Chapter 1 The Introduction
Tracy ’s cell phone rings, “I CANT STAAAND YOU BIAATCH”…
Tracy picks up “hello.” Jess is on the other end
“hey tiff its me jess.”
“oh ,hey girl what’s up? ”
“…just callin to see if you wanted to go to the club with me ,Erika and Reese tonight, and don’t tell me NO!” Tracy sighs and starts to speak.
“jess I’m not sure if I’m ready to meet other dudes yet, its only been seven..”
Jess cuts Tracy off ”girl its been like what 7 months since you and Mike broke-up plus, not to be rude but he aint thinking about you, he got a new girl already, you should move on and do the same. your single now go out and be free its Friday have fun….c‘mon!”
Tracy responds back,” FINE… ill go”
“good we will be at your house at 9:30 to pick you up so u have an hour in a half to get ready, and BE ready”
“alright, bye”
“bye”
Tracy hangs up the phone and starts lookin for something to wear but she cant get mike off of her mind.
mike and Tracy was together for four in a half years until mikes cheating forced them to break up. Mike was like Tracy ’s lungs. she couldn’t breath without him and she thought he felt the same way but realized he didn’t when she found text messages in his phone and started questioning about them and everything came crashing down from there.
Tracy decides to wear a red shirt that droops in the back exposing her beautiful chocolate brown skin and a medium sized butterfly tattoo on her right shoulder. She matches her blouse with dark washed denim that she felt hugged her in all the right places and topped it off with 3inch red stilettos her height with out hills is 5‘5 so she felt a few more inches wouldn’t hurt. She accessorizes with a black hand bag, black and red bracelet’s , black necklace and red and black feathered earrings. getting dressed up is Tracy ’s THING. fashion is what she loves its her passion. She knows what’s in and what’s not. What looks good and what doesn’t. if you ever needed advice on fashion Tracy was the one to call.
She spent 4years at in college studying fashion and design and got her BA a year ago and now working for one of the top designers in san Francisco ”Vontes” her job is what she wont let go for anyone, in the relationship she had with Mike her job played apart in some of the arguments because it was time consuming ,she spent many late nights and long days at work. fashion shows here and there and at times she would feel guilty and blame herself for mikes cheating but quickly lets the thought fade away when she thinks of everything she’s done for him and all the bullshit she had to sit back and take from him. And she realizes mike cheated because Mike wanted to CHEAT!
ding dong Tracy s house is a two bedroom condo very spacious and the best part is the neighborhood because its full of life being on haight st. grocery stores, coffee shops delis, clothing stores…she had everything she needed right there. And haight is known for fashion.
Tracy walks towards the door to answer it she looks at the time and it’s about 10 till 9:30 but she knew it had to be no one but Jess. Once tiff opens the door there’s Jess in a short black dress that stopped just a bit pass her butt and black hills “oh my god girl, what suga-daddie are u tryna catch tonight” Tracy laughed and said, “girl you know I do not step out the door lookin a mess I gotta dress to impress ”Tracy walks to the car and greets Ericka and Reese. Within minutes they arrive to club IMPALA one of the hottest clubs in the bay. and tonight was a poppin night to be at the club it was the night before the summer jam and there suppose to be special guest. The line was almost around the corner but they didn’t have to wait in line because they were on the V.I.P list, so they got straight in. the IMPALA was a hip hop and r&b club the crowd was mixed white ,black, Asian ,Hispanic and any other race you could imagine, it was a few clubs in san Francisco were you can go and not worry about drama. The club has two floors the ground floor is the main party floor with a full bar that stretches half way across the side of the club and the bottom floor is more for private shows and parties.
“Tonight is poppin, I’m ready to let loose and have a few drinks ” Tracy says to her friends as she tries to yell over the music.
“lets go to the bar and have a round of tequila shots” Erika proposes
“okay, alright” reese Tracy and jess seems to say all at once.
As they try and make their way to the bar, trying not to step on peoples feet and bump in to people as they dance and groove to Trey Songz “say ahh”someone grabs reese arm. She thought it would be some lame dude tryna holla, she was ready to turn around and offend someone, but when she turned around she saw it was her friend form work Chris , which was short for Chrystal. They worked at a clothing store for the last year and a half together
“Oh hey Chris“, Reese said in surprise
”hey Reesie, who you here with?” Chris asked with a smile.
