Submitting to My Best Friend's Dad-Chapter 892 : A Shark Amongst the Dancing Fish
*Bianca*
As I picked out an outfit to wear tonight, I couldn’t help but think it was a little odd that Leo didn’t seem to care about me going out with Isabel tonight. He had told me to go so easily and without hesitation.
Did he want to get rid of me? I wondered what he would be doing now instead since I wouldn’t be around.
Finally, I decided on a teal dress that fluttered just above my kneecaps. Once I was dressed, I headed through the maze that was the estate until I reached the front door. A car, along with one of Leo’s drivers, had been waiting for me outside.
“Thank you,” I said to the driver as he opened the door to the backseat.
I slid inside and asked the driver if he knew where we were going. He assured me he knew exactly where we were going and told me to relax and have fun.
“Did Leo tell you to say that?” I asked the driver suspiciously.
He chuckled. “He did, miss.”
I rolled my eyes and chuckled softly as the driver closed my door.
Of course, Leo told him to say that to me, I had thought to myself.
I pulled my cell phone out of my small black leather cross-body bag I had brought with me. Once I pulled up Bianca’s text thread, I sent her a message telling her I was on my way to the dance club. She texted back quickly letting me know she’d wait outside for me.
Sure enough, when the driver pulled into the parking lot, Bianca was waiting just outside the front doors.
“Hey, girl!” Bianca called out as I made my way towards her.
“Hey!” I greeted her with a wide smile. “This is so exciting!”
“I know! I’m so glad you could come out,” she replied, looping her arm with mine. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶
“Me too,” I beamed.
She led the way inside the dance club. It was madness. People were everywhere. A sea of them danced on the dance floor, a few were sprinkled about near the bar, and a few of them draped themselves against the wall.
“Do you want a drink?” Isabel shouted over the loud music.
I shook my head. “Not right now, but thank you!”
She nodded her understanding. “I want to introduce you to some of the other girls I met on campus.”
“Oh, all right. That sounds nice!” I beamed.
I hadn’t been expecting to meet more girls from school just yet. However, I felt excited to finally be going out and meeting new people like a real college student again.
Everything with Matteo had gotten so messed up, I hadn’t even been allowed to hang out with girlfriends like I used to before I met him.
Leo had encouraged me to go out tonight and of course, I immediately had to read something into it. Maybe he simply wanted me to be around other girls my age and have fun.
It wasn’t fair of me to assume he wanted to get rid of me so he could go off on one of his mystery adventures. He loved me and he probably just wanted me to enjoy myself as a college student should.
I pulled out my cell phone and sent Leo a quick text.
‘Hey, just thinking about you. Miss you.’
“Girl! Who are you texting? Come on!” Bianca said as she giggled, pulling me towards a group of girls huddled together.
I laughed and zipped my phone back inside my bag before focusing my attention on the group of girls.
“Isabel! You made it!” A girl with chestnut brown hair exclaimed as she squeezed her way out of the group to approach us.
The girl hugged Isabel before she settled her eyes on me. “And who do we have here?”
“This is my friend, Bianca,” Isabel shouted over the music.
“It’s nice to meet you! Are you starting school next week, as well?” The girl asked, putting her face way too close to mine.
“Yes,” I replied happily. “It’s nice to meet you as well!”
“Let’s introduce you to the rest of the girls!” She said, gesturing for us to follow her the short distance to the group.
Abby, I found out the name of the girl with the chestnut brown hair, introduced me to her friends. They had all been so nice and welcoming.
“Should we do shots?” A girl with pin straight black hair asked excitedly.
“Yes!” Everyone shouted except me.
I wasn’t sure that I wanted to drink, but I suppose one shot wouldn’t hurt. We were in a dance club after all.
A woman who appeared a little older than us approached us with a tray full of several shot glasses. All the girls snatched on quickly and I was the last to take one.
“One, two, three, shots!” Abby shouted and we all put the clear burning liquid back in our throats.
Vodka, I cursed to myself. I hated vodka. The taste and the smell had a way of rising bad memories of Matteo from the dead.
“Let’s dance!” I heard one of the girls shout.
Bianca grabbed my hand and followed the other girls to the middle of the dance floor. A song I loved had just started to play and I allowed myself to get lost in the moment. I danced as if no one had been watching. My eyes closed and for a moment, my mind was clear. Nothing but the music filled my head.
When my eyelids opened, I couldn’t help but smile. I looked around at all the girls dancing and having fun and I realized I needed this. I needed a night away from Leo and the worries I held regarding him. A night with girls my age, dancing our hearts out.
“Thank you so much for inviting me!” I shouted at Bianca. “This is amazing!”
“I’m so glad you think so!” She shouted back with a smile. “We’ll have to do this often!”
“Definitely!” I replied easily.
