The Way Things Change

Chapter 2

We walk into Noel's house at 9:30 to see almost everyone in the school already here, dancing, and drinking. Payton leads me towards the kitchen to get drinks.

"I don't think this is a good idea Payton."

"Oh come on you wanted to have fun, this is fun." She says.

I'm not so sure about that I think to myself. Payton and I reach the kitchen and some guy asks me what I want to drink. "Just water please." I say.

"Emily water is not fun."

"Payton I still have to work tomorrow." I say. "And you know I don't drink anyway." The guy comes back with a red solo cup for me and another red solo cup of vodka for Payton I smell mine to make sure it's water. It smells fine so I take a small drink to test it and surprisingly it's not spiked.

"Alright we should find Nick or Seth." I yell in Payton's ear. She nods her head and this time I lead. We find Seth about 10 minutes later dancing with some random girl he won't remember the name of tomorrow. He sees us and excuses himself from her to come over to me and throws his arm once again around my shoulder.

"Hey cuz, glad you could make it." He says the smell of beer rolling off him.in waves already.

"Yeah you know I think I saw some Scandinavian girl in the kitchen and she was asking for you." I tell him and direct him toward the kitchen. "You may want to go see what she wanted." I push him away.

"Really?" Payton asks.

I scoff "No. I just wanted to see if he was drunk enough to believe me." Payton laughs and downs the rest of her drink "I'm gonna go get another one." She says and kind of wavers when walking to the kitchen. I go and stand next to the wall while I wait for Payton to come back. This drunk guy bumps into me "Hey!" I yell "Watch it!" I say. He looks at me and keeps his eyes on me for much longer than needed. He continues to walk towards me and my back hits the wall but he keeps getting closer.

I put my hand on his chest and try to push him back as he asks "What's your name?" In a voice that makes me shake to the core.

"Excuse me?" Says an un-happy voice. The guy basically on top of me turns around I look over his shoulder to see Dawson standing there. I breathe a sigh of relief and while the guys guard is down I slip out from underneath him and to the side.

"But this lady owes me a dance." Dawson says and pulls my wrist lightly.

I walk away willingly with him as soon as we're far enough away from the creep I stop. "Dawson?" I ask and wait for him to turn around. He looks at me. "Thank you so much he wasn't backing away and you really saved my life right there." I say.

"People can be evil and terrible you don't have to thank me for saving someone from possibly getting touched or worse by people like him." He says and pulls my arm a little again.

"Where are we going?" I ask.

"Well I told him we were going to dance and I can't very well lie can I?" He says with a smile.

"I guess not." I say returning his smile.

He leads me to the living room and we stop on the outside of the group of people already dancing. Dawson grabs my cup from my hand and sets it on the mini table next to us. We kind of sway at first and keep a good couple of feet between us but as the song increases we get a little closer together. When we're close enough to where he can put his hand on my hips he does. My hips move with his hands and he's moving with the beat of the song playing. I move closer to him and put my hands in his hair. We get close enough I can feel the heat radiating off of him. There's really no space between us at all and every point of my body is touching his. Every time the beat increases we try to get closer together as if we couldn't get enough of each other. His hands move to the outside of my thighs and my hands fall to his neck. He doesn't stop moving but his eyes suddenly focus on my mouth. I look into his eyes and he puts his hand behind my neck and brings my mouth closer to his. At first he kind of stops as if unsure of what to do next but he progresses as if the we were on slow motion in a world of fast paced music, his mouth is a centimeter from mine when he is pushed away from me hard and I am pulled behind a rather tall and lean body.

"Dawson what the hell are you doing?" The person almost yells. I recognize the voice as Nick and step around him so I can see what's going on. Seth and Nick are standing almost in front of me staring Dawson. I realize a crowd has gathered around us bound to get larger any second.

"Nick we were just dancing!" I say.

"No Emily it's okay." Dawson says.

"Hey! You don't get to talk to her." Nick says and steps forward.

"I asked you to check on her not go dirty dancing with her." Nick says.

"Okay Nick I danced with him it was my choice it's not like he forced me to do anything!" I say and sure enough the music has stopped and pretty much everyone is around us now. Nick turns around to face me "I told you it would be fun to come here that doesn't mean" he picks up my water cup "you drink and dance with Dawson." He says.

"Okay first off" I grab my drink from him and throw it in his face " this was water and second I can dance with who I want." I say.

Nick just kind of stands there for a moment with water dripping town his face. Payton comes stumbling toward yelling "She hasn't had a drink since her parents died." I catch her before she falls.

"Wait. Why?" Some random person from the cross yells.

"It doesn't matter. Your done." I say and try and lead her towards the door. She pulls back and says "I'm just.getting started because her dad was drunk when he ran their car off the bridge and now her whole family except for her is.dead." She says. I drop my hands and start walking out with tears threatening to fall down my face. I turn to Nick and say "Find Alexus and make sure someone gets her home." And I walk.off.

"Emily wait!" I hear Dawson yell but I ignore it and break out into a run until I reach my car and get in it. I drive until tears blur my vision and I pull over. I put my car in park and let my tears fall. I hit the steering wheel a couple of times and just let myself sit there and cry.

Authors Note: I was told this was a confusing chapter so if you have any questions just comment them and I will do my best to answer them. The song that goes with this chapter is for when Dawson and Emily are dancing. Update Soon!