Antonio Space

By Mylene

Yesterday when I was very sleepy, I was heading for my bed. So I strip off my clothes, brush my teeth, and step into my bed, grab my stuffed animal, called Miguel (after Miguel Bain, for he is my favorite character, I love bad guys ) and fell almost immediately in sleep.

Later that night, I open my eyes and see that I had left the lights on. Since I never do that, this thing amazed me. I looked at the mirror beside my bed, and see in the mirror a lot of men in my room. They had all the same voice, the same brown eyes, everything. So, I lift myself up, with one arm, and see that they are doing something with my bed. I reached for my glasses and saw that they were signing my bed. There were the autographs of Armand and Tony Ramirez and a lot more. I look up and see that they realized that I'm awake. I can tell you that it is very strange to see all those characters in one single, very small bedroom. But then El Mariachi started to speak.

"Sorry that we woke you querida, but a few of us knew your wish to have a meeting with us all, and so we did it this way."

They came all (and then I mean everybody) towards me, and I moved a little backwards. I mean, it was all Antonio's characters, but it's still strange when you wake up in the middle of the night, finding a lot of men in your bedroom. Miguel Alvarez and Miguel Bain looked at me, and they laughed.

"Are you afraid of us?" Miguel Bain asked.

"You wrote a story about us, remember," said Miguel Alvarez.

"Yes", I answered. "But..."

"No but's, honey." This was Tony Ramirez.

Caesar and Luis from Original Sin sat down at the back side of my bed. They also laughed. I started to think it was funny. I mean, this IS a once in a lifetime opportunity; am I right or am I wrong?

I giggled. Armand leaned over me, and started to kiss my eyelids. Very gently. Antonio from Miami Rhapsody grabbed my hand and kissed it. This was getting better was my thought. Meanwhile the other characters were still signing my bed.

When they had all signed my bed, they lifted me from my bed, on my feet. Since I'm not that big I had to look up at these men. They all looked me deep in my eyed and at once we were all in a different space! I still don't know how they did that, but it was a really strange thing. Gregorio grabbed my hand, and led the way. We were in a sort of field, with a lot of flowers, and Gregorio started to run. I had to follow, for he still held my hand. I looked around to see if I knew where I was, and then I heard a voice on the other side; it was Carlos, from Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

"We are in a world; you will never find us again. It's called 'Antonio Space'. Here stay all the Antonio Banderas characters, after they are grabbed from the screen of the theaters."

It was a landscape full with flowers, sun and fun. There were houses, all with the names of each owner on it and with an atmosphere like in the movies and a lot more. There was so much, that if I start to describe it, I'm not able to continue my story. Finally, Gregorio stopped and walked towards a house witch looked like a meeting center. We walked in and there were again all these characters and they were chatting like brothers with each other. They were sitting on a couch, which had a round shape. Again I saw Miguel Bain and Miguel Alvarez and they were looking at me and suddenly, everybody looked at me. Everybody. Art, Matt, Luis El Mariachi and the rest.

The chatting had stopped and Gregorio placed me on the couch, between the both Miguel's. My face turned red and I didn't know were to look. All of these big brown eyes were looking at me, and I was at a complete loss for words. And that is something very rare. I lifted my hand and wiggled with my fingers, not knowing anything else to do.

Finally I thought my voice wouldn't fail me, and I stammered,

"Hi, everybody." I think I even had such a very girlish grin on my face.

Armand walked towards me, and settled himself at my feet, and laid his head on my lap. He looked at me, and began to speak.

"You are very young, Mylene, and we wanted to know if it not wrong for you to write such stories. These kiss stories. Although you have only finished one, we know that you are always thinking about a new story. Even when you are at school. And at school you have to learn and you must not daydream at your lessons. And when you are supposed to do something for school on the computer, you must not check the board of the mall. All you must do is study. You want a job when you stop studying, am I right?"

I looked at Armand and then looked around me. All of the eyes were nodding, here and there were also a bunch of curls nodding.

"But I'm doing well at my studies. But, it's just, I can't get you all out of my head."

"But that's not a reason to skip your lessons my dear." It was Ahmed who said this.

"No that's not a reason at all, but I. eh." And there I was again at a loss for words.

"So, you are now going to stop daydreaming and doing your homework, as you were supposed to do?" Miguel Bain said this.

I looked at Miguel and nodded. And then they all started to smile, and Miguel leaned forwards and kissed my lips. The he raised me from the couch and then there was a sort of wind and was I lying in my bed, with my stuffed animal. I leaned to the side of my bed and saw the signs on my bed. My god, it was real. And believe me, I'm going to do my homework. But I'll never stop looking at the board when I'm on school. Maybe someday I might come back to 'Antonio Space' because they are so proud at me. You might never know.