My Daughter, my Life - Page 2

chicadewacotx · 08-02-2009, 03:08 AM

I got out of my car and walked inside the house and into my room. My little girl laid in the bed hugging her teady bear. She looked like an angel.. and she was. She was my reason to my life. I put my arms around her and failed to sleep.
The morning came and esperanza was in the living room watching spongebob I could hear her arguing with Teresa for the remote. My little girl had an attitude like her father. I smiled and got up to take a shower. It was a Saturday and I was off the weekends. The only time I had to spend with Esperanza. I got up and took a shower. After I finish I could hear Teresa getting after Esperanza
“ What she do now?”
“ She threw her cereals at me”
I could see my little sister covered with cereal all over her hair and my daughter laughing at her. I couldn’t help, but laugh.
“ Good job mija good job”
“ Jessie that’s not funny”
“ Man calm down”
“MOM MOM”
My sister ran to my moms room and I quickly grabbed esperanza and walked out the door.
“ That was funny daddy”
“ yeah mija but you know granny is going to hurt you”
“ Oh daddy granny loves me”
She smiled with her little angelic smiled
“ That smile wont always work with her”
“ Oh yes it will”
I put her down infront of the car.. she stared at it as I open the door and than got her car seat out of my moms car. She climbed in the car and looked around it.
“ this is ours daddy?”
“ Yeah mija it is”
“ Looks nice daddy what color you going to paint it?”
“ Well I don’t know I hoped my little angel would tell me some colors”
She smiled at me and than giggled. She was an angel from up above sent to me to guide her and protect her. How could someone walk away from gods angel. I kept thinking of Patricia. Every day esperanza looked more and more like her mother. I couldn’t help, but see Patricia inside of Esperanza. She had her daddys eyes and attitude, but her mothers looks. I put her inside the car and we drove off. Esperanza was always good in the car she would always sit in her car seat and just looked out the window.
“ Daddy were we going?”
“ To the shop mija”
“ why daddy you gota work?”
“ No mija we are going to see if Tio Pedro will paint the car.. you thought of a color yet?”
“Yeah daddy I did.. blue daddy.. like the sky”
She looked out the window and pointed to the sky and smiled. I looked at her through my mirror and I could see my angel smiling at the sky. This little girl was wise beyond her years. Smarter than any 5 yr old I knew, but of course she was my daughter so I would think she was smart.
We pulled up to the shop and I let her out of her car seat as we entered the shop I stoped in my tracks. Infront of me stood her. She colored her hair blonde. She was skinner than she was before a lot of makeup on her face. She weared a small top and some little shorts. I couldn’t help, but look at her. She wasn’t pretty anymore in my eyes. I loved girls with natural beauty and she was far from it.
I heard a young girls voice behind me
“ Boo”
I kind of jumped and my daughter laughed at me
“ Ha daddy she scared you”
I looked up and I saw her.. hope stand infront of me she smiled and laughed
“ sorry I saw you staring at that chick over there so I thought it would be a good time to scare you.. I got your dad good huh darling?”
My daughter smiled at her and shook her head yes
“ well my name is Hope and whats yours?”
“Esperanza”
“ Wow you have my name but yours is prettier”
“ Nu uh yours is”
I smiled at them and replied “ Both of yalls are pretty”
Hope looked at me and smiled
“ So what your doing here they said you were off”
“ Oh so you asked about me”
I winked at her and my daughter pinch me on my arm
“ Haha she got you in check..”
“ No not really” I grabbed my daughter and hold her in my arms
“ sure well anyways I got to go.. your friend Pedro finished my car earlier than he said”
“ Cool so what color you painted it?”
“ Its silver like it was I just needed it to have a touch up”
“ Cool so is it yours ?”
“ yup”
“How did someone like you get this marvelous car?”
“ Well see that’s a story for another day”

Hope walked away and got into her car. She looked so sexy stepping into her mustang. The car looked even sexier because its owner was a chick.
My daughter climbed down my arms and went to play with a little girl that she knew I stepped into the shop still watching esperanza play with the little girl. I walked up to Pedro and shook his hand
“ Ey fool what you doing here”
“Came by to see if you can do a paint job for me.. umm fool what was she doing here”
He looked at me with a serious face and shook his head
“ Money as usual”
“Is she still you know.. on drugs”
“ My parents swear up and down shes not but I know she is”
“ No disrespect man but your sis looks hoeish now”
“ Shit I know man I told her to put some damn clothes on.. and I made a comment told her that you would have never let her dress like that”
“what she say? Did she asked about Esperanza?”
“Naw man I told her she needs to see her.. when she saw you walk in with esperanza she took off she didn’t even look at her .. damn I swear my mom must have droped her on the head as a child”
“ Its cool man and your parents say I am the bad parent”
“OH fuck them man you know Patty could never do any wrong in their eyes”
I looked back at Esperanza and I wish I could tell her about her mom. She knew that Pedro was her uncle from her mom side, but she never meet her mom or her grandparents. Pedro and her sister Yessina are the only ones that came around.
“ So man can you do the job?”
“ Sure man what is it?”
“It’s a Cadillac my mom gave to me”
We walked out the shop and esperanza ran towards pedro and hugged him.
“ So what color are we painting the car mija”
He looked in esperanza eyes and than tickled her
“ Tio Pedro stop tickling me”
“Okay fine”
“ Its going to be blue tio blue like the sky”
“Ight mija.. well fool it will be done by Monday want to use my car till than?”