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Chapter 6: Turn The Right Corner In Los Santos
Linda's hands patted her body. Sunny is leaning against the hood of her squad car "Seriously, are you going to do this every time you see me?" she complained "Keep your mouth shut" her sister hissed, it had been a few days since the incident at the bakery and what she done to the ones responsible for the attack. The news people reported it as a gangland massacre, the gang members and the leader of the gang, were all found dead; the ones that survived said that some unknown Asian woman had done the whole thing, the look on their faces said it all. The two that started the whole thing were found and arrested; one had his nose heavily bandaged, the other had two missing teeth, a stab wound too his wrist and two gunshot wounds, one too his right foot and another around his private area. He was tight lipped, the cops asked over and over again who did this to him. From what she heard he said nothing, he just sat in his hospital room and stared blankly at the wall. It looked like he couldn't recover, mentally at least.
Linda finshes her frisk, Sunny gets up and turns toward her sister. It was routine as always, Linda would show up out of nowhere and pat her down, it didn't matter what she was doing or where she was, Linda was always there. Today is no different.
"So, what do I owe on this perculiar ocassion? Hmm?" Sunny questioned as she leans against the door of the squad car "Don't act coy with me," Linda stands in front of Sunny with her arms crossed "what happened to the two guys who assaulted Kang?" she asked with a serious look on her face "Didn't you hear what the news people said, it was some crazy gang banging lady that did the whole thing" she lied, Linda stood there expressionless but not buying into Sunny's story. She just glares at her with a not so subtle look.
"Where did you go after Kang was beaten up?" "I..." Sunny clears her thoat as best she can "I went to blow off some steam" she stood by her lie; both sisters stand apart from each other, they seem to try and read each other's minds. "And where did you go to blow off steam?" Sunny stands there, she looks down avoiding Linda's gaze "Are you not going to answer me?" she asked; Sunny sighs, trying not to lose her cool. "I went back to our old home in Strawberry..." Sunny shot a look to her sister, it was a sad look, a look that she hadn't seen in years, "Really...?" Linda questioned, their eyes met "Yeah...remember how it was then? Mommy working two jobs, her leaving us with Uncle and no money too our name...you remember that, don't you?" Sunny pondered, she's still leaning against the squad car "I never forgot where we started out...how could I forget" Linda frowned, they stare at each other, they don't say a thing.
Both just look at each other. "Are you done questioning me? Can I go?" Sunny suddenly asked "No...I have something else to ask you" Linda still had that serious look in her eyes "Are you still hanging out with Kenny?" "Oh my god, seriously" she let's out an annoyed grunt, Sunny shakes her head and tries to leave. Linda quickly blocks her path. "You didn't answer me, are you still hanging out with him?" she stands in front of Sunny, waiting for an answer; Sunny's tempted to run but what's the point? "We hang out, we play video games and drink beer" she gives her an answer that would satisfy the police officer that is her sister, "Do you want to hear how we smoked weed and played with guns? Is that what you want to hear?" Sunny sarcastically asked, Linda shoves her against the squad car "Ow! I was just playing!" she gave a half smile "Don't be stupid with me!" Linda's temper flared. So much for having a sense of humor.
Sunny starts to snicker at her sister "Stop laughing!" Linda ordered "I'm sorry, but seriously that's all we do" her snicker faded "God you're such an idiot sometimes" she grumbled "So can I go now?" she politely asked "Get out of here" the sister motioned, right as Linda is about to enter her squad car Sunny turned towards Linda "Can I ask something?" Linda's head turned to Sunny "What made you come back to Uncle's bakery?" "That's...none of your business" she quickly sneered; a small smirk appears on Sunny's face. "You still care about him, don't you?" Linda stands there not saying a thing "I knew you still had a heart, oh big sis, you're still a softie" "What did you just call me?" Linda's head slightly tilts to the right "What? Softie?" "Before that" her mood suddenly changed "Big sis" Linda slowly walked towards Sunny "Don't ever, ever call me that again...understand?" her eyes are full of that anger from before. "Why? Aren't we still sisters?" "I said don't call me that!" she yelled, Sunny stood there speechless. "You don't get to call me that anymore! Not after what you did!" Linda panted as her temper came out "What do you want me to call you then?" "It's Officer Rhee too you and everybody else, got it?" she gritted her teeth, Sunny wanted to cry and run away but she didn't have the heart to do that "F-F-Fine" she quietly stuttered, Linda turns around and goes back to her squad car; she starts it up and speeds off. Sunny stays in the same spot, she sniffles and wipes her eyes. A headache starts to form in her head, she didn't know what she just heard; her sister was good person once but now, now she wasn't that same person anymore. She was someone that she could confide in or tell a secret to, today though she's her worst enemy. It's something that didn't make sense to Sunny.
