Chapter 11: Hostile Work Environment

Sunny's head was heavy. Over the last two days she couldn't stop thinking about the fight with Linda. She was crying for those two days, her sadness overwhelmed her in a way that she never felt before. She was sad because of the way things turned out with her sister; Linda was going too hate her no matter what, nothing would change the way she felt about Sunny. She'll despise her as long as she had breath in her lungs.

Besides being sad Sunny was also depressed about what Linda said about her relationship with Roberta. She would never put the love of her life in any serious danger, she wouldn't use her to gain some type of advantage over someone or involve her in some type of scheme. You say that you love that girl but you don't love her, you're just using her to make yourself feel better her words echo every time she lay her head down. These were words that stung her like barb wire. They were painful and would always hurt her in every way that it did. Linda hated the word 'sister', to her Sunny wasn't her sister; she was the enemy, someone that needed to be annihilated. If Sunny wanted anything in the whole world it would be a fresh start with Linda, sure they might have their difference's but they would be together again and it would be just like it was back then.

Something finally hit Sunny really hard; she suddenly remembered the look in Linda's eyes when she saw the picture of their mother. It was the hurt and sadness in her eyes, it was genuine alright, it could have been just Sunny but it looked like she may have been conflicted about something; like whatever it was, it split into two people. She would be the tough as nails police officer but then she saw a hint of care in her eyes, like that other part of her wanted to break out and embrace her. It was those two separate personalities in Linda that's making her feel the way she is now, Sunny thought that maybe could try to reach out too that part of her irregardless on how she felt about her. She thought, maybe just maybe, they could be sisters again.

Eonni...(Big sister...) nan dangsin-eul pogihaji anh-eul geoya (I'm not giving up on you).

She needed some time to work things out but if she could figure a way to patch things up between them then all of Sunny's effort too fix their relationship won't be all for nothing.

Right now she needed a drink, a very stiff and a very strong drink.

Sunny grabs her phone, wondering if Geraldine had some time too spare. 'What are you doing right now?' she texted 'Just hangin' around with my cat, why?' 'I owe you a drink from before and I need someone to hang out with' Sunny texted her answer to her 'Fine, where?' Geraldine texted back 'The Last Ride' 'Are you fuckin' serious? That girl probably want's my ass dead!' she responded back 'Riley's forgetful, she probably won't even remember you; so are you in or out?' after several seconds of hesitation Geraldine gives her an answer 'Fine but if that bitch tries anythin' on me, it's on you' 'Fine, see you there' Sunny humorously texted back.

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Driving to the club was relatively easy, traffic wasn't that heavy and things were very calm. Sunny exits the Tailgater; she see's Geraldine and waves at her. "Hey" she greeted her "What's up?" Geraldine smiled "Nothing, let's get something to drink" Geraldine notices that Sunny's eyes are red, either she's been smoking some really good stuff or she's been doing a lot of crying. "Everythin' alright?" she suddenly asked "Yeah...why?" Sunny raised an eyebrow "Nothin', just you look a little down" "I'm fine...just had a rough couple of days, that's all" Geraldine is a good judge of character, she knows an excuse when she see's it "Fine, whatever you say" she says not wanting to push any further. They both enter the loud and booming club.

As they go to the bar a dancer come's over to Sunny. She whispers into her ear, because of the loudness of the music Geraldine couldn't hear their conversation. Sunny turns to her com patron "Do you mind coming with me for a bit?" she loudly asked "Man, come one, I thought we were gonna get a drink?" Geraldine complained "We are but I got too talk to my girlfriend, it won't take long" she promises, Geraldine frustratingly sighs.

They walk to a small private dressing room; "Stay out here" Sunny ordered, Geraldine sighed and parks herself next too the door.

"Roberta?" Sunny calls out her name, she see's her sitting near a mirror. Sunny could see that she was wiping her eyes, she thought heard sniffling "Carina? (Darling?)" she slowly approached "Estas bien? (Are you okay?)", Roberta slowly turns around, Sunny could see that her eyes were red and her make up was messy. Sunny quickly rushes to her "What's wrong?" she asked as she put her hands on her face, Roberta get's up and hugs her.

