Chapter 29

MARIANELLA

My life plays like a movie in my head right now, I have no idea why, but it must have something to do with the way I am shaking when I pick up the cell phone, and slide my finger to answer the call.

My mother's voice is a thin cry, I can feel it as if she is beside me, my heart is crushing in my chest, I am very afraid of what she is going to say now, I don't know if I can take it.

“ Mamá, what happened? “ I swallow as I ask, I do so with much hesitation.

“ Your papa cariño “ she cries strangled and I fall to my knees on the floor with it “ He suffered a heart attack this morning, he is in the hospital, he gave a terrifying scream while I was in the kitchen, I am so scared baby”.

I cry, unable to pay attention to the phone, I grab the towel and cry out everything I've been holding on to all these days, the world has become cloudy around me, a dark gray that envelops me like a fog of chaos.

I don't know what happened to my cell phone but it has slipped out of my hands, my vi