Sleep Talking

You Got Me

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"Excuse me," Taj says pushing through a crowd of people to get to Mike.  She huffs already exhausted and places her hands on the countertop and finally averts her attention to Mike who was drinking a brown liquor from his red solo cup.

"Hey," Mike says with a smirk on his face. "You okay? You look like you've just seen a ghost, your face looks flushed." He gestured towards her.

"Probably the weed I just smoked." She exaggerates. "But you didn't respond to my text I didn't know you were showing up." She nudges his arm playfully.

"I most definitely did, I sent you a text...well three texts." He corrects, watching her dig in her pocket for her phone and turns on her lock screen to see three unread messages from him saying he was on his way.  She blushes from embarrassment and places her hand on his shoulder, empathetic towards him.

"I am so sorry I must've gotten distracted," She says looking over towards her friends who were in the living room on a couch laughing at some joke that was being told.

"It's fine, i forgive you." Mike smiles. "What are you doing Friday?" He asks, wanting to spend more time with her.

"Friday...Friday I have fittings for New York fashion week in the morning and into the afternoon but I should be free afterwards why?" She asks, looking into his eyes.

"I wanna take you out on another date." Mike says with confidence.

"What are the details on this date and how should I dress?" Taj asks, tracing her fingers alongside his arm.

"Casual, and I want to cook for you or we could cook together I wanted to teach you how to make some of my favorite dishes from my restaurant that I think you might like too." He responds looking at her. 

"You know I love food, this sounds amazing I'm down for our second date." She says, reaching up on her tippy toes to kiss his cheek. 

"Third," Mike corrects politely, and walks next to her, placing his hand on her lower back. "It's a date then."

"By the way sorry about not responding earlier, I was out with a client and couldn't get to my phone fast enough, I hope that didn't bug you the wrong way." He apologizes.

"Oh, it's okay I completely understand." She states, now feeling bad for kissing Jidenna.

"So, I'll pick you up around 6 and we'll head over to my pace and be sure to bring a change of clothes in case you want to get comfortable afterwards too." He hints wanting her to stay the night.

"Okay, Im already excited." She says, looking at her friends who were enjoying themselves and now dancing to the rhythm to the music that played throughout the speakers.

"Good," he smiles, bending down to kiss her forehead.  "Why don't we go rejoin the crowd." He gestures over to where her friends were.

She nods in agreement and grabs ahold of his hand as she led them to where her friends were in the middle of the room by the couches. Jidenna looks over to where she was mid sentence of explaining his story of his tour adventures and noticed how Mike had his arm wrapped around her waist. He looks down at his phone to check the time and suddenly felt like he was being played by Taj after what she just confessed to him. He shook off whatever feelings he had for her though and continued on with his story with a straight face.

For the rest of the night the crew drank, danced, smoked, laughed and simply enjoyed each other's company at the party. As the party was winding down, so were the songs that were playing throughout the penthouse. Taj smiles, dancing excitedly in her seat as one of her favorite songs began to play, it was The Roots and Erykah Badu 'You Got Me' she grabs ahold of Mike's hand and drags him to the middle of the dance floor to dance with her before the song went off.