Plot: Jassi is a Indian girl who wants to finally move out of her parents home. She is successful and well educated and can take care of herself, but her mom only wants her to leave if she is married to another man. The story is going to into how Jassi is going to tell her parents that she’s ready to be on her own whether they like it or not.
Elise is 30 years old, she comes from a big family, she has four aunts, and two uncles from her Mother’s side. Now let’s not even get into details about the rest of the family. Alright! if you insist, do you really want to know how many cousins she has just from her mom’s side?? She has 15 cousins! As for her dad’s side of the family, she has two aunts and two uncles, cousins just ONE of her uncles has 13 kids! The rest only have two each, so in total over 20 cousins from her dad’s side, so yeah she comes from a big family. Anyways let me get to the real story here, this was just for entertainment, to get your attention. Too late now, I own you (insert mischievous laugh).
Elise is closest to her aunt Euri who lives in Massachusett. Her and her aunt have always had a special bond. As a kid, her aunt would take Elise with her shopping and on vacation. Elise and Euri look so much alike that they can pass as mother and daughter. Her aunt Euri is married to Lucas, together they have four children. Fraternal twins Ethan and Russell, the third youngest is Dariel and finally their youngest princess Marie. Elise visited her at least every other month. At first she used to travel by private transportation, a 16 passenger van that picked you up at home and dropped you off at your family/friends doorstep all for $40.00.
The company has a schedule that varies from 4:00a.m, 7:00a.m,9:00a.m, 12:00p.m, 4:00p.m. 7:00p.m, since Elise is leaving after work she reserves the 7:00p.m slot. Ugh do i really have to tell you about the bus ride? Okay, if you insist, now, since Elise won’t be home by the time the bus drivers begin to pick up the passengers, she has to go to the office. It’s still not bad for the price, especially because during the ride you can fall asleep or watch a movie on your phone, because you are not drivingggg (imagine singing voice). Now, once inside the van it is dark and the only lights you see are those of people on their phones and the external lights from the cars either behind you or passing you. The driver is the typical dominican, with the music as loud as it can be almost topping death metal kind of loud music. The one that leaves you death from one ear after leaving a concert or club.
Anyways, Elise is now asleep, she wakes up to the first stop in haverhill, massachusetts. She knows she is the next one to be dropped, she realizes it has been snowing. It is the light and fluffy snow, soon to be messy and dirty because by then it will be slushy. Ugh, she hates when the snow gets like that. It is beautiful while flying and on the trees but she hates the aftermath. Anyways, they are now entering Tewksbury street, the street where her aunt lives on. Her house, is the one on the right hand side, with a white fence for privacy. The driveway has easy access as she does not have it partitioned off with any doors or gates. The driver drops off Elise in front of the driveway, there is a front entrance but that is mainly used for the upstairs tenants. Elise walks to the back entrance/porch, in the driveway there are 5 cars including the upstairs tenants car. A beige color minivan is parked to the left of the driveway, all the other cars are parked either in the middle or closest to the fence on the right hand side. There we have a honda crv, honda accord, and oops i forgot the other car model. As Elise approaches the back door entrance, she sees what she already knew would be there, a case of empty corona bottles. Oh boy, they can drink a ton, or should she say, “we can drink!”. Before she knocks, she must open the screen door which has the mesh falling off on the left hand side corner, and has a couple of holes which defeats the purpose of the screen.
Since it is early morning, and the rest of the family is asleep, she calls her aunt on her cell phone. Outside of the house you can hear the bedroom door open, followed by the kitchen door and then finally the backdoor opens. Her aunt Euri opens the door, her hair is tied up but part of her hair is coming out of the pony tail. Euri has the chinkiest eyes when smiling, her white teeth show, and then she opens her arms to welcome Elise into her home.
The Three Ladies
Not a week goes by when another person would come in and observe our beautiful ladies, some would ask where did you get them? Some others would just say, “I never saw them before and I being here so many times”, it is beautiful. Some others would ask for it or try to take claim of it. To which each of the ladies at the front desk with a smile would say the same thing each time “get in line but, know that we are in first”.
