The music blasted through the doors as they entered the infamous Steps. The one place where Sara now felt at home, even under the watchful eyes of Nikki, her "arch-rival" who had tried to steal Derek from Sara even though she had tossed him back first. As they sat on one of the upper platforms, Sara bobbed her head to the beat of Ice Cube, Put Your Back Into It.
She nuzzled her lips within an inch of his ear and spoke loud enough for only him to hear "Do you remember this song?"
He smiled at her and said back "Do you remember the look on Nikki's face?"
They both broke out in fits of laughter and he slung his arm around her waist. From the corner of her eye, Sara noticed Chenille glaring at something. Sliding over on the couch to talk to her best friend, Sara craned her neck to see what Chenille was glaring at on the dance floor. Then she spotted him.
"Ya know Sara, this is why I was so disgusted with him when he asked me that. When he starter playin' with the question of marryin' my ass and then he goes out and hangs off that niggah that doesn't look older than 16!! He thinks he's so big time up there. I should get Snook to kick his ass right out of this place. Its too good for a low life of his magnitude."
Down on the dance floor Sara couldn't believe her eyes. The once, as she had thought, more sensible Kenny had his hands down the front of some girls skirt. Sara cringed in disgust and turned back to the pissed off look Chenille was shooting in his direction.
"You want Derek to kick his ass?"
A smile played across Chenille's lips as she took her eyes off Christopher's father and back at Sara.
"No hun that's all good. I'm gonna do it myself."
Chenille stood up before Sara could say anything and strutted down the winding steps towards the dance floor. Sara quickly slipped back to Derek and hissed in his ear "Watch our backs. The snake king just pissed her off and she's on the warpath. I get to play backup tonight."
Derek watched openmouthed as she turned for the stairs and hurried towards his sister. What the hell was going on here?!
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"Yo! Kenny! Sup?"
Kenny's eyes opened wide as he slowly turned to face the oh so familiar face of Chenille. He knew he was in shit, he could hear it in her voice.
"Now Chenille don't get worked up I was just.."
*WHAP*
"What the hell's up with you bitch? All I was doin' was dancin'!"
Kenny clutched his jaw where Chenille had landed a very nice right hook. But the daggers she was staring at him made him shut up the second after the words were out of his mouth.
"You cheatin' SOB I should get your ass kicked out of this place and so far out of this city that you'll be able to see China but you know what Kenny? I'm not going to because you just proposed to me two days ago and I don't really feel like explaining this to everybody again tomorrow!"
The music slowly died as Snook and everybody else turned to stare at the red faced Chenille.
"And for another thing, that thing you were dancing with is no longer in this club either. I swear Kenny if you weren't my baby's father and I needed your money that never comes, I'd kill you right here and now." She turned to the crowd around her and yelled "HERE STANDS THE MOST COWARDLY BROTHA I'VE EVER LAID EYES ON. HE'S MY BABY'S FATHER AND HE PROPOSED YESTERDAY, BUT HERE HE IS NOW, HANGIN OFF HIS GIRLS AGAIN SO I'LL TELL YA'LL WHAT. I'M GONNA REFUSE, AS ALL YOU LADIES SHOULD IN THE FUTURE."
Derek stood openmouthed down at his sister. That creep had proposed?? Why hadn't she told him?? "Uh Oh..." he thought, "I better get down there before..."
Chenille stormed out the door and when Kenny looked up, all he saw was fist. *WHAP*
He looked up from the floor holding his broken nose with blood on his hands at the only white girl ever allowed in the club. Sara stared back at him and with on sentence, said it all.
"That was for cheating on my sister."