Chapter 26: Birthday party part 2

I decide to not pay them any mind right now.

My waking up early from the coma and then being reborn has caused a twist in events that I can't predict.

My only choice is to let it play out, I just need to make sure I keep my guard up.

As I am thinking, Melody shakes me out of my thoughts.

"Hey, isn't that the girl who pushed you down the stairs?" She asks having followed my line of sight.

"It is, and that girl next to her is the one who incited her to do so." I say coldly causing her glare at them fiercely.

"You should be careful, they look like they are planning something..." She says just as they turn to look in our direction and head toward us.

"Serenity, happy birthday! I missed you!" Arabella says as she comes nearer.

I stand up gracefully, "Do I know you?" I say innocently.

"Of course, we are friends, you must have forgotten with the fall you had." she says concerned acting like it was a minor accident.

"Oh wait, I remember you now," I say with a smile as her face changes quickly from concerned to looking like she succeeded to happy.

Before she can speak, I continue, "You are the girl who assaulted me at the hospital," I say pretending to be scared and scoot closer to Melody.

"No, I did not do that, it was just an accident, we really are friends!" she says as the sparkling grape juice in her hands waves around and there is a little splash on the floor.

She is still trying to continue this act, I sigh with a gleam in my eye because I can tell she is aiming to ruin my dress. Could she be less original?

"I am sorry, I only have one friend." I say and Melody stands up next to me, her dress glittering as she moves, similar to mine, making her look every bit like a beautiful fairy, well until she opens her mouth and kills it.

"Who are they?" she says as if pretending Arabella isn't standing there.

Arabella glares as I say, "I honestly don't know, she keeps harassing me and she pushed me out of my wheel chair at the hospital."

This sentence that continuously reminds Arabella of her irrelevance is like the last straw as she angrily splashes her drink at us.

Having already sensed this would happen, I quickly side stepped pretending to trip pushing Melody out of the way and dodging the drink.

I guess the training has paid off a little bit more than I thought.

"I am so sorry, I can be so clumsy Melly." I say innocently.

Melody smiles understanding my play and liking her nickname that shows our bond is growing, "That is okay, at least we didn't get dirty." she says as we both stand straight again.

I look at Arabella, "Oh my, you spilled your drink." I say.

She looks at me with eyes filled with anger.

"I am clumsy too. I am sorry." she says feigning innocence before calling over a waiter to bring us all some drinks.

Melody laughs lightly, "Well you don't really look too bright, so I can see how you can be clumsy enough to only have to stand in place and spill your drink. This should really be regarded as a talent." she says humorously.

The other girl hands us the drinks from the waiters tray, trying to ease the situation and change the topic.

Arabella takes this chance and holds her glass up, "I am sorry for coming off wrongly, please allow me to excuse myself with this toast." she says and clinks our glasses together.

I take a small drink of my glass to acknowledge her and unfortunately I catch the smirk on the other girls face too late or I would have spit the drink all over her.

Fuck, these girls just want to die.

Well, wish be granted, I will now have to put effort into giving them what they want.

I suddenly feel my face heating up as if I have a fever.

Seeing they are gone, I get Melody's attention, but she doesn't look good either.

My eyes ice over, I hate that I always drag her into my messes, I am still not strong enough.

"They drugged our drinks, heavily at that seeing as I barely took a whole drink and I am already feeling a little strange." I say.

Her eyes are just as angry as mine, at how the girls had the audacity to drug us at my own birthday party says, "We need to leave, based on the heat spreading through my body, I am afraid I know what drug this could be..." She says trailing off as she pulls me to leave.

Unfortunately, the only way out is to go through the crowd.

Doing our best, we make our way through the crowd, my body feels all tingly as we bump into people and at this point, I can't help, but curse as my body feels like it is yearning to be touched more intimately.

That bitch must have gave us an aphrodisiac.

What kind of white lotus bitch at our age would be so dirty.

I would like to thing about the hell I will raise in getting back at her for trying to mess with me again, but as we finally make our way out of the crowd, we are approached by two greedy looking guys with lust filled eyes.

Arabella stands beside them, "They are both drugged and won't be able to stand soon enough. One is a Hunter, the other a Powers. Do what you want with them, but take pictures. Their families will pay you huge sums to keep you quiet." she says with a wicked grin encouraging the men.

I glare furiously at her, she is only 18 and already thinking of rape schemes. Seens like she is done acting now. Thinking of my past life, I shouldn't be surprised, she was always vicious.

I didn't even see them do anything to our drinks, which only means the waiter was in on it to.

Since I wouldn't be her friend, she will have to ruin me in another way since she can't trick me into fulfilling her needs.

I will be damned if I let her have her way this time.

The one guy grabs my arm and I want to fight him off, but that dahm drug is making it hard for me despite that disgust I feel at being touched by him.

His touch makes me want to vomit internally, but my body continues to heat up despite how I feel.

I turn my head to see Melody who looks like she is ready to kill someone.

I look around to see what our escape route options are.

"Thinking to get away, I don't think so, everyone is so busy, no one is even looking for you!" she says as a ding sounds behind us.

She smirks as she signals the guys to take us to a room and hands them two key cards.

They take it greedily and then look at us as if they can already see us under them giving into the pleasure.

Their lecherous gaze makes me shiver.

With quick thinking, before they can do anything, I shake off the guy who is holding me and kick him in the balls, and while he falls to his knees in pain, I push Melody into the elevator with me and press the highest floor hoping to buy us some time.

Mustering up all my strength, I take my phone out from where I hid it in my dress and dial the first person I think of.

He answers almost immediately.

Hearing his voice on the line, my legs go weak and I want to cry, "Help, please. In elevator, top floor, drugged." I barely get out as my breathing is heavy and the line goes dead.

I look at my phone to see the signal went dead, dahm I will sue this hotel for shitty elevator signal.

Hopefully he understood me and comes soon.

'I don't know how much longer I can hold on,' I think as I look at Melody who seems to have lost all her strength and is leaning against the back of the elevator.

The elevator soon comes to a stop at the top and opens.

I somehow manage to pull Melody up and out of the elevator.

This is the VIP floor and there just so happens to be only one out of the 6 elevators that will in the lobby that will get you to this floor so they had to wait for the elevator to eventually go back down in order to come up here.

This should buy us a little time I hope.

I find a little opened room where they usually keep the ice and drinks for the maids to serve the VIPS quickly, rather than having to run to the kitchen on the first floor. With not any other options right now, we went into the room and hid.

We couldn't help but to lean against the wall, falling slowly to the floor as our strength seems to deplete quicker. The coldness of the floor feels so good against my body that feels like it's on fire.

Melody looks like she is fighting herself internally on whether or not to take her dress off and is starting to break a sweat from the heat that is invading her body.

I can't even think about how the rest of the party will be handled right now.

My intention was to humiliate that Coward family by buying at all their stocks and bankrupting them to use them as a warning against other arrogant people. I sure hope that if any one had any brains upon seeing the news of the Coward families fate that will be broadcasted any moment now to everyone present at my party that they should really think twice before messing with certain people.

Unfortunately, some people just don't learn until it is too late to regret, like that other girl that was acting as Arabella's accomplice tonight who doesn't seem to know what fear is. It's really a pity that she couldn't open her dog eyes to see the grave mistake she was committing in acting against me. Now I will have to show her what it truly means to regret.