Married To My Brother?!

Beginning

Selena Cortez

"I'm excited for Señorito's arrival!" Clara said, almost yelling. I smiled at her and continued to arrange the ingredients needed for Miss Sanya's cooking.

"I haven't seen him for a long time," she added, what about me? I haven't even seen him yet. I wanted to answer her but I didn't want to spoil her imagination of Señorito so I just let it go.

"You know what Selena, he's not just super good looking! He's also kind! Like he treats us like a family member!" She said excitedly as she started to slicing an onion, without looking what she’s slicing. Now, I am starting to get worried, she might cut her hand if she doesn’t focus on slicing the onions!

"Lena! Clara! Where are the ingredients I’m asking you guys to cut?! You girls should be focusing on your task! Were in a rush! Stop gossiping so your work won’t take longer!" Miss Sanya said gruffly. I sighed and did what she asked us to do.

Clara and I looked at each other as I whisper to her,

“Let's just focus on slicing everything first.” She nod as a response and….

"Here you go!" I said after a few minutes as I hand her the big plate of diced onions.

"Once we’re done with the other ingredients, I'll take it here again." I said to Miss Sanya and she nodded in response. After awhile again,

“Here you go Miss Sanya…" I put down two big plates again in front of her, full of sliced bell pepper and peeled garlic.

"Lena, remember, you have a lot to do at the ranch so don't gossip too much with Clara!" She reminded me before I could completely leave on where she is cooking.

"Yes, I know Miss…" I simple answered her, so the conversation will end and I can go back to Clara.

The thing is I’m not really working here in the kitchen, so some of the chores to here are not familiar. I actually work at the Rancho with the horses in the stable. It just so happens that today Celestine and Samantha are not here, because they have school and base on what I heard it’s their exam day.

And since there is not much to do at the ranch as of the moment, instead of my mother coming here to help prepare the meals, and I want her to rest at home with my father, I volunteer myself to help miss Sanya and Clara.

I also want to see Clara, cause she’s not only my workmate at the mansion, we’re from the same school and also classmates. We are both in Grade 10, but we hardly see each other here at the Saavedras' mansion, like what I had mentioned I am stationed at the ranch while Clara stays here in the kitchen, that’s why I am trying to grab this opportunity to catch up with her however Miss Sanya’s eye is with us. Boo! Party pooper!

Well anyway I understand why though, there's still a lot of work to do since the arrival of Señorito's is a big event. Señorito only visits here once in a blue moon and people working here really looks excited with his arrival.

"LENA!" I turned to the person who called me, his voice sounds familiar and when I saw him my eyes widen in surprise.

“Marco!” I shout back as I wave at him as he continues to walk inside the kitchen as well. Marco is one of my co-workers at the hacienda slash childhood friend slash my schoolmate as well but he is three years older than me.

"I can’t believe you made it here today!" I said with excitement as I look at him from head to though, his hair a little bit wet because of his sweat as well as his forehead. He looks like he ran from the rancho all the way here from to the mansion. Okay, so what's up? Why is he in a rush?

"Julia is about to give birth!" He breathlessly said to me. My eye widens again, almost my eye balls are going to pop out of my eye socket as I immediately untied the apron I am wearing.

Julia is my favorite horse because when she was just a baby, I almost took care of her. Since her mother died giving birth to her.

Then a few years passed, of course she learned to get along with other horse in the stable until she got pregnant and here it is! I can’t believe it she’s going to give birth! Now I am feeling excited and worried at the same time. I just hope everything is safe for Julia, anyway the Veterinarian said that Julia and her baby are healthy.

"OMG!" I shouted and didn't even notice that we got the attention of all the people working inside the kitchen. I immediately handed Clara my apron and looked at Miss Sanya, who I think has been watching my movements for a while now.

She raised one of her eyebrows at me but knew she had no choice but to let me go. I walked towards her and called her, using my unsure voice. Since I got this little feeling that there is a small chance, she won’t let me go.

"Miss Sadya…" However, my hunch is wrong, she nods as a sign I can go. I gave her a slight smile then I glanced to where Clara is, she waves me goodbye and smile then I walk towards Marco so we can go.

I looked at him again from head to toe. Dirty clothes and full of sweat! He looks smelly but he's not really smelly, I even smelled the after gel he used after showering. And as we walk our way to the dirty kitchen, I started a conversation.

"Why do you look like that?"

"A while ago we were trying to help Julia to give birth but it was really difficult, when you left, she suddenly became restless, only then did we notice that she is having a hard time to give birth. I almost got kicked three times, but I was able to get away from her. She also does not want the help of Mang Simon.

"You alright?" I asked him worriedly. He nodded and helped me get on his horse so we can go.

It didn't take long for us to reach the rancho; we were still quite far away when I saw a few people gathering in the fence and they were quite noisy.

"Mom! Dad!" I called my parents when I saw them outside the stable, like Marco, Dad was also dirty.

"Lena, it's good that you're here. We asked Marco to picked you up since we're worried about Julia, she seems to be having trouble giving birth," said Mom, and I nodded and immediately divert my attention to where Julia is.

When I approached her fence, she was there lying down and like what they said she was struggling based on the sound she was making. I approached her, however I hesitated a bit thinking she might now recognize me, since she looks in so much pain, even the people around us stopped me, I understand.

But of course, Julia is a bit aggressive as of the moment but I know Julia, I take care of her so I trust her.

She relented and we all finally breathed a sigh of relief. We spent a few minutes first waiting for another violent reaction from her but it didn’t happen so Dad and I went near her to help her give birth.

It's not new to me to help a horse give birth or any other animal here on the ranch because this is where I grew up working with Mom and Dad.

When I was young, I used to spend time here at the rancho, especially in the stables that’s how I got more affection with the horses.