He slid his hands against my legs and kissed the center of my neck, moving towards the side of it with urgency. He his tongue ran against my sensitive skin and he griped my thighs and pulled me closer to him, wrapping my legs around his waist. I locked my hands round him and I kept looking at the door that was open, hoping to God know one would walk in. I heard him grunt when I moved myself closer on him. I should have chosen the drink. Me and my big mouth. What the hell was I thinking? But, wait. This felt good. So good I didn't want him to stop. His hands roamed my bare back underneath the jacket. One side of my jacket fell off my shoulder and hung by my elbow. He moved to my shoulder with kisses and back to my neck. He stopped and looked at me.
"Are you okay?" His voice was husky. He was staying in control as much as he could. I just sat there mesmerized and nodded. He kissed my cheek gently and held it for a few seconds before he moved away.
"We should go out to the beach." I stumbled as I tried to get off the counter. My knees were weak and he caught me before I fell. I felt dizzy. He smiled at me.
"You sure?" His sweet laugh was soft and caring.
"Yeah. I just need some air I think." He grabbed my wrap and walked me outside.
"Where have you been?" A voice demanded. I looked at a mad blond storming towards Chad. She looked at me with disgust and hatred. Her eyes penetrated deep in mine. I shivered and backed up a bit. Chad was standing near me but not close enough.
"Inside." He didn't seem intimidated at all. He was back to his usual self.
"With her?" She hade venom flowing through her tone.
"What's it to you?" he looked at her like she was insane. He had that, no one asks Chad Dylan Cooper where he's been look on his face. He seemed both annoyed and amused.
"Excuse me?"
"Don't make a scene. People will think your nuts." He grabbed my hand and pulled me down the hill. I was worried. She was not a nice person. I turned my head a bit to look back at her, she was glaring at, not Chad, but me.
"Maybe you should go talk to her." as he continued taking me down towards the beach front.
"Don't worry about her. She's just fuming." he said. He looked at me and made a crazy notion with his hand near his temple. I didn't find it funny. She didn't seem like the person you should cross. Even I wouldn't bother with her. What did Chad get himself into. She looked like a witch and I don't mean the nasty word, I mean a serious in the flesh live witch.
"Oh hey Sonny!" Tawnie screamed! She was sitting on James lap waving to me. Chad took me over there and set a blanket out and I sat down. He sat behind me facing them. I turned myself around a bit so I could see Chad , Tawnie and James. Was Tawnie drunk?
"Were have you to been?" James teased as he nudged Chad's leg. "you know your "girlfriend" was looking for you." he mocked. Chad gave him a glare and James laughed but he didn't bring it up again. I wanted to go home. Something didn't feel right and I couldn't help but think Constance was the reason behind everything. The dreams, the way Chad was behaving. It just wasn't right.
I stared at the fire. I watched it spark and I listened to it pop. It was hot and it was a blessing. The temperature had dropped a lot. It had to be in the low 60's. Chad was tugging my jacket off from behind me. He wrapped another near by blanket that was folded sitting on the log behind us, around me and him. I was between his legs and I leaned into him. The blanket came from behind him and he crossed the sides of it over me. I was warm from his body heat penetrating into my bare back. I saw the most evilest shapes within the fire and I sunk lower into the blanket. All I wanted to do was go home, but I wanted to take Chad with me.
After a while, I closed my eyes and I thought of Chad. I thought of my mysterious panther. I wondered if they were somehow connected. The bite and change of personality. I wasnt registering correctly, but I was trying to make some sense out of it.
"Chad, come here." said a voice in the background. I didn't recognize it. James and Chad shared a look and they both got up leaving me and Tawnie by ourselves.
"Tawnie" I whispered, "Why did we come to this party?"
"Because it's a party on the beach, duhhh." She snorted.
"Tawnie do you even know any of these people?"
"Of course silly." she swiped her hand in front of me.
"Who? Besides Chad and James" I said as quickly as I could.
"Sonny, their actors, models. You know famous people." She rolled her eyes at me.
"I don't think so. I don't recognize anyone as famous." I replied looking around myself.
"Sonny that's because you're a nobody." she threw some sand at me. I looked at her in complete shock. What was her deal?
