***Nevaeh's POV***
It's about closing time and I'm making my last rounds for drinks cause the kitchen closed an hour ago, about the same time Daniella left. Once I finished giving them there last calls and they finish, I start cleaning. The VIP table is still here finishing up I look over he's staring at me with a smile and the girl is just giving me daggers I look away to clean up everything.
I hear the girl arguing with him, over staring at me. I just chuckle. "Hey Chris… can you get the rest of the tables and I'll get the floors?" I ask him with a smile. He nods.
The VIP table is finally gone. And we start cleaning up there as well. And they left a huge tip. I split it with Chris since he's helping me. "I don't want it…" I shake my head, "Yeah, but you're helping me clean so please." I smile and he just rolls his eyes. "Fine." He smiles and we just continue cleaning until it's time to go.
Franky walks up to me as I'm gathering my things. "Hey did you want me to walk you out to your car?" He asks me with concern. "Umm. No I should be good."
"Are you sure? Because, that guy from earlier… It's got me concerned about you… Like he's not going to give up so easily." I shake my head, "No, I'm sure I'll be fine… I've got pepper spray. But, thank you for your concern…" I smile and give him a hug.
"Of course just be careful hun." I nod. "Always Frank, always." And with that I set outside.
I get outside and notice the red porche is still were it was when I was on my break. I wonder who owns it.
I finally get almost to my car when someone hollers out, "Hey cutie… Getting me kicked out… Very… Very… Bad idea…"
He comes up to me slowly as I try to back away. He slowly shakes his head, "Now that's a bad idea, pretty lady."
"What do you want from me!?" I holler at him. His eyes glaze over with want, and he looks me up and down slowly, "I think you know what I want." He says in a low deep voice.
I shake in fear. I try to reach in my bag for the pepper spray but he grabs my arm. "Tsk, tsk, tsk." I look back up at him in fear and he pushes me against my car. Taking my shirt and ripping it in the middle. Tears start slipping out.
All of a sudden the guy is flung off me by, the same guy from the VIP section earlier. Wayde stumbles backwards and lands on his ass. "What the hell!" He screams out.
The other guy looks back at me with concern as I have fallen to the ground with tears in my eyes. The other guy is stunned on the ground. And the other guy walks up to me and I furrow my eyes.
"Are you okay?" He asks me as he takes one of my hands to help me up. I nod as I say, "Yeah, th. thank you.." I look in back of him and notice the other guy getting back up. "Look out!" I scream as the other guy lunges towards us.
The guy from the VIP grabs the other guy by the neck tossing him aside like it was nothing. He hit his head and got knocked out.
"I haven't gotten a chance to introduce myself before Bella. I'm Matteo Romano." I wipe my tears as I smile and shake his hand, "Umm. My name's not Bella it's Nevaeh Marie."
He chuckles, "Well, you should go home." He looks down at my shirt and I blush realizing it was ripped. "And possibly change." I chuckle. "Yeah, good idea." I smile looking down we were still shaking hands we pull them away at the same time.
"Well, thanks." I smile shyly, and he smiles back. "You don't have to thank me." I shake my head, "But do... You... You saved me from getting raped and good knows what else…"
He smiles and opens my door after I unlock it, "Thanks… Again." He nods, "We'll see each other again, Bella."
I smile and nod, "If you say so..." He smiles and shakes his head as I drive off to finally go home. He was my saving grace.
I finally make it home a little after 2 thank God I have tomorrow off. But I walk in to a pacing Daniella, "Where have you been?" She questions Me as I walk in. "And what happened to your shirt?"
I groan at her million questions. "You remember the guy I had kicked out earlier tonight?" I ask as she nods, "Well, he came back and tried to rape me in the parking lot…"
She cuts me off. "Wait he tried raping you? Why didn't you have Franky walk you out?" She asks looking pissed and disappointed.
"Well, the guy who was watching from the VIP section earlier came to my rescue…" She looks shocked.
"Matteo actually helped you?" I furrow my brows how does she know him? "Umm. Yeah…" I look over to her and ask, "How do you know him?" She looks stunned as if I should know him to, "Everybody, and I mean everybody knows who Matteo is…"
I look confused, "Well, I don't…" She laughs a little but realizes I'm not laughing and stops I quirk one of my eyebrows up, "What's so funny?" She smiles, "Oh you'll see when and if you see him again."
"Yeah… Well, he did say he'll see me soon…" She looks shocked. "But, I don't think so…" she furrows her brows, "Why not? If I were you I would…"
I go to my room and grab a shirt to change and come back out to put on my tank top. "Well, I'm not you…" We both laugh at the fact.
