Somewhere deep inside me, something felt wrong about his presence, but he was so intriguing, I couldn’t seem to make myself walk away from him. The room fell silent around us. People and objects had no recognition, and any movement around me ended in trails of light passing by. My head was spinning slightly, telling me I had had enough to drink. His warm breath blew on my ear.
“This is the night of the damned. Some will live, many will die, and one will be reborn. Which category will you fall into tonight?”
I wriggled backwards, trying to focus on his exotic face. After a couple blinks, I was able to see him more clearly. “What did you just say?”
He didn’t repeat himself, instead he continued on. “Come with me now, and I will show you how it really is to live amongst the cursed. Your vampire can’t show you the things I can.”
Fear grasped at my throat, shoving down anything I tried to say back into the pit of my stomach. I put my hands against his chest, pushing his body away from mine.
“Your friends aren’t doing their jobs very well now, are they Adelay?”
The snaky tone in his voice was familiar. I backed away just as a body moved towards me followed by a trail of light, catching me as I tripped backwards.
“Whoa Adde, you don’t look so good. Come sit down.” It was Robbie’s voice. He guided me back to the couches, where I should have never left to begin with. Kneeling in front of me, he brushed a strand of hair out of my face soothingly. Gretchen immediately moved in next to us, unsure of what was going on.
“What happened to her Robbie?”
My vision was a little clearer than it had been a minute ago, but the room was still spinning around me. He ignored her.
“Where did he go?”
“Where did who go?”
“The man I was with on the dance floor!”
Robbie looked around confused. “There was nobody out there with you. You were dancing there by yourself, like you were in a world of your own. You almost landed on your ass before I caught you.”
“But I was talking to him! He was the one that made me go out there! You had to have seen him.”
“Uh huh.” He wasn’t buying my story for a second. Robbie picked my glass up off of the table. It was still half-full, showing I hadn’t drunken much of it. “Did you drink this Adde?”
I nodded. He shook the glass, causing a residue that had settled on the bottom to float around in the mixture.
“I think you were drugged, Adde!” He waved his hand in front of my face. “How many fingers am I holding up?”
His hand still trailed, but I couldn’t register how many fingers he was holding up because he wasn’t holding still long enough for me to see them.
“None because you won’t quit moving her hand.”
“Oh, oops sorry.” His hand stopped letting my eyes focus. They were still blurry, but I could make it out.
“Three.”
“Who gave you this drink?”
I thought back to where I had originally acquired it. “Gretchen.”
He darted a look at her. She lifted her hands defensively. “I didn’t buy it for her, this guy at the bar did. He bought both of our drinks.”
“And you gave it to her? Are you dumb, Gretchen?”
“I thought it was nice! I didn’t know he did anything bad to it! Mine was fine. He looked harmless.”
“No shit, Gretchen. Weirdo’s don’t usually come in looking like Charles Manson. Where’s he at now?”
She examined the crowd. “I don’t know; I don’t see him. I actually didn’t even really see him after he gave me the drinks.”
“Luckily you didn’t drink it all Adde, or you’d be in big trouble.” He dumped the rest of it in a nearby plant.
“There was to someone out there with me. He was talking to me.”
“Yeah Adelay, lots of things talk to you when you are drugged. I think we should go.”
“No!” Sully told me not to leave until him, or Davin came for me, and I was going to do my best to listen. “I mean, no. I’m feeling much better now. I just need to splash a little water on my face.”
If my drink was drugged, I guess it did make sense that my mind could be making me see things that weren’t there. But wouldn’t I have seen something that was familiar, something that my mind recognized, not a complete stranger? Robbie had no idea what was happening in the supernatural world around him; therefore, he could only explain what was happening to me as being drugged.
I knew it was more than that. By the way Gretchen was biting on her lip, I knew she believed the same thing. Robbie moved his hand off of my knee he was using to steady himself when he was on the ground. I stood up slowly feeling the tips of my fingers and toes tingle from the sudden rush of circulation.
They both watched me as if expecting me to collapse. “Really, I’m fine now guys.” I assured them, snatching my purse off of the table. “I’ll be right back.”
I moved past them, making my way to the nearest bathroom. There was still tons of people crowding the bar and dance floor, but the
