Chapter 5 - July 2003
Omarion
I remember the time that Stephanie and me met. As if it was yesterday. It'll
Soon be a year that we've been datin' and she's been ridin' wit me from the
Time my career started. The last time I saw ha was in December, and I've been
Out on tours and appearances wit my boys ever since. It's hard cuz I really
Miss ha and I want ha so bad righ' now but I'll be home soon. If only the
Flight was not fuckin' delayed.
"Yo O!"
I look up and it's Jboog and Raz callin' me.
"What man?"
"The flight's here." Raz says, comin' ova to me to get his stuff. Jboog already
Had his shit.
"Thank God!"
I get up and grab my stuff, literally runnin' for the gate. Well, for two
Reasons. One, fans, and two, I wanna see my baby. I get through the gate,
Changing' my runnin' pace to a joggin' pace so that I could get to the plane
Without makin' a huge fool of myself. Trippin'. I reach the door of the plane,
My boys behind me when we saw these fine ass flight attendants lookin' at us,
Smilin' and sayin' 'Hi.' I look at my boys and I see them lickin' they lips
Like they seein' their main course and is about to eat. I just laugh and walk
Into the plane, smilin' back at the ladies and walk upstairs to first class.
Now I must admit. First class is the perfect place to relax. I look around
And find a nice couch with seatbelts and decide that that area is my
Territory. So I run my ass over there before the boys are done spittin' their
Game. I relax, resting my stuff on the couch and strappin' myself in, smilin'
And waitin' for the boys to get up here to see where they ain't allowed to
Take. Which I wish was all of the damn plane but since that can't happen, I'ma
Take this space, if ya know what I mean.
The boys come up, lookin' around like I expected. I jus' pretend that I'm
lookin' out the window, mindin' my own business, but I'm actually waitin' to
See how long it takes for them to realize where I am.
"Damn! This place look hot!" Fizz says.
"I gotta agree wit you man." Raz says.
"And this place got some fine ass hunnies." Jboog.
"Fa sho. YO! LOOK WHERE O CHILLIN!"
Damn. For once, it ain't take them that long to recognize where my ass at. I
Turn my head and smile.
"What up yo?"
The boys walk over ta me.
"One of those ladies downstairs wanna holla atchu."
I look at them like they crazy.
"Did you tell em that I'm taken?"
The boys look away.
"No." Fizz admitted.
I wanted to slap that Nigga in the head. An' guess what? I did.
"Nigga! What the fuck is wrong wit chu?"
I just turn my head and look out the window. I ain't hollarin' at no chick.
Let me tell ya'll. Since the boys seen me with Sapphire, they've been wantin'
Me to cheat like no tomorrow. That ain't my style and the boys know that. It
Ain't theirs either but the thing is that they believe that Stephanie goin'
Bring problems that I ain't gonna be able to handle and that the best thing to
Do is to break it up. I don't want to do that. That ain't my style and I'm
Really feelin' ha so I can't break my heart, nor hers. That's jus' how it is.
Damn. I just wish that my 'powers' could see into the future too. Not jus'
Into people minds. Man, I just don't know.
Stephanie
Girl if I didn't have a plan Could I be your man still? And if you couldn't
Watch cable would you be able to understand? And if I couldn't buy you diamond
Rings take you out and things or do nothin' Special Hoe would you deal would
You stick around and chill? Would you keep it real?
I miss my baby. It's been so long since I've seen his bigheaded ass and only
This song keeps me cool. He supposed to be comin' back today but I heard his
Flight was delayed.
"Stephanie, can I listen to track 8?"
That's Christina. Since that time we met, we've been chattin' bout everything
And eventually, she found out about O and me. She knows about the relationship
Between my sis and I as well as the shit that be goin' down here.
"Yea. Listenin' to dis song got me reminiscing'."
"Ev-ery-th-ing Ev-ery-th-ing When I'm out on the road Going from show to show
Tell my homie Romeo How much I miss ya so I don't know how much longer it'll
Be I'm missin' you Wantin' you And I really wanna talk to you Oh no I left my
Two way at home Still sittin' on the charger Oh no my battery dead on my cell
Phone And I really wanna call ya Jboog let me use your phone gotta call my
Baby girl back home let ha know what she means to me Cause we must be, yeah
Cause you're my angel you're my heart girl Cause you're my everything you're
Everything I want in a woman Girl you're my everything you're everything I
Need in a woman
Damn. This song is doing worse to me. And the only reason Christina wanna
Listen to this song is because ha baby is singin' on it.
