It was our first year in Canada and I had joined a great new company that was breaking barriers in the world of finance. As a young immigrant couple from Egypt, we felt so lucky, full of hope and excitement. We were embarking on an amazing new journey and we knew we were destined for great things. Driving to the party that night, we didn't know what to expect. The only thing we were concerned with was the drinking, since we were both practising Muslims and we took our faith seriously. It was because we respected God that we were so successful.
We'd been married for about five years when Salma's uncle called us from Toronto to tell us the great news that our immigration was approved. We were both young and qualified, and that was exactly what Canada needed. We rented a nice condo in the suburbs, and both got excellent jobs within three months of arriving. We were already talking about starting a family.
I drove my little Civic dressed in a nice suit I bought specifically for this event, white shirt, reddish tie. Salma was dressed conservatively in a cream shirt and loose fitting but stylish black pants. She had high heels on and wrapped her head in a small but elegant scarf. She usually covered her neck with a hijab but today was an exception, she wanted to look beautiful and accepted. She didn't want to cause me any trouble at work. It would be the first time my work colleagues met her.
The party was amazing! We sat at a table with two other couples from other departments that I barely knew. The dinner was classy. The wine kept flowing but we stuck to Diet Coke. Salma sat to my right and a woman from Accounting sat to my left, her boyfriend on her left. Stacy from Accounting chatted with us all night while her boyfriend seemed to be more interested in the little pretty Customer Service girl to his left. Stacy was great and lots of fun. Her blonde hair matched her skin tone and the tiny black dress she wore. She would lean over me to talk to Salma and in doing so accentuate the cleavage that my eyes were glued to. When they brought the bread rolls, Stacy put her bun on my side plate to which I said "I don't really like buns." Stacy laughed so hard and it took me a minute to get what she was laughing about. Salma grabbed it off my plate and said innocently "I'll have it. I love buns." Stacy stopped laughing and just looked at Salma in a strange way with a really big smile. "Yes you do," she said nodding slightly.
After we ate the dancing started and Stacy forced the both of us to dance with her. She was clearly affected by the wine as her dancing was starting to get really provocative. Her and Salma started dancing closer and casually bumping into each other. After a few songs, the DJ played one of my favourite songs, so I cried out and got really into the dancing. Salma on the other hand said that she was going to sit down because her feet ached. So they both went back to the table and left me dancing to my favourite song. I saw Stacy whisper to Salma and walked away towards the bar. I noticed Salma staring at her as she walked away in that skimpy black dress and her ass swaying in the dimly lit room but didn't think too much about it. When the song changed I walked back to the table but Stacy beat me to it and was back from the bar with two drinks in her hands, what looked like Diet Cokes. Stacy sat at my chair next to Salma and gave her one of the drinks. I had to sit between Stacy and her boyfriend who started some small chat with me as Stacy and Salma were whispering and giggling together.
At some point Stacy turned towards me and whispered in my ear "Your wife is super sexy, man! She couldn't keep her eyes off of my ass when I went to the bar."
"What are you talking about?" I asked in shock.
"Yeah, yeah. She wants me, I tell you." Stacy went back to Salma and continued chatting with her hands getting more touchy feely as they were getting more and more friendly. I couldn't make out what they were saying from the music but Salma gave out a huge laugh and threw her head back. I started to notice that her scarf was slowly getting out of place and Salma had given up fixing it. Salma had finished that drink and it made me wonder if Stacy had slipped her a shot of something with the Diet Coke. Salma was not exactly herself.