It was 7: 00 at night, the girls and I began to get ready to go out, each one in bathrobe and sitting on their respective bed debating about what each one should wear to go out today, fortunately it had been decided which was the place to dance, Deimos the guy that days before Remina met, It seems that the owner of that place had to use a lot of legal loopholes to open that club and not run into the laws of protection of historical heritage, which seemed unusual to me but we were in Belencia where I discovered that the unthinkable could happen. Mina got up from her bed and walked over to her closet and looked it up and down and left to right.
"I know what I can wear!" Remina expressed in high spirits as she pulled the clothes out of the closet.
"I have something in mind," commented Anetta, as she began to look through the amount of clothes in her wardrobe.
"I saw something I can wear today," I said as I pulled out the clothes from the closet.
Remina was the first one to show us from her closet a white blouse with cleavage next to a short red jacket and a short dark colored flouncy skirt, she looked very cheerful with her choice for tonight, I on the other hand decided for a short blue suit and Anetta chose a pair of black leggings and a flouncy top of the same color.
"Good! Now that we've solved the clothing issue, we can start getting dressed so we can finally go out, my friends." I commented to my friends as I put the clothes I was going to wear in order on the bed.
"Mera, would you help me with the makeup?" asked Anetta.
"Of course, count on me," I answered smiling, "besides, we have a makeup kit donated to the group by an anonymous benefactor," I looked at Remina without disguise.
"Hey," Mina mumbled and then laughed with us, "I kind of bought it for the three of us to wear," she commented as she adjusted her skirt after closing the clasp at her side.
Each one of us put on the clothes we chose, then we took turns to comb our hair and make up, when I was doing Anetta's make up in front of the huge wooden dresser near Remina's bed we suddenly heard the song of a crow that gave us a big scare, the little animal was behind the window and it seemed it didn't want to leave.
"Craac, craac, craac!" the annoying crow sang.
"Chooo! Get out of here, you annoying bird!" Remina shouted at it, tapping her fingertips on the window pane.
The bird left immediately as if it had understood my friend's words and the three of us tried to raise our spirits again, we finished putting on Anetta's make-up and picked up our bags from the rack where we always put them, gathering what we were going to need tonight and then we left the apartment, Remina grabbed the keys to her spark that were lying on the living room table, just before we walked out the front door my cell phone started ringing it was a call from my mom, Mina closed the door after I walked through, I pulled out the phone and answered the call.
"Hi mom, I'm fine and how are you and Kevin and dad?" I asked her cheerfully.
"We are fine daughter, your brother is very dedicated this year, he has made a lot of good grades in the last quarter and your dad has made great progress in our sales company." And how are you doing in college, my little girl?
"If you saw ma' these three months in college have been pleasant, the professors are nice and my classmates are nice too." I answered happily.
"It's good that you feel comfortable with the change of environment, but if that's the way things are going we can stop worrying about Mirena, Marissa and I every time we get together to have tea and talk about how they are doing in their studies," I exclaimed cheerfully.
I was surprised to know that Remina's mother still remembered the friendship she and her sister Marissa had with my mother, since her divorce with my friend's father, she stopped being the smiling woman she inherited from her daughter to be a cold and distant businesswoman, sometimes Mina would stay at either of them's house, because she decided to stay more days than agreed on her business trips.
"The girls also say hi mom," I told her as we headed for the elevator.
"Hello Aunt Damaris!" they said at the same time.
"We love you aunt!" expressed Netta in a tender tone.
Anetta pushed the button for the first floor and Remina folded her arms and waited for her to come down with her while they joked with each other.
"I guess you have plans for today, don't you daughter?" she said in a curious tone.
"We thought we'd go out and have some fun around town, the three of us." I answered cheerfully.
While I was going down the elevator my friends were talking about the TV program we watch at night and that many times made us discuss about which topic was the best of the week.
