CHAPTER TWELVE, MRS ISABELLA FERNANDEZ

 

When Mrs. Camila woke up in the morning, she saw everyone going in and out decorating the house and she also saw her husband and everyone else come out later on dressed nicely, so she also wanted to dress like them. She got up and pick a very short gown, it was from her high school days, it was her dress from prom and she tried to force herself into it. That was when Aurora was passing by and she heard someone sobbing, she went to check who it was and found Mrs. Camila in distress, her head was stuck in the dress that she was trying to wear.

"Oh Mrs Camila, what have you done." She said and went to help her out, after several minutes of struggling with the dress, Aurora managed to pull it off her head but after taking it off, Mrs. Camila insisted on trying on the same dress again and Aurora refused, Mrs. Camila took the dress and ran outside, Aurora ran after her and collected the dress by force, that was why they were arguing and dragging the dress.

Camila!!! Mr Julian called out to his wife from downstairs but she ignored him, so they all went upstairs and struggled to collect the dress from her but she seemed a lot stronger today, she held tightly onto the dress refusing to let it go.

"Mom, can I give you a hug?" Mylar asked with an innocent look. She saw that all their efforts to make her give them the dress has failed and so she decided to try out her plan.

Mrs. Camila smiled and opened her arms wide for a hug, Mylar went to her and gave her a tight hug.

"Won't you wrap your hands around me?" Mylar asked when she saw that Mrs. Camila didn't hold her at all. Mrs. Camila dropped the dress and wrapped her arms around Mylar's shoulder. Mr. Julian quickly took the dress and whispered to Aurora to get rid of it.

Mylar picked a simple and comfortable long gown for Mrs Camila and she happily accepted it without questioning.

As they sat down in the living room patiently waiting for Mrs Isabella's arrival, they heard a horn outside and the intercom also buzzed.

As soon as she heard, Miss Emelda quickly went outside and after some minutes the door to the first sitting room opened, and an elegant and well-sophisticated woman walked in. She looked fabulous, with her sunglasses and a small scarf tied around her neck.

Everything she was wearing on her body was very expensive just by looking at it and was definitely from well-known brands. She wore a slouchy tailored emerald green gown, a non-fussy brown blazer, a delicate green color strapping sandals, a Mouawad brown purse (worth quite a lot), diamond earrings, and other accessories, also having diamonds in them.

"Hello, Buenos dias." She greeted Mylar with a Mexican accent and with a smile on her pretty face, a face that looked quite young and smooth despite her age.

"Hello Mrs. Isa..." Elio almost said but stopped himself from completing the sentence when he remembered, he smiled and greeted her in the right way.

"Buenos dias abuelita."

She looked quite disappointed and instead of replying to Elio's greeting, she said indirectly to Mr Julian.

"Elio, I thought someone here would have at least managed to teach you some manners but I guess that someone can't do anything right. " 

"Anyways Como's estas, Elio?" She asked as she hugged him.

"I am fine, abuela," Elio replied with a smile. She had every ounce of sophistication in whatever she did, her way of talking was refined and well-polished, and as she talks she always have a permanent smile.

She walked gracefully towards the rest of them and they all greeted her one after the other with a hug. Mrs. Isabella whispered to Mr. Julian as she hugged him.

"Ustedes estás useless." He got upset by this but smiled after she looked at him again with her false smile.

"So, this is the girl who opened her leg for my very stupid Nieto to dump his spooge into." She said and made a sad face at Mylar, then she turned towards Mr Julian and said.

"You are not even capable of handling your children? I thought you said you have been keeping Camilo under control so he wouldn't make sure stupid mistakes." Mr. Julian explained himself.

"Mother, I have been doing all I can but it's not been easy on me."

"If you had handled him, he wouldn't have gotten a common waitress in a club pregnant and put our family to shame. Excuses are the only thing you are capable of giving, if you knew you couldn't carry such a weight on your shoulder then you could have just told me, I would have taken Camilo to Washington DC with me and handled him myself." Mrs. Isabella said with a bit of rage.

"I only did that out of compulsion," Mylar whispered painfully but they all heard what she said. She was hurt by what Mrs Isabella said and couldn't stay quiet any longer and allow herself to be subjected to these kinds of insults from people who had no right, whatsoever to say bad things about her. Mrs Isabella turned swiftly towards her and with a dangerous expression on her face, she asked.

"Compulsion you say, did he point a gun at your head to compel you into doing it?" Camilo smiled at the question, he was happy that Mylar was finally getting what she deserved and he was also happy to have gotten another person who supports him apart from Miss Emelda.

"If you were in my situation ma'am, then you would know what I am talking about," Mylar said in reply to her question.

Mrs. Isabella wanted to say something to her when Mrs. Camila suddenly came downstairs. Mrs. Isabella saw her daughter and her heart was immediately filled with joy that she forgot about her intention to insult Mylar.

Camila!!! She called out with so much happiness sounding in her voice. Mrs. Camila turned to the person calling out her name but then looked away as if she didn't know the person.