Stepping back, I try to get my thoughts together. “You’re here with Jacky, Sebastian. You need to leave me alone, perhaps if you stop grabbing me every two minutes you’ll realize you didn’t want me after all and you’ll be able to carry on with your parade of women.”
I’m not sure if I’m warning him away from me or I’m warning myself. I push away and make a dash for the restrooms, leaving Sebastian standing in frozen shock. I race away from him in hope of being able to hide in the restroom for a short while, all night if I thought Ramon would let me get away with it.
As I push through the crowd on the dance floor, I find myself with a pink feather boa wrapped around my neck, then as I remove it a blonde woman with a Scottish accent, if I’m not mistaken, apologizes, “Sorry lassie, my aims a bit off. Had a wee too much to drink, I think,” before hiccupping and wrapping herself around another blonde woman.
Well at least some people are having fun. I think as I continue pushing through the throng of people still dancing and singing along to the band on stage. Spotting Ramon, he makes me smile and then chuckle when Jacky rubs up against his groin with her ass. My chuckle soon stops though when I see Sebastian pushing his way through the crowd towards us or maybe towards me. Which gets me moving again, seeking the escape the female restroom will give me. I hope.
The restroom only has a couple of women inside so I dive into an empty stall, pull the lid down and sit while I concentrate on breathing so the tears won’t fall.
What am I doing? And damn Sebastian for bringing Jacky here with him tonight. Is he going to take her back to his place afterwards or stay at hers? If he’d been alone then I would have let Ramon talk to him because my will to keep him away has weakened. I want him with everything in me and I don’t ever remember feeling jealous over anyone before.
“Carla? Are you in here?” Ramon shouts from the door.
“Maybe,” I mumble in reply.
“What’s going on?” He knocks on the stall door and I can picture him leaning against the wall with his arms crossed. “Carla, open the door and talk to me. Please.”
Resigned to talking to Ramon, I slowly stand and unlock the door before walking out and meeting Ramon’s worried eyes. “Ramon, I’m okay, just a bit, well–”
“Jealous,” he finishes for me. “I’m not sure just what’s going on with him and Jacky, but the way he was looking at you as you fled tells me it’s nothing. Jacky noticed as well.” He grins. “She wasn’t impressed as he’s supposed to be her date so he’s dancing with her to try and calm her down.”
My face must have shown my emotion at them dancing together because Ramon stands up straight and takes hold of my face between his hands. “Don’t for one minute think my brother is going to sleep with her. No matter what he said to you when you were alone together, he hasn’t kept it zipped all this time to get it unzipped with her. We all know what Jacky’s like and that she’s looking for a husband who has plenty of cash and personally I don’t think she’s too choosy.”
The door to the bathroom opens and I hear a sharp, “Okay, what the–” Ruben trails off.
I glance over Ramon’s shoulder and see Sebastian watching me, hurt reflecting in his eyes. I wince at the image Ramon and I are portraying, two lovers having a secret hookup in a restroom. God, this goes from bad to worse.
A muscle in Sebastian’s jaw tightens and with one last, withering glare, he turns on his heel and walks out from the restroom door.
“Hey, bro,” Ruben shouts to Sebastian. “Watch yourself. A bachelorette party is back there.”
Ruben turns back to us, standing in a fighter’s stance looking between the two of us.
“We had a complaint that a guy was making out with someone in here…I had no idea it would be you two.”
“We’re not making out,” Ramon tells his brother, before looking back at me. “Will you be okay?”
“Yeah, I think so.”
Ramon steps back from me, which puts me in Ruben’s line of sight and when he glances at me his eyes widen before he looks back at his brother and asks, “What’s going on?”
Ramon runs his hands through his hair and looks at me. “Sebastian,” he whispers.
Ruben starts to laugh. “You mean because he’s here with Jacky?” Seeing Ramon nod his head, he continues, “He’s here with her because of me.”
We both freeze hearing Ruben’s words.
“Look, I was in the office earlier today while she was there so I told him to bring her down to the club tonight before my mouth hooked up with my brain.”
He slams his hand on the door to stop whoever just tried to enter from coming in. “Not now.”
Leaning against the door, he looks back at us. “He couldn’t really say anything else after that, but yes. So here they are and it appears I’ve screwed up, but I’m not sure how, other than to get him out of his dry spell,” he smirks.
Well, at least I know how he came to be here with Jacky, but what’s he going to do about later?