All the Right Moves | AUGUST ALSINA.

ATRM | NINE.

Was gonna update for Augusts birthday but I just didn't give a fuck enough and didn't feel like it, so.

I be all like "I'm not gon update" "See y'all next week" "I'm never updating again." Just to update the same night 🙄🙄 I'on like y'all bye.

Anyway.

Enjoy bookie. 💗

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Miami, Florida.
Unedited.

Phoenix sat at the table in the nail salon, spacing out while the women around her talked loudly. Some conversations were personal, some were just simple small talk, while others were full blown regular conversations. Conversations Phoenix couldn't see herself being apart of today.

"You okay girl?" Marissa, her nail tech, asked, adjusting her mask so Phe could hear her clearly.

"Huh?" Phoenix snapped out of her thoughts, "Oh, yeah I'm okay boo, do I seem off?"

"Not necessarily off... just a little bit more in your head than you usually are." Riss said and moved on to the other hand. "Everything okay?"

"Oh, yeah, of course. Ony just had to go away for work again but this time... it feels different this time, him leaving I mean. Usually he'd do the most to at least give me a hug before he had to go but he just gave me a phone call and it wasn't even directly to me."

"Wait, back up, I'm confused. So he called you or he didn't call you?"

"Technically he was on the phone with Bullet, then Bullet came over and told me he wanted to speak with me, that's how I found out. It's like he purposely avoided me maybe... but why would he? That's the thing."

"To be honest boo? We everyone in the city knows Onyx doesn't play about you, what if it isn't even anything bad? I remember the last time you came you said he was stressed over a promotion, maybe he's just stressed again and forgot. Don't overwhelm yourself." Riss reassured.

"No you're right and that's what Madi said too, and they're pretty close so I should've just taken her word for it." She huffed.

"They still not together?" Riss snickered and Phe made a slight face.

"No, why would they be? Onyx doesn't like her like that and Madi is planning on moving across the country after she graduates college, so." Phe said, wanting to change the subject. "Me and Davi broke up though."

"I heard from some messy ass girl that goes to your school." Riss rolled her eyes, "And I also saw what happened to you... are you okay? I mean clearly if you're in my seat but mentally, doesn't that shit fuck with you?"

"All the time." Phe immediately answered. "And when I'm by myself I'll let myself feel whatever emotions I feel like I should and go from there but I'll never show it in front of them or Bully... lately I just feel like I'm more of a burden than anything else. Me being overly depressed when mommy died and daddy left, me and Onyx almost losing the other on multiple occasions, the boy I thought I was going to marry cheated on me and... did one of the worst things possible, then with B- it just feels like I can't catch a break, that's all." She mumbled, putting her hands under the UV drying lights. "I think I'm still seeking closure for a situation that's been over with, me simply going through the situation was closure enough-"

"But you want more? It isn't something you're willing to accept?" Marissa sat back in her seat, cleaning off her nail brushes before grabbing one of Phe's hands and adding diamonds to her nails.

"Literally what is is." She huffed and shook her head. "And then something I don't really wanna talk about but... something almost happened and... and I feel like shit for being upset that it didn't. Then it's been three days since I've heard from said person that it happened with, I don't know, I feel like everything and everyone that I touch, I ruin."