The next day I woke up homesick. I receive an email from Antonio about the gala in the middle pack but I decline to go as I plan to visit home for my sister's birthday.
My phone vibrates and I pick it up
" Hello, mother," I answer with a smile.
" Hello, my baby. how are you?" I sit back on my huge office chair and rotate it playfully.
" Are you coming to your sister's quinceañera?" She asks, Sarah turns fifteen in a few days and I promised I'll be there for the celebration. quinceañera is the celebration of a girl's 15th birthday, marking her passage from girlhood to womanhood.
" I'll ask Antonio, I can't leave without his permission," I inform her.
She asks about how my marriage is going and I lie to her. My mother doesn't need to know all the mess in my love life. Hearing her spe
