''This is for Colby'' James states catching everyone's attention.
Colby's eyebrows pull together as he reaches over the table and grabs the letter from Jame's hand. James then nodded his head before walking away leaving us all wondering to who this letter had come from and why it was directed towards Colby.
Colby looked at everyone confused before slowly opening the envelope and pulling out a piece of paper. He starts to read to the writing and I watch as his soft blue eyes grew wider and darker. His jaw had tightened and quickly he looked out into the crowd of people.
"Everything ok, Colby?" Jeff asks him, worry painted on his face. "Yeah I'll be right back" he mumbles before quickly standing up and walking past me and out of the booth. Without a word Colby walks off into the crowd of people, still holding the letter.
"What was that about?" Andrea says looking over at me and I could tell she wasn't just confused, she was extremely worried. "I have no clue" I replied back trying to spot him in the crowd, but there were just too many people.
"He didn't look too happy" Brennen states twirling his drink in his hands.
I grew nervous at the thought of what was on that letter that caused such a reaction out of Colby. As I imagined many scenarios of what it could be, my mind could only go to the most badest situations.
How could someone send him a letter here in a club? I doubt it was Francisco, that man had better things to do with his life.
"I'm going to go get a drink" I quickly say standing up from my seat. Everyone looks at me confused as to where I just spoke but to my luck they all just nodded their head in agreement.
I picked my handbag up and slid my way out of the booth and headed straight for the bar. I had to push past people as it seemed that the building was getting more and more crowded but finally I had reached it.
People lingered around, talking to each other, but no one seemed to be sitting down. I took the first seat I saw and collapsed into it huffing. The person at the bar was rushing from person to person so I took my chance to take a breather and take in everything.
I pushed the hair that was on my face away and sighed. Tonight has been one of the most intense and stressful nights I've had in a while.
"You seem like you need a drink" I heard a familiar voice say from beside me.
Great just Great.
I lift my head to be met with Francisco who was getting into the seat beside me. I placed on a fake smile before slowly nodding my head. "Yeah" I reply. I watch as Francisco places his hand in the air and instantly the bartender dropped everything and rushed over in seconds. The bartender looked terrified of Francisco and I could tell he enjoyed that.
"Can we have two shots up, quick" he says, not removing eye contact. The guy gave him a fake smile but you could see the fear in his eyes "it's on the house" he quickly says before disappearing to make our drinks.
"So have you thought about my offer yet?" Francisco says catching me off guard. With what happened to Colby I completely forgot about his offer for me to 'date' him. I felt my heartbeat start to grow faster and suddenly I didn't know what to say.
"I don't know, I haven't really thought about it" I honestly say which makes his forest green eyes grow dark. "Ava, darling I can give you everything, a life you deserve" he says and for once I didn't know what to feel.
''Yeah but I just met you'' I quickly say without even realizing it. This didn't seem to make him happy as all of his facial expressions had seemed to disappear.
"Here are your drinks," the bartender says passing us the two shots. Francisco looks over at him, giving him a head nod before turning back to me.
"Is your phone buzzing?" he questions me and instantly I reached for my phone in my bag, even though I heard no sound. As I looked at the screen I noticed that no one was calling me.
"Nope" I reply disappointed. "Huh weird I thought I heard something, anyways shot?" He says handing me one of the shot glasses. I gladly take it before knocking my glass against him and taking in the shot.
The liquid burned my throat as it went down but somehow the pain didn't seem to bother me.
"Are you expecting someone to call you, you took your phone out pretty quickly" he questions me. "Yeah my brother, he said his account got hacked" I lie and I watch as he slowly nods his head at my reply.
He grew silent and looks straight into my eyes. As I tried to focus my attention on him I felt my head start to grow sore.
"I'm not good with rejection Ava" he randomly states his voice low and cold. "What?" I say as I stared at him but the more I looked at him everything started to grow dizzy and all I could see was two of him.
"I usually get what I want" he says twirling his drink in his hand. He placed the glass down and leaned in closer to my ear "and I really want you Ava" he whispers his voice raspy and deep sending shivers down my spine.
He smiles at me before getting up from his seat, leaving me by myself. The music grew louder and I felt like my head was going to explode with every beat.
What has he done to me?
The room felt like it was dancing and somehow I couldn't keep up. I slowly push myself up from my seat before being hit with a rush of dizziness. Determined to get back to the others I stumble in the direction of where the group was.
I kept tripping over my feet and my balance was all over the place but I refused to give up. The room was swirling so fast at this point and I felt like I was going to pass out at any moment now.
I pushed past more people and finally after what felt like ages I found my way back to the table. I trip placing my hands on the table to hold me up. Everyone flinched at my appearance before they all jumped to their feet.
"Ava!" Jeff says way too loudly making his voice pound against my head. I tried to look back up at him but everything was moving way too fast so I shut my eyes and fell down to my knees.
"What the fuck!" Brennen yells quickly sliding himself out of the booth and kneeling down to me. I heard everyone else slid themselves out of the booth and also and fall down next to me.
"Ava what happened!" Jeff questions me and I felt him place his hands around my hips. suddenly I felt him pull me backwards so I fall back onto his lap.
"Francisco" I breath out and I heard Andrea gasp.
"Oh my she's been drugged" she states but suddenly her voice was starting to grow soft just like everything else around me. I heard what she said but I didn't have enough energy to panic.
"We need to get her outside ASAP and someone needs to find Colby" Jeff orders and I could notice his voice was deeply coated in panic. "Brennen and I will split up and look for him," Andrea says. Brennen didn't say anything but I hear them both stand up meaning that he agreed.
I felt Jeff slowly pick me off from the ground and hold me in his arms bridal style. He whispers something to Andrea and Brennen before they separate. "Ava talk to me" he says and I huff burying my face into his warm chest.
"Ava say something, anything" he says, a rush of nervousness washed in his voice. "Am I going to be ok?" I softly question him. Even with my eyes shut I couldn't help but feel the rush of dizziness in my brain.
"I'm not going to let anything happen to you, I promise you" he says, his voice comforting. I grew a soft smile before I felt a blast of coldness hit my body meaning that we were now outside. Jeff picked up his pace and walked me further away from the music.
"Where are we going?" I question taking in all of his warmth. "There is an alleyway not too far away from here we can rest there until Colby comes" he replies.
Everything goes quiet and I started to get very tired. "Ava you still there" he says and I try everything in my body to make a soft muffled noise. Jeff takes a sudden turn before abruptly stopping.
I notice that he states to kneels down and I felt my legs touch the cold ground. Jeff slides me across the floor and places my head on his lap.
I felt him brush his fingers through my hair and with everything going on all I felt was calm. "Ava you still there?" Jeff repeats himself and I slowly nod my head, melting against his touch.
I felt so comfortable that I didn't mind dying right here in Jeff's lap.
Out of all of the people, I wouldn't expect it to be Jeff.
"Ava can you open your eyes for me" he softly says. "To tired to" I mumbled back.
"It's those fucking drugs that are doing this to you" he grumbles. "Mhm" I say getting more sleepy. Everything felt so easy to just fall asleep.
"Ava!" I hear Colby's deep voice echo throughout the alleyway. His voice was so loud it pounded against my head. I hear footsteps come closer but I couldn't seem to open my eyes. They all felt so heavy. Suddenly I felt someone grab my hand and wrap it around theirs.
"Ava stay with me" he says but unlike others, his voice seemed so far away. I couldn't seem to reply this time.
Everything felt so distant and I felt every bit of hope leave my body.
I felt so far away.
Everything and everyone seemed to disappear and for once in my life, I gave up.
