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"What you on my boy!?"D'Angelo, one of Von's men dapped him up as he walked into his living room.

"Shit."he responded while pulling his pants up.

"This dude that I was telling you about, Rico."D'Angelo introduced him to the new guy that would be replacing him.

"Wassup man."Von dapped him up.

He examined him closely, trying to see if Rico would be a good fit for the job.

Luckily Von didn't see the "bitch" in him.

Rico was a confident, tough, strategic, but low key guy.

Although, he hadn't been in the game as long as D'Angelo, he was still willing to learn new things and became a master at what he did.

If it was anybody bringing new men to Von, it would have had to been D'Angelo, Muwop, Durk, or Booka.

He trusted these men dearly and knew that anytime there was a job, they'd get it done.

"Have a seat."Von said as he took a seat himself.

"Hell you been on?"D'Angelo asked Von as he sat back with his arms folded across his chest.

"I been grindin'."Von responded not really wanting to discuss his business.

He still stuck on the fact that him and Shay wasn't talking, and that he was going through a divorce.

Shay had went on about her business and removed everything that consisted of Von, out of her life.

In order to keep her off of his mind, Von just spent his time working.

The two wanted so badly to reach out, however, they both were filled with pride so that wasn't happening.

"So what's the word?"Von looked at the two men sitting on his couch.

"You got it."D'Angelo responded meaning that Von had the floor.

"You say you looking to replace him?"he asked Rico.

"Yeah he showed me the game, so I gotta follow his footsteps and make sure everything straight. I'm just looking for some new shit, so I can flood the city like I've been doing."

"You got a solid team amongst you?"

"Yeah man I got the whole Southside, a whole lotta work."

"Ima give you a chance, he vouched for you. ...This guy though, don't be wild like him."Von said causing laughter amongst the three.

"I'm out the way, like y'all niggas need to be."D'Angelo said.

"The only thing bro, you can't be wild. Ion want a lot of tension."Von explained to Rico.

"You ain't got shit to worry about."

"I'm gone drop a lot on you though, you think you can handle it?"

"Most definitely, I can handle whatever."

Von nodded as he grabbed the duffle bag full of cocaine and weed.

He sat it on the coffee table and slid it over to Rico.

"This right here, half a ticket. You might wanna try it out."he said.

Rico took his pocket knife and slit a brick cocaine.

"This nigga."Von and D'Angelo laughed as they watched Rico taste it.

"Oh yeah, what's this though? Ion need no weed though."Rico said while looking through the bag.

"You can't take one without the other."Von said.

"Man he got it."D'Angelo spoke for him.

"You can handle it?"Von asked Rico.

"Yeah man it ain't shit to a boss."he dapped Von up.

Since D'Angelo had somewhere to be, the guys wrapped up their meeting.

Von decided that he'd go grab something to eat and check in with his boys afterwards.

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"You swimming tonight?"Raven asked me as she walked into the kitchen.

"Raven."I laughed as I looked at her.

"What?"she widened her eyes at me.

"You and this fucking vape, I hate it!!"I screamed.

"Girl shut the fuck up. Who all coming again?"she asked me.

"Mariah, I invited Destiny's mama, Grams, Keisha, and Blue. Then you invited your people."

"Yeah I invited Nini, Justice, and Lyric."she said referring to her cousin's.

Tonight we're having a color party at the Airbnb we booked.

Since we're always working, we decided to have us a lil fun this weekend.

Tonight will be the color party slash sleepover and tomorrow we're going out for brunch.

A color party is basically when everybody who's invited to the party dresses as their assigned color and brings snacks that are that same color.

My color is black because I'm Onyx.

Raven's color is red and everybody else has their colors.

She invited her cousin's while I invited people who I had just became friend's with over five years.

Also, good people who I met through my business.

"You swimming?"she asked me again.

"Yeah, I got my swimsuit on under this."I said while pulling back my black silk robe.

I continued setting up the food on the island counter.

We had pizza from Pizza Hut with wings, corn, and fried from Wingstop.

I'm hoping that we make it through tonight with no fuck ups and no drama.

"So y'all know I gotta post this on my socials, especially TikTok."I said while looking around the kitchen at everybody.

"As long as I can shake this ass, you good."Blue said as he bent over and started twerking on Grams.

I chuckled while shaking my head.

