Chapter 7 - Unnamed

Maria: That boy was following his dog that run like a wind inside the forest , jack was yelling and calling blacky( his dog) , afraid that the dog meet alone some bears or fierce wolve that would bring his end, the dog was barking continuously without stopping like a mad, but his voice was very far , that worried the boy too much, he run towards the voice , his heart beating furiously from running and from his fear that his dog had met something horrible , he finally reached an area into the deep of the forest, where trees were less except of some small plants and bushes , he stopped hearing his dog's barking suddenly, but he heard a low voice of blacky , like snoozing a pain or weeping , he advenced towards the fainting voice to find the dog standing in front of colored stuff , the dog was moving his tail nervously , making that low voice again , jack advenced cautiously to that bundle laid on the ground, for his surprise , he heard the voice of a child , the voice was very faint cry, jack hurried and carried up the tissue and removed the cover to see a very lovely child who started to move his hands nervously when the cover was removed from his face and his hands were liberated , the child was having very pure green eyes and very white colored skin , jack couldn't stop himself from kissing the child , the child looked hungry and soon got the fingers of jack that were touching his face to suck them , jack noticed a paper on the ground, he knelt down and got it, he unfolded the paper and read three words written in a nice calligraphy " please take care" , jack hurriedly took the child and blacky like happy followed moving his tail behind his master, upon reaching home, jack called his mother who was busy in her tiny kitchen preparing some soup of herbs , the woman was used to his yelling so she didn't answer immediately, but this time his yelling was more insisting, she stopped moving her soup and came out cursing , when she saw her son with anger in her eyes, she noticed the bundle and heard the voice of the child , her looks turned to wondering , jack handled the child to his mother who upon seeing the lovely face cried" oh my god" , she looked questioning at her son who hurriedly told her about his finding , the mother hugged tenderly the tiny baby girl , who started to cry, the inner instinct of the mother told her that the baby was hungry , she didn't know what to offer her; she didn't have milk , all what she had was some chicken to produce eggs, she didn't give her breast to a baby since her last child who is now 5 years old, was grown for mother's milk, but she thought that maybe if she offered her breast to this tiny girl , she could soothe her for a while till she send her son to check some milk somewhere, she did and the girl started to suck the dry breast for a while , but miraculously, the mother felt that milk was running in her chest and the baby was sucking real milk in her mouth , the mother was bewildered and astonished to the most; how could she make milk after this long time?! , she sat with their girl in her lap , playing with the golden hair in her head , soon the girl was satisfied and she slept on the mother's hands. That night the whole family gathered, the two tiny girls were back home from their aunty house, the father too finished his work in the nearby factory , the baby girl was the talk of that night. Joceline ; the first born was in her 13 years old while franka; the third in range was in her 10 , jack was between his two sisters; 11 years old , he was like his two sister in the town s school , the next day the children left to school and the mother sat singing to her new found child , the father informed his wife that they have to inform the authorities about the new found baby and he went to police station to make his declaration, the officer in charge informed him that they will check about any news or report about a missed baby, in the mean time they may keep the girl in their custody till something new is discovered, days past and nothing came, the search for the parents for the found girl ended with nothing , the mother in this time became too much attached to this bloody girl, the parents had to make a demand to the social department to keep the girl in their home till the real parents appear , the girl was supposed to have a name and the mother Heminia decided to call her Maria , Maria started to grow to a very beautiful girl, she was attracting all the neighborhood with her lovely face; green eyes, blonde curls dangling from her head and her astonishing intelligence , she was looked at as a blessing to the family , time passed and the girl was growing more lovely and attractive, the father Joseph was proud with his new girl, everywhere he goes , looks of smiling faces and appraises were heard from people , the girl was considered as a source of bless to her adopting family, the mother sometimes used to visit her husband in his place of work , the plastic factory, the owner of the factory was a childless man , he was married to a beautiful woman , but they were not having a child , nobody of them asked who was the reason of their sterile life ; the husband or the wife; they agreed to keep their marriage without arguments or discussion that issue , the first time the girl was seen by the owner , she attracted his attention too much, he didn't know that she was adopted by her parents at first , but when news came to his ears about her story his attention in her had grown more and more , he told the father Joseph to bring her to his house, saying that his wife had heard about her beauty and smartness and she wished to see her, Joseph didn't hesitate and he told hermenina his wife to pay the owner's wife a visit in her house and to accompany Maria; who was by now in her ten years old, with her , the mother did and lady Charlotte was very delighted to meet her with her very lovely girl, lady Charlotte asked hermenina about the possibility of keeping Maria from time to time in the company of her because she was alone without children and that she liked the company of Maria , the mother never minded and the girl started to visit the lady Charlotte from time to time till the two ; Charlotte and Maria became very closed to each other , the lady Charlotte became very much attracted to that very beautiful girl , she could not wait to her visit , so she started to visit her too in her house if her adopting family , Maria was growing in body and in beauty, she was in her 13 of age and the sings of maturity became very clear on her body , the age of womanhood was very near and the girl was attracting every male eyes ever was put on her , the mother hermenina impatiently was waiting the day her girl becomes mature , she was discussing that issue so many times with her grown up daughters, Jocelyn was already married and franka was engaged and very near to get married , she discussed that too with the lady Charlotte who decleared her will to make a special party for Maria when that day comes . When that morning Maria saw her first blood , she was knowing already about the biological changes that happens to a girl in that age, she studied that in her biology courses , but she was little worried because it was a surprise and the first time happened to her , she didn't hesitate and she told her mother hermenina , the mother face became very smiling and happy , she hugged her lovely girl fondly and tenderly saying: I had been waiting this day my angel, soon the news was spread among the females of the family and off course lady Charlotte was informed too. The two women , Hermenina and Charlotte sat down to plan for the preparation of the promised party , Charlotte advised hermenina to pretend that the party was held for Maria birthday, since the real birthday of the girl was not known and the family never thought before about celebrating a birthday for Maria , Charlotte said to hermenina to tell everybody that the idea was of Ms Charlotte to celebrate Maria s day , the house was busy with women preparing for the party,Ms Charlotte sent two of her women to help in the preparations , she wanted to carry all the financial costs for the whole party , foods and sweets were prepared home, some were made in the town s bakery , tables and chairs were brought from relatives and neighbors to receive the guests , lady Charlotte was planning to have a splendid party to her beloved Maria . The party was splendid everyone was present was happy and enjoyed his time, Maria was surprised with that great care of love and caring she found from everyone there , she found herself the center of interest for all , when the party was over, mother hermenina hugged her beloved girl with great love and lady Charlotte did the same to the girl, Maria knew that these two women were the most caring about here in the whole world. The tragically death of Hermenina and her husband: The next day after the party of Maria , Hermenina told her husband that they have to visit lady Charlotte and her husband to thank them about the generosity and caring they showed to Maria , they drove to the lady Charlotte s house and both Maria and Juan were with them , when they reached the house , lady Charlotte was waiting for them on the villa s gate , she received them with great welcome and Maria with great love , they sat in the great saloon and chatted about many things then the parents thanked lady Charlotte and her husband mr smith for their caring of their daughter Maria, me smith was the whole time looking at Maria with great interest was letting anybody to notice his great interest , he excused his guest for something to do out , he left for almost half an hour then came back with some trace of fatigue on his face , the family asked permission to leave the villa, they left with a lot of greeting and salutes from lady Charlotte s side while her husband remained silent with a faint smile on his face like a mockery, the father Joseph was the driver, he was a talented driver and caring in his drive, the road was narrow in some areas since the it was between two high hills and sometimes overlooking on the deep valley, when the car reached a sloppy descending road , Joseph decided to leave the car move down speedily without padding over the benzene break, suddenly a fox appeared on the road, Joseph tried to avoid the poor creature from being killed under the tires, so he used the breaks, but no break responded, Joseph tried them to turn the car far from the fox , but the speeding car moved to the sloppy road to end down into the valley, when the car fell down , it turned over , up and down so many times till it grounded on the ground of the valley after falling almost 100 meters from up to down, the road was almost deserted, it took almost two hours before the accident was discovered , the car was totally destroyed and the four bodies were taken out, the mother and the father were already dead, Juan and Maria were still breathing with a lot of blood covering their bodies . In the hospital