That Morning Water (A Mystery Tale in Villa Rica, Peru)

In the Valley of Villa Rica, there's a small Hamlet, a of some 10,000-inhabitants, located in the Andes of Peru, the central area, on the edge of a Jungle. It's Coffee region, and there certainly are a large amount of plantations there. Mercedes, lives in-the hill area, together with her husband, Adelmo, they've a tiny adobe house, perhaps only three-hundred square feet. It rains there a great deal, and the township is surrounded by mountains, and the mountains are green, high in vegetation. The town has only 1 paved road, Main Street, all the rest are dirt streets, and Mercedes works for a plantation manager by the title of Herbert Sandoval, in the outer element of town by a supply, he lives together with his wife Sara: the town's priest is Father Sarmiento. Mercedes operates in-the home of Herbert, and sometimes accompanies him to the hillsides where his village is. There they also have a cottage for your caretaker.Herbert, has three kids, the earliest is twelve, Enrique, whom often seems to place self-interest before, empathy. Your ex, Claudia, she's ten-years old, thinking and acting like she's happening fifteen; she is a tomboy, ruined, and a bit clumsy. The younger baby, is Daniel, a typical small spray, always wanting his way, but perhaps the more peaceful of the three, the one who concentrates the absolute most, and blackmails another two older siblings, by threatening to inform their parents, this or that, if indeed he does not get his way, he gathers all the typical rumor kiddies like, and don't know what to do with, because it's normally misunderstood.( August, 2008) Mercedes, she is in the garden, at the plantation's cottage, Daniel is there, she's watching him, babysitting in a, for Sara; Mercedes partner is in Huancayo, and if she might have her way, that's where he'd have him stay-Oh, she loves him beyond reproach, beyond good feelings, and he is violent to her, perhaps because she drinks a, as he does, and when they are together, it's like two fires blowing in the wind, at each other.She was only released from jail, for disorderly conduct, and was seen loitering with the sole black person in town, Patrick Lopez, a combination of black, Mexican, and Peruvian blood.They had painted the town red-as the old phrase goes, and after her screaming and laughing and making all kinds of sound, Herbert Sandoval, came to her rescue, and bailed her out of jail, as he often has, matter-of-fact, Herbert's wife, Sara, is a little upset because he appears to give her more consideration than her, and for a old drunk, shapely and horrible, it's not attractive to her.But as I was saying, Mercedes is at the cottage, with Daniel, she is a tipsy, at the-moment, had a bottle of whisky hidden in her underclothes, and every so often has gone behind the cottage to have a calls Daniel, "a car is arising the trail, it looks like Father Sarmiento, and he is with that poet and writer, Apolinario," but she merely continues drinking as if she did not hear but of course she did, Daniel is but a few feet away from here, Daniel gives, "Did not you hear me?""Of course I noticed you," states Mercedes, "can't see I am busy?" (she requires the bottle of whisky, and swallows a huge swallow, then holds Daniel by the hand) "Ok boy, let us go see what they want!"A red vehicle pulls as much as the advantage of the road, the house is about three hundred feet from the dirt road, and Father Sarmiento may see Mercedes swaying in the morning wind, he knows she's drunk, and he sees Daniel."You just never learn, do you Mercedes," states the priest, then pushes her away from Daniel, as if to protect him from her drunken behavior, and she pushes him back, and he kicks her, and she drops down, and he kicks her in the experience, and three teeth are damaged, "I don't know if it's medications or alcohol, or both, but you are a vegetable in the making, and you should not be in care of this young boy in your condition". (He goes to conquer her again, but Apolinario holds the angry priest, says, "I believe she got the message Father!" )Life hasn't been good with her, and she has up to now, tried three suicide attempts: once she tried to driven himself in-a river, but it was not deeply enough, Wetland Lake, it was virtually all dried up. The next test, she tried to hang herself on a banner tree, up in Herbert's coffee planting, on the top of plateau region, the branch was too weak to keep her, it broke, only to separate the branch, and come tumbling back down, she did even though have a headache for a cause. The next attempt, she went in front of a car, it ended in time, to be quite honest, not many people have cars in Villa Rica, and many all streets are gravel streets, as I mentioned before, and to acquire the car over twenty-five miles an hour on any given neighborhood, is a task in itself.It is now September, 2008, and it's raining allerair 5000 exec beginner and dogs, and Mercedes' belly is getting bigger, everybody thinks it's the black man, who got her pregnant, or at-least that is the news in Villa Rica. She's at your family of her company at this very time, supporting Sara with the dishes."Mrs. Sara," states Mercedes, "have you heard any such thing about Adelmo being in town, I heard he was this day when I was cleaning the backyard, your neighbor said he saw him at the bar last night?""I do not drink, Mercedes, so I would not know.""But if he's, and me having this belly he will cut my throat!""Well," said Sara, looking at her son Daniel "we couldn't have that, can we!" (Giving her a smirk. )"Yaw mama, who'll do most of the work then, I really hope not me!" says Daniel and works out in to the backroom.