Serena stepped out of the shower and wrapped the towel around her body. She stepped in front of the heated mirror and studied herself intently. Her features were far from been dull, she had a strong cheek line and a small nose, she pouted her lips slightly, she’d always been envious of Nat’s full lips and shunned her thin long ones. She plugged in the hair dryer and began the exercise of drying her hair.
“Do the things you’re afraid of” repeated in her head
She thought honestly about all the things she’d never done, she’d never been skiing, never parachuted, never sailed around the world, it seemed to her the more she scrutinized the more boring and fruitless her life seemed, she done everything with a plan, nothing spontaneous, nothing off the bat. Everything was always so dry and dull, she resented that the most. She studied herself again in the mirror, this time focusing on her eyes, tying to find the one thing she longed for but never got. She jolted backwards out of shock and surprise, she’d never had a one night stand, she’d always though about consequences, she’d never just felt. She smiled proudly at herself.
“Out with a bang” she instructed walking from the bathroom
“You what?!” Nat screamed down the phone after Serena told her, her plans for the night
“You said it yourself, do things that scare me, this is one” she casually replied
“Okay, so I did, alright but I’m coming no bits about it”
“Sure fine, whatever, I’ll pick you up at 8.00”
Nat sighed loudly, that only gave her 30 minutes, it took her at least that to pick something to wear.
“Nat?”
“Yeah okay eight it is!”
With that they hung up.
Serena changed into a knee length black skirt with a split up either side, she fiddled slightly with the tie at the nape of her neck from her tight silver halter neck top, she applied mascara and a touch of lipstick coated in lip gloss. She ran the brush through her hair, and did no more. She grabbed up her bag and shoved her compact, wallet, keys and cell phone.
She looked down at her watch it read; 7:58, she walked around closed all the windows, then locked the door behind her. She walked down to the garages and opened hers she hopped into the dark green Camero and drove away.
She reached Natalia’s flat, which she shared with 2 collage buddies, Steven and Marissa. She blared the horn and waited for Nat to appear. Nat shot out of the door and ran down the stairs, she looked amazing. She was wearing a shoe string strap dark blue dress with a leather jacket she had high strappy shoes on her small feet and her hair was twisted back into a pile of hair and bobby-pins.
“Okay I’m ready’ she huffed hopping into the passenger’s seat
Serena smiled then sped off down the road.
“Breakers I assume” Nat said
Breakers was of course the hotspot to be at in Orlando, it was the cream of the crop, and of course was so popular because of the fact it had a hotel on top of it, the ultimate ‘one night stand’ spot.
Serena nodded and proceeded on her way.
“ID please” the big man in the tux announced looking at Serena
“You’re kidding, I’m 23” she responded
“ID” he repeated
She reluctantly showed him her drivers license and walked in.
The club was absolutely packed, she looked around and spied a few nice lookers then headed over to a table and say down, Nat following close behind.
“Whoa hot blond over there” Nat squealed like a small child, as she pointed over to a tall blond guy ordering a drink from the bar.
Serena imagined him to be a womanizer, probably had a steady girlfriend and three others on the side, she laughed a little to herself.
“Too young” she replied
“Okay what about his friend, with the red hair?”
“Too scrawny”
“Oh what about that one?”
Nat pointed straight to a tall dark haired guy, who was walking up next to the blond, he looked quite buff, perhaps a sports star of some sort Serena pondered, he looked alright, she could defiantly go for him.
“Hummmm” she replied smiling
“Okay go introduce yourself” Nat pushed
“No way” Serena responds
“Go!” Nat ordered flinging her arms in the air.
“Alright, I’m going”
Serena got up straightened her skirt and strutted over to the bar. She walked up next to the dark haired one, he was busy in some conversation with the blond.
“Martini please” she ordered from the bartender
The blond looked over the dark ones shoulder and smiled quickly, he was cute, she thought playfully to herself, better suited to Nat she concluded. The bartender handed her the drink as she passed him the money. Finally the dark haired one turned around. Serena was nicely surprised looking from afar hardly did him justice, he had a strong face, but a pleasant smile, his eyes were a crystal green and framed by thick eyebrows that made him seem like a professor, she thought, a business man, someone defined anyway. He smiled at her then waved, she went to wave back, as a shorter brown haired guy approached. She choked back on her drink as she almost made an embarrassing mistake, he wasn’t waving at her, he was waving at him.
“Great, he’s gay” she mumbled
“It’s about time you got her cous” the dark one announced
The smaller one smiled then wrapped his arm around some girl.
“We got tied up” he laughed
They both had a similar southern twang in their voice. Serena looked happy again, cousins she repeated, not gay she laughed.
“Can we dance?” the girl questioned
She had a strange accent, Serena couldn’t quite place it, it wasn’t American that’s for sure, or English, it must have been from some pacific country she concluded.
“Sure Tamar” the smaller one replied
They walked off along with the blond one, the red haired friend was busy talking to some girls along with a Spanish looking one.
“Another one” Serena ordered
“I’ll have one too” The dark haired one announced looking at Serena, he slipped across a fifty dollar note to the bar tended who smiled and gave them both Martini’s.
“Thanks” Serena quietly offered
“My names Kevin, and yours?” he casually introduced
“Serena” she replied studding his shining eyes