SOPHIE'S POV
After using the bathroom, I ran back into the hallway but Tamara was nowhere to be found. I couldn't see her where she was supposed to be sitting so I immediately began to search around, hoping she didn't go far. I also used her picture on my phone to ask people but no one knows where she has gone. I ran to the security room to check for the CCTV, but then I don't understand why I couldn't find Tamara anywhere on the cameras. Confused, I stepped out and dialed Liam's number, I could have called her family but they're far away and calling them might escalate things so I called Liam instead. As the call connected, my tears began falling hard as soon as I heard Liam's voice.
Hello, Sophie? He said.
Liam, I think Tamara is in trouble, I replied. He asked me what happened and I began to narrate how we came for a party at the HD hotel and she was a little drunk. We're already on our way leaving but I asked her to wait for me while I use the bathroom and now she's gone, I don't know where else to look for her.
Wait for me, I'm coming now, he said before hanging up.
Some minutes later I saw Liam running into the hotel, panting and sweating.
Where's the security room? he asked me. It's this way, I replied as I led him towards the security room. And just like before we navigated through the cameras but there was no sign of Tamara coming out of the party ground.
The cameras have been hacked, Liam said.
How? I asked him, surprised.
All your footage after leaving Tamara in the hallway are intact but the footage of you two coming out of the party ground, and Tamara's footage after that were all deleted which means Tamara is the target, he explained.
So what do we do now? I asked him.
TAMARA'S POV
I stretched myself as I woke up but then my body felt so awful. I opened my eyes only to find myself in an unfamiliar environment. I sat up immediately and the blanket covering me slipped off my body revealing my nakedness. I was shocked, terrified and aggrieved as realization dawned on me about what had happened. I looked around but found no one except the pieces of my clothes on the floor and a new cloth on the bed beside me. I tried to remember something but the last thing I could remember was looking for Sophie and then bumping into someone. I came down from the bed dragging myself with the pain on my lower region as I put on the new clothes. Before leaving the room I checked through the window and found out that I'm still at the HD hotel. Luckily for me, there weren't many people around and soon I was able to find my way home. On getting to my apartment someone flew out of it and pounced on me. Leaving the already terrified me shaken to the core. On realizing it was my friend Sophie, I began to recover. She looks more terrible than me with dark circles and red puffy eyes which indicates that she has been crying for a long time. After finding out about what happened to me she began with her endless apologies but I know it wasn't her fault. I have always been an optimistic person, so even though I don't know who took advantage of me, I'm still not going to let it pull me down.
LIAM'S POV
I and Tamara had been close friends from university although I'm her senior but we share a very good relationship that so many people envy. The only problem is that our feelings aren't mutual. After realizing that she could be in trouble, I immediately pulled up my troops in search of her but who would have thought that this search won't be ending until the next morning when Sophie called to tell me that Tamara has come home. When I got to her apartment, she had just gotten out of the shower. She looked fine but I'm sure that something was wrong. She said she couldn't remember anything else aside from waking up in the hotel room. I took the address of the hotel room and left after making sure that everything was ok. I understand that the two girls were hiding something from me but I just can't let it slide so after leaving I checked the CCTV cameras of the hotel again and yet again there was nothing. I even hired an expert to recover the deleted footage but he couldn't. I know Tamara wasn't lying, it's just that the mastermind is really something else and I don't even want to think about what could have happened in that hotel room.
VINCENT'S POV
I'm just coming to the company directly from the hotel where I had spent the night. I had thought about waiting for the girl to wake up but it seems like she wouldn't be waking anytime soon. I think it's her first time and I also did so much to her so she really needs that rest that's why I left her behind but that doesn't mean that I will be copping out although it's also her fault.
I was in a meeting with some business partners yesterday when I realized that my wine had been tempered with. I left the meeting immediately with the hope of escaping the dangers lurking around since I don't know who wants to drug me. I was already on the escape route when a girl heavily bumped into me. I realized she was going to fall so I held her up there by embracing her. Her body on mine felt like magic. The drug is already taking effect and it was difficult not to have a reaction but before I knew it, she was already snoring on my shoulder. That's when I noticed that she was reeking of alcohol. I decided to drop her in one of the hotel rooms but that was a mistake because when I dropped her on the bed she had refused to let go and was even squirming, messing up her clothes in the process and revealing things I could no longer resist and that was it for me. It's her fault but I won't shirk my responsibility.