Summary

The driver cannot take them any closer and apologizes when he stops the bus. They pay him with a few coins and he lets them out. The migrants walk up a hill to a motel and the coyote gets them one room to share. They are quiet and exhausted, and Javier thinks about what the migrants may do once their journey concludes. He wonders what he is going to do with his own life and considers being a chef.

Once they arrive at the motel, Patricia intends for Javier and Carla to share the single bed with her. Javier is nervous about sleeping in the bed with the two of them in case he does something embarrassing overnight. He obsesses over what will happen “if, when I’m sleeping, I fart and I wake both of them? ¿What if I drool? ¿What if...