"I got you on the phone you sayin' you wish I was home But then you flip the
Script To put me in the wrong and you think I'm lying when I been tryin' all
Day to talk to you Juggling videos and photo shoots Baby girl don't think that
One minute goes by and I don't really wanna call you don't think that I'm
screenin' my calls Or checkin' my caller ID Tryin' to dodge you girl Tryin' to
Be all I can be A young man in this industry you mean the world to me you're
Are my everything, my."
Christina
My baby can sing! His singing serenades my heart every time I hear it. I know
Stephanie isn't in the mood to hear her baby sing because it makes her sad so I decide to put on this song. I look at Stephanie.
"Stephanie, you alright?"
I don't get an answer. I get out of her chair and walk to her.
"Stephanie?"
Her eyes are glossy. Meanin' that she's about to cry. Aw! She shouldn't cry
Because her baby will be home soon. I wrap my arms around her to comfort ha
And I hear ha begin to cry. I know my home girl too well.
"It'll be alright. I promise."
"Yeah."
She moves out of my helpful embrace and wipes her tears away, tryin' to smile.
I just smile back cause I don't know what more to do. It's up to ha to heal ha
So called conspiracy. Ha! I'm usin' big words!
Arielle
Eva since Omarion been gone, Raz's girl been ova here keepin' Stephanie's stank ass company. They've been blastin' B2K music all the damn day long and it's gettin' on my fuckin' nerve. I don't kno why Sapphire got into a relationship like dat when she kno damn well she can't handle it. Me, on the other side, can handle anything. Even that 'pool stick' Omarion got. From what I heard, O isn't givin' ha any, which I believe is real funny. How you gon' date a girl but not give ha some? It ain't kosher. Well, it ain't to me.
"Arielle!"
Dat's moms.
"Coming!"
I get out of my room and walk down the hallway to where mom's room is. I get
Into a flower-decorated bedroom. When I say flower-decorated, I mean
FLOWER-decorated.
"Arielle, what's Stephanie and Christina up to?"
"Stephanie's crying. Christina is trying to comfort her."
"Well, go tell Stephanie that Omari just got on his flight back to California.
He'll be here within 4 or 5 hours."
I smile; of course, the smile is a damn fake.
"Okay."
I turn around and walk back down the hallway. I look back to see if moms is
Looking at me. Of course, she is. Since she is, I decide to actually tell
Stephanie what's goin' on, even though she don't deserve shit. I walk to ha
Door to see Christina noddin' ha head to the music and Stephanie chillin'.
"Stephanie." I say coldly.
She turns ha head to me.
"What?"
I so wanna kill ha.
"Moms said that Omarion will be in within 4 or 5 hours."
She smiles softly. I wanna smack that smile right off ha face.
"Thanks for telling me sis."
I smile coldly.
"No problem."
I turn around and walk to my bedroom. I can't believe I brought ha hopes up.
That ain't like me to do something like that. I guess it was because moms was
Watching me, and she don't like me anyways. What am I thinking? Stephanie betta
Watch out because my fun has just begun.
Omarion
Haha! Jboog and Raz are being complete idiots.
"Eh yo Miss Foxie!"
Raz licks his lips, sizing the flight attendant.
"Could you be my Cleopatra?"
I bust out laughing cause those boys make no damn sense whatsoever.
"Ya'll, leave ha alone."
That's Fizz, busy listening to his LL Cool J CD. It was after Fizz said that
that we have to put on our seatbelts because we are going to land. Hell yeah!
Baby, I'm coming home! Reaching Sapphire's house, I began to think about the
times we shared. What we went through. All the things Arielle did. Ha Ha. The huge
Thing that made me hate ha with a passion happened on my birthday.
November 11, 2003
Jboog wouldn't stop buggin' me today. Callin' me old and shit. Just because
I'm 18 don't mean I'm old. It just means I have more privileges. And he doesn't.
Walkin' around the house, I heard the phone ring. It was like Matrix all ova
Again. I looked at Jboog and he looked at me. We both ran for that phone, Jboog actually getting it before me, and me fallin' to the floor.
"Hello?"
I look at Jboog, who made a face and gave the phone to me.
"Stephanie."
I jumped up and sat on the couch, takin' the phone outta jboog's hand.
"Hello?"
"Hey Omari."
I smiled.
"What's up?"
"Nothin' really."
It was there and then I felt a pain in my chest. A pain that I've been gettin'
A lot only when I'm talking to Stephanie.