After a while of us dancing, I noticed a man had begun to approach us. He was dressed in a nice and expensive looking suit. Almost similar to the suits I had seen Leo wear, except this one had a bit more flare to it. As if he wanted the attention the suit was obviously begging for.
He looked older than the guys my age as well, and when I looked at his face, I had gotten a bad vibe from him. I couldn’t quite put my finger on the reason why he had given me such bad vibes, he just did. They crawled through my skin and all I really wanted to do was get as far away from the approaching man as possible.
The creepy man started dancing as he got closer to us, to me and offered his name.
“My name is Elijah,” he spoke loudly.
I backed away and grabbed a hold of Isabel’s hand. She looked down at her hand before eyeing my facial expression.
“Cool,” I replied to the man, very obviously uninterested.
“Let me get one dance with you,” he said, moving closer.
I shook my head. “I don’t think so.”
“Awe, come on. Why is that?” He hissed. “A pretty girl like you without a man to dance with.”
He continued to snake his way towards me. “Just one dance.”
“I said no!” I shouted with disgust.
“Are you deaf?” Isabel chimed in with attitude laced in her voice. “She said no twice. Back off.”
The man glanced at Isabel before returning his poisoned gaze onto me. He smiled wickedly and slowly placed his hands in a surrendering pose before he spoke again.
“I meant no harm, sweetheart.”
He backed away in a slow manner and disappeared in the sea of dancing bodies. Isabel and I looked at each other with confusion and a bit of concern.
“Should we get out of here? That was really creepy,” Isabel said.
I nodded my head quickly. “Please!”
Isabel told the other girls we were heading out and we all said our goodbyes before Isabel and I made our way outside. We were greeted with darkness and my ears took a moment to adjust to the quiet.
“I’m starving!” Isabel groaned, holding her stomach.
“Let’s go get some food. Is there anything open right now?” I asked.
“Of course, there is!” She chuckled. “This is LA. Come on, I’ll drive.”
“Oh, actually I have a car with a driver waiting for me. We can take that,” I replied, pointing in the direction of the car at the back of the parking lot.
“Wait, you have a driver?” She asked incredulously as we walked towards the car.
“Yeah,” I shrugged. “My boyfriend, Leo, likes to make sure I’m always taken care of and protected, I guess.”
Isabel laughed as we approached the car. “Damn, girl! Look at this thing. What does Leo do for a living?”
“He owns a real estate company,” I told her.
“Really? Huh,” Isabel seemed surprised by my response. “I would’ve guessed he was some kind of mafia boss or something.”
Isabel laughed at her own joke before climbing inside the backseat. I rolled my eyes playfully and laughed along with her.
Isabel told the driver the name of the restaurant before he drove off. We arrived about ten or so minutes later. It was a cute little place that had a window where we ordered. The inside of the restaurant closed at 10pm, but the kitchen remained open until 2am.
Once our food was ready, we walked back up to the window and grabbed the bags. We climbed back inside the car and ate our food. We talked as the driver drove us back to the club to where Isabel’s car was still parked.
I hugged Isabel and thanked her again for inviting me out. I told the driver to wait for Isabel to get in her car before driving away.
When I got home, Leo was waiting up for me in the living room. He closed his laptop and placed it on the cushion beside him before standing up to hug me.
“Hello beautiful,” he kissed my lips. “How was your night?”
I smiled as he led me to the couch. Leo sat down and pulled me onto his lap.
“It was really fun. I’m glad I went.”
“Yeah?” He smiled, looking happy for me. “Tell me about it.”
“Well, Isabel introduced me to a few girls she had met already on campus. We took a shot and danced for a while. Then, this creepy man named Elijah came up to me and tried to dance with me. It took me saying no twice and Isabel telling him to back off for him to finally give up and walk away,” I went on. “We were both freaked out, so we left and got some food before I came home.”
Leo’s face turned serious at the mention of the creepy man. “You said his name was Elijah?”
“Yeah,” I replied, dragging the word out. “It was just some creep.”
“Did he say anything?” He asked.
“Other than asking me to dance with him? No,” I assured him.
Leo went on asking me all these weird questions about the man and I started to feel confused. Was he simply being an overprotective boyfriend, or was there more to it? Something told me there was more to it. Why was it that there was always something inside of me telling me there was more to something I wished there wasn’t.
“Leo, do you know this Elijah man?” I asked, with squinted eyes.
“No. Of course no,” he spoke quickly. “I just want to make sure you are safe. Always.”
I nodded my head. “I know. It just seems like you’re reading too much into it.”
He stared at me for a moment before the features on his face softened. “I’m sorry. I just get protective of you, that’s all.”
He wrapped his arms around me and kissed me. I leaned into the kiss and decided to brush off the fact that I still felt unsure of his relentless questioning. I didn’t want to think about the creep anymore. Especially, not while my lips were firmly planted on my boyfriends.
