Chapter Four

"Wow looks like someone is in a bad mood" Celia said raising her hands up. Her usual sign of I mean no harm.

"Well I'm sorry for raising my voice at you when it wasn't necessary". I apologized.

"You've forgotten that's a habit Arisca and I have been dealing with for a month now. Are you going to apologize for those ones too?"

"Seriously Celia?"  I said shooting her a deadly glare. She really can be a dick sometimes.

"Natty, in as much as we scolded you for acting childishly, we still love you and will stand by you no matter what. Aside Lexis's issue what else has been eating you up because you don't look fine to me?"

The look on her face showed several emotions. Sad, love and care. She sure meant what she said.

"I've something to tell you guys" I said averting my gaze to the other side.

"Are you in trouble?" She asked concerned.

"What if I say I didn't sleep with Jeff?"  I asked playing with my fingers not wanting to look her in the eye.

"Oh so that's what all this is about? You hate yourself now for letting your driver knack in you whiles your husband hasn't seen your back before. Isn't it?" She said amusingly.

"Celia that's not it"

"Then what is it Natalie? You've done what you wanted to do and what I said is what it is" she said  having the 'I'm right' look.

"Can we go somewhere less noisy" I said in a stern voice.

"Ok" She stood up and walked to where Arisca is dancing, grinding hard on a guy. Watching them looks as though they want to have sex now and right there on the dance floor. Celia pulled a tipsy Arisca from the guy and he didn't look very pleased for loosing his 'could be' one night stand.

I saw them approaching and I grabbed our purses from the counter as we head out of the club.

It is really cold outside.

"You girls are no fun. Why are we going home when we practically just got here?"

Arisca said folding her hands on her chest annoyed.

Celia rolled her eyes, "Natalie here, has a secret to share."

"Since when did Natalie start to have secrets? Don't we know everything already mmm?"  Arisca said touching my face. This lady gets all touchy when she's tipsy.

"I didn't sleep with Jeffrey." I broke the bombshell.

"What!!!!!!" Arisca and Celia said in unison.

"Yh I wanted everyone to believe I slept with him so that when Lexis comes fishing for the truth from you, you wouldn't be intimidated to tell him the truth. You know how he maneuver his ways into getting answers to his questions?" I said not looking them in the eyes.

"The thing about this issue is that you lied." Arisca said plainly.

"Errrrm....not really" Celia raised her brow staring at me as though she doesn't know me anymore. "I didn't really lie, I just told a white lie. The one we tell to save lives."

"Tell us whose life you've saved from your childish actions?" Celia asked annoyed. Celia is the mother of us. She can really scold us when we do wrong.

"Don't be mean Celia, we're all human and doing wrong means we have to correct it." Arisca came to my defense. I'm not sure she'll defend me after I let my next bomb out.

"There's one more thing. Jeffrey quit without any proper reason and he has changed his number."

Now Arisca is mad at me. Her crush is gone and she doesn't even have his number.

"Natalie, do you know any of his relatives?" Arisca asked heartbroken. Which friend chooses the problem of her crush over her childhood best friend's?

"Arisca, we'll talk about the guy later. Natalie is the motion here" Celia said.

"I'm sorry I hid this from you two. I just don't know my way forward. What do I do about this situation? How will my family take it if they find out I slept with my driver on my husbands birthday?" I asked sadly.

"Well we now know you didn't sleep with him." Arisca stated.

"As for what will happen next, I'm on the same page as you. We're all clueless but what I'm sure of is there's this boiling going on in the club and we sure don't want to miss it. Do we?" Celia asked.

Arisca and I exchanged excited looks and shook our heads, "No!" We said in unison.

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's get in there and shake what mama gave us" Celia said as she pulls us inside.

Celia and Arisca are busy on the dance floor grinding on each other.  Celia didn't want Arisca to have another night stand and come back crying the next day about how her body count keeps increasing whenever she gets drunk so she decided to dance with her. I on the other hand, is on my third bottle of Smirnoff. I don't feel like dancing so I turned to my best friends hype lady, giving them the hype they needed on the dancefloor now and again.

"Whoooooo my girls rock!!! shake it mamacitas. Yeah bounce it baby!!!"

I screamed on top of my voice from where I am sitting.

"Hello Beautiful, can I join you?"

I turned to my right and there is a fair sober guy standing there. He has great looks but it can't compete with that of Lexis'.

"This place is full" I told him honestly.

"I don't see anyone here baby" He said stepping closer to me.

"That is because they're dancing" I told him a little annoyed now. I hate people who don't know when their presence is not needed.

"Well I'll stand up when they return" he said smiling but I ignored him and concentrated on the drink in front of me.

"I'm Reynolds what's yours?" He asked touching my thighs and I flinched. His hand is moving upward and is almost in my inner thighs. Jesus this guy doesn't know what he's messing with. I counted one to three and  smacked his hand hard on the third count. His eyes shot red in surprise and anger. Probably he thought I was enjoying his filthy touch. He made it close and grabbed my neck hard. My hand roamed on the table searching for a weapon. Gracefully, I grabbed an empty Smirnoff bottle hit the side of his head hard with it.

Clubbers started gathering around us. One thing about clubs is, no one dares to separate a fight. That's of course when you love your life. It's either you watch or you leave period. Where the fuck are my friends? I thought to myself not knowing what this guy would do next.

I was super frightened when I saw him drenched in his own blood from his head to his waist level. He gave me that smile that smoked, I'm gonna fuck you and kill you right here. I took a step back for each step he took forward. He doubled his steps and got hold of my hair. He pulled it hard and tightened his grip on it each second. Tears began to well in my eyes. I shadowed my pain with a tough me and composed myself. On lookers started screaming but still, nobody offered to help.

He bent me down making me go hard on my knees. I took that as an advantage for me to do what I thought I wouldn't be able t do. I slowly removed my pencil heel and hit his groin with it. His hold on me loosened a bit. Sensing his weakness there, I got hold of his dick and squeezed it. A scream escaped his lips as he let go of me. Out from the blues, Celia hit his back hard with one of the club chairs and he lay flat on the floor. Arisca stepped on his face hard with her heel. Looking at the scene, it would be the most painful thing ever.

On lookers started applauding us. I think that guy is one of those club mafias.

"Let's get out of here" I said to my friends. We grabbed our purses stepping out of the club. All of a sudden there was gun shots in the club and the clubbers started screaming hard.

"Thank goodness we made it out before the mafias came" Arisca said.

"Do you think it's right for you to go home alone? Why don't you spend the night at our place?" Celia asked, concern evident in her voice.

"I'll be fine besides my house is guarded 24/7" I told her c.

Arisca walked to me and took my two hands, "Call us if anything happens OK?"

I just smiled and nodded. We gave a tight group hug before we broke it  and I entered my white Range Rover Evogue. Arisca entered Celia's Mercedes Benz and they sped off. Starting my engine, I saw Reynolds being dragged by two guys and the other one of them was just hitting him with the hook of his belt. I saw them put him at the boot of an Escalade and drove off.

"Who are these people?" I said to myself. Knowing well that I wouldn't get any answer, I drove  myself home.