Storm Watch 02.23 – Without You

            Rosita watched as Tina paced around still angry at her.  They were working at the new house, buying a fixer-upper was a big project to have taken up, especially with one of the women being pregnant.  Rosita was splattered with paint and covered in plaster dust that clung to her dark skin.  Her dark hair was dusted white and Tina had her hands on her hips, staring intently at her.  There was a fire in Tina‘s eyes, and it wasn’t the fire of passion that Rosita was accustomed too.

            “I cannot believe that you of all people, betrayed me like this.”  Tina said in a very tense voice and Rosita cocked her eyebrow, blowing the hair out of her eyes as she leaned against the wall.  Rosita stared at her waiting out the storm aptly named Tina.  Rosita knew that she didn’t mean it she didn’t think that Ro had betrayed her; she was just very, moody.

            “She asked if she could, I thought the more hands the merrier.”  Rosita saw the feral look of anger on Tina‘s face but Rosita stood her ground.  She didn’t think she’d done anything wrong, but it was obvious by the way Tina was acting, that she’d over stepped her boundaries, at least in Tina‘s eyes.

            “You thought wrong; I think you are….”  Tina began and Rosita butted in, not wanting her to finish, it was too much.

            “What?”  Rosita asked, her temper now flaring the Latina in her was working over time, getting tempestuous.  The lawyer in her was seeing both sides of the coin; this was one side of Tina‘s coin that she’d never seen.

            “You had no right!”  Tina blared and Ro stood straight up, her eyes narrowing as Tina realized that she too, was getting upset.

            “Oh?  Really?  Well I thought you wanted to move into the house before the twins were born?  Or before they were heading off to college?  Her intentions are good, stop looking for a motive where there isn’t one!”  Rosita shot at her and Tina stared at her hard.

            “Yeah right!”  Tina blared back and Ro flinched as Tina threw a paint brush full of paint at her, it smacked her in the knee and she didn’t move.  Some of the splatter hitting her in the face, but she stayed stone still.  Tina marched away, and as she did, Rosita called back to her.