Lost (Beautiful Beast I)

Chapter-17

Leia

Days turned to weeks and weeks turned to months but I never saw Nicholas again.

In these three months my injuries where all healed, leaving fading scars behind. My house looks more like a home now with a new set of couches, curtains, tv and paintings on the walls. I decorated my home just the way I always wanted. The house I lived in with father was sober, he liked everything grey, neat and dull.

Life became normal once again with no extraordinary action and I lived with it peacefully. Marie, Aunt May, Adam, Charlotte and Liam were there for me always and I found myself accepting the loneliness at nights. I never saw my father again and though I want to lodge a complain, it'll make things complicated as Adam will surely come to know of it.

The truck driver was never found. Adam found himself reaching a dead end everytime he got a clue on him and with much dissatisfaction, he closed the case. Something made me think that Nicholas found the driver, afterall, he did mention it wasn't an accident and the curiosity to know who wanted him dead would've crossed his mind.

At nights when sleep was last thing on my head, I would stare at his phone number in my phone. A part me always hopes he texts or calls. My eyes always goes to the window whenever I wake up in the middle of the night to fetch water. I can't lie to myself that he does have an affect on me. Everything about him is intriguing and I find myself developing a huge liking towards him.

Right now I'm drinking wine at the club while Liam and his friends are busy in the dance floor. The club is just like the way you watch in movies. Dim lights, people dancing to their hearts content, drinking, losing their minds, you name it.

When Liam asked me to go with him to club, I quickly said no. I never went and never wanted to. But after a lot of pestering, I couldn't say no to my friend.

It was weird and uncomfortable in the beginning but later I found myself getting use to it. I didn't dance, just sat in this stool drinking wine and watching around. Liam let me be as this is the first time I'm coming to a club.

Just when I was about to order for another fill up, a guy occupied the seat next to me and spoke.

's*x on the beach for me and this lovely lady' he said mentioning me.

'Sorry, I prefer wine' I said.

'Then we'll cancel it and order what you want, eh?' He came closer. He has a handsome face and yet looked ugly from inside.

The way his eyes shamelessly drifted to my bosom, didn't go unnoticed by me. How I wish Nicholas was here. Now, why would I want him here? So, he can kick this guy's butt! Will he even do it?

Damn, I'm blaming the wine for making me think like this.

I stood up staring at his smirk face and before he could think of anything, I turned around and walked towards the dance floor. My eyes were searching everywhere for Liam or his friends but I didn't find them. I turned around to see the man's eyes still on me as he sipped his drink. Panic settled in my feature.

I kept walking among dancing people and searching my friend.

A hand clutched my wrist, making me turn around immediately.

'Nicholas!' I screamed in the noisy crowd but no one seem to be hearing.

'What? Leia, it's me' Liam shook me by my shoulder and I stared at me.

'Oh, Liam...where did you go living me alone!' I screamed.

'Sorry, c'mon' he took me with him and we came back to the same spot I was before, the man was gone and in his place stood Liam's friends- Alan, Will and Li Wei.

'Come on, Leia have some' Alan gave a shot.

'No no alcohol' I said.

'Come on, Leia, loosen up' I heard Liam say.

'That's right' said Will 'Li is driving, so other than him all of us should be drunk. That's the rule'

Liam urged me close and Will ordered a tray full of shots.

'We'll give you two a moment' said Will and all three left.

'Lets see who drinks the maximum, shall we?' Liam rubbed his hands.

'After I'm drunk, you better drop me at my place safely else you're dead' I said. Liam chuckled.

You learn new stuff only when you try new stuff.

Closing my nose, I took one shot and gulped it up.

Liam looked at me as I tried to get rid of the taste.

'It's bad' I said.

'No' Liam said and drank one 'Oh! It's great' he said and took another and another.

I took one for myself, my eyes not leaving him as he tried to drink all of them quickly. Not your night, Liam.

I drank faster than him and heard him laugh beside me. Soon all the glasses in the tray were empty.

'Hey, we need another tray full of these' I shouted out through the loud music to the bartender.

'Slow down, Leia' he said.

When the next set of tray came, I grinned at Liam.

'Lets erase the last match score and start again, shall we? Lets see who finishes more' I grinned widely and took a shot.

