Emerging: Mi Cultura..Mi Jornada-My Culture..My Journey

Saturday, May 28, 2005

Growing up... in a Hurry!

There I was, 5 years old, and bored, bored, bored. It was raining, Ivette came over and asked if I wanted to play with her dolls. "Your mom is not home," I said, and my mom is not here either, I can't. Mami said never to go to somone's house unless there is a big person there. "Why does she say that?" Ivetted asked. "I don't know, my mom never tells me why."

Ivetted starts to whine, and I give in. It's only for a little while, besides, Ivette's brother is big and old, he's almost 21. Little did I know that going to Ivette's house that day would change me forever.
Ivettes younger brother Joey asked if we wanted to play a game, we agreed gladly. We were bored with the dolls anyway. He told us taht we would have to go to his room where Pablo, Ivette's old brother, was waiting to play too. The game was called "Adivina" (Guess). It's a game where we would get blindfolded and we'd have to guess what we were touching, feeling, etc... I was mad because Pablo picked Ivette to go first but he said that he picked her so that I could see how the game was played.

Joey led Ivette to the bed and made her sit down. Pablo started the game by putting a pencil in Ivette's hand and she guessed correctly. Then he put other things in her hand and mouth; a quarter, a rock, she guessed them all. Then it was my turn, I was happy cause I knew that it was going to be easy. As I was taking turns trying to guess what Pablo put in my hand and mouth, Joey told Ivette to go with him, he was going to show her something.

Meanwhile, Pablo said he was going to try something different because I was guessing everything too easy. The next thing I knew, he was putting something in my mouth that made me want to be sick! I knew something was wrong, and I tried to push him away, but he was holding me tight and he said that if I wasn't quiet, he would hurt me.

I was so scared, all I wanted was to go home. I heard Ivette coming back to the room, and Pablo let me go. As soon as Ivetted walked into the room, I jumped up, took off the blindfold, and ran out of the apartment.
In the hall, I stopped to take a breath, I wanted to walk into my house quietly. For some reason, I felt that I wasn't quiet, my brothers or sister would know what happened. I was afraid that they would tell Mami that I had disobeyed her by going to Ivette's house. I opened the door slowly, and looked in the kitchen. I ran straight into the bathroom withoug being notices. I climbed into the tub and turned the hot water on. I don't know why it was so important that I take a bath, I just knew that I had to be clean.
This Emergence Ocurred at , 4:34 PM

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