Submissive • 5sos

Chapter 21

I scan the club looking for the boys. Straight in the centre is a dance floor, to the left is a seating area and the the right is a bar, I stumble towards the bar, thinking that's where they would go.

"You lost?" A drunk voice slurs behind me, I turn towards the voice and see a man I have never met in my life,

"No. I'm fine. Thanks." I smile curtly. He leans forward so he's whispering in my ear,

"I think your lost." He says, I can smell the alcohol emitting from him and it reminds me of my dad. I take a step back and he takes a step forward,

"N-no I'm fine." I repeat, I try to sound strong but instead I sound nervous.
I look around hoping to see one of the boys but I don't see any of them. I look desperately towards the dance floor, when I see the door swing open and Nick steps in. He sees me straight away, and I widen my eyes and point towards the man still talking to me. He walks over forcefully,

"What's going on here?" He says, and I feel myself relax, I may not know him very well but I know him better than this stranger,

"Nothing mate, she your bitch?" The man snorts, gesturing wildly. Nick looks down at me awkwardly,

"No. We're going now." He says, and we walk towards the back exit. At the moment I see Michael, he's watching me and Nick very intently, I turn to Nick,

"Can we have a drink first?" I quickly say, I am very thirsty.

"Sure, what do you want?" He asks, reaching into his wallet,

"Can I just have water?" I say quietly,

"What? You're not underage are you?" He mutters, running his hands through his hair,

"Only by two weeks." I say awkwardly, looking down at my hands, he visibly relaxes,

"I thought you looked young, who are you here with?" He continues,

"My brother and his friends." I blurt out, I couldn't tell him I was with 5 seconds of summer. I see Michael saying something to Ashton in the corner of the club, I realise his pointing in my direction.

"I just need to go to the toilet." I say, smiling and walking off towards were I think the toilets are. Instead, I walk straight into Ashton.

"Oh erm hi." I say, stepping back a bit,

"Michael said he saw you with someone." He says, looking a bit pissed off,

"Oh yeah he was just an old friend. I was looking for you guys and I just walked into him." I say quickly, I'm digging myself an even bigger hole. He doesn't look convinced but still sighs,

"We're sitting over here." Ashton says, leading me towards a seating area in the corner.
I look round and see Nick at the bar, talking to another boy that looks a little older. I decide I will sit with the boys for a bit, then say I need to go to the toilet, and text Nick saying I was sick and we'd meet soon.

"Where were you?" Luke says as soon as I sit down.

"She saw an old friend." Ashton says sarcastically, before I have a chance to reply.
He furrows his eyebrows and looks as though he's about to say something, but doesn't. I know what he's thinking though, 'she doesn't have any friends.'

After about 5 minutes I say I need to go to the toilet, Luke perks up and says he'll show me where they're. As much as I'd rather go on my own, I don't know where they are. We walk side by side towards the opposite side of the club, I awkwardly push through the dancing people, while everyone steps away from Luke so he doesn't have to push through.

"The lady's is the one on the left." Luke says, pointing towards two doors, I nod and walk into the left one. I walk quickly into a cubicle and grab my phone. I see Nick has already texted me 3 times-

'Are you going to be back soon? -N x'
'If you didn't want to meet up you could have just said -N'
'Maybe I'll see you later -N'
Oh no! I quickly text,

'I'm so sorry! I was sick in the toilet. Pls don't hate me ):' I quick send, then walk back out into the toilet area.

Another lady has walked in, she looks flustered, she sees me and freezes,
"You are the girl with 5 seconds of summer." She says, at first I think it's a question, but then I realise she was just stating the obvious,

"Yeah." I just say, and she looks even more scared,

"You need to get away from them. Do you want my phone? Do you have any family?" She quickly says, I freeze now,

"Why do I need to get away from them?" I question,

"Are you knew here? I thought your accent sounded different, you're from West aren't you. Well they're a gang." She says, widening her eyes,

"Yeah I know." I say, crossing my arms,

"They take loads of girls from bars and clubs and hurt them, you need to escape." She says, reaching in her back for her phone.

I've stayed in there apartment for 4 weeks now, and not once have I seen a girl, apart from me, go in or out.

"No it's fine." I say, smiling at her, she looks dumbfounded,

"What?" She says, holding her phone in her hand.

"It's fine, thanks." I repeat, walking out of the toilet.

Luke is now leaning against the wall next to the toilets, he's glaring into the crowd, when he sees me his face changes into a smile,

"Hey." He says,

"Hi." I reply.

We then walk back into the dancing mob so we can reach our table, I push through as much as I can but am starting to feel claustrophobic. I feel a hand on my waist, and am about to push it off, when I realise it's Luke. I allow him to lead me through the crowd, but when we get out, I step out of his grip.

The night carried on normally, I stuck to water, but the boys had lots of alcohol, and where pretty drunk. It was 2 am and I decided it was enough for them.

"Can we go?" I said to Luke, looking up through my eyelashes to help convince him, he hiccuped slightly,

"Yeah. Okay. Guys! We're going!" Luke shouts to the other boys, even though they're right next to him.
We walk to the limousine, well I walk, Michael runs, Calum has to lean on me because he hurt his ankle trying to dance and Luke and Ashton are stumbling after us, I help them all get into the limousine, then we return to the apartment.