Liam started taking two in his hand and drinking them quickly while I quickened my phase. I was laughing all the while and so was Liam.

'This was so much fun!' I screamed.

'I'm gonna count' Liam said when they were over.

'No, I will. You'll cheat' I said leaning on Liam and started to count the empty ones Liam finished and them mine.

'And that's...15, 16! I won! You drank only 14!' I laughed.

'Oh, come on. This is your first time, I wanted to go slow' he said.

'Liar!'

My legs felt like jelly and soon lost my balance. Liam caught my by waist and steadied me.

'Careful there, bunny' he said. I just laughed. Getting out of his grip, I turned around to see him leaning on the table with his right arm on it.

'Liam' I said in a professional tone 'Liam Smith, would you give me the opportunity to have this dance with you' I stretched my hand, smouldering at him

He raised an eyebrow and mustered up to give me a weird look.

'Isn't that suppose to be my dialogue?' He asked 'And also the smouldering part, like Flynn Ryder?' He asked.

'Eugene. Call me Eugene, my love' I moved closer to him and took his hand.

'Oh my hair is glowing, Eugene' he said in a least lady voice as possible and pulled me to the dance floor.

I don't know what I was doing- dancing or jumping or running. The alcohol in my system made me confident enough to dance for the music like crazy. Liam was dancing in front me and moving around. We both were laughing and having so much fun.

I felt Liam placing his hands on my waist from behind and crushing his front on my back. When he hands came upper and upper, close to my breasts, I moved his hands back to my waist. I felt him holding me tight and he started to grind himself on me.

I quickly took his hands off me and turned around.

The alcohol might've made me think it was his touch but not his face.

Under the dim light as I focused hard on the shadow in front of my, I saw it wasn't Liam but the man who ordered a drink for me earlier. His eyes were full of lust and I moved back. I caught Liam dancing with a random girl who was trying to kiss me. He held her face far from him.

I quickly walked towards him but a hard pull made me face the man in front of me.

'Come on, lady. Lets get a room' he said and started pulling me.

I started wiggling in his hold but he was strong. I was screaming for Liam but he didn't hear me.

'Bastard!' I slapped him across the face and he immediately let me go. I rubbed my arm and saw him staring me with so much rage.

'Bad move, b***h' he grabbed my arm again and pulled me to him 'I'm going to f**k your cunt till it bleeds, you hear me?' he said on my face.

Before he could pull me, my knee came up, hitting his precious little thing.

He released me to clutch his tiny and I found the courage to punch him in the face, hard.

'Bloody bastard!' I screamed loudly and kicked his side, making him fall on the others which caught everyone's attention.

The music is still going on but everyone seem to stop dancing and watched us.

'I'm going to stuff your head into a pot and make you dance ballet!' I was about to throw another punch but I was lifted up by my waist.

'Leia, Leia' I heard Liam.

'Let me go! I'm gonna kill the bastard! Let. Me. Go. Liam!' I screamed.

Will and Alan were threatening him while I was thrashing in Liam's arms. Li quietly came to my side and without Liam noticing, gave me a beer bottle.

I quickly threw it. I swear my aim was correct because it went right where the target was standing but the only problem was, the target was pushed aside and a huge buffy man took his place. The bottle broke on his chest and suddenly the music stopped.

'Oh oh' I heard the panic voice of Li.

'What have you done, Leia?' Liam whisper yelled in my ear.

Everyone were silent and the Buffy man wearing all black was staring at me I think. I couldn't tell because he was wearing black glasses.

'Who wears glasses at night?' I found myself saying.

I don't know what happened next. It all happened in a such a hurry. The buffy man and his buffy friends lifted us as if we weigh nothing and threw us out of the club. I lost my balance and my butt kissed the hard ground.

'i***t!' I got up quickly and banged on the door 'You buffy glass wearing gorilla, come out and fight!' I screamed and kept banging at the door.

'Leia I thought you were fighting with him inside' I heard Alan. I turned around and saw the ugly man trashing in Alan's and Will's arms.

'Oh, yes. I totally forgot' I made my way towards him but there was some noise. I turned to see Liam busy peeing in the garbage with his back facing us.

'Arg, can you not pee without making such noise?' I asked.

