New York, NY 📍
10:40 AM

"Hurry up Justice!" Zoey rushed her sister to come open the gifts that were covering the entire couch of the suite's living room.

Justice had just woken up about an hour ago and wanted to take a shower and get herself together. She sat in the studio last night for hours and hours bringing in her birthday while recording a new single.

Justice was originally supposed to go back to Chicago but her friends flew in late last night to surprise her.

"Why are you rushing me? You act like these are your gifts?" Justice came in the front room with her eyes glued to her phone's screen as she responded to the messages that flooded her notification center.

Zoey grabbed her plate so she could move closer to the couch. "I mean whatever you don't like or don't wear I'll definitely be rocking it so yeah it's kinda like my gifts"

Justice locked her phone and smiled widely at the set up that awaited her. "Oh my god Zoey you actually did this?" she turned to her sister who scrunched her face up in return.

"Girl hell nah. Your man did. I feel like being your sister is a gift as it is. Correct?" Zoey took a peek in one of the Gucci bags.

Justice popped her hand and sat at the end of the couch so she could start opening her gifts. "No but I'll let you go this one time"

"I'm just kidding. Mine is in the Cartier bag" Zoey watched her sister go through the many bags. Her eyes lit up with each gift, due to the fact that they were things she had pointed out or talked about that she thought Durk wasn't paying attention to.

Like clockwork, her phone started to ring and she quickly answered it. Once the facetime call connected her smile slightly fell once she saw that he was still in bed, In Chicago. "I thought you were going to come here" she questioned.

He sat up in his bed "I am. I had to do something last night so that fucked up my timing i'll be there late though. You opened all of your gifts?"

Justice shook her head "No I have two more left" she flipped her camera to see the remaining gifts. "I love everything so far though I really do."

"Open that blue one first" He smirked as she turned the camera back around and reached for the smaller blue box with a white satin bow on it.

Zoey sat her food down as she pulled out her own phone to record. She already knew what the gift was, since she helped with it. She watched Justice pull the bow off and opened the jewelry box. She was quiet as her eyes fell upon the Gold Diamond necklace. In the middle was a picture of Nell and Justice from when they were kids. A picture she hasn't seen since Nell's mother took it that day.

Her silence was now concerning since she sat the phone down and truly admired the chain. As hard as she tried to fight the urge to cry she lost that battle. Tears brimmed her now glossy eyes. "How'd you get this picture?" was the first thing to come out of her mouth.

"Your sister helped me get it"

Zoey held both of her hands over her head pretending to put on a crown. "You know Im going to always pull something off for you"

Justice wiped her eyes and grabbed her sister pulling her into a tight hug. "Thank You. I love you both so much words can't even explain it."

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Justice held her corset close to her chest while Zoey and Chris tightened the back for her. Her birthday dinner was starting in about an hour and her mood was just calm for the moment. After weeks of trying to plan something she settled on having a dinner in New York and just invited her family, Dearra and Chris. She would have a separate one when she got back to Chicago tomorrow but that's was what she thought.

Her camera sat in front of her as she was on Instagram Live talking with a significant amount of viewers. Most of them being fans and the others just watching for the blogs. "Thank You Guys so much" she responded to the many 'Happy Birthday' comments that were coming in.

"I got something special for yall dropping in a few hours just wait on it" When she came back to New York she linked up with Lola Brooke for a song they were working on and even shot the video. It was so much she had done in the last 72 hours but it was worth it. Justice needed this little break from the clinic she worked at, to focus a little harder on her music that she was just sitting on.

"Yall keep asking where my man at. Where yall man at huh?" She rolled her eyes. "Anyways, to all of my supporters I'm having a show in Chicago next week. I'll drop the details soon"

Justice always found it to be weird that Nina followed her on Instagram. Just watching her page, didn't like anything, always watched her stories and even joined to watch her whenever she went live. The obsession was real. She ignored it though and continued to read some of the comments.

Anonymous: Is it true Durk got your name tatted?

GianniPaolo: You like white boys? Can I get on your roster?

Latto: The titties is tittying!! Happy Birthday Beautiful ❤️

She nodded "Yup that's true and you're funny Gianni. Thanks Boo!" she blew a kiss at the camera for Latto. She walked away from the camera to look at herself in the mirror. Even though she didn't intend on wearing heels the entire weekend Chris still forced her to put some on for her Birthday.

Justice walked back in front of her camera and picked up her phone so she could end her live video. At the same time there was knock at her front door. Zoey yelled out "I got it" from the living room.

Soon her little sister appeared in her door frame. "Let's go girl, you take a day and a half to get ready"

"Girl can you even get in the clubs or lounges yet?" Chris cleaned up the hair products he had out when he did Justice's hair.

Zoey pulled out her I.D "Duh I been had a fake I.D out here. Been standing on business since I was sixteen"

Later that night

Justice was the first person out of the sprinter, happily as she was now feeling the shots she took at the restaurant. "Who wants to race?" she questioned as she started to take off her heels.

Dearra shook her head expeditiously. "You better not run off Justice because I ain't about to chase you"

Rae chuckled, she was equally as drunk as her cousin. "Me! Come on" she put on her Fendi slides and waited for Justice to get ready.

Zoey just watched them silently and took out her phone to record. "I swear if one of them fall it's going straight on Tik Tok"

Without even counting down Justice took off running, Rae not far behind her pissed that she was cheating. The two of them ran far enough to the end of the block deciding to stop there since it was plenty of cars actively passing by. Rae clutched her chest and leaned over. "I don't know why I even agreed to that knowing that I got asthma and smoke all day"

Near the lounge two girls were walking up accompanied by a few males. Zoey overhead one of the girls slickly say "Bitches still race? How old are we?"

