Meant To Be

Chapter 22

"I only have half an hour to get ready!" "Oh my gosh! Taraji don't scare us like that!" Jussie exhaled as he and I both became relieved. "I was gonna curl my hair and get all dolled up, but I can't with this little bit of time. I wish someone on sight knew how to hook me up quick." My eyes lit up suddenly. " I'm pretty good with faces, and I do hair pretty well." I doubted that she would give me a chance, but it was worth asking. "Really?!? Quick, come up to my room. Please!" "Jussie, can you wait for the food and call me when it comes?" "Sure. I know how excited she is for this date, so y'all should hurry while you still have time." I blew him a kiss as I rushed out with Taraji. This all seemed so weird. Never would I ever have thought any of this would happen. I decided not to over think it and just live for the moment. As we got on the elevator, I decided what I would do with the look tonight. As we hit the 7th floor, Taraji led me to her room. When we walked in, I saw a mess of clothes, mostly on hangers or in bags, all over the room. "I hope you don't mind the mess. I was trying to find the perfect outfit." I smiled at how she thought this was a mess. She should've seen my life in comparison. I followed as directed into the bathroom. There, I saw many palettes and hair tools. "What should we do first?" "I think hair. That way, your curls can have time to cool." "Ok, I'll just sit on the toilet I guess." As she sat down, I looked through Taraji's things on the bathroom counter. I quickly located a wand curler and plugged it in and turned it on. Next I got heat spray, hair ties, bobby pins, and s paddle brush. After about 15 minutes of sectioning, curling, and pinning, we were done. As I was hurriedly looking through the makeup to find colors that would work well together, Jussie called Taraji's phone. She answered and put it on speaker. "Hey, baby. What's going on?" "The food just came. I'm coming up in a few." "Ok, we're nearly done. See you soon!" After she hung up, I began beating her face (for those of you who don't know, that is a good thing). I did gold shimmery smokey eyes, pink blush, slight contour, rose gold highlight, pink matte lips, and defined brows. That all took about 9 minutes. I realized that my attempt at rushing through all this went pretty well. I heard a knock on the door. Taraji and I left out the bathroom and went to let Jussie in. "Whoa, look at that gorgeous ass lady!" "Boy, stop. I look cute or what?!?" "Magnificent, especially the hair." "You know we're gonna take those out! Quit playing!" I said, causing him to giggle. "Sit down, I'll be ready soon. Then y'all can go enjoy yourselves." As I walked back with Taraji, Jussie turned on the TV. I carefully removed every pin that I placed in her hair, then I lightly brushed it out. After adding a little spray, we were done. I could tell that she liked it by the way she looked at herself in the mirror. "Thank you! Wow, this is amazing." "You're welcome. I should be saying thank you for giving me the opportunity to touch a living goddess." "Stop it!" Said Taraji, playfully nudging me. As we walked out for the last time, Jussie made a whistle that sounded like one that is usually used in movies when someone sexy walks by. I was happy, and so was she. "Well" said Taraji, looking down at her phone. "He's outside. I'll let y'all go and I'll head out as well." "Bye, beautiful. Have a nice night!" Jussie said, hugging her. "Thank you, boo. And Josh, thank you doooo much I don't know what I would've done!" Taraji hugged me as she grabbed her purse. I cheesed wider than ever as we all walked into the elevator. "Wow." I thought, "Tonight was better than I ever expected."