3. Ariana ‘Ari’ Monroe #4
She paused from counting the money, and then she turned her head, looked up at me, and she smiled.
It wasn’t often that you would catch Riot smiling, so on those moments when she did do it, it made you want to pull out your phone and snap a picture of her.
My cousin wasn’t one of those girls to talk about her looks like that, and to express out loud how beautiful she was, so I really wondered if she saw what we saw.
Like, I hoped this girl knew the kind of beauty that she held.
Even right now, it was the middle of the night, and she was awakened from her sleep, but if there was a camera crew here, they could snap pictures of her, and she would still kill it.
Her beauty was natural, no matter how tough the exterior was.
“He told me that he loved me,” she voiced, and when she said that shit, I screeched because I didn’t expect her to say that.
Not that I didn’t think my cousin was worthy of a man loving her, but just from the little that I knew about Dolo, and how I knew that he didn’t often take a lot of women seriously, it was surprising to hear her tell me this.
“What? Really? Did you say it back?” I asked her.
“He damn near had to beg it out of me, but I said it. He didn’t have to beg me to say it because I was unsure though.
Before Mexico, I had already started developing feelings for Dolo.
Mexico just sealed the deal for me. It was the way he treated me out there, Ari.
I wasn’t getting Dolo from him. I was getting Dominique.
He was so soft, so kind, very affectionate, and just really making me tap into my feminine side.
The night of the party, he came into the bathroom with me while I was getting ready, and he put this beautiful tennis necklace around my neck,” she went on, dropping the money in her lap, so that she could lean against the wall, and I was all ears, even turning my body her way, waiting to hear where she was going with this because it wasn’t often that Riot would let people in like this.
“Shortly after I got off the phone with you, I went ahead and finished up in the bathroom. I went back into the bedroom, and he came in from smoking. He took a shower, and once he was finished, he came back in the bedroom with me. Up until that night, he’s never walked around me in his briefs.
He was respectful, wearing joggers and stuff.
Girl, I saw the fuckin dick print, and I was ready to change my mind, and bow out with having sex with him,” she continued, and I chuckled, still sitting, following her in her story.
“He made it clear to me when he got in bed with me that we didn’t have to do anything that I didn’t want to do.
He told me that he wasn’t pressed for pussy.
I knew he wasn’t because that whole time we had been in Mexico, he never tried anything with me.
I was ready though. The sex was something out of a movie, Ari.
The passion, the kisses, everything. I wasn’t tough, bad ass Riot in that bedroom with him.
I was crying, the whole nine. We did it again in the morning, and literally any other time that we had after that.
It felt like I had been on a high and then shit went left once all of those pictures got out of us on social media,” this was the part that I was waiting for her to address because when I brought it up to her earlier, you could tell that she didn’t want to talk about it.
“You got mad at him because somebody leaked the pictures on social media? I know how private you are Riot, but you dealing with someone that’s popular.
It sucks but people going to be in ya’ll business.
Then, all kinds of hoes want to fuck Dolo, so ya’ll shit going to forever be on front street,” I let her know.
“I wasn’t mad about the pictures leaking on social media.
If anything, I was annoyed with it. I didn’t get mad until Jazelle started calling Dolo’s phone.
He had the call on speaker, and girl, she was calling me all kinds of bitches and hoes, cursing him out, just really upset that he was with me.
Once I saw the drama that I felt like I was getting ready to willingly walk my ass into, girl I was pissed.
Broke up with him, packed my bags up, tried to leave, the whole nine,” she explained, and I was cracking up laughing because I knew my cousin.
I just knew that she did the fuckin most. It didn’t take Riot long for her to go from 0 to 100.
She continued with her story, and like this was some beautiful love story, I sat back, with a smile on my face.
I promise that I almost shed a tear when she got to the part about Dolo telling her that he loved her, and when she said it back.
I was happy for my cousin. She was so deserving of this love. Prior to this, Riot didn’t have any kind of male relationships. All this stuff that she was doing with Dolo were all new things, but I was just happy to hear that her first shot at love was being done right.
I wanted Dolo to continue treating my cousin right.
Losing a father at such a young age, and then losing her brother, who was the closest person in her life was hard on her.
I wanted Dolo to be that missing piece of love that I felt my cousin needed, and I just prayed to God that he didn’t fuck it up.