yell at them for not
calling. Larry recognized that like
other Greeks, he never thought to call people, but he hated how Greeks acted so
hypocritically when they would berate their friends for not calling when they
themselves don’t call. He had been on
the receiving end of that phone call one too many times to strive to avoid
it. He couldn’t really help that it
never occurred to him to call his friends, but he could control how he reacted
to getting a phone call. He could just
say yes. He liked hanging out with his
friends and really didn’t want to lose contact with them, the only thing that
stopped him from inviting his Greek friends out when he went out, besides that
he doesn’t call, is that they rarely accepted the invitation. Knowing that people will stop calling if you
almost always say no, he tried to say yes as much as possible to keep the phone
calls coming. Obviously conflicts do
arise sometimes but Larry countered this by always knowing how his hierarchy of
people went. Simply put, which of his
friends and family were most important to him down to the least. This way when two conflicts arose
simultaneously, he always knew which one he would accept. Janilsa rated pretty close to the top of the
list. He understood that Janilsa was
higher on his list than he was on Janilsa, but this didn’t concern him at
all. This particular invitation excited
him not because it was from one of his closest friend but because, although he
had been invited to many of Janilsa’s parties, this was the first time he was
invited to one of Joel’s. He immediately
accepted and became kind of excited for he liked Janilsa’s house parties.
On
the day of the party, Larry was slightly annoyed that his car wouldn’t start so
would have to take public transportation, this meant that he would be late to
the party. Larry hated inconveniencing
his friends when he went to visit. Janilsa
lived in Long Island but not walking distance
from the closest LIRR stop. So Larry
would have to take the LIRR and have Janilsa pick him up at the train
station. Other times when he had done
this, he came slightly earlier than the rest of the guests, this way when
people arrived, Janilsa would be home to greet them and wouldn’t have to leave
the party after it was on its way.
Today, this wouldn’t be the case, there was no way he’d get to Long Island early.
Larry didn’t really think Janilsa minded this but was extremely
apologetic when he informed Janilsa about this and was on his way. As the party got on the way, Larry was very
surprised to see Layla come in. Larry
didn’t know that Layla had moved to America
from the Dominican Republic
Larry
hated American dancing with a burning passion.
The Spanish dances of Bacchata and Meringue he didn’t mind too much
because there were actually steps involved.
He had no illusions of his being stereotypically white in that he had
absolutely no rhythm whatsoever but he found it slightly easier to follow the
rhythm of the person he was dancing with when dancing Spanish Meringue or
Bacchata. The key word, however, was slightly easier, he still was pretty
hopeless in keeping a rhythm. Layla,
however, kept asking Larry to dance to the American music. One time he gave in for a grand total of 15
seconds, just long enough for Layla to be distracted by her cousins dancing
giving him the opening to leave the dance floor and sit back down.
Eventually
Layla gave up and her and Larry just talked for a while. Many of mutual acquaintances such as Layla’s
cousins and Larry’s friends whom Layla had met sat down at the table to join in
the conversation but they would soon get up to dance again but Larry and Layla
stayed. Larry felt that Layla was
hitting on him. One thing he would never
resolve was the difference between having a girl tease him or actually flirt
with him. He had already decided he
wasn’t going to make a move to hook up with Layla no matter how flirtatious she
seemed. Larry had been drinking and he
was confident so had Layla and Janilsa had made these rules pretty clear, he
couldn’t hook up with one of her close friends or cousins for the first time
when they were drunk regardless of his current level of intoxication. Since Larry was a very black and white
thinker, thus didn’t believe one should hit on someone if they had no intention
of hooking up with them, he did his best to control himself but it was hard not
to return flirtations. He also wasn’t
even quite sure what separated flirting from being friendly. The game of courting, love, liking more than
friends, or whatever you wanted to call it confused Larry to no end. To him, everything had to be logical, and
emotions, feelings and all the other components of this game just had no logic
to it so he tried to avoid it. One part
of his flirtation was when he noticed Layla and a mutual friend of his and Janilsa’s
named Ranjit writing notes back and forth to Layla. Larry knew Ranjit was dating one of Janilsa’s
friends and also knew he was not the type of guy who would cheat on his
girlfriend. Larry then grabbed a napkin
and began writing in Greek. The only
thing he wrote in English was Layla’s name.
