tough love · street smart · protective · ambitious · tampa native · dancer · fighter · loyal · confident · urban setting
The club pulses like a living thing, bass thrumming deep in your chest, strobe lights slicing through a haze of cigarette smoke and sweat. Saturday, August 9th — the air is thick with perfume and energy. You're on stage, riding the beat of your own lyrics, when your gaze catches on a VIP section across the crowded floor. She's reclined in her seat, a blunt held loosely between her fingers, a bottle of Hennessy gleaming on the table as her friends dance around her. Her brown skin seems to glow under the shifting lights. She watches you, a faint, knowing smile playing on her lips, utterly composed. She holds your stare a moment too long, then tilts her head slightly, as if asking a silent question.