Never Fall

8) Spinning

"You spin my head right round right round
When you go down, when you go down down"

Chapter 8

I walked into the house, wasted as hell, I was drunk off my mind and so high that I could almost hear heaven. Kacey went home, she didn't smoke or drink so I chilled with Shane, my weed buddy.

As soon as I stepped into the Lorenzo's house, music was blaring. I guess they decided to throw the party after all, and I was already baked. I stumbled inside laughing, everything was so funny to me right now. The lamp on the table was black wtf hahaahahaha. OMG there was people dancing what's wrong with them? I started dying of laughter and losing my balance, I almost fell but I felt familiar arms catch me.

"Ariana, your high..? And drunk?" Jesse asked me. I giggled, "You too silly." I said touching his nose. He smiled sheepishly, "Just a little, but not like you," he replied wrapping his arms tighter around me to steady us. I guess we weren't hating eachother when we were stoned.

"I will retrieve more beverages! stay there." He told me then ran off like he was a superhero, leaving me to get dizzy and fall again. I slowly picked myself up and started wandering around, of course I wasn't going to stay there, what am I a nun? Wait did that even make sense ..? Whatever, everything was too blurry to concentrate on.

I skipped my way to the bathroom, then I felt arms going around me. "Jesse?" I giggled. "No, better." I heard a husky voice say, I turned around and saw Mike smirking at me. "Get off," I muttered stupidly. He wrinkled his nose, "You been smoking? And drinking?" He asked, "Yes damn! Why does everyone keep asking gosh!" I shouted, it was annoying.

"Calm down girl, wait nevermind I like it when you're pissed." Mike said lowly. "Gross." I mumbled, shaking his arms away, but he caged me against the wall. "Get.off" I growled, squirming against his muscular build. "Get off me!" I yelled, louder.

"Why? So you can go f*ck my brother? I think not." He snapped, tucking a strand of my hair behind my ear. "You're pretty fit Ariana, I don't get why you're with my stupid brother." He said quietly. "What do you mean?" I asked, stupidly. He looked into my eyes, "He's not gonna treat you right, a girl like you, deserves someone more .. someone .."

"Someone like you?" I cut him off. He stared at me quizzically, deciding what to say. "I -

His words were cut off when he was yanked from me and thrown to the ground. "Get the f*ck off my girl friend!" Jesse yelled, Mike glared at him from the ground. "Oh now you care about your little girlfriend, but were you thinking about her when you were all over Megan?" He hissed at Jesse.

"That's none of your f*cking business! I wasn't even all over her, I gave her a hug you dumbass." Jesse snapped, his eyes ablaze. My head was spinning, way too much was going on right now and the alcohol flowing through my system was making it hard to focus. "I'm out of here man, just make sure this house isn't a god damn mess before mom shows up in the morning," Mike said, getting up and beginning to walk away.

"Bitch." Jesse mumbled when Mike was out of ear shot, leaving only me and him. "Ariana .." He started. "Just leave me alone." I snapped, trying to walk into my guest room, but wobbling in the process. He came behind me and helped to steady me for the second time tonight, "Are you mad?" He asked, his breath near my ear.

"F*ck you." I snapped.

He spun me around to look at him and I caught his stone cold glare, "Why the hell are you even upset? We're not a real couple right? That's what you said!" He yelled lowly. I narrowed my eyes at him, "That doesn't mean you can hang out with other girls in public! People from our school are going to notice!" I whisper yelled, he chuckled darkly. "You're jealous." He stated.

I backed away, "What? Yeah right! I'm not jealous!" I told him with wide eyes. He smirked a little, "is that so?" He asked. "Yes! That is so!" I told him angrily he was testing my patience. He gave me that look like he didn't believe me, "Okay Ariana, whatever your pretty little mouth says..."

"Well, well.. You were jealous too!" I said pointing an accusing finger at him. He scoffed, "Oh please."

I shook my head at him, "You just attacked your brother for being near me and you weren't jealous?" I asked incredulously, his eyebrows furrowed. "I don't like people taking things that are mine." He said, almost to himself. Was it the alcohol talking?

"But I'm not yours, Jesse Lorenzo, and I never will be." I told him with a little smirk. He pecked my lips unexpectedly, then pulled me so close that are faces were only centimeters apart. "That's right, Ariana Darko, you'll never be mine." He whispered against my lips before crushing them to my own.

I honestly had no idea what was going on between us, he was confusing me so much, but I just had to keep reminding myself that this was all pretend, so it meant nothing.

**

When I woke up, my head was pounding. I opened my eyes and everything was blurry, when I could finally make out my surroundings, I realized that I was in the upstairs hallway which lead to the bedrooms. I was slumped against the wall next to a sleeping Jesse. My throbbing headache assured me that we were completely drunk last night which was why it was no surprise that we were in a strange location.

My eyes widened in surprise when I noticed the house around me, it was COMPLETELY trashed. I'm talking, bottles, cups, plates and random people everywhere. "Jesse!" I cried shaking him next to me. He opened one eye, then closed it "Whatsamattawiddaprettygirl?" He mumbled groggily. "What? Jesse!" I yelled, then both his eyes snapped wide open. "Rihanna?" He asked, I rolled my eyes and watched as he finally took in our surroundings.

"Sh*t." He muttered, he stood up and looked around with panic clear in his face. He ran into his room unexpectedly and retrieved what looked like some sort of speaker phone , "EVERYBODY OUT!" He boomed. Random people started getting up and waking up their friends to leave.

"Why do you even have one of those?" I asked, he smirked at despite the clear situation at hand. "For moments like this." He replied. I shook my head and laughed a little.

"Mike!" He boomed through his ear piercing speaker phone, there was no response causing Jesse to open his brothers room door and yelled even louder. I couldn't see inside Mike's room from where I was standing, but I did hear his annoyed and gruff response as Jesse pleaded with him to help clean the house.

"You know what!? F*CK YOU!! THIS PARTY WAS YOUR DAMN IDEA AND NOW YOURE DUMPING THE MESS ON ME, FINE! I DONT NEED YOUR HELP." Jesse shouted angrily before slamming the door and walking towards the kitchen. I ran up to him and grabbed his hand, I couldn't help but feel bad for him, his f*cked up brother was leaving him to do all this by himself meanwhile his mom could show up any second.

"Wait, I'll help you." I told him, he looked at me with a confused and surprised expression. His eyebrows furrowed and stared at me a little longer, "No, I'm not gonna let you help, you didn't have anything to do with the party." He said firmly. "I know, I still want to though, you look like you could use a hand." I replied, gesturing to the house around us.

He smiled at me, not a smirk, but an actual smile. "Thanks Ariana," he said, looking at me, his eyes sparkled a little, making me blush. I mean, it was probably just cause he was grateful and it was hot in here

I sighed, looking around at the mess, there was so much to clean and we didn't have much time, suddenly I was wondering why I was even doing this. But when I looked back at Jesse and he flashed me that heart warming smile, I knew.