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They got to the venue, a couple of minutes after nine. They bouncer in front had asked for the invite which Lindsay gave him. He lifted it so that they would pass. She looked around in awe because of how beautiful it was.

They walked up to the bar and sat. Lindsay waited for one off the bartender to serve the other before she called him over.

"Two shots of vodka, with lime and salt on the rim"

"Coming up" he said and took a bottle from behind him.

Lindsay turned back to Emily and asked.

"So what do you think ?"

"It's mind blowing, I feel so out of league here, I never thought a club could be so fancy"

"Yeah me too but we just have to not show it, and trust me when the music starts I doubt you will think it's fancy"

"True"

"So are your friends coming too?"

"Nope just one of them Shelby, you will love her".

"Okay" The bartender dropped two shots of vodka in front of them. Emily lifted her glass to Lindsay's own and they both cheered to a better life. They swallowed it in one gulp then bit on the lime. Emily's face scrunched up because of the burn and the sour taste of the lemon.

"Wow" Lindsay said as she shook her head side to side with her eyes closed.

"How about another one?" Emily said.

"Ay, okay. But one of us has to be sober to drive back home" Lindsay said and ordered again. It wasn't necessarily an order because the bartender said it's on the house so, yeah the were getting free drinks. They were both talking when someone tapped Lindsay.

"Shelby, so glad you could make it" Lindsay squealed. Emily had to admit that Shelby looked gorgeous in her red dress with a deep vee neckline and a filmy skirt that swirled around her knees, and she had decided to pair it with three-inch black stilettos that added some height to her petite frame and made her legs look long and sleek.

With her curled hair.

"Me too, hi nice to meet you" she said then turned to Emily giving her a kiss on the cheek.

"So glad to meet you too" Emily said and told him to at one cup shot of tequila for Shelby, and he should leave the bottle.

Shelby, Emily and Lindsay raised their glasses. The three of them clinked glasses and threw their heads back as they swallowed the alcohol. Lindsay felt the burn right down to her belly, and when Emily tried to refill her shot glass, she shook her head.

“None for me. My stomach can’t handle more than a couple of shots.”

“well more for me , I'll take Lindsay shot it up anyway,” Emily said, more like slurred. She was already mixing up her words.

“ Uh-oh.” Lindsay didn’t voice her worry, but the steel in Emily's eyes told her that her friend was feeling self-destructive tonight. For the next hour, they discussed what an idiot men were, while Emily continued to slug down tequila she also ranted about Hayden. Eventually Lindsay had to stop the drinks because Shelby and Emily were going to get shit faced.

As Lindsay stopped them, the lights went from blue to red and the DJ started playing. Emily Screamed out

"Oh he's playing my favorite song, SI SI by Beckyg" Emily stood up dragging Shelby and Lindsay to the dance floor. Emily, Shelby, and Lindsay continued to dance, and their threesome drew more and more attention, as well as more and more participants, until they were suddenly surrounded by other girls who were as enthusiastic about the song as they were.

The next song was pretty much an anthem for any woman who’s ever had to deal with a stupid jerk hitting on her at a bar, or buying her with drinks in the hopes of getting laid, or just bloody annoying her when she’s trying to hang with her girlfriend . A petite Latino girl with multiple facial piercings on her lips, nose and eyebrow bumps her hips to Emily's, and then all of a sudden they were dancing back-to-back and smacking their asses together.

Emily laughed and was breathless from how much fun they were having, and this time, it felt good not to think about him only herself tonight.

They all grabbed their purses , thanking the bartender for keeping it safe and left, but not before he collected Lindsays digits. Lindsay was the only sober one so Emily sat in the back with their purse while Shelby sat in front. Lindsay drove them straight to her apartment and by the time they arrived it was past three am and they were so tired, luckily they didn't have to get to work early because the applicants were to come in the afternoon by two pm,so they still had a lot of time to rest. Immediately the entered the apartment they all crashed on the couch and went out like a light.

Emily cracked a lid slowly because of how her head was pounding. It took her a moment to realize she was at Lindsay's. She closed her eyes back and slowly sat up. Her body aches so bad. It was because of the way she slept on the couch, and she realized her shoes were still on so she took them off. She noticed Lindsay wasn't here and Shelby was still asleep in the second couch and her heels on the floor with a strap broken. She stood up as she rubbed her hands over her face, her head ached, her mouth was so dry, she needed water.