The note was mostly random thoughts that came to him like how it was
nice to see one of his friends that he hadn’t seen in a while and conversations
he had with other people before. Had it
been translated almost all of it wouldn’t have been too interesting, but Larry
believed that anything with someone’s name on it would immediately interest
them regardless of what language the rest of it was written in. He purposely kept it long so it would
actually look like he was writing a lot about Layla when really only about a
quarter of it was about her.
The
napkin had the desired effect, Layla looked over, saw her name and became
extremely interested in the contents. Larry
knew he was the only person at the party that spoke Greek, so knew that Layla’s
only hope was for him to translate, in which he refused just to annoy Layla. What he hadn’t intended was that Layla would
take the napkin home with her. Although
most of what was written was uneventful, there were a couple things that Larry
wrote under the security of it being in Greek and his being the only Greek
person there. He tried hard to remember
if there was anything damaging in that letter but since it was written with
little thought and while intoxicated, he couldn’t really recall
everything,. He would have to rely on Layla
losing interest and throwing away the napkin without translating it.
Layla had returned to her house with the napkin that Larry
wrote on but she didn’t hold on to it for long.
She lost interest in the contents of it the next day and just took her
name on the napkin to mean that Larry liked her. She liked Larry as well and liked the idea of
a white boyfriend. Although Layla’s
parents were both Dominican, and she was born and raised in the Dominican Republic
Larry was unsure what this dinner meant. This was the
first time he had seen Layla without Janilsa and under normal situations, he
would have thought nothing of it, had dinner maybe drinks and then said bye and
gone his separate way. Most of Larry’s
friends were girls, so having dinner one on one with a girl was not uncommon to
him and certainly did not necessarily have romantic intent. What made the dinner with Layla different was
that Larry couldn’t get something that Layla’s sister, Alexis had told him at
his birthday a couple weeks before. Alexis
had told Larry that she was perfectly okay with Larry dating Layla. The weird part was Larry didn’t say anything
about dating Layla. In fact, he didn’t
even think he liked her. This made Layla’s
text messages all the weirder, what started out as him just answering text
messages he realized may be misconstrued as something else. He was generally a nice guy and was unsure of
the consequences if he blatantly told Layla that he didn’t want to hook up with
her or ignored the text messages. It
didn’t really concern him if Layla herself got mad, it was Janilsa’s opinion
that bothered him. The closer he became
to Janilsa, the less he flirted with her cousins simply because he didn’t want
to jeopardize his friendship with Janilsa.
The one thing that he knew was that despite any protest from others
including Janilsa, if he hooked up with and subsequently, regardless how long
subsequently was, angered them, it would probably affect his relationship with Janilsa. No matter how much he liked Hispanic women,
which he did, and no matter how hot he believed her cousins to be, there was no
girl hot enough or hook up enjoyable enough to compensate for losing a close
friend like Janilsa. He purposely didn’t
have many close friends but the few he had he wanted to hold on to and if they
would no longer be friends he’d much rather have it be because they got sick of
him as a person or other natural reason friends don’t stay friends. He hated the game and tried very hard not to
play it. He entertained the idea that
throughout this dinner, Layla was flirting with him but he kept telling himself
he wasn’t interested and reminding himself about how important Janilsa’s
friendship was. He didn’t really want to
explain this all to Layla so he just replied, “Nothing”
“Something is wrong, you seem really nervous about
something, is it about my cousin.”
The fact that Layla wasn’t using Janilsa’s name
didn’t go unnoticed to Larry. He said, “No,
why would Janilsa matter? We’re just
having dinner, no harm in that.”
