Beach Babe | The Outsiders | Johnny Cade

| Party | 7 |

Theo and August were sitting on the couch while I was trying to hook up the stereo to the speaker. Why am I the one doing this? I don't know how electronics work. Five minutes later I finally got it. "I did it! You're welcome by the way." They both absent-mindedly said thanks and went back to watching TV.

Ding! "I got it!" August jumps off the couch and runs to the door. Already? But it's only... I check my watch oh it's already 7:52. Man, time flew by. "Theo it's for you!" Theo goes to the door and welcomes in his friends. I have to get ready.

    I quickly run upstairs to 'get ready'. I touch up my makeup and put on a slightly more revealing outfit. Okay now the fun part. I pull the bottle of tequila and a shot glass out from under my bed. I pour the alcohol into the glass and down it. The liquid burns my throat, but in a good way. I do a couple more shots then head back downstairs.

    There's already about ten people scattered in the living room. August is talking to a larger group of them and Theo is talking to a couple people on the couch. I introduce myself to them and make small talk, hopefully the gang will get here soon. One of August's friends hit on me so I went to talking with Theo and his friends. They were alright just a little boring, at least none of em hit on me.

Knock Knock "I got it!" Please be the gang. I crossed my fingers and opened the door, it was in fact the gang. "Oh thank god" I said under my breath "You're here! Come on in." They walk in and half of them immediately start drinking I'm not surprised.

    It's been thirty minutes. The number of people in the house has doubled, maybe even tripled. It's a little overwhelming, I don't even know how half these people found out about the party.

      I was making small talk with some random guy when Two-Bit came up to me "Stacy we are doing shots in the kitchen come on!" He dragged me to the kitchen, I couldn't help but laugh, the entire gang was in the kitchen, half looked shitfaced and the other half was mostly sober. He passed out shots to everyone, we cheered and drank them.

I picked up a can of beer and was about to drink it "Hey Stacy you should shotgun it." Dally said

"Nah I'm good."

"C'mon do it! Or are you scared?" Steve chimed in

"Im not scared I just don't feel like it."

"She's scared." Soda said

I glared at him "Hand me a knife." They yelled and Two flipped out his blade and handed it to me. I cut open the can and started drinking, they started chanting 'Chug!' I was almost done and they were screaming in my ear.

I emptied the can and threw it on the ground. The gang let out cheers "And that's how it's done!" I was a little more than tipsy and it was starting to show.

"Stacy you wanna see who can drink a bottle of beer the fastest?" Two-Bit handed me a bottle of beer, I hated the way that beer tasted but I wasn't going to say 'no' to getting drunk.

"Are you trying to get me drunk?" I slurred out

"Yeah, drunk Stacy is funny as hell." I reach out for the beer

"I think she may already be drunk." Soda says before I can grab the bottle

"Oh you haven't seen nothin yet. Gimme that." I grabbed the drink and opened it, Two did the same and we lifted them to our lips.

"Alright, 3... 2... 1... go!" And we started drinking, I got off to a good start but had to take a breath halfway through. Two-Bit won.

      It's been another 45 minutes and I'm about one shot away from full blackout drunk. There was a group of around 12 of us playing Truth or Dare on the floor in front of the couch. We're on the 5th round and all of us are on some level of drunk.

      It was my turn and I chose Ponyboy "Pony I darr you to do seven minutes in heavenn with Josephine. . ." Both of them went red so fast. They walked into the closet and Soda started the timer, we gossiped about what might be happening. The seven minutes ended and they came out of the closet looking even more red than before "Sooo what happened?" Neither of them would say anything which caused all of us to laugh.

    We went around the circle till we got to a drunken Two-Bit, he chose me and I obviously chose dare. "Stac I dare you to do a body shot off of Dal's neckk" there's several different different reactions from around the circle including 'ooo's' and 'ahhh's'

      Soda went into the kitchen and came back with tequila, a lime, and salt. The circle started laughing as Dally squeezed the lime out on as neck and poured to salt on it. I crawled over sitting beside him. I started licking the salt-lime mixture off of his neck, giggling but making sure I got everything. I heard a chorus of whoops and shouts behind me. I pulled away and downed the shot. There was a group that had formed around us and everyone in it was laughing, except for Johnny, he was just standing there uncomfortably. What's wrong with him?

"Okay my turnnn. Josie Truth or Dare?" I'm surprised I'm still able to talk after this much booze.

"Truth!"

"What happened wif you and Pony in the closet?" She instantly turned red

"We kinda sorta. . . Um. . . We m.." she mumbles the last bit

"What was that we didn't understand you!" Dally shouts causing her to become even more red.

"We made out!" She buries her face in her hands and we look over at Ponyboy. He's red and avoiding all eye contact.

"Well look at you Ponyboy, gettin yourself a girl." Soda is beaming with pride. Pony gets up and walks away in embarrassment, Josie goes after him.  causing us to laugh.

      We went around the shortened circle s couple times. And in those times Steve had to scream that he liked men outside, I had to punch a random person, Dally had run around the block, and Soda had to shotgun a beer. Steve asked me and I answered Truth "Do you like anyone in this room?"

"Yeah" I need to shut my mouth right now. They all stared at me

"I dare you to go kiss them!" Steve added on

"That's not how the ame works stuupid!" I feel like I'm about to pass out.

   The next guy also chooses me, uh oh, for some reason I still choose dare "I dare you to chug the tequila for three seconds" my eyes go wide. "C'mon you gotta do it." I reach over and grab the bottle lifting it to my lips. This is going to burn like hell. "Go!" I started drinking and my eyes started to tear up. This shit hurts. I only got to do two seconds before the bottles empty.

I sit the bottle back down and everything goes black.

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