The words are repeated and pounding into her head. She tosses and turns as she hears, “You will be just like your mother.” “Oh, you think you are so smart you are just going to screw up” “We see you and your man it’s only a matter of time” and with this last comment Emiliana jerked awake. Her dream rings in her head as she starts her day. At just fifteen years old having just had her quinceanera she has been tormented by her peers. She is the same age her mother was when it happened, it being her. Though she is not the only child from a teenage pregnancy in her neighborhood, where it is the norm, she is the only one who has decided she does not want to accept this fate. Every day she wakes up and makes herself look presentable to ride the bus to school. It is hard enough for anyone to take her seriously at school having been born in Mexico and moving to East Los Angeles going to school in a richer neighborhood. She does not fit in either side because she is too “stuck-up” for her …show more content…
They have known each other since Emiliana moved to the states from Leon. They talk as they make their way to the stop. Theresa the more riskaayy one of the three with her tight curve hugging t shirt and equally tight cut offs to bear the heat starts the conversation. She asks,” So Emi, com ova con ti y el enamorado, el amor phrohibdo?” as Emi stays quiet as Theresa starts again, “Oye! Te estoy hablando! Los detales Porfas!!” Emiliana is forced to open about her secret relationship. Her mother does not allow her to date for the fear she will make the same mistake she did. Emiliana lives with this fear every day and it affects her relationship. She loves her boyfriend very much but hates lying to her mother. She wishes for nothing more than to leave her house and be with him for the rest of their lives. Before she knows it, they are at their bus stop waiting for the overcrowded, humid, yellow monstrosity to