Tess and I enter the loud house with red solo cups thrown across the room carelessly. I'm wearing a short pale red dress with white poka-dots on it. Tess is wearing a short white lace dress with tall boot high heels. People are dancing and making out everywhere. Some people are already on the floor deeping their make out session. Tess grabs my wrist and leads me through the crowd. She leads me to the kitchen, which is less crowded surprisingly. Tess grabs a cup off the counter and pours a blue liquid inside it. The strong smell of alcohol fills my nose and makes me cough.
She hands me the cup as I stare at with an arched eyebrow. I look up to her and she gives me the same look.
"Come ON Blair. Remember what I said? Live a little." She says putting a hand on my shoulder.
I sigh and grab the cup hesitantly and swish the substance around in my cup absentmindingly. A sudden voice from behind me makes me stop swishing the drink around and I look up to see Tess's boyfriend, Ben and my other friend Serena with her boyfriend, Sam.
Serena greets us with a smile and a wave as she looks up lovingly at Sam. Sam does the same, but he looks down at her and he pecks her on the lips quickly smiling brighter. Serena snuggles closer under his arm and Sam tightens his grip around Serena's shoulders.
Ben walks over to Tess and kisses her on the lips passionately making them both smile. I akwardly watch all of them and go back to swishing the liquid around in my cup with my head down.
Serena giggles at something Sam says and Tess laughs loudly at his joke. Ben has his arm around Tess' shoulder and begins to gently rub her shoulder with the tips of his fingers. He knows Tess loves that and she proves that statement once again by leaning up and kissing him.
After a while, I'm getting pretty bored so I begin drinking the substance out of curiosity. It burns my throat making me cough. Tess turns around and pats on my back.
"You okay?" She asks not looking down at my empty cup.
I nod and slowly answer after stopping from my coughing fits.
"I drank the blue stuff you gave me. It burnt my throat and made me cough. But, it feels really cool. I'm sort of, energetic?" I say smiling and finishing off the rest of the cup ignoring the burning.
Tess smiles at me and takes my cup away to refill it. I walk over to Serena and Sam as they greet me, a little surprised that I actually came.
Eventually, I finish off five drinks and Serena is gone with Sam to the dance floor when her favorite slow song plays. I hold my sixth cup in my hand watching all the happy couples smiling at each other as they dance along to the beautiful song. It doesn't take long before Tess is dragging Ben on the dance floor because this is her favorite too.
As I watch the happy couples look into each other's eyes, I gulp down my 6th drink. I walk over to get another refill, stumbling a little. I grab the bottle and pour its contents into the cup. When I walk back over to the place I was originally at, Tess was walking in my direction. She swiftly took my cup and she looked very worried.
"How many have you had?" She asks.
"This makes 7!" I say giggling.
She sighs and put the cup on a random counter. Ben comes over to help Tess take me away. Ben ends up carrying me to the car so I don't end up stumbling and falling to the ground. Tess goes over to her car and unlocks it opening the door. Ben puts me on the seat and I fall asleep as soon as I meet the cushioned, seat warming, chair.
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I wake up in my bed with a pounding headache and no memory whatsoever of what happened last night. All I remember is the blue liquid taunting me and all the cute couples out on the dance floor. I roll over to check the time and see that it's 12P.M. I get up and grab a pain killer pill out of my cabinet and drink it down with a bottle of water that I keep in here just in case.
The headache calms down, but it's still there. My phone buzzes and I roll over to get it. Tess' contact name flashes on m screen and I answer the call.
"Hello?" I say weakly rubbing my head.
"BLAIR! You got DRUNK! Your head must be KILLLING you!" She says saying other words louder than the others.
I groan and turn the volume down. "Whatever." I say.
"There's another party next week! You HAVE to come. People will start to notice you're coming to these parties and you might be able to become some what popular. You want a name in a high school right?" She says knowing the answer.
"You know the answer, Tess. But listen, it was hard enough to sneak upstairs last night and not get caught by my parents or my siblings. They're going to be suspicious as to why I have a horrible headache and why I won't eat. Questions will start to rise, and eventually I'll get caught." I say while getting up to go shower.
"You're thinking too much. Blair, you need to learn that sometimes, staying stiff won't help you. Letting loose feels like something awesome and you need to experience it. Think about it and call me later or talk to me before Friday. Bye. " she then hangs up and I sigh.
I grab my necessary items for the shower and turn the water on. I then proceed to do my shower routine.
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Once I'm finished showering, I step out and dry off. I wrap my towel around me and hurry over to my closet. The outfit I decide on is a comfortable gray T-Shirt that says 'please don't' in bold black letters, along with black sweatpants. A knock on my door catches my attention, so I walk over to the closed door and open it revealing my brother, Matthew.
"MATT!" I scream wrapping my arms around his neck and shoving my face into his chest. He laughs and hugs me.
"You're back from college! When did you come back?" I say smiling pulling away from the hug to look at him.
"Last night. I decided to take this weekend to come home." He smiles back and ruffles my hair.
"Well, I'm glad you did. Let's go downstairs with everybody else." I say tugging his arm out the door and towards the stairs.
We walk downstairs and to the family room where everyone else is. My mom Brenda, my dad Gary, my younger brother Aiden, my little sister Penelope, and my younger, teenage sister Luna. Let's just say my parents wanted a houseful. We all begin talking and socializing like we usually do when Matthew comes back. I smile as the whole family interacts with each other.
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Struggles
RomanceBlair has always been known as the good girl, the innocent girl, or the nerd girl. She has the perfect life, but one mistake changes everything. What will Blair do when reality hits her in the face?
