𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 1997
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𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐲𝐚'𝐬 𝐏𝐎𝐕

The sound of my alarm clock echoes throughout the walls of my room, I slowly open one eye and looked at my clock which reads 9:00. I didn't move for another two minutes then got up and turned it off,
It feels good to wake up in my own bed, haven't been here in a while.

I finally got out of bed and walked into the kitchen, searched through my fridge surprisingly there's food in there. I hear footsteps coming down the hall, it's Ryland wearing a sports bra and boxers, she sits in one of the bar stools at the kitchen island.

"Good morning." Ryland Said

"Morning Birthday Girl." I Smiled at her

"Thank you." Ryland Said

"Hey did you go grocery shopping this week?" I Asked

"Yeah, there's plenty of food in there and in the cabinets." Ryland Said

Since I'm on the road a lot and I'm never home, my apartment is empty so Ryland came up with an idea that she should move in with me. I understood why she's 23 and wanted to move out of our parents house, so I agreed she can live here with me and take care of everything when I'm away.

I searched through the cabinets and found the pancake mix, searched for the skillet and got the rest of the stuff I needed to make breakfast.

"Question for you, who's boxers are those?" I Asked

"Oh these were some guy I slept with last weekend, he was a frat guy...pretty fun night you would have loved it." Ryland Said

"Ry I think I'm to old for fraternity guys." I Said

"Oh please 25 is not old okay, I'm telling you his friend totally your type." Ryland Said

"Oh and you know my type." I Chuckled

"Uh yeah I am your sister I know these things, you tend to gravitate towards guys who has serious baggage, or he has green, blue or brown eyes and he can make you laugh that's your dealbreaker." Ryland Said

"Okay Fine." She Smirks "Maybe I'm trying to breakaway from that, date guys who are emotionally available." I Said

I finished mixing the pancake batter, turned up the heat on the stove and poured the batter into the skillet. Ryland reached for a couple of grapes and ate them, I ate some as well.

"So Monday was a pretty interesting night huh." Ryland Said

I looked at her furrowing my brows "What do you mean?"

"I came home from work and after a long day at work, why not bust open a beer and watch some Tv.
I'm flipping through out the channels and I landed on Monday Night Raw, I'm thinking Hmm let me watch for a couple of minutes to see If your on and boom there you were." Ryland Said

I already know where's she's going with this.

"I'm watching the segment between you and Shawn, oh and I see it by the way—." Ryland Says

"See what?" I Asks

"The chemistry..it's definitely there." Ryland Said

"There's nothing there between me and Michael's." I Said flipping the pancakes

"You didn't seem to mind it when he spanked you on National television with his belt." She giggled

"Shut up." I Said

"Was that supposed to happen because you looked genuinely surprised?." Ryland Said

"No that wasn't supposed to happen, I wanted to do more than shove him I wanted to slap him again." I Said

"You Slapped Shawn? Why?" Ryland Asked

"Because he called me bitch...well he said I can be bitchy at times—whatever I slapped him, I apologized he apologized water under the bridge I guess." I Said

"Hmm I see things have changed in just a few months of you being there." Ryland Said

"Just eat your breakfast alright." I Smiled

She rolled her eyes, I sat next to her and we began eating our breakfast.

"So what's the agenda for your birthday today?" I Asked

"Okay so this is what I was thinking, there's this new spot downtown it's called "ClubDreamz" all the hottest guys apparently parties there and it's this sexy dress that I've been dying to wear lately and now I have a reason to wear it." Ryland Said

"Okay that's cool." I Said, taking a bit out of the pancake

"Mindy, Annie and Sarah should be around here by 8:30. Plus I invited Wendy." Ryland Said

"Aww that's very nice of you." I Said

"I know plus in a couple of months she's gonna be our sister in-law so why not huh." Ryland Said

"Yeah." I Said

"So what are you gonna wear tonight?" Ryland Asks

"Hmm I was thinking maybe I'd wear my new blue dress I just bought." I Said

"Nice, Look I was wondering I haven't had a blowout in forever you want to come down with me to the beauty salon and get our hair blown out?" Ryland Asks

"Sure I could use one, my hair lately feels lifeless I don't know why." I Said, Chewing another piece of my pancake.

