Roses aren't always Red

Party Problems

"Ari!"

I hear my name being shouted over the loud music. I turn around to see Casey holding two red SOLO cups smiling at me. She puts one out for me to take. I grab it and sip slowly seeing what she got me.

"It's vodka and coke. Nothing special, but it'll do the trick I think," she says loudly. I smile gratefully and take a generous gulp dancing in my space moving towards her my cup still in hand.

I loose myself in the moment and start sexually dancing on Casey not giving a fuck who saw. Soon after that there is a circle around me. I hand my cup off to Casey as she retreats to leave me in the middle. People are chanting my name and I grin and start doing some booty drops. People start cheering. I pull a couple of girls into the center grinning and soon everyone is just grinding on each other. I slip away when this starts to find Casey who still has my drinks.

"Hey, you. New girl, Arianna, right?" Says a voice from next to me as I feel a strong hand rest on my shoulder. I turn to look at the person.

"Call me Ari, nice to meet you," I say politely not sure how to act around this new person. She has really intense green eyes. Her lips are painted a deep red shade of lipstick. She is only a couple inches taller than me, but none of that is what I notice most. Her almost white, blonde hair is what makes her stand out.

"Well, Ari. I'm Rosaline, but call me Rose," she says smiling. "How are you enjoying my party?" She asks me. She laughs when I look at her wide eyed.

"Your party? You hosted all this," I say waving my hand around at the scene.

"Yeah, I did," she says, surprisingly, not sounding cocky about it.

"That's amazing," I say in awe of her, "I really am enjoying it, to answer your earlier question, Rose," I say trying her name out on my lips. I like it.

"Well, Ari," she says teasingly, "its been great meeting you. I hope we can hang out outside of this party," she says winking at me and walking off into the crowds as her name is being called from a nearby group of people. I watch as she disappears until I feel someone wrap their arms around my waist. I turn my head quickly and sigh in relief when it was Casey.

"You scared the hell out of me. Don't sneak up on me like that," I say sternly and slyly take my drink from her free hand. She puts her head on the top of mine and leans to my ear whispering.

"You look so yummy right now, red," she says and breaks off into drunken giggling. Uh oh I think realizing I will be stuck with drunk Casey until the party is over.

"Cmon C.C. we're going to go find ourselves a nice place to sit down and relax. Now wouldn't you like that," I say steering her towards an area less inhabited with bodies.

I sit her down against the wall and sit down next to her. She puts her head on my shoulder and I hold her around the shoulders. I find myself stroking her soft hair. The bass of the music thunders out and I close my eyes to try and block it out, thinking it would help because eyes are what hear things... Right? I must have started twirling around because it's all spinning around me.

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A few moments later, or so it seems, I find myself laying on what feels like a bed in a quiet, dark room that smells of vomit overpoweringly. I groan, not sure where I am exactly. Why is it so dark in here? I can't see anything.

Oh. My eyes are closed. I slowly realize this fact and I decide to open them. I open them wide as I can before shutting them tightly closed again, blinded by the extreme light.

"Ugh," I groan rolling onto my stomach hiding my face in something soft, like a pillow? I soon adjust to the light, but my head is pounding. I lift myself up and jump back when I realize I was laying on a girls boobs, not a pillow. Rose's to be exact.