The Feria by Bade Julia

Author:Bade, Julia [Bade, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781619350991
Publisher: Soul Mate Publishing
Published: 2012-06-06T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Overwhelmed by the fear of world events, Soledad now suffered from a war raging in her body. If heartbreak didn’t kill her, this pregnancy would. And sometimes she wished it would. Instead of morning sickness, she was sick all day long. Her food intake declined so much, she began losing weight instead of gaining. Her lips were always dry and cracked, but who cared?

To his credit, Emmanuel tried to help her, but she refused him, blaming it on mood swings. He was hardly ever home anyhow, so what did it matter what she did.

The United States had officially entered the war, and Emmanuel was out fighting his own war, making sure he and her father stayed rich. Her father should be proud of her husband. This was the reason why he’d sold her off. To remain untouched during these unfathomable times.

Having received Abuelita’s stern advice, and most likely because her husband was back and forth between El Paso and California, her mother had begun visiting her. As the twins, now a foot taller, relished the secrets of the attic, she and her mother sat in her bedroom, trying every possible cure for nausea. They had tried everything from anise, to dried peach tree leaves her mother gathered from friends in Soledad’s neighborhood. They tried fennel seed, red raspberry, and ginger teas. They tried cider vinegar in warm water. No luck. Not one natural remedy would favor her. But one morning, when she was roughly six months pregnant, things became suddenly different.

Her eyes fluttered open and she clenched her sheets, afraid to move, instantly bracing for the wave of nausea that diligently greeted her each day. But instead, after several minutes of anticipation, she gasped to discover that she actually felt hungry. She had not felt this way in a long time. Suddenly, she felt a deep hunger pang. Then it came again. Her eyes squinted in concentration as she tried to zone in, to visualize what could be happening inside of her. And then she slowly began to grasp that what she was feeling, the light flutters as soft as the tips of butterfly wings, were not hunger pangs at all. Her heart leapt. She distinctly felt a baby kicking! A strange sound now filled the air. It danced throughout the bedroom. She was trying to figure out what it was when all at once, the baby kicked again. From the deep recesses of her mind, she knew that sound. It was laughter. Her laughter. It felt so good she did it again. Release. It was raining down on her. She laughed and laughed and laughed. It’d been so long, it felt like her first time, and with each kick, it was like her baby was laughing with her. They were together, one person. In those few sweet moments, something changed. Something in the deepest part of her became free from a long and dormant prison, and it wrapped itself around her baby. There was nothing she would not do for this child.

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