Layla smiled wide and decided to stop being subtle
and make it obvious she liked him, she dropped her hand on Larry’s and said
rather condescendingly, “Not everything has to be so innocent.”
Larry looked up hiding the shock on his face. Layla had crossed a line but this wasn’t the
first time he felt a girl was obviously flirting with him and still believed Layla
had strung him along and teased him at grad-alley and wasn’t going to fall for
the same trick twice. He responded, “Yes
it does” hoping that that would be the end of it but also realizing the
unlikelihood of that.
Layla retreated more out of frustration than
anything. She thought it possible that Larry
was just playing hard to get, but Layla knew he wouldn’t be very hard to
get. Few single men could resist the
advances of a beautiful woman. The
conversation went on normally and then she made the suggestion to go out for
drinks to which Larry said yes.
While walking toward a bar, Larry was still unnerved
by the dinner. He was attracted to Layla. If he was absolutely sure that Janilsa was
against it then he wouldn’t be entertaining any of these ideas in his
head. But he told Alexis at his party
that if he went out with Layla, Janilsa would kill him. Janilsa had jumped in and said that she
wouldn’t care. This made it all the more
confusing, he knew that Janilsa didn’t lie and hated liars but this information
was inconsistent with what he always believed about her. He never fully believed that it was about her
being drunk but that Janilsa didn’t want Larry to hook up with any of her
friends or family and used the ‘they were drunk excuse’ as a gentle way to
break it to him. He had adjusted to this
belief by not hitting on her cousins, and would never hook up with them but
with this new information he didn’t know what the rules were. The sexual tension between him and Layla was
overwhelming him, he couldn’t go on this way through drinks so he focused on
the one situation where he knew the rules perfectly. He knew that after alcohol entered the
system, he could not hook up with Layla so he would give Layla one chance and
one chance only to hook up with him. He
would try to kiss her and if she turned him down he would go for drinks and not
hook up with her for the rest of the night.
Larry knew himself well enough to know there wasn’t enough alcohol on
Earth to make him go against his morals and would easily be able to avoid
hooking up with Layla if Layla had turned him down when sober regardless of
what Layla did. He began thinking like Janilsa,
Janilsa would say that since she turned you down sober, she didn’t want to do
it drunk. Larry completely disagreed
with this, it was always possible she was playing hard to get and that’s why
she turned him down sober. Aside from that, Larry knew that he would never do
something he was against when drunk so naturally assumed that others wouldn’t
either. A drunk man’s actions or a sober
man’s thoughts. He understood that
sometimes using yourself as a reference was flawed but he thought he was right
on this point. Regardless, this was Janilsa’s cousin so therefore he would play
it by the book of Janilsa to the furthest extent he understood it. If Janilsa wanted to clarify why it wasn’t
okay later, he would listen intently because he himself really wanted to
understand her rules. Larry gently
grabbed Layla by the arm and turned her toward him. Layla was smiling for Larry finally showed
some assertiveness. Larry leaned in,
tilted his head and kissed Layla on the lips.
Layla returned the kiss and they made out for a couple seconds and
pulled away. This is when Larry realized
his plan wasn’t exactly fool-proof. He
made the move so that he would be certain how to act, but he would only be
certain how to act if Layla had denied him the kiss, the fact she reciprocated
made the situation no clearer than it had been before. He had taken the first step and knew that
there would be more where it came from after drinks. He figured that later, he’d get the
clarification by Janilsa, another assumption that would prove to be false later
that night.
The next morning, Larry awoke next to Layla. This was normally the moment Larry hated the
most. He never knew how to react the day
after hooking up with a girl. Normally
he remained silent. It was much easier
when he waited until after he was dating someone to hook up with them. Luckily, Layla started the conversation by
offering to get breakfast. To Larry’s
delight, Layla dominated the first part of the conversation so it was easier
for Larry to ease in. Then Layla said
something that made Larry uncomfortable all over again. She simply said, “Remember your promise last
night.”
