Red walks in and the women pause. He has a cool quiet swagger that many of the women find hard to resist. If there are 200 women in the club, Red has slept with at least a 150 of them. They all run to hug and greet him; he grants them all a arrogant nonchalant neutral hug, and moves thru the room as if he owns it. He scans the room for a new face. He spots one and makes a mental note to make her his victim tonight. He laughs to himself as he thinks of all the enemies that he has created amongst women. He knows all it takes is for him to ask a young pretty girl to dance and he has successfully put her at odds with every woman over the age of 40.
Red looks towards the dance floor and he sees Sparkle. He thinks of the last time he hit it, and is grateful for her willingness to bless him with her oral prowess.  He actually admired Sparkle because she was different and had a certain realness to her that most women didn’t have.

Sparkle was a lying manipulative, scheming hoe, but she owned that title and didn’t back up from her negative publicity. But other women … they were fake, always trying to act virginal, or innocent. He looked over at Candi and wondered when he was going to figure her out.  She seemed nice, she didn’t flirt behind Mike’s back like most women do, she didn’t hang out in the streets a lot, and didn’t have 5 baby daddy’s running around Chicago. He often wondered what it was about her that was different. Up until now, Mike’s women were off limits, but now that Mike was trying to play him like a b!7ch, Red was ready to take the gloves off!
 
Red: What’s going on brother?
 
Jabari: Nothing much man, you got it.
 
Red: (Turns to Candi, looks her in the eye, grabs her hand and kisses it softly) And how are you Mrs. Weathers?
 
Candi: (Blushing again) I’m fine Red and you?
 
Red: Oh, I’m real easy baby, real easy. Where is Mike?
 
Candi: I’m not sure but I know that he’ll be here soon.
 
Red: He let you come out her unprotected?
 
Candi: (Laughs) Well not exactly, I am with Sparkle. (still laughing)
 
Red: Oh, that’s even worse!
 
Jabari: Well speak of the devil.
 
Sparkle: Candi, what the hell is going on with my drink?
 
Jabari: I got it right here, calm down.
 
Sparkle: Thanks baby. (Winks at Jabari)
 
*Jabari’s mind goes back to the phone sex they had the day before*
 
Sparkle: So Red, who you getting in the contest with this year?
 
Red: I don’t know yet … still looking. I might just get me a young new comer just to piss y’all off.
 
Sparkle: Whatever Nicca! Bring it!
 
Candi: Sparkle, I know you are going to get in the contest again!
 
Sparkle: Well actually I’ve got my eyes set on the promotional and business aspect. Last year when I made history winning as lead in the Original category, I set my mind higher.
 
Red: So what you saying is, if I asked you to dance with me, you wouldn’t?
 
Sparkle: No comment. ***cell phone buzzing*** (Text message from Mike: I’m outside, Im in the mood for a walking song, tell ‘em to play “The Makings of You.”)
 
Sparkle: Candi, come on go to the bathroom with me.
 
Candi: Okay.
 
Sparkle: I just got word that Mike and Eve are outside, so just stand right her with me.
 
Candi: You mean they are out there right now? Together? I know damn well Mike didn’t tell me that I had to stay home so that he could parade that B!7ch around!
 
Sparkle: Hey, slow down Gym Shoe, when did you start cussing?
 
Candi: Sparkle, please tell me my husband is not outside with Eve?
 
Sparkle: I wish I could. But you just relax, because he may be dumb enough to walk right in here with her, and when he does, you better let his ass have it!
 
Candi: Sparkle, you have no clue how angry I am.
 
Mike and Eve are pulling into the parking lot. Eve has a special glow on her face because she knows that Mike has priority front parking and that everyone is going to see them pull up together. For extra effect, before he arrived she pretended to have sprain her wrist and even wrapped her hand with gauze before he picked her up, so that he would have to open her door and help her out of the car. She knew that it would only take one person to see that, and that then it would get back to Candi, and really make Candi jealous. As expected, Mike pulled up right in front, got out of the truck, walked to the passenger side, opened the door and helped Eve out of the truck. While he was totally oblivious to all of the stares and whispers, Eve was grinning and smiling brightly as she thought of all of the rumors that were developing at that very moment. She stuck close by Mike as they walked toward the door of the club.
 
Candi: (Looking nervously thru the crowd and over the door) Sparkle is that them I see? Is that Mike and Eve?
 
Sparkle: (Smiling inside) Yeah girl, I think it is.
 
Candi: Hold my purse, cuz I’m fixing to turn this mutha *&^&* club out!
 
****Candi Runs towards the door****