Faded by Trinidad Lisa

Author:Trinidad, Lisa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2021-12-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Omar drove around the block twice before finding a parking place on E Street. He ran five blocks to the club address that was texted to him. Once he found the place, Royal came into view arguing outside with other club patrons and a couple of bouncers. A heated exchange with a spikey-haired white man who was not there for Royal’s bravado morphed into shoving and wild cursing.

“We can’t have shit without you gentrifying hoes taking over everything and making life shit for the niggas who been here waayyyyyy before your pale faces got here!” Royal screamed.

A drunk and high Royal was a bad combination, and Omar recognized the escalation signs. Shit was about to jump off.

“C’mon Royal, I’ll take you home,” Omar said rushing forward and blocking Royal from the white dude who barked more insults to Royal and his crew.

“I ain’t going nowhere until these hoes fucking leave!”

Omar turned to Steph, Royal’s bestie.

“What happened?” he asked.

Steph had her arms jammed across her chest looking annoyed with Royal. Her mousy brown hair had fallen into damp clumps of sweated-out curls along her neckline. The wet sheen on her tawny skin told the story of frantic dancing all night with Royal. They were both tore up from the floor up.

“He’s upset that the culture is changing here. These people made some comments he didn’t like and you know Royal—”

“What did they say?”

“I’ll tell you,” Royal interjected. “ Liquor got them hella loose, so they felt real comfortable telling the home crowd up in here that they should probably move along because there was a new sheriff in town—”

“It was a joke!” Another white guy in skinny jeans and a neon green t-shirt screamed in Omar’s face.

“Watch your volume in my fucking ear!” Omar bellowed shoving the guy back with his chest.

A leviathan of a Black bouncer stepped to Omar.

“Fall back, Shrek,” Omar said flexing his shoulders. “I can hand out ass whoopings too.”

“This man can put you in the ground, son,” Royal screeched shoving his fingers into the bouncer’s chest.

Shrek snatched Royal up quick and slammed him against the building wall.

Shit.

He had some good dick waiting for him at Brent’s house, was getting pussy pics and invites to fuck a woman that he didn’t ask for, and had another woman that made him re-think the monogamy available to him, but here he was doing a late-night search-and-rescue for Royal’s belligerent ass.

Omar flexed his neck and pulled the bouncer back, punching him in the gut in one fluid motion. The other bouncer lunged forward but Omar dodged him, shoving him back against the wall where he hit his head and tumbled to his knees in a daze. An unexpected blow to the jaw clocked Omar from out of nowhere and the connection made him stagger against Royal. It hurt like hell and his cousin tried to defend him with ineffective windmilling. That only reminded Omar of why he was the one always getting into so many fights on Royal’s behalf as kids.

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