Chapter 8: Ladies Day Out

My ringing cell phone woke me at seven o'clock sharp on Saturday morning. I smiled when I saw that it was London contacting me on FaceTime. "Hey!" I grinned.

"Hey yourself, I'm still waiting for you to call me. How's it going down there? Must be pretty damn good if you didn't have a melt down yet."

"It is, I survived my first week and my roommates are amazing!"

"Say it."

I laughed, "Thank you so much London Bryce, you are a life saver and I do owe you big time."

"Like hell you do."

Roman jumped up suddenly and grumbled something about starving to death since JQ still away. He scrambled off the bed and out of the room. "These people are crazy, you'll love them. I met Flow the other night!"

"Flow? My Flow?"

"Yeah, your Flow and trust me he looks so much better in person."

"Damn! He's immaculate."

"Like hell he is." I rolled off the bed. "I'll give you a tour of the house." I flipped the phone around so she could see my room and told her about my awesome roommate. I went down the hall to the other rooms just in time to catch Scarlet and her date sneaking out of JQ's room. Since he wasn't here his room was the unofficial smush room, usually the roommate of whoever had a date would just crash in JQ's room. The spiteful part of me hoped that the did it in his bed.

"That's Scarlet and some dude, trust me, he's loaded, she doesn't do anything less than a millionaire." Scarlet winked at me and followed her date downstairs, I went into the bathroom and showed London just how fancy I was bathing and pissing these days. She squealed about how bad she wanted to soak in the tub and I grinned.

I went downstairs and showed her the main living quarters. "Damn girl! I have to visit."

"When you're eighteen."

"I ordered breakfast..." Roman frowned at the phone.

"This is Roman. Roman, this is my cousin London, the one who got me this job."

"Damn he is so fine!" London squealed and Roman grinned. "You get to share a room with that? I hope y'all sleep at night."

"Babes, I'm gay." Roman peeked at the screen. "Now JQ is another matter...or Stone."

"Nooo!" I shrieked at Roman.

"What are you doing to Brooklyn?" Dom came downstairs, her blond weave was pulled into a ponytail. She was always flawless, even first thing in the morning, and she always smelled like flowers, I'm pretty sure she shits lavender.

"I just told her cousin about Stone, she's fine."

"God I miss JQ, my breakfast would've been ready if he was here."

I switched the camera on my phone so London could see me, Dom peeked at the screen, "Hey hun, thanks for sending us Brooklyn, you won't know her tomorrow." She grinned and walked away whining about how hungry she was.

"The girls are taking me shopping." I told London just as Scarlet walked in with three bags.

"Food's here." She announced, "Where's Coco at? She's usually the first one up."

"I'll got get her and Kitty."

"I'll talk to you later London, tell Ma I said hi."

"Hell no, I'm not getting in your business." She ended the call and I knew it would be up to me to call my mother, maybe on Sunday. We gathered around the table and for the first time had a meal as a family...minus JQ.

I knew these people nearly a week and already I was considering them family, they giggled like brothers and sisters and always had each other's backs. Hell, my real family didn't have this kind of relationship, my mother and her sister smiled in each other's faces and complained behind each other's backs. My grandmother was still young and wild and free and didn't have time to deal with her daughters' drama or spend time with her grandkids, and then there was the situation with my father.

After breakfast Roman went back to bed and me and the girls piled into the bathroom. Dom had already showered, Scarlet and Coco showered while me and Kitty brushed our teeth, then we showered.

"You should get a tattoo." She said and showed off her colorful thigh tattoos. I wanted one but I was worried about how it would look when I was old, when I told Kitty this she scoffed, "Don't worry about it, when you're old and your great-grandkids ask you can say that you had an awesome youth."

I smiled, I didn't think about it that way. We got out of the shower and I pulled on a plain white blouse and not so tight jeans. Kitty wrapped a towel around herself and went to the powder room. I caught E! News while the girls got ready to head out. An hour and a half later we were finally heading downstairs, the took the Escalade, Coco drove, Queen Dom took the front seat and the rest of us piled into the back.

