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"Von!!"I yelled while hitting him with a pillow.

"What bro!?"he yelled while turning over.

"Stop rubbing your hairy ass leg against mines."

"Go back to sleep with all that."he waved me off.

"No because you're finna get up anyways."

"For what?"

"You have to go meet with your lawyer today."

"Mmcht what time is it?"

"Eight forty-six."

"Eight!? Why the fuck you ain't wake me up, I was supposed to be woke a long ass time ago!"he yelled while jumping up.

"I tried like six times already."

He glared at me before running into the bathroom and turning the shower on.

I shrugged.

He's an hour late, nigga was supposed to be there at seven forty five.

I tried waking him up over and over again but he just didn't want to get up.

"Why the hell you ain't hit me with the pillow an hour ago!?"he yelled from the shower.

"Before you try to argue with me, did you even thank God for waking you up this morning?"

He got quiet and I chuckled.

"Oh okay."I said while getting up and going to brush my teeth.

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"Hello!!?"I answered my phone as I sat at the front desk.

Whoever was on the other end wouldn't say anything so I just hang up.

Moments after, the number called back and I answered again.

"Hello!? Who is this!?"

They hang up again and I turned my phone on silent.

I went on the computer to review the few appointments I had booked for today.

One of my clients was late and her ass was gonna be upset because she's gonna have to pay that twenty dollar fee.

I walked into the lounge room and grabbed the boxes of snacks.

We had lays chips, m&m's, chocolate bars, rice krispy treats, peanuts, skittles, and sour patch kids.

I refilled the snack shelf along with the refrigerator.

These snacks were for our customers just in case they get hungry or something.

No they aren't free but if someone, like a kid or teen, doesn't have the money and they want something we'll buy it.

When I got finished, I connected my phone to the sound system and played some music while setting up.

As I was in the lounge room, I heard the door chime and I walked out.

"Good morning."I said while looking at the tall, light skinned, tatted guy who stood before me.

"Mornin'."

"How can I help you?"I asked him as I walked over to the front desk and pulled up my booking site again.

"Yeah I'm looking for Onyx."

"You're talking to her."I said while looking at him as I stood up.

"Yeah I got an appointment for ten thirty."

"What's your name?"

"Rico."

"Rico or Ricardo?"I asked him as I scrolled through the list.

"Yeah that's me."

"Oh okay, you're getting plats right?"I asked him as I stood up and walked over to my chair.

"Yeah."he said slowly.

"Mmk well you can come have a seat."

The back door chimed and I looked back seeing Mariah.

"Girl why you ain't come through the front!?"I asked her.

"'Cause I had to bring Raven's shit in for her. Where yo phone at!?"she yelled while walking up here.

"It's on silent, somebody kept blowing my shit up."I shrugged as I began starting on Rico's hair.

"Well you need to make that hoe ring, I'm pretty sure they've stopped calling."

"Fuck that phone, probably one of Von's hoes anyways."

"Not Von having hoes."she said.

"Mhm he's one himself."

Rico chuckled causing Mariah and I to look at each other.

I squinted my eyes and she looked at me weirdly.

"Never mind."she said before walking to the back.

"Aye Riah... if you ain't got none good to say."I chuckled.

"You gone be here all day?"she asked me.

"Hell nah."

"Shit me either, I just came to bring in Raven's shit and restock my supplies."

"Oh okay, I might be here a little bit longer than you though."

When I had finished with Rico's hair, he paid and tipped me really big.

I was excited as fuck.

We even made small talk while I was doing his hair.

He was nice and fine as hell, I couldn't stop looking at him.

Every time I would look though I would see Von.

Since I knew he would be calling me, I went ahead and turned my ringer on.

However, I turned that bitch right back off once I noticed that it was a bitch who was blowing me up all along.

This hoe was sending me messages and voice messages talm 'bout Von is hers and shit like that.

Bitch was even threatening to come whoop my ass, which would never happen, but I wasn't trippin'.

'Cause if it's really pressure about this nigga, hoes know where I'm at.

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"How the fuck did you get in here!?"I yelled at Von as I walked out of the lounge room.