Needing something to take her mind off her sister's anger, Sunny walks around the neighborhood. She just blends into the crowd, just another somebody who has her own issues to deal with.
After an hour she stops and rest at a bus stop. Her feet ached, she's never walked that much in her life. "Get your hands off me!" a voice cried out, she gets up and quietly sneaks to the edge of the alley; Sunny peers and see's two thugs, one holding a knife and the other one holding a woman against the wall. She stealthily sneaks behind a trash can to see better, the woman struggled to break free. She was terrified. The woman looked like she was in her mid 20's; possibly around Sunny's age. She had long curly dark brown hair, which was tied into a pony tail. She also talked with an American and Hispanic accent. The woman looked like she had a combination of Mexican with some Sicilian in her.
Not wanting to see her get hurt, Sunny grabs a trash can lid. "Yo!" the thug with the knife turns his head, a lid strikes the bridge of his nose. He falls to the ground, the thug throws the woman aside; he puts up his fists, Sunny does the same. "Bring it on asshole!" she hissed, he swings but she ducks; Sunny punches him in the face, he doesn't go down. He was big but slow, the thug tries to grab her but she's too fast. She hit's him below the belt; it doesn't matter how tough someone is, if they get hit in that spot they're not getting back up. A kick to the face and he goes down. The first thug is back up, his nose isn't broken just bleeding. "You fucking bitch!" he curses as he slashes the knife at her.
Sunny get's a quick look at the knife. It wasn't like hers', the one she had was always sharp; this one was shorter and it was dull, it basically looked like an over used butter knife. She blocks the slash and twist his arm, with all her strength Sunny throws the thug against a dumpster; he grabs the edge of the dumpster and tries to get back up. Sunny slams the lid on his fingers "Oh fuck!" he screams in pain, Sunny steps on his injured fingers and looks at him "Here is how it's going too go, don't let me catch you around these parts again or next time I might do something a lot worse than injuring those fingers, got it?" she puts a lot more pressure on his fingers causing him to groan "Do you understand?" she repeated herself "Yeah, yeah! Just let me go!" he promised; she take's her foot off of his injured digits. He grabs the goon and both limp their way out, tails between their legs and all. Well that's my good deed for the day she smirked, Sunny turns attention to the woman.
"Hey, are you okay?" she asked "Yeah I'm just a bit shooken up" the woman grabs her purse "Let me help you with that" Sunny kneals in front of her and grabs some of her belongings "It's fine, I can handle it" she insisted "No really I want to help..." their eyes suddenly met "you". Her eyes were a beautiful light brown color, Sunny felt something; her heart was suddenly beating a lot more faster than usual. "Um, o-ok I guess you can help" she herself seemed starstrucked, "Here you go" Sunny carefully handed her back a make up kit, she grabs it along with Sunny's hand. They slowly get up together "Um, um, are you okay...?" she repeateded her first question "I said I'm fine" "Very fine" Sunny whisppered "What?" the woman suddenly asked "Oh, uh, it's nothing, I was just talking to myself" she gives half hearted chuckle, the woman smiled back "You can let go of my hand now" Sunny ordered "Oh, uh, sorry" she started to laugh a bit; their eyes never left each other, they seemed hesitant to take them off one another.
