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Li glared down at her phone and chewed her lip. "Where the hell are you, Manolo?" She stood leaning against a pillar in the quad, exactly where she had arranged to meet her sister's scumbag dealer. He was twenty minutes late.
Li wore a black leather jacket that was too big for her, with the top half of a school band camp t-shirt loosely hanging over her chest. The sheer material showed off her generous tits nicely, and a pair of white suspenders rode up from her waist, bent around her tits, drawing them together, and met behind her neck. If she missed her ride to the concert because of Manolo, she was going to stab him until he said sorry. Then stab him some more.
From the air behind her, Li heard a catcall. "God DAMN, I never seen a Chinese girl with an ass looking so fine!" Li felt her cheeks flush, and very studiously did not try to cover up the jean cutoffs that hugged her butt, or the trashy white fishnets that showed off her legs.
"You're late, Manolo."
"I'm late, you're early, it's all perspective, y'know? You call me up, wanna meet, what am I supposed to think?" Manolo strode up and leaned an elbow against the pole. He looked Li up and down, inches from touching her, but never meeting her eyes. "I know you ain't buyin' my product. Dressed like that, maybe you're looking to sell some of your services?" He drifted a finger under the mangled band camp t-shirt to reveal Li's black lace bra underneath.
Li slapped him. Hard.
Manolo spun away from the blow and clapped a hand to his face. He muttered something in Tagalog and spat. "Bitch, whatever this is, it better be good." Beneath his slicked hair and his olive skin, his eyes danced with something dangerous.
"You sell to my sister."
Manolo swept his arms back in a grand gesture. "Oh, why didn't you say so? She's the Chinese girl, right? Can't hold her booze, parents are fobs, thinks she's going to Stanford?"
Li bit back something angry. "Her name is Yu."
"They're all named Yu. Or Wen, or Yi. The fuck do I care?"
"She's a little shorter than I am. She has longer hair. Her tongue is pierced, and so is her nose."
Manolo furrowed his brow for a minute, then leaned back and burst out laughing. "Oh, you've got to be kidding me." He surrendered to another fit of cruel laughter before he looked back at Li. "That bitch? With the huge tits and the-"
"I want you to leave her alone," said Li. She hoped Manolo couldn't see her hands shaking. "Stop selling to her."
Manolo had finished laughing, and regarded Li with a predatory grin. "Selling to her? I haven't sold to that chick in weeks. Where's she gonna get money for coke, huh? Working at McDonald's? She's never been straight two days in a row, that I ever seen."
"You're a fucking liar. You give her the drugs, I know you do."
"Well, yeah. But I'm not selling. I'm just keeping my girls around, you know? Your sister's a freak for blow, let me tell you. She gives better head than my cousin, and that bitch has been whoring it out for years." Manolo leaned forward. The difference in their heights meant that he was looking down at her. His eyes rested on her tits, then came back to her face. "You know, you kinda look like your sister, from this angle. Do you take it in the ass?" He settled back into that predator's grin.
Li held out a hand towards him. "That's twenty two hundred. Everything I have. You take it, and you never go near Yu again."
Manolo grabbed the money and tucked it away without looking. "Done."
Li was halfway to the parking lot before he spoke again.
"I just have to say goodbye, that's all." Manolo's voice was brimming with mirth.
Li stopped in her tracks.
Footsteps sounded from behind her, slow and leisurely. They drew closer and closer, then stopped. Li could feel Manolo's presence behind her, so close she could sense the warmth of him.
"The girl already said she'd entertain some friends of mine tonight. I can't call it off, and she wouldn't want to miss out, anyway." Manolo's lips brushed the back of her neck and she shivered. "So, after tonight, she and I are done."
"I paid you."
"That's right. And me, I always pay what I owe. For example", he said. There came a light rasping sound, like leather rubbing against itself. A moment later, two leather jacketed arms appeared over Li's shoulders. In the distance, she could see the parking lot, where her friends were waiting.