GRAVITY
ASCYRIS JALIL PETERSON
June 8, 2023
Atlanta, Ga
"YOU gone keep staring at her or you gone say sum?" Duress bumped AJ's shoulder catching his attention.
"What?" Aj looked over at his childhood friend, lifting the perfectly pearled blunt up to his lips.
"Ain't that Ziya friend?" He questioned his homeboy. Duress came in town from Chicago yesterday morning, this was the first time the 2 were able to actually hang out since he got settled.
"Ion know what you talking bout gangy," he pulled his phone out to check the time. 1:17 am. They had been there for about an hour and a half.
His sister, cousin and Milani were across the room inside the kitchen where the 2 girls had a blunt in rotation. Milani stood off to the side conversing with some random dude.
"Yeah okay, I ain't stupid nigga. Y'all fucking?" Duress questioned with a raised brow.
"Bro watch aht," Aj mugged him, waving him off.
"I'm just saying gang, you got it," Duress backed off with a sigh as Aj passed the blunt his way.
"We not fucking, she ain't that type," Aj spoke up making Duress look over at him.
"Damn, so she got yo ass hooked and you ain't even cracked," Duress shook his head. "Go get yo girl man," he added on.
"She not my girl man." He stated.
"She knew about the other shorty?" He questioned taking a long pull from the blunt. Aj simply nodded.
Before they could continue their conversation a few of Aj's brothers had come up to him.
"You ready bru?" Lucci asked him doing a small shimmy with his shoulders.
"Ohh shit here y'all go," Duress shook his head as the boys prepared to stroll. The Nasty Song by Lil Ru played loudly through the speakers as the floor opened up to the group of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. Aj pledged into the Fraternity during March.
"Here nigga," Shawn handed him a red rose.
"Preciate it," he thanked him.
Ascyris hadn't been to a party to stroll in a while, he had only attended his practices, mandatory meetings and community events that were held.
Aj made his way to the front of the line as they began to stroll through the parties. Chanting out words that had the crowd going wild. Along his way through the crowd, Aj caught eye of a few cameras but making sure to never give eye contact.
He refused to be put on social media, being referred to as easy.
"She wit da whooo," he yelled out shimmying his shoulders before he dropped and did a quick turn. Just as he turned back forward he caught eye of Milani who was now front and center along with his cousin and sister.
"She wit da nupes na," he called out looking her dead in her eyes as he got in her face. He looked her up and down while he continued to stroll.
