CHAPTER 10

Katie don't cry I know you're trying your hardest

"Surely Zon will take over you if he's here. He's such a great loss in our family," I heard Auntie Lucia. She was talking to my father while my mother was standing beside him, sipping a glass of wine.

I leaned on the wall near them. I watched my cousins played at the pool while the rest of my relatives gathered at the table. I think they're talking about business, or likely they're blabbing about other people's lives.

I went home this weekend to attend family gatherings. I hated this kind of stuff, but I couldn't say no to my family since they have been looking for this once a year. It's not that I hated my relatives, it's what they're saying that I hated.&n