Chapter 5 A NIGHT OUT.  

The insides of the club was crowded with a lot of young people, especially the dance floor.

Tonia had persistently and quite strongly made her intentions known to Lilian. And she had not taken a no for an answer.

Tonia was in a short form fitting red gown that showed her curves and flattered her fair skin tone. She had let her curly hair to fall down her shoulders.

"would you quit fidgeting" Tonia told Lilian.

Lilian had never once in her life wore a gown like the one she was in. Her gown was black in colour and was just as short as Tonia's own. The only difference was that while Tonia's own had a long dip in front, lilian's own had a long dip in the back.

"I can't help it. It's too short and too revealing "

Not waiting for Lilian to keep on ranting about all the things wrong with her gown, Tonia dragged her friend to the bar where a bartender was doing tricks with his mixing skills.

Tonia sat down and after making sure Lilian had sat , ordered for some drinks and started flirty with the bartender.

Lilian smiled knowing Tonia's flirting was going to take sometime and let her mind Wandered. She remembered how her day had been.

Lilain had woken up very early in the morning story of her life to be out of a job and suddenly develop the habit of being a early riser. Or it could be the fact that she was so worried about the current state of her life that she just couldn't stay in dream land anymore.

She had hurriedly gotten up from the bed and proceeded to do a clean up of her apartment. She had started from her room and gradually moved on to her bathroom and eventually to her living room and kitchen space.

When was done with cleaning, she decided to go out for a run. So she dressed up in her running outfit and hit the road. Running had never much been her strong front cause she easily ran out of breath. But she was pleasantly surprised that by the time she got back to her apartment she was not out of breathe.

At least one good thing came out of the current horrible state of her life.

Once she got back inside, she had taken a shower and prepared some instant noodles for herself. She hadn't been able to cook a proper meal. It was at that point that Tonia had come and nagged at her until she had gotten up and followed her to the boutique for the shopping.

Tonia had wasted no time in taking charge of the shopping spree of the afternoon. The boutique they went to was a high class one and Tonia had picked all of lilian's clothes irrespective of if Lilian approved or not. In the end they spent Close to two hours checking for the perfect interview outfit. They had moved from one section the other with Tonia giving different reasons why the clothes Lilian tried on weren't good enough. Looking back, Lilian could have sworn that at one point, one of the store assistants had been very passed at Tonia because of how she kept moving from one rank of clothes to the other and trying on different clothes.

If Lilian was quite honest with herself, even her had gotten tired of all the dressing up she had had to do.

Lilian had been very tired at the end of their shopping and had wanted to just get home, take a bath and given herself the movie night treat. But, with Tonia adamant about going clubbing, that hadn't been possible. And here she was, stressed out and still tired.

She wondered how clubbing was supposed to make her do well at her interview Tomorrow . But, one can't really argue with Tonia once she's made up her mind.

"earth to lilian" Tonia said and tapped Lilian on arm. Lilian came back to the present and apologized for zoning out on Tonia. It appeared that Tonia had been trying to get Lilian's attention for some time now.

"this won't do. You can't keep thinking about your one night stand, let's go to the dance floor"

" I wasn't thinking about him" Lilian replied while anxiously staring around to make sure no one had heard what Tonia had said. Although to be completely honest. Lilian knew she had thought about him several time throughout the day. But, she couldn't very well give Tonia the satisfaction of knowing that .

Not the least bit interested in Lilian's obvious lie, Tonia once again got a hold of Lilian And dragged her to the dance floor.

Once on the dance floor Lilian let go and just decided to have fun. They spent almost two hours on the dance floor. At which time Lilian decided to rest her legs. She leaned close to Tonia to be heard and shouted " I'm going over to the bar. My legs are killing me" without waiting for an affirmation yes or negative no, Lilian dashed to the bar and ordered for a drink.

After taking a sip she turned in her chair to observe the dance floor. Tonia seemed to be having a lot of fun grinding against two different guys at the same time. Taking her perusal away from Tonia, she looked out across the other dancers on the dance floor. It was a wonder most of them could still stand. They are seemed to be heavily drunk and were leaning against each other all in the presence of dancing and feeling each other up.

Lilian had never been one clubbing and night activities. She had grew up in a strict Christian environment with strict parents and so all she was ever allowed to do at home was go to school, church and straight back home. And because of that she pretty much developed the habit of always being at home.

A stranger walked up to the bar and immediately tried to strike up a conversation with Lilian " what's up beautiful? I haven't seen you around here before"

" yeah. But, I'm sure you must have seen my friend around here a lot" Lilian replied and pointed at Tonia

The stranger turned to look at Tonia and then looked back at Lilian "nope. Besides I am interested in only you"

Lilian knew exactly what that meant. She might be the kind of girl to always be at home. But, that didn't mean she was a naïve girl. She had always known she was beauty who could turn heads and attract attention. But she wasn't interested in anyone's attraction. When she got the attraction of men it always turned out bad. At that point she thought back to the previous day and remembered how it had ended. Yep definitely bad. Besides she didn't want to talk to another stranger.

At that point Tonia who had been ordering a steady flow of drink had become so drunk that she climbed up on the table and started pole dancing. This caused an uproar from the guys in the club. Lilian seeing this decided to help Tonia before she did something she would regret.

" Look, this was nice and all. But I got to save save my friend from immortal mortification " and I got to escape from you. Lilian thought to herself. Not waiting for a reply she git up and hurried to the dance foor to drag Tonia from the table and force her back to the bar.

Luckily for lilian her stranger had left when she got back to the bar. Now, over to the hard part. Lilian knew she had to get Tonia mostly sober again, cause she wouldn't be able to take her back home without nearly killing herself in the process. After all, Tonia had more body mass than her.

Once at the bar, Lilian asked the bartender that Tonia had been flirting with if she could have some water. Which was given to her.

As Lilian forced the water down Tonia's throat, she noticed from the conner of her eyes that the bartender was checking out Tonia. Obviously, Tonia's efforts hadn't been a waste. But, lilain knew Tonia was in no state of mind to be left alone.

Once Tonia was done with the water, Lilian urged her and they left the bar.

The cool breeze outside helped to clear both their heads more and as a result they decided to take a little walk before ordering for a taxi.

By the time they got home it was pretty much around midnight and they went straight to bed.