"Tully...he-he hit on me..." she sadly said "Are you fucking serious?" Sunny blood level started to rise "That's not all...he-he-he..." she started stuttering "What? What did he do?" she curiously wondered, Roberta had a hard time telling Sunny so she decided too whisper it into her ear. Slowly Sunny started to see red, her teeth are clenched too the point of breaking, her heart beats furiously and all the blood vessels in her body wanted to burst.

Geraldine plays some games on her phone, what she hears next is something that she doesn't too hear again. "He did what?!" she heard Sunny scream through the door.

The door opens loudly, Geraldine see's Sunny storming out; her eyes were full of red hot anger. Her girlfriend follows her "Sunny! It's okay, just calm down!" she grabs one of her hands "Listen, I'll get another job!", Sunny turns towards Roberta and kisses her forehead "I need you to go back into that dressing room and wait there, okay?" she demanded "Don't do anything crazy" Roberta says with a pleading concern in her voice "It's going to be okay...we're just going too talk, like civilized people" she quickly hugs her. Roberta turns around and heads back too the dressing room.

"Hey, is everythin' alright?" Geraldine asked as she approaches Sunny "Follow me" she coldly ordered "What?" Geraldine questioned her; Sunny turned around and faces Geraldine, her eyes showed the amount of anger that resided in her. "Shut your fucking mouth and follow me..." she said in a low and angry tone "A-Alright, just chill okay...?" Geraldine put her hands up trying too be friendly. Sunny proceeds down the corridor with Geraldine in tow.

If anybody could have seen Sunny, they would have figuratively seen steam coming out of her ears. What Roberta told her about what Tully did to her earlier in the day not only crossed the line but pushed her in a certain way that no one should ever push her.

Roberta was going to Tully's office to discuss her paycheck. The last several time's she's gotten it, it was always quite small; he always made the excuse that she and everybody else in the place wasn't working hard enough. Which was never true as their were always customers going in and out of the place.

She opens the door "Tully? Can I talk to you for a minute?" she asked "Sure, come in" he said. Roberta sits in the chair in front of his desk "What can I do for you?" "It's about my checks, they're something wrong with them" Roberta looks at him "They were small every time I would get them" "About that..." he take's a quick breath of air "Money's a bit tight right now, so if you want some money you're going to have too pull a couple of extra shifts", Roberta's jaw almost dropped to the ground. "What do you mean pull some extra shifts? I can't do that, I got a life at home" she complained "That's right, you got a girlfriend at home; how is that by the way?" the way Tully asked made her skin crawl.

"I don't want to talk about that..." she suddenly felt uncomfortable so she got up from the seat and decided to leave. As Roberta went to the door Tully grabbed her arm and put her against the wall "What are you-?!" Roberta suddenly became scared, his face now an inch from her's "I always liked you, I wondered what it would be like if you weren't with that girlfriend of your's?" he gave that creepy smile of his "How about a kiss just between us friends? It'll be just between you and me" Tully's breath stank as he tried to plant one on her, she quickly turns her head away to avoid his kiss.

With his hand he turns her head towards his "Still playing hard to get, huh?" he chuckled "Come on, I don't think your girlfriend will mind" he tries one more time, this time Roberta resists and slaps him across the face, he finally let's go and she runs out of the office.

Sunny is somebody nobody want's too anger, her breathing becomes more heavy; she was in search and destroy mode, nothing was going to stop her. She finally reaches the scumbag's office, Geraldine kept looking at her, she see's that she's a totally different person from before. She clenches her fist, that anger of her's is about to be unleashed.

The door is busted open; Tully jumps from his seat as a very angry Korean woman comes through the door way. "Dang-I bil-eo meog-eul byeontae! (You fucking pervert!)" she seethed "What?" he of course wasn't familiar with her language "You dirty fucking animal!" Sunny growled "You-You hit on my girlfriend and you tried to stick your dirty fucking tongue down her throat!" she starts too approach his desk "Whoa, l didn't mean anything by it; I was just screwing around, that's all" he pleads "You no good dirty ass fuck!" Sunny yelled as she grabbed a crystal ball and hurls at Tully; he ducks down and run's out the door. "Security!" he screamed, a security guard comes to see what the commotion was all about, "Stop her!" he ordered; the guard see's Sunny, the look of anger on her face made him think twice and he runs away.

