The party lasted for hours, everyone was eating and dancing.
Really having a good time, Camilla was trying to enjoy herself with talking to Ricardo and his friends, but with knowing what he has to do tonight to be completely colored is unsettling to her.
The initiation involves having the new member going out with the leader and other members, they target members from other gangs and have the new member kill them.
The thought of having to do that haunts Camilla, the idea of having to take someone's life just to joint some fucking gang is sick and idiotic to her.
Her father was yelling to get everyone's attention, guessing by how dark it was meant that it was time.
"Escucha, es hora de la iniciación, Ricardo se sube al auto." (Listen up, it's time for the initiation, Ricardo get in the car out back.) he said then turn over to walk to Camilla.
"Camilla, ¿no quieres venir?"(Camilla, are you don't want to come.) he asked her, Camilla looked at him and shook her head.
"Papa no... Just please be careful.." she said, he cupped at her face and kissed the top of her forehead.
"Ok mama, alright lets go.. Manuel watch over the house and her for me." he stated then walked out with a bunch of other guys.
Camilla POV
I was sitting on the couch waiting with anticipation, in my mind I want my brother to have an epiphany and not go through with this initiation. But knowing how much this means to our dad, he's going to go through with it.
So many times there's been backfires in the past ones, a few times dad lost a few men and some ended up in prison.
I just don't want that to happen to Rick, having to go see him in jail visits or having to go pick out his dead body.
The image of it brings tears to my eyes, looking over there was Emmanuel and Juan over in the dinning room playing cards with each other till the sound of one of their phones ringing.
Watching Emmanuel answered his phone that rang, listening I could hear that it was my dad who was calling.
"Aye is everything alright?" he asked, when my dad was talking on the other end his body language changed.
He looked over at Juan then at me, the look on his face meant that something wasn't good.
"Ok ok...everything's fine over here just take the secret route to the place and..hey..aye Victor!"" he yelled, from where I was sitting I could hear the sounds of gunfire on the other end of the phone, it sounds crazy but out from the window it sounded like gun fire from far away.
Panicking I got up and went over towards them, the line on the other end hung up and Emmanuel seemed anxious.
"Wh..What's going on..Are they in danger?!" I asked in panic, he shook his head and ran his hands through his hair.
Not wanting to wait around I grabbed my keys on the kitchen counter and started making my way towards the front door.
Before I could even reach the door knob Juan was rushing to get in between me and the door.
"No no mija you can't go out there." he said, I looked at him stupid and tried pushing him out the way.
"I don't know if somethings wrong, I need to know that they're ok." I said , so many things were going through my head of possibilities that could be happening.
The thought of Ricardo and dad being shot and killed caused a painful ache in my chest, my eyes immediately swelled up.
Desperately I pushed him out the way and go for the door, Emmanuel tried calling my dad back but the phone wasn't picking up.
"Shit..shit..., we need to go over to Cathedral." he said walking over towards me and Juan.
I was escorted from the front and we rushed to the car parked in the driveway, getting in the back both of them quickly got inside and turned on the car.
Within seconds we pulled out and sped down street like a bullet, anxiously I looked out in both back windows to see if there were signs of my brother and dad being near the area.
There were police lights coming up the front on the other corner of a block, passing it up I saw that there were some Altamira crews on the side walk getting handcuffed and a few dead bodies on the street.
Panic washed over me to thinking that it could possibly be them.
Juan tried calling my dad over and over, after the tenth time calling finally there was a response. Immediately I reach out and snatched the phone from his hand.
"Papá, papá está todo bien, ¿dónde está Ricardo?"(Dad, Dad is everything ok, where's Ricardo?!) I asked panickly almost screaming into the phone.
The sound of his voice on the other end lifted a big weight on my heart in relief, my heart was calming down while I chuckled with happy tears.
"Todo está bien, mi amor, te veremos aquí en un segundo."(Everything's fine my love, we'll see you here in a second.) he said on the other end.
It took a few more blocks but we were finally there, waiting for them to stop the car I rushed out the car and towards inside.
Pushing the doors open I was met with a few of the members that were watching over the place, rushing through everyone I was able to make it over to one of the rooms.
Once getting inside I saw Ricardo and our dad, the looked winded out and tired. Happy I ran over and leaped into Ricardos arms in deep relief, he caught me and held onto me.
My arms tightened around his neck and I let my worried emotions wash over me and cry in his arms.
"Oye, estoy bien, hermana, no llores."
(Hey, I'm alright sis don't cry.) he said while rubbing my back in comfort.
"No me vuelvas a asustar así de nuevo, imbécil!(Don't you fucking scare me like that again moron!) I yelled against his chest while crying, looking over I saw our dad smiling at us, immediately I went over and embraced him tightly as possible.
"We're ok mija, it's ok." he said while rubbing my head, for some reason I got angry at his words.
Pushing my self off I stared up at him with tears and anger in my eyes.
"No it's not ok, you could've gotten killed including him!" I said while pointing at Rick, everyone was staring at us now but I didn't care.
My dad came over to me and tried to calm me, his hand resting on my shoulder and other to my face.
"But we're fine now and safe, just relax and we can talk later." he said, I pushed his hands away and scoffed at him.
"Talk later about what... I told i don't want any part of this gang bullshit Papa.!" I yelled, a few of the members started muttering and looking surprised at my words.
Ricardo came over beside me and tried to stop this from escalating more.
"Guys..lets not do this now.. Just calm down and we can ..." cutting him off I pushed him away and looked at both of them.
"No.. I don't want to be apart of this life style anymore, I especially wished that you didn't go through with this Rick." I said looking at him in disappointment.
My dad seemed to be aggravated by my words, but he needs to know how I really feel even if it hurts him.
"Papa, I can't live like this anymore. How would mama feel if she saw how we were living." , when saying that I saw the mood of dread on my dads face.
"Camilla, I suggest you choose your next words..carefully." he said sternly, always I would hold my tongue with my father but enough was enough.
"Why, because you know that if she were still here we wouldn't be in this situation. But she's not, and this is the type of bullshit that got her killed in the first place!" I yelled, unexpectedly a sharp impact came across my face.
Everyone stood dead silent to my dad slapping me, Rick looked at me and then at my dad in both shock and outrage.
He got in between me and him, I was still in awe that he had actually did that. My father has never raised his hand to me or my brother, he was never abusive to us or harshly punished us. But for the first time, I was hit by him.
From looking up at him I saw that he had regretted doing what he did, looking at his hand he looked back at me with sadness in his eyes.
"Mija...baby I " he tried saying but I rushed passed him and ran out the room.
The sound of Ricardo calling behind me filled the cathedral but I ignored him and ran out the building and into the night.
Not even bothering to stop I kept on running till I was at least a block or two away from that place. Tears were running down my face and I hugged myself , not even wanting to see them at all or going back home.
Reaching into my back pocket I went through my contacts and called up Sabrina, it rang a few times till she answered.
"Aye puta, what's up with you tonight?"she asked, right now I need to do something wild and fun to get myself out of this funk.
Remembering that one of my guy friends said that there was a huge party that the fogteeth gang hosted for everyone to come, my father would never allow me to even step foot in a place where there were fogteeth. But right now I could give a shit about his rules and what he says.
"Big Plans, text the girls and find the sexiest outfit you have. We're turning up tonight."