"Yeah, I know." I look over to her and ask, "Are you working tomorrow?" she nods, "Yeah, the night shift only thank God." I smile, and she asks, "How about you?"
I shake my head, "Nope I worked a long ass double today and get tomorrow off thank God…" She smiles and says, "Well if I see Mr. Hottie tomorrow I'll tell him you said hi." I roll my eyes, "Well, I'm going to bed. Night love."
She smiles, "Night babes. Now that you're safe."
I go to my room and hit my bed hard with my body. I'm completely soar from today and my body just melts into my bed. I sigh as I close my eyes and drift off to sleep. My mind wanders to Matteo saving me earlier.
I wonder who he was, and I wonder how Daniella knew him. Finally after several minutes I drift off to sleep.
🌹***Next Day***⤵️🌹
I wake up to banging on my door. I groan and roll over. I hate being woken up so I try to ignore it until it becomes more frequent and sounds louder. So I flip out on my bed kicking my legs and flailing my arms around. "What!" I holler as I look at the time. It's noon time.
"Are you getting up sometime today?" She asks, should of known it was her she knows how I am. "Fuck off… Late night…" I can hear her laughing through the door. "What do you want?" She chuckles. "You got mail out here." I roll my eyes, "And…"
"Well, can I open it?" She asks. Why does she wanna open it. She never has before. "What… No… I'll get it when I'm up… Why do you wanna open it?"
I could hear a sigh from her, "I was just wondering… I think you have a secret admirer…" I roll my eyes, "Go away!" I yell to her. "Ugh. Fine… Just wanted to let you know I'm leaving soon."
"Okay." I roll back over trying to get more sleep. But, I can't. I toss and turn until I hear the front door close and I eventually get up.
I pick out my clothes for today and go to the bathroom to go pee and shower. As soon as I turn the hot water on I let it steam up the bathroom which felt nice against my pores.
After a few minutes of getting it to the right temperature I stand under the hot water letting it roll down my aching muscles as I try to recall what happened last night. I remember the guy from the VIP section, Matteo rescuing me from Wayde the mega jerk.
Thinking of Matteo got a smile on my face again. He was hot and fast. I didn't even see him coming up to us. But, he did and yanked Wayde right off me. Matteo seemed sweet, and his smile was charming.
I finish my shower and I dress in my dress like, sexy, Lacy top and my tight ass pants that flare out at the bottoms. It was my sexy outfit and I wanted to dress that way since it's how I felt at the moment.
I brush my teeth and hair. And I do my makeup before going out to check what I got from the mail man.
It's a box with an opened card on top. It read;
Dearest Nevaeh,
I hope you accept my invitation to my formal ball this weekend. If you'd like you may bring your friend as well.
In this box is a couple different dresses one's for you. You may choose one and the other can be for your friend.
I'm really, really hoping to see you there. The address and number is all on the invitation, inside of the box with the dresses. You can call or just show up.
I hope to see you.
From Matteo Romano🌹
I just stare at the card. That's probably why Daniella was pissed. She must of seen the card. I bring these to my room. The dress choice was mine. Not Daniella's and she wanted first pick I bet. Typical for her.
I open up the box and see the invitation with the address and number written down. Then I look at the beautifully designed dresses. I try one on that my boobs fit in perfectly it made them pop out more, it was netted going up to my collar bones. Jewels lining it up and down the dress and it was perfect. A slit going down the side of my legs.
The other one wasn't really for me it was more for Daniella. It was thoughtful of him. But, the question was do I go? I'll ask Daniella when I see her. I'm nervous that's for sure.
I clean the apartment up and then decide to go do some errands. I go grocery shopping. And when I'm done getting groceries I decide to relax for a bit. When I look at the clock it says it's about 3:45 now.
So I get dressed with my bikini on under my outfit that I've had on today in case I decide to use our pool out back when I get back.
All I knew is I couldn't sit still. I had to be doing something. So I went out to go to Sutherland's to see Daniella to tell her the news. About what was in the package. And I didn't know if Matteo would be there. But, it would be an added bonus if he was.
I finally make it to Sutherland's about 15 minutes later and it's after 4. I walk in and I'm greeted by Franky, Jessi, Tammy, and Jane but no Daniella. "Hey, where's Daniella?" I ask Tammy, "I don't know I think she's out back. Why?"
"I wanted to ask her something…" Tammy just smiles, "Well, she was in quite the mood earlier. Do you know why?"
I shake my head, "I was to she woke me up after my long ass day here. Annie's not here anymore." She just nods, "yeah I heard what went down yesterday by Freddy… That girl was always taking him for granted."
