𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈(Mariano Castano)

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"Stop it right there" I heard someone yell behind me. I'm screwed. I began to grab my things and run back to the car. Before I could make it I felt someone tase me. The pain hurt a little but I still continued to run. I felt his grip on me. I'm fucked. "Sarai Montoya you are under arrest for the murder of Heaven Montoya you have the right to remain silent". Hold up I didn't do it. "Excuse me? I didn't kill her" I yell out trying to escape my way out of the officer's grip. "Yeah yeah tell it to the court". "I swear". That was the last thing I said before I got pushed into the vehicle.

𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒐'𝒔 𝑷𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕 𝑶𝒇 𝑽𝒊𝒆𝒘

"Mariano! Wake up!" I felt someone hitting me with a pillow. "What? Sarai I'm trying to sleep" I groaned. "Sarai's in Ottawa. She's in the detain center". I shot myself out of bed as I heard those words come out of Kayla's mouth. "What do you mean she's in Ottawa? she was with me in bed last night" I said in confusion. "She took your car last night asshole. Look" Kayla walks over to me and hands me her phone showing the footage from last night. It was her. "I called an Uber to your uncle's. He's not home so we're going to have to borrow a car in the meantime".

Sarai why did you do this?

I watched as our ride was approaching the gates. Kayla and I make our way out of the house then to the car. "For Kayla?" Kayla asks the driver. He shakes his head yes. he drives all the way to my uncle's house. Once we arrived we quickly get out of the car and into my uncle's garage. "Did you forget the code??" We were struggling a bit on opening the garage door. "Try my birthday". The door opens. I grab the keys to his new Mustang. I get in the driver's seat and Kayla gets in the passengers.

"Drive Mar! Drive!" Kayla yells. I start the car and we begin to go in reverse. We safely make it out of his driveway and into the road. "She's going to be in huge trouble if your family hears the news". No shit Kayla.

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"Montoya come with me" One of the officers open the gate for me. I walk out then they place me in handcuffs. We make our way towards a small interrogation room. I sit down on one of the seats in front of the desk. This tall officer removes the handcuffs for a second then cuffs me onto a chair. "So tell me. Why did you kill your older sister?" The same cop from earlier asks. "I didn't do it. It was him" I point to the picture of my "Father". "So you're telling me your father did it?". "Yes. I loved Heaven she was like my best friend and sister both at once".

"Now tell me the whole story from start to finish" He says. "So we were on our way to Puerto Rico...". I start from there. He didn't believe me at some point when I told him about Mariano. Of course, I couldn't tell him about the whole Mafia/gang shit Instead came up with a different story that my family had a history with his starting with our "Grandparents". "Are you sure you two teenagers were just trying to sneak out just like what every other teenager does?". I made my whole point why doesn't he believe me. "No, we weren't sneaking out. I told you the whole story, why don't you still believe me". "Oh, I can't believe she's here" I heard my mom's voice from across the hall. I need to leave. "Is it ok if I could use the restroom?" I told the cop. "Ok but make it quick". He uncuffs me, we make our way towards the bathroom. I try to find a way out. I looked around the whole bathroom.

The Vent! I use the car keys to unlock the nails on the vent. It was pretty easy if you ask me. I silently open the vent and I make my way out from there. I remembered there was a vent that leads towards the outside so I went in that direction to make my escape a bit easier. finally, I made my way out.

I quickly run far away from the station, I made it towards a gas station that was about a mile away. I wasn't tired at all after running that mile, huh, weird. Anyways, I made my way in pretending to look for something until I heard familiar voices. "Kayla get these snacks for her, she's going to be hungry once we get her out". Oh shit, they're here. I need to find a way to sneak inside the car they're in. I watch them pay on their way out.

I heard Mariano unlock his car. "I'm going to use the bathroom. I'll be back" Thank you Mar. Kayla unlocks the car and I sneak my way in before she could notice. I cover her eyes just to play with her. "What the fuck?" She slaps my hand making it sting a little. "Ouch" I blurt out. "Sarai? How-" She says in shock. "No time for words we need to get out of here before the cops come looking for me". "What did you do" Kayla asked. "I might have snuck into the cemetery. Until one of them caught me just because I was running a bit slow after they tased me, I also kind of snuck out of the station because my "Mom" was waiting for me in another room". "Hold up. They called your mom?". "Who's mom?" Mariano said as he was getting in the car. "Look behind you" I sightly grin as Mariano was turning his head.

"Hi" I wave. His eyes slowly open wide. "Bitch". What did he call me? I like it. "Can we go now? I'll explain along the way back". Mariano starts up the car. We were finally leaving Ottawa.