Dance With Me - Episode 15

 

Those comments both here and on FB made my day. Well, you guys are right, maybe she is nursing some feelings, who knows? But Aunty Marcy, you sef cool temper now! 

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“Are you okay?” Betty asked as they were busy dressing up for their shift that night.

“Yes, I am.” Angy lied. They were not holding a show tonight but just their normal serving shift.

“You look like someone poisoned you.” Candy retorted, while applying her lipstick.

“Maybe she is still feeling down about the whole naked stuff.” Candy stated.

“No, I am so past that . Besides, it kind of brought I and Adams closer today you know.” Angy explained, “we joked, laughed about it until it stopped being weird. By the way, you are such a good advisor Candy.”

Candy grinned, “you are welcome.”

“We need you tonight Angy, don’t go AWOL with whatever is bothering you which you can’t share.”Betty warned.

Angy smiled, “I don’t know, I think it’s my period.”

“Liar!” Both ladies shouted at the same time.

“I am seriously offended by that remark.” Angy said sternly.

“Period is always the last excuse of a woman, whatever is wrong with you, try fix it if you can’t share, okay?” Betty advised.

“Okay.”

The three moved out of the room down to the bar where Omega was waiting, the club was just opening and people were just coming in.

“Hey babes. Ready for tonight?” Omega asked, winking at them

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. Adams and Marcy were standing outside Adams’s office, talking and looking below.

Adams was confused, after everything he and Marcy had discussed that day; he had been having some strange thoughts which he was finding difficult to shake off.

“Excuse me; please there is a package for Miss Angelica.” A boy announced at the counter and this got the attention of Adams and Marcy.

“A package, for me?” Angy asked, surprised, and so was everyone else.

“Yes,” said the boy, carrying a large package in his hand.

“Wow! What is in it?” Betty asked, giggling.

“Who is it from?” Angy asked.

“Does that matter?” Candy asked, taking the pack from the boy while Angy signed where she was directed to sigh, then the boy left.

“Where is it from?” Angy asked again but no one replied as the two ladies were busy ripping the wrapping papers apart, to reveal a beautiful box which they opened. In it lay a beautiful pair of shoes, in it was another box which candy opened, it contained a beautiful gown which matched the shoe color.

“Oh my God!” The ladies chorused at once. Candy brought out  the shoes.

“These are 2019 YSL greenwhich shoes! Oh my God! Only two have been produced yet!” She screamed.

“Oh my God! Check out the gown!”

Angy was confused, who would give her something like these? They were far too expensive for just any ordinary person to just dash out. Betty and Candy were super excited.

“Oh my God! There is a note inside.” Candy screamed and handed the note to Angy, the three came together to read it. “Wear it on your next show. From a special admirer.”

“That’s all, no name no address, nothing.” Betty stated.

“Yes! Making it more creepy and more romantic. Oh dear! You must wear this on the next show Angy! If you don’t I will.”

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Adams and Marcy were looking at everything that was happening. \

“You remember how this had started?” Marcy whispered to him.

“What are you talking about?” He asked.

“Rita, she started by collecting expensive gifts too....oh no, that wasn’t how it started. I think it started with you falling in love with her first right?” Marcy asked, almost like a statement but without waiting for a reply, she walked down the stairs.

Adams was quiet, she was right. Rita had started collecting expensive gifts from secret admirers as well. At first, it was expensive bags, then shoes, then, cloths and later, Adrian finally showed his face and gave her a contract that was bigger than anything she has ever dreamed of. To be the face of a clothing magazine.  The same thing was happening with Angy and hers didn’t even start with shoes, it started with two things. Could Marcy be right? Was he not supposed to trust her?

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Angy was still surprised at the whole thing and as she sensed Marcy coming to the bar, she looked up towards Adams’s office and found him looking at her, she knew he must have heard about the whole package thing but the look on his face made her realize that, he might not be too pleased about it.

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Hours later, the club was filled as usual and all the customers have been served. Angy sat at a table with her friends, with the note in her hand-

Wear it on your next show. From a special admirer.

All through the time she served and joked and flirted with the men, she had hoped that one of them would come and whisper to her that he was the secret admirer but no one did. Now she was tired and getting frustrated even though her friends told her there was no reason to.

