The rest of the school week flew by peacefully. Everything went on the same. Natalia didn’t have confrontations with the B. R. A. T. S strangely enough. Yeah, they attended classes together but never crossed paths.
The edited videos and framed pictures of her ‘parents’ were all deleted! There were still rumours, yes. But they were all about Bianca’s dethronement. It took the school by storm!
Though the B. R. A. T. S didn’t give the school press any comments, everyone heatedly discussed it behind their backs! The gossip was so hot and frightening that no one remembered the wronged princess or even taunted her or spoke about it.
It was as if nothing ever happened!
Friday came and yay! The girls were having their first official sleepover at Nicky’s!
Natalia was excited but Elva?….. eh…. totally wasn’t. Because she wanted to avoid Ricky Winterfield, the crazy ass almost took an overdose of sleeping pills so she wouldn’t have to go. They packed their night bags and Elva drove them over, stopping at every mile trying to change Natalia’s mind.
“Elva, I swear on anything you believe in, if you stop this car midway one more time, I’m gonna hit you for attempted murder on a busy highway!” Natalia yelled as countless cars impatiently hooted behind them.
Elva miserably groaned before driving again. FINALLY, they arrived at the mansion safely and ALIVE!
Nicky was waiting at the door with a wide grin. She ran over and pulled them into the house and up her bedroom before they even had the time to gape at their surrounding.
“Stop acting like a darn teenager on her first date!” She yanked at Elva’s gloom as she shut the door behind them.
“Besides, Ricky’s not in and probably won’t be home for the rest of the night.” She shrugged. But instead of feeling relief, Elva shot her a suspicious look.
“Doing what?”
Nicky grinned mischievously. “Do you really wanna know?” And Elva’s scowl almost burnt her!
“Okay.” She cooed, not doing much to hide her wicked smirk. “He’s doing what regular horny teenagers do on a Friday night.”
Elva gazed away and scoffed, cussing mightily under her breath…. so much that Nicky had to block Natalia’s ears to preserve what was left of their innocence. Seeing the fuming brunnette stomping over to her sleep bag, the duo shared eye contact and laughed.
This was gonna be fun!
***
Meanwhile, somewhere not too far away;
“Dude, you’re ruining this game!” Ricky yelled in frustration and threw the ball at Arian.
“I’m sorry! I wasn’t paying attention, okay? You didn’t have to yell!” Arian snapped back.
The young French had been stressed out with the whole issue with his father forcing him on Selena…. well, figuratively.
‘Gosh, it’s getting real frustrating!’ He emptied the last content of his beer and tossed the can away…. somewhere. Ricky’s gaze narrowed to meet his.
“What?” He almost barked.
“You seriously need to get laid.” He snorted.
“And I know just the perfect girl.” Damon hooted and interestedly sat up on the couch, grabbing his phone.
Arian shot him a nasty glare and ignored him but the latter was too flippant to notice.
“She’s hot, classy, blonde, a model based in Paris. But not to worry though, she’s in town for a couple of days and a badass in bed with the sexy name, Natasha.” He purred, smirking like he was pleased with the picture he was seeing. Jeffrey who was passing by curiously poked his head in.
“How ’bout changing the ‘sha’ to a ‘lia’…..’cause this one looks like she’s gonna eat him up!” He noted and they laughed.
“You sure you don’t want a pic?” Ricky continued the taunt. But the hot French was better at ignoring idiots.
“Let’s go out.” He decided after a while.
“To see Natasha?” They chorused and he impatiently scowled at them, watching them laugh out their brains!
“Shit! I can’t.” Ricky stopped and groaned out suddenly. “Nicky wants me home early so I can’t get wasted.”
“Why would she want you home early? She’s not your mom.” Damon cocked a brow.
“I don’t know, but i’ld be stupid to disobey! She could be an angry smurf sometimes. And besides, she’s having a sleepover and wants me to be available in case a couple of drunk teens get out of control.”
Arian and Jeffrey snapped their heads his way. “What sleepover?”
He gave them a look.
“And what alcohol??” They echoed again.
“Really?” Damon drawled. They stared at each other before casually clearing their throats.
“Haven’t y’all heard of the latest kind of sleepover?” Ricky asked with a strange light twinkling in his eyes. They nodded negatively, ignorant of his sarcastic tone.
He smirked.
“Well, it’s almost similar to a bachelorette party and a club combined! There’s the hot boys and girls all dressed in flimsy nighties, the disco lights, club rock and an endless amount of alcohol! The whole point however is to get totally wasted and wake up the next morning with the random guy you banged last night.” He concluded with a shrug. Arian’s brain did fifty three cartwheels in a second!
