Never an Ever After

Prom Night (Part Three)

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YOUR CALL-SECONDHAND SERENADE

CHAPTER FOURTY-NINE

RONAN

It only takes a second in order for her to vanished within my eyes can’t reach.

Maybe a second or two, I just blink and she’s not there anymore.

She pops like a bubble. Like a cold wind in the night. A snowflake every winter. A rainbow after every rain.

I searched frantically in the crowd to find her, to no avail.

Thunder starts inside me. A beast ready to roar every second or minutes passed without her in my sight.

“Where the f**k is, she?!” I asked Cloud, and he too is oblivious because he got distracted by Demi.

He shakes his head "James seems to have heard that we already know his plan, he took his plan earlier than his original plan."

“Fuck.” I fished my phone out of my pocket and dialed Angus and Mario’s number.

“Can you explain to me what’s going on?” Demi asked us worriedly. I know that Cloud talk to her about James not being pure towards his intentions on Ellora. But we still didn’t disclose why.

“Later, Baby.” Cloud soothe her. “We’ll f*****g find her.”

Mario answered in the first ring “She’s missing.”

“I’m following them, don’t worry.” He said.

I sighed in relief, thank god. “Don’t let them out of your sight.”

“On it.”

“Where are they? I'll be right next before he touches even a strand of Ellora's hair."

I saw Demi smiled at me. I know he notices that I like Ellora, by the way she’s texting her about me. and what she witnessed right now just confirmed her suspicion, and I don’t care if anyone knows about how I feel about her.

"They're going to their family's Guest house in the Hamptons." Mario answered.

“Fuck.” I spit. “I am on my way.”

I hung up the phone “I’m going, Dei can I asked for a favor?”

She nods “Anything. But please make her safe.”

I nods “Call her Dad and told him that you’re going to Hamptons with Ellora for the night out your Parents set for the two of you.”

She nods “I’ll try.”

“I’m going, make her safe too, Cloud.”

Cloud nods and I left the Prom ready to get my girl back.

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ELLORA

You know the feeling that your mind is awake but you still can't open your eyes. I don’t know if it was because of the alcohol I drank or the reality that James was involved in my sudden loss of consciousness. The last time I remembered before I slip on my consciousness is that I told him that there’s something wrong with me. And I saw him behind smiled behind his black mask. A very different smile from what I used to.

I slowly opened my eyes by the darkness greets me.

My body is stiff and cold but from what I feel I am lying on a soft bed. Too soft.

I tried to touch myself but I can’t and I looked up to see where my hands are is restrain. I am handcuffed in the bed post, and I start panicking soon after.

Where am I? what is this? What is happening?

My visions still as blur as earlier but I know it can hold my consciousness this time. I tired releasing myself from the handcuffed in both my hands to no avail. I tried to move my feet too and feel that it is restrained too. I start to cry as fear engulfed me in the darkness.

I heard a heavy breath inside the dark room with me and I gasped “James?”

I tried to lifted my face to figure out that my neck is restrained too, I sobs “James, Help me.”

The room suddenly lit in red led lights around us, James is sitting in the couch in front of the bed, fully naked. Holding his shaft up and down while looking at me.

I sobs, I know I am shaking, who is this man in front of me? I barely even know him anymore.

“You know what they say about do not trust strangers.” He growls.

I sob, because I know he’s not a stranger to me anymore. He is the love of my life. I have love him for a decade.

I looked down on me to see that I am fully naked too, and my legs are wide open for him to see everything I have.

I cried snakingly “Please. Help me.” that’s all I can say.

"You see." He stood up and positioned himself at the bottom of the bed in front of me "How long have I waited for this chance, Ellora." He smirks and his smiles become even more frightening at the red lights illuminating the room.

“James, Please. Don’t do this. I’m scared.”

He laughed manically “That’s what I want, You see. I want you scared. Even for the rest of your life. You and your f*****g Father.”

I stopped “Why are you doing this? What did I do to you?”

He tilt his head as I feel his gazed all over my body "You, it's not your fault .." He touched my feet and I suddenly shivered in his touch that had just been carrying and giving magic all over me just earlier. "But your Father, a lot."

“What?”

"My Mother left us since she became a devotee of the church led by your father. He was the last my Mother talked to before she disappeared completely. I don't know what he said or did he help my mother hide anywhere. But there is one thing I know. If your father, who loves to brag, hadn't intervened, my Mother would still be here. " He said, his voice is full of anger and hatred.

“I—I don’t know about that. I don’t know about your Mother.” I cried.

“Off course, you don’t.” he scoffed "If your mother also disappeared, you don't know how it happened. It's impossible for you to know how my mother disappeared, Right?"

“What re you pointing at? That my Father did something to those missing?”

I nod and click his tongue. “Hate to break that to you, Angel. But it is.”

He hold my legs and his hands starts rubbing my legs all the way up, I just closed my eyes.

“My Father can’t do such things.”

“He can.” He tilt his head “..and he will again. To you, if he ever found out that I just laid and f**k your brains out.”

