Issues

Season 1: tres

The girl proceeded to show me some phones and we finally found one. We went to pay and I took the money I stole yesterday from my jeans pocket.

'You guys accept cash?' I put the money on the counter as Oscar and the girl looked confused.
'Put that shit away' Oscar sighed and pushed the cash back into my hands.

'I'll pay for it' he held out his credit card as I shrugged and put the money back in my pocket.

'Is she your daughter?' The girl smiled at Oscar. 'Sister' he responded shortly, putting in his card code. 'That's really sweet of you to go shopping with her' she smiled, twirling her hair.

Oscar was done paying and just stared at her. 'Can I have the receipt?' He put on his Spooky face and raised his eyebrow at her.

She chuckled awkwardly and handed him the receipt.

Now I have more money to buy clothes.

Oscar didn't approve of the clothes I choose, but I really don't care. When I stayed at the Smiths, I dressed like a preppy girl. And I thought I liked it more than my other clothes.

But when I went shopping, I realized I missed my old clothes. I missed cargo pants and darker colors.

'You're not wearing that outside of the house' Oscar said as we both looked at the tube top I was trying on.

'I can wear whatever I want' I rolled my eyes at him and went back inside the fitting room.

I heard Oscar's phone ring and him talking in Spanish. Probably to one of the Santo's.

He hung up the phone as I heard him sigh. 'Dani, we have to go' he said.

'You can go, I'm gonna keep shopping' I said, opening the door to the dressing room and walking past him, handing the worker the clothes that I wasn't gonna take.

'Vienes conmigo' Oscar said sternly as I went to go pay for my clothes. 'I'm not'

'You are'

'I'm not'

'You are'

'I'm not, dumbass'

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Oscar basically dragged me back to the house and went to go do some Santo business.

Cesar was already home and was telling me about Ruby's new 'cousin'.

He told me everything that went on with Monse and their on and off relationship thing. It looked like he wasn't telling me something.

Cesar and I were bonding and it was really fun. I did a fashion show to show my new clothes that I bought. Cesar put on a runway playlist on as we both laughed with the model moves I did.

'Dani!' I heard Cesar yell from the other room as I changed into my old clothes. 'What?' I yelled back, opening the door and saw him in the backyard with two big water guns. 'Look what I found'

It was smoking hot outside, so we needed refreshment. I took one of the water guns and we started shooting at eachother.

I'm glad I can have fun with my brother. I missed that. I had that at the orphanage too, but, that was different.

Cesar and I were screaming and laughing while shooting water at eachother and refilling it with water from the water barrel Oscar kept for if we ever run out of shower water.

I sprayed on Cesar's white shirt, which was basically see through with all the water. Then I saw something through his shirt.

'What's that?' I stopped shooting the water and Cesar stopped laughing. Confused he looked down at himself where I was looking at.

'Are those bruises?' I asked, dropping the water gun on the grass and going over to him. I tried to lift his shirt, but he tried to keep his shirt down.

'Cesar' I pushed his arms away and lifted his shirt up. His whole stomach and back was bruised. He hissed as I touched one.

'Who did it?' I asked him. 'Dani-' 'Who the fuck did it, Cesar?' I asked him sternly. He turned his head away, not wanting to answer.

'Did someone at school do this?' I asked him as he shook his head no. 'Prophets?' He hesitated for a second and nodded his head, not looking into my eyes.

'I'm not fucking around, Cesar. Don't lie to me, hermanito' I put my hand on his arm as he looked at me. 'Who did this to you?'

We heard Oscar's Impala pull up and heard him laughing on the front lawn. Cesar looked at Oscar's direction, before looking at me and looking to the ground.

Realization hit me. I saw my dad and the gang do it once when I was little, when Oscar was gonna join. I didn't speak to my dad for 2 weeks after that.

I'm gonna kill Oscar.