Something About Her

Chapter One

"Cammy, can we please go now, it's getting boring and," Ariana whispers, her voice mixed with alert and a silent yell, "people are starting to do drugs in the back!"

Cammy, her real name being Camille, laughs waving Ariana away. She tucks her auburn hair behind her ear, and licks her thin pink glossed lips. "Calm down, Ari. It's fine and it's fun. You're being way too uptight." Camille hands Ariana a red plastic cup filled with beer and taps the spot under her chin, "Have a drink and mingle a little." She displays a half smile on her face, winks, and turns away from Ariana to talk to a guy with white hair that spiked up in the weirdest way, and a girl who was wearing what resembled a net with a swimsuit top and short shorts underneath.

Ariana sighs, agitated. She turns around and instantly bumps into a guy. Her drink splashes all over his shirt and Ariana stares at the mess trying to apologize but only stuttering.

The boy makes a grunting sound and grabs Ariana by her arm, picking her up a good 2 inches off the ground. "You ruined my shirt, you moron. How can you be so stupid?" He clenches her arm tighter, and she starts to shake in fear.

The only thing Ariana can focus on is his angry brown eyes, his clenched jaw and bared teeth. She begins to stutter, "I- I-"

"You even sound stupid!" He pulls Ariana closer to his face then someone yells:

"Put her down, idiot. It was an accident." 

He jolts his eyes towards the sound, and when he looks at the person who said it, his grip on Ariana's arm loosens a bit. "Go away, Amaris. This has nothing to do with you." 

Ariana closes her eyes tightly, still scared shitless. Her lips are moving as if she's speaking except there was no sound, and she is still shaking.

The girl by the name Amaris sighs, closes her eyes, and runs her fingers through her dark hair, stopping halfway. Eyes still closed, she says, "Jericho, please don't make today harder than what it already is. You can wash your shirt, it's not that big of a deal. Put her down." 

Jericho huffs and lets go of Ariana, who is still moving her lips while her eyes are closed, and walks away mumbling about how girls are bossy and he can never have his way. 

Amaris walks up to Ariana and taps her arm. Ariana jumps and stares at Amaris before she realizes that it's not Jericho. She calms down and smiles a little, her lips shut. Amaris takes the cup out of her hand and throws it in the trash. She looks at Ariana with her head tilted slightly to the right.
 
"I'm Amaris."

"Ariana."

Amaris nods her head and says, "You look flushed."

Ariana clears her throat and pulls back her hair, "Guess I had too many drinks." She tries to smile, but it falls when she sees Amaris' face.

"Sure kiddo, and I have a pet unicorn." She shakes her head slowly while chuckling. "All night you've been dodging people, hiding in corners and eating chips. You wouldn't even drink the water."

Ariana blushes and crosses her arms across her chest. She looks down and asks, "So you were watching me?"

"Well," Amaris stares at the wall behind Ariana, "I didn't want anything to happen to you." She looks off to the left, wincing, as if she's never said anything remotely humane to anyone before.

Ariana doesn't speak for a moment, instead she looks all over Amaris and takes in her features. Her hair is curly and is so black it looks blue, but the first thing you would notice is the beautiful patch of white hair in the front of her head. She has eyes that are so brown, they're almost black. They even have this kind of shield over them as if she has something she's hiding. Her eyelashes curl upwards just like Ariana's but they're thicker and darker. Her eyes are deep set and mono-lidded. Her skin is a light shade of brown, kind of like tan sand. And her lips are full, the outline of them tainted the color of her skin. She also has a beauty mark on the corner of her left eye.