Another round for the birthday girl!

As more time filled up, the days dwindled even faster and before I knew it, the last day of the year arrived. And my dear birthday. And even then, for a while I felt as if someone was following me, when I was on my way to the club where I had an appointment with my friends.

Chris wanted to celebrate the special holiday with his family, so he didn't go with us, but there were still enough of us, because Arno also decided to go. And that's how we agreed to visit one of the better clubs when the opportunity arose.

I dug my hands deeper into the pockets of my black pants and turned the corner where, like most of the city, there were a lot of people. Nevertheless, these were in front of my neon-lit destination, and among them were my friends.

With a nod, I greeted everyone who had already arrived when I reached them, to which they returned the greeting. We stayed in our little circle to wait for the rest, which consisted of Arno and Jasper.

When the two finally arrived, we all made our way together into the bowels of the club, where the music was playing quite loud and the multi-colored lights were flashing from one side to the other above the heads of the dancing bodies.

The first stop was at a festively decorated bar, where everyone except Mali had a starter shot. The named one just clincked her glass with us with some lemonade, after which she grabbed Elias and dragged him to the dance floor.

I gave them one look with a laugh as I took my glass of whiskey from the barman in a kind of festive outfit. I then turned to the rest of the group, who began to discuss what kind of girls they liked in here.

I shook my head and looked at Yuki, who didn't seem very excited about the topic of conversation, so he was just looking at the contents of his glass. I was glad that the little prince gave him the day off so he could enjoy the last day of the year, too. Though, he didn't seem too excited so far.

After a while, a group of women appeared near us, the members of which in various interesting and provocative clothes began to cast striking glances, especially at Yuki, who still looked unimpressed. This was taken advantage of by Hideaki, who flirted with everything that lived.

I also preferred to pay attention to my golden drink, but that didn't work for me for long. One of the girls started demanding my attention, she appeared at my place and put her hand on my shoulder. I gave her a questioning look, to which she immediately responded with a nod of her head towards the dancing bodies: "May I ask?"

I nodded, to which I poured the rest of the contents of the glass into myself and placed it back on the bar. In the next moment, the red-haired woman was already dragging me between a crowd of people, where she stopped and turned to me, after which she put her hands on my shoulders in such a way that she came quite dangerously close to me.

Smirking I put my hand on her slim waist, to which we both started to move to the rhythm of the not-so-slow music, while colored lights flashed above us and here and there someone accidentally bumped into us. But I passed on that because I was just going to have fun that evening.

Moments later, we parted our ways as I made my way to the bathroom. Later, I wiped my hands, to which I turned and walked out the toilet door back into the bowels of the club.

Mali and Elias had left us not so long after, saying that they still wanted to walk around the city and have something to eat, while the rest of us had not yet planned to end up at our current location.

I looked towards the bar, where I wanted to go, but at that moment I rather stopped my steps when I fixed my gaze on a certain person. I had to admit that the black long skirt and some kind of white short top really suited Damien. Which was probably also the reason why some people around him were staring at him.

I was about to walk back to my group and not pay any more attention to the curly haired guy when he also looked in my direction with a challenging smirk. I raised a questioning eyebrow at him, but rather did what I originally planned and went to the other side of the bar where my friends were standing.

"Another round for the birthday girl!" Hideaki exclaimed as one of the bartenders placed shots of clear liquid in front of us.

I rolled my eyes at his words, but still smiled and took my glass in my hand, sniffing its contents but the sharp smell of alcohol forced me to pull my nose away. So I was just waiting for it to kick in after clicking. Which luckily happened before long.

"Do y'all want to stay here all evening?" Yuki suddenly spoke up as the newly ordered drink came into his hands.

Arno shook his head, to which Hideaki added: "No. We still have to steam in the streets, of course."

I shook my head with a chuckle at his words and took another sip from another glass of golden liquid, when I felt someone put an arm around my shoulders. Confused, I looked to my right where Damien appeared greeting the others just as I was about to ask what he was doing.

Hideaki looked at the unknown person thoughtfully, while Arno looked surprised after scanning him from head to toe, as he probably didn't expect to see that person in such clothes, and Jasper was no different. Only Yuki greeted him back rather dispassionately.

