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𝙰𝚁𝙼𝙰𝙽𝙸 𝙽𝙴'𝚉𝙸𝙰𝙷 𝙶𝙸𝙱𝚂𝙾𝙽

𝙱𝚁𝙾𝙾𝙺𝙻𝚈𝙽, 𝙽𝚈

Work by Rihanna filled the dark neon red lit room, as Armani walked through trying to find Azariah and the gang. She puffed her blunt trying to ease her anxiety while she looked through the crowded room. Red cups covered almost every table in the overly stuffed room, and the smell of weed laced the smoke cover air mixing with the body odors of everyone around her. Armani mentally cursed Azari out silently in her head trying to think of all the times Azari convinced her to come out to these social gatherings. She couldn't come up with an answer on how she did it so instead, she thought about the week of assignments and testing she had coming up She decided she owed it to if not anybody, herself, to have some form or fun outside of painting and smoking blunt, and let the weed take her into another social world where she's in tuned.

"Hey baby!" Said Azariah spotting Armani before Armani looked over in her direction.

"Hey." Armani responded as she squeezed through the sea of people blocking her.

"Hey Shy." Said Akeem and Monty waving at her.

Shy was the nickname the two had decided collectively on a high night, because they described her as quiet and to herself as opposed to the group. She was still adjusting to being around people outside of Azari but the more she did it the easier it became.

"Its too many people in here!" Said Armani, taking a big pull from the blunt she held in between her lips. She took in her surroundings and noticed the exits--there were two: the front door and the back door. She heard too many stories of kickbacks getting shot up and she didn't want to be next, therefore she stayed on her Ps and Qs taking notice of her escape routes at all times.

"I know! But it's live as fuck in here!" Said Azari taking a sip of whatever it was in her red cup.

A car alarm had gone off causing the music to pause for a slight minute; Armani thought of how she parked 10 minutes away and took an uber and smiled to herself.

"Ah come on mane!" Yelled some man. "They stole 3 of my tires!"

Everyone went out to see what the commotion was about and there they saw three of his tired were in fact missing.

"At least they were generous enough to put the car on blocks." Said Monty making the group laugh.

"It's fucking brick out hea, I'm going back inside." Armani says, turning on her heels tohead back inside. She took a seat on a vacant couch and scrolled on her phone minding her business. She looked up to see three unknown females staring at her and whispering loudly.

"Son what the fuck are you staring at?" Said Armani making them turn away

"Rude bozo ass bitches." She mumbled to herself.

Azari and everyone that had gone outside came back in and the music started back up. Dior by Pop Smoke filled the speakers making the bass vibrate off the walls hyping everyone in the building up. Everybody yelled the lyrics getting hype while Armani rocked to the beat mumbling the lyrics as she lit up another blunt she had brought with her.

"She like the way that I err." She mumbled, dancing a little as she took puff after puff.

"When it rains it pours, she like the way I err." Said Azari.

Everybody knew that if you wanted a kickback or party to jumping that they needed to play some Pop Smoke. He was a big artist on the come up and the entirety of New York stood behind him as he took New York onto the map. Armani felt someone was watching her so she looked up and that's when she took notice of Nasir-- he looked as good as ever. She bit her lip contemplating on whether or not she wanted to walk over.

Fuck it, why not? She thought to herself feeling the weed boost her confidence as she began to walk over.

"You were staring at me quite hard." She smirked looking up at him. He was tall compared to her average 5'6. He looked about 6'2 or 6'3.

"If I like what I see, I'm gon observe it fasho." He licked his lips at her making butterflies swell in her stomach.

"And you liked?" She asked, looking up at him.

"Don't act like you don't know." He said never breaking eye contact with her as he sipped whatever it was he had in his cup.

Single Again by Big Sean began to play and Azari pulled her arm, getting hype before Armani could register the song in her head.

"This our shit bitch!" Said Azari.

"I'm single again! Guess this is just the way it's going to be!" she yelled the lyrics. "Got me feeling like..I. Don't.Fuck.With.You."

She felt someone behind her but she didn't care to check who it was until the body spoke and she heard his deep voice whisper in her ear. "That single shit real temporary."

Armani looked up at him and he smirked at her as he took her hand. "Come on shordy, let's dance." He said and the two joined Azari and Akeem where they were.

"Don't start bitch." said Armani, already knowing that her best friend was ready.

The song changed again and Like Dat by Kodak Black filled the speakers.

"Cause I got it by myself." Armani said smiling in the camera because Nasir was now recording her.

"Why yo eyes like that? Cause I put molly in my lean." Armani rapped and pulled him closer so she was now pointing finger guns at him.

"This a million dolla phone but ion got no ringtone." She rapped.

"How you get so high like that? Why yo eyes like that? Cause I put molly in my lean." Said Nasir rapping along with her.

"Nigga I don't need no Vitamin C, I be smoking broccoli they say its good fo my health." she rapped as she smoked her blunt turning around and dancing on him a little.

The song mixed into No Flocking and that sent everyone into a rapping frenzy.

"Don't you ask me whea the pole at,whea yo clothes at?" Said Azari.

"Ian getting on my knees bae, you bow down to me, you go down fa me, you lay down and do that time fo me." Rapped Armani gettign hype. "It's lil Kodak the finesse kid!"

"Ole boy yous a broke boy!" Rapped Nasir.

The song soon ended and Armani was danced out so she proceeded to sit back down and finish smoking. She scrolled on her phone not taking notice of Nasir standing over her, until Nasir had took the phone out of her hand causing her to look at him crazy.

"Excuse you sir, the hell are you doing?" She said,

"It's getting hot in hea, come walk wit' me outside real quick." He said.

"Why me?" She asked, raising her eyebrow at him.

"Cause I like you and you know that, na lets go." he said walking off.

Well shit.

Originally written: November 28th,2019

Revised and Rewritten: July 25th, 2022 at 11:50 P.M