Yours, Never Again

Eloise’s pov

The ride to the club was silent and the air was tense, I never took Emmanuel as a jealous guy. He even wore the Jordans when he was jealous, even his pride can’t stop him from wearing them. I opened my phone to look through my social media, you know to catch up a little. A text popped up on my screen,

“Hi, It’s Victor,” I had forgotten that I gave him my phone number.

“We are here,” Emmanuel announced as he parked his car in the parking lot and I turned off my phone to avoid what happened at David’s party. I didn’t want any interruption because I came here to have fun. The three of us got off the car, and went inside the club, of course, we showed the fierce bouncer outside our ID. The music here was way louder than that of David’s party. A wild place. The strippers were doing their thing on the pole, Emmanuel and Tory left me at the bar where I sat to dance.

I kept looking around, studying the whole place. I was getting article ideas from this place, my editor is going to be thrilled. I felt a hand brush my ass, I ignored it thinking it was a mistake. I felt a hand brush my ass again, I turned to see who it was.

I saw a creepy-looking man smirking at me, Ew. I looked around to see where my friends were but I didn’t find them. I tried to compose myself, determined that if the man touched me again, I was going to beat his disgusting ass. While these thoughts went on in my head, a hand groped my ass. Knowing it was the same man, I swiftly faced him and picked him up by his shirt. I didn’t know my reflexes were that sharp.

“Do you have a death wish?” I yelled at him. The bastard let out a mocking laugh, that riled me up and I slapped his face. He loosen his grip on me and attempted to slap me, then a hand stopped her. My heart leaped for joy. I was actually scared of him slapping me, I have never been slapped all my life.

“Get a grip man,” He let go of his hand and the man left us. “I hope he didn’t hurt you?” The stranger said to me. I was hoping that it was Victor that came to my rescue like it was always like in novels, even Tory wrote something like that. I am so silly, does he even like me?

“I am fine, thank you for getting him off me,” I said to him.

“How about you get me a drink for that?” He beamed a smile at me.

“Sure,” We sat by the bar and ordered our drinks. I asked for liquor, I needed something to get my mind off what had happened earlier as the man’s smell lingered around. I blame my sensitive nose for that.

“I am Sam, you?”

The liquor shook me up, the smell was gone and I feel a little dizzy now maybe I should have taken a beer.

“Eloise. You know what? I think this is bullshit.” I said out of nowhere.

“What?” He seemed confused. I dragged him to the stage and he followed me without complaining, good boy. The music was louder on the stage, this stranger I think his name is Sam or something started dancing to the beat. At a point the music was slower, everyone grabbed their dance partner and they started grinding. Sam and I followed suit, I wasn’t much of a dancer but I can remember Tory forcing me to learn how to grind and how she always practiced on me, it paid off as she said. The music changed and I turned around to face Sam and I lean in to kiss him.

Victor’s pov”I don’t understand your plan, man. We are renting a bus to take us halfway then some private cars would be waiting for us and we will go to our hotel or wherever?” I questioned David. He was done inviting all the people he wanted on the journey so I wanted him to me on his plan.

“We are going to our Island, the joint Island we own. Your mom’s idea anyway, she and my mama called me last night after you went upstairs. They literally planned the trip,” He sighed.

“They said taking the jet will alert the board. They might say something about us having fun instead of working in the company,”

“I can see why Joe started acting instead of working in the company, I can’t quit. I am the last hope of my mom. She sure doesn’t want Victoria to go through the beaks of the board,” Joe short form for Joseph, he is my eldest brother. I always wondered what my parents thought when they named me. My brothers are Joseph and Jacob, I am supposed to be John or Jonathan or Jayden.

“I never had a choice in my case,” He sighed again. Poor boy. Auntie Steph has stillbirths twice after she had him and she didn’t try having any kids again.

“Perks of being the only child,” We both chorused.

“So Eloise’s showing up tomorrow?” I asked him.

“Dang it, I totally forgot, I will call her right now.”

“You better do and place the phone on loudspeaker,” He dialed her number and she picked on the second ring. Smooth.

“Hello,” He said to her and I noticed a change in his voice. This asshole is trying to sound cool.

“Hi David, what’s up?”

“I just want to invite you on a trip. My friends and I are going on vacation. There would be a beach party, clubbing, and a lot of more stuff,”

“That sounds nice,”

“It’s a three-day thing, we would be going tomorrow. I’m sorry for the short notice,”

“It’s fine bud,”

“So you will be at our place tomorrow? 10 am sharp. It’s a road trip El,”

“Ok bud, see you tomorrow.”

“Yeah, bye.”

“Yes,” I yelled excitedly. The doorbell rang, I couldn’t get to give him an earful for trying to sound cool to my girl, Well she’s not my girl yet but soon.

“Rock-paper-scissors, Loser gets the door,” David said quickly and he lost to me. “Shit!” He yelled and then he went to get the door.

“What are you doing here?” I heard him say to the person at the door.