Chapter Eighteen

“Mama, do you hear that? Is someone singing outside?”

Arianna heard Tommy's loud question while she was already in the bedroom getting ready for bed. Their mother was still in the living room and reading her Bible, while Tommy was in the kitchen. He volunteered to do the marinade for the chicken they were going to cook in the morning.

She frowned.

Now that she heard Tommy, she could also hear the noise from outside of guitars playing.

“Son of a—”

“Tommy!”

“Duck. I meant duck, Mama.”

You better not cuss in my house.”

“No, Mama. I'll do it outside.”

“Tommy!”

“Okay, not even outside, okay?”

Arianna couldn't help but grin. Someone was indeed outside and was serenading her, therefore so her brother was being an idiot.

Yes, serenading a woman still happens in provincial villages, especially here in the hacienda. She had been serenaded a few times. Tommy was seven the first time it happened, and he threw a giant tantrum and howled like a banshee that the poor teeners didn't even get to step