12 Chapter 12: I Promise You That

-Zee-

Liz is dancing with a guy! This is amazing! I was worried that she would remain single forever and judging by how tonight is going maybe she'll finally get over that loser, Jeffrey, officially by the end of the night. I love my Liz, she's the only person in my life who accepts me wholeheartedly without any judgement. She doesn't comment on my fashion, my sexual relationships, and bad habits. Lots of people in the city would always tell me I would ruin Liz someday. It was like they were placing bets on whether Liz will turn out to be like me or if Liz would shape me into a goody two shoes. I've been called nasty names and slut-shamed so often eventually I just stopped caring and do what I do best; dress and act the way they wish they could. Don't get me wrong, I don't dress myself in heel boots and leather jackets to live up to the labels they put on me; I very much enjoy looking hot and edgy. I'm glad Liz is the innocence and one true thing I have in my deceptive life.

When the slow song came on, I led my current boy toy upstairs to the second floor of the club where there are luxury lounges. Before I got down to business I took another look at Liz to make sure she was still posted. She was enjoying herself and it helped me relax a bit, now, it was about time I enjoyed myself too. The guy who foolishly followed me up is Gino and his fellow roommate who is dancing with my Liz is Brady. I never lead a man on unless I know their name, their real name. I once hooked up with a man who used his butler's name and when I was shouting his "name", his butler came into the bedroom with a tray of fruit and refreshments. That man lied to me and then got in my pants. I was so angry I took all of his cash in his wallet before I left that a-hole's place. Side note, who carries $5,000 worth of cash around? Whatever, it got me a few new designer bags.

I forcefully sat Gino on one of the loveseat sofas and sat myself on top of him. I don't know if it was the alcohol or if it was just my savage self but I was devouring his plump lips with mine. We made out until the slow song came to an end. I pulled away to look at him and his lips was messily painted with my lipstick. I completely forgot I had a thick layer of lipstick on, whoops. I allowed him to wipe his mouth while I looked for Liz; she was gone. My Liz was gone. Did she go somewhere with Brady? No, it's not like her to go off with a man like that. At least without tell me. I pulled myself off Gino and looked over to the booth seating from the balcony; our belongings seemed to still be there. My gut was telling me something must have happened to Liz. I turned to Gino and grabbed him by the arm before heading back down to the main floor. If his friend did take mine, I will need him to reach his friend. "What's going on? Didn't you like what we were doing?", Gino asked. "My friend is missing", I answered in distraught. We reached the booth area and I did a thorough head check for an adorable brunette with a red dress. She was no where to be seen. I rushed over to our seating area only to find my Louis Vuitton handbag abandoned and hers gone. Where did she go, I thought. "Where are the rest of your friends?", I asked angrily. "Um well, they aren't really my friends. I just came along as the DD -", he started. "I don't care doofus, look around, are any of your friends slash 'roommates' around?!", I spat. He looked around anxiously, "no I don't see any of them. I don't know where they could have gone". I let out an annoyed grunt, "how many of you were there?", I asked. "four" he quickly answered. "Call your friends right now!", I demand loudly. As he pulled out his phone, I pulled out mine from my purse. What! Four missed calls from Liz? Shit! "Why are you guys at Murphy's –", Gino asked before I pulled him away from his phone. "What's Murphy's?", I interrogated. "It's a pizzeria a few buildings down the street from here", he answered. I nudged him to keep his friends on the line to stall them. "Keep them on the phone until I get back or else you're gonna lose your grapes, got it?", I threatened before I grabbed my purse and headed out. Gino dryly swallowed in fear of my threat and nodded before returning to his call.

I rushed out to the streets and ask the bouncer for the direction of Murphy's. I ran a few shops down the street where I met an alley way. "Gino, mind your damn business! – ", I heard a voice. My head pivot to the direction of the voice. That must be Brady's voice. I pinned my back against the wall of the building and slowly crept to the alley way to see what they were doing. It was already dark with only the stars and dim streetlights directing me to the scene in front of me. The moment I saw Liz on the ground unconscious and I went from quiet ninja mode to protective bodyguard mode. Thanks to having a rich family I was able to take whatever classes I wanted, one of them being taekwondo. I dropped my purse and ran to the three men in front of me and kicked Brady in the head knocking his phone to the ground. He stumbled a few steps back before he looked at me. "What the fuck!", he yelled as he cupped the side of his face. "Grab her!", Brady ordered his two friends. The football jock came at me attempting to grab my arm. Without my consent, I let no one touch me; I backed away and did a flying back kick on him. That shit sent a 200 something pound jock to the ground. "What did you do to Liz?", I asked. "She. Fell asleep", he replied with a forced smile. That was a bunch of bull crap. I looked at the scrawny friend with fierce eyes while I pulled my hair back into a messy low bun and took off my hoop earrings. "I'm going to ask one more time. The person who answers me first gets to keep their dick", I shot back. Silence. "Or do you both want to lose your dicks? I'm cool with that too!", I snapped. I approached the scrawny friend, placed my hands on his shoulder and went for a knee strike. "Stop! Stop! Brady knocked your friend unconscious, okay?", he said cowardly selling out his friend. "What were you all about to do to her?", I pointed to Liz and interrogated. Forcing their gaze to follow my finger. "Brady wanted to take her back to our place", he replied as he looked at Brady. They were going to violate Liz. Rage fumed my insides and I kneed the friend in the balls. He got down on his knees in agony. "You were all in it to assault my friend, weren't you all!?", I shouted. No answer. I was right about their intentions. Overflowed with rage, I went berserk on all of their asses leaving them all on the floor groaning and clutching their crotch. Once I was done dealing with the scumbags, I ran to Liz to check if she was hurt anywhere. A huge visible bruise on her head showed itself in the dim light casting over my shoulders. I hugged Liz and a shadow hovered over mine. I looked over my shoulders and saw a man standing behind me, "what happened here?", he asked in concern. "These scumbags hurt my friend", I said with tears flowing down my face. "My name is Micah, can I help you get out of here?", he said as he got down to my eye level. "How do I know if I can trust you?", I asked him as I wiped away my waterfall of tears. "I know your friend, Liz", he simply said. He didn't seem like a bad man but with what I've dealt with tonight I don't know if I can trust any man ever again. "She wears a jade green and gold necklace with the initials J.S. on it", he said softly. My eyes traveled to Liz's neck and examined her necklace, he was right. I don't exactly trust Micah yet, but I couldn't carry Liz by myself, not while I'm intoxicated at least. I let Micah take Liz away from my firm embrace and I collected her phone, shoes, and both of our purses. "Bitch.", Brady called me. I smiled and turned to face his sorry ass on the floor, "That's right I am a bitch, and remember that this bitch just kicked your coward ass who can't even get a consensual partner to sleep with, you had to knock them out. Show yourself in front of any of our faces and I will make sure the entire town knows how big of a scumbag you really are plus, I'll make sure you lose your baby-making parts one way or another. I promise you that, bitchhhh!", I shot back with gritted teeth.

I guided Micah to the car and asked him to drive us to Liz's house since I was no where sober enough to drive. We drove in silence for few minutes before I looked back at my sleeping beauty admiring her tired figure. I started to cry at the image of her peacefully sleeping with no care in the world wondering what would have happened to her if I came any later than I had.