Azrael.

Azrael sits back in the living room with his notepad and pen, writing down a few lyrics with his phone on his lap while the rest of the gang is watching the NBA.

‘‘Always has, always will.’‘ He nodded his head before responding. ‘‘Yeah sure, why not.’‘ He placed his fourth bottle down in the sand, not wanting to chug down this Henny.

‘‘Exactly. You always come first. Then you settle down after. You gotta learn how to be honest with yourself first before being honest to anybody else. And right now, I know for a fact that if I were to get into a relationship right now, it would just be to get over my ex so I’m not tryna make any girl some type of rebound.’‘

Seeing her reaction made him chuckle for a bit. ‘’I told you it was strong.’’ Azrael picked up his bottle while furrowing his brows. ‘’Nah, nothing. She’s gone. I’m single. Gon focus on myself for a long ass while. Got music to work on.’’

‘‘Might as well start asking questions tonight while you get drunk.’‘ Azrael passed her a new bottle. ‘’Here, but this one is hella strong so be careful.’‘

‘‘Wow, you’re horrible for doing that reference.’‘ He tried not to laugh too hard as he looked back at her. ‘‘I mean, there’s some tacos and some seafood out here. You should try them out.’‘ He suggested while popping his fourth bottle, but debating if he should take a sip considering he's about to pass his damn limit.

‘‘I mean...If the person you were seeing is who I think it is, I don’t think it was a good idea because...he was basically seeing one of Rakim’s bestfriend that’s close to him like family. I’m not saying you were in the wrong or anything, but Rakim does take family over others so I don’t know. He probably knows a lot more about you than you think without even knowing it was about you.’‘

‘‘I’m about to be on my third bottle of the night, to be honest.’‘

‘‘You mad right about that shit.’‘ Azrael thought to himself for a second as he listened to him. He slowly nodded his head for a second then looked back at Kari. ‘‘It’s fine. She’ll do better with somebody else. Not like I’m really worth shit to be honest.’‘ Azrael sounded like he had no confidence but in reality, he actually does plenty. He just didn’t want to restart all over with somebody else knowing it would take him too long to find another one. ‘‘But after tonight, Imma be fine. Got some merchandise I gotta prep up soon and some new music that’s coming out tonight.’‘

‘‘Oh?’‘ Azrael sat there quietly, listening to her side of the story before slowly nodding his head as he took the liquor back seeing as though the information he knew didn’t really matched from her side of the story. ‘‘Interesting.’‘ Azrael placed the rim of the bottle back between his lips, taking a few sips from it. Knowing that he couldn’t really judge ole girl since he was basically doing the same shit with Anika, he shrugged the confession off not trying to think into it too much. ‘‘Well, glad to hear you’re stepping away from the situation.’‘ He mentioned before adding ‘‘Just out of curiosity, does Rakim know about this?’‘

‘‘Damn,’‘ Azrael looks back at Nia with his brows furrowing for a second. ‘‘I ain’t know Rakim had a girl.’ Confused, Azrael shrugged his shoulders before continuing with the conversation. ‘‘But I mean, shit. Things like that happen, you know? Kinda weird cause homie talked mad good about you.’‘

‘‘I mean,’‘ after placing his second bottle down, Azrael ran his fingers through his hair after taking his cap off while looking into the scenery. ‘‘I basically threw my entire future away with this woman. I guess I didn’t want to forgive her for all the shit she put me through so I felt like avoiding her was the best decision. She was busy with her album, I was busy with my own shit. Got a restraining order on that ass because I know for a fact she was hella crazy. She tried coming at me with her music but that cost her 500k for breaking the contract so,’‘ Azrael shrugged his shoulders before placing his fitted cap back on. ‘‘Wanted a family and shit but at this point, I think I’m really just upset at the fact that she felt like she was the one. Cause I ain’t really fucked with my old girls like that before.’‘

‘‘Yo, wassup?’‘ asked Azrael as he took a swing from his second bottle. He didn’t felt like eating anything tonight so he continued to drink his ass off.

‘‘Truly and dearly, I do. But you know,’‘ Azrael shrugged his shoulders while looking into the bonfire. ‘‘Hope she’s fine wherever she is.’‘ Letting her take the bottle from him, he nodded before looking back at him. ‘‘Wassup with you though? How’s your situations going?’‘

‘‘Fuck nah,’‘ he responded while softly smiling to himself then looked back at Nautica. ‘‘Sup with you though?’‘ Azrael placed picked up his bottle again before taking another swing, finishing up the bottle then looked back, seeing Hawk coming in with three more bottles in his arms as he passes one to his friend before sitting back with the crew. Without a moment to waste, Azrael opened up his second bottle.

Azrael looked back at Kari before nodding his head once he placed the cap back at the top of the bottle. ‘’Man, I’ll survive. Like, I’m doing great work wise, but personal life situations? Ain’t in the good light right now.’’

‘‘Nah, I’ve been a drinker,’‘ Azrael chuckled lightly as he stared back at the woman. ‘‘I’m chugging down a lot of shit. My girl and I officially broke up since she ain’t coming down here. But instead of heading to a club, I’m out here with you guys. Tryna avoid doing some more fucked up shit.’‘