Faces of the Game (3 page)

The waitress came to the table and took their orders, they both ordered glasses of Remy Martin while they waited for their food.  Although it was about to drive him crazy, Chip refused to ask Chelle who she was on the phone with.  He figured that would just mess up the mood, besides she didn’t belong to him yet so he didn’t have the right to drill her over something that was probably not even serious.

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                                                                               Chelle got her caddy off the dresser with her toiletries, she grabbed her Gucci Envy Me body wash, her Cream of Nature shampoo and jumped in the shower.  As Chelle began to wash her hair, she started singing Beyoncé’s Deja’ Vu.  She lathered her hair twice and rinsed it good.  Then she squeezed some body wash on her wash cloth, she lathered it up in the wash cloth before washing.  As she continued to wash, she was singing her heart out even though she sounded horrible, she was in the shower and she was feeling herself.  She lathered up three times and rinsed off, got out of the shower and got a towel to dry off with and a towel to wrap around her hair.  She dried off and got her Gucci Envy Me lotion out of her caddy and put lotion all over her body, still humming Déjà vu.  She put on a big t-shirt and made sure her hair was not dripping water anymore.  As she began to dry her hair, Ash walked in the room.  “Hey sis, can I borrow your blow dryer when you are done?”  “Yeah, I will bring it to you.”  “I heard you trying to sing in the shower, girl bye!  Let me find out! Hahaha.”  “Whatever Ash! Haha, I am in sort of a good mood though.”  “Yeah, I see.”  “Cut it out, go get ready.”  They both laughed at each other and Chelle continued to dry her hair.  Once her hair was completely dry, she put olive oil serum on her hair, dried it for five more minutes and plugged in her ceramic flat iron.  Chelle took the blow drier downstairs and put it in the room that Ash was sleeping in.  Ash grabbed her body wash, her shampoo and her towel.  She washed her hair a couple of times and rinsed it, and then she lathered up with the body wash a few times.  While Ash was showering, she was singing “If I ain't got you” by Alicia Keys.  Chelle just laughed and ran back up the stairs.  She parted her hair and started flat ironing it.  She loved the way her hair turned out every time she flat ironed it.  As she was finishing the last little bit of flat ironing her hair, she looked in the mirror admiring the job she had just done, it was long, bone straight, and so silky yet fluffy.  Ash came up the steps to get the flat iron “Oh lord, you got your fresh do get out the mirror!”  She said joking with Chelle.  “You know how I get when my hair looks good.”  Chelle said back laughing and smiling at herself in the mirror.  Ash went back down stairs, Chelle just laid there on the bed thinking about the dream day she just had with Chip. 
I can’t believe how my day was, it was better than perfect, damn I must be dreaming. 
She said to herself while looking up at the ceiling fan.  After a few minutes of daydreaming Chelle got up and took her dress out of the closet.  Then she sat down on the bed and grabbed her Gucci bag.  She took her make-up bag, her wallet, and her keys and put them in her new Bebe bag.  Then she grabbed her brown Versace pencil dress, it  came a little above her knees, it had a scoop neckline on the front and a low cut back with gold and brown braided ropes that crossed each other on back.  The sleeves were quarter length and they were slightly puffy.  The dress was super fresh, and she got it on sale which was even better!  Chelle felt like a million bucks, she had just balled out a little at the mall with her new babe, her stomach was full, and she was completely pleased with her day.  She just kept reminding herself that good things aren’t always what they seem.  She was ready to see the other half of Prince Charming.  “Chelle, are you about ready to go?” “Yeah, I’m ready how about you?”  “Yeah, let me put my shoes on.”  “Okay, I will be down there in a few.”  Chelle said as she pulled her make-up bag out.  Chelle put her tinted moisturizer on her face, a little bit of bronzer on her cheeks, bronze and gold eye shadow and her lip gloss.  Then, she put her slippers on, grabbed her shoes, sprayed a few puffs of her Gucci perfume, put her perfume in her purse and ran down the steps.  “Damn, it’s 11:15 already?”  She said to Ash surprised at the time.  “Yes, perfect timing.”  Ash said grabbing her purse and spraying her Marc Jacobs perfume on her neck and wrist.  The two girls left the room and went across the hall to knock on Tera and Neese’s room.  Neese came to the door dressed with an eye pencil in her hand.  “Y’all ready?”  Ash asked Neese.  “Almost girl, come in” Neese replied.  Neese continued to finish up her make up.  “Where is Tera?”  Chelle asked with a puzzled look on her face.  “Girl I don’t know, I tried to call her but she didn’t answer, try to call her” Neese said fixing her hair in the mirror.  Chelle called Tera, “where you at?”  She asked as soon as Tera answered.  “Me and my home girl that lives here just left from getting something to eat we are on the way back to her house now.”  “Tera, you know they might sell our booth to someone if we don’t get there in time.”  Chelle said sort of aggravated.  “Well, I will meet y’all there I got my shit with me.”  Tera replied with an attitude.  “Alright, bye” Chelle said right before hanging up.  “She is going to meet us there, let’s go” Chelle said rolling her eyes.  They all gathered their things and headed out the door. 

