El Pablo Short Story

It was a Sunday afternoon and El Pablo’s older brother, Sergio, was trapped in the corner of a brick wall. El Pablo was holding a gun to his head while the sweat ran down Sergio’s forehead. El Pablo was a top class criminal who was very talented, cold blooded, sneaky, and deceiving. He had recently left his brother stranded in Texas after their delivery of 500 pounds of marijuana. El Pablo was holding the revolver to his head with his finger on the trigger. He contemplated pulling the trigger; internally he was questioning Sergio’s value. El Pablo’s brother stared down the barrel of the gun from a distance of two inches. His finger tightly clenched down on the trigger and the bullet immersed from the barrel. Within one hundredth of a second it had penetrated his head. El Pablo’s brother was dead.

He headed home to his lovely wife Melissa and his eight-year-old son Jose. He met Melissa when selling drugs in southern California located in the poor part of town. They fell in love, married, and devoted their lives to each other. Since then the two have always been together and survived through thick and thin. El Pablo has a two-story house with a perimeter of 2500 meters. His comes from his drug smuggling income. Under his house, El Pablo and his workers built a pitch-black basement that contains all the processing, packaging, and labeling necessary for his drug trade. Fifteen years later El Pablo’s crew had just completed the packaging for one of their largest batches ever confirmed. The total profit that El Pablo will receive from the smuggle is forty five million pesos. El Pablo agreed to smuggle the drugs into Southern California with the conformation of cash payment. This mission is extremely risky, he sets out in search to find a new partner to help him smuggle the drugs since Jacqui’s had passed away from a recent heart