Bold

Chapter 1

            I wake up to a cold hand lying limp on my chest and a chilled nose nuzzled in the cave between my neck and shoulder. The girl’s hair tickles the inside of my elbow as I try to wiggle out from under her. I sit up and feel a cool breeze coming from the window I hadn’t had time to shut last night. The girl lying naked in my bed groans and rolls over, she notices I’m not there then looks up to me with tired eyes. The ends of her mouth curl into a seductive grin, the same grin that won me over last night.

            “Niall, right?” she asks making sure that is my name.

            I let out a light chuckle and nod then say, “Yeah, Niall.” She gets up wrapping the sheet around her long slim body then steps over to me. Her toes tickle mine once she squares her body against mine; her fingers trace the sleeve of tattoos treading up and down my arm and her lips fiddle with my lip piercing. Her eyes fall eyes fall to the clock behind me and her eyes go wide,

             “Crap is that the time? I have to go I have work in twenty minutes!” the sheet covering her bare body falls loosely to the floor, I turn away though I’ve already seen every hidden inch of her. Before scurrying out she scribbles her name on my hand,

             “Don’t be afraid to call it, kay?” she persuades me to make a promise I don’t plan on keeping. Once she’s out I look down to the name written above the digits Ella.

            I shove the curtains out of my way and close the window then put on a wrinkly pair of jeans that were thrown to the floor. After brushing my teeth and rustling my blonde hair to the side I slide on some chap stick over my kissed chapped lips. After rummaging through my closet of jumbled clothes I find a black band T-Shirt of the concert that I’m going to tonight. When I try to slide shut my closet door the bottom comes off its hinges and I groan too lazy to fix it. I slide my phone and wallet into my jeans pocket then head out the door. I tread down the apartment building stairs and out into the winter’s light rain. When I notice my hair is getting damp I pull my hood over my head and continue walking to a local coffee house. My breath makes a cloud with every puff of breath I let out.

            As I walk into the coffee house a bell jingles above my head, a girl behind the counter smiles at me and I get in line. In the corner sits one of the bands that’ll be playing tonight, hanging on their arms are girls that I’d love to be with, the band’s groupies. One girl particularly catches my eye, when she sees me staring her eyes look me up and down then she smiles. Her eyes are the shade of the light that reflects from a blue ocean, the way her brunette hair trickles down her back makes me want to tangle my hands in it; and the smirk that takes place on her face makes me want to make her mine. When her eyes leave me they find their place in the lead singer’s. I get my coffee then leave for the park until it’s close to the time for the concert to start. I find an empty bench under a few scattered trees hoping it’ll be dry. But when I sit the mornings rain seeps into my jeans so I jolt up and walk around instead. When it’s time to go I quicken my pace to the venue wanting to get into a warm place. Inside there are no chairs and everyone stands as close to the stage as possible. The opening band comes out and everyone starts fist pumping and screaming out the lyrics from their dry throats including me. Behind me a mosh pit forms and people start taking turns going in. When the guy beside me gets hit he turns around and pushes the other guy back in. I guess he didn’t like getting pushed and thinking it was me gets into my face and starts trying to yell over the crowd around us.

            “Hey!” the guy beside me yells,

            “It was me not him, you got a problem take it up with me!” he growls angered. The two men stand intensely with eyes digging into each other’s. When a punch is thrown at the guy beside me I jump in trying to stop it. We’re all pulled apart by security and thrown out. The guy I tried to defend kicks the door then slides down the brick wall.