"Yeah I know… So Daniella is out back?" I ask and she nods, "Thanks…" She smiles as I walk out back.
I spot Daniella outback near the fridge. "Hey girl sorry about this morning." She turns towards me with a smile. "Its all good so did you open the package?" I nod my head with a smile, "Did you read my card?"
She nods her head fast, "Sorry I couldn't help it…" I cut her off, "Is that why you wanted to open the package to get first pick of them? To get the better dress?" I ask, one of my brows arched.
She looks hurt at my accusations, "I would never do that to you." I smile and shake my head, "I was joking."
"I actually wanted to talk to you about… about going… Is it a good idea?" I ask and she puts both of her hands on both of my shoulders, one on each side. "Of course it is. We will both go and have a great time. He chose you to go of all people," She rolls her eyes so I can't see but do, and she continues, "He wants to see you again." She smiles.
"You're right…" I groan internally at my nerves hopping all over the place. "Alright we'll talk more later. I'm going to go home and jumping in the pool." I give her a hug and head out.
Before leaving I tell everyone to have a good night. I walk out into the warm summer air, and see the same red porch as the night before. I see someone sitting in it through the tinted windows but couldn't make out who it was. But, they stared back.
I stare as I pass to get to my car. Once at my car I get in and put on hard target before taking off. Daniella ends up running out to me before I take off, I turn down the music and roll my window down.
"Good. I'm glad I caught you before leaving… I'm going to be home late I'm closing." She says with a frown and I just nod. "Its okay. I'll be fine and will probably still be awake when you get home. My nerves are all over the place today."
She nods in understanding. "Alrighty just take a nice cool swim it always helps you relax." I give her a side hug and smile, "Thanks." I say not for the advice but letting me know she was going to be home later.
After saying our goodbyes I turn my music back up and head home. When I get home I grab a towel and head out back to the pool. There wasn't anybody out here so it was perfect.
I swam, floating on my back with my eyes closed trying to calm my nerves. I open my eyes and stare up at the sky and watch the clouds passing by.
The pool was very deep and big, it had a couple of diving boards a small one and a very big one high up. I always used the small one I was afraid of heights. But I wanted to brave it out and use the bigger one.
I get out of the pool and climb up. Once at the top I look out over the fence and see the red porche parked across the street and furrow my brows in confusion.
I decide to ignore it and focus on conquering my fear of heights. So I focus on the diving board. I take a deep breath in and out as I jump doing a couple flips as I dive into the pool. Once I breach the surface of the water I look up. My nerves have calmed since doing it.
I felt better. I felt invincible. I felt like I could do anything I wanted to do. I go to do it a couple more times. And I finally felt better I grab my towel and wrap up. And I grab my clothes and go to head in. I round the corner and I run into someone on accident.
"Ooof." I gasp out. "I'm so, sorry I wasn't watching were I was going…" I say as the guy turns around. It was Matteo he was by himself standing outside. A blush creeps on my neck and his at this predicament.
I narrow my eyes at him, "Are you following me?" I ask teasing him with a smile afterwards. He holds up his hands. "Umm. Not exactly…" He smiles, and continues, "After last night I was slightly concerned so I came to make sure you were okay…"
I laugh out, "I'm fine… Are you sure that was it?" I ask with another teasing smile as I continue on, "Or did you wanna check to see if I was going to be there this weekend?" I ask.
"Okay… you got me…" We both laugh. I clear my throat, "Well… Did you want to come up for a couple minutes? My roommates at work she's closing tonight."
"Sure… Is it the other girl from Sutherland's Daniella?" He asks and I nod as we make our way up to my apartment not realizing he said her name. Whatever.
As we enter, "Can you give me a few minutes I need to get out of my wet clothes?" He just nods, and I walk off to my bedroom to change out of my bathing suit, and I throw my long brown hair up in a bun.
Once changed I go back out to the living room. "I'm actually really happy you came by.." He smiles with an arched brow. "You are?" He asks and I nod. "Yeah. I wanted to thank you again for last night…"
He shakes his head, "You don't have to thank me… Any decent person would of done the same…"
I shake my head cutting him off, "No… not just anybody." We share a smile and talk more getting to know each other. Instead of the couple minutes it turned into a few hours.
We are sitting there laughing when Daniella walks through the door. I look over to her and her eyes roam between the two of us. "Is it that time already?" I ask looking at my phone my eyes widen it's past 2.
"Umm. Yeah way past it." She says smiling between us. I'm rude where are my manners, "Umm yeah Matteo this is my roommate Daniella… Daniella this is Matteo…" They shake hands.
"Nice to meet you Matteo." She smiles. "You too." He says being polite.