I preferred to go back to my drink, but there wasn't much left, so I had to order a new one. However, Damien still kept his arm around my shoulders, so after I took another shot of whiskey I turned to him: "You´re not gonna let go?"

The person in question chuckled with a head twist, to which I rolled my eyes. When I had to bear it, I shifted my gaze to the other guys around, who returned to their previous conversation about work. Very entertaining, I must say.

"Hey, isn't this the club where they do the 'lights out'?"

I looked at Hideaki curiously. This was a different club than where I recognized the mentioned thing, but it was possible that they held it in more places. It must have been a great attraction for people, I must admit.

The others present shrugged at Hideaki's question. Not everyone came up here to steam often. But everyone immediately put the aforementioned event behind their heads, to which they looked at the dancing people. They probably had similar thoughts, because Jasper and Hideaki exchanged glances: "Let's go dance."

I giggled and hoped that the two of them would go alone, but unfortunately they took the rest of us with them. We all pushed our way through the crowd to the center of the action, where we stayed for a while moving to the rhythm of the music resounding in the space around.

It wasn't that bad to dance in a group because these guys were comic. Jasper and Hideaki were doing some weird but funny moves while the rest of us tried to be more serious. Although the only one who was serious in the end was Yuki, even though he had some alcohol already.

I was just laughing at another joke the two of them were saying when I noticed that a few people around started whispering excitedly to each other. However, nothing happened in the next moment. Only Hideaki began to pay attention to the girl further away.

As I focused on the next thing that was going on - which was a girl in some kind of dark pink dress trying to get Yuki's attention, everything around went dark, causing various reactions from those around. Surprise and joy or astonishment at the same time as the beginning of a new song.

And so, I wanted to get away from the dense annoying crowd, but at that moment I felt a stranger's touch on my waist at the same time as his breath approached my ear: "Wanna disappear?"

I had to chuckle, to which I turned to face Damien. It's just been weird how much time we've spent together lately. And we couldn't even consider ourselves friends, because we were definitely not that close.

I had planned to get some words out of me, but they were lost the moment I felt Damien grab my hands by wrists, which he then placed on his exposed waist. I swallowed nervously as soon as I felt his warm skin under my palms and fingers.

His hands were no longer on mine, but I felt their touch on the undone last buttons of my shirt. I didn't understand where they were going with his actions until I felt his breath dangerously close to my face. And not only that one. When I raised my head slightly, our noses were touching.

I suddenly understood enough and I wasn't surprised that people liked the 'lights out' here, because maybe it was quite exciting to do things in public sometimes, but at the same time no one could see you. Deep down, I laughed at that thought.

I slowly moved my hands from Damien's waist to his lower back, feeling muscles uder his skin tighten slightly under my fingers, forcing him to come a little closer. But I moved one hand to his face to force him to do what I wanted. To kiss me.

The brunette obviously understood where I was going with my steps to which he pressed his lips to mine and I moved my hand from his cheek to the back of his head pulling him closer in a kiss which made him smile. And I smiled slightly too.

For a moment, I completely let go of the fact that there were people all around us, that we were in the middle of a club where some rather slow music was playing. Feeling comfortable in the dark, we shared a few long kisses until Damien decided to interrupt.

Suddenly I felt a touch on the zipper of my pants and before I could react, below. Fortunately, he didn't go too far, but even so I moved my hand from his face to his neck threateningly, so that I could start strangling him at any time even though he didn´t do anything really bad.

Unfortunately, I didn't get the reaction I wanted, instead I heard a weak chuckle from Damien, which only made me tighten my grip: "Put that hand away."

However, there was only another chuckle: "Or what?"

My other hand was no longer resting lower on Damien's back at this point. I grabbed his wrist, which was uncomfortably low on my body, and if I had long nails I would have dug them into him.

"Damien," I managed through gritted teeth.

"I know you want it," he stated confidently, as I felt him take a small step closer, if that was even possible, while his hand moved which made me shiver.

I wanted to say something to him, but at that moment, a lights came on around us, and I let go of his neck and forcefully pushed him away from me. I didn't even forget to give him a murderous look. He was right, but it was quite uncomfortable in here.