"Okay since everybody's here we gone go ahead and get some shots in!"Raven said while walking around with the tray.

"Ima just have mine out the bottle."Mariah said while grabbing her small bottle of patron from her green bucket.

We all did a toast before taking the shots back.

"Mmk so everybody walk towards the camera with your bucket and just say your color name."I explained as I set my phone up and pressed record.

"Should we go in order?"Deja, Destiny's mom asked me.

"Yeah let's do the colors of the rainbow."

Raven started us off.

"I'm Red Hot."she posed while showing her basket and fanning herself.

"I'm Tangerine."Nini, her cousin went next.

"I'm Sunshine, sunshine on meee."Deja, Destiny's mama, sang.

"I'm cash, 'cause I like my money green."Mariah showed her bucket.

"Period."

"I'm Blue in real life but tonight my name blueberry."he went before bending over and twerking.

Everybody hyped him up while laughing.

"I'm Lavender."Justice went.

"I'm pink pussy all day."Lyric, Raven's ghetto ass cousin went.

She turned around and bent over causing me to laugh.

"I'm cocaine 'cause he love me like a drug."Grams said.

Them two had me dying.

"Okayyy!!"

"I'm chocolate, something yo nigga love to eat."my friend, Keisha went before me.

"And I'm Onyx and we out."I said before ending the video.

When we got finished everybody went ahead and ate.

I wasn't really eating because I was too busy trynna get drunk.

After this, we gone play some games and then hit the pool.

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"Raven gone be they downfall."I said causing the guys to laugh.

"Hell yeah this mf location stay on."Muwop said.

"See me and my hoe don't got them problems, be easy gang."Booka said from the backseat.

"'Cause she don't want yo frog lookin' ass."Muwop said and I chuckled.

"Nigga you crazy, she gave it up on the first night."

"Who?"I asked them.

"Raven and Onyx lil friend."

"The one who was at the bowling alley and shit?"

"Yeah nigga, Mariah."

"This nigga cappin', Raven ain't even give it up on the first night."Muwop said while shaking his head.

"That's a whole 'nother female you talm 'bout. I'm talm 'bout the one I fucked on January third at ten-o-three post meridiem."

"This nigga said post meridiem."I laughed along with Muwop.

In less than ten minutes, I pulled up to the Airbnb.

"They got this mf jumping."Muwop said as we got out the car after I parked.

You could hear the music from outside the house.

"Aye? Come open the door, I got something for you."Muwop said while on the phone with Raven.

"Whaaaat?"

"Yeah hurry up."

"Okay I'm coming baby, I'm coming."

As soon as she hung up the door opened.

Booka and I stood on each side of the door so she wouldn't notice us.

"Hey baby!!"Raven said while opening the door and hugging him.

She climbed up on him as if he was a kid and he picked her up.

Before the door closed, we walked in.

"Who is that Ra—"I heard Shay say and when she saw me, she turned around and continued doing what she was doing.

Ion even think she noticed who I actually was 'cause she looked drunk.

I copped a seat on one of the couches while watching her closely.

"Sooo y'all ready to hit the pool!!?"she said while walking out of the kitchen and taking off the robe she had on.

"Bitch you is bad, to the bone!!"one of her friend's wearing pink said.

"For real, sexy and giving everything."one of the nigga's wearing blue said while rubbing her ass as he walked past her.

"Okay I'm leaving you hoes, y'all moving too slow."she said while walking through the back door.

I got up and went after her.

"Oh now y'all wanna come."she said while walking to the cabana.

When she turned around and saw me, she rolled her eyes.

"Why are you here Von?"

"What you mean? I miss you lil folks."I said while sitting next to her.

"You don't miss me. You just miss how you treated me, you did me wrong Von. Ima need you to stand on that shit and move around."

"Yeah and I ain't mean that, I apologize. I let my anger get the best of me that day I'm sorry."

"Mhm okay well I accept your apology but I need some space away from you for a while."

"I gave you enough time man. What you mean?"

"Okay and I need more time. What? You finna put your hands on my now because I just told you I need a break from your crazy ass?"

"It ain't even like that."

"Okay so can you give me the space I need?"

"Aight just let me know when you ready."I said while getting up and going back inside.

I went out to the front and sat in my car waiting on Booka and Muwop.

Them niggas might end up spending the night so I might just leave their asses.