CHAPTER TWO

Suddenly my heart was pounding loudly inside my chest and the loud music from the club stopped ringing in my ear. I could only hear my heart beating. My hold around the glass tightened and holding my breath, I slowly looked behind to the person who tapped on my shoulder.

“Hey!” I released the breath I was holding when the familiar eyes of Emily looked back at me. I felt relieved seeing her here. I didn’t know why I was scared of that man from the dream but there was something weird about him. Emily took a seat beside me and ordered a drink for herself while my eyes involuntarily went to the same place where I looked at those amber eyes. Was I daydreaming? I thought. I decided to completely forget about the stranger and focus on Emily right now. Taking a deep breath, I turned to look at Emily who was looking terribly upset.

Her eyes had lost their brightness and they were not shining as they always did. I placed my hand over her and gently squeezed it. She looked at me and I saw tears. I knew she was hurt and she didn’t need to say that. I just placed my hand around her shoulder and pulled her towards me, side-hugging her. That was all it took for her tears to pour out of her eyes. I knew she needed it. There was nothing I could do but to be there for her. I rubbed her shoulder with my hand and shushed her saying it’ll all be okay. I wasn’t too sure though. If I were to be honest, I didn’t know what she was going through as I had never loved anyone in my life. In all my twenty-one years of life, I had never dated anyone and love was a strange concept to me.

I had long forgotten the thought that I was ever going to love anyone. I patted Emily’s back while she cried. It was after a few minutes that she calmed down a bit.

“Feeling okay?” I asked. She nodded her head in response.

“Hey, cheer up,” I said, passing her a small smile and continued, “It’s his fault that he lost you and I swear he’s going to regret ever leaving you,” I finished. She looked at me but stayed silent.

“Come on let’s get drunk and forget that asshole, huh?” I asked to which she never replied. I nudged her with my elbow and gestured her to smile.

“Pretty please,” I whined and pouted like a child which made her lips turn upwards.

“Fine, let’s get drunk,” she said and I grinned from ear to ear. And the very next minute we started our mission to get drunk. We ordered drink after drink until we both felt a bit of alcohol in our system. My head buzzed with the music and I announced to Emily that I’m going to dance. She said she was going to stay and drink. I nodded and made my way to the dance floor. I moved my body with the music and followed the rhythm. My hair was all over my shoulder and face but I didn’t care, I was too drunk for that. A guy approached me and started to dance along with me and I let him. His hands came to my waist and I closed the mere distance between us as I snaked my hand around his neck. He was a cute guy with dimples. His brown eyes told me that he too was drunk like me.

He smiled at me and I smiled back as our bodies moved with the music. I was lost in my world as if everything around me disappeared. It was only me and the music, and all I could do was dance and enjoy my own self but my world shattered when someone came to us and pulled the man away from me. A groan left my mouth but before I could’ve said anything, I was being taken away from the dance floor. I tried to release my hand from the man’s hold whose face I couldn’t see as his back was to me. I felt something where he touched me. It was tingly. I looked at my hand which he firmly held in his.

“What… where are you taking me?” I muttered in my drunk state but received nothing in response. The man expertly walked through the drunk crowd and came to a stop once we were outside the club. I snatched my hand back from his hand and glared at the man whose face was still not clear to me as it was dark outside.

The effect of the alcohol was slowly coming off and suddenly I was very aware that I was alone with a stranger who had forcefully brought me here. Adrenaline ran through me and all the wild thoughts raced through my mind. I gulped and took a step back in fear. The man must have noticed it as he took a step towards me which made a bit of the moonlight shine on his face and a mere glance at his amber orbs was enough for me to recognize him. A gasp escaped my lips. He was looking straight into my eyes as if peering into my soul and reading my every thought.

There was something, a strange connection that I felt at that very moment and I knew that he somehow knew me. Not only that, he even knew about the dream last night. We both looked at each other. I didn’t know what he was thinking but I was finding my courage to speak again.

“Who…?” my voice barely left my throat which made it clear for him that I was afraid. I felt stupid to let him know that I feared him. I remembered the very wise words somebody had said, ‘never show your fears to your enemies’. I cleared my throat and straightened myself.

“Who are you,” I asked, this time a little bravely.