Chapter 61

Today I turn 17.

Happy fucking birthday to me.

The asshole that's been sitting in the lounge of the private area of the club, has been eyeing my tits since I came out. And I suppose it's my fault, since I'm wearing a tinny tank top that's so low that it barely covers my nipples.

Today I'm only waiting tables.

It's been a slow night, but the fucker has slapped my ass everytime I walk near his table. He's alone and too eager, I haven't seen him here before.

-"Mesera!" he yells from his table. It's not my station but Heidi has been cool about me taking her tables, she knows I need the tips more then she does.

She's been dating the owner and fucking one of the bouncers -Felix.

Aro is a loaded English man that found his way over the border with a shit load of money and nothing to do with it. I've seen how he spends his cash, he bought this strip joint 7 years ago and converted it into a gentlemen's club, he speaks several languages and when I came here looking for work he never question me about my age or why I was in another country looking for work in a place like this. You would think that he'd get in trouble for having underage girls working in here, but he's got the cops paid, and a group of very expensive lawyers at the read.

He and Heidi are great together, he loves her and she loves his money, he takes her to expensive restaurants and buys her shit-loads of stuff, she's been driving a new Ford Fusion around, I've seen her give Felix a ride everyday.

Aro must be stupid, even though Heidi and Felix live in the same building, the way he touches her or looks at her, you can tell that there's something going on, and it's sure as hell is not carpooling.

I come to the man's table and he orders another beer, he doesn't tip well so I'm going to make him wait for his drink.

I walk to the corner of the room to the tables that are practically in the shadows.

Everytime I come over here I get the chills and sometimes I even freeze up, even if it's during the end of my shift with all the lights on and I have to clean the tables over here.

There always seams to be a draft, something that feels like an open window in the middle of a storm.

I've been in this border town for almost a year, I crossed into Mexico, in October of last year.

I was followed by that creepy couple since I left Forks. I found out a few months later because after I got a room in a students housing place near Princeton, in San Francisco, the anonymous letters started coming again.

First it was simple stuff; she wanted me to come with them, of course the why was never established. Later it was threats that if I didn't comply she would tell the authorities. Then, she sends me some canvases and paint, saying that she would rip the fruits of her investment. So I did the only thing I could think of. I painted bunnies and rainbows and fucking butterflies and sent them to her and got the hell out of there.

When I arrived at San Diego a few weeks later I got a text from Alice, she told me about the shit that was left behind those creepers.

They told the police where told they where private investigators and that they'd been hired by my real mother to look for me. A few months later a family was found dead in there home, a black haired woman, an albino man, and there 5 year old son. All where in there beds, there was no sign of entry, or any foul play, they just seamed to have died in there sleep. Charlie being the chef of police in that crappy town he investigated, but when they didn't find anything unusual they ruled it as a gas accident or just a freakish case. Charlie and Renee believed that the couple where indeed investigating my case and they just left it to there care and stopped looking for me.

Alice and Jasper had to eloped since there "illicit affair", well that's what there parents called it, was discovered.

You may ask how they where so stupid as to get pregnant, well let me tell you.

If you live in a small town where the only OBGYN is your foster dad and your mom works in the local women's clinic then you obviously can't get birth-control, now you may think that Jasper being the older more experienced one of the two would think about getting condoms, well you'd be surprised that since the economy had been giving everyone shit, his High School Football coach had to get a second job to finance his new girlfriend's shoe fetish and inconveniently working in the only drugstore in town, so that left them without any options.

Then they got the idea that using the rhythm method would be OK, the thing was that you have to be very exact on your period count and well there lay the problem, so Alice being the more sunshine and rainbows type, was happy about there predicament, she told Jasper that she wanted to keep the baby and even if he didn't want it that she'd leave and go look for me. Jasper being the crazy one of the two decided that they would elope and tell there a parent after the baby was born. So now they live in Escondido, and are expecting there second baby I think this time it's going to be a girl. I've only seen Alice and Jasper twice since they moved to California.

Since I still don't know if these fuckers are still on my trail, I've only risked seeing them twice.

We talk several times a week, they don't know where I work or were I live. I want to save them the trouble. I know Alice would want to help me anyway that she can, but I don't want her to worry too much, she has enough on her plate.

I see the movement in my periphery vision as I walk near the left side of the club.

It's here again.

I can feel it.