“You should stop beating yourself on this babe, he will show up sooner or later.” Candy had said.

“But I can’t wear it if I don’t know who it came from. What if it was stolen?”

This had made the two ladies laughed, “no it wasn’t stolen. Stop talking like that.” Candy replied.

“Okay, if it is not stolen, still, have you ever met a man in this club that could afford those two?” She asked again.

“Looks can be deceiving.” Betty replied, “different men come into the restaurant.”

“That means he could be a serial killer.”

Betty gasped “Angy!”

“What? You said it yourself. Different men come into the restaurant, serial killers could be one of them.”

“I don’t think a serial killer could send something that beautiful.” Candy said.

“He could be attempting to lure me.” Angy replied.

“You are one big case of paranoia.” Betty declared.

“I don’t know guys, I just feel so awful about this gift thing.”

“But why? If I were to be you, I would be really excited to wear it.”

“I know but maybe if I know the person who sent it.”

The ladies sighed at once, they were tired of trying to reassure their friend.

“Is there something else bothering you aside the gift?” Betty asked.

“Why did you ask that?”  Angy asked in return.

“Because, you have been acting all strange since and now that a gift is here to lighten the mood up, you got worse.” Betty replied.

Angy thought of telling them the truth about the whole conversation with Marcy that morning but she changed her mind, “I have been doing some serious thinking.” She declared.

“About what?” Betty asked.

“Since I moved in with Adams, I feel like we are getting closer and I feel like there are still so many things that I haven’t understood about him.”

The ladies exchanged glances, “where is this going?” Candy asked.

“Nowhere, I swear, I just want to know about that Rita girl.”

The ladies exchanged glances again.

“Do you think you are beginning to like Adams?”

For a while she said nothing and then blurted, “something happened this morning.”

Candy screamed, “oh my god! You guys kissed?”

“No, no, no.

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. We didn’t,” she replied, feeling shy talking about the whole thing. “But we could have if one of you hadn’t called.”

“Really? You have been keeping this to yourself Angy! How could you?” Candy exclaimed.

“What happened?” Betty demanded.

“Well,” Angy started, “ I was in the kitchen and he just held my hand in the water and started talking about how beautiful I was on the stage and how much I captured the crowd’s heart and, that instant, I don’t know, I just looked at him and he looked at me and, it was just like the time froze you know. Like all those movies when they are staring at each other, about to kiss and something happens to distract them and cut the spell.”

“Oh my God!” Candy cried for joy.

“What?” Angy asked.

“You are in love with him already.”

“No I am not.” She denied.

“Yes you are, you should see yourself right now, you like him.”

“Yes I may like him, no problem about that but being in love with him, really? No, that will be too soon.”

“Betty, Candy, I’m going home, you ready?” Omega announced. He was always their ride home, the three stayed in the same area.

The ladies stood up, taking their bags.

“Babe, we shall continue this tomorrow, don’t do anything stupid and do not throw away those gifts.” Candy warned. They all hugged and kissed.

“Night baby.” Omega said, kissing Angy on the cheek before they all left the club.

Angy stayed at her table, now she was the only one even though few customers were still around. Collins was still playing music, he was always the last to leave. Marcy was at the bar, clearing things up while Adams was still in his office.

Angy knew she had said the wrong thing, initially she had wanted to tell the girls about Marcy’s outburst that morning and about the conversation she had overheard in Adams’s office when Marcy was there but she was confused. She didn’t know how they would feel about her eavesdropping. She hadn’t meant to do that, she had just wanted to go to Adams to tell him something and she had overheard her name, so she stayed. She heard everything they said and about Rita and how he couldn’t even say anything. Maybe Marcy was right after all or maybe she needed to prove herself to Adams and to Marcy that she wasn’t the person they thought she was.

“Hey, Angy, are you ready to go?” Adams asked behind her and she nodded.

“Marcy, you ready?” Adams asked but the lady shook her head when she saw Angy standing up.

“No, I will take a ride with Collins.” She replied. 

Angy watched but said nothing, instead, she followed Adams out even though she could feel Marcy's gaze behind her.

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SO, SHOULD SHE NOW RETURN THE GIFT NI? HA! ME I  CANNOT RETURN THE GIFT O...WHO NO LIKE AWOOF? THAT GIFT IS LIFE...HEHEHE