PR1NCE

|9| For You

April 7, 1978

Today is the release of Prince's first full-length studio album, "For You". I woke up feeling excited, for him! It is a Friday, I didn't have work today. I decided to sleep in and get ready for Prince's release party tonight. By the time I did wake up, he already released the album at noon.

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Throughout the day I procrastinated around the house. Finally when the time did come I go dressed and dolled up for his event tonight, hosted at his house. I asked Tina to go along, since she was already a fan of Grand Centrals tune. Her and I have no benefits whatsoever, she's mostly my sister besides occasionally fucking...

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Once she arrived the clock read 8:30PM, and we would arrive around 9:30PM. One of the first people there, besides the few cars parked outside...
   "Beau! I'm so happy you mad it." He pulls me into a tight embrace. I hug him back, sensing something was wrong. Softly I rubbed his back while he squeezed me tighter. The embrace lasted longer then usual, which I wasn't complaining. Something about being in his toned arms while smelling his musk, made me feel at peace with my surroundings as well as myself.
   "Is everything alright?" I pulls back, slightly, looking into his eyes. He smiles back, looking into mine. I watch his eyes shift off me, and behind me, breaking our hug. I notice his eyes motioned a tad sadness in them, before I looked back.
   "Hi, I'm Tina." With my arm still wrapped around him, I moved facing her. She reaches out her hand to him and he shakes it.
   "Tina, oh the bartender Tina down at Speedies? Where Beau works at." She nods her head yes.
  "Don't mind Tina, were not dating... she's mostly here for the booze and food." She flipped me off after my comment, sticking her tongue out at me.
   "Oh yeah? Come on in, we have plenty of that." Prince escapes my grip, shutting the door behind her. Tina glances me a funny look.
   "Shut up." I motioned my words to her and she shrugs while he turns around.
   "Everyone is down in the studio, follow me." He say, grabbing onto my hand.

   I admire the piano, as we walk passed it behind the two French doors. We turned left, leading us down the stairs behind the door. All the people stop what they were doing and turned to us. My face turns bright red, as I hated being center of attention. I watch Tina out of the corner of my eye, walk back up the stairs slowly.
   "Hey this is Beau, Beau this is..." He points to them, going around.
   "David, Bobby, André, Dez, Matt, and Pepé." I wave at them, and they all quickly wave back.
  "Watcha guys got here." Prince says, walking over to them and picking up a record.
   "Sly & the Family Stone, my favorite!" He turns up the record player (to a decent level) and everyone got back to talking. Prince walks back over to me, wrapping his arms around my waist. I lean in, whispering in his ear.
"I happened to notice, that Tina and I are the only females here." He shook his head and laughed.
"Oh no, more people are coming, the party has just started." And with that.. the doorbell rings. He grabs my hand, which made my heart flutter, following behind him up the stairs.

   "I want you to meet everyone." He says, smiling at me. "Why though?" I asked myself. Instead of asking him, I shrugged as he wrapped his arm around my waist, opening the door. Eddie, Sharon, Eleanor, Kim, Britt, Bernadette, Gayle, and Gary walked through with a quick, simple but friendly introduction.

   Prince pulls me in his arms once everyone exited the room, going downstairs. I feel my heartbeat race faster, looking into his rich eyes. He smiles at me, slowly dancing to the music coming from downstairs. I dance with him, feeling relaxation roll over me.
  "Since you play Piano, do know how to play keyboard?" I spun around, remembering the times in middle school, where I did indeed for a fact played the keyboard.
   "Mhm," I shyly nod my head, not trying to be to conceded.
   "Cmon' lets go jam!" He quickly leads me by my hand, downstairs where everyone is at.