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"Ma, I want a wash, mask, treatment, and you to do a silk press when I take this wig off." I spoke on the phone with my mommy as I wiped down my massage table

After every appointment, I made sure to disinfect for everyone's health, mine especially

"Yuri, I stopped doing hair at the salon for a reason." She said, I could hear her watching Baby Reindeer in the background

My mom owned her own hair salon where she used to work at, but now she only comes in to do everything but hair

"You're my mommy, you have to do my hair."

"I'm going to call you later." She said, then hung up the phone

"Girl." I mumbled to myself

Since I wasn't on the phone anymore, the music started to play again on my speakers. "Feel It" by Young Thug began to play

I continued on disinfecting, then swept up since I had a habit of dropping lashes on the floor, sometimes on purpose, but mostly by accident

After dumping out the dust pan in my trashcan, I sat down and scrolled on my phone because my client wouldn't be coming until thirty minutes later

my favorite girl 😘😘

Ririiiii wyd

working wyd?

ain't shit
block party tonight

answer is no
my back hurt

i wasn't even finna ask you that
i was finna ask if you wanted to pop up on aj

bro
why?

he think he going to that block party

he can't go to a block party?
you just went to two parties though

who your best friend

don't matter

you finna come w me on the pop up?

did you try talking to him first

😐😐😐
yuri yk i didn't

a damn shame
just toxic and a hypocrite
i'll come but you in the wrong
and i'm finna stop condoning ts

thanks pookie bookie bear 🥰🥰
we'll get some wingstop after our excursion 😘

definitely on you

yk it's on me

k talk to you later

I let out a yawn and shook my head, my best friend was going to get her ass beat or worse behind Aj

To be real, I shouldn't have condoned it in the first place, but Jae, my best friend love her nigga that's not even her nigga for real and nobody really could tell her anything

I looked outside since I could hear loud music like bass booming music, it wasn't rare though

There was an all black Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat outside playing Bossman Dlow as loud as could be

My suite wasn't in the ghetto, but there was a popular chicken spot in the plaza, so all types of people pulled up to get food

I watched as a girl got out of the car. Smoke was coming out, so I could tell somebody smoked the hell out of the car

The girl was coming towards the shop while he went towards the direction of the chicken spot, so I assumed she was my client

I got up to open the door since I always kept it locked because I played noooo games

"Hey, Tamara? how are you?" I spoke with a smile on my face

"Hey, girl. I'm fine." She smiled back

"You can just laid down, I'm ready." I assured, following behind her to the area

She laid down as I sat down in my chair, it was comfortable as hell, and perfect for doing lashes

"Just close your eyes and relax them for me." I said, getting on my phone to look at the picture she sent me and what service she booked

"So you want 24mm, wispy." I spoke mostly to myself, and she nodded

I popped open the lash trays and poured in some more lash glue before using lash remover on her lashes since she had some hanging on her bottom lashes

When I finally started to do her lashes, I was thinking about everything except lashes

My mind would always go elsewhere while doing the job, but that's what would help me focus

"How much are these?" I heard, making me snap out of my thoughts about what my next hairstyle would be

"The lashes?" I questioned, that was a dumb question

"Yeah, how much are these lashes?" She asked again

"On the confirmation text it said $125, so that's how much it'll be." I nodded

Outside I was keeping my cool, Inside I was hoping that this wasn't about to become a problem at the end of the appointment

"Alright, cool." She nodded

"Okay." I did a fake smile even though her eyes were still closed, then continued to do her lashes

When I was doing them, I felt like somebody was just watching and it was making me comfortable

I started to look around, and I seen the crackhead standing out there, but he wasn't looking at me

None of the cars had moved, so it might've been somebody in a car

"Oh my fucking gosh." I mumbled, and stood up

"Give me one second."

