𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐇𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐆.

𝟑𝟒

- This chapter contains rape but I do not go into detail on the scene and skipped to the next scene after the fact. If you're not comfortable with continuing to read it anyway, please skip at "🔴" and proceed at "🟢", thank you.

PART ONE

April 28th || 9pm'

Octavius felt the soft feeling of smoke on his upper lip as his lips were barely parted to let the smoke escape from his mouth. His eyes wandered aimlessly throughout the building as he stood against the wall, but on a table that made him one of tallest in the building next to Adonis. Standing level with everyone else wouldn't work, he couldn't feel equal to everyone else.

"What got yo mind in a chokehold right now?" Adonis asked after noticing his friend's mind seeming to be elsewhere.

Octavius furrowed his eyebrows and shook his head before glancing down at the blunt between his fingers before he put it between his lips to take another hit into his lungs. "Nun' forreal. Just wanna go home and be with my family. Clubs played out. All we do is sit in one spot, nod our heads to the music and dip" He shrugged.

But Octavius and Nairobi had been bumping heads the past couple of weeks, the topic being Tarquin. Octavius didn't trust him, Nairobi took it as Octavius not trusting her around Tarquin, without saying, and finding any reason to make him go away. But Octavius being a man picked up on another man's slick game and Nairobi didn't see that as so, even if Octavius explained. She was so lost in their childhood relationship and was for certain that he was still that same person she was dealing with a decade later. Nairobi didn't want to talk to Octavius as much at the moment because of this, until he got over Tarquin being around. If she wasn't with the kids, she was with Jade and if she wasn't with Jade, she was at her store.

Octavius sighed to himself, wishing she would finally realize that he wasn't the problem ... not this time.

"All you can do is talk to her man. She knew that nigga all her life ... she ain't gon see nun' until it happens, if it happens. Let her learn the hard way. She'll listen to you next time fasho" Adonis nodded before nudging Octavius's arm with his elbow. "Speaking of, there go ya brother right there"

Octavius glanced at Adonis to see what direction he was looking in, then connected his eyes over to Tarquin who was entering the building with a couple of men and a few girls with him. He had his button down shirt open to expose his toned torso, his hair in long plaits that hung downwards, some small frameless shades. This was his usual attire, a pretty boy look.

"A nigga that want my girl ain't no fucking brother of mine" He replied as his eyes never left Tarquin.

Tarquin spotted Octavius and he and his friends made their way over. Octavius and Adonis had too many people around them so it wasn't so easy for Tarquin to get to them.