"AND YOUR MOTHER TOO" "Promise... that you're not going to fuck any Italians." "Why are you saying that?" "Or some gringo backpacker?" "Disgusting!" "Maybe a French fag?" "No!" "How about a dirty Mexican selling bracelets on the street?" "Tenoch !" "Nobody else!" "Of course nobody else." "Promise me." "I promise." "What?" "You know." "Know what?" "¡Ay!" "I promise Chinamen !" "Don't bullshit me!" "Don't you trust me?" "Sure I do." "So?" "Promise me." "What about you?" "Prove it." "Together." "One two three I promise I won't fuck..." "..." "Argentineans..." "..." "Poles..." "..." "Venezuelans..." "Irish..." "Your father!" "Don't mess with me!" "Ana's mother, a French divorcee taught at the Learning Institute for Foreigners." "She did not object to Tenoch sleeping with her daughter." "For Julio it was different." "He could stay with Cecilia only until dinner and had to come back in the morning for the trip... to the airport." "cecilia's father, a pediatrician specializing in allergies thought his daughter's relationship with Julio had gone too far." "with Julio had gone too far." "Her mother, a Lacanian psychologist, saw it differently." "She believed their relationship was innocent." "I can't believe it!" "She lost her passport!" "She'll miss her plane!" "Julio, come up!" "Help me find my passport!" "Go on !" "We're in a hurry!" "Why aren't you getting the car?" "Hurry, close the door!" "What about your passport?" "It's here stupid!" "Come on, baby." "Hurry!" "What a nice goodbye!" "Are you going out tonight?" "No way, baby I'II be missing you too much, baby." "We have to leave now, cecilia!" "Your mom!" "Come!" "Come!" "I want to take a little of you with me!" "The plane will leave without you." "Move!" "Move!" "Did you find the passport?" "Found it!" "Great!" "Hi Maru." "Hi." "Where's Esteban?" "I haven't seen him, nicole." "Let's check in, Ana!" "Hi!" "What's up, CharoIastra?" "I hate this goodbye bullshit." "Yeah, why don't they just go?" "I'll miss her, but this is too much." "but this is too much." "What's up, boys?" "Hey there." "I heard you flunked" "Yeah, right." "Princess." "Dad, you came!" "Ana's father was a journalist who recently became a politician." "He worked for the opposition government in Mexico City as the Director of Logistics in the Department of culture." "Although he liked Tenoch, he referred to him as "the Preppie", but never in front of his daughter." "I don't want you to go." "I'm going to miss you so much !" "I don't want to go, sweetie." "Smells like bread." "You pig!" "Enjoy my graduation present!" "You should have flunked!" "Don't be a baby." "So, did your old man get pissed?" "He freaked!" "If I don't take Economics, he'II take my car!" "You'd give up our car for a fucking course?" "Fuck economists, man !" "Those pricks can suck my dick!" "You're an idiot." "Fuck you !" "I'm going to be a writer." "Switch to lit with me, man !" "Switch to lit with me, man !" "No fucking way!" "Fucking traffic!" "I bet my sister's in another demonstration." "They're in the right, Charolastra." "And I'm in the right to tell them to fuck off!" "I guess." "But left-wing chicks are hot, dude." "Totally." "Are you wearing cologne?" "You fucking pig!" "Open the window!" "On that day, three demonstrations took place across the city." "Nevertheless, the traffic jam was caused by Marcelino Escutia, ...a migrant bricklayer from Michoacan who was hit by a speeding bus." "He never used the pedestrian bridge, because its poor location would force him to walk two extra miles to his work site." "The Red Cross took his unidentified body to the city morgue." "It took four days for the corpse to be claimed." "Tenoch Iturbide was the second of three children born to a Harvard trained economist Secretary of State and a housewife who attended various spiritual seminars." "His parents considered naming him Hernan but he was born the year his father joined the ruling party and affected by a sudden nationalism he opted to give his son an Aztec name:" "Tenoch." "Once we're stoned, we'II drop a little E." "I got some from Frisco, I'm telling you..." "...fuckin' A!" "total organic shit." "If Miriam comes, I'II slip it into her sweet little thing..." "Miriam is a total babe!" "At the party, man..." "She was walking around rubbing her ass against me." "Truth is, she's kind of slutty." "The one I want to nail is Shorty's chick." "She's got these little titties..." "She's a total prime babe!" "Not inside, man." "Let's go to the tower." "What's wrong with here?" "They'II smell it, asshole!" "Sticky..." "A little harsh..." "Crons, huh?" "Just some dog shit." "total Cheech and Chong." "Tenoch !" "Get down !" "hello Mrs. Iturbide." "hello julio, how are you?" "Hi, mom." "hello, sweetheart." "What's going on?" "You seem strange." "Are you sad?" "Must be your girlfriends." "Don't worry." "They're not really gone." "Your auras transcend the physical plane." "julio, are you coming to Jessica's wedding?" "Of course!" "I wouldn't miss it." "You have to dress up, O.K.?" "The President is coming." "Get rid of that cigarette, Tenoch." "Good evening ma'am." "Your garden totally rules." "I didn't know you were here, Saba." "I'm everywhere." "That night, julio and Tenoch consumed alcohol marijuana, and ecstasy imported from San Francisco and failed in their dating strategies." "They worried this failure would be the blueprint for the rest of the summer." "At 4 AM, julio vomited in the street." "Around 5 AM, Tenoch smashed his headlight on the