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𝙷𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚗 𝚃𝚇 .

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"Mari can you hurry up?" Aijah irritably called out from the living room.

"Shut up, I was fixing my hair bitch." Mari huffed, walking out the bathroom and running her fingers through her long, black frontal.

"Where Eli nem' at?" Mari asked, staring down at her phone.

"They gon meet us there, lets go" Aijah motioned towards the front door of Mari's apartment.

Mari wore a grey Skims set with some Dior Converse while Aijah wore a one piece bodysuit that hugged her body perfectly with a pair of Yeezy 350's. Mari took the elevator down to the garage and got in the passenger seat of her own Benz while she waited for Aijah to come out the building. She eventually walked out the building staring down at her phone until she looked up and saw Mari in the passenger's seat. She mugged her while Mari bussed out laughing.

"Who the fuck said I was driving?" Aijah furrowed her eyebrows as she got in the driver's seat and Mari tossed her the keys. The two best friends made a pact that every time they went out, whoever drove there would be the one driving back; meaning the designated driver would have to stay sober the entire night.

"I did bitch! I wanna get fucked upp." Mari cheesed, twerking in her seat.

"I can't stand you bruh." Aijah shook her head laughing as she started the car.

They drove for about 20 minutes blasting Martin & Gina by Polo G until they got to the club. The pair pulled into the parking lot and saw Duck, Tasia, and Kali leaning against a black Hellcat while Eli sat in the drivers seat smoking. They pulled into a parking spot next to them and the group started walking towards their car.

"Damn y'all mufuckers finally here!" Eli threw his hands up dramatically, getting out of the Hellcat.

"Nigga shut up!" Aijah shouted while she and Mari got out their car as well.

The two gave everyone a hug while Duck went to wait by the club door for his other homeboys. Mari sat back down in the passengers seat with the door open and her legs hanging out.

Eli passed her the blunt, "You good lil' Mar Mar?" He laughed, using the nickname she despised.

"Yea im good." She chuckled, taking a pull from the blunt.

In reality she was exhausted. She'd been up since 9am doing lashes out of her 2 bedroom condo. But regardless of how hard or time consuming it was to do people's lashes from your own home, Mari worked every single day. Sometimes she'd even over-work herself and Aijah would have to force her out of the house and tonight was one of those nights.

The group stood outside the car chopping it up for a bit until they saw Duck and some other boys walk into the club. Kali, Tasia, Eli, Aijah, and Mari followed them in.

As soon as they walked into the club, the sound of On Me by Lil Baby filled their ears. Red and blue lights illuminated the dark club while money was being thrown in every direction. Being that it was a Saturday night, the club was full and every section was completely packed. Bottle girls made their way around the crowds of people holding up bottles of 1942.

Duck came and directed the group through the crowd, to their section where the other boys were already sitting. As they walked up the stairs Duck and Eli's homeboys eyed the girls down. As soon as everyone got situated Duck properly greeted Aijah and Mari.

"Wassup Mar." Duck smiled as he hugged her before handing her a stack of cash.

"Nah i'm good." She waved him off as she showed him the stack she had already took out her bag.

"Oh aight Mar, you got it like that huh?"

"You know I do." She popped her invisible collar, making Duck shake his head and laugh.

"Where Reece at? Why he ain' come?"

"Ion know, he said sum' about Destini." Duck shrugged while trying to be heard over the loud music.

Mari nodded in response and turned to Kali who was now staring at one of Duck and Eli's homeboys.

"Wassup witchu?" Mari laughed at her friend who was completely zoned out.

"Girl nothin! That nigga kinda fine tho.."

"Which one?"

Kali tried to discreetly point at the nigga, but their section was getting full of people blocking their view. Eventually Mari could make out a tall brownskin boy with waves. He was pouring Henny into a cup while looking up and talking to someone.

"That one." She told Mari.

"Ohhh he is kinda fine.." Mari nodded in approval.

"I know righttt."

"Go talk to him then bitch!" Mari nudged her friends elbow.

"Gir- TUH!" Kali exclaimed raising her eyebrows. She definitely wasn't as bold as Mari was and she had no problem waiting for a nigga to approach her, instead of it being the other way around.

"Just saying!" Mari threw her hands up in defense.

