“Ay, Mis Hijos” cries a lady in white. Shut the doors and windows, braid your hair mama Maria says or the lady in white will come in and braid them for you and take you away. I was tired of all of this because it has always felt as if she was to controlling. She never let me out of her site. I couldn't play like the other kids my age. She always had this list of rules for me to follow. They never made sense to me. I always thought that she was just paranoid after my father's death. That night I was so angry I screamed towards her that I didn't love her. In a fit of rage I didn't listen or obey her like I always do and that was a huge mistake.
After I had spoken those words I ran to my room, locked the door and did not do the things she had always stressed that I must do. I thought everything she had ever said about the lady in white to be just a myth. That night, just because I did not listen to my mother. The Llorona came and I felt her braid my hair as she took me into her arms and carried me to the river. By the time I came to my senses I could feel myself drowning as the water burned my lungs as I tried to breathe in air. I could feel my life fading away at that moment. I wondered if my papa Carlos had felt the same way.
My father, as my mother had told me, was once found drowned in this very same river. She said this was because the Llorona had lured him towards herself and he had followed her call and that was why he drowned. She had told me that day he had gone drinking with friends and that was why he was killed. Mother had said that Llorona was a very beautiful woman who would kill drunken men and that she was a lady who wandered in search of her children that she had killed with her bare hands.
I could feel my name being called “Lupita, Lupita my child” and I tried to look into its direction and all I could see was the hazy figure of my mother as she tried to run my way and as I turned my eyes to the culprit of my situation all I could see was the figure of a very beautiful woman dressed in white. As my mother ran in my direction I could hear her tumble and as I struggled for air and squinted my eyes for a better look of my mother for at least one last time. All I could see was her figure full of mud and grass as well shades of red covering her favorite light blue dress. That's when I was barely able to notice the blood flowing from both her arms and legs.
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To her figure I thought “Sorry, Dear mother, I should have listened to you” . I wish I could tell her all of this and much more as well as let her know how much I dearly loved her. I started to feel myself losing conscience, my eyelids to heavy to to keep open. At that moment as I closed my eyes I see her blurry figure run to the edge of the river and kneel down as she begs La Llorona for my release.
I hear her say "Llorona, I know how you have suffered and from a mother to mother I can feel your pain but, can you please let Lupita go and take me instead." I could feel the Llorona turn stiff and loosen her grip she has over me and I take that moment to get free and rush to the shore and as I see my mother I hug her and say “ I am sorry mom” then as if something brushes my soul I turn to the river and all I see is the blurry figure of the Llorona as she sheds a tear as she gazes towards us.
She then turns around a begins walking towards the other direction of the river and slowly her figure starts to fades away. As she disappears I turn to my mother and say "Mother I love you so much" and then I fall into her arms and faint as I trust her with my life more than I ever have. Ever since that day, I have respected my mother with all my hearth.
As I recall those memories I realize that I have gotten older, I had gotten married and I have never again doubted the words that my mother said and I had promised myself to teach my children to do the same while trying to communicate and understand them as my mother had failed to do with me.