Sour Romance [ON HOLD]

Chapter 17

Recap

"The boss wants to meet you" the bartender told me.

"Well, tell golden boy  I don't wanna meet him" I said turning to look at the golden boy again.

The guy sent me a smile to which I just rolled my eyes, took my glass from the bartender and gulped it away, never turning back to look at golden boy.

I took one more shot after that then opened my phone to browse. I couldn't afford to be drunk tonight because I was driving us home.

Suddenly, the until the unimaginable happened.
A picture of Mai and Gina unconscious and bound with ropes popped up on my screen.

You know, I've felt fear in my life, but the kind of fear I felt when I read the adjoining message was a whole new level.

Come alone behind the house, or your little friends shall never ever be seeing the sunrise again. You have 10minutes.
Your golden boy.

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I was paralysed, frozen in fear and disbelief. I slowly turned to look at the  golden boy who was smirking at me from his throne at the top.

What the?

Another notification popped up.

You have 8 minutes

But... but, HOW? He was looking at me the whole time, he can't possibly be the one.
This must be a nightmare.

Seven minutes.

There's no time to waste. I quickly ran to the hallway and to the kitchen of course not without bumping into a good number of people making out, then to the backyard.

It was dark there and I couldn't see a thing, so I decided to on my light torch before walking around.

Suddenly, I felt like I was being watched and I stopped in my tracks.

"You can come out of your hiding place now" I said in a cold voice, my Indian accent thick.

The person I saw coming was the last person I ever expected to see, and I mean the last.

Nikolai Barnes, a creepy perverted nerd who got kicked out of school after several reports about him on sexual harassment and being caught red handed spying on the girls' dressing room with the school computer.

Guess who had caught him?

Ding ding ding. You got that right.

Me.

That was two years ago.

And the look in his eyes and something in my heart told me that he was here for payback and that this wasn't gonna be ending very well for me.

"Nick?" I said very surprised to see him here.

"Well, hello there, Kritika" Kritika was my middle name, and despite the number of times I told him not to call me that because I kinda don't really like the name, he insisted just to annoy me.

"W-what are you doing here? Where is the golden boy?" I asked in cursing myself for my shaky voice.

He smirked in response, a sinister smirk which I would have found extremely attractive because hey, time did him favour. He was extremely hot and much more handsome with a well built physique and a beautifully chiseled face, his hair was tied in a man bun and his skin was a beautiful tan, as compared to two years ago when he wore braces and nerdy glasses with horrible pimples all over his face and messy sandy blonde hair with red irritated skin.