A Long Road to Fortune/Issue 11

This is the fifth issue in Volume of A Long Road to Fortune.

13 years earlier...
It was a nice sunny day over at the little in the zocalo of Tecpan de Galeana. A young Mr. Chet was sitting on a park bench reading todays newspaper. What he is really doing is keeping an eye on his little Anna, who was over on the very small sandbox.. Anna was wearing a pink, polka-dotted dress and had a head of radiant brown hair of medium length, not too short but not too long. In her hair was a pink hairbow to match with her dress. She was playing with another girl around the same age. This girl had strawberry hair, a white shirt with a graphic on a rose on it and pink pants. Her name was Daniela. Her hair was long and curly but tied with a green scrunchie. "Aren't they pretty?" an eledrly woman said. "Indeed so. The one with the pink hairbow is my daughter. She's playing with her best friend," Mr. Chet replied. "Would you by any chance be Joaquin Murrieta? Macy's husband?" the woman asked. "That is me, yes," Mr. Chet responded. "How come I've never met you until now? I mean, little Anna used to come here with her mother all the time. I swaer, it seemed like the last time I saw the both of them here had to had been a year ago. Where is she now?" The woman asked. Mr. Chet looked down and sighed. "I don't know. I lost track of her. She could be in another damn country by now," Mr. Chet replied. The woman could sense that she had asked the wrong question. "and the reason you haven't met me until now, is because I just got back a year ago. Just in time to be a part of her life again," Mr. Chet said. He looked back to Anna and Daniela. The two girls were happy and noticed that Mr. Chet was looking at them with a halfway full smile. Both girls smiled and waved at him. Mr. Chet's smile became complete and he and the elderly woman waved back at them. After a little while, Mr. Chet walked over to the girls. "Ok, it's time to head back home. Daniela, your mom's not coming back for a couple more hours, so you'll be staying with us for a little longer," Mr. Chet told the girls. Anna and Daniela hugged and jumped out of joy. "You hear that Dani, you can come to my house and I can show you the new dollhouse daddy bought me for being a good girl in school!" Anna told Daniela, with obvious cheer. It had become apparent to Mr. Chet that the bond between these 2 girls was strong. Mr. Chet smiled at the sight. He extended his right hand out to Anna, who extended hers to Daniela. Mr. Chet and Daniela turned back to the elderly woman on the bench and waved goodbye to her. She waved back as the 3 of them left northwest towards the church, passing the benches at the center of the zocalo.

Issue 11
To be written 28/4/13.