CHAPTER TEN
PARTY GIRL
April
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"I regret all my life decisions." I say quietly to myself as I get past by the bouncers or whatever and into the night club Nicole had rented out for the company for one night only. For the past hour thoughts had been eating my mind.
"Do I look stupid?"
"For God's sake, I look like a thirteen year old playing dress up, trying to get into a club."
"Fuck why did I decide to come?"
I walked into the place, trying not to trip over my black heels that happen to be a little bit big for my small feet. Lights of all sort of colors hit the dirty dance floor like a light show. Laughter and small talk fill my ears like water. A overwhelming sensation feels my body from my fingertips to my toes. My heart starts to race as I realize I couldn't find no one that I knew. Normally at work I hanged out with Nicole but here it was not my place to do so. She was occupied with important business people, greeting her in high hopes she'll notice them.
I looked lost and out of place. I knew I shouldn't have came. This was not my place, if anything this is all out of my limit. Everyone looked fun and at ease, I was just a woman who was struggling with herself.
"Fuck this shit I'm out." I said and began to walk away from the whole scene. I would of made it out if it wasn't for a voice stopping me from doing so.
"Hey Ape!" A cheerful voice belonging to Nick says. I turn around and placed a small smile on my face.
"Hi." I greeted towards him.
He walked over to me with a small glass in his hand containing a clear liquid. He was dressed in a grey suit with his bleached hair slicked back. He looked clean up but there was just something about him that felt uneasy.
"Wow." He says as his eyes look up and down at my frame. "You look smoking April!" He exclaims a little too loud making me feel uncomfortable.
I fiddled with my fingers, "Thanks."
"Did you just get here?" He asked.
I nodded my head, "Yes actually."
"Well what are you waiting for?" Let's get you a drink."
I could one out of two things. I could refuse and say that I'm actually waiting for someone and pretend to go fine them when in reality I'm probably gonna go sit in that booth in the corner and stare at people, while having a pity party. Or I can say yes to Nick's offer and let him get me a drink. Maybe not the best choice but better than being alone.
"Sure." I said with a smile. He holds out his hand for me to take. I hesitate and place my small hand into his much bigger one. His hand felt clampy and large.
He pulled out a stool for me to sit down on at the bar. I awkward placed my hands on my lap and looked at him as he says something to the bartender. He sits down next to me and looks at me intensely.
"So..." I said awkward in a attempt to start a conversation.
"I really love this color on you." He says as his index finger touches the side of my thigh and run his finger across the material. This causes me to get goosebumps but not in a good way.
"Green is a nice color." That's the only thing I could say. What do I say? I don't know how to get myself out of this.
"Especially on you. Damn April I can't tear my eyes off of you." He says trying to be seductive.
"Well that isn't good for the eyesight." I say adding a awkward laugh at the end. Someone please save me.
"Here you go." The bartender says as she gives me a cup with this strange looking red liquid. It was a mixture between red and orange. It reminded me of this spicy powder candy I used to eat as a child.
"Don't worry I payed for that." Nick says.
"Oh really?! I'll definitely pay you back." I said reaching for my wallet in the small black purse I brought with me. He places his hand over mine and places it on top of the bar top.
"No need." I smile sincerely at me and pick up my cup to take a drink out of it. I guess I should just cut lose and relax.
All of a sudden his arm snakes around my back where I could feel the material of his suit on my bare back. He then pulls himself closer to where his lips were touching my ear. I could feel his hot breath on my ear lobe and a shiver went down my spine. "But you can definitely pay me back in a different way if you know what I mean." He says with a new tone in his voice.
I barley touched the glass of the cup to my lips before I heard the voice of a guardian angel.
"Hey April there you are! Both Phil, Saraya, and I have been looking for you everywhere." Danielle exclaims walking over to us. She warmly embraces me.
I didn't think nothing of the hug until she whispers something quietly to me, "just play along."
I immediately faked a smile on my face, "hey, I just got here and I was looking for you guys until Nick came over to me."
