Maybe They Were Right

23

February 5,2022
Los Angeles, California

| Third Person Omniscient |

It was the weekend and Chris was finalizing things for his album that was dropping in June. As soon as the album dropped, he was going on tour with Lil Baby. That was confirmed in January and Chris was excited. He would be on tour from early July to late August.

Karina on the other hand was doing hair and a walk in came into the suite. Karina spoke to the woman and said that she would be done in about 30 minutes and to write down her name and hairstyle. The woman nodded her head and did as told. Karina had been doing hair since 9 am and it was currently 4:30 in the afternoon. As she continued to braid the clients hair, she noticed the walk in taking pictures of her. At first, Karina didn't think much of it but then she realized exactly what she was doing.

"Hey, can you not take pictures of me please?" Karina asked nicely as she looked at the woman. The lady scrunched up her face and rolled her eyes. Karina continued to do her job and when she looked back over, the woman was still taking pictures of her. "Ma'am, I asked nicely for you to stop taking pictures of me."

"And I nicely ignored you. This is my phone and I can do what I want."

"Not in my suite you can't." Karina said calmy. Karina knew how to handle situations like this. She worked with parents and students all the time and she knew how to deal with disrespect and attitudes. It didn't phase her.

"Oh girl please. What you gon do if I don't stop? Call your lil boyfriend Chris Brown? I'm supposed to be scared of him?" She laughed. "Oh I forgot, he beat bitches up in real life...maybe I should be scared." Karina could feel herself getting angry so she took a deep breath and smiled.

"What you not gon do is talk to Karina that way. You being real disrespectful right now!" Karina's client said. She was about to get out her seat but Karina tapped her and told her it was okay.

"Listen, you can either leave voluntarily or security will escort you out. Make a choice." Karina said as she notified security.

"Ain't nobody escorting me out of nothing!" Two security guards walked in and Karina pointed to the walk in. They escorted her out and Karina shook her head.

"These hoes got you fucked up Karina. You should've let me out my seat." Karina laughed and shook her head.

"Girl how you gon fight with your hair almost done? Not gon mess up my hard work and besides you too pretty to be fighting Miya. Wayyy too pretty." The two ladies continued to talk and once Karina was finished, Miya gave her a $25 tip. Karina hugged her and she left. Karina decided to close the suite and go home for the day.

Karina thought about the interaction and just chuckled. People were psychotic about people they didn't even know and she found it amusing.

Chris was busy at rehearsal running through some of his throwback songs since he would perform some of those on tour as well. He always does.

"Wait y'all missing that step on the Gimme That part." Chris said to his dancers and he showed them the small step they were missing. They ran through it two more times and then took a break. Taylor was busy running through it again when Chris came up to her. "Yooo."

"Wassup Chris? How's the new baby?"

"She's beautiful. She coming back to California soon so I can see her, give her mama a break." Taylor smiled at Chris.

"Love to hear it."

"But nah check this out though...Karina I went on a date some nights ago." Taylor smirked at a smiling Chris.

"Ooouuu Karina got this nigga smilinnnnn. What y'all do?"

"Took her to this private cooking class and shit."

"Ohhhh sh- She got you being all romantic. Karina deserves it though. She's a sweetheart. Don't do my girl bad...or me and you gon have serious problems. I don't play about her." Chris laughed but Taylor was dead serious.

"Damn okay Tay. I got you." Tay smiled and walked away.