Mi Novia

Chapter 56

Riley PoV

Of course, of course to top of my shit luck of late I'm being accused of murdering that bastard! How? How? How could I have murdered him if the last time I seen him he was walking out of the pool very much alive at that point! I need mi novia.

Flashback

We were waiting in the pool, we could hear them coming down the stairs into the pool. "Let's fucking hide" black Cindy shouts for everyone to hear. "What's the point?" I snapped at her "what's the point when eventually they will find you? What you think they will just say ... ok we have looked for five minutes and call it a day? No they will look until they find you ... until everyone in this prison is accounted for. So I'm staying here and when they come down they can lead me out there to my girlfriend". "Suit yourself but I'm hiding, come on Suzanne" "are we playing hide and seek? Ooooo can I be the seeker?" "Not this time! Bitch next time now come on" Cindy and Suzanne make there way over to hide from the guards. I look at Taystee who shrugs and follows them to hide. "We are with you Riley" Red and the others stand beside me just as a group of guards come roaring into the empty pool.

I couldn't tell you how long iv been here now ... what I do know ... is I'm the only inmate here and I'm slowly loosing my mind. 'I fucking love you Riley Parker' god what I would do to hear her say that right now. I look down at my arm to see the scar that's now part of me, I had to get surgery on my broken arm just before I came here. Because of that bastard. "Ok Parker, you know what time it is?" A bald officer with glasses asks me at my door. "Let me guess? Happy hour? I'll have two bourbons straight up" I say standing up to follow him. "Maybe one day Parker but for today it's shower time" he says a we make our way to the bathroom block. When I get there as usual I meet chapman, Flores and Red. They all look at me with pity so from that look I know they have heard the rumours. I look at the floor avoiding their gaze when chapman lifts my face to see her "I know you, I know you didn't do it. I'll do everything in my power to help you" she whispers as she wipes away my fallen tears. Red is standing behind her crying tears of her own "we will get to the bottom of the foul play here Riley. I promise you". I nod and make my way towards my bathroom slowly feeling more and more defeated.

Nicky PoV

"D block for you Nichols" an officer announces as we make our way into cell block D. "That's your bunk, there's your welcome pack. Good luck" he says and walks away from me. "Nicky?" Wait ... I know that voice, I turn round and see my beautiful Flaca "Flaca?". She runs up to me and wraps her arms around me, my arms instantly going around her waist. "I missed you! I missed you so much" I say whilst nuzzling into her neck. "There's eyes follow me to my bunk ... wait which ones yours?" She asks as I point to my bunk. She smiles and grabs my hand to drag me to the bunk. "So your telling me ... we now share a bunk?" I ask looking around the room. She's sitting on the bottom bunk nodding when she asks "have you seen Riley or Maritza?" I shake my head. "I was hoping you had. I know Riley's here but I haven't seen her since we arrived" i make my way over to sit beside her. "You know what they are saying right?" She asks me as she holds my hand and interlocks our fingers. "She didn't do it. We know that. I told them that. I told them that Riley didn't shoot piscatella" I exclaim "iv got a bad feeling about this Nicky ... iv got a really bad feeling" Flaca says as she rests her head on my shoulder.

Riley PoV

"Parker you got a phone call. You want it or?" Officer McCullough asks me. "Iv nobody to call so ... no I'm good" I say putting my head back down. "I shouldn't be saying this but ... I know of an ex warden who would like to speak to you. I have his number" she replies waving a bit of paper. I sit up "the same warden who accused me of murder a week ago? No thanks" I reply laying back down. "Look Parker, I'm trying to help you. You don't deserve this so come on make your phone call" I sit up and look at her. "Why are you wanting to help me?" "Every time iv seen you in action you've chosen the right path ... maybe not completely because you know your a felon but ... you didn't shoot humps. I know what he done to Ramos so I know how badly you would have wanted to hurt him and still you didn't. I don't believe you shot piscatella. Speak to mr Caputo... the man cares and believe me that's rare in this industry" I nod and get up following her to the phone booth.

"Right youv got 5 minutes, I have to stay here but just pretend I'm not here" she says as she leans against the wall. Ring ring ring "hello?" "Hi mr Caputo" "I'm glad you called" I lean against the other side of the phone booth and release a sigh. "I'm sorry I jumped to conclusions Riley. Your a good kid and I should have followed my gut with that when this all started" he pauses before carrying on "at least one person has turned against you Riley and stated that you killed piscatella down there. Now that person is protected, iv no idea who it was but I'm working with my lawyer to see if we can get access to the transcripts. The only issue is we can only ask for one transcript so we need to be 100% sure that we know who fucked you over because we only have access to one. I'm not promising anything Riley but I want to help you. Will you meet with me if I come in with a lawyer?" I pause for a second before answering "what's the point? The only good thing I had in my life was taken away from me. Everything good turns bad. So why not just accept that regardless of what I do in life I'm fucked over. Don't waste your time on me mr Caputo ... can you do me a favour tho?". He sighs and agrees to my favour "will you find out where Maritza is? Tell her I love her but ... I'm not going to drag her through this anymore. When they convict me I'm going to be given life for killing a cop ... I don't need to drag her down with me" I look to McCullough who quickly wipes away a tear. "You might have given up on yourself Riley but I'm not going to. Please meet me tomorrow" and with that he hangs up the phone.

Cindys PoV

Flashback

When I get into the interrogation room I sit down opposite two cops and a lawyer... one of the cops seem to hold a lot of power and the other cop was there the night of the riot. When I look at him he glared back at me. "Officer Duncan can I have a word with you outside quickly?" The lawyer lady asks the important guy, they get up and exit the room leaving me alone with him. "My men all have the same story, that one of you shot piscatella in the face... we tried to stop yous by shooting pepper bullets in the air and it accidentally caught piscatella but this was after he was killed. Now the choice is yours ... tell the truth which nobody will believe and we will make your life a living hell in here ... or put yourself first for once and think of who last had that gun ... say they shot him. Help me and I'll help you ... I'll get you in a comfy block and hell I'll even back it up and maybe they will give you a deal ..." before I could reply the two reentered the room. "So ... cindy... tell us what happened the night desi piscatella died" the man says whilst he leans on the desk. I look down to the ground "piscatella came down into the empty swimming pool with your guys behind him..." I pause for a moment ... am I really going to do this to her? I look up to the ceiling and take a huge breath "... Riley Parker then shot piscatella in jjthe head" I can't believe iv done this. "So your telling me Riley Parker killed desi piscatella?" "Yes".