lies

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taytum moore
Lily wanted me to dance with her even though I'm not the biggest dancer. I mean slow dancing is something I always do but I don't really do anything else other than that. Both Lily and I are holding hands swaying our hips to the music. I feel someone come up behind me and turn around to look letting go of Lily's hands. It's a guy who looks to be in his early twenties. He has a middle part with blonde fluffy hair and hazel eyes.

"Hi, I'm Peter. I was wondering if you wanted to dance?" He says and my body just tenses. I mean I don't really wanna dance with a guy. As it is, I'm embarrassing myself out here dancing with Lily. Plus in general I don't wanna dance with him then he wants my number. That is something I don't really need right now.

"I would love to! But my friend she um-" I say getting cut off by Lily who has a smirk on her face. This girl is gonna kill me.

"No, it's fine. Don't worry about me." Lily says giving me a smile and looks over at Peter giving him a smile.

"I'm gonna be at the bar. Find me later." She says walking away towards the bar. I look at Peter giving him a small smile. The awkwardness is making me wanna run home and hide under my covers. A slow song comes on thankfully. The song "Beautiful People Beautiful Problems" by Lana Del Rey and Stevie Nicks. Peter grabs my hand and puts his hand on my hip. I put my other hand on his shoulder and I started swaying my hips.

"Blue is the color of the planet from the view above
Long live our reign, long live our love
Green is the planet from the eyes of a turtle dove
'Til it runs red, runs red with blood"

Peter looks down at me and smiles. I give him a small smile back and look over at the couch in the back of the club. Josh and Harry are still sitting on the couch. I see Lily walking over to them.

"We get so tired and we complain
'Bout how it's hard to live
It's more than just a video game"

I think this is the most awkward slow dance I have ever had. I really wanna like fall or something. I'll be embarrassed but at least this awkward dance will be over. Peter lets go of my hand and puts both arms around my waist. Now it's just getting more awkward or maybe it's me and I'm just awkward. I put both my arms around his neck. The last time I danced like this was at Tanner's birthday party at the beginning of the year. I feel myself tense up and stop dancing.

"Sorry I just thought of something and I'm sorry I didn't mean to-" I say trying to stop thinking about Tanner. Every time I've thought about Tanner this past month I have tensed up and froze. The more I try to keep what he did to me out of my head the more I think about it and for once I just don't wanna think about it anymore. I'm tired of remembering everything that happened to me. I've been going to therapy since the accident and some days I just think about what my therapist told me to do when I think about him. Most days it doesn't work.

"No no it's fine. You want a drink?"He asks, raising his eyebrows at me. I want to get wasted tonight and just forget everything for once.

"Sure." I say and we start walking towards the bar. I look back over to the couch and see Harry staring at me. He looks mad. Why is he staring? He looks like a mad man looking at me like that. I mean he still looks hot. I turn around and look back at the bar. No thinking about that Taytum. I can't think about him being hot right now. I'm still mad at him.

I would walk over to the couches right now but I don't want to be in an awkward position again. I've already been in an awkward position tonight with Peter. He is sitting next to me at the bar right now so it's still awkward but not as awkward as before when we were dancing.

"Here you go." He says passing me a drink the bartender passed him. I look at him confused on what

"What is this?" I ask him and furrow my eyebrows. He takes a sip of his drink before explaining.