Pedro's Choice

Rebecca Mazzoli

Pedro Perez is a 24-year-old fry cook at a local diner. He had aspirations to become a doctor, but funds were always tight growing up. His father left when Pedro was young, and he found himself being the main support for his three younger sisters, his mother, and his ailing grandmother. Although he had natural propensities to read and write, Pedro was forced to drop out of school at the age of 15 to support the growing needs of his family. Pedro’s concern for the health of his grandmother grew as it quickly became apparent that his salary from the diner was not going to be sufficient to support her.
He works with Sanchez, another fry cook at his diner. Sanchez and Pedro quickly became friends since they had a lot in common. The two of them would work a lot of late night shifts at the diner and that is where they did all their bonding since there were a lot of slow nights. The two would talk about girls, family, and money in fact that was all they talked about. One night after they closed up the diner they both walked out together. Pedro started to walk towards the bus stop right in front of the diner. As Sanchez noticed this he yelled out to him.
“Pedro where are you going, don’t take the bus I’ll just give you a ride”
Sanchez looked off guard. “Are you sure man its late”
“Of course don’t worry”.
Pedro starts to walk back into the parking lot and quickly thought the beat up Honda Civic was Sanchez’s car. When he notices Sanchez unlocking a Mercedes G-Wagon beside the Honda Civic he was shocked and felt stupid for judging Sanchez.
“Wow, nice car dude”.
“Thanks bro took me a lot to save up for it”.
Ask about the car