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CHAPTER FIVEErnesto and Naomi delivered Orlando to the bus that would take Oscar Perez and the rest of the band back to Los Angeles. They had a gig tomorrow night in Canoga Park.
They’d found Manny and gotten him to a safe place in only twenty-five minutes. They all decided to celebrate with a frozen yogurt. Seated at a booth at the yogurt shop, their mood was joyous.
“You have no idea how much Mama misses you, Orlando,” Naomi remarked over her frozen strawberry yogurt. “I remember being thirteen and coming home from my girlfriend’s house. You were gone. I don’t even know exactly why.”
“Mama never told you the details?” Orlando asked. Then he shrugged. “Why does that not surprise me?”
“She said you and Dad had an argument and you hit him,” Naomi explained.
“Yeah,” Orlando ackno
