Tabitha tilted her head and stared at me, causing everything in my stomach to twist and turn.
"Tabitha Camilla Thompson- why are you staring at me like that?" I asked with a small blush rushing across my cheeks.
"You're so pretty," she said in a whi...
The next morning I woke up with a throbbing head, I slowly sat up, holding my head- ugh, what did I do last night?
When I opened my eyes, my shock increased as I realized- I wasn't at home-
Where the hell was I?
I was in a sage-colored room with two beds- and I was seemingly alone in that room.
"Shit..." I whispered, throwing the cover off of me to reveal a completely different outfit.
This wasn't my Summerville Uniform-
What did I do last night? I repeated over and over again in my mind- desperately trying to remember, I squinted my eyes at the dim light coming from the Lace white curtains in the room.
Just when I was about to stand up to see where I was, the door to the room opened and a girl- around the age of 10 or 11, stumbled into the room, "oh" She gave me a small smile before sticking her head out the door, "Max you're girlfriends is awake!" She yelled.
I winced in pain before my eyes widened, "g-girlfriend?" I repeated.
The girl blinked, "I just thought since you were in her bed that you were "
"First off, I don't have a girlfriend, and second, go to school" Max, with a messy bun and her SVA uniform on rolled her blue eyes at the girl.
The girl wrinkled her nose, "You're a really bad sister".
"Stepsister" Max corrected the girl in a mutter, Max sat down at the edge of her, I watched as the little girl rolled her eyes and mumbled something to herself before exiting the room-
"Wow," I raised my brows and tried to joke around- when in reality, I had no idea how I got here.
But hey, if I was going to wake up in any strange place in the world, I'd rather it be Maxine's house than Tylers- or anyone else.
"Who knew Maxine Parker could be a mean older sister" I smirked.
Max glared at me, "Do you want something for your hangover or not?" Maxine raised her brows.
"Okay- okay!" I laughed, "I was just kidding".
"Mhm" she stood up, "I'll be back- you stay right here- and I mean it".
"Yes Mom," I said sarcastically- to which Maxine just smiled before exiting what I assumed to be her room.
While she was gone I just sat there- trying hard to remember what happened last night-
Let's see- I went home- right? I always go home- but apparently not since I was at Maxine's house...
What happened- come on Tabitha come on!!!
I wanted to groan- why was this so hard?
Maybe I could ask Max what happened last night-
Before I could make a decision, Max came back into the room, a black-haired woman with blue eyes followed behind her, "okay" Max sat on the edge of the bed, "Tabitha- this is my Mom- and Mom, this is Tabitha" Max said, beginning to swing her feet back and forth.
"Hi-" I smiled -because ever since I stopped being the "perfect child", I haven't exactly been an adult favorite .
Maybe it's because once I stopped being "perfect" I stopped trying to act perfect too.
"Well hi there" Maxine's mom sat down next to her daughter on her bed- that's when I noticed she had a bottle of pills in her hand, "now I shouldn't be doing this- but Steven says your teenage girls and you should have fun once in a while so" she sighed and opened the bottle before handing me two small pink pills, "let this be a warning not to get drunk on a school night".
I nodded while Maxine groaned, "I didn't know they'd be drunks okay?? Who drinks at a birthday party?!!"
Drunk- party...
Who had a party last night- wait...
That's when it hit me- I was upset last night so I went to Adam's birthday party!
Shit- why was I upset- what happened? Did I do anything stupid? Probably if I'm here right now-
Relax Tabitha, I tried telling myself and popped the pills in my mouth, swallowing them without any water.
I acquired that habit when I was thirteen after having really bad period craps and not feeling like going to get water.
"Thank you" I said to Max's mom, the women modded before exiting the room.
"Damn," Max said in almost a whisper, staring at me in awe, "I can barely swallow a pill with water and I'm sixteen!" She chuckled.
I shrugged and gave her a half smile, "Well- I've been doing it since I was thirteen so..." I trailed off, looking down at my hands, "what happened last night?" I questioned.
"You don't remember?" She asked.
I shook my head.
"Well," she scooted up on the bed so that she was now sitting next to me, her skirt going a little bit higher than I was used to and exposing her shiny pale legs.
I gulped, mind out of the gutter Tabitha, I told myself-
Wait- what gutter? She's my friend- only friend- a friend- sort of.
"First you rolled around in Adam's Mom's garden-" I raised my brows while Max tried not to laugh, "then you started singing I'm a banana-" she burst into laughter, which only made me start laughing, "okay- okay-" she said, "seriously though.."
Max moved a strain of hair behind her ears and said, "I didn't even know you were at Adam's party until- well some guy came in and told Adam a girl was puking in his pool-"
Shit- was that girl me? Or was I just standing there recording -
Standing there recording doesn't sound like me- but that's a lot better than literally puking in someone's pool!
"So I followed the guy and Adam out to see you folded over barfing in his pool/"
My eyes widened, "me-"
She nodded.
"I barfed in Adam Locke's pool?"
She nodded once again.
"Oh my god!" I groaned, falling back onto my back and covering my face with my hands, "what other stupid shit did I do that I should be aware of?" I questioned, voice muffled.
"Well..." Max dragged on the "ell" for what felt like forever, "other than acting like a big toddler the whole time I was with you-" she shrugged, "nothing that I know of".
I shot up, "What did I do when I was with you?"
"Say I don't wanna a lot" she replied with a smirk, "tease me, and then sort of kind of acted clingy" she shrugged, "if that's even what you call asking me to sleep in my bed with you".
A blush came across my cheeks, "And you did?"
"Yeah" she tilted her head, "isn't that what friends do?"
"Yep..." I said with a pop of the P-
That's what friends do- we're friends- and only friends and that's all I want to be anyways-
So why did it make my heart feel like it was sinking? . . .
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