"When Mirena, Marissa and I were your age, we used to go out dancing once a week on weekends," I heard my dad call her. "Well today I plan to go to dinner with your dad we are already going out, tomorrow tell me how was your girls night out, take care daughter and I send you a kiss." she says in a very loving voice.
"Okay mom, you tell me how was that dinner with daddy too, I love you." I replied with a smile.
I hung up the call smiling and the elevator door opened towards the first floor where the parking lot of the building was, Mina pressed the button of the car alarm control on her keys to deactivate it, we approached the spark and each one of us opened one of its doors, Anetta sat in the passenger seat, Remina in the driver's seat and me in the passenger seat, after we settled in our seats, Mina started the engine and Netta pressed the button to open the sliding gate at the exit of the parking lot.
When the red spark left the building and the chosen driver tonight put the address of the place in the GPS of the car it was already 9:30, my friends played some lively music to give atmosphere to the trip through the district, it was the first time we dared to go out together and drive through the city, we headed towards the historic part and the bright lights of the city gave a flashing light show, from time to time the three of us sang our favorite songs then at a time when the three of us were silent Remina started the conversation.
"Something happened between you and that boy named Zeylan, right?" she asked me unexpectedly.
As much as I could hide it, I couldn't help blushing because of her question.
"What? No!... Not at all, I don't know that boy." I said with a disguised laugh.
"You're as red as a tomato, Mera!" Anetta said to me.
"When Kiara introduced us to Erick and him, you made that face you make when you are upset with someone." She fixed her gaze on the rear-view mirror that pointed to where I was. "Are you sure you didn't know each other before?"
At that moment I started to remember the conversations I had with him, what we talked about yesterday and the fact that he made me stay away from everything that was going on, still made me angry, I took a deep breath to clear these memories from my mind and I thought it was time to tell them what was going on, but I had to take into account how unreal everything I was going to tell them was going to sound, I decided to back out of it.
"No, I only met him yesterday when Kiara invited us to have lunch with them." I was aware of my lie and felt bad about it. "He just seemed smug to me and I don't like him."
"Well, for a very wealthy and attractive guy he is a bit simple in the way he talked and behaved yesterday." Remina answered.
"It's strange..." said Anetta.
"What do you mean Netta?" I asked my friend.
"Yesterday morning just before I went to my locker to get what I needed for class, I saw Kiara and Sharin in the parking lot, I wanted to approach them to say hello but I realized that they were having a serious conversation with Zeylan and Erick, it seemed that they were talking about finding a person." she answered me.
Maybe that was another reason why they had entered the university, I couldn't help but wonder who that person might be? And how important it was for them.
"Could it be that they are part of some ancient cult and are looking for some virgin to sacrifice in the name of a pagan god?" Remina said in a tone of mystery.
"Remina!" said Anetta and I at the same time.
"This could be serious, Mina." I answered worriedly.
"Excuse me girls for not taking the matter seriously, but don't you think it's more likely to look for a person in the whole city of Belencia than just at the University? Maybe they were talking about someone who is bothering one of the girls, you know how Sharin is, maybe someone started to harass her." Remina commented to us. "At lunch they seemed very calm, maybe her boyfriend and Zeylan were in charge of keeping the guy at bay."
"That could be the reason why they were so serious while they were talking." said Anetta.
"Maybe that's it and not something as serious as a missing person," I also told them, so as not to talk too much about Zeylan again.
If Remina was aware of what is really happening in the city maybe she would understand the concern of the new classmates, maybe at this moment they are saving someone who has been attacked by that mysterious cult of darkness.
"You have reached your destination!" said a robotic voice on the GPS.
"We have arrived ladies," said Mina after stopping the car.
"It looks pretty exclusive, don't you girls think?" commented Anetta as she looked at the place from one of the Spark's windows.
"I just hope they let us in because it doesn't look that easy," I said as I looked out from my side of the car.
"Don't worry my incredulous friends, your precious and very dear friend used her influence to get into the club," Mina answered us while showing us her smiling face as if she was proud of herself.
