Tattoo Artist | o. diaz

cuarenta y tres: girls and football

"Why's he just standing there? Correo tu culito, Jamal!" Venus yelled upon seeing her cousin standing with the ball in his hands and not running to get the touchdown that the team needed. Luis was on her hip with his cotton candy screaming, not cheering, because everyone else in the stand was. "Papito, stop it, you're going to hurt yourself." Venus told Luis quietly. Luis nodded his head and looked back to the field where Jamal was now running through players and to the end zone.

When Jamal got into the end zone, the whole Freeridge crowd jumped up cheering. All the players on the team ran out and started celebrating their win. A mere seconds later, the crowd was chanting the iconic Freeridge High chant.

All fall down! All fall down!

Jamal did some strange dance and "pushed" the players standing in a line. They all fell like dominos and Jamal tell backwards with a large smile on his face.

"All gone." Luis commented, holding up the stick that once had his cotton candy.

"Good job, papito." Venus smiled, still happy that Freeridge won even though she's not even with the school anymore.

"Aight fools, let's bounce." Enrique said, over exaggerating as he stretched. "Nah wait, I gotta piss."

Venus smacked her lips and watched him run to the bathroom. "I'll be right back." Oscar told her, kissing her forehead and turning to leave until Venus caught his wrist.

"Where you going?"

"To talk to your cousin. I'll be back in a few minutes." Venus nodded and let go of his hand to let him walk to the locker rooms.

Venus looked at the bathroom and back to the toddler standing beside her. "Necesitas usar el baño, papito?" Luis nodded and held Venus' hand while they crossed to walk to the bathroom.

Inside, there were teenage girls posing in front of the mirror, but all the stalls were free. Venus and Luis walked pass the group and into the big stall. Once Venus helped Luis get onto the seat, he looked at her. "Don't look."

Venus rolled her eyes and turned around while he did his business. All those years of wipping his ass and seeing him naked and now he has an attitude. Those 2 minutes of staring at the wall, Venus came to the conclusion that he ate way too much food from the concession stand. Venus heard the roll of toilet paper moving and turned around when she heard Luis' feet hit the ground.

When she saw him turn around to the handle on the side, she cut him off by scooping him up. "Aye, don't flush toilets with your hands." Lifting her foot up, Venus flushed the toilet and walked out of the stall, the group of girls still there, but now just talking and on their phones.

Venus held Luis up, so he could reach the sink, and she could feel the group staring at her. "You're Spooky's girl, right? The one with the tattoo shop?"

After stepping to the side to the hand dryer, Venus nodded her head while Luis was playing with the hand dryer. The girl that asked the question nodded and looked Venus up and down with a hum. "He could do better." She told her friends quietly, but even over the dryer, Venus could hear her. Okay, but who's the one getting dicked down every night?. The group left the bathroom and Venus waited for Luis to be done before standing him up on the sink.

"Papito, you're a mess." Venus told him. Luis pouted and Venus wet her hand before she started wiping off crumbs, cotton candy and dried uo nacho cheese off of this face.

"Mamá." Luis whined, trying to move his face away until she grabbed his face with her other hand to keep him from moving.

"Espera. Casi has terminado." Venus told him. She wiped the last bit of food from his face and set him down on the floor before washing her own hands. "Quieres helado?" Luis looked up and nodded excitedly. "Good, me too. Let's go tell papá to drive us."

Venus grabbed Luis' hand and they walked out of the bathroom. They spotted Oscar the second they walked out, with a disguested look on his face. Around him were the girls that were in the bathroom with her.

"Papá!" Luis ran over and without hesitation, Oscar pushed the face of one of the girl in front of him and moved her to the side to meet up with Luis. "We want ice cream." Luis stated once Oscar lifted him up and held him.

"Yeah? We'll go get some." Oscar stated. Behind him, Venus could see the girls glaring at her and it caused her to roll her eyes. "You good, mamas?" Oscar followed her eyes and turned around. Venus had never seen someone switch their attitude and stank face so damn fast. "Don't worry bout 'em. They ain't got shit on you."

"I know." Venus hummed. They had started walking, in the direction of the girls since they were standing right by the gates, and Luis ran over to Pablo while Venus and Oscar walked behind without a single care in the world.

"Yeah? Then why did you look jealous?"

Venus laughed and shook her head as she grabbed his hand. "Jealous? Amor, you and I both know they can't do what I do to you every night."

Oscar smirked and stopped her from walking, pulling her back so she was against his body. "Every night? That include tonight?"

Venus shrugged and smiled up at him as she felt his hands going lower. "Do you want it to?"

Oscar nodded, biting his lip before Venus forcefully pulled him down and started a makeout in the middle the walkway. "If we were in high school, you and I would always be in the bathroom." Oscar joked, making Venus laugh and let go of the back of his neck. "We should go before Luis comes and drags us to the car himself."

"He'll wait." Oscar led the way to the parking lot and Venus held onto his hand and arm as they walked. "You know, I kinda miss high school. Never had to stress over bills."

"I never got to really experience it." Oscar commented. Venus nodded and gave a tight lipped smile, kissing his hand as they neared the cars.

"Let's go drop the guys off and get our ice cream." Venus suggested, a sudden pep in her step as she pulled Oscar along.

Aight so I realized how much Enrique has been mentioned, so boom.

Alex Hernandez as Enrique