I gazed out of the window while the girls gossiped about Scarlet's date, she never did second dates and this was already the third with prominent lawyer Eric Wells. Dom asked Scarlet if she tried one of her tricks on Eric and the girls squealed. I wasn't surprised when the conversation shifted to me and my virginity, the girls were surprised that I was twenty-two and still had everything in tact and they never spoke about me without bringing up Stone. He was damn fine but Stone made my blood crawl, he was too overbearing and a bit of a bully.

"Alright ladies, leggo!" Coco shouted after she parked. I had no idea where we were, but there were lines of high fashion boutiques. Nobody tried to help me orient myself so I just went with the flow following them into the stores, allowing them to toss outfit after outfit at me and force me into the dressing rooms. They squealed and shrieked about how cute I was and how I looked eighteen rather than twelve. Fifteen shopping bags later the girls were talking about burning everything I brought from home. They even bought me Victoria's Secret underwear. It was crazy but I was having so much fun!

We got a late lunch at three o'clock before hopping into the car and driving a short way to a spa. I'd never done the spa thing and it was just my luck I got stuck in a room with Dom who encouraged me to get a Brazilian wax. Never a-fucking-gain!!! She laughed so hard she peed on the people's table. When we all gathered in the steam room I had to show off my bald cooch to the other girls. After sweating it out for a half hour we showered and went to the salon where we were all booked for mani/pedis and hair styles.

Dom ditched the crimpy blond weave for a long straight red one. I did not enjoy having my eyebrows plucked but the stylist had as much fun as the girls. She cut off about five inches of hair, straightened it and added brown highlights.

"Oh my gosh look at you!" The girls gushed and tugged on my hair and made me spread my fingers so they could check out my mint green colored nails.

"One more stop." Coco said and we walked a short way to the M.A.C store where I was forced to sit in a chair while the make-up artist taught me what colors worked with my skin and what to put where. I ended up with a big bag full of makeup.

We caught a movie and had dinner at one of those restaurants that the Women Who Lunch hung out at. It was fun, we got home at nine and I was exhausted.

"Woah! It's Pocahontas!" Roman shouted when we went into the apartment at ten-thirty. "Lemme check you out Baby Doll." I was wearing one of my new outfits. A white blouse, black pants that stopped at my ankle, red pumps that I could hardly walk in and a blue blazer. "You look like the boss lady now, we're gonna have to change your name."

"Oh shit! Y'all tossed Brooklyn over the Brooklyn Bridge and replaced her with that model from Fashion Week didn't you? What is Roman gonna tell her family?" JQ was perched on top of the counter chewing, Dom immediately went off on him about her food.

Scarlet stared me down, "You do kind of look like that model JQ banged."

"Yeah." Kitty grinned.

"Y'all don't start with me."

Kitty flicked her wrist at me, meaning that I should chill out. "Put on the red dress we got you and come to the club with us."

"Your first official club hop in NYC!" Coco clapped.

Seriously? I was already sleepy. I dare not say no. "JQ just got back, don't you wanna hang out with him?" I said instead.

"Please, I've got a hot piece of ass waiting on me at The W, I'll see y'all...eventually." He pulled one of the bottles of lube out of his pocket. "You don't need this." Then he scurried out of the house.

"And I've got this party so yeah, I'm out too." Roman gave me a quick hug, he smelled so musky and acted so masculine...I was stereotyping I know, but I was sheltered, the few gays I knew worked with me at Wal-Mart and they were far more girly than me. And there was Roman who was all man, hugging him with all of his had muscles was like hugging a brick wall on a summer's day.

"Uh oh, JQ better watch out before he loses his baby daddy." Dom said from the kitchen, she winked at me.

Roman laughed, left the apartment wearing all black and looking damn fine. I guess I was going to the club with the girls.

"Tonight little miss vixen, you learn how to hunt." Dom grinned.