My Life Before Trump
By Micaela Carlton-Newton
For Hayley Cartwright
Maple Leaf Book Project
Brattleboro VT
2015 - 2016
Hi, I'm Pedro. I’m thirty-five and this is the story of my life before Donald Trump put the wall up to separate Mexico from the U.S. I haven't seen my parents in forever. I’ll start from the beginning when I was ten. My parents sent me to the U.S. I was very poor, homeless and foodless so I found a way to get a job. I miss my family very much, my sister, brother, mum, papa and our Chihuahua Chico. I want to take a vacation to visit them.
Now, looking back, I'm fifteen and I work for Jessica Jones. She's a cowgirl and she is known for her mischief. You guessed it, her dad is Indiana Jones, yep, the one and only. I think if you ask me, Jessica is my true love and super HOT. I get to be their cook. This is where the ADVENTURE REALLY BEGINS!
One day when I was making tamales for Jessica's lunch, Indiana came home early with A WOMEN. She said her name was Ella Scotts...She stayed for lunch. She told me the tamales were too dry and had no taste. What a jerk. Lucky for me Jessica stitched me up and said, ¨They were the best I've ever made.’’
When I woke up I fed the hurt black bird I was watching till her wing got better. Ella’s evil/stupid cat ripped it up. And yesterday I saw Ella spank a little girl for going on her lawn to get her jump rope. SHE. IS. ONE. SICK. LITTLE. COOKIE.
After I fed the black bird I went to get fruit for breakfast and I saw a cat in the tree. I started to climb the tree to get the cat but then I saw that it was Princess, the cat that ripped the black bird's wing. Suddenly my feet slipped from under me. When I woke it was pitch black out, then I saw Jessica and a stranger. After a minute I saw the sign. It said E.R. I looked outside and I saw Ella looking at some papers. When she saw me, she ran.
The stranger ended up being a doctor, he said I broke my leg! I couldn't believe it, I broke my leg! How could I pay? I kept running that question through my head. I just had enough money for a house and food on the table for my family. How would I pay for all of this? I would have to work for life and never see my family again!
The next week, I felt a great relief when Indiana said he'd pay for everything and give me a raise! I was so happy and thankful, so I made Indiana's favorite food, flapjacks. He said they were the best he´s eaten in his life.
When I was talking to him, he said he was going to go to Ella´s house today. How could he even like her? She's like the devil's sister. Really she's worst. Even Jessica thinks she's terrible. Last week when Indiana was in the bathroom at dinner, she told Jessica and I to stay out of her way. We did not like the sound of that. Like I told you ¨She's a jerk.¨
I have to use crutches because of my leg. I still have tons of pain, especially when I'm trying to sleep. I have to take a lot of pills too. It's been a week now, my leg is getting better. Well, that's what the doctor says at least. I've been feeling better all week. Seriously, I mean the only thing that was bothering me were the pills. It's like they're pranking me.
The doctor's name was Dr. Scotts. I told him I know someone named Ella Scotts and I was wondering if he knew her. He said he's never heard of her but then he glanced away. I knew something was up. I have never seen such a suspicious doctor in my whole life. I know that guy is up to something. The way he glanced away, told me everything I needed to know.
It's been a week since I saw the doctor and today is my birthday. When I woke up, I smelled the sweet smell of warm Vermont maple syrup and flapjacks. I limped to the elevator to get to the kitchen. There, I saw Indiana,Jessica and the maids, then they said, ¨Happy Birthday!’’ I had been so busy writing a cookbook that I forgot about my Birthday! I was so happy they remembered!
Then Jessica showed me to the driveway. She said to cover my eyes and when I opened them I saw a black Mustang! She said it was all mine! I can't believe it, that car is all mine! She told me my driving test is next Friday! I can't wait to show off my car to all the cute chicks. They're all gonna want me!
While eating flapjacks and bacon, she told me all about the cool features and Indiana gave me a iphone 6s.
About an hour or two later, I taught Jessica to make a cake. We chose to make a red velvet cake(my favorite) with cream cheese frosting.
I took one look on facebook, so many people were saying¨ Happy B-day¨ to me. Then I got back to writing my cookbook.
After a week, I went back to the Dr. Scotts to remove my cast. I still think something is wrong with him. The way he glances away when I ask about Ella, I know he knows something about her. How should I tell Indiana? I have to tell Jessica, in fact I´ll tell her when she gets home.
OH MY GOD, I have my driver's test today! How could I forget! I have to be there in fifteen minutes! So, I called a cab. It took him for what felt like forever to get here but luckily I got to the town offices right on time! After I took the test I asked if I passed and I did! I was so happy! I went home and told anyone in sight in the kitchen.
I was so happy, I had the nerve to asked Jessica out! I was just as surprised as she was and to my surprise she said yes! She said she was going to ask me but didn't have the nerve! So tonight we are going to Top Trends (it’s a restaurant).
On the way we saw fireworks! It was so weird that it was happening. Why were there fireworks going off? New Year's Eve wasn't until tomorrow. I don't know, at least it was romantic.
When we got to Top Trends we ordered. Then Jessica told me about her art class, she said that her ¨BFF¨ MacKenzie (one of the most popular girls at Jamesville High) is in the art class. I told jessica that I looked up Dr. Scotts´ profile. It ends up that Dr.Scotts is Ella Scotts’ husband! We had known from the start that something was up with those two.
