"Thanks for driving me back home… if I had walked back, I don't know what trouble I could've ran into, Uncle Sonny." Ali says after Sonny stopped the Ferrari Testarossa in the Castillo driveway, the sun already setting. "I'm worried about Amber after what happened… she's never put anyone in the hospital before." She says.
"I'll keep an eye on her… you okay?" Sonny says.
"I don't know… I wish things had turned out differently but they didn't." Ali says.
Ali and Sonny hugged before Ali got out and disappeared into the house, Sonny driving away… it was when he reached the main part of the downtown area that he saw a drunken Jake being handcuffed by Stan.
"Get off of me, damn it!" Jake snarled, Sonny pulling over to the curb and shutting the car off before getting out.
"Sonny, tell drunk boy here that it's illegal to drive while intoxicated and run 3 red lights! He also ran a familiar face off of the road!" Stan says, Sonny seeing a bruised and bleeding Rico.
"You alright, pal?!" Sonny asks.
"Just a few cuts and bruises, the car itself… not so much." Rico says, pointing to the 2000 red Honda Civic which was battered worse than himself, the driver's door gone along with the mirror and the front windshield and hood of the car smashed in. And to top it off, a palm tree had crashed into the roof of the car itself and ripped it in half.
"Damn Jake…" Sonny mutters before turning to the handcuffed 16 year old boy. "Alright, what possessed you to get drunk out of your mind, barrel through traffic and injure someone?!" He asks.
"People not keeping their mouths shut! All I was doing earlier was messing around and Miguel felt that he had to try and be a hero!" Jake says angrily.
"You're crazy, you know that?! You could've killed yourself with the way you were driving!" Rico says, Stan shoving Jake into the squad car before getting in and leaving.
Back at the Castillo house, Ali felt someone nudge her, looked and saw Miguel before he sat down next to her.
"Where'd you go to earlier?" Miguel asks.
"Uncle Sonny's boat… I wasn't the only one either, Alicia stupidly decided to take a lighter and burn Amber's neck." Ali says, startling Miguel. "And before you ask, Alicia got beat up for it too… Amber can be scary." She says.
"Amber can be damn terrifying… you remember back when you were 11, when I flicked an eraser at her and she bent back and dislocated my index finger?" Miguel says.
"I started screaming so loudly that Brady had to drag me out of the house." Ali says.
"That was about the first time either of us saw how crazy she gets… she's the kind of person who has her limits, but piss her off and those limits get thrown in the trash." Miguel says.
Ali nodded in agreement… before seeing a breaking news bulletin about the vehicle pileup in the downtown area.
"People just get stupid when drunk." Ali mutters after the first few seconds before both heard who was involved and Ali turned furious, Miguel trying to calm her down because if there was another temper he worried about,it was Ali's. "He… how dare he?! That little, rotten-" She starts to shout, Miguel covering her mouth as Martin walked in.
"Everything okay, kiddos?" Martin asks, Ali licking Miguel's right hand and making him lower it.
"Jake went and caused Uncle Rico to hit a tree!" Ali says angrily as Miguel went into the kitchen to wash his hands.
"Did anyone say if it was an accident or on purpose?" Miguel asks after rejoining them.
"No one's sure yet but alcohol was involved, Jake was hauled off in handcuffs." Martin says.
Miguel groaned in frustration, him and Ali looking at each other and talking without actually talking like they had started when he was a toddler and she was a newborn.
It was days like these ones that absolutely frustrated the siblings to their breaking points… and both knew that it would just get crazier with how things were spiraling.
OCB…
"One count of driving while intoxicated, three counts of running red lights and two counts of vehicular assault, Izzy Moreno was also hospitalized… Jake, do you always have to be a damn idiot?!" Billy says, Jake glaring at his older brother.
"Ooh, naughty boy!" Both heard as Jake was about to speak, seeing Amber stood in the doorway with a cold pack held to her burns.
"Scram, Amber!" Jake growls.
"Hmm… nah. Don't want to move around too much, turns out that my skin doesn't like antiseptic cream and I pretty much covered my whole damn shoulder with it." Amber says.
"Your shoulder got burned too?!" Billy asks, Amber exposing the burns on her shoulder as well as the edges of her neck.
"The fire was on my neck but while I was patting it out, it briefly spread to my shoulder. Not as bad, but… now it turns out I'm allergic to antiseptic cream and I smothered the damn shoulder with it, it may as well be." Amber says.
"Things got out of control but did it really call for putting my twin sister in the hospital?!" Jake yells.
"Look at me… huh? LOOK AT ME!" Amber says, startling both of them when she yelled and grabbed Jake by his collar. "See these burns?! Less than an inch deeper and I'd be dead! She could've killed me, you and your damn family are very fucking lucky that I didn't return the favour!" She yells, Jake and Billy startled that a 13 year old would even threaten such a thing as death.
Jake backed away, Amber seeing that the threat had shaken him.
"Now you get it after causing a multi vehicle pileup and putting two people in the hospital." Amber says before leaving.
She had to calm down… and she knew how to.