You are Unforgettable (triple frontier) [COMPLETED]

Blast to the past

I came back to Los Angeles but left both my mind & my heart in Colombia & this wasn't the first time that it happened. I couldn't stop thinking about Santiago, even though I tried my best not to & it was affecting my work because I was day dreaming or in deep thoughts most of the time & a week flew by as I got more stressed & tensed. Both my parents & Julie came back from the holidays but I was really busy, I couldn't meet any of them & Julie works as a manger at a super market so even her schedule was quite tight like mine now, here's the story of how I met Santiago three years ago in Colombia.

It was the sunny month of June, I remember it clearly as if it was just yesterday the 8th of June me & my friends reached Santa Maria, a beautiful beach city of Colombia. That was the first time I've landed in this beautiful foreign land, I was 21 & going to be 22 soon. My parents allowed me to travel far, since I was legal & because I was out of control back in the days. Cutting off classes, late night partying & that's where I met Sarah & Nicole. Nicole was from a wealthy family & she had many contacts in & around so, for her 23rd birthday she wanted to celebrate it in Santa Maria where they had a family vacation home.

The three of us headed to the club that night & got really drunk, we were dancing & making conversations with random strangers, that's where we met Ronaldo a man in his 30's but he was well dressed & well behaved so we befriended him. He invited us to one of his parties back in his home town Rionegro on the 11th of June & since Nicole's birthday was on the 10th, we thought why not since we will be free on the 11th but the very next day ie the 9th of June, Nicole got a call from back home with the news that her grandmother was in ICU in a critical condition & she has to fly back asap so, she left me & Sarah & caught the first flight back home.

We hesitated whether we should go to the party or not since both me & Sarah were new to Colombia but Nicole called & assured us we totally should, she would have loved to join us as well but she couldn't & after talking to Ronaldo through the phone, we both got our confidence back to go to Rionegro as he made all the necessary arrangements for our trip. Ronaldo was a wealthy man & that was the first time in both of our lives we have been to a party as lit as that, there were endless booze & smokes everywhere but people were more interested in coke back there & it was very common in parties. That was the first time in my life that I snorted & I felt really good, a different kind of high.

We ended up visiting Ronaldo's cousins house Gabriel by dawn, we didn't know how or why we even followed Ronaldo to his cousins place but we were not in our senses & it was a dumb act. He was married with kids but his house was well guarded in the middle of a vast forest, as our mind became clearer we found out that Gabriel was a drug lord & Ronaldo a dealer. It kind of freaked me out but I was excited to see a drug lord face to face, he seem kind of un bothered by me & Sarah's presence because he knew we were harmless. He offered us breakfast as we gladly accepted & hogged as we both were darn hungry from the night of partying, it was a Sunday & his family were off to church but Ronaldo had some serious discussions with Gabriel & he wasn't ready to leave yet. So, me & Sarah strolled around the garden because we had to wait for him & we couldn't leave on our own as we had no idea where we were because the house was located in the middle of nowhere.

But that was the day both our lives were about to change forever as we heard a gunshot at a distant, we didn't know what had happened but it was a gunshot. We both rushed indoors & locked ourselves in the kitchen, as we heard endless firings & screams from around the house. What the hell was happening? The windows were breaking & people were falling from the stairs & the roof, we both were freaked out as hell as we curled under the table & prayed nothing would happen to us.