Chapter 7
I stood there just staring at Justin's car and the club door for a while along with Demi, it wasn't until Justin actually went through the front doors of the club that we looked at each other not knowing what to do next.
We definitely weren't prepared to deal with Justin as a drug addict or even worse; dealer. Which he was definitely one of those.
"So…?" Demi asked as I took a deep breath processing this.
"Okay, we need to know if this is where he was meeting, Selena."
"And how would we exactly?" she asked annoyed.
"We need to get in." I told her as she stared at me blankly.
"Do you think they'll let us in that easily?"
"If we looked like it, they'll."
"What do you want us to do exactly, Mi?" she narrowed her eyes looking at me as I bit on my lip and played with the ring in my finger indicating my nervousness.
"Come on," I opened the bag I had put in the back seat including some revealing clothes that wasn't neither my nor Demi's type of clothing, and definitely not Selena's also.
"You really are prepared then." She said amused as I rolled my eyes.
"Just get changed already."
We changed into the new style we're going to convince them with as I handed her a piece of gum,
"Apply make up." She told me as I nodded, and ten minutes later we were finally ready, "So, what now?"
"Come on, we need to walk there confidently, don't even look at the security guards there, if they believed you're one of them then they'll let you in." I told her as she nodded and we got out of the car and walked together towards the doors.
There we go…
Almost there…
Right next to the security…
And… he didn't call us, great,
"Excuse me, Ms?" I stopped dead in my tracks as I turned around and looked at him up and down chewing on my gum with Demi next me imitating my moves.
"What?"
"Do you have passage allowance?"
"No," I raised my eyebrow at him as if he was crazy.
"You can't get in then, I'm sorry."
"What the hell are you saying?" I screamed angrily at him.
"You can't get in, there's rules and-"
"Don't you know who you're talking to?" Demi backed me up getting along with my act.
"I don't care, the rules here are rules and-"
"Come on, Drake, can't you see they're new here? You're making us lose clients with your act." A voice said from behind us as we turned around to see Justin smirking as the guy backed away and let us in.
I tried to hide my face from Justin as far as I can after all, the chances of him recognizing me were still there. I glanced at him and was surprised; was this really Justin? Our neighbor? Our Justin? That shy nice guy? Well, that seemed like another whole person.
"I'm guessing Alex brought you here?" he asked us as suddenly I had no clue what to answer.
"We're not from here, actually." Demi answered. Good one, Dem.
"Oh, then, you're completely new, huh?"
"Pretty much."
"Fine, then you need special treatment, ladies. Can I excuse myself for a while? Just wait for me here?" he said as Demi and I nodded at him.
"What the hell are we going to do now?" Demi hissed to me. I gazed around to see people drinking and doing different kinds of drugs all over the place and other some dirty dancing on the dance floor.
"This place is dirty." I commented.
"Miley, focus," Demi slapped my arm with a glare.
"Oh, right, you need to spread around, I can't."
"And why is that?"
"I don't want to have connection with Justin, after all, I'm more familiar to him than you, way more, he wouldn't recognize you… you need to go ask for Selena around the place.
"But-"
"Come on, quickly before he comes back, I'll be right around you, I'm not leaving you alone I promise, I'll just be hidden."
"Fine."
I saw Demi going over to a group of three girls at the bar as I followed her sitting two seats away from her with my face hidden behind my arm,
"Hey, guys," I heard her saying while chewing on her gum.
"Hey," they said bored.
"Um, I'm new here, actually not from the town at all,"
"You'll enjoy yourself here, I promise." One of them told.
"Yeah, that's why I came after all, I was told to ask for um what was the name, oh, yeah… Selena."
From the corner of my eyes I saw a head snap as she mentioned the name before the girl sighed.
"She's not working here anymore."
"Are you sure? Why? I was told she's the best?" Demi said making up stories while standing with them.
"She's um, dead."
"Oh," Demi said, "What was that an overdose or something?" she continued on the bitchy act.
The girl looked at her disgusted, "Don't talk about her like that."
"Easy, Rach, she was a bitch, didn't you see her with Justin? She was leading the guy on for nothing." Another one said rolling her eyes.
Rach? Could that be Rachel? That makes sense. I looked over at her memorizing her face.
"Stop, Kate, you know he was the one going after her, he doesn't care about you, get over it."
I think that's enough for us, I walked over to Demi, "Come on, Em, I'm not feeling good, shall we go now and come back later?" I said tugging on her arm.
"Aw, come on, Vic, you're gonna be okay, I promise."
"Just please, Em." I rolled my eyes keeping our little act as she groaned loudly.
"Fine, but we're coming back later."
"We're." I told her as she excused herself from the group of girls as I took one last glance at that Rachel girl, she seems like she actually liked Selena.
"Where are you going? Already leaving?" we heard Justin's voice saying.
"Just my friend here is not feeling well, so I'll take her home for tonight, but we'll be back later." Demi talked.
"Fine, hope you get better, I'll tell them outside to get you in whenever you come."
"Thank you, you seem nice." Demi said and winked at him turning around, "Ew." She whispered making me fight the laughter.
We finally left that heck of a place, God, how did Selena even consider coming here? Wait, Selena did come here!