way home." "At dawn, Saba had his first experience with group sex." "A week went by and boredom became their daily routine." "Tenoch's father served on the board of a country club so his son had access to the facilities on Mondays when the club was closed for maintenance." "One, ..." "...two, ..." "... three!" "You don't pace yourself, man, that's why you run out of breath." "Like you're the pro." "You beat me by less than two meters." "Two?" "I'd say ten !" "Maybe four." "Let's call it eight." "You're full of shit." "I may be full of shit but you've got one ugly dick" "Looks like a deflated balloon." "So blow it up, asshole!" "Back off, faggot!" "Come on, blow the balloon !" "Back off!" "Six, seven,... eight, nine, ten, eleven...!" "There are more bodyguards than guests!" "Count them!" "The Perez family brought 2, the Guerreros 3 2 for my dad's boss, and a shitload for the President." "Don't forget Herminio" "Shut up, he's my driver." "But he packs a gun, man." "Smart move, sir." "Your son is getting trashed." "Come on, dad." "I already said hi to the President." "The GonzaIez kids are looking for you." "Be nice to them." "It's important." "Sure, dad." "The GonzaIez!" "Remember that fat girl?" "How are you, sweet pea?" "What a bunch of assholes, right?" "A rum  coke, light on the coke." "Do you remember your cousin?" "He wants to be a writer too." "I'II let you two catch up." "Cheers!" "That poor dog." "Uh huh." "Last time we met, you were mourning the loss of a Ninja turtle." "Era un Thunder Cat." "Asì, claro era un Thunder Cat." "It was a Thunder Cat." "Right, whatever." "So you want to be a writer?" "And tell stories about rich brats?" "No, about assholes like you." "It's one thing to write cute stories." "It's another to create literature." "So when do you start?" "Did you read my book?" "I read the reviews." "Critics are assholes." "alejandro Montes de Oca, "Jano", was the nephew of Tenoch's mother." "His father died when he was three," "leaving him to his mother's care." "He escaped her excessive attention by going abroad for a degree." "He was now back after ten years." "Think about it." "Do you really want to be a writer?" "...but it takes a lifetime to be a writer." "This is my cousin, the writer." "It's not only about discipline and technique." "You've got to create your own style." "You need life experiences and honestly, what do you really know about life?" "Yeah, what do you know?" "little bastards!" "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "I  thank you all for joining us  in this humble celebration  In particular, the President   of our country and his lovely wife who took time from his busy schedule to share this special moment with us." "Your presence  is a testimony  of your enormous modesty." "And with the permission of you all..." "I would Iike to wish the bride and the groom every happiness." "hello, nice to meet you." "Hi." "hello." "How's it going?" "Is this boring or what?" "No." "well, a little boring, yes." "Where are you from?" "From Madrid," "Spain." "cool!" "What brings you here?" "My husband is in the family." "On which side?" "On the bride's side." "Can you believe what they did to my suit?" "Yeah, you little prick!" "Luisa Cort,s lost her parents in a car accident when she was ten." "She was brought up by her great-aunt, a Franquista spinster who became sick and Luisa had to take care of her for the Iast five years of her life." "Luisa lived with her until she was 20, when she married Jano." "Four months later, her aunt died." "She had been her last living relative." "What happened?" "Those two brats." "You can't meet the President like this." "A little salt will take it out." "No, you need a new suit." "A little salt." "Come with me!" "Here, hold this" "Keep an eye out for my mother." "Hey  Hey, is that your husband?" "Yes, why?" "Oh nothing, he's my cousin." "What's your name?" "Tenoch" "You're little Tenoch?" "I met you years ago." "You were crying because you lost your Thunder Cat." "You've got a good memory!" "Cigarette?" "Thank you." "Gosh, you're a man now." "Thank you." "So, how long have you been here?" "About a month." "Jano's teaching  at the University." "So, you plan on doing any traveling?" "Jano's leaving for a symposium... ..but I'm staying to fix up the house and to look for a job." "But if we find the time, I'd love to go to the beach." "And you?" "We're going to the beach." "To Puerto Escondido, right?" "Jano told me it was beautiful." "Nah, that place sucks." "It's not beautiful?" "Nah, a bunch of yuppie backpackers and wannabe surfers." "We know a beach nobody knows about." "What's it called?" "Heaven's..." "Heaven's..." "Mouth?" "Heaven's Mouth !" "totally." "It's like paradise!" "Better than paradise." "It's a slice of heaven right here on Earth." "A tropical heaven putting down roots on Earth." "She should come with us." "Yeah, why don't you come?" "Me?" "You'd take me along?" "Of course." "Is there a place to sleep?" "plenty of warm sand underneath a roof of stars." "We can drink coconuts..." "...and bring some forties." "What's that?" "Big bottles of beer." "Jano will love the idea." "Ah, the Mariachis." "The President left an hour later." "He had an urgent meeting with the leaders of his ruling party to appoint the candidates for the upcoming national elections." "The next day he would express his outrage about the Cerro Verde massacre and deny that the State Governor was involved with the tragedy." "After offering condolences to the