The next day came about and Jazmine woke up to the smell of breakfast.
The four girls have lived together for the past four and a half years. Jazmine and Cindy knew each other since first grade, Ming came along in 7th grade and then Royalty completed the group when she joined the same gymnastic club. Royalty was 11 while the rest were 13. It was kind of weird to have a younger girl being around them but she managed to grow on them and to be honest, they saw how Royalty could hold her own against anyone who tried it so knew she would fit right in.
Living together was the best thing that ever happened to them. They all had their own rooms, took responsibility and worked well together. They were attached by the hip and no one could get in the way. They protected each other. They were sisters.
Jazmine left her room and made her way into the kitchen where the rest of the girls were serving themselves to the food that was laid out for them to choose from.
"So, when was you hoes going to tell me there was food?" Jazmine faked being hurt as she grabbed some strawberries that were out.
"We knew your fat ass would smell that shit anyway." Cindy told her as she sat down at the table to eat her food.
"Whatever girl. Y'all are so rude." Jazmine collected her own plate of food and joined the table were everyone was sitting and digging into their own plates.
Ming then cleared her throat making the three look over at her.
"Thank you Minngg." They sighed at how extra she was.
"You're welcome." She smiled.
"So, we not going to talk about last night?" Cindy asked as she looked around to her other friends.
Last night was a very crazy night for them. They had a big night. Got their money stolen. Slammed their bosses head into a desk and now they have a new boss and let's not forget it is Freeman. A very big night.
"What's there to talk about?" Jazmine asked innocently.
"Bitch if you don't start talking." Cindy laughed as she threw a grape at her which she dodged.
"Fine, fine... last night was different. Can you believe that dick is gone?" Jazmine cheered.
"Yeess bitch! That motherfucker is gone!" Royalty began to dance in her seat which made the girls laugh. "But seriously. Did you see how quick he ran out? That shit was funny. If I knew all I had to do was slam his face into a desk would make him leave I would have done it a long time ago."
"For real though. You two were on some gangster shit." Ming told them.
"I know because you. Don't. Fuck. With. My. Mother. Fucking. Money." Royalty clapped her hands at every word which put emphasis on what she was saying.
"Word." Jazmine agreed as she stuffed another strawberry in her mouth. These were her favourite fruit.
"Now Miss Dubois and Miss Williams. Let's talk about you and your mans and not just any mans, they got the Freeman's." Cindy teased them making Jazmine roll her eyes but Royalty giggled.
"You know how I do. When I see something I want, I get it. That Riley is something that's for sure."
"We all know you're happy as fuck Royalty, what about you Jazzy?" Ming asked as she sipped her drink.
"There's nothing to talk about..." Jazmine began to look everywhere but at the girls staring back at her.
"You know that I know that you know that you're chatting a whole bunch of shit." Royalty finally caught Jazmine's eyes whose cheeks began to feel hot.
"Whatever. Huey is just... another guy with very deep pockets. He just so happened to be our manager now. The end." With that, Jazmine went to go wash up her plate which made the others follow.
"Which leads onto our next topic of things, Louis is gone and now we have them. What do you think they gonna do?" Cindy asked her friends.
"I have no idea. I know they have a nightclub but do they know how to run a strip club joint?" Jazmine asked.
"Who knows, I guess we will find out in the meeting today." Ming said to them.
It was 10am so they had a good amount of time before they had to go to the club.
"We need to go food shopping, we running low." Cindy said as she began to look around the kitchen.
"Alright, we can do grocery shopping then other shopping before going to the meeting." Jazmine told the girls. They all agreed and then went to get ready.
Huey was currently doing his morning work out, wearing only some shorts which allowed you to see the sweat dripping down his toned body. For some stupid reason he slept in longer today which never happens to him, his body was on a routine.
He was on his third rep of pull ups when he heard his notification go off on his phone saying someone was at his door. He lived in an apartment building that only consisted of 10 homes. If you haven't guessed it by now, he owned this. Him, his brother, Hiro and Caesar as well as a few other much trusted people lived here. Despite living in the same building, they all respected each others privacy.
He grabbed his phone and looked at the video that appears when his bell rings. He didn't hear it since he was blasting some music during his work out which he now paused.
"Huey! I know you in there. Come open the door."
Huey sighed, not really wanting visitors now but went to open the door anyway.
"Come in."
