"We're gonna kill you." Ez said as he looked at Happy. "Make it look like a break-in. We don't want that. All we want to know is who paid you to kill our mother."

"It was over nine fucking years ago. It doesn't make you a snitch. It's our fucking mother." I told him as I looked Happy dead in the eye.

"Who was it? Give us a name!" Angel screamed at him, shoving the gun at the wound I gave him. Happy cried in pain. "Who? Who the fuck paid you? Fuck that dog." He charges to the dog, pointing the gun at it.

"Angel!" I screamed.

"No!" Happy screamed. "He's just hungry." He said.

"I'll blow off his legs one at a time. Slice off his nose, his fucking tail. Keep him alive as long as I can so you can watch him suffer." Angel said, without a blink.

"Just tell us." Ez whispers to him.

"Please." I told him. Happy looked at us. He was defeated.

"Fine. Just feed him." He said. I walked to to the kitchen, where to dog food was. Angel followed as Ez went to find a file for Happy.

"You weren't gonna shoot that dog, right?" I told him as i filled the bowl with water. "Angel?"

"At least he said something."

"If you point the gun at that dog again, i will shoot you myself." I turned away. The dog started to eat.

"Did you find it?" Happy said to Ez as he entered the room.

"Think so."

"That's it." He said as he saw the file. "It's towards the bottom. An old fax." Angel and I went to Ez. He opened the file and we saw mom's pictures, times written down where she was.

"Fuck." Ez sighs.

"Jesus." Angel closes his eyes.

"Mom." I whispered.

"Look at the next page." Happy told us. Ez turned the page.

"Pop." Ez whispers.

"I fucked up. I was supposed to kill both of them. The job came in through Packer." Happy confessed.

"San Bernardino?"

"Yeah, closest charter to the border."

"It came from Mexico." I said.

"Yeah, that's all I knew. Packer might have more details. He's anal about keeping records. But he won't have a name. Don't work that way."

"Tell us what happened." Happy looks away from us. I stood in front of him.

"Tell us." I told him. He sighed as he saw me.

"I came in the back. Shop was closed. It was just your mom. Your old man must have left a few minutes before." The three of us grabbed chairs and sat down, listing to Happys side of the story.

"Bank deposits." Ez blurted.

"I was waiting for the little girl to come in, usually she would sit down in the shop, painting, but she walked past the store. I didnt want her there, so that was a good sign." The boys looked at me. What if i saw there when it happened? What if i just went home early from latino club? If I didn't go get my paints?

"Me." I said a loud. I looked at Happy. "If i was there, would you killed me?" Both Angel and Ez snapped their necks to look at me. I just looked at Happy, hand on my mouth, waiting for his reply.

"I really dont know. I think your mom wouldnt let that happen." I sighed. Just thinking about it, it gave me chills. "Your mom she wasn't surprised."

"What do you mean?"

"I've killed a lot of people. Some of them, you can feel the inevitability. They know it's coming. Your mom knew. I heard cars pulling up. I shot her in the neck and ran. After that, I hung out near the border waiting to hear if I should finish the job. It was coming from Mexico. I figured it was one of the cartels. That night you chased me? I thought that's who you were cleanup guy for the cartel. I got spooked. Didn't feel safe riding Nomad anymore. That's when I went to Charming, patched in to SAMCRO." Happy looks at all of us, one by one. "If someone killed my mom, I'd put a bullet between his eyes." I slowly broke down. I looked at Happy. Someone set it up. Ez and Angel were nearly in tears. We were lied to.

We stepped aside a gathered our thoughts. The main thing what was in mind was, why? Why keep it secret? Why lie? Whats so bad that they had to change their names? What other secrets were mama and papi hiding?

"His phone's dead." Ez said as he tossed his phone on the table.

"You trust this guy?" I said as i bit my lip.

"If we cut him loose, you don't think he puts a bullet in our heads?"

"He's got just as much to lose."

"Like what? His club knows he was gun for hire. They helped set up the hits."

"Then we tell Bishop he killed our mom." I threw out. It was worth a chance.

"He won't give a shit." Angel said. "What Happy did was business. What we did was personal. We broke the rules."

"Oh, fuck." Ez swore. "Guess I didn't think it through."

"You mean I didn't think it through." Angel said.

Flashback: the day of my quince. Purple theme here and there. Gifts, music, food, were everywhere. Family members came hugging me, telling how proud they were that I did a quince. I put a fake smile. We went on all day. I greeted guest that came later on, in the corner of my eye, i saw my dad, drunk with my tio. I ran out of backyard and into the garage.

"Hey, the parties out there." Angel said as he came in.

"I just wanna be left alone." Angel sighed as he sat next to me.

"Did you even want this?" I shook my head. "Why?"

"For mom. She wouldve want me to do this." I kicked off my heels.

"Shit, I should think through it." Angel rubs his cheeks.

"Why?"

"What do you really want?" He asked me. "Like really?"

"For Ezekiel to be here." I sniffed. Angel pulls out his phone, he excused himself for a second. He later came back and passed me the phone.

"Hello?" I answered.

"Happy birthday Marisol." I sobbed as I heard Ezekiel's voice again.

"I miss you so much."

"I guess I should've thought it through. I should've known that you didnt want the quince. I shouldn't have pressed Angel-"

"No, no. Just you guys, you and Angel, thats all i want."

Flashback over: I broke down my thoughts as a loud bang came from the door.

"Happy, it's Hallorann." The banging continues. "Hap! - You all right, buddy?"

"What are you gonna do?" Happy said as he looked at us.

"This is all of us. Whatever happens, its us. Yes?" We all nodded in agreement. We untied Happy, place everything we found away.

"Happy, let me in!Happy!" Ezekiel went to up the door.

"What's up?" He said.

"What the fuck happened? - Who the fuck did this?" Hallorann started to ask. Happy, Angel and I sat on the couch.

"Relax. These guys saved my ass. After I split off from you guys, I got clipped by a logging truck near Lonny's Shell. Fucker kept on going." Happy lied.

"Yeah, we were on our way up north. Hopped off the Five to fuel up. Found him laying in the fucking dirt."

"Jesus Christ." He scoffs. "I was calling you."

"Been a little distracted."

"Yeah, no. Shit. You need anything? What can I do?" He asked.

"Pick up the dog shit in my backyard." Happy told him.

"Yeah? Cool, I can do that." He looked at me for a while.

"Hey!" I yelled at him. "Eyes are up here, not here." I pointed at my chest.

"Right, sorry." He walked to the back and closed the door. Ez, Angel and I stood up.

"I'll get whatever I can from Packer. After that, we're clean." We all nodded and shook hands.

"Thank you." I told Happy as I shook his hand. I was about to let go, Happy held onto my hand.

"Why dont they trust you?" He asked me.

"What?" I gave him a confused look.

"The gun. You killed someone?" I let go out his firm handshake and backed up.

"You dont need to know that." I shook my head as I left. It was dark. Stars were out. I got on Ezekiel's bike, driving back home. We all didnt say a word. Hours in, we decided to take a short break. We stopped at the side of the road. I pulled out my phone.

Amor 💙- ill be home soon.

I pressed send. I waited for him to reply. Nothing. 5 minutes later, the buzzer went off.

Coco💕- ill wait for you if you are not too far. You know anything about the swole boys?

Shit. He knows. Of course he knows. Its Coco.

Amor💙- no you sleep. Yeah, i do actually.

"What are you looking at?" Angel asked Ez as he came back from taking a leak. I put my phone in my back pocket. Ez was looking at the stars.

"Inevitability."