Terrified

Chapter 4: Brewing Troubles (Part 3 of 3)

The night has gone deeper, and the club is as well becoming a lot hyper. The music is getting louder, the people are in their highest peak of having fun on the dance floor with their drinks up, and the lights are getting dimmer and only the lasers can be seen flashing in a perfect rhythm with the loud sound. Everyone's on their feet swaying into the beat and dancing alone even with the strangers around them, not minding who they are anymore as they grind onto each other on the dance floor.

Even without seeing anything, Bianca can picture the club's scene, more now that the cigarette smoke everywhere is getting stronger, and someone even from just behind her seat. This naturally isn't doing anything good for her and all she can do is to remain quiet and sip on her third glass of pineapple juice for the night while she let her friends share talks and harmonious laughter. As much as she wants to join in, her stiffening body isn't letting her.

"Hey Fatima..." Bianca called out to Fatima seated beside her. "Where's Yumi?" She then asked knowing that her guardian isn't around for her.

Fatima looks over to the dance floor and there she sees Yumi and Heart swaying lightly, "She's on the dance floor with Heart. Should I go call her? Heart forced her to go there in the first place so I bet she's coming back here with just one call."

"Oh, no. Let her. I don't want to hold her back from having fun." Bianca said but deep within her she feels uneasy without Yumi to assure her safety around.

Fatima observes how stiff Bianca is, sitting in this couch nearly curling herself on the edge. She keeps biting her pale lips and taking heavy slow breaths which leads Fatima to ask in worries, "Are you alright? Is this your first time coming into a night club? You seem anxious..."

"I'm okay. It's just that I cannot see anything so I'm quite anxious. I don't know what's going on around me so it makes me uneasy too. But please don't worry too much about me. You can go join Yumi and Heart on the dance floor if you want. I'll stay here." Bianca quickly returned her excuse in one breathe but her thoughts of her unpleasant past being in a club keeps looping in her brain.

Fatima was about to wave on Yumi all the way from the dance floor after Bianca didn't show any improvement amidst of saying she's alright, but then a group of people holding their own drinks came blocking her sight from the dance floor as they look down on them. "Are you guys alone?" One of them asked, a guy in a huge build and beside him are his friends smiling, more like a devilish smile that Fatima cannot see herself comfortable.

"No, we're with our friends." Fatima coldly responded and moved closer to Bianca.

"Who's there?" Bianca whispered as she gripped nervously onto her arm.

The group forced themselves to sit on the couch, joining the frightened friends and one again talks, "Eh, I see that your friend right here is blind. That's too bad. She's pretty but blind. What a turn off."

"Then get out of here if you don't like us. Why do you even bother sitting with us if you just want to tell that?" Fatima raised an eyebrow as she doesn't like how the group is laughing and insulting the innocent Bianca.

The offended Bianca lowered down her head, mumbling in her trembling lips, "Let's go. I want to go back home..."

"Okay we will. Let's go get Yumi and Heart." Fatima said and guided Bianca up from the couch.

But they were blocked again by the amused group on teasing them as they laugh evilly, "Oh c'mon. Don't be so sensitive. We were just kidding. We actually want to have fun with you tonight. How about we get out of here together and go to our place?"

Yumi from the dance floor saw the unexpected heating situation going on in their space while Heart heard murmurs from the other people about the situation going on. They are being cornered and dominated by the group's intimidation and this obviously doesn't look good, not just for Yumi and Heart but to everyone surrounding and witnessing the scene they do nothing to help them. The fear is painted all over Fatima's expression while Bianca's trembles got worse than before and this alarmed the two on the dance floor to rush over.