"Come on Bo! We gotta go!" I heard Kaitlyn yell from the other side of the bathroom door.
"Uno Momento." I yelled back, smacking my lips together and finishing up a few final touches on my outfit.
Brittany Green, an old friend from high school, was having a huge party at her house. I figured half of Santa Cruz was invited, and most were going, given that Brittany always has the best parties. I originally wasn't going to go, but my psycho friends are running my life. I grabbed my clutch on the counter and walked out of the bathroom to find all my friends waiting.
"Finally! Leggo!" Claire laughed and we hurried downstairs to the garage. I unlocked my car and everyone piled in. It was about a five minute drive to Brittany's house, so we got there right on time. It was already pretty crowded and the music could be heard probably about a mile away. I parked the car on the street and we all walked up to the door, which was left wide open. Lights were flashing, drinks were being splashed, and people were dancing everywhere. Hailey, Tori, and Kaitlyn ran in and met up with some of our other friends, leaving me and Claire standing alone in the threshold.
"Remind me why I agreed to come here?" I asked.
"Cause you need to get out of the house. You're a single woman for God Sakes, live a little! Come on, lets go dance." She pulled me to the center of the room. Oh right, I'm single now.
After about three songs, I actually started to have fun. I wasn't really "dancing" with anyone, except for Claire, which of course wouldn't count. We were both pretty sweaty and tired so we squeezed our way around couples dancing and finally made it to where the drinks were located. I didn't drink, so I stuck with a water. Claire didn't, but she never does. We were talking about really irrelevant things when someone put their hand on my shoulder and made me jump, almost spilling my drink.
"Woah, it's the rarest of all species! The wild Ashley out of her natural habitat and actually in public! It's revolutionary! Someone call the President!" he laughed and I pushed him away softly.
"Matt, you're seriously the meanest person ever. I party, you're just never at the parties I go too. Probably cause I'm too cool for you." I smirked, taking another sip of my drink.
"Aha, doubt that." he smiled, "So, how are you doing?"
"I'm fine. Everything's okay." I put on a fake smile. Everything was definitely not okay.
"That's great, really great."
"Yeah." I looked around the room. Sometimes talking to Matt could be so awkward.
"So, um, do you want to dance? You don't have to if you don't want to. But I was just thinking that you might want to dance with someone who you-"
"I'd love to dance with you." I cut him off and threw my drink in the trash. We headed back over to the large group of people dancing and joined everyone. Matt couldn't dance, and neither can I, so it was a pretty awful sight. But we were having a good time, so I didn't really care what people thought. The song we were dancing to ended and the beat of an all too familiar song began to play: Rack City. Me and Matt stood there awkwardly as everyone began grinding on each other. This is why I don't go to parties. I continued to stand around all through the beginning of the song, but about a minute in, I felt the presence of another behind me. This person began to slowly push their body against mine, making me instantly uncomfortable.
"Hey Bo. Where's your precious boyfriend now?" a raspy voice whispered in my ear. My heart began to beat faster as I realized who it was. I tried to push him away, but he held a tight grip on me.
"Austin, leave me alone." I clinched my teeth together.
"No. We're going to have fun, whether you want to or not." he chucked and I cringed. I stood there, completely disgusted and uncomfortable, as Austin's body grinded against mine. The song came to an end and I let out a sigh of relief as Austin stopped. I began to walk away, but Austin grabbed my wrist and spun me back around to face him.
"You got your dance, now leave me alone" I tried to leave, but once again, he tightened his grip and brought me closer to his body.
"Who said all I wanted was a dance?" I almost threw up hearing those words. He started to walk off the floor, dragging me with him. Where were my friends? Where was Louis? Oh right, he was with Eleanor. Gosh brain, stop thinking about him. We made our way to the staircase of Brittany's large house and started walking upstairs. I knew what was coming, but this time, I had no one here to save me. Liam had stopped him last time, but he wasn't here now, I was just in a room with a ton of people I barely knew. No one was going to help me out of this one. He opened the first door to our left on the second floor and quickly pulled me in, shutting the door behind us. I looked up at him with terror in my eyes, but he simply smirked and pushed me on the bed sitting in the center of the room. His hands began to play with the hem of my dress, and I quickly swatted them away. He sat up in front of me and used his right hand to swat me across the face. I whimpered. At this point, I was scared stiff. I couldn't do anything to stop him. No one could. I was pretty much done for.