She glances over to Nick who looked pretty upset about her coming over to us. "Hey friend, nice seeing you." She says through gritted teeth.
"Danielle it's always a pleasure to see your very appealing face." He faked out.
"Of course it's a pleasure to see me, look at me I'm very attractive." She says with sass.
Nick rolled his eyes and said, "Don't flatter yourself." Before taking a sip out of his clear liquid.
She mumbles something under her breath before turning towards me, "Anyways April let's go sit down with others, first round is on Phil anyways even though he doesn't drink."
I nod my head and stepped down from the stool. I send a quick goodbye to Nick before starting to follow Danielle.
"Wait April!" Nick suddenly says. I look over to him raising my drink that I haven't took a sip from. "Aren't you gonna at least take a sip?"
I open my mouth to say something but was cut off by Danielle, "No Nick she isn't but you can go and shove that glass up your tight unpleasant ass."
We soon walk over to the other side of the club to a booth with Phil and a beautiful woman with snow skin and dark raven hair. She wore a tight black dress with spaghetti straps and a dark shade of red lipstick on her plump lips. She was well um attractive.
"Thank you Phil." Phil playfully mocks while tossing a arm towards Casper. "You're my hero, oh how will I ever repay you?"
I roll my eyes and side into the seat in front of the pair. "Well if I could just add that I was the one with enough balls to actually tell Dick to fuck off." Danielle says.
"You didn't tell Nick to fuck off." I say confused.
"Yes I did with my eyes."
"God you're so weird." The beautiful raven head says. Oh shit she has a accent. Yep I'm in love. She turns over towards me with a kind smile, "Hi I'm Saraya."
I was meaning to introduce myself but my mouth spoke before I could even process what I was saying.
"Holy shit you're hot."
Saraya giggles while Phil looks at me in shock and Danielle just starts flat out laughing. I cover my mouth with my hand.
"I would say sorry but why apologize when it's the truth?" I mentally curse at myself knowing I didn't think before I spoke. "Yeah I'm April, it's nice meeting you."
Phil sighs and takes a sip of his water bottle, "Thank god you're into Nicole or else I would of have to fight you."
Heat immediately rushes to my cheeks, "I am not into Nicole!" I exclaim.
"Um you're kinda are." Danielle adds.
"I'm not...okay maybe just a little." I say defeated.
"It's obvious." Danielle says laughing a bit.
"Yep everyone can sense it, that's why Dick gets so butt hurt all the time when you're with Nicole." Phil says.
"It's Nick."
Saraya sighs, "Oh April you have so much to learn. We call him dick because he is a dick. I mean he has a pretty small dick, if only his dick was as big as his ego then we wouldn't make fun of him as much."
"I don't want to ask how you know that." I said.
"All he does at work is complain how you shouldn't be treated like some slave by Nicole. We all think he's over dramatic with that because Nicole actually cares about your well being and treats you with respect. I think he's just upset that you don't give him the time of day." Phil says.
"Yeah everyday he is just bitching and moaning about it. This is actually the first time some girl has actually not payed attention to his charm." From the corner of my eye I see Saraya shift uncomfortably in her seat and takes a long swing from her beer.
Danielle notices this, "Sorry." She says towards Saraya.
"I don't know how you haven't noticed him trying to reached out for your attention." Phil says.
I shrug my shoulders thinking back to these past months. "I don't know, I just haven't."
A smirk grows onto Saraya's face, "Or maybe all your attention has been on Nicole hm?"
"What no. I have just been absolutely busy with work and stuff." I say.
Phil and Saraya look at each other and then back at me before saying together, "Suree."
The night goes on with laughs and many random conversations with the trio. I felt calm and at ease. For once I actually felt maybe I did belong. It felt nice to be socializing with people who genuinely cared. Phil and Danielle childishly bickered about baseball and I needed to pee bad.
"Hey I'm gonna go to the restroom." I announce while standing up.
"Oh me too!" Saraya says following me.
Lights flash around the club with daring souls wandering around with no trouble in the world. I haven't seen Nicole in the past two hours I have been here. I did caught myself I few times looking around for her but never finding her.
