GRAVITY | zion kuwonu

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third person

Its already four years later. Skylar had two daughters, who were now 3 years old and had moved to Los Angeles, away from her mother. Ever since her fellow lover Zion confessed about sleeping with her mom, she never spoke to her mother ever again, even the first year when she still lived in the same house with her.

Zion had been single ever since. Of course he had a few flings here and there, one night stands every week, but he never fell in love after Skylar.

Skylar's pov

Grace and Faith were running around the apartment as Liam placed his lips against mine and kissed me goodbye.
I met Liam a year ago at a café and we became close friends, we only started dating three months ago though. He helped me raise Grace and Faith as his own kids even though I never told him who they're real dad was.
Zion got me and my mother pregnant, but my mom took his child away. I decided to keep the children but didn't tell him about them. I didn't want him back in my life.
Sometimes I can't sleep because he pops up in my mind and the stuff we've done replays in my mind. It gets me sick, I don't want to remember these things. I know that I still love him, I will always love Zion! He was my first love.
"I will come by tomorrow after work okay?" Liam asks and I nod.
"Great! Bye."
"Love you."
I smile and wave him out and I see he's a bit disappointed. I have never had the guts to say 'I love you' back to Liam, cause if I did, I would be lying. He loves me and I like him, and although he doesn't know what my last relationship was like, he respects the way I move and how slow I take stuff.

In the kitchen, I start making dinner and I hear Faith and Grace talking in the living room.
"I think Liam is our daddy", Grace says.
"I don't. We don't look like him."
"Mhmm.. you're right, smarty."
Smarty is a nickname me, Grace and Liam made up for Faith because she always said wise things and loved learning new things unlike her sister who loved watching tv and doing nothing.
"Mommy is light and we're light too, but Liam is white. If he was our daddy, we would be much lighter, don't you think, Gracie?"
I could imagine Grace nodding her head so heavily, her pig tales would bounce up and down.
I hate to keep the kids away from their father but I just don't want my daughters close to a person who could hurt me like that. That is also the reason why I only let my mom see Faith and Grace in the hospital after giving birth to them and never letting her see them again. For a solid five months she called me every single day, but I didn't want to hear her disgusting voice so blocked her.

"Dinner's ready, girls!" I sang, carrying the plates and bowls to the the table where the girls were sitting down.
Faith and Grace ate all their food, then I gave them an hour to play and then go to bed at 7:30p.m.

The next day I dropped the girls off at my friends Joyce's house because her kids were close with mine and they loved hanging out with each other and went out to a meeting for my brand.

Yes, ever since me and Zion went our separate ways, I wanted to stick my energy into something else so I went back to school and started studying fashion at a fashion academy.
Since I put a lot of work into this, people have been hiring me to design pieces of clothing and make them for events.

I even got the opportunity to design a dress for Cardi B, which she paid 12k for and she helped me gain my audience by giving me a shoutout on Instagram.

At the meeting my manager Remy let me know that I had to design 15 pieces of clothing because the Grammy's were coming up and artists wanted to look fly and apparently they all loved my work.
"Now there were a lot more people who wanted a piece from you but I told them no, because it would be too much work for you to handle."
"Okay. Who am I designing for?"
"That's not important. I will send you the measures of all the artists and you'll design and provide. You'll see who wears what on the night of the Grammy's so it'll all be kind of a surprise. Don't worry, they're all willing to pay you nothing less than 2.000 for every piece you design."
"So in total, I'll make around 30.000? That's crazy, Rem!"
"You can do this, now off you go. I'll send you the measures and preferences through email right now."

When I got home I immediately started designing, coloring and picking out what kind of clothing I wanted to use for what. The grammy's were in two months so I had enough time to do my stuff.

In less than two weeks, I was already done with 5 of the items, so I brought them to Remy who would send them off to the artists so they could fit it and send it back if it didn't fit quite right. Luckily none of them got sent back and I got paid a lot more than 2k a piece, which helped me buy more fun stuff for Faith and Grace and myself.

The night of the grammy's.

I had made an extra dress for myself because I got invited to the Grammy's by Remy. Me and her were backstage as I saw Beyoncé walking up to us, wearing my piece.
"Thank you so much for this one, Skylar! You did amazing!" She smiled as she pulled me in for a hug. "How can one be so talented, yet so young?" When she went her way, Cardi walked up to me and Remy and she was excited.
"Ay, my bitch, you slayed this shit right here!" She squealed as she pulled me in for a tight hug. Before I could say anything else, she pulled her phone out and snapped a video for a video with me as she said: "Elm (tongue-thing she always does) look at my outfit Instagram, I'm slaying, man! And all because of this bitch right here! Say hi!" I awkwardly said hi and waved at the camera and she stopped the recording, hugged me and then left me.

Remy and I stood there for another few minutes as most artists were getting ready for the start. When I saw them. There stood Pretty Much, all wearing a piece of my brand. I couldn't help but stare at them, they've grown up so much, Brandon and Austin even grew their mustaches out a bit and it looked good, and Edwin had his hair shaved off.

(I love his new look btw)

Zion and Nick looked pretty much the same, although Nick got taller and Zion's dreadlocks were gone. The only thing I saw was their side profiles and my heart started pumping in my chest.
"You alright, honey?" Remy asked, putting her hand on my shoulder and I nodded, turning away from the boys. "You don't look alright, let me get you some water."
I wanted to stop her from leaving me all alone but she was long gone before I could say anything. When I looked back at the guys who were only standing 10 feet away from me, Edwin looked at me and his face lit up.

"Sky!" He smiled walking up to me with open arms. When he noticed that I wasn't hugging him back, he let go of me. "You're not happy to see me?" He asked, disappointed.
Of course I was! How could I fucking not?!
"I'm just in shock. This is so random!" I said, putting my arms around his waist and hugging him this time. "You're wearing my piece!" I smiled eventually when he let go of me.
"Yeah, they told us that a Skylar made this but I didn't think it would be you? I never knew you were into fashion."
"Because I wasn't."
Then the other guys appeared along his side, except for Zion who went the other way.

"I still don't know what happened to y'all. Y'all were suddenly over in my eyes." Nick said, looking at his bandmate who was talking to French Montana.
"It's weird, and it's his decision whether he wants to tell you or not. Not mine."
They nodded as if they knew what I was talking about and we filled each other in about what was going on in our livesn until they had to leave because it was starting.

Where the hell was Remy though? It was almost as if she knew what was going on and she left me to talk to them.

That sneaky bitch.

Pls let me know what y'all think of chapter 1 of this story!!! Btw I'm still gonna include smut in here but not as much because that's not what its all about.

Love every single one of you guys xoxo