"What the hell are you doing?" I heard a familiar voice yell. Matt. How could I forget about Matt? Suddenly, I felt hopeful that I would be okay.
Austin stood up and let go of me, I watched him walk over to Matt.
"Leave." Austin said sternly to Matt.
"Not unless she comes with me." Matt pointed over to me.
"Fine. Either way, you're leaving." Austin smirked as he threw a punch right to Matt's face. I flinched as I watched them fight with each other. I was surprised no one else in the house noticed, but the loud music could block out anything. Matt was pretty strong and managed to pin Austin down on the ground. I looked around to see if I could find anything to help him with, but the only thing around was my clutch bag. I grabbed it from the floor next to the bed and opened it up. Inside were a few hair ties, a lip gloss, and my phone. I grabbed the phone and unlocked it, opening up the dial pad and calling the only number I could think of in a situation like this. I finished up the call and looked over to see that now Matt was pinned to the floor. Austin punched him again and I heard a yell echo through the room. Another tear fell from my eyes as I watched my best friend getting beat up by one of the many men who ruined my life. All of a sudden I heard the pounding of feet coming up the staircase and seconds later stood three police man. They stood in the doorway and looked over at me as I pointed to Austin. They pried him away from Matt and locked his hands in the metal handcuffs. Finally I was done worrying about Austin. After checking to make sure Matt and I were okay,the police took him back downstairs where I'm guessing they left the party and drove away. My heart rate slowed down and I began to relax. Matt had saved my life and in return, I saved his. I looked over at him, still sitting on the ground of the bedroom. He had a few cuts on his face, but nothing major.
"Matt, I'm so sorry." I slowly got up and kneeled down next to him.
"I should be the one that's saying sorry. I should've pulled you away when he first started to dance with you. This is all my fault Bo, I'm sorry." he ran his left hand through his hair.
"It's not your fault. It's his. But you saved me, and I can't thank you enough." I wrapped my arms around him.
"Hey, I couldn't let him do that to you. Especially after everything that's happened." I smiled, trying not to think about the second part.
"Yeah, thank you, you're so sweet Matt. I'm lucky to have such a good friend." I got up from the ground and gave him a hand, helping him stand up so we were now eye to eye.
"Yup, we are good friends. Now come on, let's get you home. I'm sure Claire is freaking out." I laughed as we left the room and made our way back downstairs. I looked down to see my four friends and Brittany all talking at like 50 miles an hour. They heard us and turned around, all five girls running towards me and giving me a hug group hug. I smiled as they all freaked out, assuring them that I was totally fine. Well I was totally fine; physically that is.
"Come on Bo, let's go home. Sorry about all this Brittany." Claire gave Brittany a hug and everyone else began to make our way towards the front door.
"Oh, don't worry, I was ready to kick everyone out anyway" she joked and everyone laughed. We all quickly said goodbye and made our way down the street to my car. Claire got in the drivers seat and I sat in the passengers seat as I was not in a condition to drive in, even if Claire had a few drinks earlier. She whipped the car around and we drove past Matt. I smiled at him and waved, earning a smile and wave back. I realized then that I didn't need Louis. I didn't need a boyfriend. I had my friends. And they would never betray me.
I fell asleep with a smile on my face that night. Surprising, right? I mean, I was almost raped.
Not only had I managed to get Louis off my mind for 90% of the day every day, but I was officially over him.
Life was finally starting to get better.
(A/N: Sorry for the long wait, but I hope this was a good chapter!!!! What do you think about Matt? Any predictions for the future? I bet no one, except for my best friend whom I told, will ever be able to guess what happens next. It'll be a shoker! But first, we have to do a Louis POV! Hopefully I'll get it up tomorrow, see you later loves! Xx -Katie)