As I wake up in the morning, a day after graduation, I was excited to see that I ended middle school. I exit my room, I see my mom crying and bursting into tears and then I see my dad beside her. Both just sitting there, as the room is in silence and sobbing. They see me but I did receive no explanation, as I walk to the bathroom and come back out and sit. That’s when she said it “Your grandma has passed away.” As I look and try to speak my voice goes into silence as my breathing gets harder and harder, I start crying. I feel pain in the chest as if my heart will stop any second and then that’s when it hit me tears running down my cheeks. As the river of tears when down dropping to the floor.

I did not have a chance to say goodbye or even get to see her one last time. I was counting down the days to go visit her but I was too late, she went ahead and left us with memories.

As my day arrived to go to Mexico, I was excited to travel but also with a broken heart I won’t be able to see my one and only person. As the plane took off, all the memories just came to me, when she took care of me, when she kissed me on the forehead, when she defended me from any danger, when she hugged me tightly and said “Te Quiero, mija.” Those words were always with me.

I arrived in Mexico City, now I had to take an 8-hour drive to a city just close by Acapulco, just a 4-hour drive closer. As I spent my whole day in a car making stops every once in a while, I think more and more about the changes that I’ll expect now that my grandmother is not there any more. As the hours continue to decrease more and more and go down to 6 hours then to 4 and just then 2 more hours to go my heart starts to get more nervous. I take a nap and then realize it’s just 20 more minutes left.

I have arrived to my destination, there I see them my gradfather and my uncle waiting for me, but just that one person is missing. I feel just tears running to my eyeballs just for them to go down my cheeks, they get closer and closer and I hug them tightly. As they help me with my suitcases and put them on to another car to get another 30 minute drive deeper inside the city. I get in the car, and sit next to the window and remember some places as if it was recent hat she held my hand and took me for a walk around these places.

It wasn’t long until I arrived to home, the place that I ran around with my cousins. I drop off my lugage and my grandfather takes to a place close by we stop to buy some flowers and a candle. As we walk we enter a place where all you see is names and dates, we walk down more and more and more and more names appear. When we come along her name, “Angelina,” her new home were she is resting in peace and is an angel taking care of us from up in heaven.

As Michael walks the silent streets, he wonders what is occurring. Michael just arrived from his long trip from Spain he has not been around for about 20 years. He left his neighborhood when he was a small child his parents took him to have a better education.

As he came back to the neighborhood, he walked around to remember the places he use to play in. But as he walked around he did not see people not even a car wondering.

He asked himself, “Where is everyone? Where did they go?”

As he walked back home he had so many questions in mind. He arrived at his house and went straight to his room. He began his research about his neighborhood, Hamlet Cherry. His computer started to pop out with articles, newspapers, and blogs. There was so much about Hamlet Cherry.

He was surprised by all the information that was being told about Hamlet Cherry. But what surprised him the most was one of his childhood friends’ names was also in the news, Eric Montgaremy.

” What is Eric Montgaremy’s name doing on newspapers?”

He kept on researching and trying to figure things out but he found the main one that could answer all his questions.

As he read the article from a news reporter. It was all a shock. But he just continued to read and read more of the article.

Butterflies

move from flowers to flowers

are delicate, fragile, and colorful.

But show that they are powerful as they fly through the wind.

As this thing known as a pandemic now known as Covid-19 started, it led to many changes in society as well for people’s lives. People began to live with fear, death rates increase rapidly, it was the year where many people had to be alone in a room just by themselves to prevent getting covid. Schools shut down, theaters, movies, places that were to socialize and spend time with family were all just closed down. People had no other place to go but just home, you turn on your television, and there it was the pandemic news. To inform the city that rates are increasing and that it was just getting worse and worse, that was the life of a person living in the year of the pandemic. Scientists looking for a way to stop the spread and prevent less deaths, which took them at least a year to come together and figure out a way to keep people safe.

We enter the new year and it was all over the place, vaccinations. But there were people and still till today people believe that the vaccine has no benefit. But each person has the right to make their decision on being vaccinated or not but it just caught my eye how many people started to get vaccinated trying to keep society safe. But not only that also on how many people just decided to live without a vaccination because of their beliefs but there were other ways to stay safe like keeping distance, and like wearing a face mask.

Students did not get much of learning, people lost their jobs as well family members. I believe if society agrees to one thing there would be a way to go back to once what we called reality. It just caught my attention and how all this all just started and in one single eye of a blink everything shut down losing opportunities. But with vaccination, it might help us and live our normal lives and be safe.