"Is something wrong?"
She took a while to answer.
"Can I come over?"
"Baby girl, you know that you don't gotta ask if you can come ova or not.
You're always welcome baby."
She sighed.
"I'm on my way now."
"Okay."
I hung up the phone. Somethin's troublin' ha and I gotta know. I gotta know
Why my chest be hurtin' every time I speak with ha. I have a feelin' it's
About Arielle. Actually, it is about Arielle but Stephanie's trippin'. She won't let me
Leak into ha thoughts about this one. She keeps blockin' me out.
Minutes later, I heard the doorbell ring.
"Hey Stephanie. What's wrong girl?"
"Where's Omarion?"
I got of the couch and headed to where Raz and ha were standing. I didn't even
Reach ha when she ran to me, crying again. I held ha tight, kissing ha
Forehead. It was then that I sensed the pain in my chest. Again.
"Sapphire, girl, are you aight?"
She looked at me with red, puffy eyes.
"Does it look like I'm aight?"
She sniffed, wiping ha tears and trying to smile.
"No."
"Can we talk, alone?"
I nodded, took ha hand, and lead ha to the elevator. As we were at the
Elevator, waitin' for it to come down, Stephanie was holding my waist and
Resting ha head on my chest. I hate to see my baby girl like this. It's really
Getting to me, fa real.
The elevator gets here and we go to the fourth floor, to my bedroom. We get
There, Stephanie plopping onto it, head buried in ha pillow. Yeah. She got ha
Own pillow on my bed. Anyway, I laid down beside ha and rubbed ha back. She
Looked at me and said:
"I know you know it's about Arielle."
I looked down.
"What the hell is going on Stephanie?"
I looked up and she frowned.
"I mean, I know that Arielle and you don't get along and shit, but I can't stand to see you like this, girl."
She buried ha head into ha pillow again.
"I went through Arielle's stuff."
"Uh huh."
"And I found a notebook full of ways to kill me, to take you away from me, to
Please you, to hurt my feelings. Shit like that."
She looked at me and I looked at ha, a bit puzzled.
"But that ain't even half of it."
I looked even more puzzled.
"What?"
She frowned.
Written By Devin and for all those Bitches and Hoes who's Hatin' Guess what you know what you can do? Bitch
Omarion
I remember the time that Stephanie and me met. As if it was yesterday. It'll
Soon be a year that we've been datin' and she's been ridin' wit me from the
Time my career started. The last time I saw ha was in December, and I've been
Out on tours and appearances wit my boys ever since. It's hard cuz I really
Miss ha and I want ha so bad righ' now but I'll be home soon. If only the
Flight was not fuckin' delayed.
"Yo O!"
I look up and it's Jboog and Raz callin' me.
"What man?"
"The flight's here." Raz says, comin' ova to me to get his stuff. Jboog already
Had his shit.
"Thank God!"
I get up and grab my stuff, literally runnin' for the gate. Well, for two
Reasons. One, fans, and two, I wanna see my baby. I get through the gate,
Changing' my runnin' pace to a joggin' pace so that I could get to the plane
Without makin' a huge fool of myself. Trippin'. I reach the door of the plane,
My boys behind me when we saw these fine ass flight attendants lookin' at us,
Smilin' and sayin' 'Hi.' I look at my boys and I see them lickin' they lips
Like they seein' their main course and is about to eat. I just laugh and walk
Into the plane, smilin' back at the ladies and walk upstairs to first class.
Now I must admit. First class is the perfect place to relax. I look around
And find a nice couch with seatbelts and decide that that area is my
Territory. So I run my ass over there before the boys are done spittin' their
Game. I relax, resting my stuff on the couch and strappin' myself in, smilin'
And waitin' for the boys to get up here to see where they ain't allowed to
Take. Which I wish was all of the damn plane but since that can't happen, I'ma
Take this space, if ya know what I mean.
The boys come up, lookin' around like I expected. I jus' pretend that I'm
lookin' out the window, mindin' my own business, but I'm actually waitin' to
See how long it takes for them to realize where I am.
"Damn! This place look hot!" Fizz says.
"I gotta agree wit you man." Raz says.
"And this place got some fine ass hunnies." Jboog.
"Fa sho. YO! LOOK WHERE O CHILLIN!"
Damn. For once, it ain't take them that long to recognize where my ass at. I
Turn my head and smile.
"What up yo?"
The boys walk over ta me.
"One of those ladies downstairs wanna holla atchu."
I look at them like they crazy.