“I’m here with Ericka and Jess and Tracy ”
“jess and Ericka I remember , but Tracy I don’t think we ever meet” Chris replied
“come with me to the bar and I will introduce you two ”Reese added.
Chris was twenty three years old, African American and did I mention a lesbian. she was proud of it and never was ashamed. She was what some people would call butch, stud, Dom, or AG. Which was basically the more aggressive person in a lesbian relationship ,the one who “wore the pants.” she had a short fade hair cut light skin, 5’9 and in shape. She wore men cloths not too tight or not too big more of the classy type.
“its about time” Tracy commented when Chris and Jess walks up to the bar.
“hey Tracy this is my friend from work Chris we work together at Tru Clothing” while Reese introducing them to each other, Tiff was thinking to her self how come reese didn’t introduce her to this good looking brotha before.
“hi Tracy how are you?” Chris said as she put her hand out for a hand shake
Tracy could’ve threw up her heart when she heard Chris open her mouth to speak, soft but yet strong feminine voice.
“ I’m fine and its nice to meet you” Tracy said as she shook Chris hand, but was still in shock.
“you guys remember her right?” asking Jess and Ericka
“yes…and hi how have you been?” responding back to Reese and turning her head to greet Chris.
“I’ve been good jus working a lot lately but that’s why I’m here at the club to get away and have a good time tho. Would yall mind if I hung around till my pawtna’s get here? ”Chris looked around and asked
“not at all, we was jus bout to take some tequila shots are you in?” Ericka asked
“hell yea I’m in” Tracy was still amazed how masculine Chris was and how she couldn’t tell she was a woman but most of all Chris being a woman wasn’t phasing her at all, Tiff was still admiring her beauty.
“…one,two,three”they all counted backwards then took back two tequila shots.
Tracy was thinking to herself how badly she needed the drink.
“well you guys… see you in a minute ima bout to go to the dance floor and get me a man!” Jess started dancing her way to the middle of the dance floor and disappeared in the crowd, Ericka and everyone followed right behind her.
12:20a
“Whew“…Tracy sighed “I’m thirsty ima go to he bar and get something to drink” she yelled across to Jess ”do you want anything?” “no I’m good” Jess yelled back.
Tracy made her way through the crowd to the bar. She spotted Chris standing there on the phone. she stood there for a second and checked her out, she thought to herself, how could a woman be so masculine ,and good at it. smooth skin, nice hair cut, great since of fashion .shit if I saw her on the street I would thought she was a man!
Tracy walks up to the counter, her and Chris make eye contact,a few seconds later Chris hangs up the phone. “I’m sorry I didn’t mean to bother you” Tracy protest “no problem ,I was just hanging up ,my friends telling me their flaking on me they wont be making it tonight, its cool though I’m enjoying myself anyway. What you doing over here shouldn’t you be enjoying yourself on the floor?” Chris asked. “a girl got thirsty” Tracy laughed and said.
“hold on real quick…”Chris said to Tiff and turned to the bartender and asked “hey can I get a cranberry and ciroc on rocks please? Thank you” “that sounds good I think I‘ll get one of those too” Tracy said to.
Chris laughed and said “that is for you”.
“ oh no,you don’t have to do that,I can get it,I‘ll just pay the tab”Tracy tried to reject but Chris wasn’t going to settle for that. “just take, I don’t really drink but since I’m standing her I minus well buy you one right?” they both laughed together and Tracy stopped refusing it ,and took it.
A few sips later Tracy turned to look at Chris and asked ,”hey what is Chris short for? Christian, christina…?”“ its short for chrystal.” she responded. “no offense but I gotta say this, when I first saw you I really thought you were a guy.” Tracy couldn’t believe she just said that.
“I actually hear that a lot, more than you may think, and no offense taken, that’s why I’m more comfortable with people calling me Chris it fits my appearance a bit better”she said laughingly back to Tiff.
“Do you want to dance?” Tracy looked up and saw a fair skinned gentleman almost six feet tall, with dreads and his hand out.she thought to herself, why not. “sure” Tracy responded and grabbed his hand…
Before she walked off she turned and said “hey Chris thanks for the drink again, that was real nice.” Chris looked at her in dead in the eyes with a smirk on her face and said “no problem, anytime”
Tracy disappeared on the dance floor, and the whole time she was dancing she was thinking to herself was she really just flirting with another woman or were they jus being friendly…she glanced back at the bar to see if Chris was still there but she was gone!