Devoted

Chapter Four

Mycah

Les and I stepped into the party venue and immediately it felt like a scene from a romance movie. All eyes were literally on us. It definitely wasn't hard to gauge the surprised reactions of my fellow colleagues who were obviously used to seeing me hold my own. I plastered a smile on my face and began my rounds arm in arm with my date for the night. 

I decided to start my hellos by speaking to two of my closest work buddies who were huddled together, Shaiyne and Anthony. Shaiyne was the head fashion consultant at our magazine and came from a small town in Rhode Island. She was the most fashion forward plus size woman I have ever known. Now Anthony on the other hand was nothing less than a beauty gawd! Hailing from Alabama, he served as the head beauty consultant and everyones favorite gay man. These two were 100% fabulous. The three of us came to the company fresh out of college and were assigned to a pilot project together. We have been killing the game together ever since! 

Shaiyne and Anthony's eyes enlarged as Les and I walked toward them. Anthony being the outspoken person he is initiated the conversation. "Well damn hello miss thang! Thank you for the heads up! Mmm Mmm Mmm! Ciao handsome! I am thee Anthony Vargas, this here is Auntie Shaiyne Rose. And your name?" Anthony greeted Les with a handshake. "Pleasure to meet you Anthony, Shaiyne." He greeted Shaiyne with a kiss on the hand. "I am Marcelles Sebastien, however, you may call me Les. " Shaiyne gave me a smile and wink before speaking. "Hmmm, handsome and French are you."

"Well yes Madame, parlez-vous français?"

"Oui, je ne m'arrive de parler un peu de français. Ma grand-mère est en réalité créole." The two continued to carry on a short conversation in French while I looked on in admiration understanding every word due to my extensive language studies in French, Spanish, and Hebrew. Meanwhile Anthony decided it was a good time to interrupt. "Oh hell naw! Why this is so lovely that the three of you can speak that voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soi, I here donot! And actually, we have things more important to discuss starting with the tea on you two. Hello, somebody better start spilling up in here!" I smiled as Anthony took a sip from his champagne flute. "Well actually, Sonya introduced me to Les. This is sort of like our first date."

"Aye, que hermoso! Now thats a language I speak! Well goodluck to the two of you! Shaiyne and I are going to go head on over to the table. You all ought to go finish saying hello to everyone. We'll see you soon!" We parted ways with the lively two and began to greet everyone else that I knew in the room. Before we knew it, the emcee was approaching the mic, and we made our way to our seats at the same time as Sonya was walking in. We exchanged hugs and took our seats next to Anthony and Shaiyne. 

The night was going so lovely. Amazing drinks flowing, lovely entertainment, dancing, and food. Our table, which included myself, Les, Sonya, Anthony. Shaiyne, and two interns, Mariah and Hailey, was enjoying laughter and conversation when the shadow of a tall figure clearing his throat interrupted us. I looked up, along with everyone else at the table, and all I could think was "Oh Shit."