Erin and I navigated through a wild crowd of moving bodies, even bigger than the night before. The music was loud and the lights flashed. There was a sign outside that advertised a Deftones cover band as the entertainment for the night, but they weren’t on yet.
We wove through the crowd towards the bathroom at the back of the building. She held onto my elbow. My eyes scanned our surroundings, maybe a little too eagerly, for a certain pair of bright blue eyes, hopefully staring back at me.
I'd done some soul-searching, or something like it, at least. I delved into the security camera recordings by myself, after Erin and I retired to our own bedrooms to get ready to go back to Monarch.
I’d heard things he probably never intended for me to hear, during an altercation between him and a fem
