Collateral Damage

Chapter 1

"Come on Clo we're gonna miss happy hour" my best friend Victoria whined for the fifth time
"I have nothing to wear V, and im tireddd" I reply in an annoyed voice
She rolls her eyes at me before making her way over to my wardrobe
"Im sure theres something in here" she drones obviously annoyed at me
"Here" she says as she pulls out a little black strapless dress
I walk over and take it from her rolling my eyes to show my annoyance.

"Wear it with your gold dior necklace and black heals" she continues to instruct as I begin to change into the short dress.
"Always the fashionista V" I laugh

Once dressed we stumbled our way outside in our tall heals to call an uber. But before we could make it one step out the door we hear
"Where are you two going" my eldest brother of two Theo demands, hands on hips
We both turn caught in our tracks. I must have forgotten to tell them I was going out. Both of my older brothers Theo and Lewis were overly protective since the accident.
"The Carter" I say, unsure why I felt the need to tell him a different club
"Mmhm, be home before 10" he says quickly. Usually he would put up a fight but judging by his eyes looking over Victoria, I can guess he wasn't paying much attention. This should annoy me but I cant deny her perfect looks. She was a leggy Italian with the best assists a girl can have, and right now that was proving to be to our advantage. I look over and shes blushing, ew as if my brother deserved her attention.
"Ok bye loser" I say as I turn dragging V out the door with me.

"I mean it home by 10 or im coming" He yells out the door at us

We just keep walking out to get the uber, like that was gonna happen.

After the long uber ride to the other side of the city, Victoria and I strutted our way into the high end club. I was the opposite of Victoria, honey blond hair and deep blue eyes. She was an extroverted designer fashion addict and I preferred sports and introverted activities. But we worked perfectly together, especially in the realm of catching attention. The bouncer let us through the line and into the club promptly, so we made our way over to get a drink at the bar before we dance later.

I ordered a long island and she ordered a tequila sunrise which the bar tender got onto making. I did a quick glace over the club, ok we have old, dirty and rich sitting with some under age girls, posh boy corner, nerds who look like they just left school, oh and thats rare, some attractive guys. I notified Victoria of my discovery so she discretely turned around to have a quick peak herself.

"Chloe, their looking at us" she whispered quickly snapping back
"What!" I hiss taking a sip of my drink
She huffed "Check for yourself" she replied quitely 

I turn around slowly holding my drink, sure enough three guys were looking straight at us from their booth. One looked innocent with Charlie brown eyes and soft face, the other was ice blond with pale eyes and a jagged scar running down the majority of his face. The final guy was mysterious, and my heart started to pound looking at him. He had dark features that contrasted his endearing green eyes, but something about him made my stomach turn and my common sense switch back on for me to turn around. We finished our drinks quickly hoping the buzz would help with a confidence boost.

I look back over at the table to see the men gone. With a sigh I turn back to Victoria, there goes our entertainment for tonight.
But suddenly I hear "Hey beautiful", I decide to play it cool. Slowly I looked up to meet the pale blue eyes of the guy with the rough scar.

"Hey yourself" I said in a seductive voice. God I loved playing with men's feelings
He smiled at this "Mind if we get you girls some drinks" he asked looking closely at me
"Another wont hurt" I reply to him, looking over to find the brown haired innocent looking boy talking to Victoria. However it did make my wonder where mr dark and mysterious went, probably talking up another girl.

"Drink of choice?" he asks me
"Vodka raspberries, both of us" I reply quickly meeting his eyes.

We chatted to the guys for a bit while the bar tender made our drinks. They didnt offer much information but then again nor did we. Just the basic questions about how long we'd been at the bar and if we were having a good night. When the drinks came, we all said cheers to a good night and started to drink. A few sips in the brown haired one asked us if we wanted a photo because we "looked so good". We agreed, at this point a bit tipsy from the drinks we had just consumed. We pushed our half-drunk drinks to the side and got together for a photo that the blond one moved out of sight for. 

Victoria and I having taken a million photos before, did our usual poses, cracking up at the sight of each other trying to look decent in front of the flash. After that we downed the rest of our drinks and pulled the guys over to the dance floor.

The song Raingurl started to play and we started to dance, Victoria and I laughed and laughed at the boys moves as they attempted to get closer and closer to us. I took a snapchat story of the 3 of them dancing in the strobe lights of the club. We did this for a while until Victorias boy tried to drag her away. She looked over at me giving me the "You gonna be ok look", I nodded and winked back giving her the "Get it" look. Turning my focus back to blondie I asked him if we can go get a drink, he nods and we make our way over. The line at the bar was kind of long but we decided to wait in it for the drinks just chatting and dancing to the music. I did a scan of the room looking for victoria but my eyes felt tired and the room started to look like a blur of lights. Looking back at the guy I grasp his arm for support, the music pounding in my ears.