Questioned Encounter

 I adjusted my bright green dress that I was wearing. The color made my caramel skin look like it was glowing. The dress came up to mid thigh, and the neck line plunged slightly to reveal the top of my cleavage.

I placed a black belt around my small waist, it made my dress hug my hour glass shaped body even more. I checked out my ensemble in the full length mirror.

I fluffed my long black wavy hair that came down my back perfectly. Fixing my make up that had smeared slightly. I had the smoky look that accented my bright green eyes.

When I was done I walked out out to see my best friend, Tanya looking beautiful in a bright yellow dress. The color made her look bright and cheery.

Her dress was shorter than mine it came right under her bottom. Her dress dipped in the front as far as mine. Her bleach blond hair was styled straight that came down her right shoulder.

Her face brightened up when she saw me, "Xylene, you look beautiful, your twenty-first birthday is going to be amazing," I grinned and twirled to show her the back of my dress.

Smiling I stopped and looked at her, "Your the one that looks beautiful," I winked at her, "I'm so excited Jared said that he was going!"

"Its going to be a blast for sure!" She said as she glanced down at her IPhone in her hand. "We have  a couple more minutes before the taxi should get here, and I gotta pee horribly!" She said with a wide eyed grin, doing the pee pee dance. "Well hurry." I laughed hard when she winked and waddled to the bathroom

"Ready?" I asked. When she came out. She shook her head in approval after fixing her dress. She turned to grab her yellow clutch that matched her dress. I hurried back to my bedroom to grab my black clutch. 

I stopped as soon as I walked into the room and scanned the room. My stomach was doing flips and I was hearing a loud high pitched noise.

Whenever I felt like this it always ended up with something bad happening. I looked around my room warily, checking every crevice of the room.

It felt like something bad was going to happen here. I didn't know when, but I just knew. I had a knack of knowing when something was going to happen. Feeling a little better after walking around the room, I grabbed my clutch and walked out of my room.

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We stood outside my apartment waiting for a taxi. The wind was blowing slightly, it made me feel very nervous.

It was just getting closer to winter and in New York. When the taxi pulled up to us we climbed into the bright yellow taxi quickly to escape the cold.

When we sat down I noticed the taxi driver was a nice older looking man with slight gray in his hair. He gave off a vibe about him that was strange, almost not normal but he seemed nice enough.

Tanya quickly told him the address of the club. He smiled and shook his head and turned forward to drive again.

The car was dead quite with awkward silence. I decided to break the silence by asking him if he was from New York.

He answered promptly, "Yup," he said popping the "P". Glancing back at us through the rear view mirror he asked, "My Name is Eric, how about you?"

I answered him smiling relived that the awkward silence was over. "My name is Xylene and this is Tanya." pointing to Tanya, she glanced up from her phone and smiled at him though the mirror.

A couple seconds passed while he kept glancing back at us smiling. It wasn't creepy like it would be with anyone else, it was sorta calming in a way. He reminded me of my grandpa.