Dance With Me - Episode 2

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Adams Johnson stood in front of the mirror of his bathroom, busy shaving. He was naked to his waist with his abs fully on display. He was a young man in his late twenties, a well-built man with shoulders as wide as a barn door, hair in a Mohawk style.

 He was also the proud owner of House 24-a popular night club at Labone in Accra, Ghana.

The door separating the room from the bathroom was opened enabling him to see the time on the wall clock in the room. It was some minutes to 11 in the morning . He had enough time to get to House 24 and get things arranged.

While he was busy doing what he was doing, Rita, his girlfriend walked in  a pink towel and she gasped on seeing him in the bathroom, then she checked the time, frowned but said nothing and instead walked out of the room.

She was a pretty thing in her early twenties, blonde with body like that of a model which she was. They had been staying together for eight months but recently, things have been going bad between them and now he was beginning to regret asking her to move in the first place.

They had slept separately the previous night after last night issue which was one of their numerous fights, ever since she had started this model-thing with Adrian whom Adams hated with passion.

“Snap out of it man!”

She had earlier been working with him at the club until Adrian, the white man came to their club for the very first time. That was when he had his eyes on her

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. He had said what she wanted to hear,

 It was like her dreams had come true since she never really liked working at the club, since then, she had been going for numerous shootings and had been appearing constantly on local magazines, even though it was not really that a big deal, it meant something to her and it was ruining their relationship.

He finished shaving and washed his face with the water from the tab, then he dropped the shaving stick and carefully into the basin before climbing into the tab to take his shower.

As the cold water sank into his skin, the memories of the other night flashed in his memories-

Rita had just gotten home from a shooting and he had been waiting for her, he hadn’t gone to bed.

That was the very first night that she would come home past midnight and worse, in Adrian’s car.

He had stayed behind the window, shifted the curtain slightly so that he could see when he stepped out of the car to open the door for her and later when they hugged before finally saying good night.

The fight had lasted just few minutes and it ended with him sleeping in the bedroom while she slept on the couch, cursing at him on how insecure he was and how she didn’t deserve someone like him, he had told her one thing, which was that she was free to leave anytime she felt like leaving.

He still meant that.

If because she had been appearing on few adverts and few magazines, she thought she deserved better than someone like him, she was free to leave. He knew Adrian was only using her but she wouldn’t listen, as she had always said, he knew she was a star and she was helping him to be just that.

Adams was never going to settle down with a woman like that. Never! He was brought up in a very good family and he was taught on how important it is to have a woman who would respect him and whom he would respect, a woman that would listen to him and that would be submissive and humble-someone like his mother, clearly, she was not going to be that woman and he had began to count the days that he would finally throw her bags out or she would eventually go and never come back.

Few seconds later, he was out of the tub and now in his room, drying himself dry with a mustard-colored towel.

Shortly, she came and hissed a sigh of relief on seeing that he was out of the bathroom, and then quickly, she threw the phone in her hand to the bed and then walked into the bathroom, shutting the door after her.

Adams watched the whole drama. Before things became worse and worse, they never took a separate bath together. They would always bathe together and it used to be fun. Double chime from the phone distracted him from what he was thinking and for a while he let his eyes linger on the phone. He felt a sudden urge to check who had sent a message and what the message was all about...

Perhaps, she had known what he was thinking because that instant, the bathroom door opened and she rushed in, still in a towel, to pick the phone before rushing out back into the bathroom.

Adams sighed. She was hiding something and she was not even covering it up or maybe she was, it could be that she was actually a bad actress.

 

** **

Minutes later, he was in the living room, picking his car key and his phone which he always dropped anywhere since he had nothing to hide.

He realized that he had a message from the club. It was Omega, his assistant at the club. According to him, there were two ladies waiting for him to be interviewed for the post of the new cocktail waitress.

Well, he needed to start going.

He contemplated on telling her that he was leaving or not , but then , they hadn’t spoken that morning and he wasn’t going to start it. With this, he walked out of the door into his car and in a few seconds later, he was speeding away.

**

During the day, anyone who had come into House 24 would think it was just a warehouse well except for the bar that was always stacked up with bottles of drinks and the inscription on the wall outside.

Marcy, one of the loyal waitresses who would always come during the day and would stay till when the club would officially open, was around. She was 21, red haired, short and really hardworking, Adams trusted her a lot. Well why wouldn’t he? She was always around and was always working her ass off  with Omega.

Omega was his assistant, a 25-year old guy, tall and heavily built like Adams, he had the kind of face that most ladies would always fall for.

He was busy carrying some heavy things into the back store while Marcy was rearranging the bar. It could have been the two of them only except for two ladies that were sitting in the room, looking quite nervous.

