Carpe Noctem [2]

The white motorcycle stopped in front of the dark, forsaken structure abandoned warehouse. The building looked haunted with its daunting shadows and cracking walls. From the sight of it, no one dared to come closer. Sebastian turned off the engine and got off from the vehicle. The helmet almost felt like suffocating him if only he spend another second. The door pushed open as if the person behind it already expecting his presence which was true.

"Welcome back, Sebastian," Kevin who was behind the door grinned at him which he only replied with a slight nod. Another people were scattered on this big warehouse. It looks that he is recruiting again. He thought as he scanned the new faces who gave him slight bows before back to what they were doing before.

"Where's he?" Sebastian asked as he put his helmet down on the table near him.

Kevin who was aware of the question, immediately ignored the calls from others who was asking him to join the drinking game. After all, it was Sebastian all along the reason why he was here. He looked up to him. "Boss?" He asked to confirm, saying his position because only Sebastian called him by his real name; even he already knew the answer. "He's upstairs; doing his usual things."

His eyes darted to the second floor. The sound of tingling laughter reached his ears and he immediately knew what he had been doing.

"Julian," called him, casually leaning on the door frame while looking at the latter that seemed busy with the girl on his lap along with another one who busied herself touching him everywhere.

The girl on his lap turned around to his direction. Her lips turned into a wide smile when she recognized who it was.

"Sebastian! You're back!" Without hesitating, she got off from Julian's lap and walked towards Sebastian in her pointy stilettos.

Sebastian didn't budge a bit when the girl casually hugging his arm and leaning her head on his shoulder. However, anyone could tell that he was bothered by the way she acted so clingy towards him.

"It's been a long time, Sebastian." The man he was looking for finally spoke. "Amber has been asking about you lately." A soft chuckle escaped his lips as he mentioned the girl on his side.

Sebastian took a step forward, slightly pushed the girl off from his body but the girl was not even taken a back by his action as it was already usual for her to receive the cold shoulder from him. The girl who was beside Julian throwing her flirty smile at him but he was not even close to getting affected. "Get out." He signalled with his eyes.

Julian sighed at his tone, knowing that it would be getting all serious. After all, it had been almost one year and a half he doesn't even step his foot here. The unknown girl immediately obliged, it was like she knew that he didn't like to say anything twice. Amber was about to approach Sebastian, thinking that she was the important one in this room but stopped when Julian gave her sign to leave. Annoyed, she left the room.

"What makes you come back? I thought you say that you are going to stop with this world." Julian stated, as the matter of fact because that was what Sebastian told him before he left.

Sebastian took a seat across from his couch, tossing his leather backpack aside. It was suffocating. The formal clothes on him felt like its going to cut off his circulation, but not only that, returning to the place he thought he would found some peace had the same effect. Even when he already had three upper buttons unbuttoned. Rolling up his sleeves, he glared at the man in front of him.

"It's almost the day. Don't you even notice?"

Julian leaned back as he crossed his legs in lazy manner, staring at him uninterested. "What?" asked him as he lit up his cigarettes.

Sebastian didn't answer right away when he noticed that something was different when he looked closely at the cigarettes between his fingers. "Now you smoke weed?" He asked in disbelief.

Ignoring his words, he only took the deep inhale of the weed, feeling the smoke sneaking to every inch to his body, giving the pleasure he was longing for. "Have a problem with that?"

"We don't start this for something like that, Julian." He warned, clearly disliking the idea of him start using those kinds of drugs to intoxicate his body. He already guessed even some of the man downstairs already had their own party of drugs seeing their leader act like this.

A mocking scoff escaped his lips, with half lidded eyes; Julian shifted his gaze at him. "Don't be so naive, Sebastian. We already messed up since the very beginning."

"What the hell do you mean?" He raised an eyebrow, clearly didn't understand what he was trying to say because as far as he knew, they started this whole group thing because of their one mutual hobby, motorcycle.

"Don't tell me that racing while making bet with another group just a usual thing to do. We both know, sooner or later something like this might enter our world. So why should you question about it now?" He rolled his eyes, taking another long inhale of his weed.

Sebastian couldn't deny the fact but he also disliked that it wasn't the main intention when he started going everywhere, betting. He simply looked for the noise, since the house had always been so quite to stay at. He disliked being at home when everybody out there wished the opposite. Well he knew something that with his money he could get what he wanted. He met Julian at the club which was full of the people who had the same hobby as him.

Strangely amongst the people there, Julian was the only one that Sebastian felt that he had meet his other half. His behaviour, the way he thinks of something, even the simplest thing; the way they had the same sense of humour eventually pulled both of them to be closer to the point they agreed to build their own group.

Starting from the two of them, grew into four, six, and always multiplied as the time passed.

However, everything had changed.

Years passed by, events by events happened at the mean time. Sebastian not only gained a group that he could be himself but also gained another friend in the world that he thought he couldn't trust no one but for fun. The one he trusted the most, even more than Julian; the same man that Julian killed that night.