He turned his head back 'Sorry, too much plastic in here' he said and went on.

'Arg!' I turned towards the man who was still trying to get away from my friend's clutches.

'Use this, Leia' Li who's thoroughly enjoying this, gave me a huge plate like tin.

I took it from from him and aimed it to the man's head before throwing it. And this time my aim was wrong. It hit Alan. He screamed pain and let of the man, making him a lot easier to get out of Will's hands. He made a run and I started chasing him.

My legs didn't take me far and I fell down.

'Wait! You i***t come back!' I screamed.

I saw something hitting his head. It happened again, and again.

I turned back to see my friend's throwing small stones on him till he got out of the gate, out of our site.

'I could've handled it!' I screamed at them.

'Yeah, sure, bunny' said Liam and made his way to me. He and Li gave me their hands and I cleverly clutched on Li's hand and got up.

'Don't touch me. You haven't washed your hand with sanitary' I said to Liam.

'I think the word is sanitizer' Li said.

'Yeah, yeah. I know. Same thing' I said mock glaring at Liam.

'Never ever in the history of clubbing, I was thrown out by the guards!' Alan said stretching arms wide open. We turned to him.

'Ever' said Will, copying his actions, spreading his hands wide and looking at the sky.

'Ever' said Alan.

'Ever' both the idiots said in unison.

'Come on guys, we need to go' Liam said and made his way to his car.

Alan and Will were busy with their ever while Li led me to the car.

When we got in, I quickly wrapped my arms around Liam's neck and snuggled closer before closing me eyes.

'Tired?' He asked pushing a strand of hair from the side of my face.

'Did you wash your hands?' My voice was soft and eyes were remained shut. My energy is drained completely. I heard Liam chuckled above me.

'Yeah, I did. Will had a sanitary' he said.

'Sanitizer' I mumbled before drifting off to deep slumber.

When I woke up, my head felt like it was banged at least ten times on a wall. I hurt too much and with the bright sunlight blinding my eyes from the window weren't helping. After a quiet few minutes, I opened my eyes to see I was totally in a different room.

Last night's events were invading my mind and I quickly got up to leave the room. In the pretty big hall I found Liam lying flat on his stomach with his legs on Will's stomach and Alan sleeping with his head on Liam's butt. Li is no where to be found.

I opened the curtains of the hall, letting the sunlight come in.

Within seconds, I saw Alan groaning and sinking his face deep into Liam's butt.

Men are horrible.

'Rise and shine. Rise and shine' I chipped happily and made my way to the kitchen.

I heard them rumble and groan behind. I made myself busy searching for milk.

Just then the door opened and I turned around to see Li in his shorts and hoodie, milk can and newspaper in his hand.

'Hey guys, hey Leia' he greeted.

'Just what I was searching' I mumbled took the milk can from him.

'Get up idiots!' He shot at his friends. I heard all them say that's it's Sunday.

'I'm never drinking again, ever' I heard Alan say.

'Me too, ever' said Will.

'My head's spinning' Liam said.

I saw them getting up and walking like zombies to their respective rooms.

'Need some help?' Asked Li.

'No, it's fine' I smiled back.

'I'll prepare pancakes while you do coffee, kay?' He said and I nodded.

'Li?' I called.

'Yes?'

'You tucked me in, is it?' I asked.

'No, it was Liam. Mind you, I really thought he's going to drop you. He just didn't let me help though I was sober. He tucked you in his bed and slept here' he said.

'Why didn't you drink anyways?' I asked.

'Well, we take turns. Don't wanna drink and drive but I did have a glass or two' he said and went on with his work.

'By the way' he turned to me with a smirk 'Nice show you put up last night, made us all been thrown out'

I chuckled awkwardly.

'I'm sorry, I don't really remember everything. It's just snippets of scenes...I-I swear it wasn't me' I tried defending myself.

That wasn't me at all

I heard Li chuckle 'It's alright, alcohol does bring out the other side of you. You were a badass. It was cool'

'I blame the alcohol' I murmured, ignoring whatever he said.

'Me too'

After a hot coffee and breakfast with a hearty chat, Liam dropped me off to my place.

I was at home till evening and then got ready and walked to the cafe.