Ps: If you love listening to music while reading, these are some of the songs that you could listen to while doing so that matches the mood of this chapter. Mind you, they are all Nigerian jam.

* No kissing by Patoranking

* Scatter by Fireboy

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The atmosphere was still a little tense, but despite that, they managed to dance with ease partly because each was focused on the music and not on the thoughts ringing in their heads. His hands on her waist had long since loosened and they had both unconsciously put a little distance between themselves.

'It's getting late,' he suddenly said to her as if she had a curfew.

'Yes, I think so,' she quickly agreed, happy to dwell on anything except the weird calls of her heart and mind.

'I'm sure we have tried with our chocolate revenge cake for the day. It must be time to leave for home,' he told her. She nodded at him in agreement.

'Of course we have,' she assured him with a smirk.

'I just hope that whatever we have done would yield results,' he said, quite skeptical.

'It will Taiye.' She was silent for too long and it began to bother him. He knew very well that her mind was drifting, probably towards their shared kiss as his was.

'Sei, are you alright?'

'Yes, why?' she asked him, quickly putting up a smile that he easily knew was counterfeit.

'Are you sure?' he asked her. She nodded.

'I'm fine really. But, I am just a bit hungry. Maybe going home is really a good idea if there is nothing more to do here.'

'Well said. We have achieved our aim so let us call it a day.'

'I agree.' Suddenly, he was picking her up bridal style, greatly surprising her and carrying her off the stage. 'Taiye,' she said with a laugh, ' you sure took me by surprise!'

'I am always full of surprises so you had better begin to learn to live with it,' he said proudly. She scoffed in amusement.

'Full my arse!' Monica came up to them, stopping them as they made it towards the exit.

'Oh Tai, are you leaving?' she asked him in a sweet voice, totally ignoring Seiyafa.

'Yes, we have decided to call it a day,' Sei said as another wicked thought stole her mind.

'That is too bad,' Monica said. 'I wanted to introduce you to a few persons of class,' Seiyafa sneered. How dare the bitch imply that she, Seiyafa was a person without class? She slid her hands slowly up Taiye's chest to wound it around his neck. Monica's spiteful gaze followed the slow motion. Taiye's breath hitched as she did so. The touch charred him, threatening to unbridle whatever had been quelled on the dance stage.

'I am so sorry Monica,' Seiyafa said to her. 'We have somewhere to be, things to do? Don't we sweetie?' she directed the question to Taiye who could only nod as she nipped his neck tenderly with her teeth. He swallowed quickly, silently. Desire roared to life in him, making him unsteady. She went further to slide her wet tongue over the skin of his neck, testing his beyond his self control.

'Yes, oh yes we do,' he quipped in hastily. 'See you around Monique,' he said walking past her, unable to stand the emotions that Seiyafa's actions were conjuring to life, unable to fight off the erratic sensations trying to possess him. What was happening to him? Seiyafa smiled triumphantly at Monica from behind Taiye.

'He is mine,' she mouthed at the Lady burning with jealousy. She stomped her feet more out of anger than jealousy as she watched them leave. Seiyafa laughed. After All, the two went hand in hand.

Well, the birthday was officially over and so was operation get Monica and Ron jealous. He took her to the car and set her on her feet. Then, he opened the door for her and watched her get in. He helped her with her seat belt and shut the door. Then, he turned around to the driver's side. He went into the car.

'Oh Taiye!' she said excitedly, still amused by their last encounter with Monica. 'Did you see it? Did you see the look of jealousy on her face when I nuzzled you? Oh, how she fell!' she said cracking up. 'She went up in flames with jealousy and so much anger. I bet she was envious. Oh this is really funny!'

'Sei, you are good at everything,' he informed her with a smile. 'You are just too good, excellent!'

'There is absolutely a reason why I am rated five stars,' she boasted to him. He chuckled.

'I owe you everything nice for troubling you,' he promised her as he started the engine and drove away.

When they arrived at her house,he helped her out of the automobile. She sighed happily. 'Thank you so much for today Sei,' he said to her in gratitude. She smiled radiantly at him and that earlier want engulfed him. He memorized the wonderful features of her face even when he knew it by heart.

She recognized those eyes staring back at her, knew that intensity, yet she couldn't back away from it. His gaze was piercing. It deeply penetrated her, calling out to her desire for him, the one she had thought she imagined sometime ago on a certain dance floor. The one she had realized even existed just today, only today. She swallowed softly as he closed the little dist dance between them. 'Taiye,' she whispered, her blood hot and furious. Her voice sounded strange to her, pleading. Without waiting to dwell on it, he reached out to her, took her face on his palms and kissed her.

Passion surged through them, connecting both as one. She returned the kiss, raring to taste every inch of his mouth likewise him. He deepened the kiss, ravaging her mouth tenderly. Heat rose in her, covering the surface area of her body. Passion and pleasure hardened him. He realized then that he wanted more, more of this woman and her soft feminine body mashed against him. She moaned into his mouth, purring like a satiated cat. He loved the taste of her, the intricate flavours that travelled into his medulla oblongata and tangled with his brain, messing up his already messed up mind. He pressed her into him, more and more, unable to get enough of her.

'Sei, Seiyafa, I want you,' he whispered against her lips. Wait, what? He wanted what? Seiyafa, his best friend? And then it came, rushing into him, the common sense that he threw out the window.

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Cause oh we might fall

_We might fall

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