C.O.Z.Y

Chapter 4: The Late Late Show

"No!"

"Yes"

"Then what?"

"He was like 'we've known each other for years'...the asswipe"

"No way, he exposed you"

"Like a nude baby"

"Amara what if he just didn't get that he was supposed to keep it quiet"

"I thought that Gabi, I really did, then I remember that I did this..."

Amara shook her head back and forth

"How much clearer could..."

She shook her head no again

"...this be?"

"Damn...I bet Kita was pissed"

"Oh, on another level pissed, she thought I was going out of my way to sabotage her"

"What!?"

"That's what I said, like we aren't fucking friends why do I owe you anything"

"White girls I swear, what are you up to anyway?"

Amara slid into a smooth stop at the red light

"I'm on my way to the studio, we have a shoot today"

"Ah, well do great, love you"

"Love you too"

Amara ended the facetime call with Gabi as the guard at the studio gates let her through once he recognized her license plate, she parked her Audi into the parking garage and took the elevator up to the dressing room. Years coming to work in the Studio had phased Amara to the sheer size of the dressing room, an open floor lined with five large mirrors and seats, on the other side were three actual dressing rooms. As large as the space is, it always seems small because of the sixty people running around to set things up. Amara walked to her mirror and dropped her purse on it, the hair stylist approached and moved behind her. He tugged on her curls and released them from her silk scrunchie, he sprayed her hair with some water and instructed her to shake her head. Since Amara's came on the show, she's made it clear that nothing happened to her hair unless she consented, no straightening or whatever they wanted. The hair was left damp and separated into two braided pigtails, which would make the curls more uniform, as he finished up with her, Nolle and Kita strolled in and took a seats. The hair stylist headed over to Noelle and started working with her while Kita went to change her clothing. As both women faced forward and continued getting fixed up Nolle decided it would be the time to talk to Amara

"Kit said you hadn't contacted her about the situation?"

"What situation?'

"Amara!"

"What?"

"Kit feels like you were trying to sabotage her, she's pissed"

Amara turned her cheek for the makeup artist and sighs

"My intention was not sabotage and I was barely paying attention during the meeting, I didn't plan to run into Maverick...it just happened"

"That's quite a coincidence?"

"She chose the restaurant...did I implant the thought into her head"

Nolle sighed and shook her head, two of the other hostesses walked into the room and the atmosphere moved to one of business, the drama pushed to the side

On the other side of town one Mavrick Augustus sat in his office in C.O.Z.Y, his phone has been going off all day from family members, his mom apparently couldn't stop talking about how she was going to be on a show. It's been all out anarchy in the family group chat. At this point, he wanted to just turn off their notifications but was interrupted by his office door pushing open.