I was in my room, finishing the painting I've did for Coco, I just didn't have the time to finish it. I got into my painting clothes and turned on the music. I had my phone in my pocket. I was adding some details to his tattoos and then my phone buzzed. It was from an unknown number. I didn't want to pick up but I answered.

"Hello?"

"Ah, Marisol Reyes." I turned down the music and sat on my chair.

"Whos this?"

"Trust me on this. Come outside, tell your father that you went to get some cigarettes."

"If I dont?"

"Your brothers, Ezekiel and Angel will get charged with a dead body in their car." I clenched my jaw. I looked outside and i saw nothing. "Keep the phone on so you won't say anything." I sighed and i went downstairs. I went to my dad, who was watching tv.

"Papi, imma go and buy some cigarettes, I'll be back." I walked to the door.

"Want me to come?"

"No, its okay. I got it." I looked at him as if it was the last time I was gonna see him. "Ill be back."

"Be careful mija." I closed the door behind and I put the phone against my ear.

"Now what?" I saw a black vehicle rolling down its window. I hung up. I walked up to the car. "Im not getting into this car. I don't know who the hell you are."

"My name is Lincoln Potter. I am an assistant U.S. attorney. We we heard about your brothers situation over the police band." He told me.

"My brothers? The hell did they do?"

"There was a dead body in the trunk of the car they were driving. That car belongs to another member of the M.C." I remember that they were gonna take Coco's car go take Celia to the desert. Im so fucked. "I'm sure there's Mayan DNA everywhere." I looked away from the white male. "Should I go on? Your brother, Ezekiel, made a deal with the DEA while incarcerated. It was put on the table by an agent Kevin Jimenez. Your second cousin, yes?"

"How did you know that?" He unlocked the car. I went in and I leaned against the car door, but also facing him.

"You know the story. Miguel Galindo is no longer our focus. The escalating dissent in Mexico has shifted all priorities. Which means Ezekiel's deal is irrelevant. And because he haven't accrued enough points, they'll put him back inside, and I'm afraid there's a real possibility his involvement with the authorities could be exposed and, of course, with that comes an agonizing, shiv-related end." I shook my head. I can't believe this is happening!

"I told Jimenez I was done, im out. I cant do this anymore." I brushed my hair to the side and I looked out the window.

"Yeah, well, once Ezekiel told us that you were aboard from the beginning, I'm afraid to say, you'll be aboard until the end." He turned to me. "I come here with an opportunity. One that's good for your brothers and therefore you as well. An ideology has manifested that threatens tranquility on both sides of the border. Because of your unique, innocence, nobody will pin anything on you, we feel it's something you could handle far better than we could."

"That means I do the patriotic way."

"Exactly Marisol! I wouldn't ask you or your hermanos to do anything that you all haven't done before. You do this for us, you help with this and Ezekiel won't need to accrue points, because the deal will never have existed. I will wipe it clean! He will be free and clear. I'll be in touch with the details. You can go now." He unlocks the car door.

"It wasn't suppose to end like this." I shook my head. "Im not gonna do it." Just as I had my hand on the handle, Potter began to talk again.

"We'll hold on to the dead body in case, until you change your mind and or your brothers say the same, and then you'll all be in jail. When EZ's exposed, the M.C. will assume the brother, the blood that brought him in, will have known about it, and we'll be right back to where we were, that agonizing death for you." I began to cry. This cant be real. "Poor Felipe. No wife. No sons. No daughter."

"You're fucking crazy." I choked out. He chuckled.

"That's a little Eye of Sauron-ish, don't you think? Telling the three of you made sense. That way I get three problem solvers for the price of one. As long as big brother Angel doesn't kill you. Oh, this is probably worth mentioning. EZ didn't need your help, it was Papa Felipe who made Ez why needed your help." My head snapped at him.

"What?"

"Oh, Ezekiel never told you? Ezekiel never wanted little sister Marisol into this because she was in 'college'." He put his fingers in parentheses as he said college. "Your father wanted Ezekiel to bring you in this." I covered my mouth with my hand from the sobbing. "Felipe believed that you'll guide Ezekiel in the MC."

"I don't believe you." I didnt want to believe him.

"I can play the audio right now if you want." He went on his phone and pressed play. Just as I heard My dads voice, I told him to stop.

"Turn it off." He put his phone away.

"Nothing he gave the DEA could ever be used against you, Angel or the M.C. So, you know, there's that."

"If I join, i want to make a deal." I snapped at him. He had a grin on his face. "You dont touch my boyfriend."

"You mean Johnny 'El Coco' Cruz?" He pulled out his phone and showed me photos of me and Coco outside of my house. "Consider it done." He stuck out my hand. "Not a shaker? What about a crisp high five?" He put up his hand. I walked out of the car and he rolled down the window. "We'll be in touch Marisol. I'll tell your brothers you said hello. Since I'm gonna see them in a few." He drove off. I walked inside, not talking to my father. I went straight to my room. I pulled out my cigarette and started to smoke out the window. I saw Angel, angrily walking in the house. I overheard the argument my dad and him were having.

