Dangerous love

Chapter 22

I was in my room getting ready for tonight. I pulled out a white flowery dress with some wedges. I went over to jadah's room and saw she was wearing one the same but blue with her long curly hair." You look beautiful Karla"." Thanks. You do too"." You girls ready" Santiago asked from the kitchen." Yes" we both answered. I grabbed my purse and we left to the restaurant. We got there and took our seats. The waiter came with some champagne and served us." Cheers" Santiago said." Cheers" we said back." So what's all this for" Jadah asked." Well tonight is a special night" Santiago said looking at me. He put his hands under the table and I just looked at him. He pulled them back out and he was holding a small blue box." Karla. Will you marry me". I didn't know what to say. I was incomplete shock. I totally wasn't expecting this after what happened this morning." Karla say something" Jadah whispered." Santiago I'm not...ready...for this" I said getting up and leaving. I ran to the beach to get some air to be alone but Santiago ran after me. " Karla! Babe wait"." What Santiago"." Why...did you just leave me like that"." Santiago you don't understand"." Don't understand what!"." I'm just-"." You don't love me enough to marry me right"." No it's not that it's -"." No that's the problem isn't it. Gosh how could I been so stupid"." Santiago no it's something else. I do love you. A lot but-"." But what. You know what? Whatever Karla. How could I have fallen in love with someone so cold and lifeless person" Santiago said leaving me alone to cry myself out. I loved Santiago a lot but I was scared to start a future with him for everything to end quickly. I didn't want to go through this anymore. I sat down for a bit and all of the memories I had about Armando came back.

* flashback *

I was outside sitting in a chair by the in ground pool. I was flipping through a wedding magazine looking at the dresses. They were really pretty. I wondered when I would get to wear on. I was so focused on it that I didn't hear Armando come in." That's how I wanted to find you!" He said pulling the magazine out of my hand." What are you doing"." Looking at wedding dresses huh"." Give it back". I said jumping on his back." Wow look at this. I see someone wants to get married" he said giving me my magazine back." What are you even doing here"." Oh nothing just wanted to come and see you but I see you're quite busy"." This. This nothing I was just looking. Don't think I want to get married with you". He gasped" why not!"." Because you wouldn't take it serious. I'm sure you would only marry me and still leave me here alone"." That's not true" he said serious now." I do want to marry you and I would dedicate more time to you"." You're serious"." Yes I am". I smiled at him." I love you Karla. I promise we will get married soon"." I love you too Armando". I said kissing him passionately.

* reality *

I was crying so much right now. I missed him a lot but I had to move on. I had to start a new life and Santiago was the one I needed. I was so stupid to reject him but what could I do. I was hurt and I didn't want to go through that again. I got up and head home. Once there nobody was home I guess Jadah stayed and ate. Santiago probably would be back soon. I took of my dress and got into my pajamas and went to bed.

The next morning I found the bed empty just how I got into it. I looked over to the bedside table and saw the small blue box. I grabbed it and pulled the ring out placing it on my ring finger. It was beautiful. I got up and looked around for Santiago but his stuff wasn't there it was gone. I ran outside and I saw Santiago barely going down the Stairs with his luggage over his shoulder ready to leave." Santiago!" I said running to him." Santiago wait! I do want to marry you" he stopped and turned around to look at me." Why did you put the ring on. Is it because I'm leaving and you don't want to be by yourself"." No of course not"." Then why do want to marry me now"." Because I love you duhh". He looked at me." I still think it's a bad idea to get married Santiago. I have really bad luck. Every time I want to start something it ends up being ruined and I don't want that but if you want to get married okay let's get married"." Well that's a very romantic way of saying it"." I can be romantic. if you want I'll sing you a song so you can see I am romantic in my way though" I said walking to him. " come on Santiago let's go celebrate the proposal in bed. That's what we are best at and in there we don't fight. You'll see how romantic I get" I said running my hands through his brown curls and kissing his lips. He picked me up and we headed inside for a nice makeup/ proposal sex.

The next few weeks I took Jadah shopping for some new clothes. I didn't realize that it was already time for Jadah to leave the next day. After the shopping we went home and started to pack. The next morning we took her to airport." Promise me you'll call me okay"." I promise" I said to her. She got on the plane and left. I wondered when I would get to see her again.

