Me'Lani

Twenty-Five

"I'll take it from here." Crystal said to the security guard.

"Thanks." I politely told the security guard as he walked off. "Yo Crystal what the entire fuck. You suppose to keep them separate not bring them together." I scolded.

"That's not my fault. Tre was no where in sight and Damon got up to get a drink, I look over and they're engaged in conversation and now they're sitting and talking."

"Oh my gosh. Why are they sitting and talking." I said in scary voice.

"I don't know." Crystal whined. "This party to turnt to play side piece cop.

"Damn, they are fine as hell. But Damon looks mad familiar." My sister said.

"Now, you see my dilemma, and I don't know how Damon looks familiar to you." I shrugged.

"If both see you they're gonna hop up to come greet you and that'll be majorly awkward. Crystal get the thirst buckets to dance with Tre... sis you stay out of sight until she completes the task, then make yourself visible enough for Damon to come over and speak and I'll work out the rest with Crystal. Just vibe." My sister said.

Crystal then did as she was told and played it very smoothly then Damon noticed me,like my sister said he would, and started walked over to greet me.

"Melani you look so beautiful." Damon said gazing at me. It was so intense and sexy. I stared back then broke eye contact.

"Um, thank you." I managed to say cause all I kept having was flashes of our past sex life.

"Can I buy you a drink?" He asked.

"Yes." I answered as he escorted me to the bar.

"Apple martini." He told the bartender.

"Impressive." I said.

"You think I don't know you" He said gazing and smiling at me again making me want to pounce on him.

"I never implied that." I smirked.

"Your apple martini ma'am." The bartender said serving me my drink. I picked it up and took a sip.

"Damon let me borrow you for a minute." Crystal said making eye contact with me signaling me that Tre was coming but I couldn't turn too soon or it'll look obvious so I waited until Damon was gone and turned my attention to Tre who was walking my way.

"Wow. You look gorgeous." Tre said kissing my hand. I began to blush.

"Thank you." I told him.

"You know Damon?" He asked.

"Damon. Um, yeah he's an old friend." I hesitated. "Uh, how do you know each other... exactly?" I asked.

"I heard his name around a few times. Don and the boys needed something to do tonight and we ended up here and we basically started to chop it up. None to serious." He said.

"Oh ok." I nodded. This was so not for me.

"Girl, let's go dance." My sister said stealing me from Tre.

"Sis this is exhausting. I can't keep going back and forth but I want them both." I told her once we made it to the dance floor.

"You got bigger issues." She said.

"What?" I asked.

"Melani I need you to come to the stage with me." Damon asked.

"That's the bigger issue." She whispered as he got me up on stage.

"I'd like to thank everybody for coming out to my listening party and supporting me but most importantly I'd like to thank this beautiful woman and leading lady next to me Melani, who made this video ten times better. So without further or do I present to you "My number one" he said saying the title of the video but looking at me. I looked around the room and seen Tre. He was looking dead at me. I couldn't do nothing but act happy. The lights began to dim down and like four big flat screens began to play the music video.

"I knew I was majorly fucked.