"I got keys, remember."he said and I rolled my eyes.

"You might as well hand them bad boys back over to me."I said while sitting down on the couch.

"Where the hell you been at? I been looking for you. Yo' phone off and shit."he said while sitting next to me.

"Nah it ain't off, I turned it off temporarily though."

"Why?"

"'Cause you got hoes calling my mfn phone."I said while pointing in his face.

"What you mean?"he scrunched his face up.

"Somebody's been calling and texting my phone from a private number talm 'bout you."

"What the hell they been saying?"

I looked for the messages in my phone and showed him.

I also let him hear some of the voicemail messages the bitch left too.

"Why you ain't call me and tell me?"

"Nah fuck that!! What the fuck you been on!?"I yelled as I threw the phone.

"Hold on man chill out."he tried grabbing me and I pushed him.

"Don't touch me Dayvon!! What you been on!?"

"C-can I get some love or some?"he asked me and I chuckled because he thought I was fucking joking.

"You really out here listening to these goofy ass bitches?"

"Yeah who is she!? Is it Hot Cheeto puff 'cause I know for a fact it ain't Sha'Rita?"

"I can't tell you that 'cause ion know what you talm 'bout. Listen if I wasn't concerned, I wouldn't be here right now."

"Okay well you can leave because I don't believe you."

"I'm not going nowhere gang."

"Okay well then I'll leave."I said while grabbing my purse and keys but he pushed me back down on the couch.

"Man you can't walk off like that."

"So who you been fucking with Dayvon? How the fuck did this bitch get my number all of a sudden!? Who is it?"I asked him as I looked down at the floor.

"I ain't been fucking with, talking to, or messing around with nobody."

"Okay bye, you can leave."

"Man I'm not going nowhere."

"Bet."I said while getting up again and he grabbed me.

"Hold on."he said repeatedly.

"Get the fuck off of me!! Can you stop touching me!!?"

"Aight man sit down."

I sat down on the opposite couch and he sat down on the other one.

"Ion like how you treating me right now."he said while looking at me.

"So I'm not supposed to react when I know for a fact that you're fucking off on me!!?"

"I'm not fucking off on nobody."

"I ain't nobody, you fucking off on Shay!"

"Man you sound goofy as hell. You going off what somebody from a private number telling you. Mfs can't even reveal who they really is to you."

"That's why I'm asking you Von!! And why you put a fucking condom on the last time we had sex Von!? That's not us, at all."

"We don't need no fucking kids right now, you tweakin'. We on two different paths, trynna make a living for ourselves."

"So it's just fuck the birth control huh!?"

He just stared at me and I grabbed my stuff once again and got up.

"Man whatever save that shit."

As I was about to walk out of the lounge, he grabbed me again.

"Man I'm out here doing shit for us, for you. Fuck all of them bitches."

"Then who the fuck is calling me Dayvon!? Which bitch is that?"

"It ain—"he began to say before his phone rang.

I tried to reach into his pocket and grab it but he grabbed it before I could.

"That's probably the bitch right there, let me see!!"

"Nah it's business, I'll handle that shit later."he said while pushing me back as he hang the phone up.

"You know what Von, don't even worry about it."

"Shit mfs probably calling yo phone for you!"he said and I looked at him like he was stupid.

"What the fuck you trynna say!?"

"Shit, what the fuck it sound like."he said and I shook my head as I walked out towards the front.

"Don't even worry about it."I turned the lights off and walked out of the door.

He walked out behind me and I locked up.

"Man why you doing that shit?"he asked me as he stood next to me.

"Don't worry about it Von, it's cool. We're good. I want you to go do what you do, I'll be fine. You gotta go make a living for yourself and I do too, right? So just go do you, baby, have your fun. Ima be alright, trust me."

"What the fuck you mean, you gone be fine!? I'm not. It's us, me and you. You just gone give up on us like that!?"

I laughed.

"It's okay Von, calm down. My time is up now, clearly, I think you're better off. It's no point in even trynna fix this shit. I did my part."I hugged him before walking off to my car.

When I got in, I drove to go get me something to eat then I headed home.