//COY'JAI
"Coy I been waiting months on you!" Ms. Erica screeched hugging me. I had finally made my way up to her shop, "I know ma'am life just been beating me up literally and I wanted to make sure I was fully focused" I said hugging her back.
"I'm just happy you here girl and you do not gotta call me no damn ma'am, Erica is just fine" she said letting me go. I looked around the shop seeing she had updated it a lot.
While in highschool they had this mentor group for us and one of the mentors was Erica, ever since we met we kept in touch she was very supportive.
"Ima show you the suite you gone be renting out.. you can paint and do whatever you want in here, the rent is four seventy five monthly but you have twenty four hour access and we got refreshments in the front." She explained grabbing my hand and pulling me to the back of the shop.
I loved I was getting my own suite cause being on the floor was just too much sometimes, I liked privacy and for my clients to have some kind of privacy.
"First months free tho just cause I know building clientele can be hard" she added and I nodded "I was gone ask if it was anyway you could post some of my work on your Instagram too just for promotion?"
"Of course! I was doing that anyways, you apart of the shop now so send me everything you want me to post. Ima go grab your keys and hopefully everybody be here soon so I can introduce you to them.. might not meet everybody tho cause they all work they on schedules" she explained while I looked around the suite. The room didn't need anything done, I was probably gone get a big mirror to put up against the wall and a cute bench but it was a small space and not much needed to be done.
"Okay I'm gonna go get my things out the car so I can setup everything.. I got like three clients coming in" I said "go ahead ima bring you the key"
I walked out to my truck grabbing my suitcase filled makeup and my lights before taking everything in the shop.
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"Y'all can come over I finally got furniture! We can have a little game night or something" I said to Shayla as I walked into my house. It was going on about eleven at night and I ended up getting four extra walk-in clients so I was just getting home.
"I gotta work in the morning babe and I'm not tryna get drunk" she said "who said anything about drinking? You or Britt haven't been over and y'all can spend the night" I said taking my AirPod case out my pocket and putting one of the buds in my ear before sitting the case and my phone down on the counter.
"You right butttttt I'd rather come over on my off days, we can have a spa day or something next week cause I then picked up double time all this week.. I'm not even gone have time to see Jayson so don't feel bad"
"You know what I need to get on my shit like you, ima end up posting on Facebook or something I'm taking walk-ins for the rest of the week" I mumbled before washing my hands and pulling a pan out so I could reheat my Chinese food from earlier.
"See that's the spirit.. you talked to Ant?" She asked making me roll my eyes. I did talk to him a few days ago and I accepted his apology but I told him I just wasn't comfortable being around him yet until I was healed from the situation then he started going off about that saying it took people years to heal and I told his ass well if it take years that's when you gone talk to me. We basically went back and forth for an hour straight over the phone until I just hung up on him and blocked him.
"No we ain't really speaking"
"Damn what happened? What he do?"
"Nothing, Britt was right I can't let that shit go. I'm definitely happy with the shit I got from him but being around him just don't sit well with me" I explained "well at the end of the day do what's best for Coy, today you might not wanna talk, tomorrow you might need a few dollars."