It wasn’t a question it was a statement and it jarred
Larry back to last night. Even though he
was drunk, he distinctly and accurately remembered responding, “Alright, I
promise” to Layla after a mild debate over the topic in question. With trepidation he recalled what he was
responding to, “Promise me you won’t tell Janilsa that we hooked up.”
Another thing Larry was against was reneging on a
promise regardless his state of mind when he made it. To him, everything was black and white, a
promise is a promise end of discussion.
And although he wanted nothing more than to call Janilsa the second he
was separated from Layla and tell her everything and get the clarification from
Janilsa’s rule book on the situation, he couldn’t now. After breakfast, Layla went home. Larry was conflicted on whether he wanted it
to continue. End it now, and he was safe
if Janilsa was against the relationship, maintain it and make it that much
harder. He really liked Layla and wanted
the relationship to continue. Removing Janilsa
from the equation, he knew he wanted to date Layla. Including Janilsa tipped the equation to
something he couldn’t solve without Janilsa’s help but consulting her and going
against his morals was out of the question.
He immediately thought of mutual friends of his and Janilsa’s but all
the ones that were close with both of them had grown apart from either Larry or
Janilsa. He really had nobody he could
tell. He would just have to hope that Layla
knew how to handle it better than he did.
Hopes however are sometimes unfounded.
It turns out that Layla wasn’t going to make this
easy on Larry at all. To her, Janilsa
wasn’t involved in the equation. It
wasn’t her business if she and Larry wanted to date. She wasn’t even close with Janilsa. She knew that her family wasn’t too approving
at how “white” she acted. She didn’t
really care at all what Janilsa thought, she knew she liked Larry and that was
that. She was so unashamed by it that
she told Alexis and her other cousins about it but told them not to tell Janilsa. Her and Larry saw each other rather
frequently after that and, although she thought it extremely childish and naïve
that Larry actually asked her soon after their first night together, “Will you
go out with me?” She responded, “Yes”
As their relationship continued, Janilsa’s cousins
found it harder and harder to keep the information from Janilsa. To them, she had a right to know. One day, Alexis decided to confront Larry
about this so asked him to dinner after her and Larry got out of work. Larry readily agreed, he considered Alexis a
friend and had hung out with her without Janilsa before and he believed he was
treating her sister well so didn’t see any reason not to accept the
invitation. Alexis wasted no time; soon
after saying “hi” she asked point blank, “Why don’t you want Janilsa to know
about you and my sister?”
Larry gave her a dirty look and said defensively,
“That’s not on me, She made me promise not to tell. I don’t break promises, I have no problem
with Janilsa knowing but I don’t break promises period.”
“It shouldn’t come from me, it should come from you,
you’re her friend”
“It can’t, I made a promise, I’m going to keep it,
what you do is up to you.” he said hoping, this time confidently, that Alexis
would help him get this guilty burden off his shoulder and tell Janilsa, have Janilsa
call him up and say, “So, you’re dating Layla.”
He would be off the hook that it didn’t come from him so he kept his
promise and he could find out Janilsa’s ruling and decide with her what would
happen. Since Larry knew his hierarchy
of people and Janilsa still ranked higher that Layla, he would do anything Janilsa
told him to do, if she wanted him to end it, he would end it, if she was okay
with it, then he wouldn’t. This was a
discussion he couldn’t wait to happen.
Unfortunately, things would again not play out as planned.
“You don’t have to keep your promise to my sister,
she should have never put you in that situation in the first place, it’s okay
to tell Janilsa, you’ve known her longer and she’s one of your best friends.”
Larry
thought back to the numerous times he had asked Layla to lift the promise he
made. To Larry, only the person who made
you promise could tell you it was okay to tell it.
