"My brothers insisted I know how," Sunny explained with an almost shy little shrug. It had been for her own protection. No matter where she was exactly, it was dangerous to be a black girl who looked like she did without some form of defense.

"... Something soothing, I think," she mused. She wouldn't have thrown the punch if she hadn't been overwrought in the first place.

Or maybe she would have. He'd really, really deserved it.