Present Day

“Before you, she was not depressive or grieving- it is all your mistake!” Ruth yelled at me with a maniac gleam in her eyes.

“Will you ever let me go at all?” I asked Ruth carefully.

“Your choice.” she simply said and left the hotel room.

Ruth left the hotel room and locked it, leaving Lara on her own. She drove down the street and ended up on an empty beach. She would never return to free Lara at all. A jogger found her the next morning lying on the beach with an empty pill container, an empty bottle of Whiskey and an empty bottle of Bacardi. She had commited suicide.

I knew Ruth would not come back and free me so I just waited a while till I was sure she would definitely not return. And waited and waited all night long.

Outside the hotel room 11:02pm

I had never been that scared for someone in my entire life. Did it mean I really loved Lara? Thinking about it I looked through the hotels in the lower LA area and landed somehow here. In front of this hotel room. But I realized that it would not make any sense to look for her here. They must have been already gone long ago as there was no car on the parking lot, that was empty now. The owner told me the woman who rented this room was alone and left long time ago. Like 3 hours ago. So I just left the place in my Mini and drove to the next Hotel on the list I had made.

Inside the hotel room 11:06 pm

Was I hallucinating or was Alice standing in front of the hotel room? But if she was then she already had left as there was no one anymore. Sighing I tried again to free myself. I could not get off the handcuffs off myself but somehow I managed to get them off the wooden part of the bed by breaking it into pieces. Not believing what I just did I opened the window to climb out and ran to the owner and called the only number I could recognize. Alice’s mobile phone number.

The Chicana Motel 11:16 pm