"I'm back!" Frida called. "I'm home."

"So you're back." Carmelita said. "But did you get the scarf."

"Yes, here it is."

"What?!" Zoe said. "How?"

"I found it." Frida said.

Frida handed Zoe the scarf, she noticed something shiny in Frida's hair. "What's that?"

"What's what?" Frida asked.

"That shiny thing on your head."

"That? Oh it's nothing! A firefly! Some glitter!"

Zoe pushed Frida's bangs up. "Mother! She has a star on her head!"

Carmelita checked her forehead too. "Where did you get this?"

"It was a gift."

"From who?" Zoe asked.

Frida remembered her promise and quickly thought of an excuse. "Just an old woman who lives in the woods."

"Is that so?" Zoe said.

"Well it would be an insult to put a star like this on your dirty head." Carmelita said. She pulled an old rag from the drawer and tied it around Frida's head covering the star.

"I'm not wearing this!" Frida said.

"If you dare take that off you'll be beaten til you bleed." Her stepmother threatened. "Now go scrub the floors!"

Frida clenched her fists glitched her teeth but she did as she was told. As for Zoe, she liked how it looked.

"Mother! I want a star like that!"

"Well to do that you'll have to find that old woman."

So Zoe went into the woods. She wondered for hours until she found the old woman's house. She banged on the door until the old woman answered it.

"Hello, can I help you?" She asked.

"I demand that you give me a star!" She shouted.

"You demand? Well I do not respond to demands. But if you would like to stay the night you are most welcome." She let Zoe in. "Could you please sweep my pourch?"

"Do it yourself!"

"I would but I am too old and weak."

"So? Why should I do any of your work?"

"Hmm...very well then can you fill my pot with water, heat it, then put this bone in it?"

"Of course not! I don't cook or clean, you stupid old woman!"

"Then I'm afraid you'll go hungry tonight."

"Whatever! Just give me a star!"

"My goodness you are a wicked child. You do not deserve a star, but you will get something."

She raised her finger and tapped her on her brow. Then the crest of a turkey appeared right there. "Ahhh! You gross old witch! Get it off me!"

But the old woman snapped her fingers and Zoe was sent back home. "Mother!"

"What is it Dear I- Oh my God!" Carmelita gasped when she saw the turkey crest.

Frida covered her mouth to muffle her giggling. It took all her will power not to burst out laughing. However she released her laughter when she was alone in the basement. All night Carmelita tried to remove it but it was a futile effort. The turkey crest was stuck on her brow, permanently. So Carmelita covered it by tying a silk handkerchief around her head. But covered or not it was still there.

Frida could hardly sleep, she was too excited about tomorrow. She couldn't wait to see Manny. Her entire body was filled with excitement.

"Oh Luiz, Miguel, you should've seen him. He was the most handsome man I had ever seen." She told her friends. "And he was kind and strong and so wonderful."

The doves cooed in agreement.

"I don't know what he sees in me but I'm glad I met him. And to think I'll see him tomorrow. I wish I had a better dress to wear for him but he doesn't care about my clothes or the fact I know have a rag on my forehead. Still I wish I could look nicer."

Luiz and Miguel crawled outside and came back with a flower. Perla took the flower from them and put it in Frida's hair.

"Thank you." She said to her friends. She crawled into bed and fell asleep with sweet dreams of her mother, father, and Manny.