Moving In With The Enemy

Chapter 28 ~ "I'd Like To See You Try"

This was supposed to be a happy night, I was supposed to be smiling and excited but instead I just felt emotionally drained. I went to school all day and now it was time for our Halloween party.

We'd spent the afternoon party-proofing the house, I'd invested in a nice bin with a lock for under my bed a few months ago and I filled it with anything in my room that I didn't want someone to take. Granted our rooms were off-limits but that never stopped people from going inside.

I had my costume hung up on my closet door, originally I was really excited about it. Now I just felt exhausted at the fact that I had to put it on.

"Knock, knock." I hear and I see Abby in my doorway. I told her to come over early so we could get dressed together. "You're not still upset over Dane, are you?"

"Upset? No. Maybe a little irritated though." I admit and she smiles, walking into my room with two small cups of Jell-o shots. They were orange, no doubt for festive reasons.

"Here, take this with me." She smiles and I give her a smile too. We both dump them into our mouths and I chew it up. "We're going to have so much fun tonight." She assures me, shaking my shoulders and I laugh.

"Yeah, you're right." I sigh. 

I'm capable of leaving Dane behind, I definitely didn't need a boyfriend to make me happy and Dane was more capable of making me angry it seemed.

I turn on some music and the two of us get to work. Abby told me she was going as Laura Croft from Tomb Raider a few weeks ago and she plopped down in front of the mirror on my dresser with a chair to braid her hair.

I was trying to do some weird up-do twist things and some loud makeup. I was finally perusing a costume I'd always wanted to try, Jenna Rink from Thirteen Going On Thirty. I found the dress online a month ago and since then I've just been waiting for tonight. That's part of the reason I refused Dane's offer of doing something else.

We get dressed and participate in some mindless girl talk. Abby catches me up on the guy she's been messing around with recently which always just sounded like a bad soap opera. But it always made me laugh and she knew it.

"Can I ask you a question?" I ask, running a lip gloss applicator over my lips.

"Go for it." She chuckles.

"Is it really that good?" I ask and she furrows her eyebrows as I spin in my chair to face her.

"What?"

"Sex." I clarify and she blinks at me, twisting in her chair.

"You've never had sex?" She whispers, looking shocked and I laugh.

"No, I have. I just.....I don't really see what there was to get worked up over." I admit, spraying some hairspray into my up-do. "It wasn't great, I kind of feel indifferent about it actually." I stand up to go get my dress when Abby grabs my arm, spinning me around. "What?" I ask, feeling confused.

"Annie, you haven't been doing it right." She tells me and I chuckle. "You've......you know-"

"What?" I ask, feeling genuinely curious. 

"Finished." She mouths and I furrow my eyebrows.

"I-I think so." I mumble.

"Oh my god." She says quickly. "Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god!"

"What?"

"You haven't, you definitely haven't if you only think you have." She hisses, smacking my arm and I blink. "You're twenty-one and you've never.......Annie, we need to rectify this. I'll find someone to set you up with-"