Closer
Chapter 2 – Back to Ma's
Twenty-five-year-old Bobby entered his Ma's house in Detroit.
"Hay! Anybody's home?" It was almost midnight.
"Bobby?" Angel ran out of the kitchen, Sofi on his heels. "Bobby!"
"It's great to see you, Man!" The brothers hugged.
"You too! Jeez, we haven't seen each other in what? Three, four years?" Angel still had his hand on Bobby's shoulder.
"I think about four!" Then he turned to acknowledge Sori. "La Vida Loca."
"Bobby." She answered back sarcastically.
"Who is it?" The three of them heard Jack and next moment he was in the doorway. "Wow, Bro! Is that really you?"
"Hey, Fairy!" He the youngest Mercer a bear hug.
"I'll go cook something." Sofi said and vanished.
"Where's Ma?" Bobby asked when he and the brothers made it into the TV-room.
"Asleep." Angel chuckled. "It's almost twelve on Saturday night."
"Yeah, of course. And Sha? Where's our little girl?"
"She's working today, man. And it's your turn to get her by the way." Angel told the last bit to Jack.
"I know, I'm going in fifteen minuets."
"What?" Bobby looked around, confused. "What work? It's night. And what did you mean by 'get her'?"
"Our Sha works in a night club. And you know, bro, she's not so little now and lots of men see it, so one of us go bring her home when's her shift." Jack explained while Angel nodded.
"Sha works in a night club! What's wrong with the picture?" Bobby asked sarcastically.
"Come on, you can go with me. See where she works. I bet she'll be glad to see ya." Offered Jack.
"Go get the jacket, Cracker Boy." Bobby ordered and when Jack was gone he turned to his other brother. "Did you let this happened?"
"What could I do?" Angel shrugged. "She's a big girl now, Bobby. Plus Jack and I and Jerry are always there for her if she needs us. I love her and think she deserves that space we give her."
"You know what I think?" Bobby reloaded a gun and put it in his coat. "I think you spend too much time with Sofi."
"I think you should've showed up here a bit more for the last four years to have a word in it, bro." The black male said quietly but with the determination in his voice.
The dark expression shadowed Bobby's face but he didn't say anything for deep down inside he knew he's brother was right.
Jack showed up in the doorway (something he did occasionally that day) and Bobby followed him to the car.
Embargo, one of the biggest and most famous clubs in Detroit, was fully packed with people. Bobby and Jack entered the same moment the girls started dancing with the sticks. Brothers made their way to the bar.
"T!" Jack called for a pretty shorthaired redhead who was pouring someone a Jack Daniels. "Tess!"
"Oh, hey, Jackie, what's up?" She came up after handing the drink to a customer.
"Where's Sha?"
"It's 12:15 already. My shift for fifteen minuets. She's probably somewhere on the dance floor with Kit." Tess said, mixing B-52.
"The dance floor?" Sarcastic remark from Bobby.
"She's almost eighteen, man!" Jack took a sip of whisky.
"Ok, you go search for her there." Bobby pointed at the dancing crowd behind the bar. "I'll look here."
As Jack disappeared in the crowd Bobby started looking for Shauna. He searched through the dancing people but instead of finding Sha they stopped on a beautiful slim woman about twenty with waist-length blonde hair. As she was dancing in her short khaki skirt and black tank-top, the dragon tattoo could be seen on her lower back trailing it's way down. It seemed that almost every men's eye in the room. As she was moving her hips to the music everyone was watching her. Maybe it was just Bobby but God! he wanted her.
Then he saw some guy grab her hip while she tried to put it away. When it didn't work Bobby decided to go help her.
"Hey! The Lady doesn't seem to like your hands all around her." He said through the music, grabbing the collar of the guy's short.
"I don't see how that is your business!" He said in a bossy way.
Bobby produced a chuckle and hit the other guy right in the eye. As he was lying on the floor Bobby came up to the blonde:
"You ok?"
"Yeah…" A fragile girl said. "Thanks."
"Oh, you found her!" Jack appeared from nowhere. "Hey!"
"Hey, hon!" She hugged Jack and kissed his cheek.
"You wanna introduce us?" Bobby interrupted.
Jack gave him a funny look:
"What? It's Shauna!"
The smile faded from Bobby's face that same minuet. She was confused for some time as well:
"Bobby?"
"Hey, Shauna." He whispered after the first wave of shock vanished.
TBC