Carly's p.o.v, 6:15am

'That's all we need for now, Miss De Santa. We'll call you if we have more questions.' Officer Vasquez says, gently patting my shoulder before standing up and walking to one of the other officers.

I'm surprised that she didn't arrest me but she's probably been through shootouts before.

'Did that go ok, sugar?' Johnny says before he sits next to me and puts an arm around my shoulders. I don't completely trust the police force in this town either.

How they handled the Davis High shooting last year is an example but i'd rather not think about that.

Damn...i actually did like that school.

'Carly? You ok, baby girl?' He says, snapping me out of my trance. 'Yeah. It's been a long few days.' I say, resting my head against his shoulder. The shootout between Ivory and me, Tracey being held hostage, the incident from earlier in the week...have i made some kind of deal with the devil?

'Get some rest, baby girl. I'm not going anywhere.' I hear Johnny say before i drift off to sleep, feeling him brushing his lips against my forehead and gently kissing it.

Switch to Amanda's p.o.v

'I don't want him hanging around my daughter!' I thought, not caring how hypocritical that is. If Carly ends up in trouble, she should be able to turn to me but i blew that all to hell!

Thanks to me caring more about that stupid private school potentially slapping us with a lawsuit, i said the worst thing that a mother could say to their child!

I was Carly's age once and my mother called me a mistake!

Turns out, that would be the last thing that she ever said to me.

I don't know why but i checked on my mother later that night and i found her in her room, dead, her hand holding onto an empty liquor bottle. I didn't feel anything because she had slowly been destroying herself after my dad ran off, leaving me to deal with her.

I packed up everything that i owned and took off to the bus station. The last stop was North Yankton and that's where i started over, met and married Michael and we had a beautiful family together.

Part of me wishes that we never took that deal with the F.I.B but where would we be now if we hadn't?