Sin City

Ten: Desire

[smut]

idk how to write smut

Vijaya

When the lights went off and the music had an abrupt end, I held my breath. It was eerily quiet, so quiet I could hear my heart thrumming near my throat. I was scared to shits. Did someone in the mafia know about us? Did we get caught already?

I kept quiet and listened to Frog's uneven breathing. I held my hands out in front of me as I tried to feel where she was. Slowly, my hand brushed against something warm- and moving?

Frog's loud, scared scream filled my ears, only seconds before a hard punch landed on my jaw, pushing me back onto my side of the couch. I yelped, seeing my life flash before my eyes.

"Ouch! What the hell, Frog?" My hand immediately flew up to massage my jaw. Dammit, Frog could punch hard.

I could hear Terry's sad attempt at muffling his laughter. I glared at where I thought he was through the darkness. Hearing Frog's shaky exhale, I readjusted my scowl so it was directed to where I thought she was.

I cringed, rubbing my jaw. There was probably a fat bruise on it already. "What the hell was that for?"

"You scared me!"

"What? I did nothing!"

With that, the lights flickered on and I saw Frog's face red with anger and her fist positioned to punch me again. And right behind her, Terry was watching us with wide eyes while eating popcorn out of a fucking carnival box.

I squinted at him. "Where the fuck did you even get that?"

He smiled teasingly. "Carter and Austin hid boxes all around just for occasions like this." He tapped Frog's shoulder and offered her the box. Frog angrily grabbed a handful and shoved it in her mouth, never once taking her eyes off me.

The short-lasting silence that had accompanied the darkness from before had melted. Murmurs and complaints filled the large ballroom near the hallway, before the music switched back on, and drowned them out. I could hear a powerful voice apologizing to the crowd.

Frog seemed to recognize the voice.

"We have to go see what that shit was about." She slowly looked from me to Terry. "The power getting cut while Freya was dancing with Nero was too coincidental. It wasn't an accident."

"Yeah," Terry's playful face was replaced with a serious one. He handed the popcorn box to me, which I gladly accepted. "Zeus is the only one who knows how to mess with the power."

Frog stared at him with a dangerous, yet worried look in her eyes. "Zeus and Freya must be working together. But how would they know about us?"

Terry narrowed his eyes. "Tell me everyone who's in your little group again?"

"Uhh, okay um. I'm not really good with these things."

I spoke up, chewing a handful of buttery popcorn. "I can help. First off there's me, Vijaya, so you can stop thinking of me as Frog's friend, then-"

"Hold on, how did you?-" Apparantly Terry thought I didn't know he was thinking of me as Vijaya's friend. "How did you know I-?"

"I can just tell." I smiled at his surprised face.

"Oh- okay, Vi-jaya?"

"Yup, that's my name. Anyways, there's me, Frog, Sin, Kai, Hera, Bella, Nate, Asm-"