Chapter 28

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       || Adriana's POV ||

"He's a sweet boy." Mrs.Smith announced to me while passing Joaquín over to me.

"Come back anytime, Lucas enjoys your company." She smiles.

"I really do! I wish u could just move in." Lucas says then wraps his arm around Joaquín's shoulder.

"Hey now, I don't know about the moving in part." I chuckle at the thought. "But he can definitely come over on weekends."

"Aw man Joaquín said he has computer school, whatever that is, can't he just come over after that? Pretty please?" Lucas puts his hands in a prayer position.

"Come on Lucas, Ms.Hernandez already gave you a answer." She says grabbing her son hand.

"Fine, see you later man." He reaches for a fist bump.

"Later." Joaquín half smiles and finishes the fist bump.

As we walk back down the stairs to our floor, Joaquín stops me before unlocking the door. "You promise I will go to regular school next year?" Why is he asking me this?

"Yes, have I ever broken a promise before?" I question. "No." He answers. "I just really want to make more friends so when Lucas is busy I'll have someone else." I unlock the door and step into the apartment.

"You'll make friends soon, don't stress it." I shrug and walk over to the fridge.

Fuck, I forgot to go shopping.

"Lets go." I point to the door.

"Huh? We just got here-" I cut him off. "Would you like to eat tonight?" I smile

"What kind of question-"

"Do you?" I say through my teeth.

"Yes." He says in a duh tone.

"Then lets go." I open the door, letting Joaquín leave out first before locking it.

Once we arrived at Walmart, I grabbed a cart and went into the food aisles.

"Can I get in it?" Joaquín jumped up and down.

"How old are you?" I question while placing two loafs of bread in the cart.

"Seven." He pokes his face out and grins.

"There's your answer." I tap his nose and while continuing to move down the aisle.

"Good one." Joaquín chuckled and jabbed my arm.

"Can we get this?" Joaquín says, holding up a apple pie.

"Drop whatever you'd like in the cart."

"Seriously!?" Joaquín jumped up and down.

"Yup."
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"There's no way we're getting on the bus with this much stuff.... right? Joaquín asks.

"Hell no." I giggle.

I dial Gabes number and within seconds he answers.

"Wassup babe?"

"Hey! Are you busy right now?"

"For you? No. Something wrong?"

"Me and Joaquín went grocery shopping and we ended up getting more than we thought so we need a ride back to the apartment because its too many bags for the bus."

"Where are you?"

"The Walmart near 34th street."

"On my way." Gabriel hangs up the phone and I turn back to Joaquín.

"Gabe's coming to help with the bags." I push the cart out front and wait for his shiny black car to pull up.

"He always saves the day!" Joaquín hollers.

"You don't know the half." I laugh.

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"Geez, its only two of you guys." Gabe complains as he loads the last bag into the car.

"We love to eat." Joaquín states.

"True, ain't none wrong with that." Gabriel laughs while pulling out of the parking lot.

"Adriana." Joaquín says tapping my shoulder from the back seat.

"Can we have pizza tonight?" He asks.

"But we just went shopping." I turn my neck to face him a little.

"I know. I didn't mean buy it, I want to make it like we use to do."

"Oh sure, we can make whatever you'd like." I say while grabbing his hand and rubbing my thumb across his knuckles remember old times when he was so small.

"Yay! Now Gabe can you turn up the radio? I love this song by Lil Uzi!" He says while hitting the woah.

I noticed that he does that dance more than normal. We'd be sitting watching a movie and there goes Joaquín hitting the woah.

"See I would but you're already home." Gabriel tells him.

One thing I can say about Gabe is that he's the fastest driver I know.

"I'll help you guys unload the car before I go." He says while walking to the the trunk.

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"Thank you so much for helping us." I take the last bag from Gabe's hand and place it on the kitchen floor.

"Don't mention it." He brushes it off. "I see you tomorrow at work alright?" He reaches in the hug me and I can't help but hug him back. The cologne scent smells so good, I've never smelt this one before, it must be new.

"Alright." I say pulling away from our hug.

"Be safe!" I yell while he walks to his car.

"You too!" He yells back before getting in.

When I get back to the kitchen Joaquín has already begin getting out the supplies for the pizza.

"I thought you would want a snack or something first." I chuckle.

"Nah, Im ready for some real food. The snacks can wait"

"What kind of kid are you? Who doesn't wants snack." I smile.

"A unique one." He laughs while tossing some mozzarella cheese into his mouth.

"Well aren't you hungry huh?" I tease while walking over to him.

"When am I not." He laughs.

He didn't lie though, when is he not hungry? The world may never know.

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Thank yall for 11k reads already! We just hit 10k about 5 days ago so im very excited!! This was just a calm lil chapter lol I wanted to update so here it is. What are y'all favs scenes so far throughout the whole book? I really wanna know!!
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