Boss Lady
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I said, “Now, I didn’t want to hold us for too long, because I know we all have things to do. But we’ll be starting with our program this weekend. Everyone will be contacted by cell phone and by email, and each event will be added to the schedule at the office. So if anyone is ever confused about what event you agreed to attend, all you have to do is stop by or call the office, and whoever is here can tell you what’s on the schedule. We’ll also place the schedule on our website, FlyyGirlLtd.com, which is still under construction.
“So are there any more questions at this point?” I asked them.
Jasmine said, “So this is really it then. We’re about to become the coolest girls in L.A.”
I smiled at her and said, “The coolest girls in the country. Because remember, we’re still starting a club membership on a national level. And once we have enough members in one city, we’ll visit the city and throw a party. Philadelphia is ready for us now. But we just left there, so we’ll wait for a while before we return.”
Maddy looked at Alexandria and said, “Oh, I know Alex can’t wait for that to happen.”
“Shut up,” Alexandria told her. She said, “For all you know, I may be moving to Philadelphia soon.”
She dropped the bomb that fast on everyone.
Jasmine looked at her and said, “Are you serious? You and Jason have gotten like that?”
“Maybe we have,” she admitted.
There was a dead silence in the room for a minute, but I had to keep the focus on our task.
I said, “We all have to understand as well that although we may be the initial members of the Flyy Girl crew, some of us will move on to other things, and I expect that to happen, but we’ll always be a part of the family no matter what.”
“But you won’t ever leave the family,” Petula commented to me.
I agreed with her on that. I said, “Flyy Girl is my family, and I’ve been connected to it for my entire life. So yeah, there’s no quitting for me. I’m in it for life, like P. Diddy and Bad Boy.”
My girls chuckled at it, but they all understood how serious I was, and that I would allow no one to get in my way. It was Flyy Girl or bust for me, and not just on a national level, but worldwide. Tracy had emails coming from London, Canada, Africa, the Caribbean islands, and Australia. And once we spread the clothing line and membership through our website, parties, functions, media events, mass marketing, and ultimately the Flyy Girl film, I saw no reason why we couldn’t brand Flyy Girl International. All it took was the intelligence, stamina, and drive to do it. And as everyone had already noticed, I might have been young, but I had exactly what it took to make it all happen.
Omar Tyree is a New York Times bestselling author, and winner of the 2001 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work—Fiction. His books include What They Want, Diary of a Groupie, Leslie, Just Say No!, For the Love of Money, Sweet St. Louis, Single Mom, A Do Right Man, and Flyy Girl. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.
To learn more about Omar Tyree, visit his website at www.omartyree.com.
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Diary of a Groupie
Leslie
Just Say No!
For the Love of Money
Sweet St. Louis
Single Mom
A Do Right Man
Flyy Girl
And the Urban Griot series
Cold Blooded
College Boy
One Crazy-A** Night
The Underground
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Tyree, Omar.
Boss Lady : a novel / Omar Tyree.
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1. African American motion picture producers and directors—Fiction. 2. African American motion picture actors and actresses—Fiction. 3. Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)—Fiction. 4. African American screenwriters—Fiction. 5. Motion picture industry—Fiction. 6. African American women—Fiction. 7. Young women—Fiction. I. Title.
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