"What is wrong with you lately!?" I stood up shaking the blanket off and sand.
"You." She spit at me. "You're such a downer."
"You're the one who's setting yourself up for a heartbreak." I whispered angrily to her. "What are you thinking? James? Come on."
"You should talk. Chad lover."
"I do not love Chad!" I was trying to keep my voice down.
"Sonny don't be so modest. Everyone knows you like him." she started putting her shoes on. "I might be setting myself up, but you're the fool, and everyone knows it. Even Chad does. He's just toying with you so he can get in your pants." my mouth dropped.
"You're crazy." I said with pure hatred.
"Whatever sonny." she turned her head, "Hey Chad, have a word with Ms. Diva over here, she's losing her marbles." she gave me a nasty smile and walked off. Chad observed her then looked back at me.
"What happened?"
"Nothing. Take me home."
"What? Why?" He asked in confusion.
"Just do it!" I snatched my jacket and pulled it on. I walked towards the cars parked up by the house, I started looking for Chad's convertible.
"Sonny, what the hell happened?" he yelled after me. "I leave you alone for two minutes and you get into a fight with your own cast mate?" He grabbed my wrist.
"Chad, I know what you're doing, okay. And it's not going to happen. So just take-" I ripped my arm away from his grasp, "me home!" I practically growled it. I was so ashamed and angry. I was fed up with it. I needed to get away from everyone. Especially Chad. Chad just looked at me. He kept his cool and pulled his keys out of his pants and opened the car door for me. He took his time and got in. As he started up the engine, he looked at me.
"I wouldn't do anything like that to you." he said comfortably. I fumed staring out the passenger side window.
"Sonny?" He pulled out of the driveway and got on the dark lonely highway. "Sonny, answer me." He said a little more rougher this time. I just ignored him. I felt the car speed up and it made me uneasy.
As we were driving, I was starring ahead of us. The moon was full and bright. It lit up the road. It was quiet. Chad let me be. I was thankful he did, because it helped me cool down.
All of a sudden something ran out in front of us and it caused Chad to sway the car off the road a bit. It was a huge figure that dashed across the street. It stood over the car hunched like a dog standing on his hind legs. I disappeared into the trees that led off the into the darkness. I flew forward when CHad hit the break, keeping us from going into the woods.
"Sonny are you okay?" His voice was urgent and worried. His hand flew to my back and caressed it. I looked at him and shook my head yes. I turned around, as he did, to look back towards the road. There was nothing there. Chad took his seat belt off and opened the door.
"Chad! Don't do that!" I said a little bit lower then how he whispered it. He looked at me with concern and curiosity.
"Sonny I have too see what that was. I could have been an animal." he was obviously covering something. How could he think that was an animal?! Like he didn't see it!
"That was one big animal." I exclaimed. "Not in Hollywood!" I grabbed his shirt on his arm. I looked at him with pleading eyes, but he didn't listen. I was to anxious to stay and wait so I got out of the once sleek black convertible, which was now dented on the left side. It was cold and the sky was clear as day. It was almost eerie how clear it was. There wasn't one star though. Strange.
"Sonny you should get back in the car." Chad insisted, taking a flashlight out of his trunk.
"No. I'm staying with you." My tone was stubborn and clear. I wasn't letting him investigate by himself. He just looked at me with irritated eyes. He was in no mood to argue and neither was I.
We walked towards the middle of the road. There was no blood or anything. There was no animal to be seen anywhere. The wind blew crisply and blew some of the new yellow fall leaves across the road.
"C-Ch-Chad." I said looking around me.
"Yeah?" he whispered as he walked towards the opposite side of the road that the creature disappeared into.
"Lets go. I don't like this." I heard a swift movement towards the car. I looked at the trees and I couldn't see anything.
"C-Chad." I urged. My voice was a bit shaky but I kept in as solid as I could. I just wanted to get the hell out of here. There was something over there by the car. I slowly walked towards the car and I moved my head a bit trying to see in-between the trees. My heart raced and I felt my stomach tighten. I continued moving closer and closer until I was standing in front of the headlights.
