eyes without a face

PARTE 20

2:50pm
We were walking up the stairs, due to the elevator not working.

"Fuck it's cold in here." I say. Ricardo looks at me and he hands me the bag. "Here." He says as he takes off his black leather jacket he had on. "This place is always cold." He says as he holds the bag and gives me the jacket. Putting it on, he moves towards me as he gives me a light kiss, his hands moving to my waist as he was whispering to me, "Me extrañaste?" I nod, smiling at him. "Always."

"Okay, you lovebirds.. we need to go to your room asap Rick.. Ricardo? Foo, what the fuck should I call you?" Juli says. I softly laugh. "Richie is fine.. or Ricky." He says. She sighs. "What floor was your room in again, Ricky?" She says as she turns to look at the floor number, being number 13. "14." He says. She groans. We climb the last stairs to get to his floor. Juli opens the door and we immediately see a guy sitting outside a room.

Ricardo walks and thankfully, we didn't have to pass by that weird guy. We get to his room and enter. The room smelling like weed mostly. "Shit. It stinks of pot in here foo." Juli says. She walks over to his bathroom and enters.

I sit down over to his bed which was surprisingly nice. He walks over to sit down next to me. I looked at him. "This is your room?" I asked him. He nods, he was looking at his hands. "Yeah.. stayed here before I met your brother." He says. I looked over at his hands and he had dried blood on his knuckles.

Juli comes out of the bathroom. "Yoooo.." She stays silent as she sees us all quiet. "What happened?" She says. Me and Ricardo both look at her. "Nothing." We both say. She walks over to a telephone that was placed by a dresser. "Does this work?" She asks him, pointing at it. He nods before looking at me. Juli calls someone, no idea who it could be.

"You know.. that tank top you have on makes you look handsome." I tell him. He smirks, his hand moving to my cheek. "Oh yeah?" He says. I nod and he leans in to give me a kiss. He doesn't let go, his hands moving down to my breasts. He slightly murmurs, "Extrañe tu cuerpo.." I softly laugh before we get interrupted by my sister.

"I keep my eyes off of you guys for a second y ya se están besando? Gross." I roll my eyes at her, ignoring her. "Is it alright if I bring a friend over..? I called Beto, he said to stay hiding since the cops are over at our block, again." She says. I lay back down on the bed. Ricardo responds back to her. "Yeah." Juli hangs up the phone, "Alright. He's outside. I'll be back." She says as she walked over to the door. I sit up, "You invited Damian?" I ask her. She scoffs. "Fuck no. I invited Paco." I groan. Ricardo looks at me, "Who's Paco?" He says. "Her friend." I tell him. Juli walks off, not saying another word.

"You don't like him or what?" He asks me. "Never did. He's chill but he's just not from my brother's barrio." I told him but that wasn't the only reason why. I focused on his lips. He licks his lips, looking at me before he grabs my face and kisses me again, making me fall back on the bed. He pushes me against the bed as I try getting up. "Richie.." He slowly lets go of me as he pulls back, "Déjame besarte.." He says. I look at him, "I need to tell you something.." He looks at my eyes then switches to look at my lips. He gives me kisses on my cheek as he moves towards my lips. "what is it?" I close my eyes before I say, "I think I may be pregnant.." He stops as he looks at me. "Pero no estoy segura." I tell him, I open my eyes. He laughs. I look at him confused. "That's good." He says. "Why?" I ask him. He gives me a soft kiss. "Because this one will actually be mine." He says. I smile. "So you're not.. mad?" He gets off of me. "Nah." I sit up as I lean in to kiss him. He kisses me back and he lets go slowly. "Mm..have you gone to check with a doctor?" He says. I shake my head. "I haven't." He looks away, I stay looking at his face. He stands up from the bed and moves over to his small drawer from where the telephone was.

"Tell me when you do and tell me the results after." He said, he was snorting coke now. I took off his leather jacket that I had on, dropping it on the bed. "Yeah.. I'll see." I told him. He turned over to look at me, he was cleaning his nose. I felt like he was being distant for some reason but I didn't want to question it.

I was fixing my hair and he was doing something in the drawer. I wasn't able to see. As soon as I stood up, the door opened. Juli and Paco walk in. "Mm.. nah I don't think it would've happen like that," I heard them talking and I quickly sat down and moved over to Ricardo's side. I completely avoided eye contact with Paco.

"Yo Rick, this is my friend.., Paco." Juli said as Ricardo got up and gave Paco a handshake, just for a second. I looked over at them but didn't pay much attention. Juli sat down next to me as she pulled out something. "Yoo Cata, guess what we got" She asked me. I looked over at her. She was carrying a bag of weed. I laughed. "I thought you didn't have any?" I asked her. "Nope.. Paco brought some." She smiled and I looked over at Paco. He sat down next to my other side and held me around my shoulder. "Mm.. ya no me hablas o que?" He asked me. "Te tengo que hablar o que?" I asked him back. I had history with Paco.

It was around the summer of 79' when I was dating Andrew. He had gone to his surfing camp thing in Santa Monica and had left me in East LA alone. I was hanging around my brothers group more at that time. There was a huge block party that had involved different gangs. I was there but I wasn't careful. Paco was at that party and I had hooked up with him. I never told anyone and neither did he, reason was because he wanted more but I completely ignored him all the time afterwards. Now he's after my sister.

I rolled my eyes as Paco kept throwing flirts at me. "how's my favorite girl doing? Why you pissed?" I hated how he kept grabbing me. I stood up as I went over to the bathroom, trying to avoid him at the moment. 

I entered the bathroom and i just stood by the sink. I heard a knock on the door and I slowly opened. It was Paco, again. I tried closing the door but he wouldn't let me. "Get out." I told him. He came inside and closed the door behind him. "That guy is your boyfriend?" I looked at him. "Yes." He leaned against the door. "Thought you said you didn't want a relationship." He says. I crossed my arms against my chest. "I only said that to you because I was already in one." I told him, he laughs. "Andrew, right?" He says. I look away from him. "Yeah." He stood up straight as he got off the door, he came closer to me. "I missed your lips." I immediately pushed him off and tried opening the door. He grabbed my waist. "Ahora donde vas?" He said. I moved his hands out of my waist and turn to look at him. "Paco! Stop I'm serious! I'm not.. interested anymore." I finally open the door but Juli was outside. "Oh what the fuck-" She said as she looked at Paco. "He was giving me a deal for coke. I said no." I said to my sister as I immediately got out of the way and went back over to find Ricardo but he wasn't in the room. "He went out" my sister yelled as she got in the bathroom with Paco.

I noticed he took his leather jacket. Fuck. I get out the room and begin looking for him, wondering where he might be. Minutes passed by and I still couldn't find him. It was already 6:30pm. I looked everywhere.
I didn't want to lose him again.