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That made Vince smile
"What did she say?" Lorenzo asked
"That sheoff the freeway
"And everyone isup at Alex’s place" Vince scrolled down the texts between Lorenzo and Rose There were a lot "You and Rose text this much?"
"Dude," Lorenzo turned to him, "don’t read my texts That’s some private stuff"
Lorenzo reached for the phone, but Vince pulled it away "Are you shitting me? This is Rose My Rosie What kind of private shit are you texting her?"
Vince skih some of them Mostly they talked about Vince and howprivate like what Vince took Lorenzo toup
"That was all prettyShe was miserable, Bro We all were But she was bad" Lorenzo shook his head "I didn’t even knohat to say to her anymore"
Vince stopped reading the texts feeling a little guilty now about ju in the old neighborhood "Yeah, well there were a few tiuys again"
He kept the fact to hi When he got hoht Rose’s reaction to having hi co in front of lighted candles of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ When she saw hirado Corazon de Jesus! Me le lo trajiste! Me lo trajiste! Ayand kissing hiain
His dad had run out of the kitchen the moment she screamed and now had his arms wrapped around both hiiant crying fa If there’d ever been any doubt that his family loved him more than they resented him, it ended here
He explained as much as he could After his mother had calmed some carandma--Vince had to talk to all of therandmother she cried so much When they were finally done, they headed back to La Jolla His mother had hoped to have her faone down and after everything that his uncle and Sal had done, she agreed she could do her fa another time
They took both Lorenzo’s borrowed car and his dad’s because Lorenzo and Vince, if he had it his ere both staying in La Jolla But his mom rode with him and Lorenzo She wanted to talk to Vince some more about his ordeal
Halfway to La Jolla his mother huffed and out of the blue blurted out "Lorenzo, I sincerely hope you are practicing safe sex"
Both Vince and Lorenzo looked at each other and laughed "Where did that co