"Hmm maybe because it's always been." I Playfully smack her arm "I'm kidding I'm kidding, but we're leaving like around 11 okay I wanna be up and out of there by 2." Ryland Said

I nod "Sure Thing, Before you go shower please wash your dish I'm back home remember."

"Yeah Yeah alright Ma." Ryland Said, I smiled a bit at her

*****

Throughout the day Ryland and I had a sisters day if you would say. We got our hair done, got mani-pedis next door from the beauty salon, I got my signature nail look short red gel acrylics. Stopped by Mom & Dad's so they could wish Ryland a happy birthday then came back to the apartment.

Back at my apartment, I'm in my room listening to music as I get ready to celebrate my sisters birthday tonight. The radio begins playing "Fire In The Twilight" From the breakfast club.

"Oh definitely turning this up." I Said

I turned the radio volume up, and began dancing in my underwear. Ryland walks pass my room door and laughs at me but I didn't care. I opened my suitcase and searched through it, spotted my blue dress, slid the dress up my body yet grooving to the song that's playing in the background.

Doing my makeup wasn't a problem but tonight I decided to change it up a bit, going with a blue aesthetic tonight, Some blue eyeshadow and bold winged eyeliner and some red lipstick. I pick up two of my heels and couldn't decide what to wear.

"Ry!" I Said

"Yeah?" Ryland Said

"Could you come here for a moment." I Said

I hear her heels clicking the hard tile floor, She leans on the door frame and looks at me "What's up?"

"I cant decide which heels should I go with, the one with no straps or the one with straps?....Please I value your opinions." I Said

She looked at both my heels and tilts her head, She points to the heel on my right foot.

"I'd Go with the one with no straps, makes it easier to take off after a night of getting wasted." Ryland Said

I smiled at her "Your the best thanks Ry."

"No Problem, now how do I look?" Ryland Asked

She's wearing a champagne colored strapped tied satin mini dress, with matching heels and her makeup is well done.

"You look Hot." I Smiled

"Good that's what I was going for." The doorbell rings "That's them." Ryland Said

"Go answer it, I need to put on some jewelry and perfume and I'll be out." I Said

"Okay." Ryland Said

She walked over to the door and answered it, the girls enter the apartment showering my sister with gifts and happy birthday's. I put on my hoop earrings and sprayed myself with my Chanel N 19 perfume I bought, then grabbed my leather jacket and said hello to the girls.

"Hey Girls." I Said

"Sonya!" They Said, All hugging me

"You look great." Mindy Said

"You smell amazing." Sarah Said

"Love the hair and dress." Annie Said

"Thanks Girls and you all look amazing too, but tonight's not about me but my dear lovely sister." I Said, Ryland returned a smile back to me

"Thanks Sonya, Now since it's your birthday I figured I'm gonna be the one who's not going to drink as much." Sarah Said

"Really you?" I Asked Surprised

"Yes I drove here in my new car and I want to driver sober ish, just enough to get us all home." Sarah Said

"Hey no problems here." Mindy Said

"Yeah." We Said

"Okay then, it's 8:50 come on I need one tequila shot and I'll be good for the night." Sarah Said

All the girls walked out the apartment, I shut the lights off and locked the door putting the keys in my bag. I got in the backseat with Annie and Mindy as Sarah and Ryland sat in the front, she started the car and we drove off from the apartment complex.

At The Club, everyone is having good time the music is blasting very loud we all have to scream to communicate. All of us girls are dancing with each other or with some random people nearby, Sarah is drinking a water bottle while dancing guess she's really stay committed to this.

I somehow found myself at the bar again for my third drink, the bartender gave me an old fashioned with a tiny red straw to drink through. I'm sitting down in the bar stool and I see a guy looking at me while he's dancing. He's tall maybe 5'10, short brunette hair and he's wearing a dark blue shirt with nice dress pants.

I smile at him as I'm enjoying my drink, he slowly approaches me keeping the eye contact which I surprisingly didn't break. He finally gets close to me and I can see his eyes since it's kind of dark in here, his eyes was a beautiful shade of green which I'm a sucker for.

"Hi." He Said

"Hey." I Said

"And what's your name beautiful?" He Asked

"Sonya...and yours?" I Asked

"Samuel." He lent out his hand, I shook it "Nice to meet you Sonya." He Said

"So why'd you come over here?" I Asked

"I saw you over here and I thought you looked very beautiful and I'd figured why not go over there and get the chance talk to her since I've been trying to all night." Samuel Said

I smirked at him while raising my right eyebrow, I finish my drink and set the glass on the bar table.

