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Before she could say another word, Vince hung up Thatup because he didn’t want to talk to her anyht spew out of his roaned as he felt up his Rosie One thing was for da to be around fro to ht he had already, but apparently this assle was going to need it spelled out Rose was not so a feel on

Vince knew the whole hugging bullshit was just a sneaky way of doing just that He’d done it hiirls plenty of times as well but not since Rose had co up with that shit Rose should’ve known any guy putting his hands on her would piss hiuy

He walked up the stairs in front of his building still on fire and in no way ready to talk to Rose yet, so he sent her call to voice up from his phone he saw Anita by the bus stop with Cruz, the current neighborhood pusher This wasn’t the first time he’d seen her with him, and he’d warned her he was trouble Anita assured hiuy

Acutely aware that Rose had done the very thing Anita was doing, he didn’t push any further Rose had given Vince the benefit of the doubt when she’d first met him--even stuck with hiirl She wouldn’t be hanging around so trouble around her little brothers

Vince watched as her brothers exited the school bus Pepe hopped a few steps in front of theave Beto, who’d just started kindergarten last fall, a piggyback ride Maybe the guy was changing Vince usually saw hi on corners or in parks Seeing hi with her brothers was a side of Cruz he would’ve never expected to see

No sooner had he turned his attention away frohts of Ben’s hands on Rose assaulted hiain He sla Knowing he had to get it together before he called her back, he tried without success to cal a shoould cool hi one It did soht about it, he was irritated all over again What pissed hiuy would probably be around s Vince had pushed to the back of his head but had never quite forgotten

One: she mentioned more than once how extremely flattered she’d been to have been asked to the prom by this prick because he was such a hot shot at school Even though he knew Rose loved hi a crush for Mr Fucking Popular Two: Not only would Vince never forget the way this guy had looked at her at the park but how he’d added that jab after about calling her when it was all over Vince was certain the assle would like nothing better than get one up on hi fro to fly The fact that Rose would let hiest pisser

Knowing there was no way he could talk to her right noithout saying so out with his friends It’d been a while since he talked toout to see Rose, he’d pretty much made them last in his list of priorities Lately, even while at school and work, thoughts of Rose rarely escaped hiht now he needed to relieve his mind of her at least for a couple of hours

It wasn’t hard to find them El Taco Loco up the street where two of his friends noorked was the place to be these days froet all the free chips and salsa ant" Vince remembered that hat his easily-excited brother had mentioned

Happy that Lorenzo was there and not so into trouble, Vince decided to treat his brother to dinner Lately Vince had been pretty tight with his ether for a car But tonight he was feeling generous He had alhon his dad to lend him his car to drive out to see Rose But he told her just a fewup with the guys and eating his dinner, Lorenzo stood up and said he was out

"Where you going?" Vince eyed hiot someone to see"

Vincent pulled out his phone to check the time and saw the missed calls and unread texts froet for a while was back Ignoring it for a lanced up at Lorenzo "Get your ass ho for you"

His brother nodded and saluted hi he had Rose to deal with still, Vince began to wrap it up and finish his food

Most of the evening Vince thought Alfonso had been eyeing hione Vince turned looked up froe leer Alfonso wore on his face all night "What?"

"Nothin’, I just thought I knew you better is all"

"What are you talking about?" Vince laughed taking one last bite of his taco Alfonso laughed now, too and stood up froht "You still in the market for some wheels?"