KINGDOM: Love, Money, Power.

4

ESTHER POV:

Dria is on the bathroom floor. Laying down, laughing. Or screaming I can't tell. I bend down beside her and push aside her thick glitter-filled hair. She looks so fragile.

"Dria." I am trying to prop her up but she's so floppy. What did she take something osr-

"There you are, Babey what heppened?"

The door flings open and a voice with a heavy accent pushes past me. His hands are all over her body.

"Dree Whet heppened? Did you taeke enything?"

Dria did try to keep me updated on her love life but it was always changing and shes been busy lately. Before today we last spoke almost a month ago. Her eyes are rolling into the back of her head. I step back and watch him searching frantically for something. Or nothing. Drias wearing a one piece skin-tight dress, no pockets, no jacket. What is he looking for?

"its okay its all gonna be jusht fine schweetheart let me take you " He grunts as he throws her over his shoulder and she laughs, almost heaving. As he turns round to leave I see how sweaty he is. His eyes are red and and so is the palm he uses to grab the door handle. I move quickly, blocking his entrance back in.

"Do you know what happened to her"

"Exchuse me and my girl give her space-"

"what happened."

He looks at me like he's surprised that I exist. As if he didn't just talk to me. His eyes are searching mine so I repeat myself"

"I said what happened"

"I saw her run in and she fell" a random voice quipped in from the corridor.

"thanks." I turned my head back to this man, tall well built and very sweaty.

"We were by the bar and her favourite schong came on and sche was schreaming then sche schlipped and fell I think sche hurt herself so sche ran to the toilet to check sche must have passched out in the corridor before sche could get there and now sche cant walk I don't know"

"you're a Nomi Fan?"

"I guesch kinda I mean who isn't?"

"what song was it" Dria was still laughing.

"Uhm I mean something by Nomi right? They're all the same."

Her favourite song? They were playing Nomi all night. It wasn't an accent, he was drunk. I lunged myself at Dria and grabbed her off him. He fell over and I pulled her to her feet slinging her arm over my shoulder. I tried my best to run with her hobbling on me but when I got back into the main hall the crowd was heaving. I don't know what happened, the music was off and people were chaotically pushing onto the stage. The place was dark. I looked back, the crowd threw the strange guy off our trail, Dria seemed to be gaining consciousness; I could feel less of her weight on me by the time we got out. I looked into the night sky. I couldn't see any stars, even the moon was covered.

Dria is on the bathroom floor. Laying down, laughing. Or screaming I can't tell. I bend down beside her and push aside her thick glitter-filled hair. She looks so fragile.

"Dria." I am trying to prop her up but she's so floppy. What did she take something osr-

"There you are, Babey what heppened?"

The door flings open and a voice with a heavy accent pushes past me. His hands are all over her body.

"Dree Whet heppened? Did you taeke enything?"

Dria did try to keep me updated on her love life but it was always changing and shes been busy lately. Before today we last spoke almost a month ago. Her eyes are rolling into the back of her head. I step back and watch him searching frantically for something. Or nothing. Drias wearing a one piece skin-tight dress, no pockets, no jacket. What is he looking for?

"its okay its all gonna be jusht fine schweetheart let me take you " He grunts as he throws her over his shoulder and she laughs, almost heaving. As he turns round to leave I see how sweaty he is. His eyes are red and and so is the palm he uses to grab the door handle. I move quickly, blocking his entrance back in.

"Do you know what happened to her"

"Exchuse me and my girl give her space-"

"what happened."

He looks at me like he's surprised that I exist. As if he didn't just talk to me. His eyes are searching mine so I repeat myself"

"I said what happened"

"I saw her run in and she fell" a random voice quipped in from the corridor.

"thanks." I turned my head back to this man, tall well built and very sweaty.

"We were by the bar and her favourite schong came on and sche was schreaming then sche schlipped and fell I think sche hurt herself so sche ran to the toilet to check sche must have passched out in the corridor before sche could get there and now sche cant walk I don't know"

"you're a Nomi Fan?"

"I guesch kinda I mean who isn't?"

"what song was it" Dria was still laughing.

"Uhm I mean something by Nomi right? They're all the same."

Her favourite song? They were playing Nomi all night. It wasn't an accent, he was drunk. I lunged myself at Dria and grabbed her off him. He fell over and I pulled her to her feet slinging her arm over my shoulder. I tried my best to run with her hobbling on me but when I got back into the main hall the crowd was heaving. I don't know what happened, the music was off and people were chaotically pushing onto the stage. The place was dark. I looked back, the crowd threw the strange guy off our trail, Dria seemed to be gaining consciousness; I could feel less of her weight on me by the time we got out. I looked into the night sky. I couldn't see any stars, even the moon was covered.