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The guards quickly rush to the scene, surrounding Logan and Lucas who had disguised themselves as chefs. Lucas looks around with his face betraying a bit of worry and then glances back at Logan, as if trying to communicate telepathically to him about how bad a situation they had put themselves.
"You see just how dumb you are?" Chanel asks Logan, "You could have just gone home. Why would you want to lose to the same twice in a row?" She asks.
Logan simply remains quiet as he stares at her, half surprised and half disappointed in her. "I went to jail just because I protected you and I did it gladly too" he says. "I lost my company because trying to protect you. And the best way you could repay all that is to get married to the same person I was protecting you from?" He asks.
"How is it my fault your life turned out so terrible?" She asks with a shrug, looking at Sebastian for validation, "Nobody boards a sinking ship Logan. So get out of your feelings and get your shit together. I've moved on Lolo and I've found someone better" she says with a smile as he hugs her soon-to-be husband, "I'm sure you will too, if you look hard enough. I mean, there's gotta be someone better than me out there. Right baby?" She asks Sebastian, who stalls for a while, looking up at the ceiling as if trying to think.
"Nah, I highly doubt it" he replies
"Hmph!" She sighed feigning a bit of sadness, " I guess you're right baby. There is no one better than me" she says at which point they both break out into laughter.
"What a bitch" Lucas thinks as he glares at the couple.
Logan tries hard to keep his cool, but how can he?
His emotions are welling up inside him. "He'll pop at this rate" Lucas thinks.
"You were right Lucas" Logan finally breaks his silence, startling Lucas a little bit.
"Uhh I was?" He responds, not knowing what to say.
"I should have just moved on. What was I thinking?" He asks Lucas with a smile, "Love? That shit don't exist." He mutters as he stares at the shiny marble floors smiling. "You hear that everyone?! There ain't no such thing as love!" He yells at the crowd as he turns around, looking at them.
"And as for you...." He says to Chanel, "You're piece of shit. Hell, you're worse than shit. You're nothing more than a golddigging whore!" He yells, his index finger pointing at her.
"Hey, don't you dare talk to my wife that way!" Sebastian yells at him.
"Fuck you" Logan cusses at him, looking at him condescendingly.
"What are you.....? Guards! Get these charlatans!" Sebastian orders.
"Ah man, we're so fucked" Lucas whispers to Logan. Logan however, is unfazed. He stares at the approaching security guards calmly.
"Stay back man" Logan says to Lucas.
"What in the world is he thinking?" Lucas thinks as he stares at Logan who has already taken up a fighting stance.
The bodyguards launch themselves at him, and in a matter of seconds, he had disarmed the whole lot of them!
Chanel stares in shock, her jaw almost dropping.
"He was never even the fighting type" she reckons in her mind as she tries to take a walk down memory lane, recalling in her head all the times he had been beaten up while trying to protect her. It was what even attracted her to him in the first place!
Panting heavily, Logan glances around to see if there are any guards left. Lucas is stunned and so are the spectators whose faces betray their surprise at the unexpected outcome.
"I see you got some fighting lessons in jail" Sebastian comments, totally unimpressed by the performance. "Well I would like to be civil and simply get you arrested again for this, but I see prison has taught you nothing." He says.
"I'd like to wipe that smug look off your face if you don't mind" Logan says as he ripped off the white chef uniform he was wearing, exposing his perfectly toned body with a Chinese inscription tattooed vertically down his belly.
"Pfft" Sebastian scoffs, looking at Logan with disdain evident on his face, "Well unfortunately, I can't reduce myself so much as to get into a fight with you. I'll have my boys take care of you" he says.
"In case you didn't notice bonehead, your boys are still on the floor" Logan responds, pointing at them.
"Oh those aren't my boys" he responds with a smirk on his face as he picks puts his phone to his ear............
Local Mexican bar filled with big tattooed jocks shouting as they place their bets, drink huge glasses of ale or play pool. The bar is a bit foggy, filled with the smoke of reefers and blunts of all kinds. At the corner, where the betting table is located, a huge bearded jock with an unbuttoned sleeveless grey denim jacket sits, staring intensely at his cards and glancing at the opponents at the table. Beside him is a sexy brunette Latina with a purple crop top, exposing most of her cleavage, and a pair of blue mini-shorts. She's got a heart tattoo on her right shoulder wrapped with a black crown of thorns.
