All For Us || Oscar Diaz

43: Brothers and Sisters

CHAPTER FORTY-THREE

"What the fuck?" Oscar's head was pounding like crazy as he shifted in his bed. It was as if there was this weight on his entire body and he was still so tired. As his eyes begin to flutter open, it slowly begins to sink in that he was in his room.

"Estas despierto."

Oscar's vision adjusted as he lifted his head from his pillow to see Sad Eyes by his closet that was parallel to his bed. His head falls back on his pillows with a groan. The world was spinning and his mind felt absolutely blank. He could barely remember what happened yesterday. No doubt he did something stupid.

"¿Qué hora es?" Oscar asked opening his eyes a little bit more.

"1:00 pm."

"¿Qué pasó?" Oscar rasped as he took a breath placing a hand to his head. Everything seemed so loud and so irritating right now. It was as if his head was going to explode.

"You dipped yesterday morning and did all the business yourself," Sad Eyes began. "After that you were MIA the whole day. It was until Nina and I found you on a beach eleven miles from here."

Hearing her name perked him up a little but not in the good way. "Nina found me?" he looked at his friend as he slowly sat up and rested his head against the head board.

Sad Eyes nodded. "You were chugging on a bottle- I forgot what it was, but you were drunk out of your mind. You were probably high as fuck too."

Oscar groaned at himself as he tried remembering. The last that he needed was for Nina to see him all fucked up. "And then what happened?"

"She tried getting you to come home with us but you kept saying no. The two of you ended up talking and crying. It was like some scene from a telenovela that mi mama watches every Friday night," Sad Eyes explained as Oscar sighed closing his eyes in embarrassment and pain from his hang over.

"What did we talk about?"

"That shit that went down with her ex and how both of y'all keep hurting each other," he continued. "I didn't exactly hear what else you guys said but the both of you were crying and yelling. Like A LOT. Then she hugged you, few moments later you blacked out."

It hit him just like that. All the memories of last night came flooding back to him. He remembered how much he cried in front of Nina, him screaming on the beach and throwing the bottle. Then there was her face and her eyes, so wet full of tears. He knew that he wasn't looking good either.

It was until she held him so close and so tight to her body. His button up was all wet from her tears, he had even felt her gripping on tightly to him. The words her told him carried that gravity of pain that pierced through his heart again and again. An endless repeat of her apologies and I love yous.

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"Oscar, I'm sorry," she sniffed before lunging forward to give him a tight embrace. It took him a little by surprise as he stood there crying. Nina only hugged him tighter as she was afraid to let him go. She didn't want to let him go.

"Nina, let me go," he croaked out but Nina shook her head and only hugged him tighter.

"No, I'm never letting you go," she cried harder as she buried her head into his neck. "I know I fucked up and I'm sorry. I never wanted to hurt you like that and I'm sorry. I love you. And I'm so so so sorry," she bawled as her chest heaved up and down as she gripped onto him for dear life.

Oscar sobbed a little more has he had the urge to push her away. But despite her tight embrace it was as if this was the only thing that was keeping him alive and breathing. His arms slowly begin to snake around her waist to pull her in even closer to him.