Little Miss Blue Dress

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Friday could not come soon enough. It was ridiculous how fast the time went and before I knew it, it was Friday. Madeline asked me how I knew Sergio Ramos and the only thing that I could tell her was, "when you become part of the football world all of the sudden you are introduced to everyone. It's pretty intense.. I have met most of the Spanish football game and let me tell you, some of them are so dreamy!" "How do you know Fernando Torres?" she bluntly asked me. I looked at her and then began to explain from the very beginning, from crashing the lamborghini to the weekend getaway to the airport scene. Madeline just stared at me in schock, "and he has not spoken to you since then?" I shook my head no. "What a dick! He needs to grow a pair and then some. I just don't understand if he wants to be with you, why is he with Olalla? He does not make any sense." Madeline seem frustrated. She showed what I was feeling. I just wanted to see him.. "and now you are going to Pepe's house to take care of his girls? That should be fun. I have to go home this weekend since my mom misses me. It should be interesting! I'll let you know when I get back, so I'll just see you on Sunday!" We were both outside the school and her limo driver was waiting for her to get in so they could drive off. It seemed as Pepe had just known when to show up because right when she left Pepe showed up in his Mazda 2007 SUV. What a lucky man, it was a navy blue car and it was so pretty! "Tu carro esta muy lindo! (You car is very pretty!)" I told Pepe as I got in. He chuckled at me and then began to drive to his house. It was only an hour away, so this was going to be fun. "Pepe I have missed you! How are Yolanda and the girls?" I asked him as he put on a radio station for background music. "They are all really excited to see you when I told asked them if you could baby sit for us. Thank you so much by the way, Yolanda does not trust the people around here to take care of our girls, so when I suggested you, she said yes because she knows you." All I could think of was how much fun I was going to have, "I am so excited! I really need this, maybe they will go to sleep early so I can catch up on sleep. I've had a total of twenty hours of sleep this week. Practices and school work are driving me crazy! I am just so stressed with this recital coming up and school.. even though school is about what I'm practicing. Haha." I took in a big breath since I just spoke kind of fast. Pepe just looked at me and smiled. "It's okay. You'll get through it, I know you are a strong girl. Only two more months and you get to be on vacation right?" I nodded. "See? There you go! You're almost there. How are things with your friends?" "Andrew is creeping me out a little bit. He's sort of become my stalker but not really. He does not call me or anything, but rather waits until I get out of class to talk to me. It's weird. Matthew I believe has a crush on Madeline, and Madeline has a crush on him for sure, but I don't know. We'll see. They're good, they keep me company since you're not there and Sergio isn't there. How's training?" "Training is training. I'm so used to it, all the players are good, Fernando isn't though.. something is different with him. Him and Olalla have been having some problems.. again. I don't understand why they don't just break up. It'll be easier for everybody." He glanced over at me as I stared out the window. There was a feeling in my stomach..maybe they were having problems of their own. Hadn't they been having problems of their own already though? Ugh. This is confusing me ten times more than usual, and it is driving me a little bit crazy. I bet you I will go crazy and never get married- shut up Maria Valentina. "Well. I don't know. " I said bluntly as the rain started to pour. This time it had lightning and thunder added, not like wednesday where it just rained. I had put my bag in the backseat with all the things that I needed for the weekend. It will be a nice break from my hands and body since I have been working so hard for this recital.