"Bam! I win" he yells as he displays his cards on the table followed by a hearty laughter. "So all of you, pay up" he orders as he beckons with his fingers rubbing each other. With muffled murmurs and grumbles, they all placed their money on the table and he rakes them in. "Well, that was a nice game now, wasn't it?" He asks, to which he gets no reply except the resentful eyes of the players. Suddenly.......
"Buzzz! Buzzz!" His phone rings. It's with the girl standing beside him.
"Who the hell is that Carmen?" He asks as he puffs his blunt and counts his money meticulously, not even so much as glancing in her direction.
"It's Sebastian, Papi" she responds as she hands the phone over to him. He picks up.
"Hey Sebraschan, what's good mi amigo?" He greets as he picks up.
"It's Sebastian dammit" the voice retorts.
"But I prefer Sebraschan, muchacho" he teases.
"Why you..... Hwweeww...I'm not gonna fight about this now. Anyway, I want you to come over and fuck one little muchacho here up" the voice says.
"Then you called the right number. I'll be there in five" he says just before cutting the call.
"Okay boys, we've got business to attend to" he announces as he gets to his feet and tosses his blunt on the floor, snuffing it out with the hard sole of his leather boot.
*** Back at the wedding venue ***
"Oh now, you're fucked" Sebastian says with a confident smirk as he puts his phone back in his pocket.
"What? You think another set of weak-ass kids like these" Logan says, pointing at the bodyguards laying on the floor, "are gonna pose any threat to me? Pfft!" He scoffs.
"Oh we'll see just how weak they are" he says with a smirk on his face.
"Well I ain't waiting around to find out" Logan says as he walks up to him and lands a direct jab on his face, causing him to stagger backwards. He glares at Logan and touches his nose only to feel the warm fluidity of blood. "What happened? You don't seem to have much to say anymore" Logan teases.
"Get away from him!" Chanel yells at him, stomping her heels on the floor in a tantrum-like manner. A smirk etches up on his face as he turns to look her in the eye.
"Oh, so you're worried about him?" He asks sarcastically, "Geez that hurts"
"How dare you raise your....... urrghh!" Sebastian falls on the floor as he receives an uppercut from Logan.
Lucas by the way, isn't comfortable with what's going on. "There's too many people watching" he thinks. It's all the more severe since Logan just got out of jail a couple of minutes ago! Walking up behind him, Lucas whispers, "We gotta get the hell outta here. What if the cops show up?"
Logan thinks about it but is more interested in getting his revenge than escaping the cops.
Just then, the doors swing open and a group of bearded men with predominantly leather outfits, walk in. It's obvious they are a gang from their matching appearance and their intimidating aura.
"Oh you guys are toast now" Sebastian says as he manages to get up to his feet. Sebastian's eyes lock on to the gang leader.
"That's him over there!" Sebastian yells as his finger points at Logan. Immediately, Lucas and Logan are surrounded, circled around like they were in a shark tank.
"Hey fry, whatchu doing messing with my homeboy?" The gang leader asks as he struts to the centre of the circle. Logan shows no signs of intimidation, though he already realizes that he's in a world of shit.
"Oh you know that motherfucker?" Logan asks him, pointing backwards at Sebastian with his thumb, "I'm sorry but I'm gonna have to fuck you up too if you try to intervene" he threatens.
"You? Fuck me up?" The kingpin laughed.
"Boys? Teach this man some respect" he orders and immediately, the members begin to close in on the kill. Logan accepting his fate but refusing to back down without a fight, takes up a fighting stance with his clenched fists in an attack position.
"Hold up boys!" The gang leader orders as he stops and stares at the ring on Logan's finger, "Get back" he mutters. His gang members stop to hear him,
"But boss?"
"Get back now!" He ordered them.
Logan and Lucas glance at each other, and back at them.
What could have made him so scared?