"Oh shit! This is the life!"

CJ left Springfield early Friday morning to fly out to Los Angeles to hang with his boy Tone. Sarena wanted him to hit the studio and work on a remix for "Don't Look Down," the second single on his new album.

Tone had never left Springfield before. Born and raised in Springfield, he never went on a family vacation with his mom or deadbeat father, and never had the money for a nice vacation out of town since he was older. This was his first time flying as well, but he acted as if it was no big deal.

"Next time, you should come out on Icee's private jet, now that's living." Tone dapped him up as he met him at the airport.

All he had with him was one piece of luggage because he was only staying for the weekend. Sarena had him on a budget too, this was work, so he did not have to spend this money.

"I'm still trying to get used to being adjacent to money," he said.

His sister was a millionaire and married to a millionaire, he would never get over that. But that was their money, not his. He just waltzed into the family, they did not owe him a dime.

"I'm trying to stack mine like my idol dog. First, the music, then I'm going to start up some businesses like Ice."

"What type of business?"

"Don't know yet."

They walked off to where his car was parked, a red Ferrari

"Nice ride!"

"This is my babe's car, but Imma get a matching one."

"Hold up!" He stopped and hit Tone in the chest. "You and Riyah? That shit was more than just a link-up?"

"Tone grinned at him. "Oh, she's the one."

"Dude!" He hit him in his chest again. "Just a few weeks ago you were crying saying my sis was the one. Now how am I supposed to believe that? You got some ass and you're in love again?"

"No, seriously, it's not about sex."

"You fuck her?"

"Yes."

"Then it's about sex. You can't fall in love with everyone you fuck, man."

"I didn't," Tone said, opening the trunk so he could put his bag back there. "With your sister, I loved her for everything she was, not about having sex with her. But she did not want what I wanted. I had to move on."

"Good for you, but man, Riyah James? I heard she sleeps around in the industry and you're already wifing her up."

"Aye, respect, okay. She is not like that. Motherfuckers lie about shit. She's sweet."

"Whatever."

They got in the car and Tone started it up and sped off. He wondered how he and Tone were friends when they had very different outlooks on females. He could not believe his boy met and smashed one celebrity and was settling down. He was out in LaLa land, he could have a different freak each day of the week.

Matter of fact, they were hitting some clubs later in the night and he for sure was finding one or two to kick it with.

Tone took him straight to the studio so they could get to work on the song. He co-wrote "Don't Look Down" with him but did not produce it. This would be his first producer credit on a song that was already hot.

Icee rented them studio space out there because he did not have his own studios there. He needed to invest in that with Ginger Hollands and now his sister living out here. He hoped he would run into Tennille.

"You seen my sis much?"

"Who? NoNo?"

"Dude, why would you...hell no, I'm talking about Tennille."

"Oh, no, I haven't seen her."

"You like it out here?"

"Yeah. I was supposed to be heading back to Da Field, but since I hooked up with Riyah, I'm just staying out here with her."

He rolled his eyes and shook his head at that. It was not his business so he would not say anything else about it. They made it to the studio room and immediately went to work. Everybody knew remixes were always better than the original so the pressure was on. And Tone was not big time yet, no one wanted to be his feature, and he had no one, but himself.

"Yo, what yo girl doing right now?"

"Hanging with her friends."

CJ grinned at that. "How about you tell your friend, to get with her friends, to get with your friend."

"Huh?"

"You're slow as hell Tone!" He laughed at him. "Invite the honies over here. We're going to be in this studio all night. Bring em in here, I might work better. And, yo girl can sing on the hook."

"Really?"

"Yeah, kinda like that Icee song, Err'thang About Ya. You need a banger like that so you can blow the fuck up!"

While he was busy playing with beats for the sound of the new song, Tone called up Riyah and invited her and her friends to come to the studio. They were bringing drink and smoke, neither one did he indulge in, but if that's what they needed to party up, bring it.

Tone laid down his remixed verses and in about two hours, Riyah and her girls came through.

He smiled big. All were banging. All were tens.

"Ladies!" he greeted them as if he was someone they should know.

One real dark-skinned sister, whose skin looked like cocoa butter did her body good, dressed in a skimpy shirt and tiny shorts, immediately came up to him.

"Ooh, who are you? I need to know."

"CJ," he simply stated. "I'm the producer slash songwriter...slash singer."

"Ooooh, this fione and can sing!" She held out her hand to him. "I'm Lize. Riyah's bestie."

Another girl, a tall stallion-like hottie with long red weave, long green claw nails, and a body that was bodying right pushed Lize to the side.

"I'm Malika, and tell me you are single."

Yes, he was about to love L.A.

Riyah went to the booth where Tone was still working and they started kissing as if they were about to tear each other's clothes off. There was a third girl, but she was not trying to push on him, and that was cool with him. He would stay busy with Lize and Malika.

"Yo Riyah, you want to lay down some vocals on my boy's hit track? This one about to be the one," he said to her.

"Babe, I told you about my friend coming in to remix this song. That's CJ Kelly, the dopest songwriter. CJ, this is my girl Riyah."

"Heeeey!" she said into the mic. "Tell me what to do and I will do it for my man."

Everyone likes a good love song, well this song was not that. "Don't Look Down" was about feeling alone and depressed, but with a catchy beat, it was a fire-ass dance song. The remix would be much more upbeat and not so prophetic as Tone was in a better headspace with this song. His life was better, his solo career taking off, and obviously happily in love again.

Riyah laid down some dope adlibs and he sang over the hook and then they wrapped it up.

He sent the rough remix to Icee and Sarena and then they all packed it up to leave the studio.

"Where are you headed off to now?" Lize asked him.

"Wherever you need me to be."

Riyah was able to get them into a big shot club with all celebrities partying and drinking the night away. He danced with all the girls and then some. Then Malika dragged him into the women's restroom and gave him head in a locked stall.

Back to the party, he decided to call it a night and his lady for the night was Lize. While Malika gave the bomb head, he knew Lize was the one for the night.

They headed to his hotel room and then she showed him the L.A. girls were the freakiest.

A/N: Stick with me with CJ, he really needs to evolve. I enjoyed telling his story of the three.