Dad left the next morning, and that afternoon, Brian took Dad’s car to the grocery store. He pushed the cart with several bags to the parking lot when someone called, “Hey!”
Brian ignored it, but it came again, and a third time. As he loaded the bags into the trunk, one man came up from his left and another from the right. He assumed the worst, some attack on him for being black. He stepped back and kept his gaze on their chests to better gauge any move.
“Hey, sexy black dude.”
“Yeah, hey there. Why you ignoring us?”
Brian’s emotions jumped from fear to lust. It was the hot lifeguards. “Sorry, I was in my own head and I don’t know many people. I thought maybe it was someone about to pick on me for being black.”
The Asian guy extended his hand and they shook. “I think your being black
