Trust Me | Mariano Castano

Crush

I feel a little rush...
I think I've got a little crush on you.

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Isabella's POV

"This beef goes way back manyyyy years but..." Samy proceeds to tell us the story.

What caused Mar to flip shit was the fact that this Tony guy, is a 20 something year old man who had very recently sexually assaulted Mariano's cousin, who is around the same age as him. Mar is very, very close with his cousin, and he's always wanted a good enough reason to kill Tony...

"Samy can I talk to you?" I say walking away to the kitchen.

"What's up?" He says as he enters the kitchen.

I lean against the counter and take a deep breath.

"Has Mar... has Mariano killed people?" I whisper.

"I don't really think it's my place to say Bella..." Samy says scratching the back of his head.

"You just gave me my answer, but how many... bodies?"

"Look you need to ask hi-"

"Just, tell me." I say sighing.

"What are you doing with this information?" Samy raises an eyebrow.

"I just want to know Mar... I do feel like we know each other but I want to know him, his good and bad."

He shakes his head. "Out of respect for Mar I'm not saying, all I can tell you... is you might not want to know all the bad."

"What does that mean? I live around murderers and gang members I think I can handle what I'm going to hear." I say folding my arms.

He chuckles and shrugs. "I don't think so. But hey, just a little warning... you might want to run when you find out, if you find out."

Samy leaves the kitchen and I'm left there dumbfounded.

Run?

What the hell did Mariano possibly do that would make me want to run from him?

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I wake up, after having maybe an hours worth of sleep all up.

It's 7am and I couldn't help but worry about Mariano who never came back to the house.

Was he dead?

I sat up, my heart beating fast.

Em turned to look at me. "Hey, hey I'm sure he's fine!"

"It's Mar, he's fine I promise girl." Yasmin says half-smiling at me.

I nod and rub my eyes with my hands.

"I think I'm really falling for him" I say looking down and fiddling with my fingers.

"I think he is too." Nicole says coming over and sitting on my bed next to me.

"I was thinking about things last night..." I say sighing and laying back.

"Hmm?" Emma says.

"And how I could have lost my dad, how easy it is to lose my brother..."

"You won't lose them Bella, they're invincible." Nicole says rubbing my back.

"Well no, I've learnt they're not... I always thought they were but this isn't a marvel movie or a fairytale or whatever the hell this is real life. For all I know they could be dead right now. This is REAL shit... and I think I need to be here, with them making the most of it because I never know what could happen."

"Hold on, are you saying you're staying?" Emma says sitting up fast, cheesing.

I nod and Nicole screams and hugs me while Emma jumps on me and attacks me with kisses all over my face.

"OH MY GOD I WAS LITERALLY COUNTING DOWN THE DAYS UNTIL YOU LEAVE AGAIN AND I WAS STARTING TO GET EMOTIONAL BITCH!" Emma says teary eyed.

"Aw... I wish I had a friendship like you guys, my heart is melting." Yasmin says smiling at us.

"Come here." I say opening my arms.

We all group hug and Ash comes running in the room with Viktor behind him holding a purple pool noodle and Ash jumps on Nicole's bed, covering himself with a pillow as Vik smacks him with the pool noodle causing Ash to scream for him to go away.

"Well good morning to you two!" I say laughing.

"GET OFF MY BED!" Nicole yells running over to them and pushing Ash off who falls on the floor.

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Mariano's POV

I pour the gasoline all over Tony's body and light a match.

I take one last look at his face, throwing the match on him as I watch his cold, pale body engulf in flames.

The leaves crunch below my feet as I walk away, back to my car.

My phone rings, Pablo.

Me: "Bit late."

Pablo: "I was dealing with some other shit. The job done?"

I look at the large flames a distance away from me and nod.

Me: "Yeah... job's done."