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“No, I mean yes, I mean…” Tyler didn’t know what to say.
“Just shut up.”
“But…”
“And get back to work.”
“But…”
“Now!”
Sheepishly, Tyler turned and headed back to the kitchen.
“Yeah, get back to work,” mimicked Marco.
“And you,” said Cap, turning his attention to Marco. “It’s time for you to leave.”
“Leave? We just got here,” Marco said, fully embracing his smartassitude.
Cap took a step closer to Marco and stood tall, completely expanding his six foot six inch frame. Cap was big. A well muscled dude, even for a guy his age, and he wasn’t used to taking crap from anyone. Especially from some smart mouthed kid in his own place. “Now,” he said. There wasn’t even a hint of tolerance in his voice.
Marco knew Cap wasn’t kidding around and he was totally pushing his luck. “Okay, okay, I’m going,” he said. “Take it easy.”
Romeo and Ant hadn’t said another word. The gravity of what was happening in front of them weighing heavily on the possibilities in the back of both of their minds.
“This is bad, isn’t it?” she asked.
“Yep,” he said. “This is really bad.”
“That guy too,” yelled Tyler. He was standing next to the kitchen, just outside the door, pointing at Romeo. “They’re together.”
Romeo looked at Tyler and then whispered something in Ant’s ear. It was totally innocuous, sweet even, and not about Tyler at all. But Tyler lost his mind.
“What?! You got something to say?!”
Cap grabbed him as he rushed by and pushed him back toward the building. “Enough! I said get back to work!”
“But?!”
“Go!”
“Fine! I’m going.” Tyler stormed angrily back into the kitchen.
Then Cap turned to the guy standing next to his daughter. “You too son. Let’s go.”
Romeo and Ant gave each other a last look and then Romeo moved. But he didn’t just turn and walk away. Instead he walked straight up to Cap.
“I want to apologize for my friend. He was a little out of line. I wish I could say that he’s usually not really like that, but he is.” Then Romeo shrugged and turned to leave. But not before noticing Tyler who was leaning over the counter inside the restaurant, his ketchup covered head still sticking out of the order window, watching every little thing.
“Yo, you got something on your face.”
Which made Tyler pretty much go nuts. “Son of a bitch!!” he yelled. “I’ll kill you guys! All of you!” His face writhing and contorting with anger as he tried to climb up over the counter and back out the window.
Till Cap yelled at him one last time. “Enough I said! Get back to work.”
Which would have probably been the end of it if Benny hadn’t wandered out of the bathroom and smack dab into the middle of the mayhem at exactly that moment. He caught the tail end of all of Tyler’s theatrics, and all his yelling. Including the, “I’ll kill you guys!”
That last one distracted Benny just enough to trip over a busted square of sidewalk with a one inch differential. His toe clipped the edge and he stumbled right into Nikki’s lap.