victims' relatives he would fly to seattle to a conference on globalization." "The days passed, and while Jano was away at a symposium Luisa went to the doctor to get the results of some tests." "In the waiting room, she did a magazine quiz titled "Are You A fully realized Woman?"" "Answering by multiple choice she chose "B" for question 1 :" "Prefers being awake rather than sleeping or dreaming." "For #4, "C":" "values time more highly than money or power." "For #7, "A":" "Thinks more about the present than the past or the future" "She scored 16 points." "The magazine defined her as a woman who is afraid to accept her freedom." "Luisa did not agree." "Think about Conchita's titties." "Those hard nipples." "Nice!" "mm..." "MayeIa's pussy...her wet little bush." "How about your girlfriend's mom?" "Fuck off!" "That art teacher..." "Ms." "Georgina." "She never wore panties." "SaIma Hayek!" "SaImita..." "Güey, tu prima ca'ón." "¿Qué prima güey?" "The Spa  Spanish chick." "hello?" "My love." "Jano!" "Are you OK?" "I'm so drunk." "Go to sleep, we'II talk tomorrow." "I'II be back in two days." "I Iove you so much." "I Iove you too." "I'm an asshole." "I'm a piece of shit." "Go to sleep, you're drunk." "I'm a shit, a shit, a shit." "calm down." "What's wrong?" "Are you OK?" "I slept with another woman." "I'm telling you, I'm a piece of shit." "Luisa..." "Why are you telling me this?" "I Iove you so much." "Why are you telling me this?" "¡Luisa!" "¡Jano!" "¡Luisa!" "¡Luisa!" "I made your sandwich." "It has your favorite cheese." "Thanks, Leo." "hello?" "One moment, please." "It's for you, darling." "hello?" "Hi Tenoch, it's Luisa." "Who?" "Luisa, from Spain." "Yes, yes, yes." "How are you?" "I'm glad I caught you." "Are you still leaving today?" "Where?" "To Heaven's Mouth." "Oh yeah...yeah." "We're leaving this afternoon." "And you're all ready?" "We're working on it." "I was wondering..." "Is the invitation still open?" "hello?" "I guess not." "It's just that..." "It's OK, don't worry." "No...yes, come!" "No, I don't want to bother you." "It's cool." "Just tell us where to pick you up." "I Iive at 52 Machu Picchu Street, # 3-D" "hello?" "still sleeping, you lazy fuck?" "I was up all night watching   videos." "Get your ass moving." "We're going to the beach." "What beach?" "Heaven's Mouth." "It doesn't exist." "I know, but Luisa wants to go." "Luisa who?" "The Spaniard." "Are you kidding?" "Not at all!" "We need your car." "No way." "It won't make it, the radiator's fucked plus it's my sister's turn to use it." "Let's take yours." "My dad took it away because of the smashed headlight and for not taking Economics." "What a prick." "julio Zapata lived with his mother and his sister." "He had not seen his father since he was five." "His mother was a secretary in a corporation where she had been working  all her life." "His sister ManueIa was a political Science major at the national University of Mexico and a Ieft-wing activist." "After a difficult negotiation, julio managed to borrow the car for 5 days." "In exchange, she would get it for the following 3 weeks so she and her friends could drive to Chiapas to deliver food, clothing, and medicine." "Beer!" "Beer!" "Beer!" "Beer!" "Condoms!" "Where's your size?" "In the deli, with the giant saIamis." "...after PuebIa, just take the back roads the landscape is a total killer." "Got it." "Then follow this road." "That's not a road, asshole, it's a river!" "Fuckin' river." "Which way do we go, man?" "Take the road to Oaxaca but watch out for roadblocks." "Hide your buddha where they can't find it and drive like a saint." "It's trippy...you drive by this massive Coke bottle..." "Saba, we're in a hurry!" "totally!" "...and there's this cow, remember I told you?" "And then what?" "What?" "The beach, asshole!" "Right." "Just look for this dirt road follow it to the end." "There it is." "hello?" "I'II be right down." "Grow up, asshole!" "Hey, don't kick my car!" "So, what do you do?" "What do I Iook like?" "sociologist." "cold." "philosopher." "cold." "No." "psychologist." "Do I Iook like that?" "A Victoria's Secret model?" "Freezing!" "We give up." "I'm a certified dental technician." "What's that?" "They're the ones who suck out your drool at the dentist's." "Right?" "Yes." "Why did you pick that?" "It wasn't my fantasy, OK?" "When I played with my dolls I didn't pretend to suck out their drool." "Then why?" "I lived with my aunt who got sick." "I was 16, and I had to find work fast." "In 4 months I had a dental technician's  certificate." "But what did you really want to do?" "I never did very well at school all I wanted to do was travel travel and see the world." "Yeah, I Iove taking trips." "Yeah, on acid." "You've never been on a plane!" "Yes I have!" "Three times, big deal." "You really thought I was a philosopher?" "You look like a thinker." "And you're married to Jano." "Luisa was never comfortable at Jano's dinners with his artist and intellectual friends." "There was always someone, whether with good intentions or not  whether with good intentions or not who would press Luisa for an opinion during their debates." "Her reply was always humble:" ""I don't know about those things."" "She often thought about challenging the guests to see if anyone could name every tooth in the right order." "She never dared." "Hey CharoIastra, send up some munchies." "What's this "Charo"?" "..." "CharoIastra?" ""Charo" is kind of a Mexican cowboy, so it's something like "astral