“That bedroom isn’t yours anymore, Lucía. It belongs to your sister.”
My mother said it the moment she stepped into my apartment—like she owned the place. Mariana followed behind her, dragging two large suitcases, while my father came last, silent as always, wearing that familiar expression of quiet agreement with the wrong side.
I had lived in that small apartment in Colonia Americana for three years.
It wasn’t luxurious, but it was mine in every way that mattered. I paid the rent. I signed the lease.
I built the furniture piece by piece after long days at work. I painted the walls a soft gray-blue that made me feel calm. I sanded down a cheap pine bookshelf until it looked like something worth keeping.
It was the first place in my life that truly belonged to me.
And that was exactly why my family had come to take it.
“Go start packing your things,” my mother said, pointing toward the hallway.
“The movers won’t wait.”
She didn’t ask permission. She didn’t explain anything. She walked straight into my kitchen, opening drawers, touching my belongings like they were hers.
Mariana tossed her jacket at me.
“Oh, sorry,” she said flatly.
“Your room is kind of depressing. We’ll have to repaint. And that bookshelf?
It’s awful. It has to go.”
My father nodded, as if all of this made perfect sense.
That was what unsettled me most—not their behavior, but how normal it all seemed to them. Like my opinion didn’t matter at all.
“Lucía, try to understand,” my mother said gently, using that tone she reserved for manipulation.
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