              The limo was waiting for the girls in the front, the driver remembered them calling earlier and telling him to be there by 11:00, he didn’t arrive until 11:15 so luckily he only had to wait about five minutes for them.  They walked to the limo and climbed in one at a time.  “Were going to Visions” Neese told the driver.  They were all still a little skeptical about the driver, but they tried not to think about the tragedy that occurred the day before.  Neese called Tera to tell her that they were on their way to the club; Tera said she was just getting out of the shower and her friend was getting in.  They already knew what they were wearing so they would probably get to the club about twenty minutes after Ash, Chelle and Neese. 

              The limo pulled up to the front of the club and opened the door for the girls and once again they felt like celebrities.  The people in the lines were anxious to see who was getting out of the limo, some people got their cameras ready others were adjusting their cameras on their phones the girls looked at each other and busted out laughing as they stepped out.  Chelle text messaged Chloe to see if she had made it to the club yet, she texted Chelle back and told her where exactly she was in the club.  She had reserved the booth for them already which was good because they would have been out of luck.  They walked straight to the VIP line, and bought their wrist bands.  They explained to the bouncer that someone had already reserved their booth for them, so he checked each of their bags and stepped to the side.  Neese sent Tera a text message so they could just come to the booth whenever they got to the club.  A few moments later Tera texted Neese back and told her to meet them at the front of the club, so the girls made a U turn almost as soon as they started walking away from the entrance.  They met Tera and Tip her friend at the front door and they began to walk towards the booth.  When they started walking some guy grabbed Tera’s boobs.  “Nigga what is wrong with you, you could get murked for some shit like that!”  She said elbowing him away from her.  “Bitch, I will buy you!”  The guy spat back, frustrated that she belittled him.  As soon as she turned around to curse him out Chelle grabbed her arm, “Let that shit go girl, he is a buster look at his lame ass!”  Chelle said laughing at the poor guy; he looked like a mad dog.  They stepped up and sat in the booth to observe the crowd, it was so thick they couldn’t see anyone from the floor.  Just to their surprise, rapper Young Jeezy and the rest of USDA was in the booth right beside them.  In front of them stood rapper T.I... His girlfriend R&B singer Tiny and the rest of his crew, it was so wild in there they didn’t know how to act.  They heard that rapper Lil Wayne was in the building, along with many others.  The “fellaz” were a couple of booths down the wall, Visions was huge and anybody who was somebody was in the building.  “My bitches look super fly like always!”  Chloe said walking up to the booth and hugging a few of the girls.  “You know you are killing that dress” Neese said slapping her cousin on the ass.  Chloe stepped up into the booth to join her cousins and home girls.  Jeezy and his boys lit a blunt and as soon as the aroma lingered to the adjacent booth, Tera smelled it.  “Chloe ask them if we can smoke with them.”  Chloe had a perfect physique, her bust weren’t too big, her waist was small and her hips were round not to mention her ass put Buffy the body to shame.  She strutted over to their booth “Hey can me and my cousins hit the blunt?”  She said in a sweet but seductive voice.  “Yeah tell them to come and sit with us.”  Jeezy said as he checked Chloe out from head to toe, wondering who had that on lock.  Chloe looked over and waved for Tera and Chelle to come over to the booth.  They both walked down the steps and casually walked over to them as if everything were cool.  Just as they were walking up the steps into Jeezy’s booth, Chip and B walked pass.  Chip just looked over at Chelle, made eye contact with her and smiled as if to say you better behave yourself.  The girls sat down side by side and began to have small talk with the celebrities.  They told them that they were from Winston-Salem, North Carolina and surprisingly the gentlemen knew exactly where that was.  They explained that they knew a few guys from that way, and they were mad cool with them.  As the conversations continued, the girls told the guys that they were in school and what they were studying.  Chloe was a criminal justice major; she planned to go back to law school at Wake Forest so she could stay at home until she completed all of her college career. Tera was a Music Management major, she had changed her major a couple of times and was now content with her choice she had plans to move to an urban city and help manage artists in the area, so Atlanta, Georgia was probably the best place for her to start looking.  Chelle was a Public Relations and English double major, she planned to be either a Sports Agent or a Talent Agent and she would later go back to law school for Entertainment Law.  The ladies were pleased that they were able to relax and talk to the guys without feeling any pressure.  The young men actually acted as if they were interested in what the girls did with their lives, they even said a few motivational statements.  That just goes to show that groupies make the choice to be that way, and fly girls don’t come off as easy and ready to fuck.  They exchanged numbers with the dudes and promised to keep in touch; Tera and Chelle were enlightened to know that they could be a possible future business reference.  They excused themselves one by one, proud to be networking and partying at the same time. 
