MEANT TO BE

The Beginning

Amelia’s POV

Sprinting down the road, skipping happily, I was excited to see my parents. I would see them after a long time. Uncle Harry said they will be staying with us for a month before going back to their work. I have a whole month to spend with my parents. I had planned everything, everything that I wanted to do with them, I wanted to go to the amusement park with them, spend Christmas with them, eat Thanksgiving dinner with them, just the stuff a normal family does, I wanted to do all that stuff with my parents too, just like a normal family. 

Before I knew I was already standing right infront of the door and I fished out the keys from my school bag, unlocking it I went in. It was dark inside 'Why are the lights turned off' I thought to myself as I stood there for a while to adjust my eyes to the darkness. After a minute I walked forward only to trip and fall hard on the floor. "Oh Fuckin' Hell" I cursed out, I'm damn sure I tripped because of something that was on the way, I turned on the lights and turned to look what caused me to trip. I came across a sight which had me walking backwards in fear. I screamed in fear, tears blurring my vision, "NO NO NO NO… NO, this can't be....ho..w" I stuttered. I saw blood everywhere, two people lying on the floor lifeless, pale as paper, within the blood pool of their own blood had me frozen in fear, my heart clenched at the sight........

 I bolted straight up with a scream, breathing heavily, my temple was covered with sweat as I took in the surroundings, I was still on the bed, ‘Another nightmare' I sighed to myself. It was six in the evening, 'Damn a new record of sleeping for 15 hours'. Sleeping for that long was relaxing after working non-stop for 48 hours on the new project but it always ends with that nightmare. Considering a shower would be nice to calm myself, I went in the bathroom stripped myself out of the sweaty clothes and stepped in the warm shower which was calming my nerves. Sighing in relief I closed my eyes. After 10 minutes of scrubbing my body or so I got out of the bathroom wrapping a fluffy towel around me and on cue my phone rang.

It feels like a perfect night to dress up like hipsters

And make fun of our exes

Uh-uh, uh-uh

It feels like a perfect night for breakfast at midnight

To fall in love with strangers

Uh-uh, uh-uh

I recognized the ringtone of Bethany, one of my bestfriend. I answered the call, "YOU b***h" I winced at her tone, she was pissed at me.

"What did I do this time?" I asked her.

"Check your phone dumbass" she replied and I saw 57 missed calls from Bethany and over 100 texts from Isabella and Taliana. "Oh crap!" I cursed myself.

"Oh s**t, Sorry I was asleep but What came up so suddenly?" I asked her for which she replied.

"Girl it's been so long since I saw you..." I cut in rolling my eyes, "I didn't know six days are known as so long."

"Shut up and meet us at the club in about an hour." Before I could protest she hanged up. 'Damn this girl knows me too well' sighing I went in the walk in closet and pulled out a black sequin dress which ended just above my knees. "This will do" I muttered to myself.

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I pulled up infront of the club called "Bogie's" where my friends are supposed to meet me. However I was 20 minutes early, I parked my car and went inside, everything about this place screamed "POSH", sparkling neon lights with people dancing around swaying to the beat of music. I went over the bar and sat on the stool ordering a margarita and gulped it down. It was the weekend so me and my bff’s decided to have some fun and as stressful as my work was ongoing I had to blow off some steam.

I was an architect by profession and trust me it's a stressful job, meeting everyone's expectation is not a piece of cake afterall, though as stressful as it gets, it's worth the money I earn and people can be very ambitious of the interior designs of their place, for some it was just to show off the money they had, while for others it's something they want their home to look like, their very own dream like home. I always had a knack of being creative, decorative, innovative(things my nana used to tell me everytime, when I was young) moreover I always wanted to establish something of my very own for other people to like it and live with it, that turned out well with me being an architect. I loved my job but it sure was hectic.

I was brought back in reality when I heard my bff scream over the music "AMYYYYYYYYY! There you are, you are early as always." sarcasm dripping from the sentence. I rolled my eyes at her.

"I will take that as a compliment Bethany." Bethany had hazel eyes, with platinum blonde hairs, all curves at right place with perfectly tanned skin which makes guys fall at her feet. Some might say she is arrogant well I myself thought that of her when I first met her in high school but she is an actual sweetheart. Kind and loving, always there for me. She was wearing a silver sequin dress just like mine.

"Hey Amy, long time!" this was Isabella, I smiled at her.

"Work could be stressful at times, How you doing though? it's been over a month since I last met you." I asked her, Isabella had honey brown eyes, your regular blonde just not dumb, she is so smart but she is a super sensitive person, always had the unwanted need to please people. She was wearing a cute baby blue dress.

"Same s**t with Ryan ongoing, work is fine though." Isabella responded.

