Bitter sweet affair

Chapter 22 - Drunk confession

Reyna's POV
I got dressed in a white crop top, blue high-waist jeans, and matching sneakers.
I let my hair down holding it with a few hair clips.
"Are you ready?" He asked,
"Yeah" I answered.
" You look beautiful," he complimented with a smile.
"Thanks. Are we taking the car?" I asked.
"Unfortunately no. I don't wanna drive drunk, we'll just have to take a cab instead"
"Okay"

We took a cab to the destination. It was a poolside BBQ place.

"Andre" someone called out.
"Hey, guys. How long has it been? 3 months?" Andre said.
"Precisely 3 months and 2 weeks. Good to see you, man. Introduce wifey to us c'mon"
"Okay, but only I can call her that. Guys this is my wife, Reyna" Andre said

"She's so beautiful" 
"Thanks," I said
"Hi Reyna, I'm Greg"
"larry"
"Priya"
"Mark"
"Jena" they all introduced themselves one after the other.

"It's nice to finally, meet y'all," I said
"The pleasure is ours"
"Take a seat while we start grilling," Mark said pulling Jena along with him.
"Hurry up you both, I'm starving," Priya said

"I'm thirsty, I'll just grab water by the counter over there," I said to Andre.
"I'll come along"
We were walking when I suddenly tripped over something, I lost my balance and Andre caught me in time before I hit the floor. Turns out I'd tripped over Priya's leg.

"Ooh, finally some affection. It was starting to get boring" priya said smiling.

Andre let go of me once I was stable.
"Are you okay? You're not hurt, Are you?" He asked.
"No, I'm fine," I said

He turned to his group of friends, who were gushing with smiles, he shot them a death glare and their smiles vanished.

"Is this amusing? She could have gotten severely hurt, and for what? Entertainment?"
Andre yelled.
"I'm so sorry Reyna. I didn't think it through. I just wanted to capture a romantic scene of you both. I'm sorry" Priya apologized.

I was going to tell her that it was fine but Andre spoke.
"Sorry won't cut it .."
I interrupted him.
"look at me Dre," I said, he didn't but when he did, I held his hands and looked him straight in the eye.
"I'm fine. She apologized already. We're here to have fun, aren't we? Just let it slide, please. For my sake? Hmm," I stared at him pouting a little.

"Aw, she's so cute" Greg spewed before shutting up.
"Okay, fine. For your sake," he said.
"Aw, he cares about wifey," larry said.

"BBQ is ready. Let's eat and head out to a karaoke bar, shall we?" Jena said.
"Yeah sure " Everyone agreed.

Andre's POV
After BBQ, we headed to a karaoke bar. We drank and sang, but I didn't drink much, I needed to be sober.
"Reyna that's enough, stop drinking" I tried stopping her.
"Relax Dre, I can hold my liquor. I'mma go sing"
She said staggering a bit.
"Be careful" I said, she just waved her hand in response. I saw a new side of Reyna while she was singing. She looked so carefree and happy.

"I'll go use the restroom," she said.
"Will you be fine all by yourself?" I asked worriedly.
"Don't worry, I'll be back before you say my name" she said and left.

"Reyna" I kinda whispered but she wasn't back. I can't believe I'm being this childish.

   It's been fifteen minutes already and she wasn't back yet. I was beginning to worry. Did she pass out? I went in search of her and found her in the hallway, staring at Jena, who was sitting on the floor, busy smoking and she didn't notice Reyna had been watching her.

I was going to make Reyna leave with me when she suddenly placed her hand on her hip.
"Hey there, Jena is it?" She said staggering a bit.
"Yeah?"
"Could you hand over the cigarette?" she suddenly said. Was she gonna smoke? Jena gave it to Reyna. To my surprise and probably Jena's too, Reyna stomped on it.

"Why'd you do that?" Jena asked annoyed.
"How old are you?" Why was she inquiring about her age?
" I'm 25. Why?"
"You're a year older than me. I won't talk casually anymore.. miss" she paused before continuing,

"Smoking cigarette is injurious and dangerous to your health.. miss. You're still young and you have your whole life ahead of you and you want to cut it short? And for what? Smoking away your sorrow or disappointment or what?
There's absolutely no reason or explanation for you to smoke. If you're feeling down, talk to someone or probably if you don't understand your feelings, talk to a therapist okay?" 
The nurse in her just had to come out. It was cool, she had Jena in tears.

Reyna hugged her patting her back.
"There, there. It's alright to cry" she consoled Jena.
"Thanks, Reyna"
"Let's go now reyna, it's getting super late"
"Wait, I haven't said goodbye to my friends yet"
" Alright fine"
" Goodbye, everyone. Thanks for accepting me. B' byeeeee" she kept staggering and stressing her words.

"Your shoelaces are undone. I'll fix them for you" I said when we were outside. I got down and fixed it.
"All done. Let's go" I said holding her hand. She pulled her hand away, fell to the ground, and sat down.
"What's wrong? Let's go"
She pouted a little.
"Give me a piggyback ride home. You've got those broad shoulders, what do you use 'em for anyways? Give me a piggyback ride" she kept chanting.

"Okay fine " I caved in and piggybacked her.
She kept pulling at my hair strands.
"Giddy up," she said laughing a lot.

"Way to hold your liquor Reyna"
I walked for a while and there was no cab available. This is just great. Reyna acted like a child when drunk, it was cute but annoying.

We got home at quarter past 11. I laid her on the bed. She sat up and stared at me.
"Why won't you kiss me, hmm? Do you know how long I've been waiting for you to kiss me? You just keep looking at me with those charming eyes of yours. You keep making my heart flutter too. Kiss me, kiss me already".
She caught me off guard with her drunk confession.

"You're wasted"
"No I'm not " she argued.
"You know I thought we could have had the perfect kiss when you, wiped ice cream off my lips, or when I was sitting on your thighs on the Ferris wheel or.. " she kept highlighting perfect kiss scenarios.

"You keep confusing me. I can't think of any logical reason why you wouldn't wanna kiss me. You keep being so sweet. Who will take responsibility huh,?" She said nudging me.

"You should say this when you're sober"
I poked her head, making her fall on the bed

"You should take a shower. You reek of alcohol"
"Why don't you help me?" She said raising both her hands.
"Fine"