Chapter 4
After he and Beto finished picking up the pieces of the mirror, Carlos decided to go up to his old room to rest. As he walked up the stairs, he couldn’t help but look at all the pictures that were carefully placed along the wall, some which had been there since he was a child. Many of were him and Beto together, smiling and laughing while gathering Easter eggs, opening presents at Christmas, and posing for various school pictures. He had thought for sure his father would have purged all the things that reminded him of his gay son. Yet there they were, hanging alongside everyone else.
He was surprised that he made his way to his room without shedding a tear, though he was close. Eugenio was a man of his word. Carlos’s suitcase was not only in his room, his clothes were already p
