What happens in Vegas...

Chapter 2 : Party Hard

I felt like my heart was going to jump from my chest and I placed my hand to my face for a shy moment.

When the DJ introduced us we climbed on the stage. I tried not to panic, searching for any recognition to what song we were about to sing. The song was from the artist Ledger "I'm not dead yet". I was glad, because I knew the words and was quite good at singing it. I already felt the confidence coming in, but chuckle when I realized it could've been the last shot I took. We actually managed to pull it off. I sang my solo, acting bossy and sexy, by staring at Jai and dancing. When the song ended we stood and held our hands high. The applauding and whistling in the crowd made me dizzy for moment as the adrenaline kicked in. The guys cheered and whistled all the way back to our table. Jai's impression said it all. He had a big grin over his face as he stood to let me in my place and said "That was hot!" his hand reached on my back and for a second I felt his fingertips pressing more firmly on my skin. Or was the alcohol talking?

There was someone singing karaoke at the stage, people cheering, we downed another drink and the guys decided that they should sing something as well. They flipped through the song list book and sometimes hummed and sang the parts of the song laughing. Me and Lily were talking and laughing at the guys.

They chose to sing Andrew W.K "Party Hard" .

Jai stood up, hand on my back as he passed by me he said "Wish me luck!". I smiled when I felt his other hand brushing my arm and said "You don't need it!"

The performance was funny and wild, they clearly were already drunk but managed to pull off a great show by yelling, goofing around and laughing a lot. The crowd loved it. Me and Lily applauded and cheered all the way through the song and the way back to our table.

After downing another drink Jai suggested to go on the street for a while, he needed to smoke badly. So did I. I winked to Lily and went with him. We talked a lot. It seemed he was eager to know about me. What I do back home, what I like to do on my downtime, and so on. The more I spoke the more he asked, so I spoke about my job at my fathers firm and the annoying potential husbands he "drags" in front of me and the whole baggage with that relationship. It was really easy to tell these things to him. I asked him about his life, he told me that he's from Australia(figures the accent..) , his parents and that he likes bikes and playing guitar. As I listened to him I felt like he didn't told me everything. But who am I to judge.

Our smoking break took longer than we intended to. It was easy to get lost in time with him. But after a while we headed inside making a pitstop at the bar disc where Jai ordered us some drinks. We stayed there to continue our conversation. The more we talked, the close we stood to each other. There where random touches and he stroke a loose hair beside my cheekbone and cupped my cheek for a moment staring into my eyes with a dreamy stare. And then he kissed me, soft, bringing his hands around my waist. He freed me from the kiss suddenly, stared deeply into my eyes for a moment, then searched my hand interlocking our fingers and pulled me through the crowd to our table. Lily smirked seeing us walking hand in hand . I just smiled and bit my lower lip.

After few drinks and making out with Jai I could care less of what the world or my father thought of me. I felt so free. As we were talking about when we are going back home and me facing my destiny, whatever my daddy dear chooses me, Lily blurted out "This isn't you, Anna!"

"I know and I hate it!" I sighed , "I wish there was something I could do to make him see that my destiny isn't something to trade for something. Or give to someone!"

Then one of the guys made a joke out of it saying "You should get married with someone just for the sake of pissing him off." We burst to laugh. Although it was my life we were talking about, I felt like these people really wanted me to loosen up, make my own decisions.

After that things went a little blurry. I remember liquor store, Elvis ,Champagne popping, cheering, passionate kissing, laughter, Jai's voice in my ear, heavy breathing, biting, scratching, touching, kissing, moaning..

Flashback ends

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