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A Soul In Descarga

A Soul In Descarga

Lilliam Rivera

Las Chicas del Bx Group Chat
Friday, 6:40pm

Millie: Have you heard from YaYa? She’s been 
MIA since yesterday

Lourdes: She prob took another job 
on top of her ten other jobs. 

[Picture of dusty pink stilettos] 

What do you think?

Millie: Oooh, I love that color. how much?

Lourdes: On sale! 

Millie: Check if they have my size but 
it has to be wide. I can’t do narrow, 
thanks to the Colon family. We’re 
like giants, stomping across rooms 
alerting everyone we’ve arrived

Lourdes: I’ll look.
you working?
anyways, 
this bitch trying to tell me how 
I’ve been slacking, coming in late 
and shit, being slow with the orders. 
you know me. I let that bitch talk 
and talk and talk and when she 
finally finished that caca like she’s 
the boss and not just another 
heaux stuck in this office like me, 
I said all calm,, “I’ll do better.” 
but you know what I wanted to 
say is I FUCKING QUIT or 
BITCH YOU UGLY or FUCK YOU.

Millie: You need the job. 

Lourdes: I need the fucking 
job so I can buy shoes

Millie: We all got to play the game. 
Do they have my size? 

Lourdes: No. 

Millie: Do you think she’s writing you up? 

Lourdes: IDK. Maybe. 

Millie: What does IDK mean? 

Lourdes: Bitch, tu si eres vieja! 
Ask your daughter. LMFAO

 Millie: At least I know what LOL means

Lourdes: These would look good on YaYa. 

[Picture of black stilettos]

Oye, where is she? She hasn’t checked 
in since last night. Come in @yarelis

 Yarelis: [image of drawing]

Lourdes: Que eso???

Millie: YaYa, what’s going on? 
Why are you showing us that?

Yarelis: I’m just standing 
here in front of this, crying 
como una pendeja. 

Lourdes: Where are you? 

Yarelis: I woke up raw, so I called in sick.
And now I’m here, at the museum. I
don’t even know why.

Millie: What’s wrong YaYa?

Yarelis: I feel like I need a
cleansing. 

Mille: Why??? 

Yarelis: This painting, it 
makes me think of her. How 
she’d press her cheek against 
the small of my back and 
listen to my breathing. 

Millie: Oh YaYa, it’s coming up, 
the anniversary. Isn’t it? 

Lourdes: Maybe your mother’s 
sending you a sign. 

Yarelis: She’d say, each inhale
is a gift from god. No se, I 
was mad at everyone back 
then. What I would do to 
have her listening to me 
right now. 

Lourdes: idk, you finding this painting, 
making you think of her. She’s trying 
to tell you something. 

Yarelis: You think she wants 
me to finish my Masters? 
You think she’s disappointed, 
like I’m wasting away my 
life? Cuz when I look at 
these dancers in the painting, 
melting to the ground, it’s 
like Mami is looking straight 
at me, shaking her head. 

Millie: What! Disappointed? 
All you do is work. You’ve never 
called in sick. Never. Should I 
come get you? You’re not going to 
do anything crazy are you? 

Lourdes: YaYa, you looking at that 
painting all wrong. It’s a bendicion. 
Your mami is saying to live. 
Wasn’t it Audre Lorde who said, 
what we have to do must 
be done in the now? 

Millie: That’s right, YaYa, Lourdes is 
right. Your mama is saying, live. 
Feel. Dance. We know this 
because we’re your sisters 

Lourdes: [Heart emoji]

Mille: [Crying emoji]

Yarelis: [Broken heart emoji]

Millie: Let’s meet at Charlies 
for R&B night. YaYa, don’t stay 
in this sorrow. Come out with us.

Lourdes: [Picture of black boots] 
Do you want me to get you these? 
They have your size, wide.
Te lo compro?
YaYa, what’s your size? 

YaYa?

Las Chicas del Bx Group Chat
Friday, 7:02pm

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