To Infiniti & Beyond

Chapter Seven

"3... 2... 1... HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" The 11 of us shout as the clock strikes midnight and Jaxon takes a shot.

Gapplebees plus Darcy's brother, Jaxon's sister, cousin, and friend Jasper are all crammed into Darcy's small kitchen surrounding the island.

Her driveway looks like the Toretto's house from The Fast and The Furious saga.

It's Jaxon's golden birthday so Darcy, Brynn, and I decorated the kitchen and living room with anything golden we could find. All the lights are off except for the party lights and glow sticks in the kitchen, and the fairy lights and disco lights in the living room.

The fridge is stalked with alcohol, the stable is stocked with snacks. Tristian is connected to the sound system that runs through the bottom floor of the house and everyone is having a great time.

It's later in the night and I'm chatting in the living room with Brynn, Jasper, and Jaxon's sister and cousin.

Darcy's brother breezes by us with Grayson in tow. As he passes by us, he grabs my hand. "Come on," he says excitedly as he leads me up the stairs.

"Where are we going," I ask caught off guard. I'm only tipsy right now, so the stairs luckily aren't an issue.

Grayson takes me into an open room where we see Darcy's brother sitting at his drum set. "Ready?" He asks.

Grayson looks at me and smiles. I return the favor.

Darcy's brother starts to play and it was amazing, but cut short because she came up to tell us we can't risk a noise complaint. With that being said, the four of us headed back downstairs.

People are actually using the picture wall that consists of the gold backdrop and gold balloons. Everyone is mingling and I have never felt as close with them as I do right now.

As the night goes on and I drink more and more, Grayson and I start to gravitate towards each other. He helps me finish off my last two drinks because I'm not trying to black out.

It's now 4am and most of the guests are asleep. The music was turned down awhile ago and now Darcy, Tristian, Jaxon, Grayson and I are all standing at the island about to play truth or dare.

Grayson dares me to let him take a picture of me and post it on my main Snapchat story. I do.

It's my turn to ask a question now and I choose Jaxon as my victim. He asks for a truth.

"Hmm that's too much," I mumble to myself.

"No, ask it, I don't care." Jaxon reassures me as he takes another sip of his corona.

"Why do you cheat?"

He looks taken aback for a second and then quickly regains his composure. "I haven't cheated since middle school."

To anyone else in the room he's sold them the lie. I know more than he thinks I do. Like the fact that he cheated on Isla with Brynn in the beginning of their relationship after assuring Brynn him and Isla were on a break - they weren't.

The game goes on, but I had the juiciest question.

When I'm ready to tap out I go curl up on the couch next to Brynn.

"I heard you ask him," she whispers and it startles me.

"Yeah, I'm sorry I couldn't get you answers."

"Eh."

Grayson passes by the living room, "goodnight," he waves as he disappears into one of the downstairs bedrooms.

"Go with him, you know you want to." Brynn eggs me on slyly.

I give her a nudge. "Shh," but she's right. I do want to.

I haven't drank enough to be that confident though, so I drift off with the thought of what if I had.

It's mid morning the next day. Everyone helped clean up before I took Brynn, Jaxon's cousin and sister to get bagels. It was nice catching up with them. I hadn't seen them in years.

The day drags on, and before I know it my phone lights up with the title "gapplebees" displayed across it.

I feel like dog shit so I decide to stay home for the night.

I ended up drifting off to sleep and when I wake up it's 11pm. I go to check my phone and it's bombarded with individual texts from gapplebees group members and a couple missed calls from Brynn.

I call her back as I go through my messages.

She picks up instantly, "Girl! You won't believe what Darcy is saying about you!"

"What?" I ask still groggy.

"There's a rumor going around that you like Tristian." She informs me and it snaps me right out of my grogginess.