“It’s cool,” Diamond replied, placing her plastic bag on the ground.
“I know it’s cool, matter of fact, fuck that, I wanna fight,” Pooh backed up to the street as the crowd followed.
As soon as Diamond stepped into the street, Pooh swung fast and connected to Diamond’s jaw. The crowd was shocked and in an uproar while Farrah cheered from the sideline. She swung a second time, but Diamond was fast, too fast. One duck, followed by a jab and a hook, Pooh hit the pavement so hard, it felt like the ground shook.
“Damnnnnn!” some boy yelled from the crowd while jumping up and down.
Never had anyone seen a girl get put to sleep, but Pooh was snoring and Farrah was running. Her heart was beating out of her chest as she ran to her car and hopped inside. Diamond didn’t chase her, but the crowd did, they laughed and banged on her car. Embarrassed was an understatement, Farrah was humiliated.
Word traveled fast, by the time Farrah blinked, Stone’s Jeep turned the corner, right behind it was a steel-gray Charger, her father’s Charger. It wasn’t until she saw Ace and Stone exit their cars did she get out of hers. Pooh sat on the curb with her mouth leaking blood.
“Why you over there and your sister is over here?” Ace asked as Farrah stood there on the verge of tears.
“Because she ran,” Cam spoke up as she cut her eyes at him.
Diamond stood right there by herself, “What’s up, Farrah?” she finally spoke, not caring that Ace was right there. Most people feared her father, but Diamond didn’t, and it showed.
“Girl, I’m not fighting you!”
“Yes, the fuck you is,” Ace spoke to his daughter as fear once again covered Farrah’s face.
Diamond was ready, but Farrah backed away; she didn’t want to fight and lose in front of everybody, but she knew it was the only way to halfway redeem herself for running off and leaving her sister. Pooh finally stood up, her once white shirt was covered in drips of blood like it was part of the shirt’s design.
“Run it back!” Pooh demanded, getting her second wind. Farrah was glad she stepped up, but when she saw Kayla and Diamond’s father turning the corner, she knew shit was about to get real.
“Bet.” Diamond stepped back into the street.
“What’s up? What we doing?” Kayla asked, stepping into the street with Diamond.
“Farrah and her sister wanted to fight, so we fighting.”
“Cool, let’s do it,” Kayla got in her stance and was ready.
Their father didn’t say a word, he kept his eyes on his daughters.
Pooh had the heart of a lion because win, lose, or draw, she was ready to do it again while Farrah wanted to call the policeon everybody. She was from the hood, but she wasn’t with the fighting shit.
Farrah stood there watching Diamond work her sister out for the second time until she felt stinging in her jaw.
“Don’t just stand there, get in the field,” Kayla demanded before slapping her again with an open hand. Farrah grabbed her face and tried to dodge the next swing, but she couldn’t, she had no choice but to fight. She started swinging in a windmill motion and hit nothing but air as Kayla caught every opening that led to her face.
“Man, break that shit up, these girls ain’t got no win,” Stone said as Ace went to pull them apart.
“Don’t touch my daughters, they wanted to fight, right?” Rich finally spoke as Ace gave him a stale look.
“Bro, call yo daughters off,” Ace shot back in a threatening tone.
“Or what, nigga?”
Once they heard their fathers’ voices, all the girls stopped, especially when Ace walked toward Rich. Farrah’s face was hurting, and her heart was in her ass.
“You better call them bitches off!” Ace yelled as the crowd fell silent, too silent, it felt unsafe.
Rich moved before anyone even registered it. Farrah’s heart broke in half when she saw her father, her hero, the toughest man she knew, face hit the ground. She screamed when he didn’t move, Stone’s face twisted with fury as he made the crowd move. She ran over to her father as Rich stepped over him like he wasn’t there and his girls followed.
“Just like that, Rich?” Stone finally spoke as Cam stood next to his father.
“I warned that nigga years ago, don’t get in my face unless you wanna feel it. Take it how you want to, I’m right here.”
