"Hey" Trayee waved at Olivia who was trying to find her amidst the dancing crowd.
The latter ducked and doged the drunk dancers and finally reached Trayee. Just as she slumped beside her, Trayee jumped straight to the stack of questions she had prepared in the past 20 minutes. Olivia patiently answered them one by one. After learning about everything Trayee nodded. Even in the 2500s crazy fans had not gone extinct, such peculiar breed of humans they were. They must back a wealthy backer, otherwise given the strict laws against privacy breach of celebrities, they would not have dared to go after Koushik. Anyways, Ketu security has been informed so they need not worry about it further.
Although the two women were discussing a serious matter they acted like they were making out, whispering seductively in each other's ear, caressing one another's arm or leg, the usual stuff.
At one point Olivia pretended to kiss Trayee's nape and asked in the meantime, "Did anything happen while I was away?"
Trayee put a finger on Olivia's chest and pushed her away answering with a shy giggle, "No! You naughty woman, not here."
Olivia held that hand and brought it near her face.
Then planting a kiss on the inner side of her palm she said, "Babe, then how long do I have to wait? Let's go home. I can't wait to have you to myself."
Trayee rolled her eyes as if offended and said with a huff, "You don't say! You left me alone for twenty minutes and now you're in a hurry to go home? Fat chance. We'll be staying for an hour here, drink, dance and then go home. This is your punishment for going away in the middle of our make out session."
To add emphasis on her anger Trayee folder her hands over the chest and crossed her legs leaning away from Olivia. The latter played the part of a lovesick girlfriend and made puppy eyes at Trayee hoping to sooth her anger. After listening to lots of sweet nothings Trayee finally softened and turned to her girlfriend with a little smirk.
"I'll forgive you if you promise to dance with me, go all out on the stage, right at the centre"
"Okay, baby, anything for you. Let's go?" Olivia perked up.
Trayee wiggled a finger before her face, "No, no, no, not now. When the main dance event starts. This is just warm up. I've looked it up. A famous DJ is coming with a bunch of my favourite songs."
"And when is that starting?" Olivia sat back down.
"Sharp at 8pm." Trayee answered.
There were still ten minutes left for that so Olivia ordered her girlfriend's favourite snacks in the meantime. Trayee happily munched on them as Olivia kept feeding her.
At the clock struck 8, the club became silent, the DJ changed and a second later everyone erupted in a loud cheer as a spotlight shone over the new DJ. Music started and Trayee dragged Olivia to the centre before it got occupied.
The first one was an upbeat song. Olivia started the dance with a pose, she threw her jacket over and spun it on her index finger. Trayee also struck a defiant pose as if challenging her to approach first. Olivia caught the jacket in one hand and slid over to her in one smooth step and held her waist. Trayee spun around according to the beat leading Olivia who beautifully executed each of the improve movements without missing any rhythm. As the song ended the two stopped in another pose, touching their forehead and holding onto each other. Their performance earned a loud hoot from a lot of people, many clapped and praised.
"Well, hello beautiful talented ladies, would you accept this humble rose as an appreciation from a fellow mesmerized dancer?"
A man stepped out of the crowd dressed in a sparkly yellow outfit. He bowed in a theatrical manner and held out a bunch of multicolored roses rapper in a thick foil paper. Olivia and Trayee thanked him and everyone else for their praises and took the rose. As the DJ signalled for a music change everyone got ready. Seeing these two girls' performance everyone else also got fired up to dance their heart out. Another person came to the centre and started dancing, the rock music brought out some crazy moves from them. Once that came to an end the sparkly man gave a few other people the same bunch of roses. Turned out he was a local florist who comes to the club twice every week and gives a small bouquet to every person to picks up the courage to dance at the centre floor however they please without caring about other people's opinions.
As the hour came to an end the DJ left and his post was taken over by the regular. Tired from dancing for an hour straight Olivia and Trayee walked out of the crowd whose energy seemed to be endless especially boosted by a never-ending alcohol supply. The girls maintained their lovey-dovey atmosphere and got out of the club. Some time later they got a taxi and headed to Ketu.
"Hooooooh" They both let out a loud sigh after crossing the gate.
Olivia immediately created a few metres of distance between them and started stretching.
"Geez, Olly, do I stink or something?" Trayee laughed knowing full well how Olivia hated touching others or being touched.
It never failed to amaze her how well this touch repulsed friend of hers maintains her act of being a touchy-feely person without cracking.
"Mission successful. Let's head home. We'll have a meeting tomorrow morning." Olivia said ignoring Trayee's previous comment.
"Are you going to bed so soon? Why not now? I don't think the others are busy. We can just talk today itself!" Trayee said in surprise.
Olivia shook her head, "I have something to discuss with the A.G. It will be late by the time I come back you go back. Also, take this with you."
She handed the rose bouquet to Trayee. The latter nodded and waved goodbye. Olivia took a deep breath and headed towards the Tennis court, the Administrator General was waiting for her.
"Come sit." He pointed towards the centre of the empty court.
Olivia followed orders. Today she would be receiving the punishment for beating up that boy in her class. That was such a long time ago that she did not even remember. But the A.G was in his position for a reason. He purposefully chose to delay her punishment and waited till she got busy with other things. If he was going to assign a consequence to his students then it would definitely be a worthy one.
On his signal forty people entered the room. Olivia closed her eyes and took several deep breaths wanting to kick her self for not controlling her anger back then for the hundredth time. Anyways what was done was done nothing could fix it. She would just count the time for her punishment to end.
"Take off the jacket." A.G ordered.
Olivia gritted her teeth and complied.
'It's just one hour. You'll survive. No need to be dramatic.'