"You are still dating that wank?" Taliana cut in, Taliana had green eyes, red hairs the exact hair color that girls would kill to have, well her hairs were natural not dyed like some typical b***h, she is sexy as hell might I add, she is outrageous though I love her for that, she never thinks twice before speaking, she is the most honest person I've ever met. She was wearing a navy blue bodycon dress. We four are bestfriends since high school and I'm blessed to have them in my life.

"I cannot let go of him, Anna." she replied sadly, Anna was short for Taliana.

"I don't know what to do, but I can't bring myself to leave him, it hurts too much to even think about it." Yes my bestfriend was blindly in love with Ryan, a poor excuse of a man, a complete dickhead might I say!

"That son of a b***h treats you like trash Bella! How could you still be with him, he f*****g slapped you infront of everyone at Hannah's party. I swear I would've punched him in the face if it weren't for you." Bethany fumed. 

"I agree with Beth in this Bella. We care for you, you are like a sister to us and it hurts seeing you like this." I say getting a little emotional and mad at Ryan remembering that night when he crossed his limit.

"Believe me Bella. You are just infatuated with him. You gotta call it off because we can't see you like this. Where did the enthusiastic and happy Bella go? He isn't making you happy Bella, he is doing the opposite. He is no good for you." Anna encouraged her. 

Seeing her contemplating these things in her mind, I encouraged her "He is a hopeless romantic, a complete asshole who does not know what he has is as precious as a diamond. You are better without him. You don't need him Bella because you are not who I used to know before he happened to you! He doesn't and will never deserve you honey. You can do so much better without him. You deserve better, a lot better than that asshole."

"I think you guys are right. I should break up with him." she said a smile playing on her lips, she finally took our advice.

"So lets celebrate!!" Bethany screamed in joy.

We all took the Tequila shots "CHEERS TO BELLA'S NEW START WITHOUT A POOR EXCUSE OF A MAN" I yelled as we all cheered together.

We were catching up with each other when my gaze went past Bella on the dance floor, it's been a while since I danced. 

"Let's go dance girls" I suggested and walked past Bella towards the dance floor, my bff's joined me as I started to sway my hips and dance on the beats, I was enjoying myself after a long time, Suddenly I felt a cold metal pressed at the right side of my head and strong arms wrapped around my neck holding me on the place and I froze with everyone's eyes on me.

"Stay still, Young Lady!" came a stern voice from behind me, I tried to take in my surroundings, my friends froze.

"Come out Mark, or I'll blow this little girl's brain out." everyone stood still, I looked at my friends who had worry written all over their faces except Anna, she looked furious, she was ready to kick this guy’s ass off me but Beth had held her on place which seemed to be the right thing to do at the moment.

A man walked out of the corner with a pistol in his hand.

"Don't harm that innocent girl." said the man coming infront of me, who I suppose is Mark,

"I won't, if you get all your stupidass cops outta here.", so he is an undercover agent, I thought to myself, Mark looked at me as if encouraging me to hold on, I offered him a small smile in reassurance, he was taken aback with my response but recovered quickly. What can I say I’ve encountered this type of situations more than once.

"I'll order everyone to go out, don't harm her, let go of her."

"Bullshit! Order them right now, I will leave her once I see all of them go out with my own eyes." they started to negotiate, I rolled my eyes at them 'These Men’s' I thought to myself. 

I looked around figuring out this man was alone and got the idea that he is a criminal and is trying to escape Mark, Mark had more men, I had to do something, I was no damsel in distress, my parents always taught me to be independent, I have never dependent on anyone except my parents and that had paid me enough to understand what they used to say was for my own good, I closed my eyes trying to shake off the rush of emotions, taking a deep breath, '1..2..3..4, 5' I started counting trying to calm down my scattered emotions, after calculating the pros and cons, I came to conclusion.

I looked at Bethany, she had a worried look on her face, firmly holding a fuming Anna, she held my eyes for a moment and I gave her a signal, and her eyes widened in realization of what I was going to do next, I winked at her and on cue I stomped my foot on the stranger's foot, he yelped then I elbowed on his ribs and yanked away his pistol and lastly kicked him where the sun doesn't shine, he fell on the floor gasping in pain and on cue the cops came running towards him, arrested him and took him away, I didn't get to see his face which got me curious, I sighed as my friends came running at me.

"OH MY GOD! Are you alright?" Beth asked worriedly,

"I'm alright b***h, look at me, I'm unharmed." I smiled at them as they all hugged me,

"I was so scared." Bella murmured,

"She is a badass b***h, look she kicked the hell outta that punk.” Anna said grinning, she continued, "I would have punched the s**t outta him aswell if Beth here didn't hold me in place." Anna complained, on cue a voice came.