"Did you tell em that I'm taken?"
The boys look away.
"No." Fizz admitted.
I wanted to slap that Nigga in the head. An' guess what? I did.
"Nigga! What the fuck is wrong wit chu?"
I just turn my head and look out the window. I ain't hollarin' at no chick.
Let me tell ya'll. Since the boys seen me with Sapphire, they've been wantin'
Me to cheat like no tomorrow. That ain't my style and the boys know that. It
Ain't theirs either but the thing is that they believe that Stephanie goin'
Bring problems that I ain't gonna be able to handle and that the best thing to
Do is to break it up. I don't want to do that. That ain't my style and I'm
Really feelin' ha so I can't break my heart, nor hers. That's jus' how it is.
Damn. I just wish that my 'powers' could see into the future too. Not jus'
Into people minds. Man, I just don't know.
Stephanie
Girl if I didn't have a plan Could I be your man still? And if you couldn't
Watch cable would you be able to understand? And if I couldn't buy you diamond
Rings take you out and things or do nothin' Special Hoe would you deal would
You stick around and chill? Would you keep it real?
I miss my baby. It's been so long since I've seen his bigheaded ass and only
This song keeps me cool. He supposed to be comin' back today but I heard his
Flight was delayed.
"Stephanie, can I listen to track 8?"
That's Christina. Since that time we met, we've been chattin' bout everything
And eventually, she found out about O and me. She knows about the relationship
Between my sis and I as well as the shit that be goin' down here.
"Yea. Listenin' to dis song got me reminiscing'."
"Ev-ery-th-ing Ev-ery-th-ing When I'm out on the road Going from show to show
Tell my homie Romeo How much I miss ya so I don't know how much longer it'll
Be I'm missin' you Wantin' you And I really wanna talk to you Oh no I left my
Two way at home Still sittin' on the charger Oh no my battery dead on my cell
Phone And I really wanna call ya Jboog let me use your phone gotta call my
Baby girl back home let ha know what she means to me Cause we must be, yeah
Cause you're my angel you're my heart girl Cause you're my everything you're
Everything I want in a woman Girl you're my everything you're everything I
Need in a woman
Damn. This song is doing worse to me. And the only reason Christina wanna
Listen to this song is because ha baby is singin' on it.
"I got you on the phone you sayin' you wish I was home But then you flip the
Script To put me in the wrong and you think I'm lying when I been tryin' all
Day to talk to you Juggling videos and photo shoots Baby girl don't think that
One minute goes by and I don't really wanna call you don't think that I'm
screenin' my calls Or checkin' my caller ID Tryin' to dodge you girl Tryin' to
Be all I can be A young man in this industry you mean the world to me you're
Are my everything, my."
Christina
My baby can sing! His singing serenades my heart every time I hear it. I know
Stephanie isn't in the mood to hear her baby sing because it makes her sad so I decide to put on this song. I look at Stephanie.
"Stephanie, you alright?"
I don't get an answer. I get out of her chair and walk to her.
"Stephanie?"
Her eyes are glossy. Meanin' that she's about to cry. Aw! She shouldn't cry
Because her baby will be home soon. I wrap my arms around her to comfort ha
And I hear ha begin to cry. I know my home girl too well.
"It'll be alright. I promise."
"Yeah."
She moves out of my helpful embrace and wipes her tears away, tryin' to smile.
I just smile back cause I don't know what more to do. It's up to ha to heal ha
So called conspiracy. Ha! I'm usin' big words!
Arielle
Eva since Omarion been gone, Raz's girl been ova here keepin' Stephanie's stank ass company. They've been blastin' B2K music all the damn day long and it's gettin' on my fuckin' nerve. I don't kno why Sapphire got into a relationship like dat when she kno damn well she can't handle it. Me, on the other side, can handle anything. Even that 'pool stick' Omarion got. From what I heard, O isn't givin' ha any, which I believe is real funny. How you gon' date a girl but not give ha some? It ain't kosher. Well, it ain't to me.
"Arielle!"
Dat's moms.
"Coming!"
I get out of my room and walk down the hallway to where mom's room is. I get
Into a flower-decorated bedroom. When I say flower-decorated, I mean
FLOWER-decorated.
"Arielle, what's Stephanie and Christina up to?"
"Stephanie's crying. Christina is trying to comfort her."
"Well, go tell Stephanie that Omari just got on his flight back to California.
He'll be here within 4 or 5 hours."
I smile; of course, the smile is a damn fake.
