Tattoo Artist | o. diaz

once: my bad

"I say you stop trying to get into her pants and just stick to your hoes." Pablo said, the majority of the cholos agreeing with him. "Venus gets attached to people easily, the last thing anyone wants is for her to plan out a future with you, then wake up with you gone and ignoring her."

Oscar shrugged and continued to smoke his joint. "That's a nice suggestion that's not going to be taken into consideration." Pablo rolled his eyes and went back to sipping his Corona. "She'll get over it. Any other suggestions?"

"Don't spend money on her. Fool, just show her you care, or make it look like you do. We're not gonna help you break our friend's heart."

"You're already doing it by not telling her what I'm doing."

Back with Venus, she was ranting to Lu in the tattoo shop. "I just think it would be easier to have a girlfriend than a boyfriend."

"You miss pussy?"

Lu laughed and Venus just stared at her with a resting bitch face. "No, I miss feelings. Guys just want to get in your pants, and when you say no, they get mad and leave you. With girls, they just want affection and head massages."

"Wow, being bi must be tough." Lu muttered. "You know, I feel special." Venus tilted her head at her, then closed her eyes when Lu's hands went through her hair. "I'm the only person in this town that you've slept with since you moved here."

"That's because I felt ugly for a solid year since I was known as the girl the Prophets raped. And I was scared of guys."

Lu smacked her lips and shook her head. "Don't even lie, my head game is amazing."

"Never said it wasn't." Venus mumbled. Her head was in her arms and she was slowly falling asleep because of Lu's hands in her hair.

"Star, lunch is over." Lu mumbled. "You okay? You seem really tired today."

"Nah, I'm wide awake. Massages just get me every time."

"I know." Lu winked. The shop was pretty dead that day so Venus put her head back down and let Luciana's hand run through her hair. "So, meet any cuties in Cuba?" Venus shrugged and continued to doze off with her head still in her arms. "Here comes trouble."

Lu got up off the table so Venus lifted her head up and saw Oscar walk in with Luis. "How did you get-"

"Pablo went with me to get him and your parents just handed him over." He answered nonchalantly, dropping Luis, literally. Luis landed on his feet before Venus could catch him and he took off to run around the shop.

"You can't just drop him like that. He could've messed up his ankle or something."

"But he didn't." Oscar pointed out. He set a bag of food on her desk and hopped onto her bench. "I brought you food." Venus hesitantly took the food and watched him as he stared at her. "The guys said you liked the food from that Cuban place down the street, so I bought food."

Venus peeked into the bag before looking back up at him. "Spooky, what are you doing?"

"Trying to get forgiveness?" He stated as a question. "Are you sure you're Cuban? Because when you speak Spanish, it's really fast and I think you're Dominican."

"I'm Cuban and black. I just speak fast because in Cuba, I had a friend that moved from Republica Dominicana and I picked up on how fast him and his family spoke." Venus shrugged. She found a brownie at the bottom of the bag and got excited. When Oscar wasn't looking she took a big bite and ate half of it. "I didn't know the Cuban place sold brownies." Venus giggled.

Oscar looked back up to her and he jumped down from the bench. "Venus that's mine."

"No, I found it." Venus giggled, shielding the brownie with her body while Oscar tried to grab it from her. "Finders keepers."

"Venus, you shouldn't be eating that. Dámelo, ahora."

"You're not my dad." Venus giggled, taking another big bite and shrieking when Oscar picked her up and tried to get the brownie from her. "I feel funny, Spook." Venus mumbled, easing up and letting Oscar take the brownie while she slumped over. "I'm hungry again."

"Fuck." Oscar mumbled. He put the weed brownie in his pocket and watched Venus go back to her food and stare off into the distance.

Oscar chased after Luis, who squealed when Oscar threw him over his shoulder. He went to Venus and did the same thing. "What are you doing?" Lu asked slowly.

"I may or may not have given her a weed brownie and I don't think she should do tattoos high." Oscar said, still walking out while Venus coo'd to Luis. He took the two of them to his impala and put them in the backseat.

"Oscar, you forgot my food." Venus pouted.

"I have food at my house."

Venus groaned and turned back to Luis before she started whispering loudly. "You're so cute. Do you want a sibling? I can make one."

Instead of taking her home and letting her mom see her like this, he took her back to his house. All the cholos watched him drag Venus out while Luis stood beside their feet.

He got her out and Venus greeted everyone with hugs. She sat down for about 5 minutes, then she was off.

"How big was that brownie, damn?" Sad Eyes mumbled, watching Venus roll around Oscar's front yard with Luis. "And how many did you make? I might want one."

"It was like 1/2 of the pan. She took big ass bites, I couldn't stop her." Oscar shrugged.

"Ow." Venus whined. She sat up and looked at her elbow. Nothing was there, but she was blowing on it. "Can you kiss it?"

"Hell no." Pablo told her.

Luis and everyone watched her pout then try to kiss it herself. "Papá, hambre." Luis whined, tugging on Oscar's shorts to get his attention.

"That's not your dad, papito." Venus said, before gasping. "We should get a DNA test and get child support. Come on."

I just found out that the girl that plays Venus is from Germany 💀 but shawty fine asl 😭😤