Tully runs himself with Sunny and Geraldine in pursuit.

He runs into the parking lot. Frantically he take's out the keys to his Rapid GT and enters. As he buckles his seat belt a switch blade goes half through the windshield.

Sunny runs on top of the hood and with ease pulls out the blade; she starts stomping on the windshield, while she looked skinny Sunny was rather strong as she manages to crack the glass. Tully manages to start the car and backs out, Sunny loses her balance and falls off. Geraldine makes it out as Tully races out of the parking lot. Sunny manages to get up, she looks around and see's a black Phantom rig in the lot. She runs to the rig "You!" she yells at the driver about to enter the rig "Give me the keys right now!" the driver tosses the keys to the angry woman. "Sunny, girl, calm down!" Geraldine insisted "Shut your fucking mouth and get in the damn truck!" she roared "Okay! Okay!" Geraldine pleads as she went to the other side.

Sunny starts the rig, the thing is big but if pushed hard enough it could go rather fast. She rolls out of the lot intent on doing some serious harm to the scum that hurt the love of her life.

Geraldine looks over at Sunny, she was a totally different person; she looked like a wild animal whose territory had been violated.

The rig barrels through traffic, Geraldine spots something in the distance "Hey, is that him?" she pointed out, Sunny see's the Rapid and accelerates. The Phantom tears through cars, Tully see's the rig and speeds off. Sunny and Geraldine follow him onto the freeway. Car after car is smashed out of the way as the rig catches up to it's target "Sunny! Calm down! You're gonna get us killed!" Geraldine again pleads "Calm down? How would you feel if this asshole tried to do what he did too my girlfriend too you or your friend? How would you feel if he tried to stick his dirty tongue down your throat?!" she breathed heavily through her teeth "Okay, I see your point but we're just gonna chase him and then kick his ass, right?" "Oh I'll do more than that!" Sunny threatened as she hits the gas.

The Phantom rams the back of the Rapid, Tully get's a look at the driver; he starts too panic and he may have just soiled himself. Another ramming to the back sends him into another panic, realizing that this woman won't stop until he's nothing but a greasy stain on the road. Sunny shifts the gears and rams the car one more time, Tully hit's the brakes and tries to stop the rig; he forgets that this thing is bigger than his car and it likely wouldn't do him any good anyways. The tires of the car screech then pop, it turned sideways and sparks were flying everywhere. "Listen! I'm sorry! I was just joking around!" he yells "Please, I swear I will never hit on another ever again!" he pathetically pleads, Sunny either is unable to hear him or doesn't care. The rig keeps pushing the car until they get near the cliffs.

Geraldine suddenly felt the gears shift "Girl, what are you doin'?" she looked at her "What do you think? I'm going to push him off the edge!" a sadistic smile suddenly appeared on her face "Look, man, you made your point! Just let this motherfucker go!" "And then what? He'll just go off somewhere and harass some other girl; no way! This ends right here, right now!".

The rig keeps on pushing until it suddenly screeches to a halt. Geraldine managed to push the brakes just in time to stop. "What the hell are you doing?!" Sunny questioned Geraldine "Look" she simply pointed, Sunny turns her attention too the Rapid scraping against the pavement until it crashes through the barricade and hangs off the edge. Tully finally get's up, relieved that he's survived the ordeal. But he now see's where he's hanging from "Oh god..." he unbuckles his seat belt and slowly but carefully attempts to crawl out. As he make's it to the backseat, he turns around and notices that a seagull has landed on the hood of his car "Oh god no...". It stands there for several seconds until it flies off. That little push just sealed his fate. The car starts too lose it's balance as it falls down towards the rocks "Oh gooooood!" he screamed as the vehicle slams down against the rocks.