It wasn't until we were at the car and changed into our clothes again that I finally realized that.
"Dem," I called her.
She looked at me,
"Selena actually came here."
She had her mouth slightly agape as she just stared at me, "Right," she finally managed out.
"Selena was doing drugs?"
"She couldn't be." She shook her head.
"But she was." I said with tears in my eyes I looked over at her to see the same look of horror along with the forming tears in her eyes as mine.
"Why would she?"
I shook my head slightly unsure,
"She was probably a dealer too, a good one." Demi told me and I couldn't disagree, the conversation that went on inside held nothing but that meaning.
"Let's just head to your place." I said as I started the car and drove away as fast as I can to get away from that place.
When we were finally at Demi's place we sat on her couch and stared at the ceiling then at each other, "What…?"
"There's got to be something wrong." She shook her head.
"It's as obvious as sun light, Dem." I said getting frustrated with her denial.
"But-"
"But what? She was going there and they knew her there… she was apparently flirting with Justin in there but ignoring him outside, and he clearly desired her, and most importantly, she was a drug dealer. A fucking drug dealer, Demi."
She stared at me like I had just said something she wasn't expecting at all. Like those things were completely new to her, and I know it has just dawned upon her.
"Right, Selena was a drug dealer." After she said that out loud, I knew that we both finally believed it as we stayed silent for a while.
"How do you think Justin got her into this?"
"Well, I don't know… I don't seem to know anything anymore." She answered me as I nodded completely understanding her.
"So, what are we gonna do now? I mean, clearly she enjoyed that life there, why did she commit suicide?"
"I guess you need to complete reading... her diary I mean, you know how the drugs turns the person into depression and all…"
"Right," I nodded, "But she didn't seem like a drug addict, you know, there were no signs of drugs running in her blood, you know her being a mess, red eyes or anything."
"Good point," Demi frowned, "She also seemed annoyed and pissed off when we read what she wrote. She was complaining." And now, we were coming to our senses again… maybe Selena wasn't that bad after all? Maybe she had reasons? Maybe she was even forced? And suddenly but slowly the anger I felt towards her seemed to fade away as we thought rationally.
"You know what, you're right, we just need to complete reading, maybe we'd find something else, I mean who'd have thought we'd find what we just did."
"Right." Demi nodded confidently. "Maybe she was just a dealer, but didn't actually do drugs?"
"Maybe." I shrugged.
"Well, that day was really eventful then we-" she started but got cut off hearing my phone ringing, I glanced at the screen seeing Nick's name flashing on the screen. Thank God he didn't call a little earlier while I was still out.
"Hey, babe." I answered cheerfully, I actually missed him, I needed him right now.
"Hey, baby, how are you doing?"
"I'm great, what about you, are you okay with Gabby?"
"Yeah, perfectly fine, she's now giggling while looking at the ceiling and playing with her hands." He chuckled, "Wanna say hello to mommy?" he said making my heart throb with happiness; mommy? Me? Wow.
I heard her little squeaky noise over the phone as I giggled, "She just said she misses you a lot, Mi." Nick told me.
"Well tell her that I missed her a lot more." I said as he laughed.
"So, how's Demi?"
"She's a lot better actually."
"So, she's going to able to make it tomorrow?" for a moment I was confused at what he was referring to but then I remembered, how could I even forget that,
"Yes, I guess she is going to be just fine."
"Great, then."
"Hey, Nick, where's the popcorn?" I heard Joe's voice in the background.
"Where you always find it, Joe." I heard Nick say and I can almost imagine him rolling his eyes.
"I see Joe's there too."
"Yes, he came over a while ago."
"Good, so you're not alone."
"Yeah, I miss you though,"
"I really do too, Nicky," I said in a baby voice as he chuckled.
"It's just a few more hours until we see each other again anyway."
"Yeah, right, and some of it we'll be sleeping, so, I can dream of you," I giggled as he laughed.
"Yeah, you sure can." He said, "Fine, go and take care of your sick friend, we wouldn't want you to go tomorrow without her, right?"
"Yeah, right."
"So, see you tomorrow. Love you."
"Love you too, babe." I said as we said our goodbye and hung up, I looked over at Demi to see her smiling like an idiot at me.
"It's just so sweet how he manages to make you forget all your worries like that." She shook her head referring to the fact that before he called I was almost a mess and now I was just happy and have no fear in the world.
"Yeah, I still don't know how he does that." I smiled, it was true; I don't know if I didn't have Nick how could I have coped. I don't even want to think of that as an option.
"He's right though, you need to forget everything right now and focus on tomorrow."
"So, you've been listening to the conversation," I raised a playful eyebrow at her.
"Hey, you didn't talk mysteriously, I just figured out what you were talking about."
I gave a chuckle as I looked at her again, "You're right,"
"Taylor is coming, right?"
"Yeah, she is."
"Fine, then, go to bed now, we have a long day tomorrow, we need to find you the perfect dress."
A/N : A drug dealer! They've confirmed it now. So, that was what Selena talking about, do you think it's enough for her to give up her life? Or is there something else? :P Tell me what you think people. Please? :D
Special thanks to those who make the effort to review, love you all though :D
