The club was bumping. Music was blasting and all Chiara could think about was Jerome. They had a very heated argument two days ago and he hasn't called her since. For some reason any little thing could spark a disagreement between the two. It seemed almost as if Jerome wanted to find reasons to fight with his girlfriend.
Chiara was planning on staying home this weekend, but her friends weren't having that. They weren't going to let her wallow in despair. They knew Jerome was up to no good, but anyone knowing Chiara knew that she thought Jerome was an angel and nobody could change her opinion. So they decided to show Chiara just what type of angel Jerome could be.
"Girl, I don't know why you are tripping," Alexis, Chiara's cousin shouted while going through her closet of clothes. "You are going to this club. I don't care if I personally have to go through your clothes, find an outfit and dress you myself! You are not staying here and having a pity party over that loser."
"Alexis you don't understand," Chiara countered sitting on her bed, making no move to help her friend sort through clothes. "Jerome and I have something special. I wonder if anything has happened to him. He hasn't called me in two days. TWO DAYS Lexi! What if he's gotten in a car accident, or has been kidnapped? You know there are a lot of those happening now a days."
"Honeychild please!" Alexis said, swinging her neck around to face Chiara. Although mixed with black and Korean, she often reverted back to her mother's roots when highly irritated. "Don't nobody want Jerome and his stank black ass. You know you acting real silly right now. You best be glad I love you cause you a behaving mighty ignorant."
"Okay please stop taking like that! Auntie Sheri is coming out full force." Chiara's aunt -- Alexis' mother was a force to be reckoned with. She didn't censor herself and actually thrived on the attention she got when she got loud. Alexis, in polite company, was usually quiet and only spoke when spoken to. Kind of like her father Kwan, who was a stoic man of little words. Chiara has never heard him speak more than a sentence. Alexis swears up and down that her father and mother have many verbal arguments, but she didn't believe her.
"Well I am my mother's daughter... Speaking of which, I'm never spending the night over my parent's house again!" Alexis huffed pulling a pair of skinny jeans out to match the top set aside for Chiara's outfit.
"Why what happened?"
"Ooo Chi Chi it was horrible," She moaned plopping down in the bed. "I was having this bad ass dream right, you know the one with the pirate plundering this -- I mean HIS booty," Chiara shook her head in agreement. Of course she knew of the dream. Alexis had an unnatural obsession with Johnny Depp and with him being in those pirate movies, it's gotten worse. "and all of a sudden I hear this noise. It sounded like a scream, so naturally I thought someone was being hurt. I go downstairs and I hear it again, but this time it's louder and deeper and longer. I head over to my parents room about to knock and ask if everything is alright. Then suddenly I hear dad going, 'You better swallow that shit'. Oh my God, Chi Chi I know my parents still have sex. I mean I have five siblings and a new little brother, but I didn't want to find out like that."
"Ha! Serves you right for being nosey. I bet you ran upstairs like a little girl." They both looked at each other for a couple of seconds and then bust out laughing.
"I did, I did! Girl, I'm glad that's all I heard that night. Anyways, back to you. I picked out your outfit for this evening and it is fly."
"Okay, I'll go, but don't do me any favors and try to hook me up tonight, alright?"
"Pinky promise cuz."
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"This club is hot! How come we never been here before?" Alexis asked, taking a rest from dancing to sit with Chiara.
Their friends Mona and Joie met up with them at the apartment before they all left. When they entered the club, the foursome drew attention. Easily being the best looking females in the place. Alexis was very exotic with her peach Ralph Lauren dress which stopped at mid-thigh and accentuated her mocha skin tone and brown almond shaped eyes. It clung to all her slim curves, but also was very classy looking. Her hair was freshly washed and left in it's natural curly state, only being picked out for body.
Mona and Joie were beautiful also. One light and the other dark. Mona had olive toned skin thanks to her Greek background and a short pixie cut that did wonders for her high cheekbones and slightly Romanesque nose. She wore a white expensive looking tube dress and equally expensive shoes to match. Joie was the exact opposite she had long bleach blond hair and delicate features. Her mother is Creole, hence the name. She said it means 'Joy', she also said that her father was the whitest man she knew. When Chiara met him, she agreed. She had the looks of an angel, but to all that knew her she was evil incarnate. Thankfully, she had someone to calm her down and put a dazzling ring on her finger. She was wearing a black form fitting top with tight khaki shorts. Very understated until you got to her shoes which were tall 4 inch Minolos. They made her legs look like sex.
Lastly there's Chiara dressed in all black. She wore her hair parted center and straight, layered reaching just past her shoulder-blades. Her features were a testament of her mother's Caribbean background. She had a small nose, finely shaped eyebrows, full lips and large green eyes. The outfit Alexis chose complimented her shaped and gave her height. Being the shortest of the group at 5'3", she needed all the height she could get. She wore a black swarovski crystal encrusted corset, with black skinny seven jeans. She wasn't as slim as her cousin, she had dangerous curves though, the same ones that attracted Jerome. Once as a joke he had asked to measure her, she refused at first, but he was persistent. She finally relented on terms that she got to measure him also and found out that she was 35-24-37. Chiara also found out that Jerome was only 5 ¾ inches. At the time she said that it didn't matter, that it was all in how he worked it. Although, he really didn't know how to...
"This club is new in town. Heard that some guys from Scotland opened it up," Mona said while drinking her Long Island. "Isn't that strange? Why would some guys from Scotland come all the way to Pennsylvania to open up a club?"
"I don't know and don't care. Want I really want to know is why Chiara isn't dancing. She got on the red 'fuck me' heels." Joie leaned over the table to get in Chiara's face. She wanted her to listen to what she had to say. "You need to get up on the floor and move that booty. You know me, Alexis and Mona don't have as much as you do, even combined! You need to get up on that floor and show these skinny bitches how to work it girl!" Joie laughed working on her third gin and tonic.
"Hey I resent that remark for all skinny bitches." Alexis commented. "I'd like you to know that I was twirling, dipping, shaking, and splitting that dance floor in two. Couldn't no ho touch this." She said standing up and poising side to side.
