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17. Party at Holden's (II)

**trigger warning**

There is an upsetting moment in this chapter, therefore please read with caution.

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"Um, do you want to dance?" Holden held out his hand towards me, with a nervous expression.

I took a quick glance at Julie, who was still in conversation with Liam. I guess she was okay if she was with him, so a dance wouldn't hurt.

Placing my hand in Holden's, I smiled and nodded. "Sure," I said.

He led me into the crowd of people, making sure that no one bumped into me, and then we began to dance together.

"So, why don't you like celebrating your birthday?" I asked Holden.

"It's not that I don't like it, I'm just not that fussed," he shrugged whilst dancing.

"Oh right," I nodded at him.

I guess that made sense. I knew that Danny was similar. He didn't really bother much about his birthday, just treating it as any other day. Of course, I didn't let that slide and would make a big deal of it for him.

Holden then spun me around whilst dancing, with my back now resting against his chest.

"But I like this one," he said against my ear.

"Yeah, it's a pretty good party," I told him, hoping that he heard. He's so tall, I don't know if that even got to his ears.

"It really is," he said close to my ear and I realised he must be bending down for him to do that.

Dancing with Holden was so fun.

He was dancing behind me, with his hands on my waist. It was weird at first, but it's just dancing. I think I was kind of grinding on him at one point. It was not my fault that Andre put on a song where I had no choice but to do that.

After dancing with him a bit, I switched to dancing with my girls, since Holden said he was going to get a drink. Dancing with my girls was better anyway.

"I'm just going to go to the bathroom real quick," I told the girls.

"You want me to come?" Mel asked.

"No, it fine," I told her and moved away from the group, trying to find the bathroom.

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"Oh, I'm sorry," I apologised, as I bumped into to someone coming out from the bathroom.

"No problem, gorgeous."

I looked up and saw that I had bumped into a guy, one that gave me some real weird vibes.

"Okay then," I replied, forcing a small smile on my face and then tried to make my way around him, to go back downstairs.

Before I could move around him, he blocked my way. "Wait, where you going?" He asked me.

I knew this guy was trouble. Plus, he was a moron. Where do you think I was going?

"Away from you," I then told him, as I pushed past him, but instead his grabbed my wrist.

"Not so fast, kitten," he said and pulled me closer to his body, his hands around my waist and caging me against him.

This is not what I thought would happen at this party. Or ever to be honest.

"Let me go," I struggled against him, trying my best to get out of his hold.