"You've been trying to talk to me all night?" I Said crossing my arms

"Yes." Samuel Said

"Then why didn't you come earlier?" I Asked

"Because you were with all of those girls, and I was afraid of getting rejected in front of them so if did id rather it just be you and me." Samuel Said

"Fair point." I Said

"So Ms.Sonya are you just going to stand here all night and talk to me or dance." Samuel Said

"Excuse me." I Said

"Would you like to dance?, I saw you out there and you can move." Samuel Said

He lends his hand out again, I look at his hand for a second then back at him and smirks at him.

"Sure Samuel, let's see if you can keep up." I Said

I take his hand and he leads me to the middle of the dance floor, there's people dancing all around us.
Samuel and I dance out to the songs the Dj is playing, this brings a smile to my face. I turn around and started grinding on him and he placed his hands on my waist dancing along.

I looked over and saw Sarah and Annie, they mouth to me "Who's That?" and I mouth back "Some Guy"
They nod in approvement and I go back to grinding on Samuel. He spins me around to face him and we dance with our foreheads touching, our bodies are so close his chest is touching mine. The song starts to slow down and our lips almost touch, He looks in my eyes I guess for permission to kiss me and I nod then he gently pecks my lips.

I kiss him back more this time and we began full blown making out in the middle of the dance floor, this feeling is what I missed and I hate admit but Amy was right. As I'm getting lost in the kiss I hear an argument in the distance, I pull back from the kiss and looked around for the nearby argument and found it.

It was my sister and a group of girls arguing with her, My big sister instincts kicks in automatically and I stopped what I was doing and tried to walk away.

"Wait Wait where are you going Sonya?" Samuel Asked

"It's my sister she's in trouble I gotta get to her okay." I Said

I walk through a sea of people just to get to her, Annie and Sarah beats me there. Mindy is in another girls face and I get in between the two.

"Whoa Mindy chill alright, okay you guys wanna tell me what's going on?" I Asked

"This Bitch right here was dancing with my man." She Said

"Who you calling a bitch. bitch!" Ryland Said

"You!" She Said

"Hey you shouldn't be mad at her alright, go take that shit up with your man alright!" Annie Said

"No I wanna take it up with little miss home wrecker." She Said

"Listen I was just dancing with the dude, I wasn't kissing him I wasn't grinding on him alright." Ryland Said

"Look we're all here to have a good time all right." Sarah said

"Yeah we don't want any trouble, look it's my sisters birthday we just came out to party like you all." I Said

"Oh I'm sorry how terrible of me." She picks up a drink, then throws it on Ryland "Happy Birthday." She Said

"Oh she did not just do that!" Mindy Said

"No one throws a drink in my sisters face bitch." I Spat

She slapped my face hard, Next thing I know I saw red. I punched the girl right in the middle of face, probably broke her nose but what ever. All the girls started fighting with the girls friends who threw a drink on Ry.

Me and the girl are rolling around, my dress lifts up a little showing my underwear but I didn't care I was just throwing some punches on her.

Some of the men broke us up, The girl broke free and jumped on me landing on my leg hard there was this instant pain that shot up my leg. I kneed her in the stomach and kicked her in the face with my foot that was missing a shoe.

I break free form the other girl and went to go help out Ryland, She punches the girl she's fighting and I pull her close to me trying to stop it.

"Ry Come On let's go!" I Yelled

Sarah and Annie got a hold of Mindy, she ripped out some girls extensions. I found my shoe and picked it up, The girls yelled stuff at us on our way out I stuck up the middle finger at them.

Outside the club my bare feet touched the cold cement ground, I couldn't walk and started limping.

"Guys Guys Someone help me I can't walk." I Said

"What's wrong?" Mindy Asks

"I don't know I think it's my leg, something must have happened to it." I Whined In pain

"You want me to drive you to the hospital or—" Sarah Said

"No No No, just drive me and Ryland home all right I'll deal with it in the morning." I Said

The girls nod and Mindy & Ryland helped me in the backseat of Sarah's car, Ryland put my foot on her lap as Sarah drove off.

"Hey Ry?" I Said

"Yeah." Ryland Said

"Started off 24 with a bang huh." I Said

"Oh you have no idea." Ryland Said, We all laughed