"Valeria!"

I hummed and just turned around the bed. I was so tired that it's not even funny. I stayed up late with Ruby watching scary movies all night.

"Val, aye dios mio!" The door of my room opened and i heard stomping.

"5 more minutes." I grunted. I pulled the covers over my head and then went back to sleep.

"VAL YOURE LATE!" I jumped off my bed and I ran to the bathroom to do a quick morning routine. I went back to my room and grabbed some clothes and shoved my books in my backpack. "Hurry up!" Willy yelled from the kitchen.

"Im trying!" I shoved my feet into my shoes, grabbed my soccer bag and we headed out. I saw so many text from Jamal and Ruby, where was I? Was i going to school? Was i okay.

"I woke you up this morning." Willy was speeding down the road.

"I know. I just over slept okay." I made it to school with 20 minutes until the bell rang. I ran out the car. I saw Jamal waving at me. I smiled at him, i saw his eyes widen.

"Val! Your shoes!" Willy ran out the car and gave me my soccer shoes. He realizes what he did. Jamal's jaw dropped to the ground. "Ah shit. Im sorry."

"I got this." I ran to Jamal. "Jamal wait!" I grabbed his backpack and he started to panic.

"Willy's a Santo!" He yelled and I covered his mouth.

"Yes! You cant tell anyone!"

"Lady i cant keep one secret!"

"Im a santo too." His eyes widen.

"Val!"

"I had to say it! Nobody can know." He started to shake his head. "Jamal i trust you, you cant tell anyone, give me until tonight to tell Monse and Ruby. Please."

"I cant believe you were a Santo!"

"Keep your voice down!" I sighed and i held his arms. "If you can keep this football secret from your parents, so can keep this from them okay."

"Why?"

"Why what?"

"Did you join?"

"Family." I sighed. "Cesar knows, so dont worry about that." I rubbed my cheeks and looked at him. "Dont tell Monse, not even Ruby, let me do it."

"Good, cause Ruby is coming this way." My eyes popped.

"Jamal!" He walks to me. "Hey Val." I smiled and I walked away. Ruby gave me a confused look as I walked away. I was sitting so nervously all day today. What am I gonna say?

"Val!" I heard Monse's voice.

"Hey Monse."

"I cant believe it!" My face turned red. "Im so mad!"

"About what?" I nervously chuckled. Damn it she knows.

"Everyone knows!"

"Everyone!" Im so dead.

"Yes!" She shook her head. "You didn't hear?" I shook my head fast. "Olivia invited Jasmin to hang with us." I sighed with relief.

"Its not that bad."

"You can say that!" Jamal texted me I have 8 hours until I come clean. The four of us walked to Rubys and went to Olivia's room. Jasmin blasted some music and started to look and touch Olivia's things. Monse, Olivia, and I sat on the bed and watched her. Jasmin used Olivia's deodorant.

"I didn't say you could do that." My mouth opened with disgust. Jasmin looked at her closet and found one of Olivia's underwear.

"Oh." Jasmin smiles. "Yes! Yo, what size are you?"

"Oh, honey, no." Olivia shook her head.

"Well, excuse me for touching the cherished chonies."

"I think it's pretty normal for people to not want you to touch their underwear." Monse told Jasmin.

"Well, not if you're besties.
Valeria, Monse, I thought this bitch was really gonna cramp our style, but Jasmonsolivria has a really nice ring to it, doesn't it?" Did she just used all of out names together? Oh no.

"I take no responsibility for this."

"You were properly warned weeks ago."

"Everyone deserves a second chance." I told Olivia and Monse as we were whispering. We looked up to see Jasmin in Olivia's dress.

"Mira, mira!" She pulls her inhaler. "Yes, right? It's good, right?"

"Yas, kween. Your body, your choice." Olivia supported her.

"Blue is a very good color in you Jasmin." I told smiling.

"I think it might be a little tight." I hit Monse's arm and shook her head. She looked back as she didn't know what she did wrong.