"So how did this happen?" She asks pointing between the both of us seeming to be jealous.
I blush and so does Matteo, and we explain what happened. I explain about when I got out of the pool. And he finished by what he was doing around here. She smiles at the sweetness and seems a little jealous to.
I even explained about inviting him up for a few minutes which turned into hours from talking and getting to know him.
"I should probably get going I didn't realize it was getting so late." I smile and nod at him. "Of course… It was nice seeing you again." I say as I walk him to the door.
Before he goes out though he turns to me, "So about Saturday…?" I nod cutting him off, "We'll be there." I say with a smile.
He nods and leaves. As soon as he's gone and I turn around Daniella has gooey eyes over him. Yup. She's got a major crush and he has eyes for me. This may end badly.
"Lucky you… He came to check on you for the other night and this Saturday.." she laughs and continues, "We are so going…?" She asks as if it were a question I nod in agreement.
"I told him we would…" She squeals. And I cringe back at the noise.
After talking about details and what not we both go to bed.
***Matteo's POV***
It's almost time to leave here and I'm just staring at Nevaeh, and her beauty. She's beautiful. She looks over as I'm staring at her. I smile and she gives me a small one I'm thinking cause Sarah is staring daggers at her.
Once Nevaeh looks away Sarah starts yelling at me and everyone else leaves because of her, "You know damn well we are suppose to be together!" Excuse me! I'm what.
I give her a disbelief look, "Excuse me! I don't have to be with you or anyone if I don't want to be…" She gives me daggers and arches her brow at me.
"You know as well as I do what will happen if she were in the picture instead of me. I'm an heiress. She…." Sarah looks over to Nevaeh with the same arched brow. "She's a waitress." She gives a menacing look at her now.
"So what! I don't care about status… I care about being different. I care about someone who's different. Not you, you're all the same!" I say fiercely to her.
She gets up to leave and turns to me and says, "Well, if something happens to her don't say I didn't warn ya."
I'm pissed at her threat, "You threatening her now?" I ask in a low rumble. She smiles and replies, "No! Why would I do that… I'm simply just warning you what's going to happen…" I know deep down she was right, I shouldn't want Nevaeh but I do.
Sarah leaves and I'm left here by myself so I put a large tip on the table and head out to my car to wait to see her again. To see if she was going to be safe leaving, because of the guy from earlier.
When she finally comes out she makes her way to her car but someone steps out of the shadows. I can't really make out who so I'll wait to see what happens. I notice fear on her face and that's all it took. I jump out and start my way over.
He pushes her against her car and rips her shirt in the middle. I hear him say, "Tsk. Tsk. Tsk." I run over and grab him by the shirt and throw him down to the ground with a huge thud on his ass.
I hear him scream out, "What the hell!" as I look back to Nevaeh. She has tears in her eyes and has fallen to the ground.
"Are you okay?" I ask her as I put one of my hands out to help her up. She nods and says, "Yeah, th. thank you.." She looks in back of me and yells to me, "Look out!" She screams as the other guy lunges towards us.
I grab the other guy by the neck tossing him aside like it was nothing. He hit his head Against the ground and got knocked out.
"I haven't gotten a chance to introduce myself before Bella. I'm Matteo Romano." I say as she wipes her tears away and smiles at me. We shake hands as she says, "Umm. My name's not Bella it's Nevaeh Marie."
I chuckle, "Well, you should go home." I look down at her now ripped shirt and she blushes probably just realizing it was ripped. "And possibly change." She chuckles. "Yeah, good idea." She says with a smile, looking down we were still shaking hands without realizing it, we pull them away at the same time.
"Well, thanks." She smiles shyly, and I smile back and tell her, "You don't have to thank me." She shakes her head, "But I do... You... You saved me from getting raped and good knows what else…"
I smile and I open her door after she unlocks it, "Thanks… Again." I nod and say with promise, "We'll see each other again, Bella."
She smiles and nods when she says, "If you say so..." I smiles and shake my head as I shut her door. She leaves to go home.
Once I saw her vehicle gone in the distance I heard the guy start to stir so I take care of him, "Don't you ever touch again!" I holler at him as I punch him. "You ever touch her again and I'll castrate you!" I say with an evil glare punching him in the face. And bringing my knee to connect to his face. "Do you understand me. I'll do a lot more if you call the cops you understand you piece of shit!"
The guy just nods and I go to my vehicle and speed off, Into the night. I get home and ignore everyone as I just go upstairs to go to bed.
🌹***The Next Day***⤵️🌹
The next day I go shopping I pick up a couple dresses for the formal ball on Saturday hoping Nevaeh will come she can bring Dani if she wants. I would rather her not come, but if it makes her more comfortable why the hell not.
