《Unknown》Six: Stranger Danger
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I managed to get dressed pretty quickly, just a casual outfit that is fit to been seen out in. Black jeans, blue t shirt with a white collar with cats on and my black boots, simple yet comfy.
Suddenly my phone starts to ring and its an unknown number. I choose to pick it up incase its someone I know at a pay phone stuck in need of help. "Hello?" I ask, waiting for a response but all I hear is heavy breathing. "Is someone there?" I ask, but still no reply.
"Forget what you saw, don't mention it to anyone else or you will pay." A booming voice said then hung up. I threw my phone on the bed and chose to Skype Caspar on my laptop instead.
"Ali! Glad you called-"
"Nows not the time for chit chat Casp, we're going out. I'll meet you at your hotel in 10?" I ask and he agrees, I grab my bag and shove my phone inside, I have no way of tracing the number back nor finding out who it is, but I have my suspicions.
Shortly after speaking to Caspar I arrive outside his hotel to see him waiting for me, I open the cab door for him to get in. "Get in loser we're going shopping!" I say and he rolls his eyes, then hugs me.
It's been far too long since I last saw Caspar in the flesh.
Flashback:
As we head through the very busy hectic crowd of dancers I managed to sit down at the bar. I looked next to me to see that Caspar had vanished I turned my head a few times in hope I could locate Caspar, suddenly I heard a loud yell and swivelled in my chair and as I fell off of it I got a quick glimpse in the direction of the yell and saw Caspar wave and I hit the ground, hard.
"Okay I am going to act like that didn't hurt." I mumbled to myself and since everyone around me was either drinking away their sorrows, or dancing like a maniac or eating each others faces it meant no one would notice me slowly pulling myself back up in pain.
I sat down and saw the bar tender just smile and I took my drink and drank not wanting my cheeks to blush in embarrassment. "Ali! Come dance with us!" I put down my drink and saw Caspar jumping up and down in the distance with a few strangers and I let out a laugh and shake my head and turn around back to my drink.
"You know, if you wanted to have a good laugh why not go join your boyfriend over there?" I lifted my head up to see the bartender leaning against the bar facing me, I began to blush in embarrassment by asking me if A. I had a boyfriend and if B. Caspar was my boyfriend, I choked on my drink at his comment.
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"I er we um." I coughed and he looked very confused. "I'm sorry, he's not my boyfriend, he's actually a friend that's all." I managed to say without sounding stupid.
"Oh I just thought a pretty girl like yourself would have a fella with her tonight." He smiled to me.
"Yeah I guess this is the way you talk to all the girls huh?" He pulled a hurt face then returned to drying off his glasses.
"Sometimes guys too." He winked and I rolled my eyes and ordered another drink then saw Caspar walking towards me and he collapsed into the chair next to me and took a large sip at his drink.
"Okay match maker time." I said smiling, I love matchmaking it makes me happy knowing I helped get a couple together.
"Sure, I'll give you a head start whilst I calm down." He took another large sip at his drink as I scanned the room, looking at all the potential women for Caspar.
Then I saw her.
"Caspar, how about her." I looked in the direction of her leaning against the wall talking to her friends, she was pretty, young and looks like Caspars type.
His eyes went wide and I let out a soft chuckle and I saw her separate herself from her friends and head in our direction, I winked at Caspar and headed over to her. Now is your chance Ali, think hard, she has a nice dress, comment on that?
"Oh my, I love your dress!" I say excitedly, what's happening to my voice? why is it so high?
The girl looks me up and down and scoffs before ordering her drink. I look to Caspar and he gives me a thumbs up, which I have no choice but to return and continue my mission.
"So, this may seem a little forward but-"
"Are you hitting on me?" she says offended.
"Excuse me?" I ask, flabbergasted.
"Are you. Asking me out?" She says very clearly pronouncing every word as if I am hard of hearing, which I guess is understandable in this club but still.
"WHAT?! No!" I yell, a few people turn to look at us and the bartender smirks.
"Well what the hell do you want then?" Ugh she isn't worth it for Caspar, I turn away and sass walk back to Caspar.
"So? what was she like?" he asked excitedly.
"She may have a pretty face but a pretty ugly personality." I shrug and sip at my drink. "Your turn." I say raising my eyebrow.