"Monse, you are last person who should be giving out fashion advice. I mean, look at you in that doo-doo outfit." We looked at Monse. "Maybe." Jasmin pulls me off the bed and to her. "Take some advice from Valeria." She looked at me. "Where did you get this top girl? Gucci?"

"Uh no, forever 21." I gave her a shy smile.

"Anyways, Monse, Girl, why you trying to be comfortable all the time? Sometimes it's okay to leave your dignity at home." She looked at the mirror and started to shake her boobs. I quickly ran to Olivias side and had to look at the horror show. "Pop them titties. Pop them titties. Pop, pop, pop them titties.
So, Olivia, how's living with Ruby? He take a lot of showers?" Olivia brings us in and we all stood up.

"Follow my lead. Oh, yeah, Ruby loves to get sudsy." Great we are taking about Ruby in the shower

"Nice. Because you got to get clean before you get dirty. Mmm. So, tell me, does he ever loofah your choofa? Or teeter-totter your tatas?" I stood with disgust again. I want that image out of my mind NOW!

"Huh?"

"No. But let's just say a shower cap isn't only for the hair on top, if you know what I mean." Olivia played off.

"Ugh, I can't wait to show him my shower curtains." Jasmin grunts. "What else does he like? "

"Um You've been asking a lot of questions about Ruby. It almost seems like you're more interested in gathering intel on him than hanging out with us." Olivia looked at me. I wasnt gonna say anything.

"No. I mean Well, I mean, I am interested in Ruby, but-"

"So, you admit it. He's the only reason why you're here." I saw what they were doing and i didnt like it.

"No! I like you guys too. Sometimes. Yeah." Jasmin confessed.

"Olivia, wasn't it Jasmine's idea to hang out? And wasn't it Jasmine who suggested we come to your house, which happens to be where Ruby showers?" Monse follows. "Convenient. And hurtful."

"I really don't like being used."

"I think it would just be better if you gave us our space." Jasmin put her head down.

"Guys, I am not using you. Agh.But I can see how bad this looks, so I'm gonna go." She pointed at the door.

"No, you don't need to leave. Just stand in the hall and reflect on your actions."

"Are you su I'll just-" we took her out in the hallway. Olivia shuts the door in Jasmin face.

"You're good."

"Don't touch a bitch's chonies."

"I feel like my brain got dry humped."

"One sec." olivia said and opened the door, Jasmin fell. She hit the floor.

"That's 15 more minutes." Olivia told her.

"I deserve 20." Jasmin confessed. Olivia snapped her fingers and Jasmin gave her back her underwear. She closes the door.

"Why didnt you join Valeria?" Olivia asked me.

"I just-"

"Val is the innocent one in the fam. Plus she never keeps secrets from us." Monse smiles at me, and i smiled back. Oh no! I forgot! I feel horrible! "Shes the nice one."

"I'm I'm sorry." Olivia said. "I didnt know."

"I'm scared for Ruby."Olivia said as she went back to the bed.

"Ruby would appreciate that.
And a handy. No pressure, but if you ever find yourself with time on your hands."

"Ah Moving on." I said." Olivia looked at me.

"You and Carlos?"

"Just a fling. Nothing too special." I sat back down.

"You like someone else?"

"Nope." I lied.

"I don't believe that."

"Val, dont lie." Monse giggles. I turned red.

"Between you and me, its Ruby." Olivia smiles.

"I see it! Valby! Or Ruberia!" I laughed at the ship names. My phones buzzed.

"Uh, i gotta take this." I walked to the hallway and I saw Spooky pass me. Oh no this day cant get any better! I quickly answered the phone. "What!"

"Well hi to you too." I heard willy from the other end.

"Sorry, hi. Whats up?" Jamal walks pass me and into Olivias room.

"Theres a lockdown. Where are you?"

"At Rubys. What about you?"

"Jackys place. You swear you are okay?"

"Yeah, im fine."

"Be careful."

"You too." I hung up and I saw everyone coming into the kitchen table.

"You better say it now!" He whispers to me and ran to the A/C.

"You can't turn the A/C up that high.
You're gonna blow the power."

"I need to regulate my body temperature."

"Uh guys, i need to say something." I said aloud, nobody was listening.

