I hated fancy parties but this was something the school had annually. I bought a red dress I could find and somehow I felt nervous I didn't know what the hell Jace wanted from me, he had never asked me to take him anywhere. We were just hooking up I didn't know what he wanted. We got to the venue, it was huge. As much as I was tired mentally I would like to enjoy tonight.
I was being watched. I didn't know how, and why. I didn't have a life that needed documenting. I got right next to Jace as he was getting us drinks and he fully turned to me.
"Do you mind if I let you go for a few minutes, I need to go deal with something." You could just say you were going to get down with another girl.
"Sure, no problem I'll go look for Jenna." The guy couldn't settle for one girl, that alone gave me an opportunity to get rid of him from my head and forget the feelings I had once had for him. Honestly girls in love were stupid and a waste of time. He kissed me and I kissed him back before turning to walk away to look for Jenna. This was peaceful, standing in a crowd full of people. The lights, the sounds, the scents around whether good or bad were the cure for all my stress. No on would understand just how it felt to be lost in the midst of a crowd. I went to the backyard and spotted Jenna standing alone on her phone just after talking to someone near her.
"Jenn!" She beamed at me and opened her arms for a hug.
"Hey, I was just about to call you. Felicity is grabbing me a drink." She looks me up and down and I nervously felt like shrinking away, something about people checking me out these days had me on the edge. I still had a stalker following me around and I needed to know why.
"So? How has the investigation with this whole stalker thing going?"
"I had one of the guys from the gallery help me. Some guy called Quincy, he gives me the chills." I felt myself shiver when I said his name. There was a problem I didn't know if the shiver was because of how he talked or how insanely attractive he was.
"Quincy? You mean Q?" I heard Felicity's voice behind me and I nearly dashed away. She gave Jenn her drink and turned to me. "How did you meet Q? At the studio?"
"Yeah I was going to ask Kalique for some advice and I was recommended to talk to Q. We got talking but hell, he gives me the creeps even more than the thought of a stalker. Not to mention he is the most attractive guy I have ever seen." Those last words seemed to peek Jenna's attention.
"How attractive are we talking?" Felicity's eyes roll.
"Theo james in 4K kind of attractive. But that's not the problem here really. I tried having a conversation with him about the whole thing. He gave me the insight about the paper and ink thing but-"
"It's the way he speaks," Felicity interrupts me. I nod hurriedly.
"Exactly. Its I don't know how to describe it, and not that it matters because I couldn't concentrate. It's the eye contact, the way his words slur and his facial expressions. It's confusing!" I hear Felicity hold back a laugh and Jenna and I turn to her. "Okay spill, what's so funny?"
"Nothing major really. It's the way you're describing him, Q is one of the most rarest specimen of male gentleness I have ever met. And you describe him like some kind of...psycho." This took me aback and not in a light way. Gentle? I mean he hasn't done anything to make it seem like he was a bad boy or anything but, his presence didn't give that off.
"Felicity I'm not trying to bad mouth him, I was just giving my experience with him, but he says he can help."
"Then let him help, Venice. If you really are so persistent on not involving the police, he could help. He may not be an artist but he has a brilliant mind." I had never seen Felicity praise someone so much it made me almost assume she may like him, but she didn't seem all that interested.
After we talked a bit more about the party, Jace came and stole me away. We ate and danced and then one thing led to another and we were upstairs all over each other in an empty room. He was lifting me up in his arms and I kissed him back.
"Probably would have been better to do this in the car, huh?" I chuckled and and shook my head as I started unbuttoning his shirt and it turned hazy from there, I just wanted him. We both tumbled on the bed and there was a large crackling sound from under me and I lifted myself to pull whatever was under me.
Fuck. Fuck!
Blank paper.
Signed initials at the bottom.
My hands shook and they ended up squashing the paper and I stood up feeling scared. How? I had never even been here before. Why the hell was there another paper? Where were they anyway? What the hell did they want with me? Jace was calling me, he was shouting my name actually I couldn't hear him actually. My legs gave in and my throat was closing up and I didn't know how to breathe anymore.
"Venice! Hey, Venice listen you need to breathe." Jace I couldn't breath right now. You didn't understand. You didn't have someone watching you and drawing you in so many places and ways that just felt wrong you didn't feel like your life was being rewatched like a movie. Why couldn't I hear noises as clearly anymore?
Leave me alone! Leave me the hell alone! Please....