We go through the crowd, coming out right by the front on the other side. Elliot, Jade's other boyfriend and Ethan's stepbrother, is standing with their girlfriend by her car. She's undoing her long curly hair from a thick ponytail and slides into the driver’s side.
"Isn't she just the bravest, most beautiful girl in the world?" Elliot says with a bright smile as he closes the door for her.
Ethan nods enthusiastically, eyes stuck on the window of the car. "She better not drive stupidly."
I can't help but roll my eyes. "It's an illegal street race."
But I'm already not listening to them anymore. I watch Nyx jump up and down as a car comes to the finish line, wooing with everyone clapping around her.
"Fucking great," Elliot mumbles. He taps Jade's window, and she rolls it down. "You're racing Chase."
Chase comes out of the car, wearing a smug smile, and when Nyx hurries to jump in his arms, he pushes her away, turning to the crowd to accept all the compliments from his friends.
She skipped rehearsing the violin and she dressed herself sexily for him, but he's too busy filling up his ego with ass-lickers to notice her?
She tucks her hair behind her ears, leaving only her cute bangs that always seem to bother her eyes a little, and smiles awkwardly at the people around them.
Who on this fucking planet would be stupid enough not to jump at the first chance to have Nyx's attention? Who wouldn't bask in the light she shines all around her?
Her eyes dart to her skirt, and she dusts it off, eyebrows scrunching. Oh, she better not be wondering if she doesn't look good enough for him. He finally turns to her, wrapping an arm around her waist and leaving a sloppy kiss on her lips before slapping her ass to make sure he ticks all the clichés of the ungrateful asshole boyfriend.
See, she keeps saying I'm a psycho, but the stupid fury and jealousy I feel right now is enough to classify me as an emotional mess. Why the fuck is she letting him put his hands on her when she feels nothing for him? When I could take care of her. When I make her orgasm and discover more about herself than he ever has. For some fucking debt? She has so much to offer, and instead, he uses her as a housewife and cheerleader. She hastalent like no one else, fought to get to where she is, and that's what she accepts in return?
Enough of him putting his fucking hands on my muse.
He rolls his car back to the starting line, and I follow Ethan and Elliot as Jade drives hers there too. The look on Nyx's face when she sees me is priceless. I've never seen this mix of surprise, excitement, and anxiety in such a short time.
Chase notices me too. He’s only seen me once before, but that was enough to question his girlfriend about it. Enough for his fragile ego to wonder if she’d leave him for the rich, handsome musician who seems better than him.
I am.
So much better than him.
"Hi, Nyxie," I say casually, making sure he hears me calling her the nickname he uses for her.
As if me talking is proof that I'm really here and not a hallucination, her eyes widen, and she turns to Chase, back to me…and to him again.
"Erm," she hesitates, her cheeks hollowing as she bites on her tongue. And her eyes are back on me. "What are you doing here?"
I nod toward Jade's car. "Watching my friend's girlfriend race."
She crosses her arms over her chest, popping a hip and showing she's not impressed. "You have friends on the North Shore now? Coming to these races?"
"Ethan and I often work on music together," I answer, loving the way her eyes round as they dart to Ethan, and not knowing what to say when he simply nods.
Chase gets out of his car, rounding the front to come stand by my girlfriend.
"Is there an issue here?" he asks in what I'm sure he thinks is a threatening voice.
I shake my head, saving Nyx from having to defend me, but there's not a universe where I let her leave with him tonight.
So I do what I do best. I create chaos.
"You look beautiful tonight, Nyx," I say casually before softly brushing strands of her fringe out of her eyes.
I think her heart stops from the way she freezes, but her cheeks pinken in the most beautiful way. Oh, she's coming home with me tonight.
"Don't look so shocked." I chuckle. My gaze lands on Chase. "Someone had to tell you."
