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attached?”
    “No. Hell no.”
    “Then what have you got to say to me. Nothing. I might as well go to the restroom.”
    “Go to the restroom. I’m going to our table and save you a seat.” Tamika looked at me with a disappointed smirk. She rolled her eyes and strode off to the ladies restroom which was closer to the entrance than the one I had just humiliated myself in.
    As I was walking to the dining room, I passed a group of men who were in a crowd snickering, and the bald headed one with the red face and large belly made a comment, and the group turned and looked at me and started laughing and whispering.
    I could imagined what they were saying. I felt a little uncomfortable because my mind was telling me that they were making up stories about me being in the men’s restroom. As a black woman I imagined all kinds of things from sucking someone’s dick to having an orgy to God knows what.
    As I was trying to duck the crowd of men, I spotted that handsome Powers guy coming my way. I ducked behind a mob of women, and as the waiter was handing out glasses of cheap Champaign, I called him over.
    “I need a drink.”
    “Can you wait until I go to the table or you can go to the bar yourself?” He pointed to a table where a bartender was pouring bottle after bottle of wine into small plastic flutes. I smiled at the waiter and walked over to the table after I saw Mr. I-Don’t-like-Men-but-I’ll-Let-You Suck-My Dick strode into the room.
    Standing near the table, I drank one glass hurriedly, then another and another. I was never a drinker and I had to hold on to the table to get to the door. 

Chapter Four
    A mbling along to a table to the right in the middle of the room, I finally reached it and sat. The place was full and there were only a few tables left. I filled out my menu for me and Tamika and the waiter took it. Then I saw Tamika and I stood and waved.
    When I looked over in the crowd, Tamika was headed my way, and Hayden Powers was waving back at me. What the fuck, I thought. He can’t think that I was waving at him after that run in in the bathroom? I jerked around and sat down and Tamika showed up at the table. Then two more people sat down. They smiled and the waiters served them and then us.
    “I hope you like what I ordered you. You took so long,” I said to Tamika as she sat next to me smiling.
    “I don’t care as long as it’s chicken. I don’t trust anything on four legs.” That didn’t make much sense, but that was Tamika’s logic. “I took long in the restroom because there was gossip about this woman in the men’s restroom giving Hayden Powers a blow job.”
    “That was me.”
    “You were giving him a blow job? You didn’t tell me that. Why you little bitch. I didn’t think you had it in you.” I watched at Tamika as if I could strangle her and I probably would if I thought I could get away with it.
    “Hell no. I wouldn’t do something as fucked up as that.” The couple sitting at our table looked up at us.
    They shook their heads as if they had never heard the word fuck before. The way they were kissing after every bite of food, they heard those choice words before and then some. When I glanced up, I took notice of them because of the sounds they were making eating and kissing. The woman about thirty was feeding the man. He was dressed smart in a dark suit and white shirt about thirty-five, and the woman feeding him wasn’t his caregiver. I hadn’t noticed them sooner because I had been distracted by handsome blue eyed Hayden Powers.
    The waiter placed a plate of chicken breast in front of Tamika, and a plate with Prime Rib and asparagus tips in front of me. “Anything else?” the waiter asked.
    “What time are you getting off?” Tamika said raising an eyebrow and shooting him a seductive smile, as her tongue took a tour of her lips. The dark haired dark skin Latino man in this late twenties smiled at Tamika.
    “She’s just kidding,” I said before he had her behind the