Venus and Luis sat in the living room watching TV, coloring books and empty Hot Pocket pockets covering the table. Oscar walked in, kissing both of their heads and going to get water from the kitchen. Oscar came back with a water bottle and sat beside Venus, his arm on the back of the couch.
"Why'd you get tested today?" Oscar turned to Venus, humming since he didn't know what she was talking about. Venus looked under the coloring books and pulled out a 2 page packet from the clinic to slam it into Oscar's chest. "Why'd you get tested?"
"I was just making sure I was clean." Oscar shrugged.
Luis looked up to Venus and Oscar before hopping off of Venus' lap and runnibg down the hallway to hide in the room. "Why would you have to do that? I'm the only one you're sleeping with, right?" Oscar avoided eye contact, sipping his water and not saying anything. "Right?" Oscar continued looking at TV. "I'm fucking talking to you, Spooky." Venus said, squeezing the water bottle and making it squirt into Oscar's face.
"Bro, what the fuck?" Oscar exclaimed, looking at his drenched shirt and up to Venus in disbelief.
"When I'm talking to you, I expect a response." Venus said calmly.
Oscar rolled his eyes, walking down the hallway to change his shirt. "You're being fucking delusional, Venus." Oscar said, shaking his head as Venus followed him down the hallway.
"Answer my question! Am I the only person you're sleeping with?"
"No!" Oscar yelled, abruptly turning around and making Venus flinch at how loud his voice got. "Is that what you wanted to fucking hear? I went to get checked to make sure I didn't have Chlamydia."
"Where in the hell would you get--" Venus froze watching Oscar's back as he changed his shirt for a dry one. "Don't tell me you fucking slept with her." Venus said in disbelief. "You slept with Lupita?!"
"What does it matter? It only happened twice, and it's in the past."
Venus dropped her jaw, standing up off the bed as she glared at Oscar. "Twice? She's been here for barely a week and you slept with her twice?!" Venus exclaimed. "For what? It wasn't like I was holding out on you!"
"You weren't willing to give me what I wanted! Aight? You and I barely have sex more than once a week anymore and she was there!"
"And? What the hell did I do?! I did nothing, but love you and support you, even when I didn't like what you were doing, and you go out of your way to cheat on me?!" Venus yelled.
Both her and Oscar started yelling over each other, not realizing Luis came out of the room and was standing in the hallway, watching them argue. Luis didn't understand much because a lot of it was in Spanish that he's never heard, but he could sense the anger and sadness coming from Venus.
"Don't fucking touch me, Venus. You're overreacting for no reason! It was in the past! It's done!"
"No, it's not done porque no entiendes! Why was I not good enough?! I'm not overreacting, you just don't understand because you don't use your head." Venus shoved Oscar back out of the anger she was feeling as hot tears ran down her face.
"I said don't fucking touch me!" Oscar shouted, his hand quickly going up and coming right back down on Venus' cheek.
Venus fell to the floor and immediately stopped yelling, holding her cheek in disbelief. Luis saw Venus get hit and ran in to punch Oscar's leg. "Don't hit mamá!" Oscar just glared down and shoved Luis, making him fall against the wall and start crying.
"I'm leaving and when I get back, you better have gotten some fucking sense." Oscar growled, not noticing how Venus slowly crawled away from him before he walked out. The last thing Venus heard was the front foor slamming before she crawled over to Luis who was screaming and crying.
Venus pulled Luis into her arms, hugging him tightly and rubbing his back. "It's okay, papito." Venus mumbled.
Venus and Luis sat against the wall, trying to calm down as they cried together. Once Luis' sobs became whimpers, Venus set him down on the bed and went to the closet to pull out the bags of clothes she had. She hadn't had the chance to unpack, so most of their stuff was still in luggage, it was just a matter of getting everything out of the house.
Venus put Luis' backpack on him and they both quickly got into the truck, Venus' hands shaking as she tried to move as fast as she could with tears still clouding her eyes.
Venus thought of everyone she knew, trying to see who she could go to without Oscar finding her. And only one person came to mind. Venus pulled her truck up to her parents' house, then got all the bags before quickly walking down the street. Quickly knocking on the red door, Venus waited and hoped someone answered the door.
Luciana came out in sweatpants and took in the state of Venus and Luis before ushering them in and pulling them into hugs once she shut the door. "What happened to your face? You okay?" Luis shook his head and hugged his God-Mother, burying his face in her shoulder and sniffling as she led them to the couch held Venus.
Luciana has seen Venus cry only 3 times, 2 of them being because Luis did something cute, but never have her tears been out of distress or pain like they were now. Luciana had no idea what happened, but she was sure she wasn't going to like the story Venus was going to tell her. Since it was almost midnight, Luciana took Venus and Luis to her room and continued to comfort them until they all fell asleep.
Oscar: *fucks up*
Venus: why???
Oscar: thug life 🤪
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Tattoo Artist | o. diaz
Fanfic"You're the tattoo artist?" "Yeah?" "Nah, you're too pretty." When Oscar Diaz gets outs of prison and goes to a tattoo shop, his life gets turned upside down. [ DISCONTINUED ]