He frowned imagining Natalia being in the midst of all that craziness, and it deepened when the image of some random douche running his bloody eyes and filthy hands over her body on some random couch!
He unconsciously jerked up at that thought. The young French had to intervene.
Even if it meant bulldozing the mansion to end that freaking party!!
“Aren’t you supposed to be on your way?” Jeffrey beat him to it, picking up Ricky’s jacket.
“Yes. We’ll drive you over.” Arian stated, leaving no room for arguments. Ricky and Damon chuckled in secret.
“No, not now. She told me to come around by midnight. By then, most of them would’ve been skunk drunk and about to get REALLY busy.” He stopped and faked an aggrieved face.
“I wasn’t even invited! Probably to avoid a necking session with Natalia….. or God forbid, my own twin sister! Yuck!” He dramatically shuddered. Seeing their expressions, Damon laughed so hard that he nearly fell off the couch!
“Also, none of you freaks were invited and the sleepover is STRICTLY by invitation. So it’s left for y’all to find out how great and hard their night was by 10 o’ clock tomorrow morning.
“So please, let me be. I need all the energy I can get to babysit a bunch of horny teens by midnight.” He finished with a wicked smile and relaxed fully on the couch which Damon had fallen from. And he was still laughing and withering on the floor like a snake!
Arian rushed to Ricky with the intention of tossing him out Jeffrey’s window into his convertible downstairs. But unfortunately, Jeffrey got to him first.
Shit!
“Guess what? I’m officially dismissing you from my house tonight! You’re going home this instant and that’s final!” He bossed and mercilessly pushed him off the couch on top Damon.
When Ricky refused to budge, the duo pulled him downstairs and tossed him into Arian’s car. Damon came out later on bringing their keys.
Wonder what’s darn funny! The young French seethed, kicking his engine to life.
”Don’t worry sugar, your knight’s on his way!” He gritted and drove off…
***
The girls were rockin’ the mansion!
All the employees were dismissed early except the guards on duty outside. Becky was a bit late but made the party extra fun. They played loud music, painted henna on their feet and chased after each other in their nighties, using big teddies to smack themselves.
Snacks (mainly junk) and drinks were placed on every available table in the living room and hallway. So much for Natalia’s diet plans.
They spread out hundreds of balloons on the floor which they had ordered earlier and sprinkled glitters on their hairs. After playing ‘catch me if you can’ for an hour, they were about to move into the next fun stuff when the front door banged open, rudely interrupting them!
The girls flinched in fear thinking assassins had barged into the house after knocking out the guards! They almost passed out but Nicky was the braver one. From where they stood up the stairs, she scurried over to a room at the end of the hallway under the cover of the loud music.
A minute passed before power went out and the entire mansion became dark! They almost screamed out their lungs but held on when Nicky reappeared with a flashlight.
Becky grabbed her phone to call the cops since neither of them were with theirs. But it went dead as soon as she switched it on because it had a flat battery. They opted to use the telephone but it was downstairs in the living room!
Clutching their teddies tightly, they fearfully awaited their fates…
***
Arian De’ Argent stormed into the mansion expecting to see alcohol and half nude teens but found a princess party missing its princesses instead!
“Wow. Seems they’ve taken the party upstairs real quick.” Damon mocked and Ricky laughed. But it only made Arian more mad!
He was about to stomp upstairs and tear down every door to rescue HIS princess when the lights went out.
“What the heck?” Damon flinched.
“Maybe they love the darkness more. Cheeky!” Ricky naughtily purred and they laughed like it was a competition! Arian felt his blood pressure rise above normal.
“Natalia! Can you hear me?”
“Nicky! You there?” They called out but their voices echoed back empty handed.
“Give up! They’re waaay too busy to care.” Damon hiccuped and Arian automatically turned to glare at him.
“If you don’t shut up, I swear on Ricky’s life you’re gonna leave here in a damn body bag! And you…” He was about to cuss at Ricky when he was rudely interrupted with a smack on his back!
“Ouch! What the hell…” Four girls jumped out of nowhere and began beating them up with furry stuffs! They yelped and dashed out in different directions.
The weapons were soft yeah, but darn painful!
They kept stumbling around in darkness until Arian, Jeffrey, Ricky and Damon got back to the doorway and bumped into each other! They groaned and crashed on the floor.
Their attackers got on top and continued hitting them mercilessly. Arian’s head started to pound and ache!
“What the hell’s going on here?!” A third party yelled from the doorway.
They froze and turned to see Selena flashing her phone’s torchlight at them. Behind her stood a stunned looking Leonardo.
Thankful for the light, Arian looked up to see that the heartless attacker sitting on him was none other than the princess he thought needed saving.
Natalia!
Chapter 72