Chapter 3: I Missed You

I opened the door, she slowly lowered her legs, the darkness was dangerous, and I did not have any source of light other than the Van's lighting, however we headed down a landslide. That light could not reach the ground, it all seemed like a big black hole. Rosette walked slowly, she clinged to my arm as we descended. The Electricity was still on function, at the front of the house was a lamp that turned on as it sensed people near the entrance. The Light startled both of us, i did not expect it to still work, that only meant the bill was still on accumulating debt, that was something to tell Merlin. One of the things I remembered the most about Mamia is that she could never remember where her keys were. She once told me she kept a spare key and hid it in a pot so that she could get in if she lost her's, but that however did not work. She couldn't remember where she hid it or even remember she hid it. She would constantly get tanned while waiting outside the house for her dead husband to get home and open it for her. She would sit in the concrete waiting for something to happen, some people would give her looks, neighbors would help her break in her own house, it got to a point where there was no need for a key, she broke the glass so that she could pull the lock off the door. She died… alone in this house. Merlin would visit her often, but that didn't keep her from killing herself. I was willing to live with her, we did so for a few days, but she would get paranoiac, she could not remember who I was or why I was living with her. Mamia often spoke about Braulio, her husband, he dad died a few years ago, she would cook for him and say he left early or that he got home way too late for me to notice, or even for her to notice. I would take his lunch and eat it so that she could still believe he ate it, I would even say he left a note, she could not read anymore, or even see well. I was told not to do that, but I couldn't help it, it was heartbreaking.