As you entered the office at your right hand you would see them every day, each wears a different colored dress with head warp and earrings that match. One wears a beautiful forest green dress, as you looked at it, it inspires you to think of beautiful greens of the fields, her head is covered with a wrap that conceals her hair, her round green earrings frame her beautiful milk chocolate oval face. Her expression is of peace, gentleness and with closed eyes you could almost hear her breath in the depth of her surroundings. Her long-handed fingers hold a tall, white, beige and gray water base. By the lady in green her sister stands in the middle with her burn yellow dress, the burn yellow of sugar cane burning in a faraway field, she also wears a head wrap and earrings, but her earrings are triangular and seemed to point to the exact point where your eyelids meet when you close your eyes. In the cradle of her right hand she holds the most precious of nature’s gifts to a woman, a child, the infant is wrapped in a beige baby blanket, the only part of the infant you can enjoy is his/her angelic face, you cannot see his eyes, by the expression of the woman holding him it seems that he is looking straight at her. Her cooing expression shows the worries of tomorrow, the joys of today and the pain of yesterday. The other woman in the left wears a blood red dress with her headwrap and earrings matching, but her earrings are square, her hair is not completely covered by her wrap for one can see her hair falling in a thick long ponytail, her long neck and square earrings make her look royal, in her hands she holds a cluster of lilies of the valley, her expression is of peace and tranquility. Each woman holds her precious cargo with expressions that cannot be missed, each have her eyes close as if she did not want to see what is going around them but just enjoy their precious gifts and each other’s company in silence and tranquility.
Tonight, is the big night, I can’t believe everyone is coming over for the first time since I moved into my own place. All I am hoping for is that they will cooperate, and this night will go well once I tell them the big news.
Mom and Papa are sitting on the end of the table. Mom always likes to sit beside dad when we’re all eating together. Of course, James and Jen are arguing over who’s better at everything and anything, mom is always saying, “Hey, life is not a competition! Quit arguing!”. Nana and Nani are always concerned about me, always asking, “So how’s your love life honey? When will you get married? Stop focusing on work for a little while, find a nice man you need love honey”, little do they know is that is impossible. Every time I give them the same answer, “Nani I really do not need a man to keep me happy, I am ok”, I want to say that but instead I say, “Yes, Nani soon”, just say that to jump to the next subject.
As we start to get ready to eat, mom starts off with a small prayer. This has always been family tradition since my mom was a baby and she continued it with us. Before mom begins to pray, she holds out both her hands and we all participate in bowing our heads and holding one another’s hand. She starts her pray, as she comes to an end, James hovers his whole body over the table to grab the baked ziti before Jen does. Dad shaking his head, covering his face with his rough cracked hands in embarrassment. “JAMES! This is not a race, behave please! I’m tired of you both fighting over everything”, says mom. Dad is giving Jake the ultimate death stare; eyes were fixated not moving a muscle. Jen is trying so hard not to laugh while James is getting yelled at by mom, while Nani is telling mom, “Relax honey, they’re just kids, you know you and your sister were always fighting so I don’t think you should get all worked up, ease up baby”. Mom rolling her eyes as usual says, “mom again thank you for the parenting input, I can handle this”.
I’m just sitting here really just observing everyone and trying to find the right moment to tell everyone my big news. How will everyone react? Should I even say anything or wait? God, they’re going to be so pissed, alright here goes. “So, guys there’s something I need to tell you…”, no one is even listening to me in this moment. Dad and nana are stuffing their faces like they’ve had food in their life, Jen is making fun of James for getting in trouble while James is rolling his eyes and telling her “well I got it before you so whatever”, and mom and Nani are still arguing about who’s parenting skills are better. You know what? I’m just going to blurt it out and see if they even pay attention, because at this moment I doubt they’ll even hear a word. “I’M PREGNANT GUYS!”, and of course they hear that, everyone stops. Dads mouth is full of food and he says, “Um what did you just say?”, mom’s mouth is wide open in shock, I am pretty sure a fly flew in and out and she didn’t notice. Jen is looking at mom then looks at dad and then looks at me and her face says it all, “oh shit you are about to hear it from them”, and James as usual never cares and says, “Cool sis, who’s the sad guy to get stuck with you?”. I never cared what he said. Nana and Nani have the biggest smile on their face, I am pretty sure they don’t even care who it is at this point.
Nervously laughing, “Yeah so I’m pregnant, and no James there is no sad guy actually, there isn’t a guy at all, I got a donor.”
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