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The Now: Chideziri POV
Twelve O' three and Amanda's still not here.
Abe swishes the contents of his cup around and stares at the people swaying around him. It's his second in almost an hour, he just swirls it round and round the cup, like doing that would make it taste any less than some bodily fluid. Braids are sweeping the floor, shapes like hour glasses strut about. The type of babes that you don't even glance at if you don't have up to five-hundred-K in your account that is easily spendable. I know when Abe is checking out a babe; he gets that dangerous glint in his eye. He shouldn't even bother.
"She's girl is pretty." He says.
I cut him some nasty side and say "Don't even dream about it."
He snickers. "I was just stating the obvious guy, relax."
"Better. Just leave it at that level." He laughs a deep laugh that curls up from his belly. Ahmed is still trying to get Chantelle to laugh. So far, he has managed to squeeze half a smile out of her, twice
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