I went to the door, unlocking it and poked my head out of the window

"Larry, come here." I called

He didn't hesitate to come to the door, I went into the pocket of my pink scrub and took out a ten dollar bill

"Go get some chips or something, go to the gas station." I slapped it in his had

"Thank you." He smiled and began to walk off, shoving the money in his puffer pocket

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"Sexyy Love Money" by Sexyy Redd and VonOff1700 played as Jae sped in her Jeep, I was riding passenger

"Hm." She passed me the blunt

I started to record myself on my phone, taking a couple pulls and blowing smoke, then passed that mug right back

"Dang." I began to cough, after turning off the video

"Don't pass me that again." I shook my head, she knew good and damn well

"Sexyy love money, Sexyy love cars, Sexyy love riding presidential, I'm a star!" She exclaimed, swerving around a car that was trying to get over, but had no signal on whatsoever

"You drive like a boy." I frowned, turning down the music so she could hear me

"Girl, how?" She laughed

"No seatbelt, speeding, blunt in hand, blasting music, and just swerved a car. Name a girl that drives like that."

"Jayana." She named herself

Her phone lit up from a notification, but she couldn't look at it. "Check that for me, Ri."

Deondre: Pull up lemme get you pregnant

"Deondre said for you to pull up and let him get you pregnant, what you want me to say?"

"Oh hell nah, I'm too young for that and Aj the only one finna nut in me." She said in disapproval

"I never even had sex with him, but he think I owe him my body because we smoked a couple of times. He crazy as fuck." She ranted

"What happened?" I asked, she started to slow down and changed the song

"Basically we was kicking it while Aj was locked up, but he already knew that I was messing with Aj. He would get mad when he had to shut up when I answered Aj's calls." She went ahead to explain

"So when on the phone with Aj he would be there in the cut being quiet, but get mad when you got off?" I asked for clarification

"Yeah." She nodded

She ain't shit.

"Okay, continue."

"And that's when like days before Aj last court date, he was talking shit about Aj to me. That's when I was like telling him that he wasn't about to talk about Aj, I got in my car and left, then we haven't talked since." She continued

"But sometimes he'll call me, I'll answer on some shit, but that's it. We never text, and I be deleting his calls out my log anyway. I don't fuck with this man at all, he is crazy." She shook his head

"Why would I have sex with you while my man in jail? That's crazy."

"Yeah." I nodded, and got on my phone because what she was saying wasn't making sense

Me and her were like completely different people, but that's what made our friendship work

I knew we were completely different because if my boyfriend went to jail, he wouldn't have to worry about me messing with anyone else

Also I wouldn't pop up on him if he was going to a party, I would tell his ass to be safe and go to bed

"I just want some WingStop." I sighed

She drove to Aj's house, and his car was still outside, so we knew he was home

"Come on." She parked along the curb, and turned the car off

I got it with just my phone in my hand, and followed behind her

When we made it on the porch, she went to banging on his front door loudly and repeatedly until he come to open

"Jayana, why you banging on my shit!?" He yelled, slinging the door open

"And why the fuck is your best friend here? Hell is you on?"

"Aj, stop playing with me. I told you what was gonna happen, and you stopped answering the phone!" She yelled back

"Bitch , go'n head. I ain't say shit 'bout you throwin' that hot ass mufucka two days in a row." He shook his head

"I'm a bitch now, Aaron!?" She began pushing him inside of the house by his shoulders aggressively

He snatched her up her shirt, and I made a yikes face and didn't know what to do

I was just standing on the porch, looking like Summer Walker did

Aj practically threw her in the house, and I just knew. She looked back at me with a smirk on her face before underhand tossing her keys onto the porch

I bent down, picking up the keys and looked at her. "Pick me up in a hour, we gotta talk." She said to me, but was smirking at him

Ew.

"Okay." I said, then turned around and walked back to the car

When I got in I drove off, heading to Walmart to get some Tru Fru in the meantime

The one close to her man's house was ghetto, so I had to drive farther

I made it, and parked next to the Handicap, then turned off the car and got out with my phone, purse, and the keys

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