It was like the universe heard me because before me was the most beautiful woman in the world. A smile lit up on Nicole's face and so did one on I as she greets me with open arms. I don't hesitate by hugging her back immediately. She wraps her arms around me tightly as I throw my arms around her neck and pull her close. Being in her arms felt like paradise. "I'm so happy you came." Nicole says softly.
"I wouldn't have missed it for the world." I say without thinking too much. We stood there in each other's arms a little too long before pulling away. Her hand moves from the middle of my back from my arm and to my hand which she intertwines it with her own as she looks at me.
"I don't understand how you manage to get more beautiful." She says causing me to laugh while a warm blush spread to my cheeks.
"Whatever you're the one that is beautiful here." I say gesturing towards her. Her two piece bralette and black skirt fitted her body perfectly and her black leather jacket made her wavy hair glow. She was absolutely stunning.
She squeezes my hand, "You're too kind like always my April."
She finally turns her attention towards Saraya who had a big smile on her face. She greets her with a small side hug. Just as she was gonna say something else towards me, someone goes up to Nicole telling her that some owners from some company want to talk to her.
She looked like she was going to denied them until I spoke up. "Go Nicole, its fine. I will be here whenever you need me."
She smiles apologetically towards me, "I promise I'll find you soon." With that she was off, away from me.
Thank god there wasn't any other people in the restroom other than Saraya and I. The loud noise was really getting to me. I turn on the sink and cold water hit my hands waking me up from my daydreams about Nicole. I heard the toilet flush and soon Saraya came out and started washing her hands.
"April?" I turned my head looking at Saraya. "I know we just met and you'll probably think that I have no business telling you this which is okay, I understand. But please don't get involved with Nick. No matter what happens, do not get involved with him. Yes his charm may look innocent to you but there is so much more than that silly playboy charm." She stays quiet of a moment or so. "I-I was involved with Nick not that long ago and I can honestly say monsters do exist. Just please take what I am saying seriously."
I turn off the water and grab a paper towel drying my hands off. "Saraya I appreciate you telling me this. I really do and you don't have to worry. Nick and his whole whatever he wants isn't for me."
She smiles at me, "I'm glad to hear that, you're smart April. I admire that. Please continue to use your head than your heart."
I nod towards her. Then a mischievous smirk grows on her face, "Besides I can tell that you aren't thinking about guys at the moment. Nicole got you're attention huh?"
I bite my lip and crumbled the towel and threw it into the trash bin. I look up at Saraya and with a smile trying to break through, I answer her question.
"Yeah I do."
"Well you got her hooked. That's not common for Nicole to be so about a person. I only seen you guys interact once but I could already tell you guys have a bond. A special type of bond." We start to exit the restroom. "Don't let that go, I say just fuck it and chase after her. I'm more than 99.5% sure that she feels the same about you."
I process this for a moment. I haven't really acknowledged any of my feelings towards Nicole. I couldn't help but feel this overpowering affection towards her. She made me feel something that I couldn't explain right now. Nicole was just something else that made me feel so much. How could this person who I haven't even known for that long make me feel something no one else has made me feel before.
A half an hour goes by since I last saw Nicole and my mind keeps wandering off about her. I wished I savor that moment with her a little bit more. I missed the way she felt wrapped around me. I wonder what she is up to. Did she ever think about me the way I did?
"Thank god the nachos are finally here!" Phil exclaimed happily.
"What the fuck you fat ass." Danielle says as Phil grabbed the piece of chip that she was eye balling.
Saraya rolled her eyes at the two and yanked the chip from Phil's hand and placed it in her mouth.
"Rude." Phil mutters.
I didn't even realize Nicole was standing in front of our table until everyone stopped what they were doing to look up at her. While everyone's gaze was on her, her eyes were on me.
She held her hand out to me, "Dance with me." She said.
I immediately placed my hand in her's and stood up following her. She hand felt nice and familiar.
She took me out to the dance floor where pretty lights were hitting every point and sweaty bodies moved without cared.
