Beneath Her Delusions

🎀Chapter 4🎀

Adriana's POV

It was nine pm. I drove down to Emily's coffee shop from work I needed caffeine. I couldn't sleep my bad dreams had begun again it felt like i was strangling myself in my sleep. My medication had finished and I wasn't planning on seeing any hospital anytime now, I just kept seeing flashes of it smiling sometimes crying most nights it feels like I can't breathe.

Jacob walked up to me
"What can I get the pretty lady?"

"Coffee black" I spoke without looking above from the papers on the table.

My coffee arrived few minutes later but the sixth one came few hours later my eyes were red and drowsy, I reached out to my bag on the other side of the counter to get my glasses mistakenly hitting the coffee and its contents spilled on some papers.
"Shitt" I cursed

Aimlessly I tried cleaning the black liquid from the white paper knowing fully well its wouldn't budge.

I slammed my hands on the table and winced at the pain my eyes betrayed me and the tears I've refused to cry in forever came rushing down.

"Are you okay adriana should I phone Emily? " jacob asked from the counter 

"No! no I'm fine" I put my head on the table
"Its probably my allergies "

The bell rang indicating a customer entering
"We are closed" I heard Jacob say

So he had been open all this time cause of me. I began arranging my stuffs to leave when someone joined me on the table and coughed.

"What are doing here?" I spoke without any hint of fear or soreness in my throat when I held his eyes.

His blue eyes pierced through me like he could read me.
"Were you crying?"

"Mind your fucking business" I stood up and staggered a bit to the counter and thanked Jacob then I left the shop and walked towards my car.

"Look I'm just here to apologise for that day. We both said somethings we didn't mean and I'm....sure we're both sorry"
He walked slowly till he reached where I was standing.

I didn't care about this asshole right now whether he meant it or not. I looked at my arm that was still a bit red from that night.
I sighed I couldn't take all this pain surging in my chest anymore.
"Yeah"
I threw all my paperwork in the back of the car.

"Why are you always so worked up?"

Why was he still here?
I turned to face him realizing only then the tiny distance between us
"I'm just busy "

"If you ever need someone not to talk sense into you and just to get you drunk or laid or high gimme a call" He  said taking my arm in his gently he wrote his number and walked away.

Laid?

"I'll never call" I yelled out to him

"Sure you will"

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"Aunty A" I heard Elise tell waking me up from my slumber
"Aunty A why did you sleep on the couch?"

Honesty I didn't have the answer and I didn't need to answer to an over bearing toddler.
"Where's Emily?" I grabbed a cup of coffee and offered Elise a doughnut from the pack my mom probably made this morning so she'd stop following me around.

"She's upstairs looking for you"

Ofcourse she is

"Addy baby I've been calling you all night and morning are you okay? "

Was I?

"I'm fine just a rough night"

Emily widened her eyes

"What?" I asked taking a bite of the doughnut.

"Jacob told me Khalil came over to the shop last night to see you and you guys left together"

"Left..." It dawned on me what she was trying to initiate
"Oh no no we did not come home together. I would never sleep with him on my own accord i mean he owns a bike this isn't some hallmark wattpad book"

"But you said your night was rough and I know khalil can be rough I mean high school everyone wanted a piece of khalil but no everyone got some action I mean I did but..."  She rambled nonstop

"Emily!  We didn't sleep together okay jeez just end it"

"Okay okay but you need to get laid what had it been like a decade"

"Oh shut it Em what I need right now is a shower"

Shower sex would be nice.

"You know what they say a D a day keeps the doctor away"

"No body says that Em eww" I called out when reached my bedroom.

Getting into the shower my eyes then landed on the numbers on my left arm. I ran my fingers slowly through them, maybe I needed to loosen up I mean all work and no play makes Jack a very very anti social, lonely, child.

After work I called Emily
"Hey Em"

"Addy what's up"

"I need to ask you something"

"Sure"

The silence was wierd I began thinking if I should do this.

"You still there addy?"

"Yeah.. yeah how much do you know Khalil?"

"We went to high school together. He's the son of Carla Dankworth you know the model they are quite wealthy ermm not much he owns a few clubs down town but no one knows he owns them. If you plan on anything just be careful okay".

I cut the call and began to dress up I mean she didn't say he had a criminal record or something and who was she to tell me to be careful I've always been.

I decided on a dark purple gown that hugged my curves and reached my knees, black pumps with my brown full hair in a high ponytail.

The drive to the bar was quiet my inner thoughts were debating but I wasn't going to back down now.

I called him. He answered the first ring
"Khalil Dankworth"

I coughed "I want to get fucked up" I said close to whispering.

"Where are you?"

"Your bar"

He went silent for a second
"Meet me at the back"

"Okay"

"And Adrianna"

"Yes"

I felt him grinning "welcome to sodom"

Okay heart  shut the fuck up