The two got up and walked to the edge of their section and leaned over the railing where they could oversee the entire club since their section was on a platform. Eventually, the rest of the smaller groups in the section got up and started throwing money at the strippers while Don't Stop by Megan Thee Stallion & Young Thug played. They all took shot after shot of whatever the bottle girls were bringing, and passed around a grape flavored hookah.

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Meanwhile on the other side of the section, Duck, Rell, Eli, Mir and some other boys threw money on the half-naked strippers who were dancing in front of them.

"Eli, Mari was askin about Reece." Duck said as he threw money at the darkskin stripper who was bending over in front of him.

"Told yo ass she was trynna fuck wit' him!" Eli replied, blowing smoke in Duck's face purposefully.

"Nah nigga, she was asking where he was at .. Fuckin' dummy." Duck rolled his eyes, making Rell and Mir laugh.

"Which one's Mari?" Rell asked taking the blunt from Eli and putting it to his lips.

"That one right there, with the spine tat." Duck pointed at Mari who was still standing next to Kali with half of her body towards the boys. She had her arm around Kali's neck while they lip singed to Lil Baby, completely unaware of the boys who were lustfully eyeing her.

"The one smokin hookah?" Rell raised his eyebrows.

"Yea."

"Oh she's fine as fuck.. and her ass fat!" He laughed as Duck smacked his chest.

"Mannn, chill on my sister!" Duck and Eli both said. Being that they both knew Mari since she was literally a child, they acted just as overprotective as her biological brother did before he died.

"Whatchu think Mir?" They turned towards Mir who was eyeing her down with a look that could kill.

He stared at the 5'4" girl a few feet away from him, admiring her curvy body which her skin tight clothing accentuated. Her perfect shape emphasized all of her tattoos too, especially the arabic writing on her spine, and Mir was drawn to that. He loved a woman with tattoos and Mari had several including her neck, thigh, spine and the sleeve of her left arm. Her caramel toned skin was glowing under the red colored club lights and he took notice of her plump pink lips and wispy lash extensions that she did on herself.

Mari laughed at something Aijah said and Samiron felt a smile pull at his lips just by looking at hers. Her teeth were perfectly straight and her wide smile was contagious. The answer to Rell's question was obvious to anyone that had eyes— Mari was gorgeous.

"She got a nigga?" Rell asked, taking a pull from the blunt before passing it to Samiron.

"Nah." Duck and Eli both said.

"She ever try to fuck with one of yall?"

"No nigga, she's bro! Known her ass for like 9 years, I would never fuck wit her like that." Duck said matter of factly. Duck, Eli, and Mari were inseparable and everyone knew that. Duck and Eli grew up with Mari's older brother, Bri'on. They were close with Mari since she was around a lot, but they were still much closer to her brother since they had more in common and they ran in the streets together.

After Bri'on was murdered, Duck and Eli wanted revenge. But to their surprise, so did Mari. Mari tried to kill herself twice after her brother died. She fell into a deep depression, barely eating or drinking, constantly in her room, and she barely even graduated high school. Bri'on was her other half and she genuinely believed she couldn't move on without him.

After her several suicide attempts, to her surprise, Duck and Eli were the main ones by her side helping her get better, along with her family and Aijah. Duck and Eli's care towards her took her by surprise since she never really associated with them like that. They were always just "Bri'on's friends" to her, nothing more. But they took it upon themselves to care for Mari in the same brotherly way Bri'on did. Which is why they always refer to her as sis or lil' sis.

They promised her that all three of them would get revenge, and that's what they did. 2 months after Bri'on's death, Duck and Eli finally found the boy responsible for the drive by. As much as they wanted to be the ones to pull the trigger on the man that murdered Bri'on, they knew Mari needed to be the one behind the gun. Mari killed him while Duck and Eli dealt with the body.

Even after Mari killed her brother's shooter, she still didn't get closure. In all actuality, it got worse. She would sit in her room most days, curled up in her bed, not eating or drinking. She lost a lot of weight and even stopped doing lashes entirely for a while. Duck and Eli would sleep on the floor next to her for weeks because they knew the guilt of killing someone was consuming Mari.

After a few months, Duck and Eli finally managed to help Mari get out of her depressive state. They convinced her to get her act together and start her life because it's definitely what Bri'on would've wanted for her. She started back up doing lashes again and eventually saved up for an apartment and moved out of her mom's house.