Alexis protested some more with Larry but not as
spirited as it started and eventually she gave up in convincing Larry to renege
on the promise. In a way she respected
it, but she didn’t get the picture that Larry was against her telling Janilsa
and although she didn’t think she should be the one to tell her, she accepted
that this was how it was going to be.
The rest of the dinner went by uneventfully, she went home and told Janilsa
that Larry had been dating Layla for the last few months.
Janilsa was shocked with what she was hearing over
the phone. She couldn’t believe that Larry
had not told her that he was dating Layla.
It especially enraged her because Larry definitely was not opposed to
kissing and telling. Every other time Larry
had hooked up with a girl not only did he tell pretty much anyone who would
listen but he got into every single detail of the night. She knew Larry liked telling stories and
that’s what made the current situation all the more infuriating. What helped fuel her anger was not really in
what Alexis said but in what she didn’t say.
She never told Janilsa that Layla made Larry promise not to tell her and
that Larry really wanted to. As it stood,
Larry, without pressure from anyone, decided not to tell Janilsa.
Janilsa invited Larry over to her house for the
weekend. Larry was slightly surprised by
the invitation to Janilsa’s house without any occasion for it, but it wasn’t
the first time so he didn’t think it too out of the ordinary when he accepted
the invitation. He went over and they
hung out normally. Janilsa did notice
that Larry was more reserved around her and she knew why but she wasn’t going
to let Larry know; at least not yet. She
waited to the point when Larry was leaving to go home to finally bring up the
real reason she invited him over. They
were at her kitchen table and she followed Larry past the counter and kitchen
in which Janilsa picked something up off the counter, through the opening into
the hallway to the right to her front door and said, “So Larry, you dating
anyone?”
She noticed Larry tense up at the question. Larry had no idea how that question followed,
“I should get going home” but he addressed it anyway. He was in a situation in which two morals
conflicted with each other. He was
against lying and he was against going back on a promise, he always took
comfort that, like his friends, his morals were kept in a hierarchy too, and he
was more against going back on a promise than lying. As is true for anyone that has a moral code,
it is often times very difficult to follow it, but Larry was strong willed and
knew that even though every part of his being wanted to say, “Yes, I’m dating Layla.” He knew that that was against his moral code
because he would pick a lesser moral over the higher one. He was, however,
going to try to not break either one so he said, “Ah, you talked to Alexis.”
“Alexis has told me nothing” Janilsa lied. She was extremely against lying too, but her
anger let her make the exception. She
wasn’t like Larry, she wasn’t a black and white thinker so she had no problem
letting her anger let her break her morals this one time. She wanted a confession from Larry.
Larry really didn’t want to break any moral rule
here, he was shocked that Alexis hadn’t told Janilsa. He had no reason to believe she was lying
because he knew Janilsa was against lying.
His shock would have to wait though, he had to react, “I think you
should talk to Alexis.”
“Why? are you dating Alexis?”
“No”
“Are you dating Layla?”
Larry was unsure if Janilsa had been told the answer
or just thought it out logically. If Larry
mentioned Alexis in a question about who he was dating, logically, Alexis would
come first and then the next closest person to Alexis was Layla. This was a logical progression and Janilsa
was a logical person and Janilsa said that Alexis hadn’t told her and Janilsa
never lied, and Alexis was the most likely person to have told Janilsa, so Larry
thought that it was more probable that Janilsa figured it out based on this
logic. This meant he couldn’t say yes
because then she would have found it out from him so he kept dodging the issue
by saying, “I think you should talk to Alexis”
hoping that he made it obvious enough without straight out telling Janilsa.
If Janilsa
hadn’t known, she would have been able to deduce that Larry’s dodging the
question was admitting it was true. But
she didn’t want hints; she wanted him to say it in plain English unequivocally;
she wanted the confession. So she said,
“I don’t see why we have to consult Alexis about a question on who you’re
dating.”