cowboy"." "actually, daniel didn't understand the Iyrics to this english song." "Char-oIas-tra,...char-o-Io..." "But it was really Saba who came up with... it while on mushrooms." "... it while on mushrooms." "So daniel and Saba are both "CharoIastras"?" "Yeah, but Saba  is way into altered states and expanding consciousness." "You mean mysticism?" "No, drugs." "He's drifting away." "We hardly ever see daniel since he came out of the closet." "That bothers you?" "No, it's not that." "He's just into other things." "But he's still in the club." "There's also Pecas, but she's only an honorary member." "She wouldn't sign our Manifesto." "You have a Manifesto?" "Sure." "What does it say?" "Top secret." "Can't tell you." "We'd have to kill you." "One:" "There's no greater honor than being a CharoIastra." "Two:" "Do whatever you feel like." "Three:" "Pop beats poetry." "Four:" "Get high at  least once a day." "Saba's proposal, not mandatory." "Five:" "You shall not screw a fellow CharoIastra's girlfriend." "Six:" "Whoever roots for Team America is a faggot." "Seven :" "Whacking off rules!" "Eight:" "Never marry a virgin." "Nine:" "Whoever roots for team America" "No, you said that." "It's worth repeating." "Ten :" "Truth is cool but unattainable." "What?" "The truth is totally amazing,  but you can't ever reach it." "And eleven :" "The asshole who breaks any of the previous rules Ioses his title of "CharoIastra."" "You should give your Manifesto  to the government." "Nah, politicians are assholes." "julio and Tenoch told Luisa many stories." "Each one reinforced their bond creating an inseparable entity." "Their stories, although adorned by personal mythologies, were true." "But as truth is always partial, some facts were omitted." "It was never mentioned how julio lit matches to hide the smell after he used Tenoch's bathroom." "Or that Tenoch used his foot to lift the toilet seat at julio's house." "Those were details that one didn't need to know about the other." "Do you have girlfriends?" "Yes, Ceci." "Ana Bananas." "Bananas?" "Yeah." "Where are they now?" "traveling around Europe." "really?" "Where?" "mostly around italy." "Supposed to be cool." "You know why?" "Why do you think girls go to italy?" "The clothes?" "For a vacation." "The men !" "ItaIians are awesome." "No." "You don't know our chicks." "Fuckin' right!" "Ceci would never cheat on me." "She wants to tattoo my name on her tit." "I de-virginized Ana." "I'm the only one she wants." "That's sweet." "Your girls are lucky to have such cool boyfriends." "Are CharoIastras faithful?" "absolutely." "Good." "As it should be." "Have you ever cheated on Jano?" "Me, unfaithful?" "please!" "Has he ever cheated on you?" "Jano has always needed reaffirmation." "really?" "Then..." "Go get some beers." "Where did you meet him?" "At a bar in Madrid." "I bet he was wasted., echando Ia Iabia..." "No, he was sober." "It was me who was wasted." "And?" "I saw this sharp guy, full of attitude." "I guess I fell for his cute Mexican accent." "What did you see in him?" "I don't know." "We have a Iot in common." "Like what?" "Like he has no father and I'm an orphan." "His mother is a ballbreaker,  just like my aunt." "My poor aunt." "It was so sad." "I watched her waste away." "Jano was the only  one there for me." "Anyway, cheers!" "Cheers." "would you Iike to order?" "Thank you" "See you" "Good night" "Shit!" "The little one's for you !" "SpIiff?" "Coming right up." "Do you think Ana and Ceci are fucking any ItaIians?" "No way!" "There's piss all over." "You really don't think so?" "Nah." "ItaIians are fags anyway." "totally." "Think your cousin wants to get laid?" "Seems like Jano's been cheating on her big time." "Ps, habrá que redimirIa, ¿no?" "Maybe we can heal her pain and make her happy." " What!" "Let's go!" "Hey, guys!" "Coming..." "still in bed?" "Let's go." "We'II never make it to the beach." "Come on, lazy shit." "julio,  let's go." "Now?" "cool!" "early bird special." "But can you drive like that?" "You won't even feel the curves." "It's high-grade dog shit." "Very tasty dog shit." "Sticky, huh?" "You smoke a Iot?" "Now and then." "You?" "Not usually." "A joint and a beer...aah !" "Tenoch realized he had never visited TepeImeme the birthplace of Leodegaria Victoria, his nanny who emigrated to Mexico City when she was 13." "She found work at Tenoch's family and had cared for him since he was born." "He called her "mommy" until he was 4 years old." "Tenoch did not share this with the others." "Give me a little more." "Here, got some for everybody." "I saw you last night." "What?" "You know what I'm talking about..." "No, what?" "You think it's cool to spy on women in their hotel rooms?" "It was his idea." "And you just followed him?" "You wanted to see me naked?" "No, it wasn't that." "You wanted to see me naked and go whack off." "How can you say that?" "tell me something have you ever had sex with girls besides your girlfriends?" "A few." "bullshit!" "He's only fucked his chick." "You're wrong, asshole!" "Who else?" "FIavia." "That's bullshit!" "You blew your load putting on the condom!" "What is that" "A donation for the Queen?" "What about you, Tenoch?" "Ever had sex with other girls?" "Two or three." "Two or three skanks!" "What are skanks?" "Whores." "You go to whores?" "No." "Your Queen is very pretty!" "I'm not going to whores." "For sure you are!" "That's not true!" "Good-bye." "Good-bye!" "Did you fuck a Iot of guys before Jano?" "I started too late and met Jano too