Zoey stopped recording and turned to look at the group. "Old enough to pop you in yo shit"

Dearra stuck her head out of the sprinter "Twice!" she said loudly so they could all hear. Chris smirked but then he tilted his head to the side a little as he was trying to figure out where he had seen one of the males from.

He leaned over to Zoey "Isn't that your sister ex?"

Zoey had to move over to see Jay who was busy talking to one of the other guys. "Yeah that's him. Jay! She with you?" Zoey pointed at girl.

He nodded and walked around their small crowd to come over to her. "Yeah, why wassup?"

Zoey wasn't really liking the tone that he had. It was like he was basically saying wassup as if he wanted to create a problem. "She talking crazy out the mouth like somebody won't pop her in her shit"

Justice and Rae were now walking up. Justice sighed and rolled her eyes looking at Jay who licking his lips once he seen her. "Happy Birthday Mei" He tried to give her a hug but she brought the palm of her hand to his forehead pushing him away.

"Don't ever call me that. You know only my man can call me that and why are you here? Out of all of the places in New York you just so managed to come to this one?"

Before Jayson could even respond himself, the girl who had previously said something to Zoey spoke up. "Can we go inside why you even entertaining these bitches? She not that important"

Rae gave Chris her phone. "What you tryna do?" Rae was quiet when needed to but she was definitely a fighter alongside her cousins.

Justice looked between the girl and then Jay "You better get your little friend Jayson I'm not playing"

Jayson who was now mad she had brought up Durk just shrugged and brushed past Justice making sure to bump her. "Nah tell yo nigga to come do it since that's all you talk about"

"Sounds like a hater" Dearra chuckled.

Justice was fed up and ready to get this over with "You wanna get this fade or no?" She looked at the female who was politely handing her purse over to somebody from their group.

Zoey quickly intervened "Nah not on your birthday" as the girl poorly got into her fighting stance.

"This bitch think she's on Mortal Kombat" Zoey covered her mouth laughing.

Jayson ended up grabbing the girl's arm and going in the entrance of the lounge. He didn't like the fact that Justice was in a relationship but he wasn't about to let her fight especially on her birthday.

"Oh Okay" Justice fixed her dress as she reached for her heels. "Matter of fact" she threw the heels back in the sprinter. "Ima keep these slides on just incase a bitch feeling some type of way"

★☆

Justice placed the end of her phone to her ear as she attempted to listen to what Durk was saying. Of course the loud music made it impossible to do so. Justice without a warning got up and walked away from the group. Her cousin followed immediately, she was a strong believer of one move, we all move.

Pushing open the bathroom door that Justice had just gone into, Rae was a little relieved to see that Justice was standing by the sink with her hand covering her left ear while her phone was pressed against her right ear. "I don't understand why it's a problem now? You just said earlier you were coming this afternoon, and then later this evening now you can't come".

Giving her a bit of privacy Rae went to the bathroom stall deciding to use it since she was already there and her bladder was weak when drinking. She could only hear bits and pieces of  Justice's conversation before wiping herself and flushing the toilet. As she left the stall she didn't hear her voice anymore.

Justice was still standing near the sink this time she wasn't on the phone. Rae walked over to the sink and started to wash her hands before speaking up. "You wanna talk about it?" She could see the look Justice had on her face.

"I just know what it feels like to have someone lie to me Rae and that's exactly what he's doing." Justice frowned.

Rae grabbed the paper towels from the automatic towel dispenser. "What makes you so sure"

"I just have this gut feeling man. I don't know he didn't sound like himself on the phone so I take it as he probably out high it's just all pissing me off"

"Well look" Rae threw the paper towels away. "We here for a good ass time not a long ass time. We celebrating all that other bullshit can wait till tomorrow, I'll be damn if I watch you sit up here and let any of niggas ruin your day"

Justice nodded slowly. "You're right maybe I'm over thinking it"

"Exactly now come out and take these pictures" Rae opened the bathroom door and took Justice's phone to take her pictures and videos for the gram.  "Mhm my bitch pose is NASTYYYYY" she joked to lighten up her cousins mood.

Chicago, IL

7:22AM

The last twenty four hours felt like an eternity to Durk. He ran his hands down his face as he paced the studio back and forth again for the one hundredth time. He felt beyond bad the situation at hand.

Mia sat that with her legs crossed and her arms crossed over her chest. "Walking around the room again isn't going to help Durk. We need to figure out what a plan for this baby"

Just hearing the word 'baby' made him cringe. Not that he didn't want kids, he just didn't want any with her. "That shit crazy." He looked walking and just looked at her. "Why should I believe you?"

Mia shrugged "I mean I have nothing to lie about. Im not just out here sleeping with any and everybody"

Durk frowned. "Yeah but you was quick to have a threesome with me and Nina before so Ion know what else you been out here doing"

Mia laughed. "You right. I was only quick to do it because it was with you and I knew I could take you away from Nina and I did so"

"Iight so get rid of it then you still got time damn near since you waited so fucking long to tell me." He looked down at her stomach that was hidden by a Essentials hoodie.

Mia shook her head no as she stood up. "Nah see it doesn't just go away like that. See you're going to pay for the abortion and then you're going to wire me some hush money and on top of that you're going to send me money every month for the next two years"

"What? You be on coke" he waved her off.

Mia shrugged and grabbed her purse off of the table. She had been here for enough time with him and got her point across. "It's either that or i'll just put it out there especially for your girl to see it. I'm sure she would love to know how you spent her birthday. Bye Durk" she opened the door to the studio.

As if matters could get worse, Dessire was coming out of the other studio with a group of people. She glanced in the room at Durk and then seen Mia. She mugged him and continued walking down the hall with the group she was with.

He knew now that he was on a strict time schedule either Mia was gonna tell it, or Dessi was going to tell what she  had saw.