I pick up a couple dresses and put them in the box with an invite to the ball. It has the address and number written down on it. But I specifically write her a note.
Dearest Nevaeh,
I hope you accept my invitation to my formal ball this weekend. If you'd like you may bring your friend as well.
In this box is a couple different dresses one's for you. You may choose one and the other can be for your friend.
I'm really, really hoping to see you there. The address and number is all on the invitation, inside of the box with the dresses. You can call or just show up.
I hope to see you.
From Matteo Romano🌹
I get her address from my uncle Freddy and drop it off at her door knock and run when I hear footsteps.
Later on around 4 I sit outside Sutherland's not knowing if she was working today. Then I see her walking in she didn't notice me. She wasn't even dressed for work. Maybe she was just visiting Daniella.
About 20 minutes later I stare as she walks out. She actually notices me staring but I don't know if she can see me. We stare for a moment and I hear her bumping her cars sound system. Hard target. I recognize that music. I loved it.
Daniella comes running out to her. They talk real quick before Daniella runs back in and she turns up the music again and leaves.
I wait a few before I go to leave. I'm just driving around until I realize I want to see her. Before I realize what I'm doing I'm out front of her place. I stare out my window all of a sudden I look up to someone on the diving board to the pool and she dives.
After a little bit I work up my nerve and get out of my car to walk up to the apartment.
All of a sudden someone runs into me, "Ooof." She gasp out. "I'm so, sorry I wasn't watching were I was going…" She say as the I turn around. It was Nevaeh she was by herself walking around the corner outside, with a towel around her body. A blush creeps up on my neck and hers at this predicament.
She narrows her eyes at me, "Are you following me?" She asks teasing me with a smile afterwards. I holds up my hands. "Umm. Not exactly…" I smiles, and continue on, "After last night I was slightly concerned so I came to make sure you were okay…"
She laughs out, "I'm fine… Are you sure that was it?" She asks me with another teasing smile as she continues on, "Or did you wanna check to see if I was going to be there this weekend?" She asks with an arched brow.
"Okay… you got me…" We both laugh. She clear her throat, and then asks "Well… Did you want to come up for a couple minutes? My roommates at work she's closing tonight."
"Sure… Is it the other girl from Sutherland's Daniella?" I asks her and she nods as we make our way up to her apartment.
As we enter she says, "Can you give me a few minutes I need to get out of my wet clothes?" I just nod, and She walks off to her bedroom to change out of her bathing suit. I just look around the apartment waiting on her.
Once she's finished she comes back out to the living room. "I'm actually really happy you came by.." I smile at her an arch my brow. "You are?" I asks and she nods. "Yeah. I wanted to thank you again for last night…"
I shake my head, "You don't have to thank me… Any decent person would of done the same…"
She shakes her head cutting me off, "No… not just anybody." We share a smile and talk more getting to know each other. Instead of the couple minutes it turned into a few hours.
We are sitting there laughing when Daniella walks through the door. We look over to her and her eyes roam between the two of us. "Is it that time already?" Nevaeh asks looking at her phone her eyes widen.
"Umm. Yeah way past it." Daniella says smiling between us. "Umm yeah Matteo this is my roommate Daniella… Daniella this is Matteo…" Nevaeh introduces us even though we know each other. We shake hands.
"Nice to meet you Matteo." She smiles. "You too." I say just being polite.
"So how did this happen?" Daniella asks pointing between the both of us seeming a little jealous.
I blush and so does Nevaeh, and we explain what happened. Nevaeh explain about when she got out of the pool. And I finished by what I was doing around here. She smiles at the sweetness and seems a little bit jealous to.
Nevaeh even explained about inviting me up for a few minutes which turned into hours from talking and getting to know each other.
"I should probably get going I didn't realize it was getting so late." Nevaeh smiles and nods at me. "Of course… It was nice seeing you again." She says as she walks me to the door.
Before I go out the door I turn to Nevaeh, "So about Saturday…?" She nods cutting me off, "We'll be there." She says with a smile.
I nods and leave. After getting home I'm bombarded by Donnie, Renzo, and Ricki. "Where have you been?" Donnie asks me the others staring.
I roll my eyes, "I was with Nevaeh if you must know…" All I hear around the three was ooh's around the room. "How did that happen?" They all ask, I groan, "What is this a million questions. It just happened. I want her to be my date Saturday…" They all just stare after me as I go up to go to bed.
Once upstairs I take a nice hot shower and when I'm done I put my boxers on. I climb in bed staring at the ceiling and soon my eyes drift and I fall asleep.