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Chapter 14 - Birthday Planning

Sadé's POV

— September 5, 2022

Here's a little update on my life even though it's only been a week - Marshall and I are doing well. We speak almost daily unless one of us are too busy with work. I finally reached 10 million followers on Instagram, which means more opportunities in my career as a social media influencer! I know numbers aren't everything, but that's a big deal regardless. Also, one of my videos did extremely well. I'm not saying that they normally don't, because they do, but I mean this one completely went nuts! I'm so grateful for all the support and love I've been receiving lately just like I am any day. I felt like things were finally starting to fall into place.

I was finishing up some work at the business suite for my new vlog video that was about to drop. My editor wanted me to go over some small details with him just to make sure it was how I like it since he was trying out a new editing software. I received a text from Jordyn telling me to meet in her office.

"Oh, I've gotta go, Edwin. Jo just called me to see her, but I love the outcome. See you soon!" I said as I exited his office.

I made my way down the hall to Jordyn's office now. I knocked before opening the door.

"Hey, Jo. What's up?" I greeted her.

"Hey, nothing much. I just needed to talk to you about a few things." She said as I took a seat in front of her desk.

"Okay. Go ahead."

"Your 21st birthday is approaching fast. We haven't decided what we're going to do about the party." She said looking stressed, "It's only a little over 2 weeks away."

"I know, I know. I just can't decide on a theme. And you know I'm extra as hell so I can't just have any old house party or something." I groaned.

"I know. You've made that very clear." She laughed, "But I agree. It's your golden year birthday. You're turning 21 on the 21st! That's means you're finally legal legal, not just legal."

"That's it!" I gasped, "THATS IT."

"What's it?" She looked at me wide eyed from my sudden outburst.

"A casino/lottery themed birthday party! You know, since I'm finally legal legal to go to a casino and stuff. Eeee!" I shrieked as I waved my hands around in excitement.

"I like that." She seemed pleased.

"Yea and we can do lottery scratch off ticket invites. We can rent out a casino, have 1920s burlesque dancers, poker chips, cards, jackpots..." I continued to ramble on. She wrote everything I was saying down.

"Hear me out, Sae. We do it in Las Vegas. We'll call it 'Sadé's Royal Casino'." She suggested.

"Ouu I love that. This is going to be the biggest party of the year."

I had totally forgotten about my birthday if I'm being honest. But ever since Jordyn reminded me about the party I couldn't contain my excitement. We went back and forth about the party details for the rest of the day. As we continued to plan, we figured out the colors, some decorations, food, cake flavors & designs, and looked around for some great casinos to throw it at. All that was really left to do was to put everything into motion, which my team would do over the next few days. Jo also scheduled me a birthday photoshoot so that I could post it to social media before the party. I was ecstatic.

Once all that was done I went home and ordered some takeout, too lazy to cook. I was supposed to make my guest list, but I was way too tired to even bother thinking about it. I'll do it tomorrow. Instead, I spent my night catching up on episodes of 'On My Block'.