THE NEW GIRL

59. MY GIRL.

GABRIELLA'S POV:

"Here you go." The waiter that was looking our age came with our food including Tortas, Chiltomates, and even Chicken Mole Enchiladas and including a full plate of crispy chicken and placed them on the table and smiled at me.

I was about to smile at him but Andre interrupted.

"We ordered Mexican food and not some guy that will come over to our table and flirtatiously smile at my girl." Andre said in a very rude manner to him.

I just stared at him in disbelief.

"I'm uhh sorry." The waiter stuttered. "Enjoy your meal." He said and left.

"I hope." I heard Andre mutter.

"Andre why did you do that? Why were you rude to him?" I asked annoyed.

"He was smiling at my girl. I don't want any guy looking at you." He said so sexily and possessively.

"Ummm.....let's eat." I said drifting the topic.

"Yeah." He said with hesitation.

I laughed a bit at him and then took a chicken wing and ate it. I moaned in deliciousness when my taste buds had an affectionate contact with it. "Its been years. Oh God I missed this."

"Years?" He asked.

"Yeah. Six years."

"Before you went to Mexico?"

"Mhmm. Before, anytime my dad made my mom reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally angry and sad, she would come here to eat so that she could get her mind off him. So there was one time that daddy had to carry me along here. I didn't agree to stay with my nanny, Miss Liliana so he had to take me here. He technically used me as a bait to catch my mom so that she would forgive him..." I laughed. "It was fun actually, after that, we had a family dinner, together." I felt tears dripping all of a sudden and I saw the table cloth had dots of tears on it. I was surprised when he used his hanky and gently wiped my tears off my cheeks. "I'm sorry, I can get really emotional sometimes. Its really stupid of me, I shouldn't be weak—"

"Who said crying makes someone weak?" He asked.

"I say it. I feel like a loser when I cry. For me crying is stupid and dumb. It does make someone weak. I hate crying. Since I came back to this stupid country I have been shedding tears upon tears. I didn't shed one tear when I was in Mexico for six years. Its annoying! I was like this when my dad was still with us and I was living in America. So soft and emotional. Ugh! I just hate it." As I said it more tears came out.

"Crying does not make someone weak. In fact it strengthens them. Once you pour out all those feelings of sadness and negativity, you'll feel a lot better, trust me. And Gabriella, I don't think its because of the country you're in that handles your emotional system. I feel, in fact I know the reason. But first I want to ask you something, did you cry or express any feeling of anger and pain when your dad left?"

"No. I-I don't think so. No I didn't. I remember when they told me the news, I just kept quiet, I-I felt nothing at that point. I just stood there, quiet. I remained like that till we came to Mexico, I didn't shed any tear. In fact, when I started talking, I didn't cry nor did I say I'm sad nor talked about my dad's departure. I just, left it."

"You see there it is. You didn't talk to anyone about how you felt so you kept those thoughts, feelings and emotions locked away inside yourself. And now after six years, you're back and those feelings of sadness want to come out and be expressed. You unknowingly fight it and that makes matters worse because you get very emotional about things you face these days and when you can't handle it, you start to express them when they are not needed to be expressed in that situation. That is it."