Stay

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Trigger warning mention of abuse and panic attacks 

I woke up the next morning feeling so sore. I just sighed and slowly sat up and got out of bed. I looked at my phone it was 11:00 am. I looked over to see Quin fast asleep in her bed. I took my meds and sighed. I grabbed my makeup bag and got ready. When I looked in the mirror I saw my neck was now a dark purple and gross yellow. I sighed as I lightly ran my fingers across it before starting my makeup. I put on some light grey eyeshadow and some mascara and clear lip gloss. Then straightened my shoulder length hair I fluffed it a little for some volume. then brushed my teeth and put on some deodorant. I walked back into the main part of the room and saw Quin sitting up checking her phone. "Goooooooood Morning" I said to her and made my way to my suitcase to grab my clothes for the day. "Um good morning" she said with a laugh as put my  high waisted ripped black jeans on and my baggie black T-shirt and tied it just below the waist of my jeans. "get up bitch" I said and threw my pajama shirt at her. She laughed and stood up. 

As she got ready I packed my back pack. " OK I have my camera, camera batteries, tripod, flashlights, ghost equipment, headphones, phone charger, pocket knife, and pepper spray" I said and zipped it as Quin came out of the bathroom all ready to go. "ok my back pack is all ready" I said as I put my black combat style boots on. My ankle looked pretty rough it was a little swollen and bruised I just gritted my teeth as I laced my boots ignoring the pain. I wasn't about to have quin worry about me and ruin our first day in L.A. I grabbed my back pack and put it on ignoring the pain from It hitting the bruises. we grabbed our bags and packed up. "Ok lets go" quin said as she called an uber.

We got in our uber and made our way to the rental car place. 

After getting our rental car Quin drove us to get some lunch. We ended up at a random restaurant and ate and sat and planed our week. We didn't even realize how long we had been at the restaurant until the sun was starting to set. "Holy shit we've been here for 6 hours" I said reading the time. It was 7:15pm. We decide to start making our way to the haunted Millenium Biltmore hotel.

As we pulled into the Hotel parking lot I looked up at the hotel and got a weird feeling in my stomach I just blamed it on my anxiety and got out of the car grabbing my things. As we made our way into the hotel quin gripped my arm tightly. Quin isn't as into the paranormal as I am so she would end up glued to my side usually. We checked in and made our way to the 11th floor and to our room. When we stopped at our door we realized we were right next to the presidential suite. "Ooh Fancy" I said as Quin nodded and opened our door. There was just one bed in our room. "oh were cuddling tonight" I said as quin laughed. "damn right" she said. "Better tell Elliot I'm stealing his girlfriend" I said to quin as she sat on the bed. Elliot was Quins boyfriend he treated her like a queen. She just laughed as I grabbed my camera and started filming. "Hey guys welcome back to my channel. I am so excited to say that quin and I are in L.A at the infamous  Millenium Biltmore hotel" I said as quin waved. "So we are gonna start by going down to the Crystal ballroom and starting our investigation see you then" I said and turned of my camera.

We got in the elevator and made our way to the first floor. When we got there we realized that the ballroom was closed off to the public. "Fuck" I said as we looked at the staff only sign. I think we can sneak in I said as quin shook her head. "Absolutely not" she whisper yelled. "Come on Q where's your sense of adventure" I whispered. "back in our hotel room where we are actually ALLOWED to be" she whispered. "I'm going" I said as she grabbed my arm. "Don't leave me alone" Quin said. "Then come with" I said. I waited till the coast was clear and grabbed Quins hand and ran into the ballroom.

When we got in I gasped. The room was was beautiful with gold accents round tables and little balconies. "Woah" I breathed out. We Made our way to the center of the ballroom and just looked at the beautiful Chandeliers. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a person on one of the balconies. When I looked I saw a man in a suit standing there and staring directly at me. I grabbed Quins arm and ran to hide thinking it was an employee. I kept looking back making sure we weren't being followed. I wasn't paying attention when I ran right into someone causing me to fall on my ass. "oof" I groaned as I hit the Floor. "Are you okay" the man I ran into said  causing me too look up. When I saw who it was I gasped. It was Colby Brock from Sam and Colby. They were amazing and were the reason I started my channel. "I'm ok" I said as he held out his hand to help me up. I grabbed his hand letting him pull me too my feet. I looked at quin who was standing next to me quietly when I looked back at Colby I realized Sam was a couple feet behind him.

"I'm Colby and This is Sam" Colby said. "Its nice too meet you I'm Marissa and this is my best friend Quin" I said and leaned down and picked up my camera. "Do you do YouTube" Sam said as he came and stood right next to Colby. "Um yeah" I said and gave a small smile. "We do too" Colby said "Really" I said acting like I had no idea who they were. I didn't want them to think I was just a crazy fangirl and think they had to be nice to me.

"Why were you running" Sam asked as I Laughed. "Well we snuck in here and I thought I saw an employee" I said. "You snuck in" Colby said as he laughed. "Yeah it was her idea" Quin said and pointed at me as I looked down and laughed embarrassed. Just then a security guard came in. "Hey your not supposed to be in here" He said and walked towards us. I opened my mouth to say something but was cut off by Colby. "There with us" Colby said as I gave him a confused look but kept my mouth shut and grabbed Quins shaking hand. "Oh I'm so sorry" the security guard said. "Its ok" Sam said as the security guard turned and left. Once he was gone I turned to the guys. "You didn't have to do that" I said with a small frown. "We wanted to" Sam said with a smile. "Thank you" I said and Sam nodded then turned to talk to Quin who was a few feet away now looking around the dark with her flashlight. I turned and looked up at Colby and made eye contact. "You sure your okay I knocked you down pretty hard" Colby said. "Yeah I'm okay" I said.

I looked around and saw Quin and Sam walking back over to us. "So I thought we cold split up and cover more ground if you ladies are down for it" Sam said. "I'm down what about you Q" I asked and looked over at her. "Yeah sure" She said and smiled. "Ok who's goin with who" I asked. "I can go with Sam" Quin said and gave me a knowing smirk. I rolled my eyes. Quin knew I had a huge crush on Colby. But I knew there was no way he liked me I wasn't pretty I had lost some weight so my skin on my stomach was loose and I had stretch marks. He's always around the L.A model types so I knew I had no chance.

"Sounds good to me" Sam said as I nodded. "Yeah ok" Colby said. We decided we would meet in about and hour at 10:00pm. Me and Colby left the ballroom and Sam and Quin stayed there. As we made our way to the elevator I looked at him and raised my eyebrows. "Where are we going" I said as we stepped onto the elevator. He looked at me and smiled "To the presidential suite" he said. "Really" I said with wide eyes. "Yeah Sam and I are there for tonight" Colby said and chuckled. "Quin and I are right next door" I said. "No way that's awesome" he said as we made our way off the elevator.

When we got to the presidential suite Colby unlocked the door. When we walked in the door I instantly had a weird feeling. I took a deep breath as I felt my chest get heavy. "You ok" Colby asked and put his hand on my shoulder. I flinched as soon as he touched me. "Sorry" I mumbled. "don't worry about it" Colby said. As we walked around the suite quietly I was hit with a smell of cologne that reminded me of Mark. I could feel the panic building inside me as I started breathing heavy. I had to get out of here I didn't want Colby to see me break down. I quietly walked into the bathroom ignoring Colby saying my name. As soon as I got into the bathroom I shut the door and locked it. I started hyperventilating as memories of Mark hitting me throwing me around and holding me down flooded through my mind.