Scarred Beauty

Chapter 8

I took one last look at my makeup and outfit and smiled to myself, actually feeling good for once. I was wearing skin tight jeans, a leather jacket, a white bralette, and black stilettos with my hair kept to its' natural curly-ness. I applied one last layer of matte red lipstick and felt ready to go.

Sara wore a skin tight leather dress, jean jacket, and red stilettos with her hair teased. "Damn, lookin' good babe!" I said and winked at her jokingly. "Shut up!" She replied as she laughed and playfully pushed me. We walked out the door and headed off to the party.

We talked along the way, wondering if there were gonna be a bunch of cute people and how she would score tonight with her new cleavage showing dress, which she said jokingly but would probably turn out to be true. The neighborhood seemed pretty quiet and seemed like there was no party in sight, until we got to a few streets over and heard music blasting from one of the houses. We looked at eachother excitedly and walked into the house, psyched to finally be at a party together for the first time.

She greeted one of her old friends that happened to invite her to the party, and they got to talking so I just made my way to the small home bar they had set up. I didn't wanna interrupt anything. I filled a plastic cup with some crappy beer and chugged it up quickly, grimacing at how much it resembled piss. I stayed near the beer keg, watching everyone talking till' someone went to the middle of the room with a mic.

"Hey guys! I've got a band here, who are fucking amazing! Give it up for Mötley Crüe!" The person announced excitedly. Everyone started clapping so I did too, till I saw who walked to the "stage". It was Nikki, and I'm guessing his band. I felt paralyzed and every part of me wanted to leave but I couldn't. The band proceeded to play a song with a kick-ass riff and high energy. By the second chorus, the whole crowd, including me, sang back, " Cause I'm alive, livewire!". The band then played a second song
equally as energetic and badass. I found myself singing, "Too fast, too fast for love!" happily to myself, not even caring who had been in the band. The music made me feel alive.

The band played 2 more songs which I couldn't remember the names of, then thanked the crowd. We all clapped for them and Nikki seemed to lock eyes with me as looked through the crowd. My heart stopped and I once again wanted to leave. He made his way through the crowd to get to me and I was close to tears. Shit, shit, why can't I move?!

"Jo?" He called out as he was a few feet away from me. I had finally gotten control of myself and ran into the nearest room I could find and locked the door behind me. I gave out a sigh of relief, hoping that he didn't see where I had gone. But lucky me, I heard a knock on the door a minute later.

"Jo! It's me, Nikki! Please let me in! Let me make it up to you!" Nikki pleaded. I just stood by the door for the longest time, contemplating whether or not I should give him a chance. I mean, it was years ago, right? Maybe he really did change if he's trying this hard.. I heard another knock followed by Nikki shouting, "Look, I know that your friend told me to stay away, but I just want a second chance! Please, I'm so sorry!"

I sighed heavily and decided to give in. I unlocked the door and pulled him inside, then proceeded to close the door again.

"Well? What do you have to say?" I said harshly. He looked down, and actually looked pretty remorseful. "Jo... I'm really sorry what I said to you. And I know I acted like a total asshole all the times that we've been around eachother before." He apologized then sighed between sentences. "Just please forgive me? l'm different now. I'm still an asshole sometimes, but isn't everyone? Nevertheless, I'm not the same person I was." I looked into his eyes and he seemed genuine about everything he'd been saying... As I was about to say something to him, we someone barge into the room. I looked towards the door and it had been Sara.

"I've been looking everywhere for you, Jo! " She said, huffing after she got her words out. She walked up to Nikki and grabbed him by his shirt collar. "I told you to stay away from her, you prick." She gritted out. I put my hand on her shoulder, trying to convince her to lay off of him.

"Sara.. he just wanted to apologize, and he did. He seemed genuine about it. Just give him a chance." I went on. I looked at her with my puppy dog eyes which always seemed to get to her, even after all these years. She sighed harshly and roughly let go of him. Afterwards, we saw some of him bandmates come in the door.

"Yo, we'vd been lookin' for you, man! We're leaving soon, Vince is all boozed out and found some chick. Mick and I haven't been so lucky, so we're leaving." His really tall bandmate declared. He looked at 3 three of us and raised his eyebrows. "Watch'a doin'?" He asked curiously.

"Uh, nothing. But they're coming with us, I still have some unfinished business." He answered back, looking at me pleadingly, hoping that I'll go along with it. Sara gave him a death glare and looked as if she was about to sock him in the face repeatedly. I gave made puppy dog eyes once again, which made her roll her eyes and she gestured with her hands to go on. From that I could tell she gave her consent, so I headed towards the door and followed Nikki walking with his bandmates out the house. Would forgiving him be a mistake?