"Thanks for helping me out" she extened her hand out "No problem" Sunny quickly shakes her hand "What's your name?" Sunny politely asked "Fuentes, Roberta Fuentes and you are...?" "Sunny Rhee" Roberta seems charmed by the sight of Sunny. They reluctantly let their hands go "So what happened?" "I was walking to work, when those guys jumped me from behind" she started to shake "They would've killed me if you hadn't shown up" Roberta shake's her head not wanting too think about what would have happened if someone like Sunny didn't show up; she didn't want to think about it, she's safe and that's all that mattered. "Look, I got to get too work, otherwise my boss is going to get on my case" she puts her purse over shoulder "Maybe I should walk you there" Sunny insists "Oh, that's really nice of you" Roberta gave a warm smile, Sunny smiles back. "Where do you work?" she asked "Er, it's a club of sorts" Roberta faked a cough, she looked embrassed "It's not that far from here" "Let's go then, but we're going to walk on the sidewalk instead" she insisted; as they walk Sunny can't get this feeling out of her body What is this? she wondered Why do I feel so warm inside? maybe she thought that she had caught a cold but it was something that she hasn't felt in a long time.
They both walk together; the warm feeling inside of Sunny faded away, she never felt so strange in her life. The women walked in sync, they're silent and don't say a thing. Only briefly did Roberta stare up at her savior, her eyes went back quickly to the sidewalk. Sunny did the same thing, she never saw anyone that beautiful before, their was too much sun in the way but her cheeks had turned bright red. "What kind of club do you work at?" Sunny breaks the awkward silence between them "Oh, uh, well it's a bit more or less like a bar, you know kind of rowdy" Roberta gave a half hearted smile, she just looks forward and didn't seem to want too talk about more where she worked.
"There it is" she pointed, Sunny looked at where Roberta was pointing at; there stood the club she mentioned, at first Sunny thought this may have been some sort of prank that someone was playing on her, but it wasn't, and if it was she wasn't laughing.
The outside of the club was a peachish color, it was quite large from the front to the back; the one thing that Sunny seemed to pay more attention too was the name, she seen lots crazy names but this one kind of took it. 'The Last Ride' it read. Quite a name she thought. The sign of course was in pink neon, it took the shape of a woman in a sexy pose wearing a cowboy hat. Sunny looked at Roberta, a some what confused look on her face "Um, are you a dancer or do you serve drinks?" Sunny curoisly wondered "Uh, no...I'm the co-owner" she nerveously replied, Sunny tilted her with an even more confused look.
"Co-owner?" she was surprised by what Roberta just told her "I don't expect you to understand but-" "No, no, no I understand; you're trying to make living everyone else in this place" Sunny gave her an awkward but reassuring smile, Roberta blushes; both stare into each others eyes again, Sunny looks into her eyes and see's the kindness in her soul, Roberta does the same but she see's something different, sadness and maybe sorrow. She couldn't quite tell what it was exactly. "You must be tired, do you want something to drink?" she asked all of a sudden "Just a glass of water" Sunny said with a smile, Roberta leads the way to the entrance; even from afar Sunny heard the music, it was mixed with some exotic and techno too it.
The music was indeed loud; there were patrons drinking, a couple of them may have been drunk. The lights had a pinkish to reddish glow too them, giving it that mysterious glow; women scantily dressed in thongs, g-strings and high heel shoes. One is dressed in a get up similar too an anime character. Men, tweenty too fifty year olds, drooling over the women that they throw money at; the dancer's do their thing and perform on stage, dancing sexily and eroticly, the men cheer and holler, wanting an encore. A drunk comes onto the stage, he tries to grab one of the dancers but a bouncer grabs him and pulls him off the stage. The dancer just keeps dancing as if nothing had happened.
Roberta leads Sunny to the bar, she signals the bartender for a glass of water. As the bartender brings her the drink Roberta goes to an unknown man; the man looked skinny, he wore this cheesy looking seude buttoned shirt, his hair was thinning of sorts and it gave him an almost bald look. He looked like the creep that parents would warn their children about. He started to argue with Roberta; because of the loudness of the music she couldn't hear but she saw how the man scolded her, Roberta tries to put up a good defence but it doesn't work. He give's this creepy but snarky smile and runs his hand through her curly hair, if Sunny could see the look on Roberta's face it would have been a morally disgusting look. The creep leaves with that smile of his. Roberta comes back to the bar.
