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Alma:a..alright, Julieta take the day off to cool off I'll serve the food in the stand today.
With alma
we see her walking with Maria who had a big smile on her face*
Alma;I still don't understand why you wanted to join me
Maria:seeing you work? Please what can be better then that? And not just any work. No, no, no, you're gonna take over for julieta for a day. Oh it's too good to pass up, the other girls are already there with there chairs waiting
Alma scoffed crossing her arms, she looked at her best friend with a frown*
Alma:waiting for what? It's just giving food to the injured, Julieta's job is the easiest
Maria:...oh I am SO gonna love you eat those words. Oh look at that we're here~!!
Maria said in a sing-song voice as she sat walked passed alma and sat down with the other groups of old ladies, some of them even had popcorn*
Alma: honestly what's with them?
Alma said with a huff as she stood on the food stand, she looked around with a slight frown*
Alma:Maria can you...!
Maria:nope! Julieta doesn't get a chair you don't either! Remember? "Mija don't be lazy stand when you're giving out food!"
Maria screamed in her best imitation of Alma's voice. Alma blushed as the others laughed at her*
Alma:fine, it's just until sundown I can manage!
Alma kept her gaze forward at the ever growing line of people and pale a little*
Alma"this is more then half the encanto!"
Alma thought as she felt something she hasn't felt since she was a little girl. Stage fright. With shaky hands she started handed out the food Julieta prepared, she was about to give another one when she pulled back*
Alma:sir you don't seemed injured, you seem drunk
Mateo:shat up you bitch!!
Alma eyes widen as the man snatched the food from her very finger and ate it walking sway. The line moved up but Alma's face grew red with anger*
Alma:excuse...!!
Alma was about to go after that man but Lucia and Victoria kept her in place*
Victoria:you can't leave. Julieta Is not allowed to leave until the line is gone
Alma:but did you see how he acted?!
Victoria: no different then how he acts when Julieta is here, the poor girl. Now chin up there's more people that need 'healing'
the retired doctor said to her friend. Alma gave out a hot breath and stayed in her place giving out more food, with her anger growing as a lot of them were just drunks using Julieta's food to cure they're drunkness or hangover*
Alma:how dare they?! This food is for the sick and injured! Not for the drunks!
Lucia:and yet Julieta has to feed them because if they don't, want to guess what they'll do?
alma grew quiet since she knows what they'll do and have done. Lucia was having none of it. She slammed her hands on the stand and made alma look at her*
Lucia:I said, do you know what they'll do?! I know you're not hard of hearing alma
Alma: ok ok! they'll go to me and complain, happy?!
Mike:hey what'sh the holdup?!
A man stinking of booze said 3 people down. Lucia walked back to her said waving her arms*
Lucia:that's right, and you never believed her "Julieta stop being lazy". Well alma stop being lazy and cure the drunks
Lucia said with a sneer, alma groaned ignoring the growing shame/guilt she's feeling and fed the drunk, it took 30 minutes until they were all gone, alma took a breath of relief as normal people started taking the food. That relief was short-lived*
Alma:excuse me but you don't seemed injured
Nikolas:I'm sick
Nikolas gave a pathetically weak cough took the arepa and walked away with free food. April walked next to alma*
April:problem alma?
Alma:yes that these people seem fine! That man had no respect what's so ever!
April:yeah, welcome to the next part of Julieta's day, feeding the lazy. These people are fine and can cook they just don't, since all they have to do is lie do you that Julieta refused to cure them to get food. And look at them, they can clearly hear me and still show no shame!
April said glaring at the people who just didn't care and only wanted the food. Alma glared at them as well*
Alma:then I'm not...
April: don't even try, don't even try. Julieta has to deal with them so you will as well. You always complain that Julieta has it easy, so get to work
April sat back down with her friends. Alma sighed and forced a smile on her face giving her the food her daughter slaved away in the kitchen at 3 in the morning. At the 5 hour mark Alma's feet were killing her, her back was starting to hurt, and she hasn't have lunch yet. But the Line was still long. The only relief she got was seeing actual injured people getting food. But way it with me now, that was short-lived *
Alma:sir you have a paper cut, and you thought that was worth my daughter's food? Just put some water on it!
Kurt:hey who are you to tell me what to do?! Give me food damn it!
Alma growled as she pushed the food on Kurt's chest hard enough to push him back. Kurt scoffed at the old woman and walked away with the food. Alma sighed and was about to eat when she heard Maria screaming in the back*
Maria"Julieta! That food is for the encanto not for you to stuff your face!!"
Alma:...
With a trembling hand she put the food down and gave it to a man who was 'out of breath'. It wasn't until 4 in the afternoon that actual, legitimately injured people came and took some food. Her heart went out to them, they were the last in line, had to endure the gruelling sun while injured, and all she had to give them was the old and stale food. It wasn't until 5 that the line disappeared, alma turned around and sat on the chair Maria brought for her. She took a long tired breath before giving out a big groan*
Maria:so
Alma: don't! Just...just don't alright? I'm feeling horrible enough already that THIS is what my daughter has to deal with every day. How dare they use her like that!
Lucia:you can't blame them alma
Alma:oh I beg to differ
Lucia:again, you can't blame them, they're only like that because you allowed them to BE like that. Julieta been doing this stand since she was 20. And at the start only the injured came, it was a good idea on paper
April: but that's 30 years of you slowly but surely agreeing with everyone in encanto. You believed the lies of the drunks, the lazy, and the bums. It got to the point that Julieta no longer tells them no, since they'll just bitch and moan to you, and you'll scold her
Alma;...
Alma started remembering every single time she did just that, she would ignore anything Julieta would say and chop it down to Julieta just being lazy*
Maria: seriously that girl is 50 and she has more gray hairs then me in my 70's does that sound healthy?
Alma:I screwed up ok! What are you all gonna dump on me?!
Maria: pretty much, we've been telling you this and you just dismissed us. I believed we're owed this much
Alma felt like absolute shit as her friends kept telling her off. Alma looked at a boy injured and walking away since they were no arepas left. That broke Alma's heart*
Lucia:so tell me, are you finally gonna change how Julieta does her stand? Or do you still feel like she has the easiest job?
Alma:no, I'll change it, I'll change it completely. This is not what her gift what meant to be used for. ay how did I not see this before, what is wrong with me...
Alma moaned out as she shifted down deeper in to her seat. Maria hummed*
Maria:I could tell you that you just got old, but that would be a lie. You've always been like this alma, even as we were little girls. You always looked at the big picture and never noticed the little things
Alma:hay dios, I took 30 years away from my own daughter what kind of mother am I...
Lucia:a bad one
Lucia winced when Maria stomped on her foot*
Lucia;what?! Is true!
Maria:Lucia shut up, and alma stop with the pity party. You know now, and now you can at least change things, like you did with Isabela, who must've hated today
Alma:good. She's not suppose to enjoy the punishment. And your right...I gotta change things so that at least the rest of her life is better then how it was. Dios I'm starving. I'm going home
April:alma, you told Julieta to take the day off si? And that you would take over for her?
Alma;yes? What about it?
April:well, who's gonna cook for your family?
Alma paled and looked at the clock, it was almost 7, her legs started to shake by the time she made it back the rest of the family will already be there waiting. April sighed and got up*
April:you and you're family are welcomed to eat with my family. Daniel always makes too much
Alma:hay gracias. Dolores tell the family we're eating at the Irizarry household today!
Alma yelled to the wind, alma sat back down and looked at her friends*
Alma:so. Anybody got any ideas on how I can fix this?
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