This should have been part of the previous chapter, sorry.

Knock Knock

Chapter Seven

"I should have known better." We whispers.

I want to tell him that he doesn't need to tell me the rest to spare him the pain I can see, can feel from him, but he has been holding onto this for so long, he needs to get it out.

"It was a week before we were due to move and I was to meet Emmanuel at mi padres shop which he had taken over running to finalise things there." Dread fills me and I want to block my ears, I think I know where this is going. [my father's]

"The lights were on but the front door was locked with the closed sign up. He usually turned them off when he was closed but working in the back office. I thought he had just forgotten. I walked into the back intending to make a joke about it and found him. He was barely recognisable after being tortured. He had enough life to tell me that Ernesto did this, he found out we were gay and Emmanuel was the reason I was not more involved with the gang and it's war. He wanted to make it look like the rival gang did it so I would seek revenge against them and return to the gang war. He told me…he told me…he…" Hector can't continue crumbles to the floor sobbing. Sliding from the couch I sit and wrap him in my arms and we cry together.