ari, be mine

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(covid does not exist in this story)
[ chapter 1 ]

december 30, 2018
6:00 a.m
manhattan, new york

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"Na, na, na.. na, na, na." I hummed along to the beat I had produced. I started it about 20 minutes ago and already finished. The sun was still rising but a good portion was already up. I've been here before sunrise.

"Don't take much to start me... push up on my body, yeah." I matched the lyrics I wrote before the beat, but I felt as if something was missing.

I sighed, leaning back as I scanned over the written words. The track played on repeat by the loud studio speakers.

"We can just dance to this." I thought out loud. My eyes then widened and I quickly wrote that down. This is when I began to completely reconstruct the lyrics to fit in the new sequence of words.

"Dance To This." I whispered before smiling widely. Song; complete. Title and all.

It was now 7:30 am, and I was sipping on my third cup of coffee this morning. I know it's not very good for you, but it tastes good. And it keeps me up.

I hope.

I was debating recording the song myself but I couldn't come up with a final decision. The reason being someone, well someone(s) barged into the studio. Rather loudly, may I add.

"No! Cou- oh." I turned my head to see 6 girls and 2 guys. They were all fairly attractive, but the one smack dab in the front completely took my breath away. My stomach rumbled with that funny feeling just looking over her.

"Shit, I'm so sorry. Is your session still going?" I glanced at the clock. It was indeed still 7:30 — 7:35 now, which means it's still my time.

"Uh, yeah. Is yours supposed to be right now, too?" She bit her lip, looking me up and down quickly before responding.

"Not quite, but I wanted to come in early anyways. I didn't mean to interrupt, I'll go-" I don't know what I was thinking, but I quickly cut her off.

"No! I mean-" I chuckled, clearing my throat in attempt to ease the embarrassment from my outburst.

"You don't have to. I'm fine with a bit of company — if you're down?" She smiled softly. She glanced at her friends, who shrugged as if they didn't care/mind.

"Sure! We'll be over here. Let us know if we're being too loud." She laughed, as her friends did as well. I stood up as I chuckled along with them. Damn, I just noticed she really is small as fuck.

"Fosho, but before that," I walked over and held my hand out with a small grin.

"I'm Y/n." She took my outstretched hand with her soft one and shook it firmly. "Ariana." She smiled widely. When we separated, she turned to her friends.

The first one to step forward was a beautiful dark skinned girl. She flashed her pearly whites with her hand held out.

"I'm Victoria." I shook it and smiled. "Y/n." I said again. That repeated with the rest of her friends. I learned that their names were Courtney, Njomza, Tayla, Alexa, Doug, and Kiyan.