Heal Your Heart: An August Alsina Story

3. A Small World

Stephanie and Serenity hit up a club after dinner. They decide to party at the 40/40 Club. They had the VIP section reserved for their turn up. Stephanie's dress attire was different from those in attendance. Stephanie was wearing black skinny jeans, a leopard top and black boots. She had a red cluch under her arm. Her hair was in a pulled back, braided bun to emphasize on her facial beauty.

         Stephanie wasn't the type to socialize or hang in a pack with friends at a party. She disappeared on the dance floor when she got in. She danced to everything that played with the exception of Raggaeton. While dancing, Stephanie overheard a conversation about a celebrity being in the building partying. Her days of being hype and thirsty over celebrities were long gone. That came to and end when she found out that her dream man, Omarion was taken. In her teen years, you couldn't tell her she would be the future Mrs. Grandberry.

       She continued to dance with her virgin piña colada in hand. Her feeta began to get tired, a Raggaeton song came on, so she decided it was time to take a break for a few songs. While sitting at the bar, Omarion's "Slow Dancin' came on. Stephanie glanced around the dance floor looking at all the couples take the floor. It took her back to her prom night in junior high school when Boys II Men's " I'll Make Love To You" played and no one offered her a dance. She thought this night was no different.

      "Care to dance"?, she heard with a thick New Orleans accent. She turned around to see a hand held out willing to join hers. "Sure". Normally, she would say " No" since she didn't know the person. This would  the first time she ever got a offered a dance from someone who wasn't old and sloppy drunk. She took this offer. She couldn't be anymore nervous as she hoped he didn't lower his hands where they didn't belong. She is very old school. She's not into the dancing of this generation. She couldn't help but smile as she smelled "Guilty" by Gucci from his neck and hoped he'd smelled the Sea Island Cotton by Bath and Body Works from hers. It was normal for the club to play Marvin Gaye's "What's going on?" to end the night before turning on the lights. When they finally turned on the lights, she thanked him for the dance and they introduced themselves and exchanged numbers. "By the way, my name is Stephanie". " I'm August"."Okay, nice meeting you, keep in touch ".

       Let's be real here, Stephanie knew who he was. She didn't want to let him know that yet. Of course he didn't remember her from the other night since she looked completely different being that she added extreme length to her hair by adding extensions to her short fro she sported when they first met. Going to a concert, you can look any kind of way. Going to the club, you must do it up. Stephanie used to have hair to the middle of her back before going natural after having a perm for 6 years. Would she have gotten approached had she looked the way she did the night they met? Absolutely not! No man would even look at a woman with a short cut just as long has theirs.

      Stephanie reunited with Serenity and the rest of the crew and headed home. During the ride home, she didn't care to discuss her dance that night. She knew she will be talking to deaf ears.