She Brung Me The Horizon

Chapter 8: City Lights

Autumn~

"I need to see some ID before I let you in here, miss. Or at least have your name on the guest list." Spoke the bouncer in a thick voice. His heavily muscular and tattooed arms crossed fiercely on his chest with dark eyes on my puny self. His big build was highly intimidating, as was his thick mustache that loomed over his upper lip.

"Next." He bellowed, and he waved his hand at the line of people waiting behind me to get into the Dancing Devil night club.

Two slutty looking girls emerged from behind me in line. One looked merely twenty years old, yet her dressing style said otherwise. She had straight blonde extensions that stopped at her skinny waist, her hair overall looked like Snookie's. Her makeup was over done with racoon eyes and with puffy glossy pink lips. Her deep red blush didn't do her any favors either. She wore a firetruck red mini-dress that was met at her knees by white high heeled boots. The white feathery boa she wore practically swallowed her little body whole. It was like looking at the after picture of Barbie if she started doing cocaine and partying all the time.

The other girl mirrored her friend, except she had shorter brown hair that was in a mess of curls that stopped at her shoulders. She was a little plumper on her sides, it was easy to tell in her skintight cheetah brint mini-dress. But unlike the other one, she looked like she had at least done her makeup with her eyes open.

They stopped in front of the bouncer, both their bodies swaying and their seductive eyes lingered playfully on the bouncer, as if they were daring him to deny them into the club.

The bouncer had a smug grin on his face as he looked them over, heels to their hair. He leaned over and opened the door to the night club and said, "Go on in, ladies."

Barbie had no hesitation and scurried inside, boots moving quickly as if she was afraid the bouncer might change his mind. Leaning against the doorway, Barbie's twin winked flirtatiously and blew him a grateful kiss. She nodded her head at me and said, "Maybe in a couple years, babygirl." In a gloating tone.

And with that she turned around and sashayed away, giving the bouncer one last steamy look. The bouncer watching her leave with a look of want in his eyes and a pervy smile on his face.

"What the heck?" I exclaim gesturing at the entrance door that slammed shut.

"I didn't see you card them!" I say exasperatingly, I bring my arms to my chest and crossed them angerly.

The bouncer looked at me with annoyance in his eyes. "Look girl, there is a crowd of at least a hundred people behind you wanting to get in," He explained, his voice taking on a severe tone. He got closer to me so he was towering over me, making me tilt my head back to meet his eyes.

"You look like you are fifteen and you have no ID. So how about you turn around and head down to Chuck E Cheeses and stop annoying the adults. Alright, honey?"

Still close to me, the bouncer placed a rough hand on my shoulder and shoved me backwards.

As I stumbled back, my body clashed with another body with a thud, my head slamming into a chest. I felt arms secure around me to steady my feet, my body still against this person. I gasped and turned to apologize to the person but my voice faltered when I saw his face. A sudden jolt of fear arised inside of me in the pit of my stomach. Oh god.

"Leave or I will make you." The bouncer growled, his burly build in position to do much worse than a shove.

Oli~ Hours Before

I was getting annoyed by Adri droning on and on about her college life adventures. I'm pretty sure the guys were feeling the same about her stories. They were having very quiet side conversations and sipping their beers. They had to be quiet because if Adri heard them she'd give them a death glare to make them shut up and pay attention to her. The story she was telling now was about how she met some famous guy in a taxi while in downtown New York and the one before was about some crazy ex boyfriend that stole all of her bras from her dorm room.

Adri kept staring at me with her creamy dark eyes that held a seductive look in them. With everyone else in the group with me, it was like she was only talking to me because she only looked at me. It was like I was the only one there. Adri was obviously a beautiful girl but beautiful and creepy can only go so far together. Was it really a good idea to invite her on tour?

I let out a deep sigh and changed my view to the window of the pizza parlor attempting to drone Adri out. The sun was going down and the sky was a rustic orange with shades of pink.

That's when I realized something was off.

I leaned forward off my bar stool and squinted my eyes out the window.

"What the hell?" I murmured, panic suddenly filling me.

Adri stopped telling her stupid taxi story and gave me an annoyed look for interrupting her. But that quickly turned into a worried face. Or a forced one at that.

"Aye," Lee spoke up, "What's wrong?"

"Oli?" Jordan said quietly with concern in his voice, he leaned forward to look at me; Lee doing the same.

I jumped to my feet quickly and hurried to the entrance of the of the pizza parlor, leaving the others at the bar who were still trying to figure out what's wrong. I stopped in front of the door with my breathing heavy and racked with anxiousness and I continued to search. Shit.

I pushed the door open and I emerged into the heated California air. The pizza parlor was centered in the mall so I was surrounded by many stores and some restaurants. Now, since it was about to get dark, many lights were on and lighting the pathways. Along with many teenage girls wearing shorts that barely covered their asses and boys that looked like they lived and breathed Pacsun.

Autumn was not out here.

She wasn't anywhere in sight.

I half expected her to pop out and yell, "You should have seen the look on your face!" And laugh hysterically at my worried reaction and I would have attempted to be mad at her for the scare but I wouldn't be able to so I'd laugh along with her.

But she didn't. That didn't happened.

Autumn wasn't here.