Caspar takes a look around the room then chuckles, I try to see where he's looking but I can't quite see what. "What are you looking at Casp?" I say standing up next to him.
"Oh, it's just that guy over there, the one whose sat alone over there?" he suggests.
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"Is it just me or does he look like-"
End of flashback.
"Still not over it huh?" He asks as I grip the steering wheel tighter.
"I just can't, its not something I can forget happened Caspar!" I raise my voice slightly then we remain silent, Caspar turns the radio on the relieve the tension between us.
As the music continues to play I contemplate with my thoughts, whether or not to tell Caspar about the phone call, as there isn't anyone else who I could tell. I hear the music being turned down and I glance to Caspar who has a serious expression on his face, which is a rarity for him.
"What are you thinking about Ali?" He asks and I let out a loud sigh.
"I think someone's after me." I say, now it may sound ridiculous for starters but Caspar laughs for a moment then stops once he realises I'm being honest.
"Who would be after you?" he asks surprised, I give him a look and he says oh.
"Well I wouldn't be surprised I mean you did lay it down to them pretty hard, plus there are a lot of people who would defend them or threaten anyone who got in the way Ali." His words washed over me, the millions of fans threatening me day after day if the truth came out, I feel a shiver go down my spine as we arrive.
Shopping ought to be distracting I mean, what's the worst that could happen?
As we got inside I ran straight towards the first shop I saw, Pizza Hut. I glanced over to Caspar and he saw it too. Who cares if its only 11:30 in the morning? Lots of people have a mid morning snack, or meal...
After our 'early lunch' we spilt up as he went upstairs on the escalator and I headed towards waterstones, ah book heaven.
I pick up a few books, as in 10 stacked up on each other and I can barely see where I'm going. "Ow!" I yell as I see all of my books scattered across the floor.
As I bend down to pick them up another person seems to be helping me. "I am so sorry! I was reading the blurb of this book and I didn't even notice you and well this happened." He explained. He seems apologetic, unlike many who would tend to just shrug it off and walk away, he had black hair, big glasses on his blue/green eyes, and a big smile.
"It's fine honestly, it's my bad." I say as I begin to restack my books but see there's only half, I glance over to the guy and he has the other half and grins, causing me to chuckle. As we make our way to the checkout we begin to talk more, turns out he is a friend of Zoe's, his name is Phil and his friend Dan was around somewhere, I had heard of them but I have never seen photos of them before, I guess it's nice to put a name to the face.
"Hi Phil, I'm Ali." I simply said as I put the books down, once I paid I took the bag and walked out seeing Phil still following me, I looked around to see if there was someone I could take him to if he is lost. "You alright Phil?" I ask and he nods, I continue to walk but he still follows. "Well, bye Phil." I say encouragingly for him to leave. He nodded again and walked off, strange.
"I'm sorry Ali, but I feel like I know you, is that weird? Have we met?" He asked questioningly, I took a deep sigh, its not like he could know me through Zoe.
Wait. If he's friends with Zoe he may he friends with Caspar, what if Caspar comes and finds me and then disaster strikes?!
I snap out of it as Phil looks at me concerned. "Um I don't think so, sorry."
"I'm sure I know you from somewhere, would you mind if we took a selfie? In case any of my friends know you from somewhere?" Huh, I'm sure some of them will....
"Y..Yeah sure." Why am I agreeing to this? He is a complete stranger...
Before I knew it he had already taken the photo and walked off, I took a moment to think what had just happened, I began to head towards the big Superdrug so I could get some makeup and try to make more of an effort.
"No chummy! That colour is too orange!" I froze on the spot and slowly turned to see my sister and Louise laughing and I ran to the nearest stand and hid, yes I hid.
"You alright there?" I turned to see Caspar and I pulled him down with me so neither of us would be seen, as he went to speak up again I shushed him and kept my finger on his lips. He lifted his head up and signalled they were coming closer, so I did what I do best, and be agile and run to a new spot, I see the Barry M area is free and leap to it as I spot Louise looking right at me.
"Chummy, I think I just saw-"
"DAN!" Zoe yelled and I let out a sigh of relief and looked to Caspar who was holding in a laugh and I glared at him.
Me and Caspar both lifted our heads up and my eyes went wide, I felt myself begin to widely blush and I couldn't take my eyes off of this guy, who was apparently 'Dan.'
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