The Aftermath

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May 1996:
Justine

I'm performing at the Soul train today and I can't tell you how much I love that show. From a little kid, I would always rush home to watch all the performances like Whitney Houston, New edition, Karyn White....and many more. I still rush to watch performances on there to this day forward.

I'm singing one of my hit songs that recently hit the top of the charts in just a week called Who do U love.

Yes a lot of shit has been mentioned in the media like This song is about DeVante....Was DeVante cheating on you?....all that shit. But all of the rumours that were going through the tabloids were true except the the song being about DeVante. Like I wrote this song based on my very first relationship back in high school.

Yep, the past got me like.....

But I'm still shocked that me and Tupac haven't been floating around in the media and that's a good thing because I don't need them kind of rumours roaming sound the country, getting people into my business.

I came out of my dressing room as it was a couple of minutes before performing on stage.

I wasn't looking where I was going when I bumped into a tall figure. I stopped in my tracks as I looked down to see who it was. My face connected to his face as I knew exactly who it was.

DEVANTE!

A huge knot all of a sudden formed into my throat as I didn't know what the hell was going to happen yet.

He took of his sunglasses as I looked deep in his hazel eyes. I wanted to look away but it was too hard to. I thought my heart was beating out my chest and I thought I was literally about to collapse.

Staring into his eyes made me realise why I fell in love with him in the first place. It bought back the good memories that we had together which made me even cry at this moment because I was mad that our relationship had failed.

My face softened nearly forming a discrete smile but as soon as he released a breathy laugh, showing his beautiful white teeth, I couldn't do anything but smile back really hard.

'It's been long' DeVante trailer of smiling at me

'It's only been a month DeVante, what are you on about?' I laughed a bit

'....yeah, I know' he said making my heat skip a bit

'So what you doing here?' I asked fidgeting with my fingers

'I'm performing with my boys tonight' he smiled up at me

'Oh...' I said

It went silent again. My face was no longer looking at his, it was facing the ground.

'You look beautiful tonight' he said making my head lift up

'....thank you....' I trailed of 'you too DeVante....especially your hair didn't I do something for you like that?'

'Yeah but it still looks better when you did it then how the Jamaican lady did it....damn she did it so tight' he hissed at the pain touching his cornrows

'Boy suck it up!' I laughed

It got silent after we stopped speaking. I held my head down as I twisted my lips, rocking my feet back and forth discreetly. I started to fidget with my fingers as I grew nervous, realising that I was supposed to be out on stage in a couple of minutes as I noticed a watch on DeVante's wrist.

'Shit! I better get going' I looked up at him quickly smiling as the silence broke

'Alright then.....I'll see you sometime soon' he smiled as I smiled back at him

I gave him one finally last look before walking of away from me, only to be stopped when I heard him call my name.

'JUSTINE!' He shouted out making me turn around

'Yes' I replied calmly

'I'm really sorry....I know you might not love me how you did back then but you will always have a place in my heart' he smiled making me remember that I said those same exact words to him when we broke up 'I will always love you'

'I will always love you too' I mouthed out as I didn't want to speak before I mess up my makeup with tears

......

'WHAT!' I shouted out in excitement 'you meaning to tell me Versace want me to be on there cat walk and sing a song as they Model the clothing toy song?'

'We wouldn't come all the way here if we were joking' Donatella Versace laughed

'Damn, I must be dreaming...out of all the people, you chose me' I widened my eyes as I was still trying to take in the moment

'Well obviously they wanted something different....more authentic.....' Suge laughed

Damn this a dream come true....like damn I most be that high in the music industry for other artistic industries to come and work with me....well you don't know, I could have my own clothing line in a couple of years time....

'What song would you like me to sing?' I asked with all eagerness

'Any song you wanna sing' Donatella smiled at me

'Will I be able to like wear any of y'all clothing?'

'Girl it's Versace we want you matching with all the other girls...we don't want you to be the odd one out' she laughed

'Alright then'

'Well I got the papers of the information of what is going to be happening on that night'

Damn I got a week two weeks to prepare myself for this....like damn what imma gonna wear....what song I'm I going to sing....I'M GOING TO ITALY!

A couple of minutes after, the meeting was finished and I felt like Suge had something to do with it as he has the smirk spread out on his face.

'Whattttt?' I dragged out laughing a bit

'Nothing' he laughed taking a drag of his cigar

'Yeah yeah....what'd you do?' I cocked my eyebrow

'Do what?' He asked only making his voice go higher

'Suge, don't play with me' I laughed

'Aight....they called me saying that they need someone from my label to sing/rap at the fashion show but I knew that none of them niggas were going to give in so I decided to say that you would be able to do it as you would be the perfect fit'

'Tupac would've done it' I said

'You know Tupac would've helped himself with the models then helping himself rap his own song' We both laughed as he stared the obvious 'But he will also be performing on the cat walk as well as you would be'

'Wait....what....why....imma do a better show then we could' I joked

'Whatever you say' Suge laughed

Damn I ain't ever thought that me and Suge would bond together like this....ever after what happened two years ago.

'Yo Suge....' He responded with a calm hmmm 'Thanks for hooking me up man'

'No problem' he said acting as if it wasn't a biggie 'Yo, Justine!'

'Yeah' I turned around 'we got headshots to take tomorrow, be there 3pm sharp here'

'I'll be there' I said

Headshots for what?