Hmm, I could get used to this.  Networking, partying, and meeting celebrities on a regular basis.  Yeah, I enjoyed mingling with them not because they are famous but because they are in the entertainment industry. 
Just as Chelle sat down in the booth, Chip was walking over to her “What were you over there talking about?”  Chelle explained to him the topic of conversation and he was cool with it.  He asked Chelle to come with him, so she left the booth to see what he wanted.  They walked over to the picture booth and chose a background; they ended up taking a picture in front of a black backdrop with diamonds trailing down the side of it.  Chip stood behind her and wrapped his arms around her; she embraced his arms as they took a picture.  While they waited for the pictures to print, a female walked pass the two of them and stared until she walked pass them.  Chelle stared at the girl with a blank look, Chip looked down at his shoes as if he didn’t see her.  Their picture printed and Chelle decided to take one more so they both could have a copy, this time she was posed in front of him slightly leaning forward with her hands propped on top of her legs, and he was directly behind her he posed tilting his hat.  Soon after, they got the other picture as well.  They argued over the second picture for a few minutes and they decided that he could keep it.  Chelle walked back to the booth and poured herself another glass of Moet, Chip stayed on the floor.  As she was sipping her drink, she looked over the crowd and saw him talking to the same female that had just walked by.  Chelle noticed herself getting sort of jealous, but she kept her composure.  The girl he was talking to was straight, she had on a black dress with long flowing sleeves, a big gold medallion necklace and some gold hoop earrings, her boots were black with gold buckles going down the side.  The chick was dark brown skinned, probably about 5’ 2” with a cute bob hair cut.  Although she was no competition compared to Chelle, she was straight with a nice shape so, she sort of intimidated Chelle.  Chip and the chick continued to talk, flirting and smiling at each other.  She even grabbed the picture that he had in his hand and looked at it, once she studied the picture she handed it back to him and made a brief statement and walked off.  Chip shook his head, shrugged his shoulders and kept partying disappointed that the girl even wanted to be that nosey and see who he took a picture with.  Shortly after, he walked over to his booth to put the picture down wishing he had done so right after he took it.  Chelle left her booth and went over to his, she decided not to mention the chick although it bothered her, and she felt like she would find out soon enough.  She asked him for a kiss, they gave each other a long pop kiss.  When she turned around the chick was standing at the entrance to the booth staring at them with a shocked look on her face.  This gave Chelle the opportunity to question who the chick was.  “Hey how are you?” Chelle said to the girl and then turned back to him, “Who is she?”  She asked in a confused manner.  “This chick I know” he said nonchalantly.  “Oh, well I will let y’all talk; you know where I will be.”  Chelle said with a smart tone, she smirked at the chick glad that they were kissing when she walked up.  “Bye girl” Chelle said sarcastically to the girl as she left the booth.  “Oh so that’s the girlfriend!?”  The girl asked him shoving him which forced him to sit down.  “Man I’m grown, I don’t have a girlfriend and I don’t have to answer to nobody but God, why are you so worried anyway?”  He said to the girl aggravated and mad that he got caught.  “You are such a fucking looser!”  The girl spat back angry as ever.  “Alright, you can leave my booth now.”  He said as pointed in the direction away from himself.  “I don’t need your help, I can walk and don’t call me tonight, don’t call me anymore.”  “Whatever.”  He said glad to get rid of her. 
Okay, that wasn’t the baby mama I know what she looks like; that wasn’t Kiki she’s light skinned, hmm maybe he got a Atlanta babe, ugh I hope the hell not.  Damn, who is she? 