Flashback: I knocked on the door as I made to where Angel was at. I just got out of school, and I just wanted to go home.

"Yeah?" Said a young man as He opened the door.

"Johnny, its my sister." Angel said as he walked out. We went to porch. "Aren't you suppose to be at school?"

"No, it was early dismissal." I went to reach an envelope. "Here, for my quince." He opened it and he smiled at the purple invitation.

"Cute." He chuckled. "Man, you're gonna be 15, shit, stop growing hermantia." He gave me a side hug. "I got your dress, gift from the mc."

"Dad is still trying to get the food and the DJ." I sighed. I sat on a abandoned car, next to Angel.

"i got it covered Marisol, dad hasn't been the same for almost three years now. Dont you think that you should be somewhere else? Like-"

"Like where Angel? So what dad is still the same. I can take care of him."

"He's the dad, you're the kid, he's supposed to take care of you. Not the other way around." He was getting angry.

"We're suppose to take care of each other." I said sadly. Angel sighed.

"Listen kid, imma talk to dad, maybe you can live with me for a while, okay? Just a few months or so until he gets better. You can visit him whenever you like, but you stay with me."

"It's not like a have a choice."

I finished my cigarette, I flicked it off outside. I then got a call from Ez.

"Hello." I answered.

"Hey."

"Whats up."

"Did Potter come talk to you?"

"You mean Severus Snape? Yeah he did."

"Im sorry Marisol, its not what you told KJ." I totally ignored him.

"Where are you?"

"With Angel." I shut my eyes. What a liar.

"You sound fucked up."

"Yeah, you know, we got into some trouble." I knew Angel beat him up. Maybe they told him or Ez told Angel to piss him up.

"Yeah. Well i got to go." I hung up. I grabbed my bag and headed downstairs again. I was stopped from my father. I was pissed. "I don't want to talk to you."

"Marisol please, you have to listen to me."

"I found out about that he didn't needed." I started to cry again. "You lied to me! You said Ezekiel needed me but you convinced him! How dare you!" For the first time, i was angry.

"I thought maybe you'll guide him. The rights and the wrongs in the MC, without telling Angel." He stepped closer to me but I backed up. "Marisol, Ez never wanted you to be in this. But I told him that you'll be safe and that its okay." I let out a laugh.

"Me safe?" I shook my head.

"im his father-" i then exploded with rage.

"You're my father too!" I screamed with tears. "You just wanted your golden boy back. I get it. You love him more than me and Angel."

"Dont say that. I didn't choose him over you.
I knew you'd take care of him. You and Angel watch his back in the M.C. I figured he'd get his points helping DEA get Galindo. Then he could walk away. Have the chance to live the life he was supposed to have."

"But what about me?"

"You were going the right path, but it was your choice. I never stopped loving you. Youre my baby girl."

"You say that now, but you acted entirely the opposite years ago."

"How did you find out?"

"This U.S. attorney. Bottom fell out of the Galindo deal wants us to help him out with a problem. If we all do it, your golden boy is free and clear."

"What problem?"

"Does it matter what problem? If it's good for EZ, we got to do it right? I'm sorry I ever came to you."

"I made a mistake. I didn't see any of it coming. Shit on the border, violence dissent. It wasn't meant for you."

"You're damn right." I grabbed my car keys and I drove. Its been a while since a drove. I just needed to go to yard. I hit the brakes as fast as I could as I saw a snake pass by. Under the passenger seat, a gun flew out. I picked up.

Flashback: i was waiting for Ez to get some sodas from the gas station. I was on my phone playing some games. My stupid hand accidentally dropped my phone into the seat.

"Shit." I went to grabbed it. Took a while to get it out. "Ew." I said as i saw some wet spots on the screen. I searched the car for napkins. I opened the glove compartment and I saw a gun.

"Here you go." Ez said as he came in. I looked at him and he grabbed the gun from me.  "Don't tell anyone."

"Why do you have a gun!?"

"Protection."

"From what?" He rubbed his face and looked at me. "Ezekiel?"

"I found moms killer." I rolled my eyes.

"And you think shooting him will bring her back?" I told him. He sighed. "Ezekiel, Let it go. Mom wouldn't want you to do this."

"I have to Marisol. He can't be free. I have to."

"And what?" I sat there with him. "You shoot him, then what?"

"I haven't-"

"You dont know Ezekiel. I can't lose you." I held his hand. "You use that gun, I lose you. I cant lose you too."

"You wont."

"How would you know?"

"Ill be careful." I looked outside. "Marisol, i have to do it."

"Is everyones family fucked up?" I said to him as he put the gun back. We drove away.

"No, not everybody's, but a lot of them. Yeah." He looked at me. "Of course were that extra special Reyes kinda fucked up."

I put the gun in the glove compartment and I drove away. I made to the yard and I saw Bishop.

"Where's Angel?" I said as I slammed my car door.

"Over there. Is everything okay?"

"Just family issues." I said as I walked to him.