You Let Me Go

7. Your Beau

-Next Friday-

Gabby and I, along with a few of the sisters, decided to go to a club tonight. Surprisingly, the bouncers didn't even check our ID's. Tonight I'm keeping a close eye on all of my drinks.

We all walked over to the bar and took a shot. We danced for a bit then Gabby wanted to take pictures over by the terrace that overlooks the city.

"Here, I can take one of you two." A deep voice from behind me, frightened me as I'm so concentrated on Gabby.

"Thanks!" She answered for me so I turned and looked up him. Woah. I didn't expect for him to be this handsome. I handed him my phone and went to stand next to Gabby.

I lightened up a bit when he started posing us. I laughed as he kneeled down and did the most to get "good angles."

"Something tells me you've done this before." He chuckled. "I've got a lot of female friends and a lot of female cousins. Always the photographer." He answered handing me back my phone but Gabby took it.

"Come on. Let's take a selfie. The three of us, now you can be in front of the camera." She said and he walked over behind us. He laid a hand on my waist but I didn't think much of it, he probably has Gabby like that too.

"Turn to your side Li. C'mon guys lets pretend we all know each other." She said and we laughed. She took two more then handed it back to me. "I'm Isaiah by the way." He introduced himself. "I'm Lia." "Gabby, hey I'll be right back, I have to pee." She ran away.

"I want these pictures, mind if you send them to me?" He asked. "What's your number?"

"Cordelia Laughlin. Atta girl." Cierra came up and I blushed. "CiCi." I scolded. "Okay sorry. I don't know why you hate your name. It's all sophisticated but I'll leave you and your beau alone. Sorryyyyy." We've only been gone 15 minutes and she's already drunk.

"Sorry about her, she's pretty drunk." He chuckled. "Its okay." I hit send and his phone vibrated. "You have a very lovely name by the way." "Thanks!" I smiled.

"You never got pictures of yourself. Here." He grabbed my phone. "Oh no its okay. I get awkward taking pictures by myself." I admitted. "Nonsense, here." He grabbed a stool and set it by the railing. "Just sit down and look at me. That's all it takes, you're beautiful." I blushed. "Thank you."

I actually love how these pictures turned out. "I'll let you in on a little secret, I'm actually a photographer." He said. "Well you're good at it. Thank you."

I began to get concerned. Where the hell is Gabby?? "She hasn't come back." I said out loud. "Gabby? Come on let's go check inside."

She's dancing with a dude. He's cute. "That's my friend. He'll treat her good, don't worry."

We walked over to the bar and took a seat next to each other. "With a lid please."

"A lid?" Isaiah burst out laughing. "What?"

"Nobody's gonna spike it." He continued to laugh. "You'd be surprised."

"What do you mean?"

"Last week a guy spiked my drink.." "Oh shit are you serious?" I nodded. "Are you okay? Did he do anything?"

"No.. a guy intervened as I was about to sip. He beat up the dude as cops were being called." He frowned. "Shit I'm sorry. You can go ahead and frisk me if you'd like. Normally I'd hate it but if its a pretty girl like you I won't mind." I playfully rolled my eyes.

"What do you mean normally?" He sighed. "I can admit, my younger days I was never the best, but Ive never done anything to harm others. So don't worry about me spiking anything." I laughed. "Good to know."

"So that dude that stepped in, was he a stranger?"

I took a sip of my drink. "Ex." I went back to sipping my drink. "Wait where are you from?" So I spilled my life story as we continued to take shots together then he spilled his story. Although he didn't give much details about him growing up or his family. He's 22.

"Hey Lia, we're heading out. You coming?" Asked Stephanie. "Where's Gab?" I asked. "Knocked out in my car." I laughed. "I'll be there in a minute." I got off of the stool.

I turned to Isaiah. "It was nice meeting you. Thanks for not spiking my drink." We both laughed. "It was really great meeting you. I'm glad I bumped into you guys. Hopefully we can hang out someday?" I nodded. "I'd like that." I smiled. "Can I walk you out?" I nodded.

"GET SOME GIRLLL." Yelled Cierra sticking half of her body out the window. "Shut up Cierra!" Stephanie tried getting her back in. Oh boy. He just laughed. "Thank you." I turned to him. "No problem! See you later."

At the dorm, Gabby told me about her night with Garrett, Isaiah's friend. "Seems like you had a good night then, I'm glad." I smiled. "Thanks dude. So what happened with you and Isaiah?"

"We just talked.. he's actually a photographer. Said its his hobby and a side job."

"Makes sense. Those pictures he took of us are really good. Hey well I'm going to sleep."