“What?”

“that’s the f*****g plan, Lori. f**k you and throw your bloodied underwear in the face of your f*****g Father.” He chuckled “Isn’t that a great revenge? An eye for an eye?”

“I don’t know you anymore.” I spit.

I scoffed “You really didn’t know after all, what you see is just a f*****g façade to get you here in this situation you are in now.” He laughed “It’s your f*****g heart that gets you here. You love a monster like me hiding inside your closet every night, waiting to pounced. It is your naïve self that make things easier.”

I closed my eyes because what he said is true. I don’t have anyone to blame because I get myself here just because I love him and trusted him.

Demi and Ronan kept on stopping me to get near him, but I didn’t listen to anyone. All I heard is my foolish heart beating for this actor in front of me.

To say that I scared is the least of it. I am frightened and heartbroken because I don’t know anything else to do rather than love this man all my life, and here he is. Unfolding his layers and layers of snake skin in front of my eyes and my broken heart.

“You know, Rob has a great plan for you too.”

I snapped my head, so Rob is in this too?

“He’s going to ship you out in Cuba and made you a very top-grade s*x worker in there.” He clicks his tongue and smiled “You will make a lot money, you’ll get us rich, Ellora.”

“He will find you.” I told him as I looked at him full of disgust.

“Come again?”

“He will find you.” My voice shakes.

He laughed “Your Father can’t find me. we are a lot powerful than him.”

“I didn’t say it’s my Father.”

“What?”

“Ronan will find you.” I don’t why I said his name. but in times I am in danger, Ronan is everywhere, he is always there. I feared him just like how much I feared James. But the fact that Ronan warns me about him tells me that he didn’t want this kind of thing to me.

He chuckles “Off course, that man is whipped towards you.”

What is he saying?

“You f*****g have that man in the balls for ten years. But I guess, it’s win-win for and for me only. I hurt you, I hurt the reverend and the asshole. It’s a win.”

He positioned himself on top of me and began kissing me, biting and nipping all over my body as I plead in cries. Why is this happening to me? oh right, it is because of my stubbornness and pride.

I closed my eyes as I feel his hands roaming all over my body. And I screamed and closed my eyes shut. Hoping someone may heard me. The weight of James has gone on top of me and I snapped my eyes as the commotion took place inside the dark room.

It’s Ronan.

He’s fighting off James just like what the two of them did at the Saint Mary’s. But this time I know one of them will get killed.

James lay down on the floor of the room and Ronan immediately pulled a gun out of his pocket, I couldn't do anything or say anything because I knew it would end this way. Or am I too scared to speak.

“No, asshole. You are not the monster that’s been hiding inside her closet.” Ronan looked at me and I shake. “It is me.” he pulled the trigger and I screamed along with the blood oozing out from James’ back.

I am still shaking and all I can see is the blood from James flowing, Ronan walks towards me as he sooth me and I don’t want him touching me with blood on his hands.

“Calmed down.” He growls and I looked at him.

“You—” I swallowed hard as my lips trembling “You killed him.”

He opened the lights in the room and I have to close my eyes in order not to see James lifeless body.

I looked at Ronan to find him looking at my restrained hands, feet and neck. He clenched his fist and I know he’s mad at the situation I am in.

“I f*****g told you not to go anywhere with him!” he tries to free me on the handcuffs with the keys he get at James’ table.

He didn’t even look at me, I cried. Because I just listened to him, I won’t be here and he didn’t have to kill his own best friend.

I sobs “Sorry, I am sorry.”

He hugs me tightly and put the blanket all over my body “Sshh. I am here.”

I nod “I prayed that you come, I prayed that you will save me. I am scared.” I told him in all honesty. Truth be told. No one can fight off James better than Ronan. That is why he’s the one who comes first in my mind as soon as I know I am in danger.

His hugs tightened as I heard him breathing deeply “I will. Always.”

I nods, this time I trust that he will always save me. no matter what happened. No matter what he feels about me.

He cupped my face and kissed my forehead, and surprisingly I calmed down.

Maybe I am used to Ronan’s presence near me.

Maybe it is better to be him, than James who shows me nothing even mercy.

He fished his phone out of the pocket “Ready the car and contact Cloud, tell him that he should Demi that Ellora’s safe.”

His eyes find mine as he hold my hands tightly. His calloused big hands is way bigger that my hands, and I feel safe.

He touched all the restrained part of me that leave bruises in that wake. I saw him flinch as he slowly holds my bruised neck. “I am late.” He said weakly.

I shakes my head and sobs as I bow my head and look at his hand, his once again bloodied hands all because of me once again.

“You came. You came.”

He hugs me again possessively and I didn’t do anything but watch the blood draining out from James body in front of me.

A decade of loving this person only to find out that he’s not what I think he is.

I just saw him the way my heart wants to see him, not the truth.

A decade of knowing someone and in just one snap, he’s nothing but a dead body. Waiting for the world to forget him.

It all take one shot for everything to changed.