Hurt Like This

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°Deanne's POV°
8:33 P.M.

🎶'Bout to catch another flight ——yeah!
The apple bottom make 'em wanna bite ——yeah!
I just wanna have a good night...
I just wanna have a good night ——hold up.
If you don't know, now you know.
If he broke then you gotta let him go.
You could have anybody, eeny, miny, moe!
'Cause when you a boss, you could do what you want!

Yeah...
'Cause girls is players too, uh...
Yeah, yeah.
'Cause girls is players too ——keep it player, baby.
'Cause girls is players too.
Bitches gettin' money all around the world.
'Cause girls is players too...'🎶

Tapping my feet lightly against the metal bar on the stool, I sing along with the lyrics to Coi Leray's 'Players', in my head, while sticking another French fry in my mouth.

I'm sitting in Kimone's hairdresser parlour, eating, while I wait for her to add the finishing touches to her current client's hair.

Aye, that's why mi nuh run dung braids eno. Cyaa siddung one place so long.

Mi deh ya fi 'bout forty-five minutes and all now muma hair cyaa done to rahtid. And mi can bet how long she deh yah too, 'cause mi come see her here.

I like it though. It's really neat. And fits the girl's round face, perfectly. And the colour lightens her already light skin tone.

Yeah, man, mi like it. It really looks good...

Plus, mi see everybody a do it, so a it a wear.

Weh yuh call them braids deh again though, weh some plait and some pull out and curly?

Gypsy braids. Yeah that...

I think I might do that style for the summer too. Maybe...

But if mi ago do it, mi definitely naggo do it inna black. Mi waa likkle colour inna mi life.

Taking small glances at the browning, across from me, I see that she and Kimone are in deep conversation, but I can't hear what they're saying because of the loud music which fills my eardrums.

My eyes travel over the girl's body, noting her appearance. She's really pretty. And I love the snake tattoo that's on her arm.

Speaking of...

Mi feel like mi woulda get a tattoo too eno. But mi nuh know of what...yet.