I'll Run to You // Awsten Knight

Chapter 10-Party

October 9th, 2017

tw: eating disorder

This is the last day off they'll get until the night before the last show in Houston.

It's currently 6:00 pm and a friend invited all of them to a party. 

Parties aren't really Awsten's thing. The only thing that happens is people trying to get him to drink, and girls who've had to much, trying to grind on him. They make him uncomfortable and he's always the one driving everybody home. Geoff has thrown up on him way too many times for Awsten even to like the idea of going.

Hope on the other hand, was excited to go, she hasn't been to a party since college, and it was only the first semester, then she dropped out.

"Awsteennn," Hope begs. "you can't just stay here by yourself the whole night, that's not fair. I'll stay with you the whole time, I promise I won't leave your side."

"You promise?" Awsten frowns from the couch, being overly dramatic. 

"Yes, I promise, please just come with us. I want you to have fun that isn't on a stage."

"Okay fine, just stay away from Geoff after he drinks, and also umm..I don't drink. I never had any of that stuff in my life." Awsten keeps his head down while explaining everything to Hope by the door, everyone else is getting their hair ready or doing something until they have to leave.

"I won't force you, don't worry. If some shithead tries to make you drink, let me know." Hope puts a hand on his back, making a circle motion.

"I don't know..."

"I promise."

"Okay fine, I'll go. But you promised me."

"I know." Hope grins.

They all take two ubers to Zakk's family's house since he's visiting them for a few weeks it's about a 40 minute drive. "Good luck to the person that has you in a car with them." Geoff says. Hope, Jawn, and Awsten are going in a car together, and Geoff, Otto, and Lucas are in the other.

"Nah man, they're gonna love us." Awsten says confidently.

"They're only going to like us because we know Hope, if you're friends with a celebrity, you're automatically cool." Jawn explains, looking for the car. "Oh, there they are! See you there guys, you're gonna miss out in the cool car."

"Pshh, yeah right, never gonna happen." Lucas talks back, he knows that their ride is going to  be more interesting than the one he's sharing with Geoff and Otto.

They each get into their assigned Uber and give the driver the address of Zakk's house, they haven't seen their friend in quite a few months, and since they're in the state, they might as well come see him.

The Uber that Hope was in, surprisingly didn't freak out when she saw her, she was actually quite calm and friendly. She introduced herself as Kerry and Awsten and Jawn told her their names.

"So you're the guy Hope's ex is talking about?" Kerry asks.

"Um yeah.." Awsten obviously got a little nervous, maybe even scared.

"Is it true that you guys are dating? You'd be so cute if you would consider to." Kerry just goes on and on about how Hope and Awsten would be great together.

She just carried on and didn't let anyone get a word in the whole ride, the whole 40 minutes.

They finally made it to Zakk's family's house, there looks to be 30, if not more people in the house. Lights flashing, music blasting, laughs coming from every direction. Hope forgot what it was like to be at a party. She's never been to a lot of casual social gatherings with just friends, she felt herself getting sweaty, but Awsten calmed her.

Geoff was the first to the door, automatically looking for Zakk. 

Geoff finally found him and they walked to the group, Zakk introducing himself to Hope, and hugging everyone. It's obvious to all of them that he's already had a lot to drink, and there's 5 more hours left of the party.

Geoff, Jawn, and Lucas split in a group with Zakk. Otto just tries talking to girls, and being mistaken for one multiple times from his hair. But luckily he found someone to talk to and spends most of the night talking to her.

Awsten and Hope are together..again, leaving Awsten even more nervous.

"Told you I wouldn't leave your side." Hope smiles in his direction, nudging him with her elbow.

"Haha, yeah, thanks. Um, what do you want to do?" Awsten doesn't have a clue of what to say.

"I don't really know, I haven't been to a party since college and all my friends did the talking for me. I'm also not a huge fan of dancing in front of a lot of people."

The two head to the backyard, it's dimly lit and quiet.

"This would come straight out of a teen rom com I swear to fucking god." Hope laughs.

"Oh shit you're right.." Awsten looks around the yard some more. There's a deck by the back door, a table and four chairs. Hope and Awsten decide to sit down.

"Eliza's been talking more shit about me on social media, and it's actually mostly you. She's only using the ones of you that weren't your very best, which is a hell of a lot less than the good ones. She'll run out soon, that is unless she finds...the old ones." Hope checks her phone as she speaks, checking twitter.

"What do you mean ol-" Awsten gets cut off yet again.

"She's done it. She's officially drawn the line. We're only one state away, can't we drive to her house?"

"Hope, what the fuck do you mean that she's drawn the line? And old ones?" Awsten  is just now realizing, "wait, that bitch."

Eliza's been posting very old pictures of Awsten from when he's gone through some stuff, the worst being his eating disorder. During his late teen years and early twenties, Awsten was very very skinny. He'd lose his appetite often and barely ate at all. He'd be bullied in school for how he looked with his body, but luckily, he had Jawn through middle school and high school, then went on to find Otto and Geoff. Awsten asked the fans to stop posting those pictures of him, and many respected it, but most of the attention is going to the people that do it anyways, regardless of what Awsten had said about it.

It was disgusting Hope that people would do this to someone, especially since she knew what happened at that time and that it could have even killed him.

Hope continues to go through Eliza's twitter, commenting on most of them for her to take them down, she never listened. 

"Wooah, woah, calm down," Awsten puts an arm around Hope's shoulders, "I can deal with it. Just relax and stop, I'll take care of it tomorrow, it's okay."

Awsten was so calm about this, Hope expected him to be more angry or upset, but he didn't. This surprised Hope, she never expected someone to act like this about something so important. Awsten grabs her phone and put it in his pocket.

"Wha- give me back my phone," Hope speaks loudly.

"I told you I can handle this, just sit back and trust me, please." Awsten does his best not to let her get heated over this, it was something he has to deal with and doesn't want Hope to worry about it. He takes her hand in his own and intertwine their fingers together. Hope puts her head on Awsten's shoulder. 

They soon hear a big splat of something wet on the deck. 

It's Geoff puking.

"Why does this not surprise me." Awsten says, Geoff leans on him and they walk to a chair, Geoff sits and passes out, head falling straight onto the table.