“You will after you talk to Alexis,”
“You will after you talk to Alexis,”
“Larry,
you’re pissing me off, I want a fucking yes or no out of you, don’t you fucking
say anything that is not either a yes or no, tell me right now are you dating Layla
yes or no.”
There
was no way to dodge this, for some reason Janilsa absolutely refused to talk to
Alexis. Larry thought Janilsa had known
about him and Layla before this conversation but how if Alexis hadn’t told her? Maybe another cousin told her. He decided that he would dodge it one more
time and said, “Did one of your cousins tell you this or one of our friends?”
Janilsa
responded with a scowl and she said in a calm voice, which made it much more
frightening to Larry, “What part of yes or no did you not understand?”
Larry had no choice, no more dodging, he couldn’t get
out of this without breaking one of his morals so he said, “No”
“You’re not dating Layla then”
Larry was a very oblivious person in most respects
but in people’s tones of voice he was not.
Janilsa sounded very skeptical and disappointed by his response as he
said it, this isn’t what unnerved him.
He thought that she knew but why wouldn’t she just say how she
knew. Just tell him so and so told me
that you were dating Layla so Larry could just say “alright good you didn’t
hear it from me, God, that girl was driving me crazy with this promise, I don’t
even know why she promised me not to tell you” and had a normal conversation
with Janilsa. Perhaps if Larry was not
as oblivious to other things, he would have noticed that Janilsa, who is left
handed, had her left hand behind her back.
He said again, “No, I’m not”
Janilsa nodded and said, “alright.”
To
which Larry responded, “Why?”
“No reason, I’ll talk to you later.”
Janilsa had planned this already. If Larry lied to her straight in the face,
she was going to proceed with the course of events after his lie. She knew Larry, no matter how angry he was,
could not say bye to a girl without European kissing them. She also knew from Larry’s vivid telling of
her drunken attacks, that Larry was fast enough to block a blow, but when
European kissing, she was much too close for anyone to block a blow. Add that to the fact that nobody was on guard
during a European kiss, Larry wouldn’t stand a chance in stopping her. Just as she had played it out, Larry bent
down and leaned forward and wrapped his right arm around Janilsa’s back. Janilsa went on her tip toes tilted her head
up keeping her right hand at her side they both simultaneously kissed the air
then Janilsa brought her left hand that was holding the kitchen knife she took
off the counter around and dug it into Larry’s side, twisted, pulled it out and
then jammed it into his back and twisted again.
Larry backed up and didn’t attack.
Hitting a woman was against his morals and unlike the moral he broke
before, there was no higher moral to preserve on his code that justified
breaking the hitting a woman one. He
smiled while nodding and said, “You actually kissed back.”
Janilsa was unphased by this unexpected
response. Larry not dying right away was
a possibility she had already played.
She said, “You know I hate when people lie. It’s much worse that you yourself say you
never lie and you lied right to my fucking face. I wouldn’t have cared, but why the fuck
didn’t you tell me?”
Larry’s smile faded as his legs couldn’t support
himself anymore. Two stab wounds, one to
the side and one to the kidney with a huge kitchen knife caused the blood to
flow out fast. She had even twisted the
knife to keep the cut open and prevent it from clotting. His legs could no longer support his weight
and he knelt down. Larry knew he didn’t have much time left so he kept it
short, “Promises are more important than truth.” Janilsa was a smart woman and was able to
deduce the rest of it. She lightened her
tone beginning to be shocked with what she did.
She wished she had this conversation before stabbing him. At the time, there was nothing he could say
when she played it out that would dissuade her from killing him. She said, “Who
did you promise?” Thinking that she knew
the answer.
Larry looked up with accusing eyes as if to say that Janilsa
knew, but he was done with dodging questions, he didn’t have time, he said, “Layla.”
Immediately Janilsa dropped the knife and grabbed a
towel from the kitchen and wrapped it around Larry’s wounds. She said, “I’m sorry, don’t die, just fucking
stay alive”
Larry knew this was pointless, but there were a
couple things he wanted to know before dying.