"Who was that?" Sunny spoke as loud she could "Tully, my boss" she replied "He's a fucking asshole for treating you like that" "You're not the first one who's told me that" Roberta put's on a brave face, but Sunny could see that she was hurting. "Listen," Roberta let's out a quick sigh "I got a ton of stuff to do, thanks for helping me" "No problem, nice meeting you" Sunny gives a quick smile, just as she is about to leave she briefly stops "Hey, do you...do you want my phone number?" she suddenly asked; Roberta looked at Sunny in amazment, how bold she thought. "You know, just in case you want to hang out or do something" Roberta starts to giggle "Sure, why not?" she grabs a pen and a napkin. Sunny writes down her number and hands it to Roberta, she waves good bye too the woman who she saved earlier in the day.
As she walks out of the strip club Sunny's mind wanders, that warm feeling from before was in her body again.
She walks down the street, a smile begins to take shape on her face; it's strange, because all Sunny can think about is Roberta. Her curly hair, that warm smile of her's and those beautiful eyes. Maybe she just needs another friend, after all who did she know other than just Kenny? Sunny keeps thinking more about her, she's in her thoughts a lot more than any other thing in her mind. It bother's her because she's thinking about her a lot. Like for instance right now.
Three days later
The smell of gun oil filled her room. She wipes the gun with the rag too make that their isn't any residue left; she injects a magazine clip into the .45, carefully she slides it back and slide's it back forward.
Sunny's phone starts to ring, the ringtone was the sound of champagne popping. She looks at the number; it was that of the strip club, she gasped wondering if it was her. She pushes the talk app "Hello?" she shakily answered "Hey, it's me..." her heart just skipped a few beats "How's it going?" "Good...uh listen, I never got a chance to repay you for saving me" "Oh, you don't need to give me money or anything" Roberta started to laugh on the other end on the line "No I mean do you want to have lunch with me?" she shyly asked "Aren't you working right now?" "I have a couple of days off, so do you want to go out with me?" a big smile forms on Sunny's face. "Yes!" Sunny excitedly screamed, "I mean" she clears her throat "yes, I'll go out with you. I mean I'll go out with you like we're friends and not like we're on a date or anything!" she nervously chuckles, she could hear Roberta laughing "I live on West Vinewood and Hawick Avenue in Burton, pick me up when you're ready" with that she hangs up on her end; "Woo!" Sunny shouts like she just won the lottery. She puts her gun in her drawer and quickly grabs a clean pair of panties and a bra, she runs to the shower.
She showers as fast as she can. Sunny almost slips out of the shower, she quickly puts on her panties and bra on. Going to her closet, she couldn't find a thing to put on. Should she wear a sunflower dress? No. Or maybe a plaid shirt and pair of khaki pants? Too simple. Sunny starts to realize that this is just a simple lunch and nothing more than that, she grabbed a pair of dark blue jeans and a black tube top; she goes back to the bathroom and combs her hair back, Sunny was tempted to put on make up but she didn't want too look silly so she decided not to put any on. She put's on her socks and shoes, running out to the living room Sunny says a quick prayer to her mother's photo, grabs her car keys and runs out of apartment.
The Tailgater speeds through traffic, passing every car on the road. Sunny almost got a speeding ticket but she manages talk her way out of it. After a while she finally arrives the apartment complex, she takes out her phone and text Roberta that she's arrived. Sunny get's out of her car and waits patiently. A couple of minutes pass by and finally she shows. Roberta's dressed in a denim skirt, a buttoned purple short sleeved blouse and wore a silver figaro necklace around her neck. They wave at each other "Hey, you look really nice" she smiled "Thanks" Roberta giggles "You look nice too" she complemented her outfit, Sunny blushes "So where do you want to go?" "I don't know, you can decide where we should eat", Sunny tries to decide. Some Italian restaurant. Too expensive. Chinese. Way too cheap. Then it finally hits her "How about The Last Train in Vinewood?" she suggested "Yeah, I heard that's a pretty good place to eat" Roberta smiles "Okay, let's go then" they both get in the speed off.
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As they arrive, Sunny's heart is starting to beat faster than usual; she tries to maintain her beat as best she can, but she's having a difficult time doing so.
