Scars

Chapter Two: Ella

    One thing I've learnt from experience is whenever there’s a girl night out is that
there’s gonna be a whole lot of gossip and probably booze, but worst of all when
this girl’s night out involves patty then it’d be pretty hard to turn down, first off
she’d cause things to go extremely exciting and time rolls by like it never was there
in the first place. Tonight we’d gone to the casino’s did a lot of gambling though
I'm not really good at stuff like that, but it sure was fun than sitting at the office or
even talking to the board.
  
And hey we did make extra cash after a few rounds of gambling in sheer luck, though it was all patties’ somehow good luck charm. After
that we’d made it by 8:00PM and met up with the girls, Susan, Kristin and Kylie,
together we were the best of friends
Susan, Kristin and Kylie all worked for fashion houses, Kylie worked as a model
while Susan and Kristin as fashion designers at imperial.
   Imperial was the name of the fashion house they worked for although Kylie was sort of free-lance or at least that's what I thought, she is a brunette like I am and Five ft. two and skinny, though
I guess we all were except for Kristin who was blonde like patty and 5ft 3 just a
little above kylie and a little plump compared to the rest of us while Susan had her
real dark hair going for her, and tonight each one of us was dressed for a girl's
night out, as we strode into the club with the music blazing from each corner of the
room, I had to hand it to the DJ cause the dance floor was filled up as people
danced like the night would never end, champagne glasses clashing as a group of
cute young guys and girls in the corner gave a toast to who knows what,
We sat on our old favorite spot where we come to release all the stress and
tension we feel when we call a girl's night out, we never really fancied drinking a
lot since it was sort of our creed, although we did drink wine and do shots
sometimes though, we took it easy on the shots or should I say I took it easy unlike
the four of my lifelong friends.

  "So how was work you two" Kristin called over the loud music

"Sucked as usual, how was yours" Patty replied

"Today was awesome, I had this Guy checking out the new dress I was designing,
said his name is martin stone" Kristin shouted over the noise
"What’s so special about that?" patty replied sarcastically.