He asked, “How did you know?”
“Alexis told me.”
Larry was surprised by this. He didn’t think she would lie too. Getting upset would be pointless though, he
was dying, he didn’t even have the strength to get mad. Instead he accepted it and wanted to get the
full story as quick as possible, “Did she tell you about the promise?”
“No, she just told me you were dating, didn’t say
shit about why you didn’t tell me.”
Larry really didn’t care about Janilsa’s well
being. The girl had just stabbed
him. He understood why she was mad and
why it was happening but it didn’t mean he couldn’t make her feel a little
guilty; he knew the next sentence would be his last words he’d ever
mutter. He said, “You should have asked her
or me why I didn’t tell you.” then his eyes glazed over as his life left his
body.
Janilsa was home alone and Joel would be home any
minute to dispose of the body. They had
planned it to a tee on what time Janilsa would insinuate to Larry that he had
to go home, and by extension what time Joel would have to come home. Janilsa wanted the conversation with Larry
when they were home alone. She knew that
she had come too far to back out now, she would have to prepare the body to be
transported. She dropped Larry and
opened the closet next to her front door revealing a large body bag and rolled
it next to Larry’s body. She closed his
eyes just so Larry wouldn’t be looking at her.
Her emotions had been shut off and postponed for later. Right now, she had to make sure that she
wouldn’t go to jail for murder. The hole
upstate was already dug, and Joel would be coming to help her get Larry’s body
into the bag. Sure enough, Joel pulled
up into the driveway and left his car running but shut off the lights. He went in through the garage to make sure
that nobody who may be looking at the house would see Larry’s body with the
light of the house. He put on rubber
gloves in the garage and came to the front door. Janilsa had put on her gloves as soon as she
saw Joel pull in and the two of them helped Larry’s body into the bag and
zipped it shut. They shut off the lights
to their outside and inside house to make it nearly impossible for anyone to
see them. The odds that someone would be
walking down the street on their side street in Long
Island was pretty much zero.
Joel had to do the brunt of the lifting but they got the body bag to the
trunk of the car and shut it. The trunk
had already been lined with multiple layers of newspaper so that no blood would
get on the car. Joel and Janilsa drove
in silence toward their upstate location that would be Larry’s final resting
place. After a while, Janilsa broke the silence
by telling Joel everything that had happened.
They got to the spot and placed Larry’s body inside the hole along with
all the bloody newspapers that they meticulously removed so as not to get any
blood on the car. They then buried the
evidence and got back in the car and drove home. Joel assured Janilsa that she had found out
too late and there was nothing she could do about it when she found out
why.
Janilsa and Joel returned home and cleaned all the
blood from the house. This was no easy
task and they made sure to wipe away from the door so that no blood would creak
through to the outside. They placed all
the towels, mop heads, and other cleaning utensils they used into various
garbage bags as they worked. When it was
all said and done they lit a fire in their fireplace and burned everything that
had Larry’s blood on it. Janilsa never
told anyone, not even Layla and Alexis what she did. She had already decided she was going to do
everything in her power to minimize any contact with Layla. This wouldn’t be too hard since they weren’t
close to begin with but although Janilsa took some of the blame, she put the
majority on Layla. If Layla hadn’t tried
to keep her relationship a secret from her, then she never would have had to
kill Larry. In the end she justified it
by saying that Larry did indeed lie to her about dating one of her cousins and
if Larry were to lie about it, he was probably doing something shady to her
cousin, her blood, her family and for that he had to die. This was the logic that led her to the act,
so this is the logic she went with. She
repressed all the information that she learned after stabbing Larry that may
have provided evidence against this line of logic. Larry was gone, there was nothing she could do
about it. She was able to keep her
composure and convincingly tell anyone who asked that she had no idea why Larry
wasn’t returning phone calls. His body
was never discovered.
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