chapter 8

      A pair of small hands starts pulling the water bottle out of Shane’s hands. Shane looks down to see its Marco, and jerked her hand soo strong that little Marco was almost thrown into the stair-case and rolled downstairs…..

 "mmmmmaaaarrrcc" that was the end of Mr. MOrales…Shane smiled to herself and took out a handkerchief and wiped off her fingerprints from the spray and made Mr. Morales’ dead hands hold it to get his finger prints in there…..and then she calls 911. 

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 Carmen started crying hysterically with a calm and quiet Shane holding her, not too tight, just enough to support her on her feet. Mr. Morales was declared dead right there…but they were still working on Marco, and this made Shane nervous. 

 ’If that fucking manchild wakes up remembering that i killed Mr. fucking Morales…..then its the end of me ‘ thought Shane in her evil head. Abuela was taking care of Rosita…she desparately wanted to see marco but was kept out of the grotesque scene. 

 a couple of Doctors come out. 

 Doc: "Marco Morales family here?"

 Shane wakes Carmen who dozed off for a sec. 

 Carmen runs to the doctor. "What is it doc….is Marco okay? Please tell me"

 Doc:"Calm down. Ms. Morales…we have a good news and a bad news." Carmen sees hope in the doc’s words. 

 Carmen:"tell me the good one first" 

 Doc:"Well marco is alive and breathing, his heart rate is normal….but the problem is that….his left side is paralysed"

 Carmen:"WHAT????? NOOOOOOO" and she breaks down in tears…Carmen was almost like a mother to marco and rosita after the death of their parents. 

 Shane holds Carmen tightly…"its okay hun…..at least he’s alive" Shane says still nervous and fidgety about whether Marco will remember everything…

 Shane:"Doc can he talk to us now" Shane couldn’t help but ask. 

 Doc:"Yeah there is another problem….Marco cannot comprehend words….if he were older we would make him go through speech therapy but he is a kid…and he’s still going to be in shock for a while…i believe that the partial paralysis is due to the shock as well….it may or may not come back but lets hope for the best. I think we going to keep him here for a few more days so I think you should go home and come back tomorrow again."

 CArmen:"NO I am sitting right here I am not leaving Marco here alone"

 Shane:"Carmen dear, he’s not alone. he’s in good hands….and you are sooo tired you should go home come on I will take you home" 

 Shane drives her to her apartment, because she didn’t want to face Rosita right now…..

 Shane parks in the parking lot and walks Carmen upto her room.

 Carmen:"Shane do you mind if I ask you to stay with me today…I don’t think I can handle it all"

 Shane doesn’t respond she just looks at the ceiling.

 Shane:"Carmen, I just wanted to say sorry for everything! I was right there but couldn’t do anything…I feel like its all my fault" Shane knew exactly what impact her words would have on Carmen….. 

 Carmen turned her head toward Shane and looked at her in the eyes. Its dark emrald green like a sea…..She felt bad for putting Shane through all of this and now she felt worse that Shane’s blaming herself for all of these. 

 Carmen:"Shane its not your fault at all. now don’t do this to me….I would feel worse if you blame yourself, for this…this is an accident and you had nothing to do with all of this." 

 Shane’s eyes started tearing up….

 Shane:"You know, when I entered the cabin your dad was still trying to use the spray….I got his the water bottle but he didn’t want it….."   Shane loved lying. She pauses to make the crying scene even more heartfelt and realistic. "you know why he called me? He called me to surprise US by making the company in our name if… you know…I guess he wanted us to get married…..kinda like his last wish….but I don’t want to put you through this right now…take your time and think and decide what you wanna do…….and again I am sorry Carmen"  and Shane hugs Carmen.