Eugenia

1 His mother and Eugenia were staring at Moss, and there was no pity or sadness in their eyes.

2 Mother’s spent my entire life trying to convince people to call me by my given name, Eugenia.

3 “Don’t take the Lord’s name in vain, Eugenia Phelan. Just put some lipstick on.”

4 María Eugenia, the oldest of the three little sisters, has joined us at the front window.

5 Eugenia turned away after that, trying to pretend like no one had seen her start to cry.

6 “Hola, Moss,” she said, her accent giving his name a softness, “it’s nice to meet you. Eugenia.”

7 “I never thought Constantine would go to Illinois with her, Eugenia. Honestly, I was... sorry to see her go.”

8 His mom looped her arm around Moss, and he took Eugenia’s hand.

9 “Eugenia”—Missus Whitworth smiles—“I understand you aim to be a writer. What kinds of things do you like to write?”

10 Eugenia sobbed harder, collapsing into Moss’s shoulder, and Moss wasn’t certain he could stay upright much longer.

11 Eugenia pulled a piece of paper out of her pocket.

12 “I don’t mean to bury you in our troubles, but things have been pretty hard here, Eugenia. We were worried sick after all that mess last year. With the other one.”

13 “The last editors’ meeting is in six days, Eugenia.

14 “Eugenia, march upstairs and brush your hair down, what if we have an unexpected visitor?”

15 “Eugenia, I told you, her sister was sick so she went up to Chicago to live with her people,” she says.

16 Eugenia helped run a beauty supply store farther down in East Oakland, out past Fruitvale, and she’d been there for over a decade, they learned.

17 Eugenia was there at his side, and she reached over to his face, put her hand on the side of it, touched him gingerly.

18 “Eugenia,” she says, exhaling her cigarette smoke into the phone.

19 It was Eugenia, standing behind Moss, who grabbed the back of his shirt and pulled.

20 “Well, I guess it’s time for bed. I’ll let you young people alone. Eugenia?”

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