"You want to come to my recital? It's at the end of this month." I asked Pepe as we were nearly there. Time flies when you are having fun and it was only two in the afternoon! I was going to have a lot of fun, I could tell. "Me encantaria (I would love to.)" "Yolanda and the girls can come too!" I told him as I clapped my hands excitedly. All of the sudden, we where at his house. "That only took forty minutes.." Pepe just laughed at me as I took my bag out. Every single Spaniard liked to speed I guess. He told me that Sergio had to go back because he had a game this weekend. Boo. I missed one of my best friends. He was really a teddy bear, always making me feel better without even knowing it. I wondered when I would see Fernando Torres again. Blocking that thought from my mind I plastered on a smile as he led me through the front door. Their house was gorgeous! It looked like a house from a story book. The cream colored walls and the modern looking living room and kitchen was simply amazing. As Pepe led me through to the kitchen, I saw Yolanda fixing up something and putting it in plastic tupperware. "Maria! Que gusto en verte! Te extrañe muchisimo! (Maria! What a pleasure to see you! I missed you a lot!)" She came over to hug me and as always was looking fabulous. Then Alma and Grecia just came in with their papa. They were both so little, but so cute! "Aww. I missed you girls!" I gushed over at them both as I picked them up. Pepe and Yolanda seemed pleased that their little girls had a liking to me. I did not remember them being this big the last time I saw them. Alma laughed and then Grecia gave me a kiss on the cheek. "You're going to be just fine." Yolanda said to me as she finished putting stuff in the fridge, "so you don't have to cook, you can just pre heat these in the microwave." I nodded and then looked at Pepe, "donde voy a dormir? (where am I going to sleep?)" He looked at me, "donde crees? En el sofa. (where do you think? On the sofa.)" I just stared at him.. not funny. "I'm just kidding! Come I'll show you to your room." I followed with Grecia in my arms since Alma wanted to be with her mother, she was just a baby too. Grecia just kept looking at me and smiling. I smiled at her, she was so adorable! "Here." Pepe set my stuff down and I noticed that it was a very cozy room, I could get used to this. "Mi casa es tu casa muñeca, just don't throw any parties. We have kids you know." Pepe chuckled as I looked around, it even had a television. "Entonces.. nos vamos a ir de paseito y regresaremos el Domingo bueno? Tienes mi celular por si acaso. (So.. we are going on a little vacation and we'll be back on Sunday okay? You have my cellphone just in case.)" Pepe told me as we made our way to the kitchen again. I nodded and then put Grecia down and went over to Yolanda. "Here's the food, here's everything you need. Make yourself comfortable, you need it.." Yolanda smiled at me. I nodded as we went over to the front door entrance, they were going to leave now I guessed. Pepe grabbed their bags and then Yolanda kissed each of her baby girls as they left. Pepe came back in and gave me a big hug and kissed his girls, "don't be so alone now you hear?" He questioned me. I was confused now, but I shrugged and lightly pushed him out the door.

What now?

I went into the kitchen and Alma and Grecia were sitting there like the lovely girls that they were. I could not believe that Alma was almost a year old! I can't believe they left me with a one year old.. Alma was a little bit better, she just wanted some company, I could tell. I just looked at them and saw that they were smiling non stop. Maybe they did miss me. "Que quieren hacer mis preciosas? (What do you want to do my preciouses?)" I asked them as they just stared at me. I laughed and then picked both of them up and we went into the living room and saw that they had a bunch of toys on the floor, maybe they wanted to play with them so I set them on the floor and watched them. Alma was indeed wanting to play with the toys, but instead she just put the toy that she got in her mouth and started to suck it. It was so cute to watch while Grecia was actually playing with them. These girls were so lovely! I couldn't help but just stare at them as I thought of the day when I would have children of my own. Then my mind suddenly flashed to the little boy at the airport with the dirty blond hair and bright blue eyes. I shook my head, and the doorbell rang. Who could it be? Alma and Grecia looked like they were okay, so I just went over to get the doorbell. My hand reached over to the handle and I was looking at Alma and Grecia when I opened it to make sure that they were fine. When I turned around to see who it was my heart was about to jump out of my chest. The last time I had seen him was at the airport. Fernando Jose was standing right in front of me with an astounded look on his face. I was the same, shocked, surprised, nervous. All of these emotions just came at me and all I could do was just stare at him. Suddenly I wasn't mad at him anymore, everything vanished. My eyes became clouded and my mind hazy. I closed the space between us and wrapped my arms around his neck making me get on my tippy toes. This was what I was missing this entire time. I forgot how right this felt. He squeezed his arms around my waist and held me so tight that I couldn't breathe but I didn't care. It had been so long that I had seen him. "Lo siento..(I'm sorry...)" Was all I heard him whisper in my ear and I continued to hold onto him. I let go of him and led him inside where he saw Grecia and Alma both playing with their toys on the floor. "Esta bien, no te preocupes. (It's okay, don't worry about it.)" Oy. Why was it so different when he was around? Fernando picked up Alma and began to play with her and I couldn't help but smile as there he was, Fernando Torres, in flesh and blood playing with a baby girl. I could tell he was looking at me out of the corner of his eye. I had so many questions for him, so much to tell him, but that had to wait until the girls would go to sleep.. it was only five though. "So, did you just randomly want to come over? Pepe and Yolanda are not here.." "I came over to babysit the girls because Pepe said that he needed someone to babysit this weekend." Fernando answered me as he played with Alma's belly. He was playing it awfully cool and collected, "that's funny because I am doing the same thing." I told him as I began to play with Grecia and her dolls, "I think Pepe is trying to do something.." Fernando said softly. Oh yeah, this was going to be a long weekend..