The Beginning
Javier quietly walked through the house, looking for Kate.
"Kate?" he called.
No answer.
He frowned and continued down the hallway.
The bedroom door was slightly open.
He knocked softly.
"Kate?"
"Come in."
Javi stepped inside.
Kate was sitting on the edge of the bed, staring out the window.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
She looked up and gave him a small smile.
"I've just been thinking."
Javi walked over and leaned against the wall.
"About what?"
She sighed.
"Everything."
For a moment, neither of them spoke.
The room was quiet.
Javi finally smiled.
"Come on."
Kate raised an eyebrow.
"What?"
"You've been in here all morning."
She laughed softly.
"You're impossible."
"And yet you still put up with me."
Javi says and Kate shakes her head.
"So...what about my brother David?"
Kate's smile disappeared.
"I know he wants me to leave." Javi says as he looked at the ground.
Kate sighs.
"He is always like that."
"Is he kind to you?"
Kate shakes her head and looks away.
David walks to Javi and pulls him up by his collar.
"You shit! I told you to leave!" Javi looked at him, shocked but then calm. "Calm down David!" Kate says loudly.
"shut up"
He punches Javi in the face.
"Javi!" She kneels beside him.
Javi wiped the blood from the corner of his lip and slowly sat up. Then he looked at Kate and his angry expression disappeared. "I'm okay."
Later that evening, the family sat around the dining table.
Javi sat beside Kate.
Across from them were David's mother and the children, Mariana and Gabe.
The room was unusually quiet.
Mariana slowly looked up from her plate.
"Mom?"
Kate smiled gently.
"Yeah, sweetheart?"
Mariana hesitated.
"I think... grandma woke up."
The room fell silent.
Kate frowned.
"What do you mean?"
"I heard noises from your bedroom."
Mariana looked toward the hallway.
"I looked through the door..."
She swallowed.
"...He was standing up."
Kate's smile disappeared.
Javi looked at Kate and then at Mariana, worried.
"Mariana..." Kate said carefully. "Your dad isn't supposed to be out of bed."
"We go check" David says to Javi.
Javi and David walks over the bedroom door.
Javi slowly opens door and sees there, grandma standing close to window. "You okay-" as David didn't finished sentence, she turns around. Blood stained the corner of her mouth.
With a guttural growl, she lunged straight at David.
"David!" Javi shouted.
David stumbled backward as she crashed into him.
Javi's heart raced.
He looked around the room desperately.
His eyes landed on a heavy wooden chair.
Without thinking, he grabbed it and rushed forward, trying to force her away from David.