"I have to pee so bad. And I'm sprouting major turtle-head. Will someone tell Oscar to get out of the bathroom?"

"Go ahead." We all said.

"I'll hold it." Jasmin smiles and waddles away.

"What kind of games you wanna play? You guys feeling words, pictures, cards? How about a game that reveals your innermost feelings and secrets? Or KerPlunk? How about Smash, Marry, Kill?" Ruby said to us. The power went out.

"Jamal!" We all yelled. I sat down on the chair and waved my hands back and forth. Its the most hottest day, great.

"I think that was a sign that we shouldn't play this game." Jamal smiles.

"Can I talk to you in the kitchen?" Ruby looks at Jamal. I wiped the sweat from my forehead and groan. The girls sat down.

"So?" Olivia said. "How long you liked him?"

"Since the 4th grade." I chuckled. Jamal and Ruby came back and sat down. Ruby was talking to his mom.

"Go, Ruby! We don't have all day." Monse hurried him. He hung up and came back.

"Actually, we do. We're locked in."

"I'm a gentleman, I make love. I don't smash." Ruby said as he looked at me. I started to blush. That man has a way with words.

"Well then you're not doing it right, 'cause if you want a girl to bow, then you got to plow." Jasmin leaned against him. Ruby looked at her with disgust and I chuckled. "Right, Valeria?" I shook my head.

"Anyways, Make love, Marry, Kill." Olivia told us.

"Maybe we should ixnay the urdermay. We don't wanna poke the bear in the bathroom." Jamal started to sweat.

"No more rewrites, Jamal."

"I'll go first. I'd kill Jasmine." Monse went.

"I deserve that."

"I'd make love to Ruby."

"That's really considerate, just as I would be as a lover."

"And then I'd marry Jamal." Monse smiles.

"Seriously? Why not make love to me and marry Ruby?" Jamal questioned her.

"We're married. We're having sex." Monse argued.

"What about the marital death bed?"

"Fine." Monse rolled her eyes. "I'm changing my answer. I'd make love to Jamal and marry Ruby. Happy?"

"I am. Because even though we're married, we're having sex, and a lot of it." Ruby told her. "She made me get clipped." We all jumped ad we heard a laugh. It was Oscar. It was the most scariest laughs I ever heard

"Uh You want to play?" I politely asked him.

"Okay. I'd kill you." He pointed at Ruby. "I'd kill you." Jamal. "I'd smash you." Olivia. "I'd smash you." Monse. "I'd smash you." Me. And then Jasmin rubbed her tits and was or supposedly seducing him. "Fine. I'd smash you too. Then I'd kill you." We all got uncomfortable and he felt.

"Let's keep playing." Jamal brought us together.

"Ill go."Jamal said. " I'd marry Olivia.
Val, you can be my side piece.
And I'd kill Jasmine."

"All right, now it's starting to hurt." Jasmin pointed out.

"Okay, my turn." I said as I sat up from my chair. "I'd make love to Monse."

"Excuse me. Can you say that slower?" Ruby interrupted me.

"I'd make love to Monse." I laughed. "I'd marry Ruby. And im sorry but I'd kill Jasmine." Jasmin slams her hands on the table.

"All y'all can suck a bag of buttholes." We all chuckled.

"I hate to break it to you, you're not my type." Monse told me.

"Damn. There goes my whole experimental phase. Lasted all of two minutes." We all laughed. "Sorry Olivia, maybe next time." Olivia joined in.

"But don't worry, I'm not crushed unless you kiss like Cesar."

"You kissed Cesar?" Monse eyes widen.

"On Halloween. But don't tell anyone, I don't want things to get weird."

"Hey, Val, your brother called, he needs you home, he wants to talk about the plan for the santos." Spooky said as he came in the room again. All eyes were on me. Cesar came running in and Monse stood up.

"You kissed Olivia?"

"Youre in the santos?" Ruby asked me.

"Damn." Jasmine gasps. I looked at Ruby with tears forming. A alarm rang and Jamal jumped with happiness.

"It wasn't me!" He cheered.