Chapter 32) Living on the edge.
He stared dreamy at the white wall across him. 'How did I get here?' A little bit worried he looked through the room. Three other white walls, a sink in the corner and a small bed, which he was lying on. He tried to get up, stopped immediately when pain shot through his shoulder. 'I was hit.' His eyes grew wide. 'Where is the ninã?'
Footsteps approached. Fast he closed his eyes, pretending to be asleep. The door opened and someone walked in. 'If it's one of the Cartels, I'm dead', he realised.
"El señor Guezõ, cómo usted se siente?" A cheerful womanlike voice said. Slowly he opened one eye. A nurse stood in front of him, smiling merry at him. She has black curly hair bond up in a knot and her eyes were a dark brown.
Now very confused El looked at the nurse. "Huh?" 'What did she just call me?'
A worried frown appeared on the woman her face. "Senõr Guenzõ, Usted es bien?"
El blinked his eyes and managed to smile. "Bueno, señora."
The woman smiled again. "Usted es sobrina está aquí al visite usted, señor"
Utterly confused he stared at the woman. "Sobrina?"
"Si, señor, es sobrina." The nurse smiled. "Iré la obtengo."
As the nurse walked of, El scratched his head. 'What is that nurse talking about? What niece? I don't even have a niece. And why did she calls me Guezõ? Why am I here in the first place!' He had no time to think about it. The door shot open and a dark-brown headed girl ran into the room.
"Uncle!" The girl screamed, ran up to him and hugged him. "Yo le he perdido!" She cheered, while hugging him. "Please try to act as if you're seeing your little niece again, El, I'm trying to make a convincing show!" She whispered in his ear. Slowly she let him go and turned to the nurse, standing in the doorway.
"Da las gracias para hacerlo salud otra vez!" The girl said gratefully to the nurse. The woman smiled and closed the door. The girl turned around. "Well El, so far your acting talents."
El stared stunned at the girl. "Lizz?"
The girl rolled with her eyes. "Dhu! Did you think I would let your real niece get you out of the hospital!" She sat beside him on the bed. "Aren't I smart?"
El was still stunned. "What did you do to your hair?"
She giggled and stroke through her short brown hair. "Sands and I had a compromise and I dyed it so I would look like your niece. Don't worry I'll pay you back for the paint."
"Why is it so short? You look more like a boy than a girl, right now." El said looking at the short hair.
"Hey, that's not my mistake, Sands and a scissor is just no good match. I have to say I'm surprise I still have some hair left." She sighed. "Anyway, we have to get out of here, I left Sands at the car and I don't think it is a very smart idea to leave him there in the public."
El could only nod and wondered why she brought Sands here in the first place.
"Good, let's go." The girl jumped up and started to search through her purse. "Here's your wallet."
Slowly he took it and got up. It's wasn't as easy as he had hoped it to be, but at least his arm didn't hurt much. The girl already opened the door and looked from side to side sneaky.
"The hallway is clear, let's go!"
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They managed to get into the elevator without getting caught. El leaned against the iron wall and panted. Walking and running was still a little bit hard. "So 'niece', why the rush al of a sudden?"
She rose an eyebrow. "El, you've been here for three days, I don't think my step dad will wait until you're better, there is something with evil man and health, they just don't wait."
El glared at her. "Please don't get as sarcastic as Sands is, práctico, I don't think I'm strong enough for two of them."
"Well, the guy gets at your nerves if you been in the same room with him for three days. I swear he just kills your sanity."
"Now you mention it, is he still acting so…" El ticked against his temple.
She looked a bit shocked. "No, he's okay, right now, I think."
"That doesn't sounds very good, ninã." El frowned when the elevator stopped. "Never mind let's get going."
Lizz nodded and the door slid open.
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They also managed to get out of the hospital without having someone getting killed. The girl giggled relieved when they sneaked out of the backdoor of the hospital. El growled something, holding his arm, not feeling happy at all. The girl looked questioning at him.
"I'm alright." He muttered. "Just a little dizzy."
She smiled relieved and placed an arm around his good one. "We're almost there, just this street." She insured him.
The 'almost' part wasn't entirely right if you asked El. It took them almost twenty minutes to get to the car. But the cause of that could also be the fact he had to rest every now and then.
"We're here." The girl said finally.
El growled something not even sure what it was himself, a thank you or a curse. It didn't matter at that point all he wanted was to get in the car and sleep. Bravely he stumbled into the direction of the car.
'BWAMN'
There was a shot and a bullet hardly missed his foot. El jumped up, cursed when his arm hit the wall.
"Don't fucking move, Haga no joder mueve, who every you are." Sands slowly walked out of an ally across the car. His face didn't show any emotion. "Get your sissy ass against that wall and you might survive."
Shocked for the third or fourth time that day El looked into the barrel of the gun.
"Sands it's okay, it's me." The girl next to him hushed.
Still the gun did not lower. Sands frowned and now looked into her direction. "What's for dinner?"
Now El frowned. 'What the…?'
The girl seemed not surprised by Sands' question. "Nothing, you killed the cook."
Now the gun lowered and Sands smiled relieved. "Damn right, I did." With one skilful manoeuvre he put his gun back between his belt. "Now get your ass in the car girly, I've been waiting here over an hour and I'm almost out of cigarettes."
She walked up to the car and sniggered. "And how did you do that? You had half a pack when I left."
"Smoking makes the time go faster." To prove his point he lighted up a cigarette.
The girl shrugged, rolled her eyes and turned to El. "Are you alright?" He nodded slowly, not very sure himself. But the girl didn't see his doubts and walked to the car.
'I'm still not sure, or she's crazy or very stupid.' El thought opening the car door. 'She just keeps following a madman, a man who isn't scared to kill whole Mexico…But maybe I'm crazy, because I'm following her…'
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"So, girly, where are we going?" Sands asked, shifting a little uncomfortable on his car seat. El had fallen asleep, or passed out, a little while ago. The only sound in the car was a soft Spanish song on the radio and the heavy breathing of the man laying on the backseat.
"Well, I have no idea really. I just want to get out of that city, you never know if there was someone watching us. Okay, whole town was watching you when you started to curse at that guy when you thought he looked funny at you..."
"That was just a small mistake, how could I have known the man was a police man trying to find a drug dealer!"
"Yeah, right, you might think about a self-control-class , if it was not for my fabulous acting talent you would've been in jail right now."
"Talent! You told the guy I was your mentally insane brother! That got nothing to do with acting, kiddy, that's just lying!"
"Excuse me!" She yelled surprised. "But you are mentally insane! So I didn't lie the whole time!"
He smirked at her. "Not insane, just living on the edge, Lizzy-O."
"Yes, the edge of your sanity!"
He made a face. "Shut up."
This chapter is very short, I know, but for the moment I'm a little out of ideas.
So please review!
Luvzzz Sue-AnneSparrow.
La translation: El señor Guezõ, cómo usted se siente- Good morning mister Guezõ, how are you feeling?
Senõr Guenzõ, Usted es bien?", -are you alright?
"Bueno, señora."- I'm okay.
"Usted es sobrina está aquí al visite usted, señor"- You're niece is here to visite you.
"Si, señor, es sobrina."- Yes, you're niece
"Iré la obtengo." – I'll go get her.