Marcy heard the sound of Adams’s car  drove in.

“Hey, I think Adams is around.” She said to Omega who was carrying a box of something heavy on his shoulders as he passed.

“Oh!” Omega grunted, “thank God.” Then to the ladies who were sitting at a corner of the dance floor, he shouted, “the boss is here already so, your waiting is over.” Then he began to climb the stairs.

Minutes later, Adams opened the door and stepped in. He smiled on seeing Marcy, she was trying to put a glass in the first row of the cabinet but it was too high for her so she had to stand on a stool.

“So how is favorite red-haired Shorty?” He joked but Marcy only did what she wanted to do and then jumped to the floor carefully.

Omega was climbing down the stairs, holding an empty crate.

“Sup Omega?”

“I’m good, man,” Omega replied and they shook hands.

“Getting busy this morning...” Adams said, addressing Omega and Marcy, “that is really good, remind me to increase your pay.”

“As if you always do!” Marcy replied.

“Oh come on, things have been crazy and we are still battling with this whole lawyer thing. Believe me I want to, hopefully things will get better and we can finally pay our loans and be out of debt. Trust me once we are free, I will do that.” Adams explained, smiling and looking sincere but Marcy only scoffed.

“So, should I direct the ladies to your office?” Omega asked and that was when Adams realized that they were not alone, he had totally forgotten and this was quite evident in the way he gasped on seeing the two who were now on their feet.

“Holly Molly! To be honest, I forgot. Apologies ladies.” He said but the ladies only smiled. “So, Omega, Marcy, why don’t we all recruit together yea?”

Marcy and Omega looked at him.

“You serious right now?” Marcy asked.

“Sure, let’s all take a seat, come on people.”

Adams replied and in a while later, the five of them were all sitting down on different stools. The two ladies were seated, facing the three, in Adams’s hands were two documents which he read from.

“So, you are Benita?” He asked the first lady who was sitting directly opposite him and whose application he was going through.

The lady nodded. It was clearly stated in her application that she was 30 but she looked older. Apart from this, she wasn’t that all pretty and was way bigger than how a waitress of a nightclub should be.

“So, I see here that you have worked at the Rotica club before?” Adams continued, handing the application to Omega to go through.

Benita nodded anxiously.

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. “Yes, I did.”

“Why did you leave?”

“Well, my boss was a jerk, I got married and gave birth and he just fired me just because I began to weigh a ton. Could you believe that?  I mean how many people get fired because they got knocked up?”

Adams stared at her, “right. Well, you have an impressive history here so no need to worry, we only need one person here so, we will call you if you are lucky.”

Benita smiled and stood up, “thank you.” She said before leaving the place.

The other lady looked like the sort of lady that could work with him, Adams thought, she was younger, slimmer and even pretty. Those were all the things needed.

“So, it says in here that you have never worked at a club before.” Adams stated, referring to her application.

“Yes of course.”

“So you think you can wing it?” He asked and she nodded but with her eyes closed.

“Why are you closing your eyes?” Marcy asked.

“Just a question.” The lady replied.

“Okay shoot.” Said Adams.

“Please will there be smoking here?” The lady asked and the three exchanged glances.

“Sorry, we didn’t get that.” Omega replied.

“I mean, is smoking allowed here?”

Adams laughed, “of course it is, this is a night club and people come to smoke their life away obviously. Why?”

The lady looked uncomfortable, “then I can’t work her obviously.” She said and stood up. Adams was confused but she was already working away before anyone could ask her a further question.

“Wow!” Omega started after the lady has gone, “does that mean that the fat lady is hired?”

“Not on your life.” Adams retorted.

 “What was up with that thing that just left here?” Marcy asked, “if you ask me, the whole thing looked funny to me. I mean who asks such. It’s like going to the sea and ask if you will find a crab, why won’t you? Well, she is not hired, she is too dumb for my liking.”

“No one will hire her, let’s just hope some else comes in before tonight,” Adams explained. “We need extra hands if we will make a profit this week.”

“Yea.” The two chorused.

Adams stood up, “I will be in my office, I need to sort some of the things out.”
“Adams, about the leaking bathroom?” Marcy reminded him.

“Don’t worry, I have called those coming to fix it, so thanks, guys.” He said and walked to the stairs.

Marcy and Omega watched as he climbed up the stairs and disappeared into his office.

“You think he’s okay?” Omega whispered to Marcy.

“No, I think he’s not.”

“The club?”

“No. Think it’s that slut he keeps living with.” Marcy retorted, standing up.

“They should break up already. I wonder what happened this time.”

“Well, that is what I am going to find out.” Marcy replied and began to walk towards the stairs as well.

**

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