Page 11 of Adonis Gates
“Check him out,” he chuckled, glancing back at the men behind him then turning his attention back to Adonis. “You willing to get yo’ ass beat just to impress my girl.”
He could act as tough as he wanted to, but he made sure not to call me out of my name. He knew as well as I did that Adonis would make good on his promise. Even knowing that though, Derrick looked like he wanted to try to prove a point, so I stepped around Adonis and grabbed Derrick’s arm before things went south.
“Let’s just go.”
“Yeah, nigga, you better listen.” Adonis taunted. “Go before you get embarrassed in front ofyo’ girl.”
“Adonis, stop.” I frowned then tugged Derrick’s arm. “Come on, baby.”
He resisted for a second before finally giving in and allowing me to pull him away.
“Fuck you doin’ over there in that nigga’s face?” he barked, stopping me once we were in the section. I was heading back to where my sister and Camara were, but he had other plans.
“I wasn’t in his face!” I shouted. “I accidentally bumped into him on the way out of the restroom!”
“You should’ve brought your ass back with your sister and them!” he countered. “Stupid ass. Let’s go.” He gripped myforearm and started to pull me back toward the stairs that led to the section. I was trying to pull away, but he had a vice grip on me.
“Let go of me, Derrick! You’re hurting me!”
He wasn’t trying to hear anything that I was saying, he didn’t care, because he was still pulling me despite me resisting. Geri and Camara saw what was going on and ran over. They’d cut off his path and were in a full-blown argument in the middle of the floor. Things went left quickly when he roughly shoved Geri. Before either of us could react, Adonis came out of nowhere crashing his fist into Derrick’s face.
A brawl quickly broke out because Derrick as well as Adonis’s people ran down and joined in the fight. I was both shocked and impressed to see Adonis and his people on the winning end of the fight because they were clearly outnumbered. Everyone knew that Adonis could fight, and I’d heard stories about Bayshawn, or Ziggy as everyone called him, but I’d never seen him in action. He was just as good as his friend because they were both handling multiple niggas at once.
The crowd was moving, shifting back and forth, people were screaming and falling all over the place. My sister grabbed my arm and pulled me out of the way just in time. The three of us ran toward the exit then to her car once we were outside.
“Bitch, that was wild!” Geri laughed. “I hope Don beats that nigga’s ass!”
“Bitch was!” Camara cackled. “You don’t have to hope. They were handling their asses!”
“Y’all that is not funny.” I giggled, feeling bad about being amused. Derrick was my man so I shouldn’t have been satisfied by him being hurt, but he was in the wrong pulling on me and shoving my sister.
“Fuck him, Jru,” Geri said as she pulled away. “Everyone isn’t going to accept his disrespect, and you shouldn’t either.” I sawher glance at me in the rearview mirror. “You need to leave him, sis.”
“Gerica, please.” I sighed, not wanting to hear her mouth. I was already going to have to hear Derrick’s when I got home or when he got there depending on which one of us made it first.
“I’m not going to lecture you because you already know all of this, but if he can drag you all around, shove me with no damn regard, then that says a lot about him. I hope like hell he isn’t hitting you.”
I frowned. “He’s not.”
Derrick talked a lot of shit, but he’d never hit me. He’d gotten mad enough that I thought he would, but he never put his hands on me. If he did, I was leaving. I wasn’t putting up with that.
Geri talked shit the entire ride to my house. I was glad to be out of the car once we made it because she’dsaidshe wasn’t going to lecture me, but she did exactly that the whole ride.
Once I was inside, I showered and got in bed. I wanted to get at least a little sleep because I knew that when Derrick got home, I wasn’t going to hear the end of tonight’s situation.
Chapter Five
Adonis.
“Aight, lil’ man, you up.” I waved my next customer over.
He climbed out of his chair and made his way to me. I grabbed the booster seat and put it in my chair before I helped him up. I grabbed a neck strip to tie around his neck before shaking the cape out and draping it around him.
“Aight, you ready to get right, lil’ man?” I asked as I smoothed the cape down.
He shrugged as his eyes followed what I was doing. I grabbed the first set of clippers and flicked them on. Lil’ homie flinched as soon as the buzz began, causing me to smirk. Most of my kids reactions were the same, especially on their first cut.
“Chill, lil’ homie. They don’t bite.” I assured him, gently grabbing the side of the chair to turn it, then I used two fingers to tap his chin, instructing him to lower his head some. When he did, I nodded and said, “there you go.”