CHAPTER 12.

July 7, 2013.

The decisive moment arrives, they take the oath and reluctantly I say I swear.

"Colette Weston, right?" I nod to what I said" must answer." says the defense attorney.

"Yes, my name is Colette Weston," he reaffirmed.

"I'm sorry for your loss." I just sighed heavily. "Were you very close to your father?" He asked with subtlety.

"Yes. "

"Did you love your father? "

"Yes. "

"Do you love your mother? "

"Yes. "

"What do you think about everything that happened?" He looks at the jury.

"That Rose should sink into jail, in addition to ensuring that what she said is a lie." Everyone was surprised, but it was logical if I said that I did not love that woman, obviously she would not ask me what I had longed to answer.

"Why do you think it's a lie?" He plays along.

"Because if what she said were true, my father would have already killed her long ago. Do you know why?" I ask cautiously.

"No, tell me," he says interested.

"Because he already knew that she was unfaithful to him for a long time, you will tell me Mr. Lawyer. She affirms that Carlos was aggressive, moody and very possessive, according to studies of a person with those qualities, whether he was faced with the problem, even if it were with blows as she says." I say without hair in my mouth.

"But we agree that it is only an assumption, you do not know that and you are not a specialist in the case, you only say that because you are upset." Says the lawyer.

"Yes."

"Where were you the day it all happened?" It's like a bucket of very cold water that this lawyer has thrown at me.

I could avoid his death, if my title were sought another day. Without just being believed in hunches, I hated myself for it too. I was an unconscious.

"I was ... At school looking for my baccalaureate degree. "A tear begins to come out and then another, and another.

"You are aware that you never knew your father, in this case Mr. Carlos." Your petulant attitude makes me angry. "Because if he were known, his mother had already been three meters underground, and you would be accepted. Isn't that right, Miss Weston?" She asks petulantly.

My heart began to heat up, anger consumed me.

"Objection judge, she is a minor." commented the prosecutor.

"Remove what was said, the jury will not take that into account. Lawyer is a minor, be less aggressive."

"I withdraw what I said, no more questions."

But it's hard for me not to shut up, so I speak up and express everything I want to say.

"Yes, I did meet him, because I saw him kneel in front of Rose asking for opportunities to move forward with their relationship, I met him angry and believe me it was difficult to enter that protective shell, we both did not like that he was angry, do you know the reason?" The lawyer says nothing." Because my father got sick, he did not eat and HE WOULD PREFER HURT HIMSELF THAN HURT HIS WIFE OR DAUGHTER, I DEFEND HIM BECAUSE I KNOW THAT HE DID NOT TOUCH ANY HAIR WHEN SHE WAS KILLING HIM. SHE RUINED MY LIFE." My screams were heard throughout the room.

"You can't claim something you didn't see." He attacks with his strong voice.

"If you can, remember lawyer that you were called for new evidence of the case, did you not get it?" says the prosecutor.

I turn a deaf ear when a new discussion starts, when the defender asks for annulment and the prosecutor show the evidence once and for all, I never thought that that boy would be my hero. We did not have his evidence that was later handed over to the authorities.

I had a special friend, he had down syndrome but he was very intelligent, he knew that I liked that they would record me making ridiculous things, he was also invited to my mini graduation and he would be the cameraman of the whole night, Gabo was his name, the cause of give freedom to my father Carlos, it is difficult to call him dad, I am not worthy of such a thing.

At the end the judge accepted such evidence is shown, it is seen as Gabriel is walking towards my house, his mother tells him to behave, he just makes a strange sound.

When he crosses the street he goes from behind to look for the rod that I like so much, I know because although I am not a guess, he later finds it and I know that was what he was looking for, in the recording it is clearly shown how he lasts a few minutes By placing a bracelet around the wand, a loud sound is heard, which makes him very scared, the camera turns around a little.

He pronounces my name with difficulty, of course, his pronunciation was not that good, but I could understand him.

He thinks it's me, so he grabs the camera and walks out the back door, and that's it.

His innocence encompasses all limits, so much so that he thinks they are playing, he just watches Rose stab Carlos without remorse, hated her from the beginning.

My father just cried, and told her to stop, she never stopped.

The judge cut the video, she made the jurors get up and go after her to finish this case, I got up and went to my place, my relatives are broken.

I felt dead in life, from today I will not be the same, I will never be at peace with myself, seeing how the spirit of a human being goes is not something that can be overcome like that because if...

The lawyers arrive, without any answer to my question, obviously they already know the verdict but cannot say it. The judge walks in and we all get up, she sits down and we do it, now I'm in the back with the spectators watching how the anguish eats away at Rose.

"We've seen enough, this clearly has exhausted us all. So jury please let's say the final verdict." dictates the judge, who stares at me for a few seconds.

"He is found guilty of murder in the first degree, without the possibility of parole." Nobody says anything, only the judge is missing.

"A beautiful life, and because of his mental condition he ruined his life, well he is found guilty of 25 years of life imprisonment, life imprisonment without parole or death with aggravating factors, but the lady will be paying her sentence in the state psychiatric center California." The lawyer did not look very happy, especially Rose.

On the other hand, Carlos's family, if they were.

"I just wanted to be with you, I hated your father, I didn't want to hurt you, I'm so sorry." I heard his screams and it made me want to vomit.

I immediately left that place, I did not want to know anything about my unfortunate life.

Already in the cemetery he has been left alone, at least where I am, that is how my life will be from now on, alone with no one to give me love and tell me that everything will be fine.

"I don't want to be alone, I want to go with you." It was my great pain.

How would I survive without it? Will there be someone to help me?

So many unanswered questions overwhelm me and even more knowing that I will be alone.

It's getting late, he came to the place where I grew up, I don't even bother to tell him home anymore. I open the door and enter knowing that my aunt is waiting for me, I thought at some point that she would support me, I was wrong as always.

"Where were you?" She asks, wiping her tears.

"In that Carlos." I look at her without wanting to continue with my life.

She approaches me, I think for a moment that she is going to hug me but as I said before, I am always wrong. My head turned three hundred and sixty degrees, the pain came quickly and my hand covered the affected area.

He had given me a welcome slap to my personal hell.

"You will not do what you want, did you hear me Bastard?" Just his pronunciation has broken my heart.

My tears are not long in coming, and with it my resentment grows. I have no grudge against my aunt, she is not to blame for what is happening, she blames only one person for hurting me and that is Rose.

"You have to remove the blood, clean everything and you will not go to sleep until you finish with all this mess. " She says going to my room, she sleeps there with Tamara my cousin.

Like them, I don't want to go into Carlos's room, so I have to sleep in the living room.

As my aunt Tatiana said, I have to clean so I get to work without wasting a minute.