cincuenta y cuatro: familia y yo

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Venus laid sprawled out on Oscar's bed, exhausted from her family. Oscar didn't know, but Venus knew about Cesar having to kill Latrelle. She wasn't going to say anything because she's the last person that'll know hwo to run a gang, but she wish the circumstances were different. "Mamá! Look, cone." Luis exclaimed, running in with the ice cream cone Oscar just made him.

The cone was held in front of her face so she licked it, before Luis took it back and ran back to the kitchen. Oscar walked into the room and looked at Venus in confusion as she just stared up at the ceiling. "What kind of ice cream do you want?"

Venus shrugged and turned her head to look at him. "I don't even know what kind you bought." Oscar and Venus stared at one another, and all of a sudden, Venus was over his shoulder. "No, no, no, I have cramps." Venus groaned, squirming around until she was moved. Oscar still held her, but it was now bridal style.

"I thought your period was in 3 days?"

"I did too." Venus pouted, grabbing one of the tub of ice creams but whining when Oscar pulled it away. "I was gonna eat that."

"I'll make you a sundae." Oscar offered. That shut Venus up and she sat quietly while Oscar did his chef duties.

"I'm getting the heating pad."

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Venus happily drove back from her house, which she kinda forgot she had, and hopped out of her truck. "Look what I fou- you're bald!" Venus exclaimed in shock, looking at Cesar eat breakfast in a tux. "Ew, you look like your brother." Venus cringed, patting Cesar's face as she sat down.

Oscar, who was in the kitchen, threw his arms up when he heard Venus. "What did I do?"

"You're just ugly." Venus shrugged. "Anyways, look! I found my year book." She exclaimed. "I won best hair. And Pablo and I won best friendship." She pointed out, flipping through pages to find the senior awards.

Right in the center, Pablo and Venus were posing, Venus on his back while both of them made goofy faces. But the yearbook team did them dirty and included the pictures where Pablo lost balance and Venus fell. However, the last picture was of Venus on the ground laughing while Pablo looked like he was trying to help her up.

On the other page, Venus was in the corner in the middle of a hair flip with a big smile on her face. "You look like a baby." Oscar teased her.

"Yeah, that's makeup. Luis kept me up all night, so I wore a lot of concealer." Venus explained. Luis' head shot up from his game and he stared at Venus confused before going back to matching shapes. "Look how cute I was." Venus said, pointing to a picture of her standing in the middle of all the Santos. Out of all like 13 of them, she was the only one smiling while everyone else was standing there.

"You're still cute." Oscar told her, kissing her cheek as he sat down beside her with a plate of food.

"You would call me cute even if you were blindfolded." Venus laughed, shaking her head and continuing to flip through the pages. "Wanna see my senior quote?"

Venus slapped her hand on her page with a smile, and Oscar leaned over to look at her picture. He was staring at the picture of her for a little, so Venus tapped his scalp and told him to read the quote.

"Graduating was almost harder than getting my greencard. I'm still illegal, but the white man won't do anything."

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