The Life

Handling Business

              Cesar and the rest of us all decided we should go talk to Rose again. During our talk we found out Chuilio is crazy and is probably just gonna kill him when she finds him. We left and went back to talk to Oscar.
           "I'll set up a meeting with her about somethings and get it taken care of," Oscar said.
           "You know we have to kill her, right?" I asked.
             "Since when have you been on board with killing people?" Cesar asked.
           "I always have been. You don't even know the half of what I wanted to do to the Prophets when they gunned down Leon and Olivia and shot Ruby!" I said and noticed Ruby get visible chills.
         A couple days later Oscar said, "I'll handle it. Go somewhere public and be on your phones."
         I kissed him, "be safe, please," I said. Oscar nodded and kissed me again.
             We all decided to go bum around the gas station, that's when I decided to take the tests. I grabbed Monse and made her be with me. When the test came back I cried, while Monse held on to me, "it's all gonna be okay, Ry," Monse said.
             3 days passed and still no word from Oscar. We'd been hunched down at Ruby's house so we decided to go to the other Santos for help. Cesar and I went to the hangout spot when they're not bumming around our house.
            "Anyone seen or heard from Spooky?" Cesar asked.
            "He probably ran off to Vegas with Letti," Joker said.
           Sad Eyes shook his head no, I got visible shakes. Cesar smacked the pieces to their game away. Joker jumped up and got in Cesar's face, "I said, has anyone seen or heard from Spooky? You all claim to be his ride or dies, yet here you are!" Cesar yelled.
                "Why isn't anyone looking?" I piped up.
           All the other Santos looked at me, "you might be Spooky's woman and wearing that cross, but we don't answer to you!" Joker shot.
          "I'm not just Spooky's woman and wearing this fucking cross. I'm the daughter of Killshot, sister to Uno and they were both ranked higher then you could ever dream, Joker and they were both apart of this gang. How can you go this long without hearing from Oscar, when you normally are bumming it up around the house, drinking our fucking booze, eating our food, to nothing? Why aren't you all fucking looking?" I yelled to them all.
           "We hear you Lil' Spooky and mama. We'll go look. Let's go!" Sad Eyes said, then they all took off.
               Sad Eyes took us to a motel and gave us guns, "Spooky's not gonna be happy when he finds  out I just gave you a gun, mama," he chuckled.
             "I'll tell him I forced you," I smiled and hugged him.
              Someone knocked on the door, Sad Eyes and Cesar stood on the sides of the door while I opened it. It was the gang. They came in and Sad Eyes dipped. Monse pulled me to the side, "should you be doing this?"
             "Yes," I said.
             "We've come up with a plan," Jamel said. Cesar and I both nod for him to continue, "Ruby, you tell them," he said then left the room.
           Ruby tells us, gets pale, then leaves the room. I rolled my eyes and left the room to check on the boys. I was sitting beside Ruby rubbing his back when Cesar and Monse came down from the room. Cesar nodded for Ruby to make the call with the burner phone. Right before Ruby could make the call a white charger pulled up, "Lil' Spooky," the passenger said.
                   Cesar walked over and was handed a paper and a phone, then they left. I felt my stomach turn.
             "It's an address," Cesar said.
         "Let's go back to the house and get the car. I'll drive," I said.  Everyone nodded and we went back to the house.
            When we got to the address we noticed it was a wooded area. We walked in, "look for a path, then we follow it in deep," Cesar said.
           "Why deep?" Jamel asked.
           "You don't bury a body this close to the road," I sighed.
            "Found it," Monse said and we all followed it.
                We'd been walking for about an hour or 2 when Jamel and Ruby start to fight and argue. Cesar got irritated and snapped, soon all 4 of them were yelling, "shut up! All of you. We got more important shit to worry about other then a fucking fruit roll up! Do you think you can pull your shit together so we can go see if Oscar is alive. I'd like to know if I'm raising a baby on my own!" I snapped.
         Cesar froze, Jamel's mouth dropped open, Ruby just looked at my stomach, and Monse stood there already knowing. I walked past them continuing on the path. They followed close behind me. We came to a huge hole in the ground. Just as we walked over to see who was inside we started to hear whistling. Cesar pushed everyone back, mainly me, then Jamel and Ruby pushed me behind them too.
            Cesar started firing off shots into the air. I noticed him backing towards the hold, so I shoved passed the others and ran over to him, catching him right before he could fall in. I looked down to see Chuilio, I made Cesar look.
              19 streeters started to come over and surround us. Cesar pushed me behind him. The main boy nodded and another set fire to the hole she was in, "where is he?" Cesar asked.
         "He'll find you," he said.
              We all hauled it back to Freeridge. I dropped Monse, Ruby, and Jamel off at their own houses then Cesar and I went back home to wait for Oscar. We were both sitting on the couch when Cesar looked over at me, "what?" I asked.
                 "You know you wouldn't be raising that baby alone if something had happened to Oscar right? I would've helped you. Sad Eyes too, he's got a soft spot for you," Cesar said.
            "I know, Cesar. Thank you," I leaned over and kissed his cheek, "let's not tell Oscar until after I go to the doctor and get confirmation, Okay?" I asked.
             "Of course, Ry," he smiled.
                    About 30 minutes later Oscar came limping in. I jumped up and ran to him and jumped into his arms hugging him, then Cesar joined in. I repeatedly kissed his face.