PROMISE ME (OSCAR DIAZ x OC)

Chapter Thirty-Three (Oscar)

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

Oscar

I was in the middle of an important meeting when Alana texted me that Ruby was out of control at the funeral and I needed to go and get him. Insulting her and everyone else that had been there.

All I needed to hear was that he insulted Alana and that was it for me. I was only seeing red in a fit of rage when Alana had informed me that he'd basically said I don't love her, I don't care about her, I don't want her sexually, and that I'm going to die choosing the streets over her.

What Alana doesn't know is I've been doing everything in my power to find someone to take over my streets for me. Someone I can trust. Someone who can keep the peace and level head. Ruby will never be that person.

MI AMOR: Ruby called me fat.

That was the last text I saw before I got out of my car and was blinded with rage. If I could have strangled him I would have but my fist decided for me what his fate was going to be today.

I loaded up Ruby into my car and dropped him off grumbling back at Geny's house. She can deal with the piece of shit son that he is. Geny was home and in the dining room when I basically threw Ruby into the house by the back of his neck.

"What the hell!" Geny shouted but not at me. "What did you get yourself into now- Ruben! What is on your face! No... No, not my boy! No!"

Geny looked at me with tears in her eyes as Ruby pushed past her and toward his bedroom. Slamming the door shut and rattling the portraits that hung on the walls. Alana's Abuelita was sitting on the couch and didn't even bat an eyelash at it all.

Clearly this happens more than anyone has cared to say.

"Sad Eyez is going to come and babysit him." I said to Geny. "I can't look at him, Geny, I'm sorry. I know he is your son but-"

"He is no son of mine, mijo." She comes up to me and rubs her hands motherly down my arms and looks me in my eyes. I don't remember what it was like to ever be comforted by my mother but since the day Geny accepted me into the family she has been nothing but motherly to me. "I have Mario and Luis... And you as my sons. Ruby is gone. He is long gone."

I nod. "His face will be bruised for a while... That's my fault. He said hurtful things to Alana."

Geny smiles at me. "You're good to her... You're so good to her, Oscar, I am so sorry I never accepted this sooner. I sleep better at night knowing my daughter has you. Of course that sleep is disrupted because of Ruby's behaviors... I am at my wits end with him. I don't know what to do..."

"I'm working something out..." I confess to her. "Just know that this life for him isn't forever. I would rather die than see a kid who used to be as good as Ruby become everything you have raised him not to be. I will not let him dig his grave any deeper."

Abuelita rises to her feet and comes up to me, nearly pushing Geny out of the way. Fear residing in her eyes. She grabs onto my hands and clutches them close to her chest. Her fragile hands shaking.

"Does she know that you're working something out?" The she in question isn't Alana. I know Abuelita is referring to Cuchillos. "Spooky... She is a scary woman. She cannot be trusted and going behind her back will land you in the same grave as Lil' Ricky..."

"The empty grave?" I raise my brow up at her. "Ruby didn't tell you did he?"

She shakes her head. "What did you all do..."