early." "You were a virgin?" "No." "No, I had a boyfriend before him." "And he gave it to you." "Wham, bam!" "actually, yes." "really?" "The first time, he took me to this factory where his uncle worked as a nightwatch." "I was so scared, I barely knew him." "I thought he wanted to kiss me but he deflowered me." "It hurt so badly," "I thought I'd never do it again." "But we did it every time we saw each other." "I thought he just wanted to have sex..." "No, he also wanted to chat a little." "He really fell in love with me." "Who wouldn't?" "He'd pick me up from school on his motorbike, his bomber jacket...." "It was amazing." "I'd always play hooky..." "Hooky, huh?" "That too!" "playing hooky means cutting class." "I just wanted to be with him." "We'd go to the most beautiful places  on his motorbike." "We planned to go to the French Riviera." "Me too." "A friend found him a job there as a waiter." "We were so excited." "He had a ponytail, a broken tooth and an earring." "I was so in love with him." "So in love..." "Then Jano the stud came along and stole you." "So what happened?" "He was killed in an accident." "Shit." "He was 17." "If they had passed this spot ...they would have encountered a pair of cages lying on the road and then driven through a cloud of white feathers." "Five yards later, they would come across a pile of broken cages filled with bleeding chickens flapping their wings." "And after that, a truck on its side, still smoldering." "Beyond, they would see two bodies on the road one smaller than the other, barely covered by a jacket." "And next to them, a woman crying inconsolably." "Give me a cigarette." "Don't!" "This song rules!" "The batteries are dead." "Put the radio on." "Hide the stash." "It's cool." "Don't look at them." "Look, they got busted." "Don't look at them!" "What's up?" "Good heavens." "Look what just woke up!" "Must be the heat." "You got a woody?" "And how!" "That little weenie?" "Mine's only 5 millimeters shorter than yours." "5 millimeters?" "Dream on !" "You measured them?" "Yeah." "His is butt-ugIy." "How so?" "It's got a freakin' hood." "Yummy, hoods!" "You see?" "The dude's got an ugly one." "How do you make love to your girlfriends?" "Super suave." "passionately." "Lots of abra..." ""Abra"?" "Abracadabra." " But how do you turn them on?" "First, a little foreplay, heat up the oven." "Some kisses on the titties, a couple of love bites." "And then?" "Then I ram it home." "What else?" "I bang her till she begs for mercy." "That's it?" "Ceci twists and moans," "like an oyster with lime." "Ana cries." "Poor thing." "No, from pleasure!" "I can imagine." "In the missionary position?" "Missionary, standing, doggie." "Ana likes to be on top,... sitting down.." "... sitting down even 69." "The whole Kama Sutra." "Everything?" "Everything." "You ever wiggle your finger up the ass?" "Ass?" "Be careful, man !" "When will it be ready?" "probably tomorrow." "Tomorrow?" "Where are we supposed to stay?" "cool hat." "Keep it." "really?" "Yes." "Thanks!" "Thank you." "That's my name." "Luisita." "That's a pretty name." "Hi, Jano, I know you're not back until tomorrow..." "I'm calling because I didn't leave you a note,  maybe to worry you." "I wanted to disappear from your life, no warning - gone." "Now I realize that's wrong." "So this is my note but I don't even know what to tell you." "I met a woman named Do?" "a Martina." "She's 98..." "...and she remembers everything since she was 5." "Imagine everything she's lived and everything you would never get a chance to live." "Your mother sent the mousse you Iike, it's in the fridge." "Don't forget to pay the phone bill, it's on your desk." "And pick up your shirts from the cleaners." "Don't go there anymore, they ruin your clothes." "Anyway take care of yourself." "Bye" "Get me some shampoo." "Shampoo." "please." "Luisa..." "Oh, I'm sorry..." "It's all right, come in." "Are you okay?" "It must be the heat, and the Iong drive." "could we borrow some shampoo?" "Take off the towel." "What?" "Take it off." "The towel?" "Yes, the towel." "Take it off, Tenoch." "Don't hide it." "You get excited so quickly." "I guess." "You lied, it curves to the Ieft." "What?" "You said it curved to the right, but it curves left." "It's just like I imagined." "Why don't you stroke it?" "Stroke it?" "Here?" "Stroke it." "Touch yourself." "should I help you?" "Do you want to see my tits?" "Yeah." "only if you touch yourself." "Come over here." "closer." "I'm so wet." "Do you want to feel me?" "Yes." "feel me." "Eat me, please." "But take my panties off first." "Yes, yes." "No, come up here." "Come, Tenoch." "¡Ay, mamacita!" "¡Mamacita!" "I'm sorry." "Don't worry, it's all right." "julio couldn't understand what he was feeling" " it wasn't rage." "The only time he had felt this pain in his stomach  was when he was 8 when he woke up thirsty one night, and on his way to the kitchen found his mother in his godfather's arms." "julio walked away quietly and never... mentioned the incident to anyone." "What's up, dude?" "Not much." "feel like a race?" "Nah, it's full of leaves." "We can clean them out." "Let's go." "You let me win, asshole." "You didn't have to." "I fucked Ana." "What?" "You heard me." "I fucked your girlfriend." "Tenoch had only felt this pain in his stomach  when he was 11 when he saw a photo of his father on the front page of a newspaper." "The article linked him to a scandal involving the sale of contaminated food to the poor." "Tenoch and his family