  "Uhh hello the guy is a millionaire; he planned on showing me his estate at Palm
Springs this weekend"
"What about you Ella?" Kylie asked
"Huh me? ... uhh just uhh...”I kept stuttering trying to pick out what would actually
save me out of the endless vortex of questions that was gonna erupt from this
conversation
"Well I was planning something for Our Company, since Stride is not a popular
energy drink yet like power horse or something" I finally answered
"I think stride is cool" Susan replied
"Stride sucks!" A teen shouted as he stood from his seat and went towards the
dance floor. If I was a teen on the dance floor I wouldn't want to dance with him,
he made Mr. Bean look like a better dancer
"Right back at you asshole!" patty shouted. We all laughed
"So Ella you know we all are worried about you, you know you've been losing
your edge ever since Logan" Susan look worried
“Yeah, and we don’t hang out often like we did some years back. You know we
always got your back” Kylie gave my hand a reassuring squeeze, it made me feel
like I was mourning someone and though I really couldn’t blame them since I
brought the situation upon myself, as pretty as they thought I was, I always felt
ugly because my whole life things had been going the wrong way and I couldn't
really help it. Even before my mum got married she'd talked about the pain she'd
been through as a young girl and how she'd suffered a lot in relationships, and now
I finally felt how mum must have felt when she was young, here I was at 25 and
still not able to maintain a relationship that would last a year, while my friends
patty, Kylie, Susan and Kristin, well exempting Kristin since she never had a thing
for being serious about relationships she'd go around for any guy who's name
screams money. Well aside her Patty Susan and Kylie had solid relationships that
lasted years and still counting
"Hey how about franky" Kristin asked
"Which franky? You mean like franky as in franky" I asked
"Yeah hasn't he asked you out yet?" Kristin asked with a great deal of expectation.
    "Ewww gross!! No way girl" patty replied disgusted over loud music and Dj doing
his thing, the thought of franky made me want to barf everything I ate this evening
"Yuck! Come on Kristin you should know standard. Why in the world would you
call out franky" I replied
"What's so bad about franky? Though I never really saw him" Kristin looked
rather puzzled
"Eww come on, for one, Frank still plays with his boogers even at work" patty
replied and obviously that didn't please Susan in any way as she spat out the wine
in her mouth
"Ohh gross!!" Susan called out disgusted
"There's more actually, franky even tried to.."
"Nooo!!!" the girls cut me off and were literally begging me to stop, though it was
true franky asked me out and that is something am not really proud of. He works as
a receptionist at stride with us, he is quite funny but way disgusting, and although
he tried to keep cool sometimes we all knew his secrets.
"I do remember back at high school how everyone always wanted to be with Ella"
Patty started
"Well you can't blame the guys as well for looking at her, Ella is down to earth"
down to earth unlucky me I thought
"I have an idea" Kylie spoke out
"Let's hook Ella up on a blind date" she continued
"Ohh no you gotta be kidding me" I replied in shock
"Great idea!!" all the girls seemed pretty excited about this
"Come on girls, am not hooking up with some random dude at the table and
looking at kitchen recipes" I tried to ward off their idea
"Ella when last did you go on a date?" Susan asked with her brow furrowed as she
regained her appetite to drink the glass of wine in front of her
"Uhhh last year I guess" I mouthed reluctantly
"Then its settled" patty gave a toast to this.
    "Come on you can't just settle something that I am not even up for" the girls
ignored as the music kept surrounding and pitching into our conversation
"Am bored" Kristin stood up and shook her hair
"Am gonna go clear the dance floor, care to join?" she asked
"I love you Kris, I am right behind you" Kylie stood
I guess the DJ was in sync with the girls, As Kris and kylie began walking and
parting the crowd of dancers the atmosphere changed and the music came on...
“I’m sexy I know it” blazed as kylie and Kris began to show the true meaning of a
dance floor, eyes all focused on them like kids in need of ice cream
"The heck!" Susan muttered
"Let's party girls!!" patty and Susan stood, I couldn't take it anymore I just had to
have fun tonight, we walked to the dance floor cat walk style, each step we took
the lights changed and rolled back and forth, the crowd parted literally as we took
centre stage, I let the rhythm of the beat sink into my bones, spinning my waist as
the girls danced like they'd rip the floor, I seriously wasn't aware of the guys
whistling under the loud sound that controlled me as I spun uncontrollably, Kylie
and Kris had already gotten guys for dance partners, I'd gotten in the mood for this
and nobody could take this away as I slipped under the beat
"When I walk in the spot (yeah), this is what I see (ok) everybody and they
staring at me I got passion in my pants and I ain't afraid to show it...."
The beat kept going on as I whipped my hair and Patty backed me up as she and I
made the DJ go wild. Just then I felt someone behind me creeping up and dancing,
first I thought
"Okay fine this is normal during a party right"
So I kept dancing and then things kept getting intense as I felt this firm masculine
hands grip my waist and then swing his waist round behind me. This strange aura...
what could this be? "Ella... I want you" that voice, No way it can't be! , I felt power
leave my body and fear grip so hard at me "Logan" I thought within me "that's it
party over" I thought to myself once again , time to be Ella chase once again, I
used my elbow to send a message to his gut
"You ass!!" I spoke out and everyone seemed shocked, to my realization it
wasn't Logan, But It was already too late since I'd already done what I'd done to the poor guy... served him right anyway , but then the voice I heard was I
hallucinating? If so then why Logan? Was it the shots or the wine? No I had no
time to think about this yet, I have to compose myself since am obviously in the
middle of a situation
"I... didn't mean...any harm" the guy was squeaking in pain
"Yeah sure you didn't" I replied as began to storm out of the club, and obviously
the rest of the girls followed me even though I never wanted them to. The thoughts
that ran through my mind at speed of light kept tearing me apart bit by bit i couldn't stand it