In walked one of Huey's long time friends. Her name was Raven and her and Huey grew up together. They lived in the same neighbourhood and their mothers were friends from high school. She gets compared to Gabriella Union ever since she was a teen mainly for her smile but Raven was more browner. Her and Huey went out when they were 15 and even lost their virginity to each other but broke up just after they hit 19. Since then they have remained close friends, even when Huey inherited the gang she joined much to his protest. At times, you could tell she might be feeling him again but Huey tried to keep their relationship at friends.
"What you need?" Huey asked as he grabbed a towel to wipe the sweat off him. Raven couldn't help but to stare and had to remember why she actually went to his house for.
"I heard you brought a strip club."
"So?"
Raven gave him a side eye. "So, I wanna know why the fuck you did that?"
Huey rolled his eyes as he grabbed a bottle of water from his fridge. "You know I'm a business man."
"I know you are Huey. I've know you since before I knew of my own existence. I'm saying why a strip club and why this one, you've been to plenty of other ones but have not shown any interest in them in the entertainment or business way." Raven explained to the boy.
She wasn't wrong. They have always been close and even when the broke up, they remained close friends since Huey valued her enough to keep her around. It would have been a bit awkward if they were no longer friends since their mothers regularly were together anyway. Also, the other strip clubs he was never too fussed over it. A little bit of him knew it had something to do with Emerald.
"Riley put in a good word for it and took us there last night. I saw potential so I took it."
"I hope you know what you're doing. I have enough problems with some female staff at the club trying to be all that, them hoes are going to be worse." Raven complained. Huey let her become the manager of his nightclub 'Empire' a few months after purchasing it and he was glad he made a right decision. She knew what she was doing and business was doing good.
"You can't be calling them hoes Raven. They're just people trying to make some money too, just different from us."
"Whatever nigga. We'll see what 'The Blue Moon' has to offer. I got shit to do, bye."
With that, she was gone, leaving Huey alone. He chose to go back to his work out but on the punching bag. He walked back to his home gym, wrapped his hands and went to work on the bag. Usually his mind would be blank but for some reason, it wasn't.
Emerald, wait, Jazmine was a girl he needed to find out more about because it was bugging him. He hated not knowing information about people. He only knew her stage name, real name and that she lives with her other friends who she happened to work with. He could tell they were very close. It reminded him of his own friendship but they all had their own space because he could only take so much of them at a time, especially when Caesar's smart mouth and Riley's wild streak come together, he didn't know how long he would survive with them both.
The little talk they had when everyone left, made Huey see her attitude and aura was completely different from when she gave him a dance and when she stormed into Louis office and kicked the shit out of him, which by the way was fucking hilarious to him. It almost made him burst out in laughter… almost.
Their first encounter was strictly business. She was there to get her money and leave and Huey could sense her lack of, dare he say, personality. Then when she came into the office, there was anger he didn't think she could own and it exploded into the room. When they were alone for those few seconds, it let him get a glance at who she really was. A sweet woman. He didn't know the reason why she began dancing but he knew it wasn't his business, for now at least.
Knowing he was not going to do a proper work out, he stopped and grabbed his phone to check if he had any notifications.
Seeing nothing come up, he decided to find work to do. He was going to call up different people to check on his supplies, businesses and even begin to draw up plans to renovate the strip club. Louis did a piss poor job and the club looked basic. Freeman's didn't do basic. So, he needed to find a way to improve the strip club in order to attract more customers who bring with them stacks of money.
Feeling pleased with his plan for the day before the first meeting at the strip club, Huey made his way towards his bathroom to get himself ready for today. This meeting was going to be something.
A very basic chapter I know but I hope you still enjoyed it. Our favourite groups will come together next chapter. Also, who thought it was so hard to think of strip club name. You know how weird it felt to goggle that. As well as the fact that I be trying so hard not to add London slang into the way they talk because the bare minimum of people will understand. I be having to think of ways everyone will know. If you haven't heard of London slang, I suggest you go and find a few because it is very entertaining.
I am living for these reviews fr, I cannot thank you enough for all of them. What is annoying is that I get emails about the reviews but then when I go on my account it doesn't come up. I don't know what happens to it but don't think I don't see it because I do and I wanna say thank you to all.
This is my longest authors note so I am gonna quit because you've probably given up by now.
Until next time (hopefully soon, I have been out late nearly every day so I haven't gotten a chance to go on my laptop)
ANYWAY
-TBG
