Esa noche, Ana le pidió a su mamá que le prohibiera a Luzbella salir de su cuarto cuando Tony viniera a visitarla.

La mamá le pidió una explicación a su hija sobre esta solicitud, y Ana solo dijo: "Yo sé por qué lo hago".

Tony, como siempre, iba todas las tardes a visitar a Ana, pero en realidad lo que deseaba era ver a Luzbella, y como nunca la veía, decidió no ir más a la casa de su novia. Su ausencia se asumió como un rompimiento.

Ana estaba decaída. Dejó de comer y convirtió su cuarto en una cárcel, hasta que el 1 de noviembre, día de los Santos, salió de su casa y se dirigió al cementerio. Casualmente, ese día estaban haciendo operativos de limpieza para que el día de los muertos los familiares no notaran el abandono del camposanto.

Ana buscó a un obrero que estaba sacando agua de una fosa que tenía filtraciones. Habló con él un rato, le dio un morral y salió a hacer unas compras. Luego como a las dos horas regresó al cementerio y ubicó de nuevo al obrero, quien le entregó el bolso.

En la noche, Ana se ofreció para preparar la cena de la familia. Tenía tiempo sin hacerlo, Luzbella salió de su cuarto y saludó a Ana con cariño. Ella respondió sin mucha efusividad.

Luego. Cuando trató de llamar a su mamá, un vómito amarillo y fétido le inundó la boca. Su nariz era una fuente de líquidos viscerales. No habían pasado cinco minutos cuando Luzbella estaba en el suelo, convulsionando.

Su madre corrió a la cocina cuando escuchó el golpe de la caída, Ana fue detrás de ella; y vieron a Luzbella convulsionar y revolcarse como un animal furioso. Sus ojos estaban llenos de sangre, su nariz se había afilado aún más, su tez era una mezcla de colores amarillo, morado y verde.

La mamá de Luzbella llamó a los bomberos para llevar a su hija al hospital. Cuando llegaron al nosocomio, tuvieron que amarrar a Luzbella, porque esta furiosa. Parecía un animal herido. Le pusieron un calmante y ninguno le hacía efecto, entonces un Doctor le dijo a su madre:

Esa niña está poseída por un demonio. Hay que llamer al sacerdote. La ciencia médica no puede hacer nada.

Ana fue a buscar al sacerdote y le contó todo lo que le había pasado con su hermana,. El cura tomó una cruz de madera, una botella con agua bendita y la Biblia. Cuando llegó al hospital, pidió que lo dejaran solo con la paciente. Al principio, los gritos de Luzbella eran escalofriantes, y luego se dejaron de escuchar, entonces el médico dijo:

Ya todo volvió a la calma.

Pero cuando abrieron la cortina, encontraron al cura muerto, y a Luzbella también.

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When Luzbella was born, everyone joked about her name, for it truly seemed as though God had denied her any trace of beauty. Her eyes were large and almond-shaped; her nose was aquiline, and her lips were very full. Everything about her face was out of proportion.

Her older sisters would say, "Mom should have just named her Luz, because the 'bella' part was nowhere to be found."

Even so, Luzbella didn't feel ugly. In fact, she spent all day looking at herself in the mirror, asking, "I'm getting prettier all the time, aren't I, Mom?"

And her mother would always say yes, even without looking at her.

When Luzbella turned fourteen and got her period for the first time, a dramatic change came over her body and face.

Almost overnight, she shot up in height, and her hips became voluptuous, as did her breasts. Her waist was tiny, and her face took on an exotic look. Now, everything seemed perfectly in proportion to her size.

In the neighborhood, they called her "the filly," "the bombshell," and "the knockout."

All the compliments described her as a woman with large, attractive curves. This began to make her older sisters uncomfortable. In fact, Ana developed an intense jealousy toward Luzbella—feelings that only grew when her boyfriend, Tony, once remarked, "Ana, your little sister is the most beautiful girl in this house."

That day, Ana and Tony argued late into the night over Luzbella; he even raised the possibility of ending the relationship, saying he didn't want to date someone pathologically jealous. But Ana clung to his neck and begged him not to leave her.

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That night, Ana asked her mother to forbid Luzbella from leaving her room whenever Tony came to visit.

Her mother asked for an explanation regarding this request, but Ana simply said, "I know why I'm doing it."

Tony, as always, went to visit Ana every afternoon, but what he really wanted was to see Luzbella; since he never saw her, he decided to stop going to his girlfriend's house. His absence was taken to mean they had broken up.

Ana was despondent. She stopped eating and turned her room into a prison, until November 1st—All Saints' Day—when she left the house and headed to the cemetery. Coincidentally, cleanup operations were underway that day so that, come the Day of the Dead, relatives wouldn't notice the neglected state of the graveyard.

Ana sought out a worker who was bailing water out of a leaking grave. She spoke with him for a while, handed him a bag, and went out to run some errands. About two hours later, she returned to the cemetery and ...located the worker again, and he handed her the bag.

That evening, Ana offered to prepare dinner for the family—something she hadn't done in a long time. Luzbella came out of her room and greeted Ana affectionately; Ana responded without much warmth.

Moments later, when she tried to call out to her mother, a foul-smelling yellow vomit flooded her mouth. Visceral fluids began pouring from her nose. Less than five minutes had passed before Luzbella was on the floor, convulsing.

Her mother ran to the kitchen upon hearing the thud of the fall, with Ana close behind; they found Luzbella convulsing and thrashing about like a wild animal. Her eyes were bloodshot, her nose had grown even sharper, and her complexion was a mottled mix of yellow, purple, and green.

Luzbella’s mother called the fire department to take her daughter to the hospital. Upon arrival, they had to restrain Luzbella, as she was in a frenzy—she looked like a wounded animal. They administered sedatives, but none took effect; finally, a doctor told her mother:

That girl is possessed by a demon. We must call a priest. Medical science can do nothing.

Ana went to fetch the priest and told him everything that had happened to her sister. The priest took a wooden cross, a bottle of holy water, and the Bible. When he arrived at the hospital, he asked to be left alone with the patient. At first, Luzbella’s screams were blood-curdling, but then they fell silent, and the doctor said:

Everything is calm now.

But when they pulled back the curtain, they found the priest dead—and Luzbella, too.

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