Hood fever | Oscar Diaz

Chapter: 83

January 31st 2019

Oscar

Leilani and I sat at the table watching everyone dance.

"Is that spooky in a suit?" Ruby yelled as everyone rushed over to us. Leilani laughed as she held my hand tight.

Everyone's eyes darted to our locked fingers.
"Oh my god." Noah gasped.
"You're back together." Jamal squealed jumping up and down. Leilani and I hadn't talked about it.
I felt her hand tighten I looked at her and she had a question in her eyes, I gave her a lazy smile then nodded. "Yeah." I said softly.

Her face lit up.
She was happy.
Jose tapped my shoulder. "Good job." He said.
I smiled and stood up, "we will be back." I said as I pulled Leilani away.

"Don't let me catch you kids naked again." Jamal called out making me laugh.
Outside of the dance was so beautiful, with the lights and the decorations.

"How did you know where the dance would be?" She asked. I smiled.
"I called your mom and asked her." I said.
She laughed and shook her head. "My mom."
"She loves me." I said.
She nodded and laughed looking up at the lights.
We walked slowly hand in hand for a while.
"You look so beautiful in that dress." I said.
She did, it looked like she was getting married.

"I like you in a suit." She smiled.
"What made you come here?" She asked as she stood infront of me. I sighed.
"I almost didn't." I said looking away.
"Why not?" She asked.

"I still think I'm bad for you." I admitted.
She opened her mouth to speak but I put a finger on her lips, she was wearing the lip gloss I picked at Sephora and it was hard to keep control of myself.

"Because, I don't want this life for you. I want you to go to Stanford, leave free ridge live a safe life. With a guy like Gustavo even though i can't stand it, he's good for you. He can give you that white picket fence, and stability i can't ever bring. Life with me isn't good, just look at your life has been with me." I held onto her hands tightly, she didn't say anything she just kept her eyes on me.

"I know one day you're going to go off and do good things, I don't want to hold you back. Being with me will cripple you. I'm just a cholo who's stuck in the barrio that almost killed you." The words I spoke burned as I said them, I knew it was the truth.

"I did some shit, and I gotta pour it out to you. I've been a terrible person, terrible for you. I've lied and I've hurt you." I took a deep breath.
I could see the worry in her eyes.

"The day the Prophets took you." I looked away from her, I couldn't look her in the face.
"I set that up." I said letting out a breath.
She pulled away and backed up staring at me in shock.

"You got me kidnapped?" She whispered

"You were never supposed to be there. It was just supposed to be Lexi." Tears were falling now.
"I had Angel put Latrelle's braid in her bag, I called Marcus and told him it was her, I told her to go to the Santos house for no reason so they could take her and kill her." I still didn't look at her, i couldn't.

"Why would you do that?" She whispered again, she sounded so hurt, so broken.

"Because she threatened our relationship." I said.
She was quiet then she let out a gasp.
"You're the guy." She said.
I looked at her now she looked as if she realized something.
"You fucked Lexi into the gang." She spat at me.