Rico was glad when Korra finally got into the truck so they could get going because it was a long trip.  When did he start calling her by her first name?  Maybe it was when he saw her crying outside of the room, or when he watched her sleep.  He listened to her talk and he had already decided when they left they he would give her the benefit of the doubt.<br/><br/>Rico had turned to say something to her when he caught sight of a tattoo or something peeking out of the waistband of her jeans.  Why had he not noticed it when she was sleeping last night.  He was very interested to discover more about that, but as for right now he wanted to listen to her.<br/><br/>"You might find it quite interesting to learn that you are not the only one who has been accused of a crime that you are innocent of."  Not that he knew whether or not she was innocent of it, but her actions are proving otherwise and he wished someone would have listened to him when his sisters died in the beginning.  He thought perhaps she was going to comment but apparently she had already lost herself in her own train of thought.  He thought about his own trip in her shoes all those years ago.<br/><br/>**********************************<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">It had taken a little while for Rico to get used to living in Dallas.  That is what happens when you take a kid from a small town and move him to the big city.  Of course Rachael and Amelia found it very easy and in the beginning Rico had been jealous of them but soon they all adapted very well.  Rico was 14 and he was the star of his baseball team, his sisters loved their ballet.  Rach was 12 and Amelia was 10 and they were always so full of life.<br/><br/>He had promised his mother he would come home straight after the game to watch his sisters, but he got held up with his friends that day and he was late getting home.  He ran all the way to his house and opened the door.  He had hoped that his sister would at least cover for him.  He found it odd that the front door was not locked and he went into the house calling for his sisters and they didn't answer him.  He thought maybe they were mad at him.  He went into the kitchen and made himself a sandwich and then went up to his room to throw his bag in there and change his clothes.<br/><br/>Once he changed his clothes he went over to his sisters room and that was when his world fell apart.  He found them in the middle of the floor in a puddle of blood and there was a weapon next to them and he was not thinking when he picked up the knife to cut the binds that were holding his sisters and he tried to see if he could get them breathing and then he ran downstairs to the phone to call the police.  In the process he had tracked blood all over the place.  He had no clue what he had done until the police threw the handcuffs on him and carted him of too jail.  He was so confused and no one would listen to him and the evidence was all against him, because apparently the person who had done it had still been in the house when Rico had returned so it was easy for it to look like he did it with timing.</span><br/><br/>***************<br/><br/>Rico was jerked out of his thoughts when Korra jumped and he looked over at her and she seemed to brush it off as nothing and wanted to know where they were.  "Well we are about a hour outside of Phoenix.  You have been asleep for awhile."  Rico sighed a little and looked at her.<br/><br/>"Are you ok?"  Rico asked knowing it was probably a stupid question given the circumstances.  "We will be stopping once we hit the New Mexico border for the night."  Rico wanted to travel as far as he could at a time in case of problems.