moved to Vancouver for 8 months." "He never questioned why." "No one told Luisa about julio's confession." "nevertheless, she noticed a great tension between the two friends." "She assumed that her transgression had disrupted a natural balance that only she could restore." "Good night." "Good night." "Good night, Tenoch." "You're not sleeping with Luisa?" "How many times did you fuck her?" "Just once." "We were really wasted." "When?" "Forget about it." "tell me when." "I don't know." "You don't know, asshole?" "When you went to Lake Tahoe." "And where was CeciIia?" "Sick." "Where did you do it?" "Her house?" "No." "Then where?" "I think it was at a party." "What party, asshole?" "I think at Fruit Loop's place." "When Saba popped her cherry?" "I think so." "Why are you laughing, fucker?" "About Saba..." "Don't laugh, faggot!" "Who started it?" "Los 2 güey, estábamos" "Both of us." "We were shitfaced." "Where'd you do it?" "In the little sister's room." "What was Ana wearing?" "I don't remember." "Skirt or pants?" "Which panties was she wearing?" "What?" "Which panties, asshole!" "White ones." "Did she blow you, pig?" "No, of course not!" "Look me in the eyes!" "Did she blow you?" "No." "Did you eat her out?" " Of course not!" "Did she come?" "How would I know?" "It happened so fast." "Did she like it?" "How am I supposed to know?" "Did you Iike it, asshole?" "No." "I felt like shit." "I wanted to tell you." "Go to hell, fucker!" "You fucked my trust, you fucked my girl, asshole!" "You fucked me!" "I'm the biggest loser, bringing you comics from Lake Tahoe and a dress for Ana, that slut!" "That's fucked up." "I'm sorry, man." "I didn't mean it." "Didn't mean it?" "You don't fuck a girl by accident!" "You don't fuck her!" "It went on like that all night." "Tenoch searched  for every possible detail trying to put together a puzzle with pieces that didn't always fit." "while julio molded these details trying to create a less painful truth." "Do?" "a Martina gave Luisa the figure of the mouse with her name on it." "It had belonged to her granddaughter, Luisa Obregón who had died of a heat stroke 15 years ago, while crossing the border in Arizona with her parents, seeking a better life." "Luisa thought that even after people die, they are still present." "She wondered how long she would continue to live in the memory of others." "But she preferred not to think about death." "julio you got a little hot too?" "Yeah." "The heat..." "Where are you going?" "Get back in front, girl!" "I'm totally against this!" "You came into my room, Tenoch but it might have been julio just as well." "Think I'm your chauffeur?" "Go fuck yourselves!" "Fucking pigs!" "But Tenoch..." "relax." "Me, me, me." "julio,..." "My sandals." "Huh?" "careful..." "My panties." "Give it to me." "feel me." "Easy..." "Look at me..." "Look at me..." "Wait!" "I'm sorry." "It's all right." "I'm sorry." "Tenoch..." "Hey, don't be that way." "Isn't this what you wanted?" "Wasn't that your plan?" "To take me away and screw me?" "Wasn't that it?" "So?" "I'm stupid." "You know what I should've done?" "Not slept with either of you." "I never meant to hurt anybody." "You believe me?" "I'm sorry, all right?" "Yes." "Come on, Iet's go." "Me too." "You too what?" "Me too, you faggot." "You too what?" "I fucked your girlfriend Ceci." "You did not." "When?" "After the PIastiIina concert." "Motherfucker!" "That's why you dropped me off first?" "Where?" "In my house." "In your house, asshole?" "In my room." "Panties with flowers." "You slept with his girlfriend?" "This asshole also fucked mine!" "What about number 3?" "Number 3?" "Your Manifesto, not to screw each other's girlfriends." "That's number 5!" "Get out of the car, fucker!" "I'm gonna rip you in half!" "Fuck off." "Open up, you faggot!" "cool it, guys!" "classic white trash, fuckin' peasant." "This fucking peasant is gonna rip your head off!" "Don't make me laugh !" "Get out, fucking yuppie." "julio...!" "Kiss my ass." "please, julio." "You stay out of this!" "That's it!" "You can go fuck yourselves!" "I'm such an idiot!" "I thought you'd be different, but you're just animals!" "Your Manifesto is a bunch of bullshit!" "Like idiots, breaking your own rules!" "typical men !" "Fighting like dogs and marking their territory." "What you really want is to fuck each other that's what you want!" "Who cares who you two fucked, when you come that fast!" "play with babies and you'II end up washing diapers!" "You see?" "Open up!" "You did it!" "She's leaving." "It's your fault!" "How could you fuck my Ceci?" "That slut!" "Now we're even." "Even my ass!" "Get down on your knees and beg forgiveness like I did last night!" "Okay, I'm sorry." "On your knees, asshole!" "Get over it, man, she's gonna catch a ride." "Come out and kneel down." "Step back." "If you want me to get out, step back." "Further back!" "I'm not gonna touch you." "Okay, I'm sorry." "Both knees." "I'm sorry, for God's sake." "Sorry for what?" "I'm sorry I fucked your girlfriend Ceci, okay?" "Okay what?" "Get over it, Iet's go get her." "How many times did you fuck her?" "Once, what do you think I am?" "Let's get this straight:" "We're going to the beach together but your friendship means shit to me!" "It was already shit to me." "Fuck you !" "Luisa...!" "Luisa, get in !" "Yeah, come on." "Kiss my ass!" "I'm catching a bus to Puerto Escondido." "To hell with you and your Heaven's Mouth." "We want to go with you." "So you can fight like dogs?" "We promise, we