were still talking when Roderich approached them
"I wish you five…" he only saw four "have happy birthdays."
Roderich looked around and did not see the short mestiza girl anywhere.
"Familia let's eat!" Antonio said cheerfully.
Everyone sat down where they had sat the night before.
"Let's pray" Antonio said looking around "Let's make Amaral said it this time, but before we said anything let's look for Suyapa."
Tomas looked at his plate.
It was his fault; he had made his sister angry, she already had an awful time in her house and he made it worse in her vacations especially today when it was one of her most favorite days of the year.
The five of them had horrible experiences and Suyapa would always try to be there for all of them, she would always try to appear strong in the outside and be a support to them, no matter when the time call, she was always there. The same could be said for Jose; he didn't really trust them but in times when they needed him, the mental support, he would be there for them. Isidro would try to make food for them if they were sick or try to make them happy if they were down, Itza would always make the food mama used to cook for them to make them feel at home and he, Tomas, would try to make them happy as well, they were still a family living in different houses.
And today he had ruined her sister's favorite holiday.
"She's angry" Tomas said looking at Antonio "We don't know where she is"
"What do you mean?" Antonio said with the charm stolen out of his voice
"Well…" Tomas said "I kind of made her… angry?"
Antonio looked at his little brother without an expression in his face
"Shit is about to get real" Amaral said looking at Roderich "Antonio is about to explode"
Lovino and Feliciano started at Antonio with a puzzle looked
"Go talk to her bastard" Lovino said angry towards Tomas
"We know how much she loves this date and the food" Belle said "I've heard her talk about her celebration too and she hates to miss it, she must really have wanted to come and see everyone."
"We all wanted to" Tomas said
"Go talk to her" Itza said standing up
"She's going to kill me" Tomas said looking at Itza
"What did you say to her?" Jose asked
"That she needed to shut up because it was too early and it was rude to said stuff about our birthday in Antonio's house..." Tomas said a little embarrassed
Roderich sigh
"Antonio, would you be so kind to go look for Suyapa?" Roderich said
"Antonio doesn't get angry when we talk about our independence" Abel said
"He's happy because we are happy" Belle said smiling
"Tomas, you are not a morning person." Itza said angry turning around towards the doorway "That was one of the reasons why you told Suyapa that. Now, go apologize"
"Oh dear," Amaral said
"You all start eating, we're going to go look for her" Itza said
Antonio left the dining room when Itza was talking to them, and then follow him
Antonio was angry.
Not because Suyapa was hurt by Tomas but because she was the one trying to get all of them together, and any fight with them would make her remember that time when they failed to become a big state; she does not simply get angry about it, she gets depress for days.
"I can't believe it, Tomas" Itza said behind Antonio "You know she's a cry baby when a thing like this happens"
"I know" Tomas said ashamed
"She was happy. Her eyes were shining" Isidro said
Itza stopped. Antonio turned around.
"Her eyes were shining?" Antonio asked
"Yes." Tomas said
Antonio and Itza looked at each other and rushed to Suyapa's room.
Sobs were heard from the inside of the room.
She is a cry baby when she's hurt by family…
"Orquídea are you okay?" Antonio asked a little concerned
"No!" Suyapa said still crying
"Perdón Suyapa" Tomas said from behind of all of them
Inside the room one could hear some things getting knocked down and a sudden silent fell. The door of the room opened in a violent movement.
"Pendejo, te voy a matar! Sos un maldito desgraciado! Maje!" Suyapa said
Suyapa had come out of the room in her pajamas with a stick trying to hit Tomas
Antonio grabbed Suyapa's little body and hold it against his so she could not hit Tomas.
"Now, calm down Suyapa…" Itza said looking at Suyapa.
Suyapa looked hurt, her eyes were red and her mood seemed like the one in 2009 when she lost her president Manuel Zelaya Rosales.
She was not okay. She was sad… depress almost. Isidro could relate to her so much, they were both in almost the same situation but she had the worse one.
"Do you want to talk about it?" Isidro asked her sister
She looked at him and begun crying loudly.
"You heard him, Isidro" Suyapa said still being held by Antonio "Just because it was early in the morning… I won't say anything again… don't… don't…" Suyapa was crying very hard "don't you dare tell me to shut up… because… I was… very … happy…" she kept crying.
Antonio let her go; she turned around and hugged him while she cried on his chest.
Isidro and Jose came to them and hugged Suyapa.
"I'm sorry Suyapa" Tomas said "I won't do it again"
"You know why I get so sad about it?" she asked turning around. Her crying voice was still there but she had stopped crying, her eyes were red but they did not show sadness, they showed something else, something dangerous.
Tomas looked at his sister; the demon inside of her had come out.
Suyapa felt rage all throughout her body ready to attack and let go.
"Because of our failed attempts to be a country?" Tomas asked nervously
"Yes… Nicaragua, that is why." Suyapa said. "15th of September just makes me forget about it. Kind of" she said looking at Jose but then immediately looking at Tomas again
Tomas was scare.
He knew he had ruined the birthday, and Suyapa's vacation that she had wanted so badly because she wanted to be happy for a while. They all wanted that, they wanted to be happy together once more and he had ruined that.
"Shall we go eat?" Suyapa said heading towards the dining hall without looking at any of them.
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