"You are a tough lady." I looked at where the voice came from, Mark came towards me and extended his hand,

"Hi, I am officer Mark Collins, I am glad you are unharmed and thank you for the help, he would have had his way out, if you didn't beat him up." he held out his hand, I smiled at him and shook his hands.

"I'm Amelia Brewer, It's alright officer, I'm glad I could help but Who was that guy? If you don't mind me asking." I asked him, curiosity getting the best of me.

"That guy is the brother of The Underworld King, The mafia king's weakness in flesh and blood, They are very dangerous people so this mission meant a lot for me and I finally got him arrested all thanks to you." Mark grinned at me.

"No problem officer." I grinned back at him, taking in his features.

Mark had green eyes, dark brown hairs, well he was quite good looking and he was eyeing Bethany, I looked over at Beth,

"These are my best friends, This is Bethany." I said while pointing her out, she shook hands with him, while giving him a sly smile and he seemed to have same intentions as her, I smiled at them and introduced the other two.

"This is Taliana", Anna gave him a genuine smile and shook hands with him, “Nice to meet you Officer.” Anna said.

"And this is Isabella", Bella nodded at him shaking his hands with a small smile.

"Aren't you Ryan’s girlfriend?" Mark asked her, which had all of us surprised.

"Soon going to be his ex-girlfriend, but how do you know him?" she asked surprised, Mark stared at her for a moment before answering,

"He has a history in messing around, I know him since he was in high school, always causing trouble and getting into fights." Mark explained as Bella seemed quite shocked with that information, so were we all, I used to always get suspicious about him and my sixth sense never fails me, Mark read her expression.

"He didn't tell you, did he?"

"No he didn't! That asshole is gonna get it now, so has he been in prison before?" Bella asked him.

"A couple of times" Mark answered.

"But how did you know Isabella is Ryan's girlfriend?", Anna cut in asking, suspicious of everyone as always. I sighed.

"I saw Isabella's picture on his file and that's how I recognized her being Ryan's girlfriend." Mark replied.

"Oh god, He is such a prick." Anna groaned, Beth and I rolled our eyes.

"As expected" Beth and I stated at the same time.

"Let's leave now girls, it's getting late and I've a meeting tomorrow morning to attend." Beth stated groaning.

"Yeah, let's call it a night", I said. We all exchanged goodbyes and called it a night, Anna and Bella left together, Mark offered Bethany to drop her off because his destination was near her place, I smirked at her knowingly and waved her goodbye, she smirked and waved back before getting into his car, I sighed and hopped in my car and stepped on the gas, it's been a tiring evening and on cue it started to rain, 'Oh God! Why today?!' I thought to myself as it started to rain heavily. I groaned annoyed.

Suddenly a figure came in front of my car and I gasped out loud "SON OF A b***h!" I cursed as I stepped on brake, I hurriedly got out, there was a man lying a feet away from my car, I looked around and saw there was no other soul around.

"Oh my god! Are you alright?" I turned him and saw a knife stabbed in his stomach, my eyes widened, blood oozing out of the wound making me gasp in shock. He seemed to be unconscious.

"Son of a b***h! Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god! Please open your eyes, Can you hear me mister?", I panicked, the man slowly opened his eyes and I came across the most striking grey eyes I've ever seen, almost silver like eyes with sharp jaw, he had a stud earring on his left ear, 'Handsome as hell' I thought to myself, he tried to speak as his eyes started to drop and I started to panic, “Please try to stay awake” I whispered softly. 'Now is not the time to drool Amy' my sub conscious scolded me, I carefully gripped on the knife and pulled it out of the wound which had more blood pouring out, I took my scarf from my neck and tied it around his stomach tightly, trying to stop the blood.

"Don't close your eyes, try to stay awake sir." I pulled myself together and lifted him, I tried to hold him, 'This man is so fuckin' heavy!' and it started raining more heavily as if a storm was on it's way.

I got him inside the passenger seat next to me and put on his seat belt carefully, I hopped in the driver seat and stepped on the gas.

"Hold on Mister, I'll get you to the hospital." I said encouraging him to hold on.

"No, not the hospital, take me somewhere else" he mumbled in pain, I stared at him and gaped,

"Are you out of your mind? You have already lost so much blood!" I exclaimed.

"Take me anywhere but not to the hospital, I will owe you my life, he mumbled tiredly.

"OH FOR f**k'S SAKE!", I cursed out loud, I took out my phone and dialed a number which was imprinted in my brain. 

"Be there in 10, I've a patient with me." I hanged up with that, She knew where to be, the exact place which had me nightmares almost every night, which had haunted me till now and then I took the right turn, the exact turn which I thought I would never take.