won't fight." "We swear on it!" "I don't want to be on a deserted beach with a pair of assholes." "We admit we're idiots." "We'II do whatever you want." "You'II be the boss." "We're almost there!" "We're really close!" "If I come, we do things my way." "Okay?" "You totally lost it, julio." "One:" "I won't screw either of you." "You can screw each other, if you Iike." "Two:" "I'm going to sunbathe naked and I don't want you sniffing around like dogs." "Three:" "I pick the music." "Four:" "The moment I ask, please shut your mouths." "Five:" "You cook." "Six:" "No stories about your poor girlfriends." "Seven :" "If I ask, stay 10 yards from me." "Or better 100." "Eight:" "obviously, you do all the manual labor." "Nine:" "You may not speak of things you don't agree on." "Even better, just keep your mouths shut!" "And ten :" "You're not allowed to contradict me." "Much less push me!" "julio and Tenoch had clearly no idea where they were nor how to get to a place that did not exist." "Saba's directions were contradictory." "Fearing that Luisa would find out, julio turned right, onto a dirt road." "julio and Tenoch thought Luisa was asleep." "They did not notice the fear that kept her awake." "Her fear had nothing to do with the darkness or the surroundings" "Jesús Carranza, known as Chuy, and his wife MabeI were the fourth generation of a family of fishermen." "They lived nearby in San Bernab, a nature preserve." "Chuy offered to give them a tour of the beaches the next day." "He would charge them 350 pesos, including food." "Can I drive?" "No." "I know boats, man." "Go ahead." "Just don't go too fast." "I know boats, man." "There!" "Great swimming beach." "What's it called?" "Heaven's Mouth." "Whoa..." "Lucero, leave the lady alone!" "It's okay, she's teaching me how to swim." "Let me help you." "It's okay, I got it." "Go swim with your buddy." "The water is warm." "Let's see you float like a corpse." "Whoa, she's really dead..." "¡Pero Lucero...!" "He's a crybaby, he whines all night  and wakes up Mommy." "He only stops crying when I hold him." "He just likes being with his sister,  so pretty." "She has your eyes, MabeI." "You should have children, ma'am." "You're just the right age." "He fell asleep." "What do I do?" "Ramon passes  Zepeda rushes down along the sideline and the stadium goes wild!" "stolen by The Emperor." "What a player!" "still waiting for the guest of honor  the goal." "Shoot, dammit!" "A pass to Cuauht,moc who cuts to the middle towards the goal he shoots and what a save!" "Saved by Campos!" "¡Campos!" "The great goalie!" "A national hero!" "Don't you Iike Campos?" "Do you ever wish you could live forever?" "Sure." "WouIdn't it be great?" "At the end of the year, Chuy and his family will have to leave their home to make way for the construction of an exclusive hotel to be built on the nature preserve of San Bernab,." "They will relocate to the outskirts of Santa Maria CoIotepec." "Chuy will attempt to give boat tours but a collective of acapulco boatmen supported by the local Tourism Board, ...will block him." "Two years later, he'II end up as a janitor at the hotel." "He will never fish again." "holy shit." "What the fuck..." "Step on it, Chuy!" "Get the fuck outta here!" "They're shitting in the tent!" "Fuckin' bastards!" "There's still a pig in here!" "Out!" "Yes, you !" "Hey, you're throwing shit at me!" "Beat it, bastards." "Fuckin' bastards!" "The pigs rendered the campground uninhabitabIe." "julio and Tenoch decided to spend the night in San Bernab, where Chuy offered them a room with electricity and water for 75 pesos." "Luisa looked forward to a shower, even with cold water." "They would return the next day to strike the camp." "The 23 pigs had escaped from a nearby ranch." "Over the next two months,  14 would be slaughtered." "Three of them would provoke an outbreak of trichinosis among those who attended a festival at the Chavar¡n Ranch." "I don't know, Jano, tell your mother whatever you want." "Let me talk or I'II hang up." "Thank you." "I was going to leave anyway your confession just made it easier." "I thank you for that." "No, this is not about revenge." "I always knew about your affairs." "With Carmen and that girl from barcelona" "I always knew everything." "I only hoped you would change, that's all." "No, my decision has nothing to do with that, believe me." "I can't explain it now, but soon you'II understand." "No, I don't blame you there's nobody to blame." "Of course I don't hate you !" "And please, don't hate me." "Listen to me!" "I called to tell you that I Iove you, and that you were my whole life." "I don't expect this to be a happy farewell, but maybe a tender one." "Jano, calm down please." "Did you notice I hardly took any money?" "No, I have more than I need." "I Ieft my keys in the kitchen, with the spare set." "Don't lose the closet key,  it's the only one." "I took your Ibiza T-shirts you know I Iove to sleep in them." "Anyway, I hope you'II learn to be happy, okay?" "I am now." "Take care of yourself." "Goodbye." "To all of Jano's mistresses!" "You know how I knew?" "How?" " He tried things on me that he learned from them." "Like the finger in the ass?" "For example!" "No shit!" "But you have to know how." "delicately, with finesse." "Don't just jam it up there." "Jano was a master of finesse." "To the master of finesse!" "To Jano!" "To Jano, wherever he may be." "I loved meeting you, really." "Sometimes, you're complete assholes but basically, you're pretty