Shades of Black

Chapter 10

As I had seen in all highschool movies, parties were full of shouting, drinking, dancing, doing drugs and loud music.
Kat pulled back as the rest walked further, "Just so you know, this is Liam's beach house."
I nodded, reassuring her it was fine. I wanted to tell her about the... whatever happened earlier but she ran off as soon as she saw Zayn.

I went inside where I found people playing random games. I think the one I was looking at was beer pong. Kai was having shots at another game, Mia called me. "Come join us." Beer pong her I come, why were people randomly checking me out.
I didn't mind that much about them.
I played with Mia and other people who were there. I wasn't that terrible but I took enough shots. Later on I joined Kai for more shots. "Hey, don't drink a lot." He warned me but I didn't really care because I hardly got drunk. I was feeling sober till I remembered how drugs and alcohol were given to us in Juvi so as to see how strong we really were. Other drugs were injected in to our blood, with time I got used.

We got bored and decided to go to down to the beach.
The music down here was just better and more hyper.
It wasn't my kind but it was just better. I didn't even notice Kai went to the DJ.
Unexpectedly, I had one of my favorite songs play.

  'Nakati by Ya Levis'

Kai and I danced like there was no tomorrow, so close to each other. I whined as he held onto my waist. It's like Kai had given my whole playlist to the DJ, it was as though we were in Jamaica, girls were literally twerking. As we were dancing, a girl came pulled him away. "Catch you later goddess." He gave me flying kisses. "Bye, main man."

I walked away from where people were dancing from and decided to go for a walk, well the beach was cold, indeed. I could still hear the music from here, nice though.
When I walked further, I saw someone sitting on the other side. Liam? Oh, I remembered it was his house. I walked to him, I expected myself to be scared after the incident but I walked to him. "Shouldn't you be celebrating with the rest and taking alcohol or smoking?"
There was a cardigan besides him, I wanted to borrow it so bad. I sat next to him, he handed me the cardigan.
"Oh thank you...so why are you here and not smoking or drinking."
He sighed, "You don't like guys who smoke."

"Are kidding me? I didn't stop you from smoking that day, it was just a statement." I stroked his hair. We both laughed, I stopped midway just to see him laugh. I had never seen him looking like this.
There he was just watching the stars and the moon. For some reason, I joined him.
Liam put his arm over my shoulder as I slept in his warm chest. I joked, "This whole thing looks like a couple in their old age promising never to leave each other." It felt like that to me as I untied my hair.

I suddenly felt him tickle me, I screamed and started laughing loudly. "Please stop... please!"
Tears left my eyes, that only happened when I laughed a lot.
I had him laugh  along, "You're laughter is actually very... different, I won't say ugly. When you laugh, someone else just starts laughing along."
I held his hand and pulled him to the water. He yelled jellyfish, I screamed running away from the water. Liam pulled me back, "I was kidding."

We danced to the songs that were playing from a distance.
When Despacito played, he watched sing the wrong lyrics.
"Don't laugh, I'm just learning Spanish."
I went back to singing wrong lyrics to other Spanish or Brazilian songs that played.
I held both his hands, "Do you know how to tango," I asked when I had certain song playing.
He said no but I forced him to dance, and turns out he was super good at it. "By the way, where did you learn how to fight like that? I mean the way you beat up Andrew wasn't normal. You could also teach me self defense." I laughed, thinking of what I was capable of.
He answered, "I watch a lot of action movies. That's how I learn self defense."

I was so exhausted from playing, dancing and dancing around.
"Do you have any ice cream in your freezer?"
He rolled his eyes as we walked to the house. "I guess but not strawberry."
"What...that's so mean of you. Anyways, I'll take chocolate."
I picked ice cream from the kitchen and went upstairs to the first room I found. I left him downstairs probably not knowing where I was. I was so weird, eating ice cream at someone's party.

I couldn't just sit there feasting on my ice cream. I started looking at all the photos that were in the room.
I saw Liam with an Asian woman in most photos, she was really pretty. But this couldn't be his mother, if she was, he would have looked mixed Asian like Kai. In other photos he was with the same woman and a little girl who was also Asian but looked mixed. She was abit older than him.
Why was I eager to know who these people? When I removed one of the photos from the frame, there were writings behind. They were names, the Asian woman was Ms. Lauren Park and the other girl was Luna park.

I walked around only to find another photo of Liam with a man I very much recognized.
Manuel Salvatore? Was he Liam's father?
The Alchemy had been looking for him for as long as I remember. He was involved in money laundering, drug exportation and importation, weapons, robbing some international banks, Manuel Salvatore was on the wanted list. That's all I could say, fucking Spanish Mafia. Innocent people died at their hands, well if Liam was Manuel's son, this would definitely answer my question the other day. How was he able to beat Andrew with such expertise? What if it was just a photo?
I quickly got out of the room, confused. Lost in my thoughts, I heard my phone ringing. Why was mum calling me at one in the night. "Where are you? Bring those legs back here before I pick you up. I told you no boys till your eighteen."

"Mum please, it's just a party. We were celebrating..." She strengthened her tone. "I want you home, we've got a lot to discuss."
I went downstairs to inform Kai I was living but I didn't want to meet that Salvatore anywhere.
"Kai I'm heading home, see you tomorrow." He put his arm over my shoulder. "It's fine, let me drive you."