The place was a red train car converted into a restaurant, they exited the car and proceeded upstairs. Both find a table and sit, a waiter comes to take their order; Sunny orders bacon cheese burger, Roberta orders a jalapeno and avocado burger. He writes all down and they sit waiting for their order. Both are quiet and don't say a thing. Sunny look's towards the window next too her and stares at the landscape, she's too shy to look at her. "So," Roberta finally breaks the silence "how have you been?" Sunny finally looks at her "Uh, pretty good; how about you?" "The same".
"How have you held up since...since those guys jumped you?" Roberta sighs, she seems still shakey about what nearly happened to her "I'm not gonna lie, those assholes could have hurt me" she closes her eyes "or worse, they would've-they would've..." her hands started to tremble, Sunny quickly grabs her hands and hold's them; Roberta immediately stops shaking. "Sorry, I shouldn't had mentioned that" she quickly apologized "No it's okay, besides you got some pretty good moves" Sunny lightly chuckles, she looks down and embarrassingly let's go of Roberta's hands, her cheeks turned red. She says her sorry, Roberta however takes one of her hands and smiles. They just stare into each others eyes. They let go as the waiter comes back with their orders. Sunny eat's her burger, Roberta does the same. A couple of minutes into it Roberta start's to cough, tears formed in her eyes, it must have been the jalapenos. Sunny let's her have some of her soda, she quickly gulps it down. She let's out a laugh. Roberta coughs and laughs herself, they let their smiles do the talking.
They finish their food. "Do you want to hang out a little more?" Sunny gives her a curious look "Yeah" Roberta sounded excited, Sunny could see the look of joy in her eyes. "How about we go to the pier?" "Sure" she smiled as they get up, Sunny pulled out a twenty and place's it on the table. The pair walk back down to the Tailgater.
Sunny speed's past the other cars. Roberta didn't seem too mind that she was driving fast, she looks over at Sunny, carefully studying her physique. The one thing that she does notice are the tattoos that cover her body, especially the green dragon covering her whole back; she thought that their may have been a story behind that design, she was tempted to ask but she didn't want to distract her from driving.
The pier was large and crowded; from beach goers too tourist, surfers and annoying hipsters that plagued the area. The women run to the carnival area. They go to the booths and play games from ring toss too skeet ball, mini basketball and tossing beanbags into a hole. The last place they play at is a dart gun range, Roberta has her eye on a small teddy bear wearing green overalls and it has single button for an eye. Roberta aims carefully and hits the first target but misses the last four; it's Sunny's turn and she's going to play too win. Holding a dart gun is a little different than holding an actual gun but it was still a gun, just a lot smaller and more flimsy. Sunny aims and squeeze's the trigger. One target down then the second target, third, fourth and finally fifth. Roberta look's on, she was completely amazed on how Sunny took down all the targets. The vendor hands Sunny the teddy bear and she hands it Roberta; she hugs the bear like the way she would hug a close friend. Sunny looks at her phone, 6:56 p.m., she decides that they should go to at least one last stop. She grab's Roberta by the hand and takes her to the edge of the pier.
The sky has turned purple as the sun starts to sets; Roberta goes to get coffee, while Sunny waits near the railing. She stares at the horizon, it's beauty is one of the most captivating things that she had ever seen. Sunny's thoughts begin coming to her, spending time with Roberta made her feel alive and she felt like a normal person. She wasn't the criminal or some punk using her, she was treated kindly and with respect. Their was something that was nagging at her though; Sunny begins to wonder what if Roberta was the one? That special someone that she could build a life with? Maybe she could build life with her, but what about her line of work? The last thing she wanted was for her to get hurt or worse. Sunny shake's her head, no she thought, they're spending time together and she's having a good time. That's what really counts.
Roberta come's back with two cups of coffee. As Sunny begin's to drink her coffee Roberta look's over too her "So tell me something about yourself", Sunny looked at her in confusion "What do you mean?" "I mean tell what me something that I don't know about you" she smiles "How about you tell me about yourself first and then I'll you something about myself" Sunny gives this funny looking smirk. "Well, I like scary movies, I'm a pretty good dancer, I like dogs and I don't judge people for who they are" Sunny takes a gulp of coffee "What did you do before you worked in that club?" she asked, Roberta looked down at the water surrounding the pier "I...I worked in movies for a while" she carefully sipped her coffee, "What kind of movies?" "If I tell you, promise me you won't freak out?" Sunny looked at her inquisitively "I sort of promise I won't freak out" she slightly laughs.
