Chasing You

33

LACEY

MATURE CONTENT AHEAD

Loud Luxury plays over Carter's speaker as I sit in front of my mirror. I am curling my hair tonight and actually applied a full face of makeup for the first time in awhile. It's Thursday night and the boys are having a "small" party before the Duke game this weekend. Us girls are getting ready at our apartment before we drive over to the boys apartment.

After I am done with my hair, I still have to do Julie's. Carter and Tori are already done laying on my bed. Rae is doing her hair in the bathroom. Julie is going back and forth with different outfit options. We all have mixed drinks in our hands pregaming the pregame per usual.

I curl the last strand before setting my curling iron back down on my desk. I turn around in my chair, "Julie! I'm ready for you!"

I hear Julie's footsteps running towards the door. Carter and Tori both lift their heads up from their phones. Julie runs in wearing black jeans and a cute beige crop top.

"Oh you look cute!" Carter exclaims. Tori nods her head in agreement while Julie sighs.

"You think so?" Julie asks. I get up from the desk chair and let her take my place. Carter and Tori both respond in praise as I nod my head at her. I am excited for tonight and especially since now things finally feel normal again. I love this part. Getting ready and going out with everyone is the highlight of my week now.

"I swear if they put us on door duty again, I'm going to lose it," Tori comments. Carter nods her head in agreement while I release a laugh.

"No seriously though, like what the hell are the two of us going to do?" Carter asks, leaning her back against the wall. She straightened her hair for the first time in a while and I love it. We all always beg her to do it and she never does. Guess she finally caved in.

"You two can be pretty aggressive when you want to be," I chuckle. I pick up a piece of Julie's hair and wrap it around the curler.

"Yeah not when there are 6'6 basketball players standing there waiting to get in and I need to get the okay from someone," Tori grumbles laying back down on the bed. Julie and I both laugh again as I continue curling her hair.

I finish up Julie's hair and Tori and Carter have walked out to the living room. They are trying to figure out how to order the Uber there and if we are going to be Ubering back tonight or staying with the boys. I think I am staying at Braden's tonight but it's kind of a toss up. The house is just so crazy and sometimes he likes to just come here instead of staying there.

"Thanks, Lace," Julie says. I welcome her unplugging my curling iron and turning off the big lights in my room just leaving my dangly lights on. We walk out of my room and Julie heads into hers. I check my phone and answer a couple people back on Snapchat.

"Rae! Are you ready?" Carter yells from behind the kitchen island.

"Give me five!" Rae yells back. Carter releases a sigh and sets her phone on the counter. I go to the barstools and sit down next to Tori.

"I am ready to get fucked up tonight," Tori confesses. I nod my head at her.

"I am definitely ready to drink," I respond. Julie walks into the kitchen beside Carter. Rae clicks her bedroom light off and runs through the hallway and towards us.

"Okay, ready," Rae breathes, flipping her brown hair over her shoulder. Carter salutes her before pressing the order Uber on her phone.

"Oh shit, the music," Carter laughs. She places the straw from her cup in her mouth and runs into my room.