Remina parked the spark in the parking lot of the place, I could see from the window of the vehicle a three-story building apparently made of granite, it had huge glass windows and wooden frames ending in four gargoyles perched on the roof, On the front wall of the place I could see the sign in neon lights with the phrase "Nocturna" and next to the name a symbol of a totally black moon that was above a white sun and around it the phrase "Tenebrosis per orbem, luna in a eternis tenebris" that enclosed the symbol in a circle formed by those words, it seemed to me a pretty strange sign for a night club but it was a pretty crowded place full of young people of all kinds, we ran into the line of boys and girls who wanted to enter the site. At the entrance there was a strong brown-haired guy regulating the entrance of the place, the three of us got out of the car and secured the doors before approaching the line.
About 15 minutes passed and we approached the entrance, we could hear the music very lively from inside and the cheerful voices of those who had already entered, Remina was in front waiting her turn to talk to the intimidating lookout, Anetta in the center and finally there was me, the strong guy checked a list every time someone approached to enter, I was still wondering how we would enter the place with such strict access but Mina was more than calm, while Netta was checking her cell phone and I was waiting for the worst, my friend approached the huge door, the burly guard looked at her surprised.
"Smiling girl," she said as she folded her arms and waited for the reaction of the astonished guard.
"Are you the dj's girlfriend?" asked the guy, giving a last check to the list he was consulting on a tablet.
"You said it yourself, sweetheart," concluded Mina approaching us.
"I guess the other two are your bridesmaids, aren't they?" he commented directing a look of reluctance towards where Anetta and I were standing "they can come in, that annoying boy had been insistently requesting their entrance since 9:00."
The burly guard removed the clasp of a security cord that held a couple of small metal posts, standing in front of the entrance, he proceeded to open the door by touching a command on his tablet, the door opened and we entered inside the building, we could hear the electronic music animating the atmosphere and the voices of those who danced on the dance floor.
"Who was that guy referring to?" I asked to Remina before crossing the threshold of the door.
"Take my hand and you take Anetta's, you'll see when we go in," Mina answered me animatedly.
I didn't understand what she wanted to tell me but I listened to her and the three of us went through the entrance, when we were inside the fluorescent lights of the light show flooded a huge dance floor with glass floor and people dancing to the sound of electronic music, the place was spacious, the huge dance floor occupied most of the site, and rows of furniture at each end of the place that surely were for socializing and in them we could see people very animated in conversations unintelligible by the sound of the loudspeakers. Remina pulled me out of my meticulous observation of the nightclub, she pointed to a spot in the place and I could see the dj mixing the songs we were listening to.
"Is that Remina?" I asked out loud so he could hear me.
"Yes Mera is him, Deimos Phoenix and he is the official dj of this club," she answered me proudly.
I fixed my eyes and started to remember the description that Mina gave me of him and it couldn't be closer to reality, the boy with an athletic physique and blond hair, was wearing a white shirt with the symbol that was at the entrance of the club on the chest and a reddish jacket.
"Not bad, Mina" commented Anetta while starting to dance to the music in the background.
"You'll have time to talk to him," I said to Remina taking her hand to go to another side of the club together with Anetta, "let's find a place where we can leave our stuff and dance for a while."
We approached those pieces of furniture around the dance floor, leaving our bags on the seats to then go to dance to the very crowded space, the girls and I agreed to show a group choreography to the rhythm of electronic music from the speakers of the club, and that in our schoolgirl days we liked to dance, we laughed when we forgot a step, then each one did her individual dance demonstration where the most outstanding was Anetta, it seems that the Moroccan ancestry in the Meberaths cousins was strong, because always in her steps could not miss those hip and belly movements that with practice and effort I had to assimilate, but for Mina and Netta it was like swimming, when more than an hour passed between laughter and dance demonstrations we decided to leave the lively dance floor to go to the bar to drink a low alcohol cocktail.
---> Next Chapter...
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