With an exhale and quick sip of coffee "They were films that were rated after a letter that came after the letter W" Sunny raised an eyebrow "What do you mean by what comes after W? What comes after W is X...oh" she finally get's it, "You did those type of-" "Yeah..." Roberta stopped her before she went any further. "Did you...get paid a lot of money?" she curiously asked "Yes I did but I stopped after a few years"; she finishes the last of her coffee, Roberta never liked taking about she used to do, people were always so judgmental. "Well, you did what you have to do too survive; so I'm not going to, you know, tell you what you did was bad" Sunny said, Roberta looked on with surprise. "But there's something that I want to know?" "Yeah?" she looked at her curiously "How did you wind up running that place?" Sunny drinks the last bit of coffee and tosses the cup aside.
"That place needed some help, so I went there and helped around," she frowns "everything was going so well that I stayed and became the co-owner" she let's out this tired sigh "But things started to go a little down hill" "Let me guess, your boss?" Sunny said with a concerned look "Mm-hmm; he makes these stupid dirty jokes, he hits on me, I get paid crap and he...I'm not going to say what he does to me but he's a dirty fucking pig". A sad look appears on her face "If you hate it so much, why do you stay?" Sunny stares at her "I stay because I care about the girls working in that place" Roberta looks back at Sunny, she tries not too look sad "Tully's a pig, yeah, but if I wasn't there he would do whatever he want's too them; I care too much about them to let anything bad happen too them" without hesitation Sunny softly holds one of Roberta's hand. She's never met anyone that caring before "That's really nice of you", they look into each other's eyes again. She can see the kindness in her heart.
"What would you do if you weren't working in that place?" a smile appeared on Roberta's face "Don't laugh, okay?" "I promise I won't laugh" Sunny jokingly puts up one of her hands "Scouts honor" "O.k., I wanna open my own nightclub".
A surprised expression is on Sunny's face. "Why a nightclub?" she smiles "Before I worked in movies, I used to go out and party in those types of places" her smile lightens up her mood "I loved the music, the food, the drinks of course but I liked it when people could be themselves and not worry what others have to think about them", Sunny could see the twinkle in her eyes; it was that type of drive that she always admired in people. "That's a worthy goal, maybe one day that's gonna happen". They both just smile, that warm feeling from before returned and it was stronger this time.
"Now it's your turn" "Oh boy..." Sunny sharply exhaled, she struggles to come up with anything decent "Their's nothing really special about me," she said "I'm a complex person; I like fine things, I'm a good judge of character, I don't like it when someone makes somebody else feel bad, I'm a pretty strong person but I've had it rough since I was eight and since I was thirteen" Roberta stares at her; she could see the heartbreak in her eyes. Sunny leans against the railing, she never liked thinking about those peculiar moments.
"What do you mean by you had it rough?" Sunny let's go of her hand. "I...I ran with a gang when I was eight" Roberta was in shock when she told her this "I got into trouble with the police lots of times," she inhales "long story short, when I was thirteen I did something that landed me in juvie and...I just been trying to piece everything back together, you know make everything right again" Sunny stares at the horizon, how much she wished she could take all those bad things back. "What did you do?" she tilted her "I beat up a rival from another gang, that was the thing that landed me in detention but it was the thing that I did before that..." she choked on some of her words "it caused me a lot of pain" Sunny felt like she swallowed glass, Roberta could see the pain on her face. "I rather not talk about that, okay?", Roberta put's her hand on her shoulder. "Let's just talk about something else".
"Do you have anyone? Family or friends?" Sunny chuckles "I have my friend, Kenny, he's the only friend I've ever had. Family is kinda of there" she frowns "I have my Uncle, who's really my godfather but I treat him like an uncle; their's my mother..." her mood saddened again "she passed away at end of my first month in juvie" "I'm-I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked you that" she quickly apologized "It's o.k., I gotten used too it" she looks at Roberta, Sunny puts on smile to reassure her that everything's fine. "Then there's my sister, Linda; we're not close as we used too be" "Why?" Roberta wondered. Sunny struggles to say something good about her big sister What do you want me to say? My sister hate's my guts? That she hasn't forgiven me for what I did to save our family? "We been apart for too long, so we're not talking to each other, plus she's a cop now" Roberta laughs a bit "That's pretty rough".
