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her either. Man, he’s a jerk...
    Damen then questioned with an angry voice,
“What do you mean, Jose? She’s your own girlfriend, and you’re just
going to leave her here like this?” Maria and Jose finally reached
the top, rim, the border of Sugar’s wall, and stared at Damen.
    Jose pushed him, with anger in his thrust,
and answered, “When we decided to do this, she wasn’t involved ...
it was just us. I’m not abandoning her.”
    “Listen you guys, I understand. Don’t worry
about me, I’ll be fine,” Maria said. Darell reached the top of the
Valley also, and fixed his eyes on Maria’s mouth.
    “Are you sure?” asked Damen. He walked over
to her and watched her eyes to see if any tears showed, were
revealed.
    “Yeah ... I’ll be okay. Now I want you and
Jose to shake hands and apologize to each other. You have a long
journey ahead of you tomorrow, and fighting is the last thing you
guys want to do,” she said. Maria then grabbed Jose and Damen’s
hands and put them together.
    Damen realized she was right. So he slowly
looked at Jose and swallowed his pride. “Alright, I’m sorry,
man.”
    “I’m sorry too,” said Jose. Maria’s eyes
watered, not from dust but from sadness. She was really upset about
not being able to take the journey with them. But she kept her
feelings inside, very, very deep inside...
    Jose, Damen and Maria walked Darell home
first. As soon as they reached his house, Damen reminded him,
“Alright, remember everything we talked about, and make sure you
write that letter for tomorrow.”
    “I will ... goodnight,” said Darell, walking
into his house, then closing the door.
    As they walked Maria to her house, Jose and
Damen both thought simultaneously, “Maria should come with us too.”
They both tried to come up with a plan for her getting money to
come on the trip, but nothing came to their heads.
    “Isn’t there any way you could come up with
at least the airfare? Or even money for the train tickets?” asked
Damen. Suddenly, Jose kissed her on the lips.
    “Come on, you’re a part of this group too,
Maria; you have to come with us,” said Jose. They reached Maria’s
house and still tried to figure a way that she could escape this
town with them and travel to another state of life.
    She then replied, with a bit of shakiness, “I
can’t go... It’s your dreams, not mine. Besides, who will make sure
the time capsule stays safe?” Jose sat on her front porch that was
covered with green vines and gazed out at the night, realizing that
she couldn’t come with.
    “Who cares about that? You have to come with
us. Can’t you get the money from your mom or something?” asked
Damen. The porch light went on.
    “Alright, Mom,” Maria shouted. She knew her
mother was behind the door, listening. “I’m telling you, I’m twenty
years old, and my mother still turns on that damn light to let me
know it’s time to call it a night,” she explained out of nowhere.
Maria got up and walked toward the door when Damen suddenly stopped
her movement by grabbing her hand ever so delicately.
    “It won’t be the same without you,” said
Damen. He gave Maria a huge hug while wishing she would give him a
kiss.
    She then opened the screen door and said,
“Don’t worry, you won’t miss me that much.” As she let go of
Damen’s hand, he knew her touch wouldn’t be felt by him for a long
time. He cast a sad look toward her, a look of depression.
    Jose walked in front of Damen, causing him to
lose sight of her, and said, “No ... that’s just it, we will miss
you.” He gave her a tight hug. “I’ll return for you soon, Maria, I
promise you, baby,” Jose whispered into her ear as Damen looked
away from them and tried to distinguish his pain, and jealousy. He
looked at Maria only for a second and imagined him kissing her
again.
    She looked at both of them and said, “Listen,
I want you to do one thing for me, while you’re out there.”
    “What’s that?” Damen asked,