All four of us jumped down from the wall, grabbed our shoes and took off running. We reached Josh’s car out of breath. Fortunately, he had a spare s...et of keys hidden behind the back license plate. We all piled in. Sonja pulled out her cellphone. Where the fuck had she hidden that? She placed a quick call and hung up. We had gotten maybe six blocks when we heard the siren. Then we saw the lights. Oh, shit. Josh pulled over. “License and registration please,” said the officer. He looked to be. It’s unfair. It’s unfair to heather that Cheryl can eat what she likes, because Cheryl isn’t going to have to keep her baby. Heather has decided that her baby is a millstone to bear with honour. Heather’s baby will be a lawyer, or a rap superstar, and he will give Heather back her dreams, if she chains herself to him and forgets all about being fifteen, and pregnant, and living at the YMCA. ‘I think so. She’s out there with that cabbie guy, so she’s probably getting high.’ ‘She’s in 226,. It was Jose. He said he was also going back to Guadalajara and offered me a lift. I hesitated but then decided it was OK as long as Roberto and Rodolfo weren’t with him. Jose had been the nicest of them and I kind of trusted him. On the way back he told me that Roberto had told them that he would put something in my drink that night when we went to the disco that would make me do anything they wanted me too. He also said that he wasn’t sure he wanted to be a part of that, he new Roberto from. “Of course not,” Monica lied, putting on a look of expectation even as she tried to imagine an excuse she could use to make only a abbreviated appearance at dinner. One that wouldn’t hurt the old lady’s feelings.“Excellent,” Sylvia said her smile returning. “I just have to run around to the corner grocery for a minute, but dinner should be ready about six-fifteen.”With that she was gone.Monica had lived in one of the second floor apartments of the two story walkup seven months now, and up until.