"I like your tattoo's" she complemented "Thanks" "Do they have some meaning too them?" Sunny laughs. "Yeah they do". "What do those star mean?" she points to the black stars on her left arm "It's a gang tattoo, I got that when I was twelve" "When you were twelve? Did your mom and sister freak out when they saw it?" Sunny laughs a lot harder "Yeah, they never quite got over it". She puts her right leg on the railing and lifts up her pant leg, a red starfish on her lower leg "I got this the year before" "What does the one on your lower arm mean?" "Yeong-gwang, it's Korean for honor" Sunny lifts her shirt up and another Korean tattoo is on her stomach "What does that one mean?" "Hangug-eo jabusim" Roberta looked at Sunny with a confused smile "I don't speak Korean" "Korean Pride". Roberta notices the name above her right breast, 'Young Shin Rhee' it read, "Whose name is that?" Sunny sighs "That's...my mothers name, I got that when I turned sixteen". There was the last one on her back "What about the dragon on your back?".
Sunny hesitated to say anything about the dragon. "That-That one is something I'm not actually proud of getting..." she just stares down at the boardwalk "I got this when I was thirteen, that's all you need to know" Roberta hold's one her hands "I'm sorry" she said "I didn't mean to make you feel uncomfortable" "It's alright, I'm not mad at you or anything" her face has a smile again. "It's getting late, I should take you home" "Yeah I would like that" the two go back to the Tailgater, hand in hand; they don't let go. Sunny drives back to Roberta's apartment, they're both silent and don't say a thing.
They arrive. Sunny walks Roberta back to her apartment; the two stroll through the complex. They're finally at her door. "So did you enjoy yourself?" "Yeah!" she excitedly exclaimed "Thank's for winning the bear for me" she held up the teddy bear and hugged it. There's this funny silence between them. "Do you want to come in?" Roberta asked all of a sudden, "S-S-Sure" Sunny stuttered. Roberta giggled at her. Her apartment looked a lot more cleaner than Sunny's. Some expensive looking furniture decorates her kitchen and living room. Roberta puts the bear on the sofa and turns towards Sunny "I know I said it before, thanks for saving my life" Sunny blushes and smiles coyly "No problem". They stand a couple of inches apart from each other, "I don't think I ever met anyone like you before" "Oh?" she raised an eyebrow. "You wanna know something crazy?" Sunny said with a tense look "I don't why but I l-l-l-l" she struggles to say the word, Roberta giggles a little more "like you more than just a friend".
"But" she breathes a hard sigh "I don't want to see you get hurt". Roberta slowly and carefully wraps her arms around Sunny, she was shocked when she embraced her. A confused look is on Sunny's face "Why...?" Roberta pulls back from the embrace and looks into her eyes "Because, what if...I felt the same way about you, the same way you felt about me?" they continue staring into each other's eyes. "I d-don't-" Roberta softly puts a finger on Sunny's lips and shushes her "I want to be with you" she boldly stated; Sunny returns with an embrace of her own, she doesn't want to let go. Her heart beats with a yearning. "Sunny?" she quietly whispered "Yeah?" "Do you speak any other languages?" Sunny chuckles "I speak Cantonese and a little bit of Spanish"; she let's go of their embrace. "Tu hablas espanol? (You speak Spanish?)" Roberta suddemly spoke in another language "Solo un poco (Just a little bit)" Sunny smirked, "Oh? Entiendes esto? (Do you understand this?)" Roberta smirks back at Sunny "Calla y besame (Shut up and kiss me)".
Sunny carefully leans forward and softly kisses Roberta's forehead, their lips finally meet. It was soft at first; she slowly put her against the wall, their hands get to know their bodies. They break off the kiss. Roberta take's Sunny by her hand and leads her to the bedroom. They nestle down on the bed and continue their kissing, Sunny slowly starts to unbutton Roberta's blouse; she kisses the nape of her neck, she let's out this blissful moan. "You're so fucking perfect..." Sunny whispered as she starts to kiss her stomach. "Sunny...hazme el amor (make love to me)". They're under the sheets, twisting and turning; for the first time Sunny felt loved, all of her loneliness and sadness washed away. As she lay on top of her, Sunny looks into Roberta's eyes, "I love you" she whispered, Roberta warmly smiles and strokes her face "I love you too". She pulls her back down and they kiss again. Somewhere in the dark their hands find each other, they clasp and don't let go.