"Sonny what are you doing?" I heard Chad ask, but I didn't move. I was in struck with fear. My eyes were attached to the tall beast that was about 25 feet away from me. It starred at me hunched over a bit. I could see the claws on him. They were long and moving a bit. I slowly stepped back towards the car door. I held my breath, not wanting to make any sudden move, knowing it would attack. My body was in shock, yet I managed to get to the door. I didn't take my eyes off it. I could feel it watching me.
"Son-"
"Drive now." I cut him off. He turned to look at the figure that had caught my attention. He didn't seem scared. He got in the car as fast as he could for my sake and he started the engine. It was coming towards us, and it picked up speed after a few seconds. He was getting closer. Chad backed the car up and swirled it straight. He drove as fast as the car could take him which was 150 mph. I leaned around towards the back and watched it. It ran so incredibly fast it was gaining on us. Chad's face was serious and cautious. He was trying to get away without going off the road. He was determined to outrun this thing. This creature. Chad turned off onto a small road which led to the freeway.
"Shit!" Chad groaned. I turned around to look at him.
"What?" I asked breathlessly.
"Complication." he said aggressively, starring out the windshield. I looked towards the front of the road, there was a semi coming towards us on a one-way road.
"Chad! You're on the wrong road!" I screamed at him.
"Like I didn't know that?!" He rolled his eyes. Then calmly looked in his rearview mirror at the creature that was tailing us. It was close. The thing took a wild swing with its enormous hand and the car swayed towards the left. It was a scratching bang. It echoed within the car and I covered my ears. I flew towards Chad and practically landed in his lap. I sat up a bit and moved back on my seat.
"CHAD!!" I screamed. Oh my God! We were going to die. We were going to crash and die! The semi was coming straight at us. It's horn was loud and kept honking as we neared eachother for a head-on collision. Chad made an unexpected sharp turn into the trees and I went down. I covered my head. It was going to get us! I kept myself silent. I could here the trees outside of us brushing against the car as he drove through them. It was a bumpy ride and it was noisy.
All of a sudden I felt a hard slam that came from underneath the car. As if we drove over some sort of a tree trunk or log. When I sat up we were in the air landing onto a highway below the trees. I screamed and put my hand against the dashboard to help keep myself sitting back. We hit the ground with a loud thump and it bounced. Poor Chad's Baby. It took a beating. I looked at him. He was observing the area, when he noticed me starring at him. He turned onto the freeway and headed in the direction to my home. As soon as we were on safe grounds, he spoke.
"Are you okay?" He asked concerned.
"Never better." I rolled my eyes, answering a little bit more sarcastically then I wanted too.
"Sonny I'm serious!"
"So am I! I mean we were almost killed!" My entire body was shaking. I couldn't even speak.
"Sonny, you're alive though. I got you out of there. Now calm down." He said rationally. How was he able to keep so sane after that? We were practically torn apart. We literally just faced death straight in the face, and he's calm. He wasn't even shaking. I refused to look out the window. I kept my eyes on my lap until we came to a stop in front of my apartment complex. I opened the car door and stepped out cautiously. It took all my strength to not run to the building. I felt like it was outside watching us. I could feel its yellowish-gold eyes on me. Glowing within the night it stalked my mind. I had seen too much to scare me a lifetime.
"Do you want me to stay with you?" Chad was reading me. Somehow he was picking up every one of my emotions. It was dangerous having him stay with me. Whenever he was to close my body behaved oddly. I wasn't myself and he was defiantly not himself. As if he transformed into another being. He had animal instincts that took over his senses and I could tell that they were overpowering. What was going on with him? That moonlight creature wasn't half as strange as Chad had been these past few days.
"Thank you, but I'll be fine."
"You sure?" He didn't believe me. I didn't blame him. I didn't believe myself either.
"Really. I'll be ok." I assured him "I'll see you later."
"Yes you will" he smirked. His eyes had a certain glow to them, they made me unsure about being alone.
"Goodnight Sonny." He touched my chin and tilted my head up so we were making full eye contact. He analyzed my features and walked away so subtly. He came off very lithe and elegant. It wasn't just a walk anymore, I noticed his strut was beautiful. I took me, what felt like ages to tare my eyes off him. I watched him drive off. I was left alone in the lit-up city of Hollywood.