Chelle thought to herself while guzzling her fourth glass of Moet.  When the girl walked pass the booth she gave Chelle a look that non-physically pierced her flesh, Chelle gave her a smirk as to say ah-ha, she then chuckled and sat her glass down on the table.  A few minutes passed and Chip sent Chelle a text message that read:
I apologize for that psycho chick, come back over here.
  Chelle rolled her eyes to the top of her head and shook her head.  She leaned over the rail on her booth and looked over at his booth, he was looking so she shook her head no and gestured him to come to her booth.  He nodded in agreement and bullshitted around for a few minutes while trying to come up with an excuse that would win Chelle over.  She laughed to herself and thought
look at him over there trying to stall and come up with a good lie. 
A few minutes later, he strolled over to the booth looking concerned, confused, apologetic and nervous all at the same time.  “Hey babe what’s up?”  Chelle asked him in a bubbly and pleasant voice trying to calm him down.  “Look I am sorry for what just happened, she is crazy but you won’t have to ever worry about seeing her again.”  He said with sincere hope in his eyes.  “Ummm hmmm, don’t let it happen again and who is she anyway?”  Chelle was anxious to know.  “Umm, this chick I use to fuck with a while back.”  “Oh really?”  She looked at him with one eye brow raised.  “Look all I ask of you is to be honest Chip, I know you aren’t perfect but you can at least tell me the truth.”  “That is the truth, I mean it wasn’t that long ago, but I don’t fuck with her anymore.”  He said with a crack in his voice.  “I would ask you when you left her alone, but I won’t put you on blast like that just don’t let that shit happen again, I am not for the chaos let your other chicks handle the drama.”  She said turning her back on him.  “How can I make it up to you?”  He whispered in her ear.  “Just show me that you aren’t like the rest of the male race, you chased me for so long don’t make me realize why I was hesitant to get back at you.”  She looked over her shoulder at him, and he kissed her on her forehead.  “Don’t…” She said as she turned towards him, leaned back and stared at him for a few moments.  She shook her head, crossed her legs and sipped her drink.  Chip was at a loss for words.  Neese looked at Chelle and made eye contact as if to say we have to talk about this later.  Chelle nodded her head in agreement, and shrugged her shoulders.  “Chelle, Tera is over there fighting some bitch!”  Chloe ran over to tell Chelle and Neese.  Before Chip could blink the girls had darted across the club to help their cousin drag this bitch.  He jumped up grabbed her purse and followed right behind her to make sure everything was alright.  Tera’s hair was all over her head, and one of her earrings was missing.  The other chick had on what was a grey dress, it was ripped down the front revealing her underclothes.  Chelle, Neese and Chloe went to find Ash so they could join Tera outside in the lobby area.  Ash was in the corner texting her boyfriend.  “Come on, Tera just fought someone!”  Chelle yelled grabbing Ash by the hand.  “Oooh, we are going to demolish this bitch!”  Neese yelled gripping Chelle’s other hand.  “Where is Tera’s home girl Tip?”  Chelle asked Chloe.  “Girl I have no idea I haven’t seen her since they got in here.”  They finally made it to the lobby to find Tera pacing back and forth throwing her hair into a wild ball.  The girls all put their hair up and asked Tera who the bitch was and more important where she was.  Tera explained to them that the girl was Nika and she started popping off at the mouth calling Tera a stupid bitch, and saying that Tera’s boyfriend wants her so Tera stole the bitch in her face.  After that they fought until the security guards put them out of the club.  “Call her, see where she is” Neese told Tera.  Tera called Nika; Nika was outside at her car waiting on her friends to come.  Her car was parked in the parking lot on the side of the club, to the right of the stoplight at the intersection.  Tera was walking in the direction of the car frantically, she was eager to finish what they had started.  They rest of the girls locked arms so they wouldn’t fall on the gravel and they casually walked over to the car, they all decided to let the girls fight one on one until further notice.  “If that bitch starts getting the best of Tera, we will jump in it.”  Chelle said while looking to her left and right making sure it was understood by everyone.  “If some other bitches approach the scene too quick, we are swinging first and asking questions later.”  Neese said as she looked straight ahead imagining a flock of females running towards them.  “If the police come, somebody needs to let us know ASAP, we don’t have time to get locked up down here we would have to wait until tomorrow to get bailed out and I am not with it.”  Ash said as she slightly laughed.  The rest of the girls laughed a little too, “hell yeah” they all said in unison.  Tera was uptight, she didn’t crack a smile, Chloe and Chelle looked at each other and laughed at how serious Tera was.  “Damn, calm down Tera” Chloe said hoping to add humor to her train of thought as well.  “I am about to fuck this bitch up!”  Tera said still looking serious, never once cracking a smile.  She spotted the Red Land Rover, and approached it snatching the driver door open.  Nika apparently had a change of clothes in her car, because she had taken the ripped dress off and changed into a pair of sweat pants and a t-shirt.  Before she could realize what was going on, Tera snatched her out of the car by her hair and hit her with a quick left hand followed by a sudden right.  It was over for Nika, she was caught off guard so the rest was history.  She tried to pull Tera’s hair, but Tera leaned back and slapped Nika into the cement.  As Nika stood up Tera kicked her back onto the ground, and just as Neese expected a flock of females came rushing over to the scene.  Neese popped one of the females in the eye before the girl even knew she had ran that close to the scene.  Chloe slung her Dolce & Gabbana bag and hit one of the girls in the face; she slid backwards on the gravel hitting her head.  Ash hit one of the girls on the side of the head knocking her off balance; she was headed straight towards Tera and Nika.  Chelle tripped one of the girls causing her to fall face forward onto the gravel.  Before Chelle allowed the girl to gather herself, she got on top of the girl and rammed her head into the gravel by mushing her in the face.  Chelle didn’t even realize that it was the same girl from the club who called herself checking Chip.  It seemed as if Nika’s friends didn’t even see Chelle, Neese, Ash and Chloe.  They probably didn’t expect for them to be over there and they were just trying to make it to the fight before anyone else did.  The girls fought for roughly ten minutes straight, it was almost like a miniature riot, shoes were flying, weave was scattered across the parking lot, pieces of jewelry laced the gravel and since the club hadn’t got out no one seemed to notice the fight; until Chip and Cory came running out spotting the girls with a few guys following them.  It didn’t take much for the men to break up the fight; the girls were tired anyway they were just making sure that none of Nika’s friends jumped in the one-on-one fight between Nika and Tera.  Just as the girls ended their brawl, a police car cruised by slowly, everyone tried to gain composure as soon as possible, hoping the officer didn’t see them; they played it off very calm and he continued to travel down the street as he approached the green light.  “Come on man, what the fuck was that all about?”  Cory asked Tera as he put his arm around her waist so that she could lean on him better.  “That bitch tried to play me, she tried to make me feel stupid for being your girl” Tera explained to Cory.  “And you believe that shit?”  “I mean no but she still didn’t have to disrespect me like that.”  “I understand baby, but you should have been the bigger person and walked away.”  “Fuck that Cory, I’ve wanted to slap her for a while anyway so let it go.  I did what I had to do, I’m done.”  Tera said as she finalized the conversation with a confident statement.  Chip and Chelle talked as they walked over to the Limo, Ne
ese called Ryan, Chloe texted Jock and Ash walked with Lo over to the Limo as well.  “Bitch where are you?”  Tera yelled into the phone more concerned with Tip’s whereabouts than the fact that she had gotten into a scuffle without Tip having her back.  “Girl I am leaving with this dude I just met, he is fine as hell girl we are about to go back to his hotel room.”  Tip said ready to give him her goodies.  “You have a problem, strap up Tip and be safe.  Where is his room at anyway?”  “Downtown at the Marriott I think.”  She stated inquisitive to make sure that’s where she was going.  The guy shook his head yes, and Tera promised to call Tip as soon as she woke up the next morning.  Chelle explained to Chip that she couldn’t let her cousin get jumped and the girls were fighting one-on-one until Nika’s friends came running over to the scene as if they were going to jump in it.  She figured that he saw that much.  Ash had to convince Lo that she had to fight the girls or his cousin would have been bleeding from head to toe.  “Baby, I had to jump in it they were going to kill your cousin and I couldn’t let them do my girl like that.”  Ash explained to Lo, he was still mad that any of them were out fighting like hoodlums.  They all made it to the limo in no time, Ryan came racing to the limo to make sure his girl’s face wasn’t touched, and he caressed her cheeks to make sure she was okay.  Chloe left with Jock, he massaged her shoulders on the way to the car he was a little pissed but he understood why Chloe did what she did.  Surprisingly all of the girls looked fine, not a single scratch on them, not a tear in their expensive fabrics, not a single alter.  All of them had wild pony tails, but other than that they were still sexy.  Tera and the girls were shocked but proud of their unexpected victory, after all Tera was supposed to win that one.