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She runs through the darkness, trying to find a way out. She keeps running and running; the darkness seems too go on forever. Voices start to eerily whisper, all of them very familiar to her. "Why are you doing this? This is something you shouldn't do" "You're going to get yourself killed! Is that what you want?" she runs faster "I'm doing this for us! I'm doing this so mommy doesn't have to pay that guy!" her heart beats to the point of exploding. The voices intensify "What did you do? Tell me what did you do?!" "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Just let me explain!" they don't stop; a light finally appears at the end, she runs toward's it. What she finds shocks her to the core. Two women, lying next too each other, both dead and with a single bullet wound too their foreheads. She recognizes them: they're her mother and sister. She falls to her knees and cradles them both, she sobs uncontrollably "What have I done?! Oh my god!" her cries echo through the surrounding darkness. "This can't be real! This is a dream! It has too be!" her tears fall on their faces "I'm sorry!", a shadowy figure creeps out of the darkness. She looks up, he pulls out a revolver and points it at her head. For some reason she can't move, she tries to move but can't; some unknown force is holding her down. Her eyes widen as he cocks the hammer, his finger starts to squeeze the trigger. Bang!
Sunny gasped, she looks around, she still in Roberta's room. Her head throb's, she's been having nightmares for years, it was nothing new too her. Roberta was sleeping quite soundly next too her, her back towards Sunny and her necklace flimsily sliding down her back. Just then her phone starts to vibrate, Sunny picks it up. It was Park.
"God, why now?" she groaned, she puts her shirt and panties on; she heads for the living room. She pushes the talk app "Hello?" she answered "What took you so long to answer the phone?" he grumbled "I'm sorry, I was sleeping" she gave a half hearted excuse, "Listen, I need tell you something right now" he sounded serious. "What is it?" she asked, the line is quiet for a few seconds "You done some good things for us," Sunny sits down on the couch "I'm going to give you some time off", she sat on the couch speechless. "Why are you doing this?" "I'm going out of town for some business, I don't know how long I'm going too be gone" he said, Sunny didn't know whether to celebrate or not. "If you need any work, just ask Joo Kwan" just as he is about to hang up "Before you go, I need to ask you a couple of things" Sunny tries not to sound concerned, "What is it?" he sternly asked "Are you...okay?" she said, it's quiet for a couple of seconds.
"What do you mean?" Park sounded rather offended when she asked "I mean, you seem thin; you look, I don't know, ill" "I'm fine" he quickly reiterated Go figure she told herself. "What's the second the second one?" Sunny exhales sharply "I have a friend, Kenny, and he want's to-" "No" he gives an abrupt but simple response "Before you ask, I know about your friend Kenny Tek; I don't want that dope head, scumbag, dirty miscreant near me or my people" Sunny sat there stunned, not just because Park said no, but because he knew about Kenny. Then again this was Park, what didn't he know? "But-" she stammered "I know he's you're friend but I don't like him, let alone I don't trust him" that seemed to seal the deal for Kenny's future membership. "Word to the wise, if you're smart, you're going to stay away from him, got it?" he suddenly demanded, she hesitated in giving a response. She sighs "Fine, whatever you say" "Good," he didn't seem pleased but he understood "bye", Park hangs up.
5:07 a.m. the clock read, Sunny now knows what to tell Kenny, and knowing him he's going to make a big deal out of it. She won't tell him right away, he can wait for a while. She get's up from the couch and goes back to bed. She strips off her clothes and quietly slips back into bed, gently wrapping her arms around Roberta's waist. "Who was that?" she groggily asked "It was something from work, I got some time off" Sunny said as silently as she could "Do you want spend some time with me again?" she asked "Only if it's with you" she let's out a tired chuckle "Good" Sunny held her tight, "Go back to sleep". Both women sleep, for Sunny she found someone who would love her. She found something worth protecting and she was going to defend it as much as she could.
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