* 6 months later *

It had been six months already. Santiago and I got married and we kept going with our lives as traffickers. He showed me more about how to pilot a boat and stuff.

Tonight we had load to go get at night. I was sitting outside with Santiago and I was putting a piece of a motor boat together." How did I do". I asked Santiago'." Good. Really good. Now you know how to read a map, look at a raider, pilot a boat and to traffic you don't need me anymore. Now what are you going to do to me"." Of course I still need you. Your the reason why I breath my oxygen". I said leaning my forehead against his." That sound like fake 200 euro" he said getting up." Really! You complain when I'm not romantic and when I am you think I'm lying"." I'm just kidding babe. We have to go see Cody at the restaurant for him to tell us where to pick up the drug"." Ugh I don't like Cody"." Well we have to go even if you don't like Cody". He said picking me up putting my legs around his waist. We got inside and got ready to go. We went to the restaurant to meet up with the guys who were going to give us the coordinates. Once we got there the two man were already waiting for us. We sat down and we talked things out. What I really didn't get was that they didn't want me to go with Santiago this specific day. It was really weird because they kept insisting. I denied it. I was defiantly going to go with Santiago this was our job. They gave up and left. We went back home and got ready to go. Once out in the ocean I started to feel a little weird. My heart started to raise a bit fast. Santiago was already loading the drugs to the boat. I helped him tied them up. He started the boat and we left at full speed. I looked into the raider and I saw five dots." SANTIAGO!!! THERES fIVE DOTS". He looked into the raider and he looked tensed. That's when four boats and a helicopter appeared." HOLD ON TIGHT BABE!!". Santiago started to go full speed. The boat were bumping into us. The helicopter was getting really close to our heads." WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO" I yelled over to him." DONT WORRY WE WILL GET OUT OF THIS". I was really scared at this point my heart was almost about to jump out of my chest. Santiago grabbed my hand to rap it around his body. I was hugging him from behind looking back to see if we were getting away from them but we weren't they were right there. I started to see a familiar place. We were close to the shore." SANTIAGO WE ARE ALMOST CLOSE TO THE SHORE"." I KNOW"." SLOW DOWN"." NO WE HAVE TO GET THERE SOON FOR THEM TO LEAVE". I kept looking back but they were still there." WE ARE NOT GOING TO MAKE IT"." YES WE WILL". I knew we were close to the shore actually we were already there. Suddenly I felt a big impact and we flew off the boat landing into the water. I tried to swim up but everything went black.

* in the morning *

I slowly opened my eyes and saw white walls surrounding me. I had a lot pain in my body. I looked over and saw eddy." Karla"." W-what happen"." You guys crashed"." Yea I kinda remember. I know we fell to the water and that's all". That's when I remembered about Santiago. " and Santiago?". Eddy didn't say anything." Eddy where's Santiago" my voice already breaking at the end." No. No. No no!!! P-please t-tell m-me I-it's n-not true!!". My Santiago was dead. My love was gone." I'm so sorry Karla". I couldn't speak I was crying to much. Once again my dreams had come to an end.

About a week later they released me out the hospital but I was being taken to jail. I signed the papers to eddy for him to stay with my things so when I got out I could get them back. I walked to the door and the police officer put the handcuffs on me. We walked out and we got onto the officers car. Once there they took me inside handing me my uniform and taking off my belongings. I had five years in this place and I was already disliking it. There was normal girls, lesbians and more. They took me to my jail cell. It looked empty and that was good at least for the two seconds because that's when this red head fat girl came inside." Well well well what do we have here" she was Colombian. I knew she was because of her accent." Pretty soon sweety you'll be like a chicken eating out of my hand"." In your dreams fatty"." Wow. The Mexican girl has balls. Hahahahah". I sat down on my bed and she left. I placed my stuff down and relaxed. My life was ruined. Santiago was died my love was gone. Tears started streaming down my eyes. All of the memories came to my mind about Santiago. Not Armando anymore but Santiago. From this day on I promise to never ever fall in love again.