Fernando, like all his family and his girlfriend, Sofía, had organized a big party for Sofía's birthday and the other reason is that Fernando would ask her for her hand.
While everyone was happy with the two events that were about to occur by the time Sofía goes to the house, she was intent on ending him.
When Sofía arrived with her friend María Fernanda González at the house, they were surprised to see that there were many people in the house, and they had no idea why that was.
When they entered, all Sofía's relatives, Fernando's relatives, and their respective friends, were there, wishing her a happy birthday.
"With a simple phone call, it would be enough," said Sofía.
"The truth is that they asked us to come, and we don't know why," one of his friends replied.
Little by little, everyone began to congratulate Sofía and without being able to understand well, Sofía went to get a drink and her friend accompanied her.
When they came out to the patio, both Sofía and her friend, María Fernanda, saw that all her relatives, Fernando's relatives, and their friends, were there and as soon as they saw her, they began to applaud.
While Sofía with María Fernanda, they were approaching where Fernando and the rest of his relatives were, Sofía confessed to María Fernanda that, at that moment, she would end up with him.
When they got closer, Fernando had proposed to her, in front of everyone and under everyone's pressure, for Sofía to accept him, she ended up accepting him as her boyfriend.
Everyone was happy, celebrating Sofía and Fernando's engagement, asking when the wedding would be, to which Fernando replied that it would be in a month.
So, they began to make a toast to the couple, wishing them a life of prosperity and much love and many children.
Many times, Sofía has told her mother that she did not want to marry Fernando, that she was not sure that he is the man she was looking for as a husband and her mother replied that it was her nonsense, that she could not have found better husband than him.
All month, Sofía was telling her mother that she did not feel safe about Fernando and her mother, she did not care, and she said:
"You are insecure who do not know what you want, you always change your mind and do not stick to what you say and that must end now.
Also, I will not allow you to do that to Fernando who has behaved like a gentleman with us and who is well educated. You get married and period."
The following month, Sofía and Fernando were married and although it was a beautiful and romantic wedding, Sofía was crying, because she did not feel happy.
After the wedding, they went for the honeymoon to Mykonos - Greece. On their honeymoon, Sofía began to refuse to sleep with her husband and Fernando, who could not take it anymore, took her by force and raped her and in that violent act, Sofía was hitting him; so that, he would not do that to her, and Fernando began to hit her harder, biting her from all sides and raping her.
Since Sofía would not stop screaming, Fernando had to drug her. When he saw that Sofía was completely drugged, he continued raping her, not hearing screams.
He was doing that to her for two days, two days of which, the effect of the drugs would last. When she finished, Fernando got dressed and left, leaving her in that confused state.
The moment Sofía came to herself, she tried to get up, but could not, because she was still on the effects of the drugs.
Sofía had to wait two hours to come to herself and when she did, she was able to get up and go to the bathroom, to bathe and clean herself.
When Sofía saw herself in the mirror, she saw that she had bruises and bites all over her body and, she had blood.
Sofía could cry to see herself, she could not resist it and sat on the bathroom floor, to cry inconsolably.
His whole body ached, and his face burned. While she was crying on the bathroom floor, Sofía remembered the times she told her mother that she did not want to marry him and like her, she did not care and forced her to marry him.
On the other hand, the pressure she felt when Fernando proposed to her, in front of her family and friends, when two months before, he had not stopped beating her and raping her.
Finally, she remembered when Fernando saw contraceptive pills in her bag and took her, took her to his bachelor house, locked the door and began to belt her, hit her, hit her, bite her, scratch her and rape her, making her feel dirty, inferior to other women, not having confidence in herself, to ask for help and to say, "You will no longer mistreat me."
Sofía decided to go to the bathroom, because she wanted to clean herself and when she did, she would not stop screaming from the pain she felt, she continued crying.
She told herself that this hell must not continue anymore; so, he got out of the bathroom, packed his things, and went straight to the airport, not to Mexico, but to the United States.
Once in the United States, she started looking for a shelter for women abused by their husbands and they recommended the New York City Alliance against sexual abuse that remains in New York and went there.
As soon as she arrived, they did a series of tests and asked her if she wanted to call her family and she answered no, that she wanted to be missing for them, because they did not want her own family to tell Fernando, her husband, where she was so that I can go find her and start again the wave of mistreatment, beatings, abuse, and rapes towards her.
They agreed not to say anything to her family for the time being, until she was strong enough to face them.
A year later and with Sofía's permission, an arrest warrant was issued for Fernando and Interpol was also notified.
After knowing exactly where he was, they went to Mexico, where he was arrested and with the police, there was Lucrecia, Sara's sister.
Lucrecia works in the Alliance of New York City against sexual abuse that remains in New York and she sat down the whole family of Sofía and began to tell them the hell that Sofía had lived with Fernando and that she is hiding in that place and the only person to who she did not want to see is her mother.
Everyone went to see her except her mother. Sofía became uneasy, because she thought that her mother and Fernando were there, and Lucrecia told her that neither of them were there.
He also told him that Fernando is in the New York jail and that he would have a good time there.
They all hugged Sofía and apologized for not helping her. Sofía told them that "You are not to blame for this, but my mother, because I told her that I did not want to marry him, and she forced me and that is why I do not want to see her."
They all respected her decision and continued to visit Sofía and when it came to her mother, she could never forgive her for not supporting her in her decision.