Episode 1

Aurora.

Five in the morning, I wake up as usual, making a nutritious breakfast for my family was my greatest satisfaction, I took care of every detail in the preparation of their food, I have three children, the oldest is Alfredo, my firstborn, he graduated from school and decided to become independent, now he is 24 years old and lives in the capital, I have my two daughters Juliana, 22 years old, and Nancy, 16 years old, in my care, each one is special, at least my little Nancy is allergic to peanuts and I always have to be very careful with her, my daughter Juliana doesn't like certain foods, I selected each meal for her, my dear husband Jose Luna, I say my husband because we are not legally married, we have been living together for 25 years under the common-law partnership, he loves coffee, and as always I have it ready for him every morning on the table.

He owns a mechanic shop, it's not very big, but he works day after day to support us and make sure we don't lack anything, I'm Aurora Manrique, I'm 44 years old and my husband is 45 years old, we both started from the bottom when we were young, we saved every penny so that he could have his own workshop, I'm a full-time housewife, I took care of his savings, and above all I had a hot meal every day for my family on the table.

Juliana---: Mom, I have to go to university, my breakfast isn't ready yet.

Nancy---: Mom, this is disgusting, how do you think I'm going to eat that, (looks at her dad) dad, give me more money to eat something at school.

Jose---: Of course, honey.

Aurora---: Jose, she should eat everything, it's just scrambled eggs with toast.

Nancy---: Mom, I had that for breakfast yesterday, can't you invent another breakfast, aahh and by the way dad, can't you go to my meeting at school, because mom always smells like onions and is badly dressed, I'm ashamed to say she's my mom.

Juliana---: (laughs) Now you understand why I didn't want her to go to school, she always dresses old-fashioned, not like your friend's mom, she always dresses nicely, I wish I had a mother like her.

Aurora---: Too bad for you but I am your mother, and I don't smell like onions.

Nancy---: We urgently need a new mother, dad. (they leave).

Aurora looked at her husband hoping that he would defend her from the attack of her daughters, but he just smiled, finished his coffee and left ignoring his wife, that attitude of theirs had become normal in the house, sometimes she didn't know if she was really the mother of her daughters and wife of Jose or just the unpaid employee inside her own home, they didn't have luxuries, even her daughters studied in public institutions, but each disparaging word hurt her sensitive heart.

After organizing the kitchen, she began to tidy up her house, she entered her eldest daughter's room and arranged all her mess because she even left her feminine hygiene products anywhere but in the trash can, in her youngest daughter's room she picked up all the notebooks and books, also her diary where she wrote about the perfect mother she wanted, she even had a photo of her friend's mother, next to them were her husband and her eldest daughter, that seemed strange to her, since Jose never got involved with her daughters' friends and much less with their mothers.

She tried to assimilate what they saw in that photo, they seemed like a family of five members, her husband smiled, Lucia Sanchez was very attached to him, Juliana her eldest daughter smiled with happiness, and Nancy who was taking the selfie also smiled, it seemed that they had gone for a walk, a walk to which she was not invited, and behind the photo was written and said "how much I wish she was my mom '" Not that ugly mom I have"

Those words were very disparaging, and she felt a pain in her chest, not for what she saw in the photo but for the words that her youngest daughter had written, the pain she felt was sharpened because she had carried them for nine months in her womb and had raised and cared for them until the age they are and as a reward she receives that treatment in such a cruel way. Jose had forgotten some things and returned, he called his wife asking for the things, Aurora came out with the photo in her hand and demanded an explanation, she had tearful eyes and made Jose feel moved and give her an explanation for the first time.

Jose---: We took that photo when I went for our daughter who was with Jamilec's mother in a restaurant and as Juliana was with me we took advantage of the moment and took a photo.

Aurora---: Are you talking about Lucia, Nancy's best friend's mother.

Jose---: Yes, she works at the Pacific Bank, you know she is a single mother and that day she invited our daughter for a walk and we went to pick her up, that's all, dry those tears, we have been together for 25 years, don't distrust me.

Aurora---: You promised me a wedding, and it still hasn't been fulfilled, it has only remained a wedding promise and sometimes I feel you very far from me.

Jose---: Woman, what's the point of marriage, the important thing is that we are together, we have our children, isn't that enough for you. The workshop is not in good condition and spending on a wedding now is not right.

Jose gave her a kiss on the top of her head, leaving her lost in her thoughts, she still remembers when she gave up all the comforts of her home. To follow the love of Jose, where he promised her a beautiful wedding that he has not fulfilled until now, the years passed and she still hoped that that promise would come true. She continued her work and when she went to wash her husband's clothes she found a motel bill in his pants pockets.

Aurora---: What is this?

Meanwhile, in the workshop Jose already dressed in his blue overalls ready to work, received a call, he answered with a smile on his lips and joy was drawn on his face, on the other side of the line Lucia Sanchez she invited him and his daughters to lunch, he gladly accepted, but before that she with her flirtatious voice invited him to have an appetizer before lunch, Jose smiled with emotion hung up the call and ordered his helpers to continue with his work and changed and left the workshop directly to Lucia Sanchez's apartment who was waiting for him anxiously.

While driving he called his daughters, to inform them about the invitation, they accepted without caring about the effort their mother made in preparing lunch as they liked to eat, Aurora didn't care if she had to make several dishes, the important thing for her was that her daughters had full bellies and were satisfied with the food.

Jose lamented for his wife, but for some time she had stopped mattering to him as a woman, now she had become only his housemate, even as a contact in his cell phone he had her added as the mother of his children.

Without imagining that two hours away, and in the solitude of his house there was already a man, who over time would take away the love of Aurora that now stopped mattering to a Jose enveloped in illusion for his lover, Javier Mendoza still disappointed with life drank his glass of red wine, and smiled bitterly when remembering how he was abandoned at the altar more than twenty years ago.

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