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Big Day

"Ok, yeah. Thank you for telling me dad." Monse says before she hangs up. "He's not dead. He's in surgery and my dad said it isn't looking good but you didn't kill him." Monse tells Cesar. "I didn't kill him yet." Cesar says. "He's going to pull through, he's a stubborn son of bitch and something tells me he doesn't want to die yet." Monse tries to make Cesar smile. "I know this isn't what you signed up for when we started dating, I get it if you want to break up." Cesar says. "I'm not scared of you or the gang or anything." Monse says as she kisses him. "You should be." He sighs. "Why? You're not going to hurt me, I don't think your brother or any of the Santos would hurt me. You're my family, and I will never be afraid of you." Monse tells Cesar with the trace of a  smile on her face. "I love you." Is all Cesar manages to say. "I love you too, so no more talking about breaking up, or anything bad. It's all gonna work out." Monse says. "Ok, but I can't stop feeling like I have to wait for the other shoe to drop. You make me so happy it's like it's too good to be true." Cesar worries. "No, you don't have to worry about anything with me. I'm never going to leave you even if we break up, I'm not leaving you." Monse kisses his cheek. "Ok. We should probably get some sleep, Olivia's birthday's tomorrow." Cesar reminds Monse. "I didn't think Oscar would let you go." Monse says. "He won't, but it's not his decision. If I'm grown enough to shoot someone I'm grown enough to go to a quince." Cesar puts a hand on Monse's thigh. "You have to listen to him, he's been doing this a lot longer than you have." Monse whines. "I know, but I'll take care of myself... and you." Cesar says. "You don't have to take care of me Cesar everyone has too much respect for my dad." Monse argues. "I don't care, as long as I'm living I'm gonna protect you." Cesar says before he kisses Monse slowly. "I don't need to be protected, I need to sleep." Monse laughs as she throws herself onto the bed. Cesar laughs as he lays down next to his girlfriend. "How can you do that?" Cesar asks. "Do what?" "Laugh, make me laugh, even when everything's going wrong." Cesar explains. "Because I know if we didn't laugh during the bad times, it would just make them that much worse." Monse smiles. Cesar wraps his arm around her waist and they fall into a deep sleep.
*next morning: 6:30*
"Wake up! The quince is today and your lazy asses were supposed to be at my house five minutes and sixteen seconds ago." Ruby says as he shakes Monse and Cesar. "How did you get in here?!" Monse whisper shouts. "The door you, now get up and let's go." Ruby pulls the covers off of them. "What if we were naked under here? Jesus Ruby." Monse says as she sits up. "Cesar come on, Dictator Ruby needs us." Monse says. "It's too early." Cesar groans. "Ok Monse you're coming with me and we can pick up Cesar on the way to the church." Ruby says. "Ok, just give me a minute to brush my teeth and everything." Monse yawns. "Ok, you have five minutes I'll be right outside that door." Ruby says. As soon as Monse tries to get up Cesar pulls her down. "No me dejes bebé." Cesar says groggily. "Sorry, but Ruby's forcing me to leave." Monse says. "I heard that." Ruby says through the door. "Fine." Cesar groans as he takes his arm off of Monse. "I'll see you later." Monse kisses him and she walks into the bathroom. "Finally!" Ruby shouts when she gets out. "Shh! Do you want to get yourself killed!" Monse hisses as she throws her hand over his mouth. "Can we go now?" Ruby asks. "Yeah, let me just say bye." Monse walks back into Cesar's room and sees him sound asleep. She kisses him goodbye and even in his sleep he kisses her back and smiles. "Ok let's go." Monse says. "So when we get to my house you need to shower and change. We have a family friend doing hair and makeup and Olivia goes last so she looks fresh faced. Jasmine got there on time so she's already ready." Ruby says quickly. "Ok slow down, we still have a few hours." Monse says. "Excuse me? A few hours my ass!" Ruby hisses as he pushes Monse into his house. "Ok go now quickly, before the sea of family notices you're here!" Ruby says. Monse takes a shower then goes into Olivia's room to change. "Wow, do I have the most beautiful girlfriend in the world or what?" Cesar says as he walks into the room. "I think I heard Ruby calling me. Coming Ruby!" Olivia says as she leaves her room. "I look crazy." Monse says as she adjusts the straps of her dress. "Shut up you look great." Cesar spins Monse and she laughs. "You're so annoying. Where's your suit?" She says as she shoves him. "Right I forgot it at home." Cesar laughs. "We both need to finish getting ready. I'll see you at the church." Monse rolls her eyes. "Ok, Oscar said he wants to talk to me about something I just came to tell you I'll be a little late." Cesar says.

*At the Diaz house*
"What'd you want to talk to me about?" Cesar asks. "Latrelle's still alive." Oscar says. Cesar takes in a deep breath and then let's out a sigh of relief. "What? You think this is a good thing? He's gonna come after you the second he can. You did this when you called the ambulance. You should've let him die. What if he talks? He could say that you shot him." Oscar shouts. "He won't and if he does I'll deal with it then." Cesar says. "If you get shot that's on you because all this could've ended if you didn't make the call." Oscar yells. There's a brief silence before Oscar says, "Welcome to the real gang life hermano."  Cesar takes a deep breath. "Let's get it over with." Cesar sighs. "What?" Oscar asks. "Shave my head, let's do this." Cesar says as he sits down. "You finally gonna man up?" Oscar asks. "Yeah, just do it." Cesar says. "I'm proud of you, you're finally acting like a real Santo." Oscar laughs.