It's been well over two years since Mari got her apartment and she hasn't looked back since. Duck and Eli have been with her every step of the way. They have her back and she has theirs undoubtedly.

The night finally came to an end and everyone in the section headed towards the exit. Mari walked out of the club holding onto Aijah's forearm maneuvering through the crowd while the rest of the group followed behind them engulfed in their own conversations.

Once they made it to the parking lot, Aijah, Tasia, Kali and Mari leaned onto Eli's car having a convo with Duck, Eli, and another one of their other homeboys. Rell chimed in here and there but Mir stood silently listening in on the convo with his hands crossed.

After a few minutes, Mari broke off from the convo and began to scroll on her phone until Eli called her name.

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𝗔𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶 𝗞𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲 | 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶

𝙷𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚗 𝚃𝚇 .

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"Yo, Mari." Eli called, sitting on the drivers side with the door open.

"Wassup?" I looked up from my phone. He signaled for me to come to his side of the car so I did. Everyone suddenly got silent and began staring at me and Eli, obviously trying to figure out why he called me specifically.

Nosy fucks.

I ignored their side eyes. Eli handed me his phone to look at a screenshot of someone's story. It was Justice's and she posted a sub on her story like she always does.

"She talm bout you?" Eli asked while the rest of the group listened.

"Yup. Ion care tho." I shrugged it off. Justice wants to have a problem with me soo bad but I don't do that back and forth on social media. She's been posting continuously trying to get a reaction out of me but it's not gonna work.

I don't put on shows for people, i'm not a circus clown.

"Who talm bout you?" Duck and Aijah asked in unison, both of them pinching their eyebrows together like I just told them the most absurd thing they've ever headd.

"Justice, again."

In all honesty, Justice has a problem with me for no reason, and it's been going on for like 2 weeks. Like she does she ever get bored? It started after she thought I was trynna make a move on her nigga at a party, when really it was the other way around.

He told her ass that I was trynna flirt with him all night when he was really trynna flirt with me. But he has her so dick-whipped that she'll believe anything. Even after I told her I didn't want her bummy ass, 3-year-old-dreads havin ass nigga, she still been coming for me and she's been getting more and more disrespectful cause she see's that i'm not responding to shit.

"Oh my god, that bitch is still talking?" Aijah rolled her eyes and I nodded.

I don't give a fuck about what Justice's wide nostril ass has to say, she's just been getting more reckless and speaking on shit she doesn't know about.

"She needa watch her damn mouth." Duck raised his eyebrows. "On bro." I chuckled, handing the phone back to Eli.

"You should just let my sister handle her, lil' Mar Mar!" Eli said as two other niggas chuckled and smirked.

"Nah nigga, I can handle my own." I rolled my eyes playfully.

"The fuck yall laughing at ?" Kali asked the boys with a straight face.

"Nun for you to worry about ma." Rell said, while the other boy stayed quiet like he has been this whole time.

Luckily they didn't take what Kali said the wrong way because she's just a naturally aggressive person. I don't know why, but that's how she is and that's how she's always been.

"So Mari, you got a nigga?" Rell smirked as the other boys started laughing a lil, making me side eye him.

"Yes." I pursed my lips to the side to avoid laughing. Before he could respond I walked back to the side where I was originally standing and got my keys and phone from on top of the car.

"Gir- stop playin. Do you got a nigga?" Rell asked again. Obviously Duck and Eli told him that I was very much single so now he nows i'm lying.

They're gonna hear my mouth tomorrow

"Nah, and ion want one either. Niggas ain't shit." I told him. The other boy that hadn't spoken much rolled his eyes at my response making me jerk my head back.

"Keep rollin em like that they gon get stuck." I mumbled under my breath as I took my phone out to check the time.

"Watchu say?" The quiet boy finally spoke up.

I glanced up at him just to see his brown eyes already narrowed on me. It was dark so I couldn't make out his face completely, but the tattoos on his neck and his strong jawline were very visible. Judging by his raised eyebrows he probably caught on to the fact that I was surveying his face. I cleared my throat and looked back down at my phone but it was no use because I could feel him staring a hole through the side of my head.

"Anyway, we comin' over tomorrow?" Duck smiled making me jerk my head back.

"Who's we?" I replied, looking at him like he was crazy.