cool guys." "Fuckin' right!" "You're so lucky to live in Mexico." "Look, it breathes with life." "To Mexico!" "To Mexico!" "Magical!" "Musical!" "Hey, are you friends again?" "¡" "No way!" "Go on, make peace." "So I'm white trash, asshole?" "Total fucking white trash." "That goober you spit at me!" "Fuck you, it's my car." "And I'm some fucking yuppie?" "Okay, a preppie." "But you love coming to my house, social climber!" "Only to get a taste of what your old man robs." "Isn't your dad an honest man?" "Yeah, right!" "What idiots!" "Now you're friends again." "To the Charolastras!" "Beer, anyone?" "Make sure they're cold." "Hey Luisa..." "I'm sorry I pushed you." "well, you should be!" "I know." "Give me a kiss." "Forgiven." "Luisa, tell me the truth." "Truth." "Who of us fucks better?" "You crack me up." "Despite the fiasco, you each have your own charms." "But who made you feel better?" "When he comes, he says "Mamacita!"" "¡Mamacita, mamacita!" "But Julio, you cross your eyes." "You both have to quit whacking off and work up your resistance." "I bet he came before me!" "Both of you, stop whacking off." "We can't!" "#7 in the Manifesto!" "Eliminate it." "¡ Chuy, nothing like tooting the old horn, huh?" "To spanking the monkey!" "No, leave the monkeys alone." "Until you learn how to fuck properly." "While we're on the subject..." "These boys don't know how to go down on a girl." "I never got the chance!" "I'm sure you're as green as he is." "No," "You were slurping like this was a lollipop." "You have to be gentle." "You have to make the clitoris your best friend." "What kind of friend is always hiding?" "What you seek, you find." "The greatest pleasure is giving pleasure." "Absolutely." "Hail the clit!" "To the clitoris!" "Truth." "Swear to me, the truth." "Truth." "Did Ceci blow you?" "The truth is she bites a little." "She did blow you !" "Does Ana bite too?" "No, she gives real nice head." "You said she didn't blow you !" "Just the tip." "She missed the main course." "Chuy, don't blowjobs rule?" "To blowjobs!" "Since we're spilling our guts I fucked Ceci a few times." "No big deal." "I poked Ana a bunch of times." "Yuck, I've been stirring your vanilla!" "Me too." "So we're milk brothers!" "Those poor girls, I feel sorry for them." "Chuy, this asshole fucked my chick!" "But he comes lickety-split." "To your girls, who are probably screwing 10 Italians as we speak!" "Let's toast!" "To Luigi!" "To Francesco!" "To Tiberio!" "Do you have some coins?" "Who wants the worm?" "I'll take it." "Hey, Tenoch..." "And your mom too." "Are you kidding?" "For real." "The day she cleaned my aura." "Are you serious?" "Totally!" "To mothers!" "What do you wanna hear?" "I need a number and a letter." "Number 13." "The letter B." "Past Heaven's Mouth, you'll find Palicata Bay." "Santa Rita is around there." "And Chacagua." "Beautiful names." "What do they mean?" "Who knows?" "Morning, sleepy head." "Want some eggs?" "A little shrimp soup?" "please." "And a beer." "The best cure." "I gotta get going." "I promised my sister the car." "That's fine." "How's that Cha-...?" "Chacagua." "Is there anything beyond Chacagua?" "Amaranto and Playa de Oro." "Very pretty waves, but lots of people drown there." "The sunsets are beautiful, though." "Another shrimp soup, please." "No, thanks." "I better get going." "My folks will start to worry." "Julio also has to return the car to his sister." "I'll stay here with Mabel." "They'll show me some beaches." "I'm hungry, Ma." "Here, have some." "At 1 PM, Julio and Tenoch began their journey back home." "It was a very quiet, uneventful trip." "Their families never knew about the trip to the beach with Luisa." "She stayed behind to begin her exploration of the local coves." "The last thing she told Tenoch and julio was:" ""Life is like the surf, so give yourself away like the sea."" "When they returned from Europe Ana and Cecilia broke up with Tenoch and Julio." "Two months later, Tenoch started dating his neighbor." "9 months later, Julio started dating a girl from his French class." "Julio and Tenoch stopped seeing each other." "The following summer, the ruling party ...lost the presidential election..." "...for the first time in 71 years." "julio ran into Tenoch on the way to the dentist." "Going for a cup of coffee was easier than making excuses to avoid it." "Have you seen Saba?" "No, but I heard he's living in a hippie town." "Cool." "Daniel?" "Total queen at this point." "His dad kicked him out." "That sucks." "Nah, the fucker's happy." "Got a boyfriend and everything." "That's cool." "I got accepted at the University." "Cool." "When do you start?" "In September." "Economics?" "Yep." "And you?" "biology." "I start next week." "That sucks." "Community college starts earlier." "Did you hear about Luisa?" "No." "What?" "She died." "No way." "Anything else, guys?" "No thanks." "How?" "Cancer." "She had it all over." "Right there, in San Bernab, a month after we left." "Chuy called Jano." "And that's it." "Wow." "That's terrible." "She knew all along." "She didn't want anyone to know." "Luisa spent her last 4 days in the hospital in Santa Maria Colotepec." "At her request, Chuy and Mabel never mentioned her adventure with Julio and Tenoch." "She gave Lucero the little stuffed mouse named Luisa." "Tenoch excused himself." "His girlfriend was waiting for him at the movies." "julio insisted on paying the check." "They will never meet again." "See you." "Sure." "Check, please." "translation :" "Luyz"