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New Orleans, Louisiana32 days after incident

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New Orleans, Louisiana
32 days after incident

"This is so fucking fucked up."

Ke'Ann glanced down at Winnie, noticing how much she was cursing now. She rarely cursed and used other words in substitution. Like gosh-darn-it or sweet baby Jesus or fiddle-sticks. Never full on curse words. It changed recently and Ke'Ann was hearing all type of inappropriate language coming from the mouth of his sweet innocent wife.

Because of the silence, Winnie turned to look at him and already saw that he was staring. "What?" She asked.

Ke'Ann shook his head. "You're cursing a lot more than usual." He addressed.

"Oh...yeah." Winnie nonchalantly replied.

She tuned away and went back to the broken down studio they were standing in front of. After hearing recent news about the academy undergoing construction early than expected, Ke'Ann chose to take Winnie to view her new studio. It wasn't looking the same as when he purchased it a few months ago. Only the interior was looking rusty with old furniture and dust everywhere. Now the exterior had broken windows and graffiti on the walls that spelled out cunt and bitch. It definitely didn't look as presentable as it had been.

It was quite disappointing to the both of them. More so in Winnie's eyes. It sucked that the academy was closed because she needed to practice for her dance competition in a few days. Her students were wondering when they were going to get back to it. Blowing up her messages for any news. Winnie let them know what was going on and told them to practice at home as best as they could. But that wasn't going to be enough for this opportunity that was presented to them. All of this came out of nowhere and it was blowing her.

"Disappointed?" Ke'Ann questioned. He was anxious to hear her response. The last thing he wanted to keep doing was dissatisfying her with his actions. They were never on purpose or to hurt her. He was trying, dramatically failing, to bring things back to where they used to be. He was going to keep saying it over and over again, he wanted their marriage to go back to normal. Her happiness was more important than anything else.

Winnie hummed, her eyes traveling around as she scanned the studio. She didn't want to be rude because she knew he was being caring. She appreciated that. However, there was no way in hell she was going to be able to practice in this place with the way it looked. That wasn't happening.

"To be honest..." she paused, trying to find a nice way to put it. "I'm thankful for the studio but I can't do anything with it at the moment, Key. I need a place to practice right now for this competition Saturday." She proceeded.

"I know. I'm sorry." Ke'Ann apologized.

"It's fine."

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