The Goldy Project

Chapter 5

I stride back into the house, I see Hunter in his room playing spin the bottle with a few girls including Jennifer and his friends. It seemed to be Jennifer's turn, she was playing tongue tennis with a random dude, did she have no respect for herself? Hunter sees me and gets up quickly. I find my courage was starting to slowly dissipate, I had to do something before I would totally back out.

"Want to play as well? "He smirks, almost like he knew I would eventually come here. He sounded very drunk, I needed to decide how I could hit him and run at the same time. Perhaps I would just take a huge swing on him and whilst he was unconscious just sprint back to Sadie. Who am I kidding? I wasn't strong enough to make him go unconscious! Uh-oh, maybe if I run back now they wouldn't notice.

"I'll be your practice." Suddenly Hunter comes inches away from my face, nose touch nose practically, and the whole world deem to slow down as he leans towards my face, to kiss me?

I instantly jerk my head back, I feel so venomous that I slap his face hard, fuelling my new rage and courage.

I stare at him, it felt like the world stopped revolving. The confidence that once was there, had completely vanished and I've started to feel weak in my knees as he towers on top of me.

Hunter looks blankly back at me, his cheek outlines the red hand print, and I can feel the heat from his angry cheek burning my skin.

"What the hell are you playing at?" I say, poking him hard in the chest, before he catches my hand with a tightening grip. I quaver, what was I thinking, this guy could literally kill me. No, I needed to do this for Sadie. I gather up all the courage I had left.

"Goldy-" I stab my knee into his pelvis, finally satisfied with a loud groan from him. I leave him, kneeling over, with his hands trying to massage his little friend.

"Shit, you got me twice in one week, man." All I can do is sprint away before Hunter realises I just slapped him and kicked him and wants to kill me. I see Sadie still waiting for me near the tree I left her at. She looks better, her makeup was freshly reapplied and she didn't look as upset as before.

"I'm bored, let's go." She grabs my wrist and I follow.

We walk around dark lanes aimlessly, I can hear Sadie softly hum under her breath. Suddenly she turns around and tells me to come closer to her. I walk to her, uncertain of what state she's in.

"Let's go clubbing!" She giggles, I stare at her in astonishment.

"Sadie, I don't think you're in the right state of mind. Let's go home, I can call James." But before I could turn around, Sadie is already dragging me to a loud club.

"Sadie, I really don't feel like it. C'mon, we'll go another time." I plead. She looks annoyed and doesn't give in.

"I'll just go by myself then. All alone. Some great friend you are." She folds her arms and immaturely starts striding to the club in-front of her.

"Wait! I'm coming." I say, frustratingly. I couldn't leave her, she would just find herself in more trouble.

"But only for a few minutes, yeah?" I say grabbing her wrist.

"Yes grandma." She says laughing, dragging me behind her.

The club was huge with blasting music everywhere. The Bouncer was hardly paying attention so we easily rushed into the club, in the middle of a huge group of people without being noticed as underage. I was hoping that the Bouncer would notice, these things looked like so much effort and hard work in the movies. I watched Sadie start dancing on the dance floor, without a care in the world. You wouldn't have believed me if I told you she was sobbing her heart out just a few hours ago.

I went to check the time on my phone, feeling the urge to call James when I felt someone tap my back. I looked around to see an unknown face with broad shoulders and a creepy smirk.

"Yes?" I say, wanting the conversation to be over as soon as possible.

"Can I buy you a drink, beautiful?" The man says with a slight slur in his voice, stumbling on some words.

These types of men were the ones I hated the most. You could see the lighter skin on his finger where his wedding ring used to be. He had a family, a partner, a life and he threw it all away for this. He reminded me of pigs, greedy and selfish, who gave up because they just couldn't deal with sacrifice and love. But the most painful part was he also reminded me of my own dad. The one who left our family in pieces. Till this day, George is still cleaning the mess he made.

"No thanks." I glance back to my phone, hoping he would leave me alone.

"Wow, rejected me without even a second glance." The man sits next to me and pushes my face towards him.

"Get your hands of me." I forcefully push his paws of me and stride confidently into the crowd to find Sadie. I see her dancing playfully with a boy who looked a few years older than us.

I drag her by the elbow, and even though she scowls, she allows me to take her away as she sees the worry in my eyes.

Walking back to our car was very hard, I had to hold Sadie's hair as she was sick, twice. After a while I heard Sadie silently sobbing. I stopped and ask her what's wrong.

"I'm such a mess Jade. One guy screws me over and turns me into this monster. Drinking like mad, forcing you to go clubbing even though I know you hate it and flirting with every guy I see." Her voice starts to crack.

"Is this about Hunter, or the guy in the club?"

"He wanted to take me to his place, and I was going to go if it weren't for you. I was actually going to leave. I'm just as bad as that attention seeking slut Jennifer, aren't I?" Her sobs started to become harsher.

"Sadie don't fall into his trap. You were just not in the right state. Don't even waste your time thinking about it." I pat Sadie's back in an attempt to comfort her.

"What would I do without you Jade? I'm such a bad friend, I didn't even ask you why you were so scared when we left. What happened?" Sadie asks, her voice full of concern.

I would have told Sadie, but she would just have hated herself even more.

"Nothing, I just wanted to go home." I say. She looks at me, not sure if she was ready to believe me, but I had already called James, the minute we sat in the car she was already sleeping in the passenger seat.

Sadie was not always the best influence, mum had always felt a bit weary of her, although she still loved Sadie because who could ever hate her. Sadie was always there, she was the only one who actually wanted to be my friend when I had no-one. I would always be there for Sadie because of that.

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Hello again fellow readers, 

I hope you enjoyed the double upload of my two new chapters. Sometimes I wish I was as courageous as Jade to kick a guy in the balls twice for being a jerk, don't you? ;) 

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