"I don't know how to dance this." I say gesturing to the upbeat and very loud music.
"Don't worry, just follow me." She says with a smile. She wraps her arms around my waist and pulls me closer to her. My arms naturally wrap around her. She sways back and forward with me. My hips followed hers in sync as we moved together. She twirls me around as I sway my hips around. We both giggled at how dumb we probably looked but we didn't care at all who was watching us. Us here together mattered.
She pulls me close to her where my back is pressed up against her front. Her hands snake down to my lower waist and pulls me close to her. I had no idea what I was doing but I just followed Nicole.
I could feel her breath hitting the back of my neck. Her touched sent shivers down my spine. The lights danced on us like fireworks. It was like it was only us alone in this club. What surprised me was Nicole leaning down and pressing a small kiss to my exposed shoulder.
I closed my eyes as she leaves kisses from my shoulder to my neck. She didn't mind that there was a ton of people wrapped around us like a snake. Nicole continued pampering me with small kisses on my bare skin. I leaned my head back onto her shoulder enjoying her touched.
I turned around to face her as she still held me close to her. My hand cupped her face and my thumb traced her cheekbone. Our eyes met and I couldn't tear them away from her orbs. She placed her hand over mine and sigh into it. I knew at that moment I wanted nothing more than to kiss her on the lips. I wanted to know what it was like to kiss Nicole. How would it feel? Would she be shocked if I kissed her right here and now? Would Nicole kiss me back? What did she taste like? Well I guess there was only one way to find out.
I leaned up on my tiny toes and she leaned her head down closer towards mine. I knew if I leaned forward no more than a centimeter then our lips would touch. Our lips brushed softly against each other. I smelt her minty breath and she felt my nerves.
"Come back home with me, I want to share some things with you." She says against my lips.
I nodded my head, "Of course...just let me go to the restroom and we'll go." I say.
She then kisses my cheek softly, her lips linger on my skin for a second. "Don't take too long."
My heart was racing like cray. I could hardly feel my feet move. I felt numb in a way but so in motion at the same time.
I rushed into the restroom and stood in front of the sink. I looked myself in the mirror. My wavy hair was now frizzy and there was a red lipstick stain left on my cheek from when Nicole kissed me. I placed my hands softly on the stain and wiped it off with my index and middle finger. My fingers were now stained with red.
"Get ahold of yourself April." I said as I exit the restroom.
The restroom of the club was located in a small hallway that was lightly lit. My heels clicked against the dark marble floors but I soon realized I wasn't the only one in this hallway.
A man with his head bowed low wearing a worn out leather jacket and jeans with various of cuts and stains. I noticed his tall frame and how he walked with a purpose. By the look of him, it made my self conscious become alarm.
He soon bumped into me harshly and shoved a envelope into my hand as he walked off. I turned around ready to shout something at him when I caught his face. His shaggy brown hair bounced with each step he took and a haunting sly smirk was plastered onto his face, but it was his eyes that really got me. His cold blue eyes that made me feel uneasy.
Soon he was gone. He quickly left from the emergency exit next to the men's restroom. My voice was caught up in my throat. What the hell? I looked down at white envelope that had no stains or wrinkles on it. Dread hit me hard. This can't be from the same person who been delivering me the dead flowers. I mean it makes awful sense but at this point I am trying everything I can do to convince me that it's not the truth.
I ripped open the envelope and as expected there was a letter.
You sure don't like listening to simple instructions. Oh little April how will you ever learn?
I told you before to stay away from Nicole and I said that will be the last time I will tell you. Seems like now I have to take measures into my own hands.
I'm done with sending you messages from a far,
If it needs to be clear to you that you can't have Nicole from up close
then I'm willing to do that.
Sincerely,
Fire.
I felt if my heart shattered into a million different pieces. My eyes focused on the side of the paper. A red lipstick stain, still fresh.
Before I could do anything else, I started running. I ran out of that building and down the street. I ran as fast as I can.
I ran for my life.
END OF
CHAPTER
TEN.