Waking up a few minutes before the alarm rang, this knind of awakening seemed to be a new normal to Lysander. He had little sleep recently, since his felt like his life was a comedy of irony to whoever watched, while a tragedy to him. It was now that he looks at what his life was like before, how he took it for granted, and laugh at how ironic it is and how funny it would be if it weren’t happening to him. Today, he wasn’t in the mood to laugh at the joke that was his life, but instead he felt the darkness that surrounded him more evidently today. It was like a gut feeling for him … Then he remebered the cause of his gloom today. He sighed and rolled his eyes.
"Of course, how could I forget the cause of my dread … I have to go to that stupid party."
The alaram rang, waking him up more then he already was. He took the quickest cold shower, applied face products and opened his cloest. He really hated doing his job in the view of the public since he was a workaholic when it came to security and his client’s life, and he knew it was much harder to do his job when there’s a ton of people present. Not only the celebs, but also their managers, producers, the yacht staff and the wait staff, and their bodyguards who are resonably good with weapons and are agile and could definitely go rouge and go straight for his client! But he was overthinking, or he was just thinking of every possibility so he could be ready if it happens.
It was his first few times following Rosemary to a party packed with celebrities, and he was still new to it all, but he learned and he found a way to have weapons constantly within reach while seeming like he’s level headed and not wary at all. He put his gun in plain sight of a holster on the right side of his pants (his right) but covered it up with a white dinner jacket. He also had a small dagger in the inside pocket of the very same jacket. Should he be relieved of his jacket at any time, he also has a swiss army knive hidden in his trouser pocket.
He put on his outfit, making sure nothing is visible and he walked out of his house straight into the car where Rosemary was already waiting for him. He greeted her but remained silent during the ride. He had nothing to say to her today, in fact he never did have anything to say.
When they arrived, he tried following her and keeping close to her, but they got separated for a few seconds. She was ahead of him, so he tried rushing a bit to get closer to her, but not noticing the man that was about to cross his path, he bumped into him.
As Lysander turned to say sorry and carry on, he realized he knew this person. And no, not like a celebrity he saw on TV or on any of these parties, but he actually saw him before, he just couldn’t place where. Of course, he wasn’t going to ask and admit defeat, but if they truly know each other, the other man will say something, and if not then wherever Lysander saw him isn’t important.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t see you there.” However, Lysander couldn’t shake the feeling he saw him on TV and just had a false memories about seeing him in real life. However, he had to mask his question to not suggest he recognizes him in case it turned out to be somebody he should’ve remebered. “I’m sorry, are you a celebrity? Or am I mistaking you for somebody I saw on TV?” He wanted to suggest a celebrity that he looks like to him, but he didn’t want to suggest that all black people look alike to him. In fact, he now realized that this guy might take it that way anyway, but he won’t aplogize and say that’s not the reason only if he mentions it, because if he apologizes now, it’ll be like saying ‘I didn’t murder anybody’ out of the blue … Like it would make him think Lysander was racist even more if he said he didn’t think all black people look alike. Lysander overthinks a lot, but unlike a lot of people who overthink he doesn’t jump to conclusions, it’s his overthinking certain interactions that keeps him alert. It’s like that saying. ‘If you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras.’ whereas he would be more like ‘Oh hoofbeats? It could be zebras, it could be horses, but it could also be deer and gazelles.’ Lysander looked back at Rosemary and noticed that she stood where he could keep an eye on her without being too close to make her or anybody else uncomfortable and think something is going on, so he was happy knowing he’s both doing his job and keeping a healthy distance between him and his client which is always a green flag.
@Kate - Ryker
