Marven’s First Novel, chapter17
One early afternoon, Beatriz and Mauricia were sitting next to each other, busy with stacking freshly-fried pancakes along with other portable foods that they have prepared into a square basket as large as the cooler for drinks lying close to it. The ever-mild-mannered Oliver was also there; and he just placed some finished products on the table and is now back bent down at the earthen stove that is placed on the ground and fueled by wood at its lower compartment to oversee the cooking of its last batch in the pan. It was smoking a little bit, and he was perspiring a little bit too. The front yard where all this preparation took place belonged to Mang Ernesto, Beatriz's brethren in the church whose daughter, Ingrid, is her student in the public school. In fact, some of Ingrid's classmates were, at the moment, present in the house, some inside with her, some in the front yard with Beatriz, and some outside the fence near to where Mauricia's pickup truck was parked.