Extraordinary Love

Chapter 4: Chinno

Chapter 4: Chinno

            “Hey.” Dominique shyly blushed revealing beautiful white teeth.  I knew her mouth would be sexy as fuck with a gold tooth or grill at the bottom.  She was dressed in all Versace looking fly as hell.  She and I had both come in around the same time except she didn’t notice me because I was behind her.  She looked even better than what I had seen in the magazine.

            Mr. Biggs invited me into this dinner because he had heard a lot of promising things about me from Mr. Deoria, and he knew that I was going to be big one day.  Everyone at this dinner was somebody.  I looked around to notice all the singers, rappers, actors, actresses, and etc.  Although it was like 20 of us here, everyone knew each other or heard about one another.

            When everyone had settled and it was time for the dinner, Mr. Biggs stood up from his chair holding his champagne glass. Biggs was husky dude with a medium dark skin tone and eyes to match. One thing about Biggs, I can admit that he’s all about his paper. He’s also a record producer; he helped make a couple tracks on my album.

            He cleared his throat as everyone looked in his direction.  He took the end chair of the table, and his right side was Charlotte. Charlotte is Biggs’ ole lady. She’s been rocking with him since he began the paper chase.  She had his back regardless of what happen. Why he hadn’t married her yet is beyond me.  “Alright, I want to thank everyone for coming. I brought all of you here because all of you have given me some type of help to get where I am now.  I want to personally thank each and every one of you for everything y’all have done.  There comes a time in a man’s life when he realizes that everything in his life is stable.  First things first, I’m going to retire from producing music.” Buzzing of talking immediately took place questioning why he would give up something he loved so much.

            “Come on, Biggs! You can’t just leave all of us at Raw Thunder like that.” I said calmly.

            Biggs smiled and shrugged his shoulders. “I have to let some of them young cats show that they have skills and fill my big shoes, you know what I mean? I’m 49 going on 50.  That’s just two years young than Dominique’s father.” He made a gesture in Dominique’s direction. “He hasn’t hopped out the music industry, but I believe I’m ready for some people to fill my shoes and take Raw Thunder to the next level. I know that at The Thunder I’ll always have family.  With this liquor line, I’ll be taken care of for life. I’ve made money. Other people gotta eat, you know?  Open mouths can be fed with empty plates. Somebody is money hungry just like how I used to me.”

            He looked in my direction. “Chinno, JB, and Lady M, regardless if I’m at Raw Thunder or not, I’m expecting y’all asses to come with some fire! Chinno, I know you’re promising. You’re album hasn’t even been released yet, and everybody is buzzing about it.  Y’all asses better drop some hot sings and albums! Y’all better be on the charts too because Raw Thunder wouldn’t have signed y’all if y’all were shit.”

            JB, Lady M, and I nodded our heads in understanding. To hear that coming from Biggs, it made me proud, but I knew not to let anything go to my head.   Biggs cleared his throat once again.  “Now onto the real matter of discussion,” he looked over to Charlotte and smiled, “Charlotte, baby, I know we’ve been with each other for a real long ass time.  It was you that dealt with my stubborn, difficult, and sometimes mean ass.”

            “Umhm!” Charlotte sounded in agreement making everyone laugh.

            Biggs chuckled.  “You’re everything a man could want, and I thank you so much. You just don’t know how much you’ve helped me.  You’ve been everything from A to Z including being an assistant during the day and a lover at night.”

            All of us made the “ooo” high pitched sound.

            Biggs chuckled holding his hand up to silence us. “We’re all grown ass men and women in here. Don’t front like this is something new. Now, Charlotte, I’m not going to talk too much because you and I both know that I’m horrible with words.” He got on one knee.

            “Charlotte, will you give me the honor of being my wife? I’m finally ready to settle down, and the person I want to settle with is you.”

            Charlotte acted a fuckin’ clown! She cried, cheered, and hugged him like crazy. I’ve never seen a couple as silly and loving as them. Of course Charlotte said yes.

            “Now that we got that sweet stuff out the way, can a nigga eat now?” JB said rudely but playfully.