Aleah and I were walking around campus clicking our black pumps. I was afraid the whole time people would be judging us from how cheap we look but pretty much 95% of the girls were dressed the same and all the guys we saw checked us out.
“do you know where we are going?” I asked her.
“This guy named Dace invited us to a party his frat was having tonight.” She said.
“We’re going to a frat party?” I asked.
“yes, taylor, calm down. Itll be fine.” She smiled. “here we are!” she said stopping in front of a frat house. We started walking up the stairs when Aleah stopped “tay, at least try to have fun?” I smiled and nodded. We continued up the stairs and through the door. The house was filled with hot college guys and skanky girls. I looked around and immediately questioned what the fuck im doing here. “come on” aleah said pulling on my arm.
We walked into another room. “Dace!” I hear Aleah yelled as This totally cute guy walked up and hugged her. Dace looked over at me and his eyes widened. “Dace, this is my friend Taylor, Taylor this is Dace.” Aleah said introducing us. “I’m going to get a drink, have fun you two” She said winking at me and walking away.
Dace and I stood there awkwardly next to each other. Dace had short black hair and bright blue eyes. He was strangely familiar, like I should know him but I didn’t. “you went to Riverdale, didn’t you?” he said
“Yeah” I smiled, “how did you know that?”
“I did too.” He said. “I was a senior, when you were a freshman.”
“I don’t remember you” I said.
“Well, I remember you, I could never forget a cutie like you.” He leaned in closer to me. I could feel my face get red and my smile grew. “im going to get a drink, would you like anything?” he asked. I shook my head no. “okay, well I’ll be back” he smiled before walking off.
The music was entirely too loud and it reeked of alcohol. There we’re more empty bottles of alcohol and beer cans than the amount of clothes the girls were wearing. People were grinding and making out every way you looked. I think I may have even seen people having full out sex in front off everyone. Some people were getting high on weed and god knows what else in the corner. I saw Aleah in the middle of a group of 5 guys. She sure knew how to grab attention and work a crowd.
I looked around for Dace who was taking forever to come back. I saw him talking to Jake, who helped me move in. It looked like they were arguing, or something, they definitely weren’t having a simple conversation. They both looked over at me and I looked away as if I wasn’t looking at them. Jake said something else to Dace then stormed off. Dace started walking back towards me and smiled when we our eyes met. He walked up and put his arm around me.
“You know, Jake?” I asked. His eyes got big and he looked nervous.
“uh, yeah. He went to Riverdale too. We’ve been best friends forever.” He said scratching the back of his neck. “how do you know him?”
“he helped me this morning move in” I said “that’s all I know of him”
“oh, thank god.” He blurted out. His face got red, like he didn’t mean to say that out loud “I mean thank god he helped you.” He smirked.
“yea..i guess?” I replied.
“I have to go. Here” he handed me his phone “put in your number and ill talk to you later?” I punched in my number and handed it back. He sprinted off before I could say goodbye. I saw him leave through the back door with Jake. I looked around to find Aleah. I saw here walking upstairs with some tall blonde guy, no doubt she just met him two minutes ago. I pulled out my found and texted her to tell her I was leaving and to call me later.
I was walking back to my dorm through campus. My phone started buzzing and an unknown number showed up on my screen.
“hello?” I answered
“Taylor?” the guy said. “it’s me, Dace. I didn’t get to say goodbye and I wanted to just say im sorry for just leaving like that” I smiled.
“It’s okay” I giggled. “But you’ll have to make it up to me”
“What did you have in mind?” he asked.
“Surprise me.” I said.
“hmmm.” He paused. “I have an idea”
“What?” I asked.
“You said surprise you!” He laughed
“Ugh fine” I said
“I got to go. I’ll call you tomorrow morning okay?” he told me
“Okay” I replied
“Goodnight Taylor” and with that the line went dead. I got back to my dorm and unpacked some more. I changed into sweats and lay down in bed. My phone started buzzing again. It was a text from Aleah, “heyy taytor tot. Meet for coffee in the morning? I want to hear all about Dace(;(;(;” I replied telling her id be there. I rolled over and fell asleep.
