-This nighT-

+Chapter Eight+

" Calm down Barb, come on! You promised that you'd go! Pleaseeee we're going to have a great time." Barb picked up Nancy and I and now we're sitting outside Steve's house. Nancy is like a younger sister to me, but I think Barb views her a little more differently...
"He just wants to get in your pants!"
"No,he doesn't!"
"Nance, seriously? He invited you to his house. His parents aren't home come on, you're not this stupid."
I zone out of the conversation and I look to the right of Steve's house, in the darkness I see a slimy monster, like the one that Will talked about, like the one that saved me...

"All right, well, you can be like my guardian...all right? You can make sure I don't get drunk and do anything stupid."
Nancy is changing wearing nothing but her bra.
"Is that a new bra?"
"Pfft, no!"
"Yeah, she wore it for Steve." I state giggling.

We walk up to the front door, music is blasting from the inside. I look over on my right to see Barb. She looks extremely nervous. I look on my left to see Nancy Nancy looks like she's about to explode with joy.

The door swiftly opens almost as soon as Nancy knocks.
"Hello, ladies."

"Tommy, no... STOP IT TOMMY PUT ME DOWN!!" Carol squeals as Tommy tries throwing her in the pool. Reluctantly he puts her down.
"You're such an asshole Tommy." Carol giggles.
I sit on the side of the pool my pants rolled up and my feet dipped in. Feeling self conscious of my shirt being
semi-seethrough  I have my arms crossed over my chest.

Steve shotguns a drink, trying to impress Nancy.
"That supposed to impress me?"
"You're not?"
"You are a cliché, do you realize that?"
"You are a cliché. With your grades in your band practice."
"You cant blame her for being a good student..." Barb whispers.

"Ok party girl." Steve says handing Nancy a beer, "Show us how it's done."
Nancy shotguns the beer as Tommy H and Carol cheer her on. Once she finishes Tommy starts jumping around the deck, knocking me in. I've always had a fear of water, ever since I was a kid, I never learned how to swim.
Suddenly I feel hands pull me out of the water, coughing I clear the water out of my eyes to see Steve.

"Thanks." I mutter.
"No problem, if u need a shirt you can grab one from my room, you remember where it is right?" I look at Nancy and she nods sympathetically and I give a nod to Steve. I open the glass sliding door and head inside. I see Nancy hand Barb a beer. 'I'm gonna have to drive both of them home.' I think to myself.

After I get in Steve's room, which is surprisingly clean, I hear someone run past Steve's door crying. I peak my head out to see no one.  I close and lock his bedroom door and start changing. Once I'm done I go back downstairs.

"Where's Barb?"
" I don't know, I guess she left?"
"Nancy what do you mean you don't know? She's our ride home."
"We can just stay here the night? Please?"
"No, I don't wanna hear nasty stuff coming from you guys..."
"You can sleep on the pull out couch? It's very comfortable..." Steve says trying to convince me.
"Only if I can watch your
TV, deal?" I say as i sticks out my hand.
"Deal." He shakes it.

I sit on the couch with Nancy and start watching something on TV. Steve comes down with an arm full of blankets and 2 pillows. Because of my Anemia I've always been colder then the 'regular human being'.

"Okay, thank you Steve. Now you two have fun, and be quiet."

"I can't promise that." Steve says as he grabs Nancy's hand and runs upstairs.

"Gross..." I Watch the T.V. and try to stay awake, I didn't want to have a nightmare at Steve's house. I had a few sleepovers here when I was little, but I'm older now and it's not necessary for him to know I still have nightmares, it would be embarrassing.

Slowly I feel my self dozing off.
"Shit." I say as i wake up in the black room again.

"Welcome back 009."