She went to the fridge and took out the bottle of water gulping it. She called out Lindsay name softly as she went to the room.

"In the bathroom!" Lindsay yelled which made Emily winced. Gosh were did she get the energy to shout like that, she thought.

"You got any Aspirin?" Emily asked

"Yh just come into the bathroom and check the first aid cabinet"

"Thanks" Emily said as she took it out. She quickly took the Medicine and sat down on the bed. She didn't realize she had dozed off until Lindsay came out.

"Hey I'm sure your hangover is killing you right now" she said smiling, Emily groaned in reply.

"You were wild yesterday and I have to say I am proud, we took a couple of videos too, I wasn't the only"

"Gosh, it's going to be so embarrassing watching it, I hope they don't posted it"

"Hey who knows we might go viral"

"Wait what's the time?" Emily asked.

"Past twelve"

"Shit I need to shower...and take clothes from my apartment, we have to meet them by t–"

"Don't worry I got it all covered you can borrow some of my stuff, "

"Oh my goodness, thank you so much. What will I do without you " Emily said as she hugged her.

"Literally nothing" she teased.

"Let me go take a quick shower will be back in a giffy" Emily said and disappeared into the bathroom.

Hayden had arrived home yesterday very late so he had jet lag and went straight to bed. By the time he went to bed it was raining cats and dogs outside. During the night when the storm was so loud, he woke up from his sweet dream that he was on top of Emily, nuzzling the side of her neck and biting her earlobe. He didn’t have any idea how he’d gotten there, he was sleeping next thing he knows he was dreaming. He knew he wanted her so bad that he had never had this feeling before. Wanting her wasn’t just painful. It also scared the hell out of him.

Which was why he left before it got out of hand. Hayden wasn’t going to try to make her understand how he felt or why. Her opinion of him wasn’t important, which was a lie that he recognized immediately. For some reason, her opinion of him did matter.

He wanted her to like him and so far he had done a bad job. He couldn’t imagine why and knew he wasn’t making any sense. He was tired, that was all. Fatigue was making it difficult to think straight and the lightning wasn't making it better.

Since he could not sleep he took out his laptop and got to work. His parents knew he was coming home but they didn't know he had arrived. He wanted to surprise them. Hayden could not think of anything else but to surprise them because they love when he comes home. He might not show it alot but he loves his family alot and is grateful for everything his parents provided him. After an hour of typing rapidly on his laptop he felt sleepy.l, so close his laptop and went to bed.

Emily had borrowed clothes from Lindsay and by the time they left Shelby was awake eating ..... cereal. She said she was craving it, while they had warm some left over pizza. When they finished eating they left for work and got there twenty minutes to two. Emily quickly parked the car as they both got out. She saw that Ben was already in sitting down with three other people who were obviously the applicants.

They rushed inside the café because of how cold it was outside. The bell dinged as I pushed the door open. We both greeted them and went to the staff room to drop our coats and bags. By the time we came back out side Eric had entered.

"Welcome, good morning" Emily said and so did the others.

"Yeah thank you. Okay let's get this show on the road so we can have that meeting." He said as he walked to his office, then stopped and said.

"Please send them in one after the other"

"Yes sir" we answered. We all picked the first person to arrive which was Femi Johnson a Nigerian who had moved here because of college. She had to give it to him he looked really handsome, He was a man of unusual height she thought when he stood up, which was quite shocking because of how he just started college. standing a full foot over her own five-and-a-half-foot frame, which made her guess that he was an athlete but you never know, he was dressed in a black coat and trousers, Coal-black curly hair around his head, echoed in the wide eyebrows that feathered back toward his temples. A dark shadow spread across his chin and cheeks, which was a threat of a beard.

"Okay so follow me" Emily said leading him to Eric's office. She knocked on the door when they got there.

"Come in" she heard Eric say and some muffled shuffling to the Chairs.

"You can enter now"

"Thank you" he said, oh his voice his deep?. He definitely did not just start college. Or maybe he did you never know.

"Of course" she said and left. Less than an hour later Femi came out , do next person to go in was the petite Asian girl with a pixie cuts. Ashley young. She could not wait for the three of them to hand out. This time around it was Lindsay that took her to Eric's office, thrity minutes later she was out. Ben took Jeremy Scott the last applicant to Eric's office and he same out thrity minutes later.

Eric came out and said they could all start work on Monday 9pm. After they left the three of them went into Eric's office to have the meeting, but Lindsay turned back to turn the sign board on the door saying closed.