putty in your hands

Chapter XXI

Matt's POV

"Where are you taking me?", Eleanor questions and squeezes my hand that's resting on her knee.
I make a left turn before glancing at her. "You don't recognize surroundings?"
She brings her face closer to the car window "Oh... No?!", she looks at me as her face clicks with recognition and quickly turns her head to the window again "are we..seriously? The Venom?"
"Yeah.. why not? We'll dance, get loose... you don't like the idea?" I ask her as I spot an empty parking space. My phone buzzes. Fuck. I ignore it. It's 100% Sarah like it was at least last 20 times today, she's a nightmare.
"N-no, I just thought you wanted a more intimate night, that's all.", Eleanor pouts and takes the car-belt off.
"Intimate?" I give her a knowing look.
She clicks her tongue in annoyance. "You know what I meant."
"Oh I do, honey." I wink at her in the review mirror.
"Stop it!", she threatens me jokingly and squeezes my thigh.
"Here's what we'll do..", I turn off the engine. "We'll go inside and if after 10 minutes you feel like going home, we'll leave. Okay?" I cup her cheek and her lips immediately stretch into a smile.
"Okay. But I want a kiss first."
"What did you say? You want to have public unprotected sex with me on a parking lot?" I ask, pretending to be intrigued.
She looks at me with hooded eyes. "I think Sarah's rubbing off on you."
"That's insulting."
"To you.", she mumbles and leans in to peck my lips.
"You're such a demanding and evil birthday girl." I murmur before kissing her.
"I'll take that as a compliment.", she bites my cheek.
"Ouch!" I frown.
"Had to, those dimples drive me mad, I'm just a human.", she shrugs.

When we're at the entrance I call Sarah to let her know.
"You're inside?", she asks.
"Yeah." I answer as I wink at Eleanor, hoping I'm not suspicious. Besides this call is work related, nothing sus about that, right?
I can hear Sarah screaming "Alex!! Now! Play it!"
"I'm hanging up now." I put my phone in a pocket, then my palm against Eleanor's lower back, encouraging her to move forward.
We move through the crowded passage, and as we get closer to the podium I'm starting to recognize the song that's playing:

Go, go, go shawty
It's your birthday
We gon' party like it's yo birthday

Sarah sees us and rushes towards us.  She screams "Surprise!", and I let her steal my dashingly gorgeous girlfriend and take her to the DJ stand where Alex plays the music.

We gon' sip Bacardi like it's your birthday
And you know we don't give a fuck-

At this part Alex takes the mic and shouts "in fact it is your birthday!" he points at Eleanor and the whole club starts wohooo-ing as music gets freaky. He did a good job with this, great remix. He helps Eleanor climb next to him and then gives her a big hug. I walk over to Sarah and she gives me a drink.
"Hey Mattzy!" she starts cheerfully but I cut her off.
"I'll block you."
"What? Why?", she pretends to be shocked.
"No one ever called me that many times in my whole life. I was losing my mind over these past few days!" I'm irritated.
"Well, I wanted to be sure that everything's going according to plan."
"Yeah? What about that time when you called to ask if I would sign autographs so you could sell them?"
"That was a great business idea, would you reconsider?" she takes a shot, then grins.
"NO. You're a pain in my ass.", I roll my eyes.
"As long as I'm anything that's in connection with your ass.", she suggestively raises her brows.
"Ew, I would feel sexually harassed if you weren't the least sexual person I've ever met."
"Lieees, I'm a fucking bomb!" she scoffs.
"Like if I was to have a boner in a public place, I'd stand next to you in order to prevent it."
"A bomb!" she points at herself.
"Maybe on your monkey planet." I mumble as Eleanor and Alex join us.
"Hey, having heated argument again?", Eleanor jokes.
"It's not an argument if you just share your opinion." I say before ordering another whiskey. "Hey mate!", I pat Alex's shoulder. "That was epic!"
"Thanks dude!", he throws his arm around Eleanor's shoulder "Okay, I'm off the hook for the next hour so let's get wild!"

We're having a really good time, dancing, drinking, fooling around, a few fans recognized me and asked for a picture which I gladly accepted.  Sarah told Eleanor that they're probably tweeting about us since they keep looking at us while excitedly talking.
"Girl, you two lovebirds will be trending all night. At least.", she shouts trying to overpower the music: "#mattsmithsnewgirlfriend". And then she slipped her tongue inside a random dude's throat again.
Eleanor rolls her eyes and looks at me with a grin on her face. She wraps her arms around my neck and leans against my ear "Should we pose for them then?"
I smile to myself before kissing her neck and squeezing her ass. She moves her face and catches my lips with hers in a sweet kiss.
"My naughty girl." I hiss as she presses her body against mine, my hands travel to her hips, her dress slightly dump as sweat breaks out.
"I have to go to the toilet." she shouts against my ear, then looks at me. I just nod in reply.
I light a cigarette and take a swig of a beer. Alex joins me. "Thanks for bringing her here tonight."
I wave my hand dismissively "Don't mention it. She's having a good time."
"She is. She's happy, and I think you're playing a big part in it."
I just look at him and smile contently before taking another drag.
"Alex we have a slight issue.", Sarah joins us.
"What is it? Jessica has to leave early?" he asks.
"No, it's about her brother.", she nervously nibbles her nail.
Alex's eyes widen "What about him?"
"He's here."
"Who is here?" I try to be involved in the conversation.
"What? Where?", Alex asks in panic. Sarah points her index finger over his shoulder.
We both turn around.
"Fuck.", Alex says.
I think I saw that dude already, he was in a cafe, talking to Eleanor when I came back from the toilet.
"Who is he?" I question them.
"That's Eleanor's ex." Sarah answers.
"Sarah!", Alex gives her a judging look, and she just gazes at him apologetically.
I look at them, at Eleanor and that shady guy I mean, trying to figure out what's happening.
I can't conclude much, it seems like they're casually talking. At one point he touches her upper arm and she smiles at him and I want to fucking ruin his face.
"Shit, I have to take over." Alex declares before returning to the DJ stand.
"So her ex you say?" I try to dig some more information from Sarah, that shouldn't be hard.
"Mhm, she barely got over him."
"You don't say? They were in a serious relationship?"
"Is living together serious enough for you? They were together for 3 years. She hates his guts."
"It surely doesn't seem like it." I observe them.
"Yeah, it's strange.", Sarah adds.
"Anything else I should know?" I glance at her.
"That's on Eleanor to tell you, if she decides. I already overstepped. Dammit, Smith.", she lightly punches my shoulder.
"Hey, what was that for?!", I mutiny.
"Oh my God!", Sarah shouts.
"What is it?" I instinctively turn to check what happened.
"Don't!", Sarah tries to stop me, grabbing my shoulder. But it's too late. I've already seen them. I've seen them kissing.