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002.𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘸𝘰
🛁*.🦋*.🍓*.🌧*.~"𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮."

𝒞𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘸𝘰 ➪︎ 🌧'❁︎༆︎
"𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 '𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬, 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞."

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𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚'𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐯ఌ︎

We were at Alex's baseball game. We were all cheering except for Elena, who wasn't amused. Sofia, Penelope and I yelled "Dale!" continously. "Stand right in there don't be afraid of the ball!" Penelope yells at Dylan from the stands.

Sofia is only 12 and Dylan is 2 years older than her and I swear she drools over him. Dylan falls and everyone says "Ooh." "Shake it off, Dylan. You're okay." Sofia yells.

"Ay por el amor de Dios... it is so hot." Lydia sighs rubbing rum on her neck. "Okay guys let's do the wave." Penelope gets up looking at us. We all do the wave except for Elena. We all boo her.

"You're very boring." I look at Elena. She gives me a fake smile and rolls her eyes. "Mami, comida." Penelope says. "Yay, food!" Sofia and I cheer in unison.

"The rice and frijoles are in the pickle jar... and the lechón is in the butter tub... and the cookies are in the cookie tin, but they are not the same cookies that came with the tin." Lydia hand everything to Penelope.

"Aww, I like those cookies though." I frown and Lydia rubs my back. "Ugh, I forgot the napkins." Penelope says turning to Schneider. "Grab some from the snack bar. They make you buy something, so you need to create a distraction. Elena, do that thing you do when you ask if there's high-fructose corn syrup in the ketchup. When she's boring the guy to death, grab the napkins and run." Penelope adds.

"Or he could just buy something." Sofia suggests. "Are you crazy?" Penelope laughs. "Are you?" I ask. "You've known me for almost three years you should know the answer to that question." She smirks. Schneider and Elena walk to the snack bar.

Sofia kept talking about Dylan and staring at him. "You're literally drooling over him." "And you act like you don't drool over Ale-." I cut her off by covering her mouth. "Chiquita, shh..." I told her I may or may not, or may have feelings for Alex. She licks my hand. "Eww." I wipe my hand on her shirt.

We were eating and Penelope says "Guys, Alex is up." "Let's go papito!" I yell clapping. "Dale, bring Dylan home." Penelope shouts. Alex wins the game and everyone cheers. We all sing "Dale, papito, dale!" Lydia waves around the Cuban flag. "Where'd you get that from?" Penelope ask. "Walmart." We continue cheering Alex on.

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"What a game papito." Penelope says as we walk into the apartment. Lydia makes a fake phone with her fingers "Hello, Dodgers? You want Alex Alvarez? We'll think about it." "A lot of your games are a real snooze, but today was good! And then you got that hit!" Penelope says excitedly.

"Dale!" Schneider, Sofia and I say in unison. Everyone but Elena and Alex sing "Dale, papito, dale! "DALE, PAPITO, DALE." Elena sings. "Is Elena suddenly a sports fan now?" I questioned. "Oh! It's not that. I'm just proud of my heritage. You know my Cuban heritage." She responds. "Okay..." Penelope trails off.

Penelope starts to sing "Papito is the best. From the east into the west. He's a baseball slugger and a real good hugger." "She's not wrong." I smile at Alex. We all start singing it. "Oh, my god, shut up!" Alex shouts. We were all shocked. "Did you just say shut up to god?" Lydia asked calmly.

"Did you just say shut up to me? Because that's worse." Penelope says. "Everything that you guys are doing is embarrassing." "That's not getting me on your side." "Well, I don't like all that crazy yelling you guys do at my games! And that song, i hate that stupid-." He gets cut off by Penelope "First of all, don't talk to me like that. Second... you hate that song?"

"It's a beautiful song, Pen." Sofia says. "Thank you chiquita." Schneider walks towards where Alex was standing and says "Alex, you gotta appreciate how these guys support you. My dad never came to my games. All he did was put me through rehab six times and buy me this building."

"You poor man." I said sarcastically. Alex looks at me then back at Penelope. "Look, all I know is, none of the other families act like you." "It's all because we're proud of you, papito." She pinches his cheek. "Stop calling me papito! I'm not a little kid anymore. My name is Alex, okay? No more papito."

"No we're going to keep calling you papito." Lydia and Penelope said in unison. Alex grabs his bag about to walk away. "No papito is not and age thing. My nickname is lupita, Valeria's is mariposa, because she was obsessed with butterflies when she was little, and Sofia's is chiquita because she's tiny." "And my nickname is pucha. It's the way of our people." Lydia adds. "If you don't have a nickname there's something wrong with you." Penelope stated.

"Do I have a nickname?" Elena asked. "Nope." Sofia says still looking at Penelope. "It's a tradition to call you papito, so were going to keep doing it, okay, papito." Penelope pinches his cheek again. "You need to stop it and all the other embarrassing stuff you guys do at my games. If you can't then don't come anymore."

*.🌧*.

Me and Sofia were in our room:

Alex wasn't answering any of my texts. I groaned and flopped on the bed. "Aww, is your boyfriend ignoring you?" Sophia smiles and chuckles a bit. "Shut up." I get an incoming facetime call from Alex and answer immediately.

_______________________________
Bold- Alex
Italic- Valeria

"Hey, why haven't you been answering me?"

"I'm sorry Val, I was still mad from earlier."

"Why were you acting like that anyway?"

"Some kids at my games have been making racist jokes, they would call me things like pitbull and beener. Today when you guys were cheering me on they yelled 'build a wall.' "

"What the hell! Why didn't you tell me?"

