The club was about to close.
Tiffany finished dancing with the guy who was watching her the whole night before finishing her drink and leaving out with her girls. As they walked towards the parking lot she heard a deep voice yell, “ Come with me. Let’s keep this night going!”
She gave her girls that look they knew too well. Tiffany gave her friends a quick hug and walked back towards the club entrance door to meet the man wanting to continue his night with her.
As soon as she reached the door, valet pulled his car up with two other women in the backseat. She turned around to look for her friends but they were gone already. “Who are they?” she asked.
“My friends asked if they can ride with us to the house. Everybody is already there – we’re late, let’s go.”
“Rich, let’s go!” the girls in the back screamed as Tiffany rolled her eyes and sat in the passenger seat. Valet closed her door and he sped off before she could get seat belt on.
A few moments later, they pulled up to a large gate with a intercom. “Open up!” the guy yelled. A bell quickly buzzed and he drove through the gates down a winding dark driveway towards the largest house Tiffany had ever seen in her life.
“You live in a damn castle?”
“Nah, it’s just where the party is. Relax.” He said as he parked the car and leaned over to give Tiffany a kiss.
The girls in the backseat went quiet as Tiffany looked back at them with a big smile. She waited for him to open her car door and they both walked into the house as the girls in the back followed in behind them.
The house was full of people but the guy Tiffany was with made her feel like she was the only person who mattered to him in the room. They had a few drinks and danced for some more songs. She learned that his name was Richard, he has a son, and this place was his. He lied to her just to get her to come into the house and spend time with him.
She liked that he told her the truth.
As the night went on, they both were starting to fall asleep on the front room couch. Richard, walked Tiffany upstairs to his room to sleep in the bed and he slept in the room next door.
Tiffany woke up early in the morning confused by where she was. Her clothes were on which was a relief. She got up to use the bathroom and there he was. Richard.
“He probably doesn’t even remember my name,” she thought as she asked him to use the bathroom.
The expression on his face told the whole story, he had no idea who she was. She was just another girl he brought home from the club. Tiffany was so embarrassed because she violated her rule of not spending the night. Especially with someone like this guy.
She finished up in the bathroom and quickly grabbed the her things from the bedroom to leave. He stopped her in the hallway to offer breakfast but she made up a excuse to get out of there quickly.
Tiffany called a taxi to meet her at the front gate. After taking the longest morning shame walk down that driveway to meet the taxi; she had about 30 minutes to stop by her apartment to change clothes and get ready for work. She picked her daughter up from her mother’s house, dropped her off at daycare, then headed to work.
Walking into the office, everyone was welcoming her back. She was out on a leave of absence for a three months after a hysterectomy surgery. She decided to take her vacation right after the surgery to celebrate her new life without pain. As soon as she got the green light from her doctor, she partied every night. Coming back into the office was a big dose of reality that she had spent months avoiding.
“Welcome back Tiffany!” her boss Courtney yelled as she peeked out of her office. “Thank you Court! Glad to be back!”
She sat down at her desk in the front to look over the schedule for the week. Tiffany started to sign on to her laptop when the elevator doors opened.
Richard and his son stepped out and walked towards her. “We have an appointment with Courtney, is she available?” the little boy asked.
With a brief hesitation, Tiffany asked them to wait for a moment while she checked with Courtney. She walked back to her office, then signaled for the guys to proceed down the hall for their scheduled meeting. Richard looked as shocked as she did but they both didn’t want to create an awkward scene.
Tiffany sent him a text when she got back to her desk. She believes in fate and hopes he does too.
