Saving His Mate

Chapter 2

We got to the apartment around 9:30pm. It's not one of those big fancy apartments with a lovely view of the ocean and elegant furniture, quite the opposite actually. However, any place without my so called family to break me down is home to me. It isn't located in the safest parts of town either but it's the cheapest option that was decent enough with a lounge, bathroom, kitchen and 2 bedrooms. We didn't bother to unpack as we'd have plenty of time to do that tomorrow and we just focused on getting out the clothes we're going to wear tonight. Layla went with a black leather skirt, a white crop top, black heels and accessories to match. She was super confident, thin and like a model at 5'7 with long blonde hair and big green eyes and a small round nose. she could of easily fit in with the popular girls back in high school, but she chose to remain my bestfriend since playing in the sand box together in preschool. I on the other hand, am not so confident, or thin , or tall, nor do I have pretty party clothes. All I have are my sisters hand-me downs and though they are kinda pretty since my sister's owned them first, they only give me the clothes once they are really worn out, to the point where they shouldn't be worn again. However it's better than nothing. I was about to go for an old black an yellow short puffy dress before I heard Layla gasp. "Please tell me you aren't wearing that horrific thing", says Layla whilst making the face you make when a bug land's on you. "This is the nicest thing I own Lay", I say with a sigh. "Well then you're gonna wear something of mine because there is no way in hell we're going to the club for the first time with you looking like this is 2013" she says matter of fact. Sighing is defeat "Fine", I say, " but I don't want anything too... over the top. I also just want to blend in with the crowd"

"As you wish birthday girl", she smirks.

after some time of Layla working her magic on me with her make up and then helping me get into her outfit of choice for me, I turned to the mirror and felt my jaw, literally drop. I almost didn't recognize myself. Still the same long dark wavy hair, same small blue eyes although it's standing out abit more because of the subtle eyeshadow and eyeliner Layla did for me, same small nose with abit of highlight on it, same full lips but with some nude lip liner and lip glass that gives me a nice pouty look. The outfit on the other hand. She put me in a black body fit dress that stops just below my butt. It has a sweet heart shape on my boobs and with the push up bra Layla gave me I'm showing alot of cleavage. it's also opened at the back but has two traps coming out for either side of the front that goes up to wrap around my neck and button up at the back like a choker. The dress must of looked pretty on her because of her figure but I'm not as thin as her, hence my boobs are too much out there and my butt and thighs are also muchbwider which makes the dress look shorter on me even though she's taller than me since i'm only 5'4 but of course Layla doesn't notice. "Oh and you have to use these shoes", she says excitedly, as she hands me a pair of black heels with long sparkly straps that wraps around your leg. Okay so i had to admit the shoes are cute and I just had to wear them. I felt they made the dress look even shorter but I tried not to dwell on it. I never got to just go out and have fun before. So now I'm just gonna make the most of it and enjoy my birthday for the first time in years. We grabbed our purses and headed straight to "The Volt", which is the hottest new club, atleast that's what I heard everyone else say at school. Layla and I were over excited, that is, until we got stopped at the door by the bouncer. "ID's???" he says with a straight face. "Oh ofcourse Handsome", says Layla in her seductive voice obviously tryna sweet talk the huge scary man as we hand him our ID's. "Underage" he says in an obvious tone after looking at mine as he hands us our id and looks over us to the next people in line.

"Excuse me, her 18th birthday is tomorrow, which is basically in the next hour, She's basically already 18", yells Layla", exasperated.

"Look Mister ... , she starts but gets cut of. "They're with me" comes a voice from the opposite side. I look pass the bouncer to see a tall, like 6'2, muscular but not to bulky guy coming towards us with a friendly smile, dark blonde hair and pretty green eyes. The bouncer, who looked abit shook from this strangers presences, was still about to question him but stopped in his tracks when the man gave him a deadly look and put his hand up to silence him. The once huge scary looking bouncer just put his head down like a scared puppy and moved aside for us to enter. "Well you better go in unless you want to spend your 18th birthday on this side walk" says the stranger with a smirk. After Layla and I exchanged looks, without waiting for him to change his mind, we dashed inside whilst mumbling our thanks. "Okay is it just me or was that guy reeeeeally hot" she says whilst fanning herself like she's feeling hot. "We're not hooking up with guys tonight remember, this is a girls night only" I reminded her. "To be fair, i didn't expect us to run into anyone looking like that", she complained while I ignored her as we walked in. Inside the club was insane and the energy was something else. We head straight to the bar and start ordering Tequila shots. I take in the new environment while we wait for the shots. Some people are sitting in the places provided, some are making out and getting hot and heavy with no care in the world about being in pulic, and most of them are on the dance floor where we will be in the next few minutes. After downing 2 shots each with me trying to take it like a pro and act like its not my first time drinking, we head to the dance floor. "Isn't this amazing", screams Layla trying to be heard over the music, "I really hope I could make atleast this birthday special for you", she says in my ear before she hugs me tight and I hear her mumbling something about how It's almost time. It's literally 2 minutes before my birthday and we're like 7 shots and 2 ciders in when I see the stranger from earlier walking up the stairs to what I assume is the VIP area. My new brave state thinks it will be a good idea to go thank the handsome stranger for helping us get in. I watch him go up stairs and turn left while I wait to see which booth he stops at so I know where to go once I'm up there. I watch him sit down by some people at the biggest booth up there, furthest from the rest where there's someone literally at the corner of the room waiting to take an order or assistant in anyway, they must really be important people around here, maybe they know the owner. I start to take a quick scan of the other people I bearly noticed before in the room while I'm about to go up. I see a dark-haired guy with his back towards me calling the guy from the corner to take his order while he had his arm wrapped around a redhead whom I just knew was pretty, I mean, all redheads are pretty. Across them is a redheaded guy with light blue eyes, a handsome redheaded guy, obviously, redhead wins again, being entertained by one of two of the bleached blonde haired girls I noticed there too, she was basically trying to throwing herself at him. He looked like he was into it too, letting her sit on his lap and putting his hand on her thigh. However his face looked almosy anxious for a second but then we went straight back to looking at her, almost like he was forcing himself to focus on her. I look pass whatever was going on there as I'm about to take a step towards the stairs my eyes lock with the deepest blue I have ever seen staring back at me and I find myself rooted to the spot, almost forgetting to breathe.