Sunny and Geraldine race towards the edge "Shit, you think he made it out?" Geraldine wondered, just then smoke comes from the gas tank and then a small fire. Boom! What's left of the car and the scum is now burning "Never mind" Geraldine quipped as she looked at Sunny, she managed to go back too her normal self "What?" she suddenly questioned "Remind me to never, ever, ever, ever piss you off again" she turned around and heads back to the rig. Sunny follows Geraldine back, she done with any excitement for the day.

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They manage to ditch the rig and catch a cab.

The whole time they were riding back home Sunny was quiet and didn't say a thing.

The cab drops them off at Sunny's apartment.

"Sunny" Geraldine manages call her name "What?" she looked back "You alright? Damn, man, I never seen you act that crazy before", Sunny simply stare's at her "Is this about what happened on the road?" Geraldine scoffs "Yeah but you acted crazy, shit, you could have gotten us killed"; Sunny sighs and approaches her apprentice. "Look, what I did to that fucker is because he tried too stick his tongue down my girlfriend's throat; what would you do?" she asked, Geraldine stood there speechless "That's what I thought...".

With a quick sigh Sunny put's her hands on her shoulders "Either you're going to stand there and take crap or you're going to fight back and kick some ass", Geraldine exhaled "Guess you got a point, just promise me that you're never gonna try something like that again" Sunny rolled her eyes "I promise".

As they're about to enter the complex a black Radius escorted by two Intruders pulls up in front of them. They looked on as group of armed men got out and surrounded them, the driver goes to the side door and opens it. A bald headed man dressed in a black suit with a grayish looking mustache and goatee steps out. He marches towards Sunny "Toi (You)" he pointed too Sunny, she herself was perplexed by the language; it sounded like French. Judging by the way the man looked, he may have been from France. "Do you know who I am?" he suddenly spoke English, Sunny nodded no "My name is Paul Dericourt and I believe that you owe me some money".

Sunny and Geraldine looked at each in confusion "I don't remember ever borrowing money from you" Sunny retorted "On the contrary, Tully the man that you just chased and killed had a debt that hadn't been paid off for some time" Dericourt said as he looked the two women "And now that he's dead I can't collect money from a dead man, can I?" he slowly approaches Sunny "Which leaves you and your friend in quite the predicament...you're going to have too pay off the last of his debt", Sunny chuckles "You're joking right?" "Does it look like I am joking too you?" he gave her a serious look. "Look, I work for a certain person in Little Seoul; he wouldn't like it if you threatened me" she shot back at Dericourt "Yes I know, monsieur Park".

Sunny was surprised to hear that he knew about Park "If you're wondering on we know each other, we do business together. You're one of his favorite workers, all he does is talk about you" he says with some enthusiasm "Fuck me" she cursed under her breath "I wonder what would happen if I told monsieur Park what his employee did?" he threatened "No, no, look how much did that asshole owe you?" Dericourt pulls out a notepad and scribbles the number down, he shows it to Sunny and Geraldine; their eyes widened when they see the number. "$1.2 million! Are you fucking serious?" Sunny looked back at him "I am serious and you two will pay me" he sounded threatening again "And what if I don't pay you back?", a fist suddenly strikes Sunny in the stomach. She falls to the ground and coughs as the wind has been knocked out of her, Dericourt kneels down towards her "I didn't want to do that, but let me tell you this, if you don't pay me then you're going to force me too make an example out of you and you're friend" he explained "I would hate for your people to find you and your friend in some dirty alley".

He got back up as Geraldine helped Sunny up too her feet "I normally give people forty eight hours to pay me back but since I do business monsieur Park I'll give you a few weeks too get the money" Geraldine and Sunny look on Dericourt walked back to the Intruder "Oh, and, don't worry about this little deal of ours is between you, me and your friend" he said as entered the vehicle and left with his entourage.

After Dericourt left Sunny and Geraldine now had a problem that they knew would get them killed. A another debt that Sunny was going to have pay off and this just hit close to home; things just went from bad to worse too just plain screwed up.

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