Our dinners came and it was quiet for a couple minutes. Then we talked a little more about the Scotts. Jessica said that we are going to Ella´s house tomorrow. I asked why and what was happening. She said because it was a New Year's Eve party. Plus, she said after she'd give us the tour of the house I asked for.
After dinner Jessica went to Mackenzie's house. I decided to pick out something nice to wear so I wouldn't look too under dressed tomorrow. I ended up picking a suit that was my father’s when he was younger. It was black with a little Aqua blue bow tie. When Jessica got home she showed me the dress that she had borrowed from Mackenzie to wear tomorrow. It was ok, (but of course I said it beautiful), turquoise with little violet sequins.
Then we started getting ready for bed because tomorrow is a big day. It's the day we rat out Ella. When I woke up, I went back to the garden to pick more berries for breakfast. Then did some cleaning. Soon it was almost time for the party so we started getting into our outfits.
When we got there most of the guests had already arrived and to our surprise there were lots of kids from Jamesville High. There were lots of couples so we went as a couple too. There was live entertainment including Ed Sheeran. He´s one of my favorite pop singers. We did lots of talking with Jessica's friends and then we started getting bored so a couple of us went on a walk.
We saw Dr.Scotts and we knew exactly what he was doing there. So we went over to talk to him. When he saw us he started to look scared. We asked him if he wanted to come the party. He insisted on not, he said ¨I'm just staying here.¨ But, we insisted on him coming to the party which we thought would be great just to show how many lies there were involved in the story. He said he might come later but we knew he was trying to escape, so we convinced him to go back to the party with us.
Since tonight's New Year's Eve, I'm want to put off fireworks. I look at Ella's schedules and it turns out tonight at midnight Selena Gomez is coming to sing her new hit! I was starting to get hungry so I went over to the appetizer table. I had a couple shrimp puffs. They weren't as good as mine but they were still good. Then the couples dance started so I asked Jessica if she wanted to dance and of course she said yes. Lucky for me it was the one dance I knew. After, she said to meet her in the back room, then out of nowhere she kissed me and said ¨ You're the one I want to be with at midnight!¨ I was blushing like crazy. I stood there with my mouth open and no idea what to say! Then she started blushing too. So we just walked out back to our friends.
Eventually we made our way back to each other, after awhile we started talking again. Mackenzie came over with her boyfriend Jack. Jack is the captain of the football team and all the girls are “crushing” on him. We all talked for awhile. Then dinner was announced so we made our way to the table. We ended up sitting with MacKenzie, Jack, Devin my best friend and his girlfriend Destiny. I didn't know they were together until last week. Destiny is a really nice girl she's on the cheerleading squad and one of the top 10 most popular girls at Jamesville High! How could she not like Devin, he´s kind, loving, creative and just brilliant. Then the food came and we started eating.
After we ate, Jessica went to fix her makeup and I started to look for evidence. I went up stairs and waited for Jessica to come. When she got there we started looking around for evidence that doctor Scotts was Ella's husband. Then Jessica said, ¨I found something over here¨. When I got over there, she showed me a box that she had found.
We opened it up and there were pictures of Dr. Scotts and Ella at their wedding. There were other pictures and Dr. Scotts diploma. How could it be so easy to find? It should have taken us hours to find the evidence there's gotta be some kind of kick. Then all of the sudden up behind us came Dr. Scotts. He said, ¨What are you doing here looking at our stuff this is none of yours business!¨ We got really freaked out for a minute. I got so freaked out that I punched him in the face and knocked him out. I covered my mouth with my hand and I was like, ¨why did I do that?¨ Jessica thought the same thing but she knew it was worth it. Hopefully he'll forget what happened in the last couple minutes.
We brought him back outside and then we went back inside. We asked for the mic. They thought we were going to do karaoke. They wondered why we had a box but there was no time to explain. Then we tapped the mic and we said ¨We've got something to say, there's been a mix up with people. Have you ever heard of Dr. Scotts?¨ Then Devin pushed in Dr. Scotts into the crowd. ¨I believe you've seen this man before Ella. This man is Ella's husband. We found their plans, his diploma and their wedding pictures in a box up in the attic. I showed the pictures and diploma. Ella started sweating. She tried to run away but Jack grabbed her. He said there was no way that she was getting away with it.
Indiana was so surprised. Then we told him, “Ella has been trying to hook up with you just to kill you and she already stole $2,000,000 from you. All because you wouldn't give her a part in your movie.¨ Then someone called the cops. The cops were there in a jiffy and they took Ella and Dr. Scotts away. They said we weren't going to be seeing them for a while.
A lot of us acted like nothing happened. It was almost midnight so it was time to set off of fireworks. I told Jessica to follow me outside. She did and I showed her the fireworks I was going to put off. She was so excited I let her pull the cord to put them off. Right then right there was the best moment of my life. Her lips hit mine like nothing I´ve felt before. Now the rest is all history. We are married and have beautiful twins, Leah and Kiya. Now I'm waiting for the rest of my life to come and so far it's been pretty good. I'll write you next year and hopefully Trump won't be president.
Sincerely, Pedro.