Chapter 46

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A stripper named Skyy sat with Jada at a table near the main stage of Club Onyx. Jada had met Skyy at a party a few years ago and they’d both gotten drunk and spent the night together. Jada was so wasted, she’d let Skyy go down on her, but whenever the question of whether she’d been with a girl came up, she would swear to God she hadn’t but would like to one day. She had all but blocked the incident with Skyy out of her mind. Skyy was a pretty, light skinned woman with a very tiny waist and a huge ass with just a handful of tits. A tattoo of a scorpion covered her back. She was from Memphis and had been dancing at Onyx for the last six or seven years, dancing to support her son. Skyy was sipping a vodka and orange juice. “So what brings yo uppity ass in here?”

“Come on, Skyy. You know I come in here from time to time.”

“Yeah, but I ain’t seen ya in a while. What brings ya out?”

“I’m supposed to meet my girlfriend here. Girls night out, ya know?”

“You’re friend or your girlfriend?” Skyy winked.

“Now you know I don’t do girls, Skyy.”

“A little birdie told me otherwise.”

“Skyy, I was drunk. Remember? That shit won’t happen again, so quit talking about it.”

“Whatever. You know you liked it.” She simulated oral sex with the straw in the glass of vodka.

“Pretending to suck a dick does nothing for me.”

Skyy licked the straw. “Well, pretend this is your clit.”

Jada said, “Now, when my friend comes in here, please don’t bring that shit up.”

Skyy said, “Buy me another drink, and you got yourself a deal.”

Jada flagged a waitress who was wearing some fishnets and a black thong. The waitress barely looked twenty-one, had a pony-tail, and braces.

“Can you get her another drink?” asked Jada.

Skyy said, “You have to buy the drink for yourself and give it to me. Club rules.”

Jada said, “Bring me what she has.”

The juvenile-looking waitress headed to the bar for the drink just as Lani walked in and approached the table.

Jada said, “Lani, this is Skyy.”

Lani and Skyy shook hands as the juvenile dropped the drink down in front of Jada who slid the drink to Skyy. Jada gave the waitress a twenty dollar bill.

A pretty brown skinned girl walked by the table. The girl and Lani locked eyes for a long time before the girl sat on Skyy’s lap. Skyy grabbed her ass playfully and said, “This is my friend, Tika.”

Lani and Tika locked eyes again, before Lani asked, “Where do I know you from?”

“I don’t know, but you sure as hell look familiar.”

“Where you from?”

“Oakland, California, baby.”

“Oakland?”

“The Yay area. You know anything about the Yay area? Repping the 3-1-0. All day, every day.”

“Definitely not there. I’ve never been there.”

Tika said, “Maybe I saw you in the mall somewhere. You look familiar too.”

Skyy said to Tika, “Bitch, what time you get here?”

“Thirty minutes ago.” Tika stood and said, “It’s dead in here, but I gotta make my rounds. Can’t pay my bills just sitting here talking unless these girls want some dances.”

Lani was disgusted by the thought of a girl dancing for her.

Jada said, “Not right now. Actually, Skyy, I wanna talk to my girl for a few minutes alone, if you don’t mind.” She removed a fifty dollar bill from her purse and passed it to Skyy.

Skyy gulped her drink down and disappeared.

Lani was still trying to remember where’d she’d seen Tika.

Jada said, “I can’t go home. This motherfucker is going to kill me. He’s gonna fuck me up. I know it.”

“Shamari is not that fucking dumb. He ain’t gonna jeopardize his freedom by hitting you.”

Jada said, “He’s mad as fuck.”

“You don’t know what he knows.”

“You’re right. I don’t know what he knows, but the main thing is that he knows that I been fucking around with Craig.”

“How’d he find out?”

“I don’t know. I’m thinking he had a motherfucker follow me or something. I don’t know. Honestly, I don’t know what the fuck or how the fuck he got his information. All I know is that he is mad as fuck.”

“Of course he is,” Lani said. “I need a motherfuckin’ drink.”

The juvenile came back over and Lani ordered a Ciroc and coke. Jade got two shots of Patron and the juve brought them back seconds later. Lani gave her thirty dollars and she was gone.

Lani said, “Wait a minute! Am I trippin’ or does our waitress look about twelve?”

The both laugh and Jada said, “I thought the same thing.”

Jada gulped down one shot of Patron and said, “I can’t go to that goddamned house tonight.”

“Where are you going?”

“I don’t know, but I ain’t going there.”

“You can stay at my house.”

“That would be the first place he looked and the second would be my Mama’s house. I think I’m going to get a room. Maybe the Four Seasons or something.”

“So what did Craig say?”

“About what?”

“Did you tell him that Shamari found out about y’all?”

“I didn’t tell him shit. Just told him an emergency came up, and I had to go.”

“Simple as that?” Lani said as she sipped her drink.

Jada finished the second shot of Patron and the waitress bought two more.

“Slow down with that liquor.”

“I got too much shit on my mind.”

“You do that, but remember you gotta drive home.”

“I’ll be fine.”

Lani stood and said, “I have to go, but I’ll drop you off at the Four Seasons in Buckhead. You can leave your car here, and we’ll come back tomorrow.”

“No, I’m going to stay. I’ll be okay”

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