"Because, I know you. You would go insane and try to beat them up, I didn't want you to worry."

"What's wrong with beating them up?"

Alex chuckles and shakes his head.

"I'll see tomorrow on the trip. Bye, love you."

"Love you too."
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He hangs up and Sofia looks at me smirking. "What?" "Oh, nothing." "Okay..." I get ready for bed and fall asleep.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐲ఌ︎

We were at the observatory and I was hanging out with Hugo and Alex. I saw something cool and got excited. I squealed and pointed at it. "Guys look." "Que se parece al trasero de mi madre."(that looks like my moms butt.) Hugo said and I laughed.

"¿Por qué miras el trasero de tu madre?" (Why do you look at your mom's butt?) I asked laughing. "Porque es raro."(because he's weird)Alex replied.

This group of guys came up to us and I was a little scared and I hide behind Alex. "Maybe you guys should go back to Mexico, this is America where we speak English." One of them said. "The fuck did you say, puto?" I said stepping closer to him. "Woah, calm down mamacita." The guy smirks at me.

"Someone needs to shut that hoe up." One of his friends looks at me. I was about to charge at them but Hugo pulls me back. "Don't talk to her like that." Alex steps in front of him. "What are you gonna do about it, gangbanger?" Alex punches him repeatedly and I tried to pull him off but it didn't work.

Sister Barbara said she was calling our parents. A while later Hugo leaves with his mom and Penelope comes to pick us up and she yells at Alex the whole ride home.

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I walk in before them and immediately hugged Schneider. He looked down at me in confusion. Sofia walks next to me and whispers "You okay?" I shake my head yes. "It's not that big a deal!" Alex walks in with Pen behind him. "You better watch your tone." Penelope walks I'm putting her purse on the coat hanger.

"What happened?" Elena walks out of the kitchen and Lydia walks behind her. "His class went on a trip to the observatory and he punched a kid from another school." Penelope replies. "Papito. Is your hand okay?" Lydia asks. "I've had enough of your teen crap. I'm not rasing a jerk."

"I'm not a jerk the other kid's a jerk!" "Everyone's a jerk. But it's not play to punch them." "You don't understand." Alex puts his bag down. "Then make me understand. Because how is this okay? Did he hit you first?" "No, but he was staying stuff." "Did he call you a name? What did he call you? Stupid, dummy, goober?"

"What grade do you think I'm in?" "Listen, if papito punched somebody there is a good reason for it." Lydia puts her hands on his shoulders. "Did he prevent you from seeing the Jupiter exhibit? Because that thing is amazing." Elena asks. "Was it about Valeria? It is okay if it was about Valeria." "No, it's not, mami." "He told me, Val and Hugo to go back to Mexico! And he even called Val a hoe." Alex exclaims.

I teared up a bit and Sofia looks at me in shock and hugs me. "Im sorry I need a minute." I wipe my tears away and go into Alex's room.

A little while later Alex comes in and smiles softly at me. "Hey." He says sitting next to me. "Thanks for standing up for me. Those guys were assholes." "He deserved it. And you know I would never let someone disrespect you like that." I smile at him and hug him tightly.

He lays on my lap and I stroke his hair gently. We stay like that for a while until Pen comes in the room. I look up at her and smile. Alex sits up and she sits next to him. "I'm sorry I hit that kid." "I'm sorry all this is happening." "It's like all of a sudden I'm different. I don't wanna be different."

"Is that why you don't want us to go to the games anymore? It's not because we're crazy and treat you like a baby?" "It's because we're too Cuban huh?" I ask. "I mean I'm proud if being Cuban but...yeah."

Lupe brings to speak again. "I get it. I wish I could say what happened to you guys today will never happen again but it might. Cause there are a lot of jerks out there, and I don't know if it's worse now or not, but I know I would never want to guys to change who you are because of them. Who you guys are is Cuban... and American... and sweet kids who don't hurt people. You can't control the jerks but you can control your reaction to them. Because this is your country too and you deserve to be happy in it."

We both hug her and she sniffs our heads and I chuckle. "You guys wanna go out for ice cream?" "Yes please!" I say excited and Alex laughs at me.

I go back to my apartment to change into:

And we leave to go get ice cream.

*.🍓*.

"You were right mom. I feel nothing bit peace." Alex says eating his ice cream. "Alex you have something on your chin. You need a latinx." Lydia hands him a napkin and he looks at her confused.

Elena comes back from paying for her ice cream. "Elena, what did you get? Is that vanilla?" I ask. "No!" She says offended. "Woah, harsh." Sofia looks at her. "I was able to say my whole order in Spanish." Elena adds.

Penelope starts to sing "Dale, blanquita, dale!" We all start singing it. (Blanquita means a girl with white skin with ethnic background.) "Don't call me blanquita." Elena shouts. "Hey, you have a nickname." Sofia mentions.

We continue to sing. A man comes up to us and says "Excuse me! I know you're having a little fiesta over here, but you should really learn to keep your voice down. There are other people in here." Pen goes up to him as he's leaving with his wife and confronts him.

"I still think you should keep your voice down. That's all I'm saying." The man leaves. "Well agree to disagree sir!" Schneider shouts at him. "That was awesome mom." Alex says. "See, if you get angry they win. And if you don't get angry they also win, it's complicated. But, I didnt hit anyone and we all got ice cream."

"Let's get out of here." I say and we all leaving the store.

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Karissa's messages...!
I forgot to mention that Valeria and Sofia are also Cuban. But I hope you guys liked this chapter(: and I'm sorry for any spelling errors.

Also the butt reference is from luvalvarez story(: