August's Flame {Mature}

Four: Firsts (edited)

AUG

I sat on my couch, trying to figure a way to keep Amber out of my life, and make room for Desire. I continued packing up Amb's things, and drank my cup of henny. My doorbell rang, and I automatically assumed it was her. "Aug, did you change the locks?" She asked as I let her in. I nodded and sat back on the couch, waiting for her to speak. "I'm sorry baby, I overreacted earlier. We can work this-" "We ova' Amb. I'm done with whateva this is. I'a take my keys now." I held out my hand for my car keys. She started crying and took them off of her key ring. "How could you do this to me August?" She yelled, making me laugh. "Girl, you broke it off this morning. Besides, don't you got another man?" She got quiet, grabbed her stuff, and called an Uber. I locked the door behind me and called Des. "Hey beautiful, you done shopping?" "Yeah I am, can I come drop some stuff of to you, and then we'll head to Flame?" I agreed to her terms and buzzed her in the gate. "Hey Auggiepooh!" Des shouted, I mugged her and then gave her a hug. "So whatchu bring me baybeh?" I asked, sitting down on my couch and lacing my Timbs. She unzipped her coat and revealed her outfit for tonight. "Damn ma, I ain sure I want you to go up with that on. You might wanna leave that here." She smiled and re-zipped her coat, and sat by me. "Its my last month at Flame, according to you, so I wanted to go out with a bang." I laughed at her goofiness, and turned to face her. "I kicked Amber out. I want you to move in with me this weekend." She smiled and kissed me. "Okay Aug." I licked my lips and smiled at her. "Its August baybeh."

She kissed my lips again before she went on stage to do her thing, and when she did it, she did it. It was almost mesmerizing, seeing her dance and do her thing. I knew dancing was Desire's passion, which is why I wasn't mad when I found out about her new job. Besides, I can't have my girl being looked at by every thirsty dude in the ATL. The sound of clapping snapped me out of my thoughts, as I watched Desire collect her money off of the stage. Somebody threw her some hundreds. I chuckled and smiled to myself, because he still couldn't get her. She was mine.

DESIRE

After my shift at Flame, I decided to go home, and think about this whole moving in thing. I've never lived with a guy, simply I had a drawer, or closet space for when I slept over. I decided to call my brother, although it was 2 am. "Dennis," "Yes Des?" "Where you at?" "Amber's house." "Where she live?" "Macon, why?" "Text me the address, I needa talk to my bro." "Aight girl, but its hella late." "Boy I don't care, be ready in an hour." Beep beep beep. I received the text a few minutes later, and got dressed in my all black Adidas track suit. I grabbed a piece of cold pizza and a bottle of fanta, and left. I was blasting my Spotify, and cruising when Aug called me. "Baybeh, I just wanted to say you did great tonight." "Thanks Auggiepooh." "You gone stop callin me that." "Whatever, what you calling me for?" "You sound like you in the car." "I am, going to see Dennis." "How long you been drivin babe?" "An hour, his girlfriend lives in Macon." "That's where Amber lives." "Yeah, his girlfriend Amber." "No, my ex Amber." I paused for a second. "Do you think..." "Yes I do. But I know Dennis don't know nothing about it. He's only 19." "Okay Auggie, so why'd you call?" "I went by your house, you weren't there." "Oh, well I'm alright babe." "I know, I was just checkin on ya love." "Of course you were, anyway, let me put this address in Maps real quick, I'll call you when the sun comes up." He chuckled and sighed. "Aight Des, see ya later." Beep beep beep. I smiled to myself and opened up the message from Dennis. I texted him to let him know I was 19 minutes away, and he had better not be asleep.

I pulled up at the house, and was in shock. How could Amber afford this house? She ain't got no job. Maybe she's pimping other guys besides Aug and Denny. Dennis came out of the house drinking a Monster and wearing the same tracksuit as me. "So where we going sis?" He asked, passing me a can of Monster. "Warner Robins, just to a 24 hour pizza place." He smiled and pulled out his Beats headphones. "We'll talk when we get there." I drove with my music blasting, as Dennis was blasting his. I honestly didn't know how I was going to tell him that his girlfriend was cheating on him. I had August send me a picture of them together so I could have some proof that I wasn't lying. We arrived at Warner Robins in 25 minutes, and I immediately stopped for gas, and then headed on to the pizza place. I snatched Dennis' headphones off of the top of his head, and slammed my car door, waking him up. "We're here, lets eat." We rolled in the Pizza place and got at least one of everything off the buffet. "So whats up sis, lets talk." I stopped eating and looked at him. "Good news, or bad news first?" He laughed uneasily and nodded at my hand that was holding the stuffed crust pizza, indicating that he wanted the good news first. "Okay so, Aug asked me to move in with him. He broke up with his girl Amber, because she was cheating on him." Dennis rubbed the back of his neck and drank a sip of his monster. "With who?" He asked. Damn my brother is clueless.