"Okay."
I turn around and walk back down the hallway. I look back to see if moms is
Looking at me. Of course, she is. Since she is, I decide to actually tell
Stephanie what's goin' on, even though she don't deserve shit. I walk to ha
Door to see Christina noddin' ha head to the music and Stephanie chillin'.
"Stephanie." I say coldly.
She turns ha head to me.
"What?"
I so wanna kill ha.
"Moms said that Omarion will be in within 4 or 5 hours."
She smiles softly. I wanna smack that smile right off ha face.
"Thanks for telling me sis."
I smile coldly.
"No problem."
I turn around and walk to my bedroom. I can't believe I brought ha hopes up.
That ain't like me to do something like that. I guess it was because moms was
Watching me, and she don't like me anyways. What am I thinking? Stephanie betta
Watch out because my fun has just begun.
Omarion
Haha! Jboog and Raz are being complete idiots.
"Eh yo Miss Foxie!"
Raz licks his lips, sizing the flight attendant.
"Could you be my Cleopatra?"
I bust out laughing cause those boys make no damn sense whatsoever.
"Ya'll, leave ha alone."
That's Fizz, busy listening to his LL Cool J CD. It was after Fizz said that
that we have to put on our seatbelts because we are going to land. Hell yeah!
Baby, I'm coming home! Reaching Sapphire's house, I began to think about the
times we shared. What we went through. All the things Arielle did. Ha Ha. The huge
Thing that made me hate ha with a passion happened on my birthday.
November 11, 2003
Jboog wouldn't stop buggin' me today. Callin' me old and shit. Just because
I'm 18 don't mean I'm old. It just means I have more privileges. And he doesn't.
Walkin' around the house, I heard the phone ring. It was like Matrix all ova
Again. I looked at Jboog and he looked at me. We both ran for that phone, Jboog actually getting it before me, and me fallin' to the floor.
"Hello?"
I look at Jboog, who made a face and gave the phone to me.
"Stephanie."
I jumped up and sat on the couch, takin' the phone outta jboog's hand.
"Hello?"
"Hey Omari."
I smiled.
"What's up?"
"Nothin' really."
It was there and then I felt a pain in my chest. A pain that I've been gettin'
A lot only when I'm talking to Stephanie.
"Is something wrong?"
She took a while to answer.
"Can I come over?"
"Baby girl, you know that you don't gotta ask if you can come ova or not.
You're always welcome baby."
She sighed.
"I'm on my way now."
"Okay."
I hung up the phone. Somethin's troublin' ha and I gotta know. I gotta know
Why my chest be hurtin' every time I speak with ha. I have a feelin' it's
About Arielle. Actually, it is about Arielle but Stephanie's trippin'. She won't let me
Leak into ha thoughts about this one. She keeps blockin' me out.
Minutes later, I heard the doorbell ring.
"Hey Stephanie. What's wrong girl?"
"Where's Omarion?"
I got of the couch and headed to where Raz and ha were standing. I didn't even
Reach ha when she ran to me, crying again. I held ha tight, kissing ha
Forehead. It was then that I sensed the pain in my chest. Again.
"Sapphire, girl, are you aight?"
She looked at me with red, puffy eyes.
"Does it look like I'm aight?"
She sniffed, wiping ha tears and trying to smile.
"No."
"Can we talk, alone?"
I nodded, took ha hand, and lead ha to the elevator. As we were at the
Elevator, waitin' for it to come down, Stephanie was holding my waist and
Resting ha head on my chest. I hate to see my baby girl like this. It's really
Getting to me, fa real.
The elevator gets here and we go to the fourth floor, to my bedroom. We get
There, Stephanie plopping onto it, head buried in ha pillow. Yeah. She got ha
Own pillow on my bed. Anyway, I laid down beside ha and rubbed ha back. She
Looked at me and said:
"I know you know it's about Arielle."
I looked down.
"What the hell is going on Stephanie?"
I looked up and she frowned.
"I mean, I know that Arielle and you don't get along and shit, but I can't stand to see you like this, girl."
She buried ha head into ha pillow again.
"I went through Arielle's stuff."
"Uh huh."
"And I found a notebook full of ways to kill me, to take you away from me, to
Please you, to hurt my feelings. Shit like that."
She looked at me and I looked at ha, a bit puzzled.
"But that ain't even half of it."
I looked even more puzzled.
"What?"
She frowned.
Written By Devin and for all those Bitches and Hoes who's Hatin' Guess what you know what you can do? Bitch