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    Tales From Sha-Hair-Azad

    Drama!! Oh Drama!!

    By Najya Yasirah


    Chapter 5- Mortal Kombat (Finish Him)




    Julia followed Reyjah to the reception desk. Midori noticed a storm in Reyjah’s usually twinkling blue eyes. Julia paid Reyjah  a $50 tip. “You did a fantastic job,” she beamed. Reyjah allowed Julia to hug her. Just then, Antoine walked in. Julia looked up. “Hey Babe!” she said. Julia quickly ran up to Antoine and gave him a French kiss.  When Reyjah turned around all she saw was Antoine’s tongue in another woman’s mouth. He pushed Julia away. “What’s wrong with you?” she asked oblivious.  She smiled at Reyjah. “Reyjah, this was the guy that I told you about,” she said. “We have already met,” said Antoine, who was almost ready to piss himself.  Reyjah’s face was emotionless. Midori quickly got up and left her desk. “What’s going on?” asked Sheila as Midori passed by her. “It’s about to be on,” said Midori.
    “What are you doing here, Antoine?” said Julia innocently. She was smiling dead in Antoine’s face. Reyjah was trying to keep her cool. “I am here to see my fiancée,” said Antoine slowly. “You didn’t tell me last night that you had a fiancee’, and you sure didn’t tell Eliza when she gave you that lapdance in the Champagne Room. Reyjah almost lost her balance. Lap Dance?” she thought. “Well, who’s your fiancee?” she asked looking around. “Reyjah is,” he said. “Oh…,” said Julia.

    “I am sooo sorry, Reyjah,” said Julia who was getting frightened from Reyjah’s facial expression. Antoine was scared himself. “You didn’t know,” said Reyjah nonchalantly, “So I don’t feel compelled to kick your ass New York style.”
    “What the hell is going on?” said Derrick, “What is she talking about some ‘ass kicking’?” Everyone had retreated to the lounge, but being hairdressers, they were peeping out the door. Julia gave Reyjah another $50. “Is this for my pain and suffering?” said Reyjah sarcastically. “Get your bony ass outta my salon, please.” Julia did as instructed.  Antoine was speechless. “And she didn’t know you had a fiancee’, obviously because your lasagna-eating ass didn’t tell her!!” Okay, Reyjah was a little hot.  “Ahhh shucky- ducky!” said Derrick, somebody is about to get dealt with!!” “Ooh, let me see!!” said Sheila. “Babe, let me explain…” “Shut up! I’m talking!” she interrupted. “A lap dance, Antoine? And you have the nerve to chase me down for some poon-tang last night?” “Ahhh sh….!” said Sheila. “It’s all about sex with you, isn’t it? You don’t know how to love…just screw, screw and more screw…hell, you’re screwed because you screw!!”  Reyjah had flung her smock onto the floor. Angry tears were in her eyes. “I could stand here and cuss you out all day long, but what would that say about me? I wouldn’t be any better than any of your ‘rich bitches’.” Antoine was getting unjustifiably angry. How dare she call  his former clients ‘bitches’?  “Those bitches are the  same bitches that are funding our wedding, and Ms. Holden is the bitch that picked out your ring, and Darlene is the bitch that paid for it!!”  “AAAAAhhhhhh, no he didn’t!!!!”  said everybody in the lounge.  Reyjah’s jaw dropped, but her fist whet up. She uppercut Antoine. He fell to the ground. “So I guess I’m engaged to them, huh, no correction, was engaged.” Antoine rubbed his face. He looked at her through squinched eyes. “Rey…I shouldn’t have said that…” “I agree, you shouldn’t have,” she said arrogantly, but with every right.  Reyjah slid the platinum, diamond and sapphire ring off her slender ring finger and threw it at him. “So much for promises, Antoine, you truly broke this one.” She turned on her heel and went into the lounge.

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