ataraxia, lorenzo berkshire

"thirty five"

"pass me the beer," onyx called from across our dorm, cross-legged on her bed with draco and blaise sat splayed out next to her, draco being accompanied by a hufflepuff girl he'd met in his potions class.

i nodded coherently, before reaching into the box under my bed full of our contraband, and grabbing a murky brown glass bottle of beer, tossing it a few feet across the room - luckily, onyx caught it.

it was our weekly booze-up smoke-up sesh and this time, me and onyx decided to volunteer up our dorm for it to take place in, and at this point, i'm surprised none of us have suffered from liver failure yet due to all this alcohol consumption.

"lorenzo, would you like a beer?," i asked him politely, pushing back all the frustration i was feeling towards him, as i only wanted to peruse a passive gesture, not an obvious one.

an obvious gesture would be me walking up to him, making out with him, and then shooting his fucking brains out.

he glanced up at me from the floor, his irises illuminated by the sun, turning them a sickly honey colour, beams pressed across the side of his face as he sat on my rug opposite my bed with theo, who was lighting a cigarette.

"hey, if you're going to smoke in here, open a fucking window - you'll make everything in here stink of cigs." i shouted to theo, who rolled his eyes in an angsty manner before dragging himself up from the carpet and slumping to unlatch the window, letting in the cool, gentle breeze to dilute the fumes.

i turned back to lorenzo - he smirked at me, before standing from his sitting position and walking over to the side of my poster bed.

"would i?," he continued smirking, before adjusting the collar of his school shirt, yanking his tie so it loosened. the school day had just ended so we decided to hold a gathering in me and onyx's dorm.

"-like a beer? i don't know. would you?," i shot the question back at him after finishing his sentence, as i clutched the bottle in my hand, shaking it gently side to side to entice him in hopes he'd accept my offer before my fingers started to cramp.

previously leant against the post of my bed, he was now sat opposite me, as he began to undo the buttons of his school shirt, the silver links of his chain glinting as it captured fragments of the sun against his lightly tanned skin, similar to the way the ocean glinted under the sunlight as it brushed against the taupe sand.

"are you stripping, berkshire?," i cocked an eyebrow at him, before shuffling backwards up my bed towards my backboard to one, make more room now there was two of us, and two, at that moment i would've been in centimetre proximity of lorenzo's bare chest.

i didn't fancy looking like a creep.

"maybe i am. and what?," he flashed a cheeky grin at me, as he pulled the remainder of his semi-buttoned school shirt over his head, along with his tie, "it's hot in here." he shrugged.

"ew! enzo! seriously?," theo mimicked my tone, covering his eyes like a scarred child in an exaggerated manner.

"shut the fuck up, i'm trying to read." mattheo raised his voice, causing onyx to snort.

"mattheo, stop being a nerd for once and have fun." onyx called out, rolling her eyes as she lay in blaise's lap.

"i second that." draco piped up, before beginning to start making out with the pretty hufflepuff girl next to him, bearing in mind onyx and blaise were directly next to them.

"hey, let mattheo read if he wants to - atleast we know one of us is going to pass school at the end of the year." lucille shyly added, before going back to playing cards with theo.