( Evening) "I will need Mercedes house, Sara," said Herbert."I suppose it is because Adelmo might be in town?" replied Sara."Yes, that is it the bottom line is, and he's in town, I saw him myself currently walking haphazardly, half drunk down the sidewalks of town," answered Herbert (Mercedes today trembling, thinking he'll be lurking somewhere throughout the house, come 3:00 a.m., with a grocer ' knife.Now Sara had done her meals, and Herbert, left with Mercedes, taking her home. The water was decreasing gently today, haze dropping in the township, and within the nearby mountains. It cooled the warm day making the evening relaxed for sleeping.The Children want to move with their father, and so they really at the last minute jump in the back of his truck, and now Mercedes and Herbert are in the front seat, says Mercedes to Herbert, "You best just drop me off, and get out of view, I am afraid once he sees my stomach, and I suppose, rumor has informed him it was Patrick Lopez, he will be visiting cut my throat for sure.Herbert could not control his tongue, his fascination, said with a throat, "Is he the father?""I wish he was," she said then looked out the window, "I suppose it will rain forever, and each morning again, your coffee crops are getting it is full of rainwater." She commented."I do not feel Adelmo ever cheated you, did he?" questioned Herbert."No, and if he did I'd cut his throat, so I can't blame him any, can I?" Answered Mercedes.Herbert didn't know what to say, matter-of-fact, he thought he'd never said what he did say, he never anticipated this kind of solution, then said; I mean, she was near, if not very nearly ready for him to do her in.By the time they got to Mercedes' shack, it was black, and she quickly went in to the hut, lit a kerosene lamp, started to make hot water for coffee, she realized Herbert like coffee hot, black and with a great deal of sugar, especially his coffee beans from his coffee crops, and she had some."I trust Adelmo don't destroy her," said Daniel to his brother and sister, I mean, I like her, and whose likely to watch me when..." before he could finish his statement, Claudia spoke, "Who needs to increase a child anyway?"Said Enrique, indifferent, "Does it surely matter, I suggest, we all just goin' to do what we usually do with or without her."There wasn't an ounce of panic, in the children, probably some ignorance, in what was happening, using place."It is sort of dark here Enrique, isn't it," says Claudia, a dash scared, a foggy gibbous moon overhead, as she walked by the area of the shanty, and Enrique and Daniel behind her.Mercedes has left the door open, and Claudia could hear her talking to her father, she is drinking down shot after shot of rum, as Herbert listens to her shout about how precisely she'd kill the child of any girl whoever would dare to give birth to a of her husband's, and kill him likewise, since he got her pregnant in the first place. Probably justifying what she was feeling might happen to her after Herbert left and Adelmo come to the house. At this point, Herbert is unsure of what to do or say, it is out of his fingers he feels, as she feels also.Herbert and the children leave, and in the day water, Mercedes walks to function, and as time goes by, several days, Herbert drives her home each night, and Sara is growing some hidden frustration on this matter.On and about the tenth day, that Adelmo has been around city, Mercedes at about 3: 00 a.m., hears sounds outside her hut, and she goes to research, she's never noticed of again, then. Three times travels and Adelmo is discovered walking the streets of Villa Rica, and is picked up for questioning on the disappearance of his wife.The following day, within a light rain-the forth day-Adelmo is picked up for the 2nd time, now for suspicion of homicide, Herbert accepting it was a dirty action, evil he did, and hence called the police and was jailed.Adelmo confirms he has been out to the hut each night, ready to kill her but he didn't and although he may have, she wasn't there the night before, for him to kill her anyway. Until the question is brought up by his lawyer, Joseph Dudley, an American-Peruvian living in Villa Rica,, but no body considers him, "Where is Father Sarmiento?" Suggesting he and Mercedes must have ran down, that she was his mistress. Accurate or not he found the needle in the haystack that cleared Adelmo's name.Several months later, Father Sarmiento, was found dead, and buried in-a little village called Huacrapuquio, buried in a shallow grave, alongside a new road the townsfolk's were excavating, Adelmo's hometown matter-of-fact, of 3600-inhabitants, a township where previously, it was a haven, but Adelmo was no where to be found to answer the police inquire into this mystical exploration. Incidentally, they never found Mercedes, but they found her shoe, it had been alongside Sarmiento, in his gravesite.Written 12-28-2008 (Written in Lima, Peru)