What You Don't See (wlw)

[15] Vodka?!

Amy

I began to feel more and more like myself as the week went on. Obviously there was a lot of whispering in school about the weekend at the start but by Friday, it had pretty much died down and everyone was more focused on some party some girls in the year above were hosting. I didn't really have any interest, especially as Henrietta was going on bragging about knowing the hosts like they were her best friends.

"Seriously it's going to be the best night ever!" She was telling Esther from behind me in History. "Olivia says she's going to bring an entire stash of vodka!" I involuntarily let out a laugh, luckily not loud enough for them to hear, and James joined me.

"Ooh sorry." He said in a low voice from next to me. I couldn't help laughing again.

"Absolutely scandalous." I replied. God, from what Henrietta was like I couldn't believe that she was this naive when it came to parties. I'd been drinking at them since I was like fourteen or fifteen, accompanying my friend Sasha who would obtain alcohol from her older brother. We didn't really have house parties at the time, so we mostly resorted to hanging around in random fields where no one could find us.

By the time Verity and Nick came to meet us at the end of the lesson, Henrietta had mentioned the party and vodka what felt like a hundred times. If she hadn't convinced Esther by now that it was the event of the century, I don't think anything would've.

It had become a bit of a routine for Verity and Nick to walk to our classroom together and then we all go to the cafeteria every day. We'd just about claimed our own table right near the doors, which was nice. I liked routine a lot because it meant a much smaller chance of getting lost or having to figure out new routes from places.

"It's so painful!" Verity was explaining a guy in her physics class that was apparently very annoying "All he does is interrupt the teacher with all of these irrelevant questions about stupid stuff no one cares about!"

"Have you mentioned the creaky door voice yet?" Nick added.

"Creaky door voice?" I widen my eyes, laughing. I was starting to enjoy lunch time more and more as time went on. Verity was opening up so much now and Nick and James were a really nice addition that kept things interesting. I just felt a lot more comfortable now than I had when I'd just joined the school.

"Yeah he has this voice that genuinely no joke sounds like a creaky door. I'm sorry that's the only way to accurately describe what it's like, it's just actively frustrating!" Verity explained "Anyway, Nick makes the situation worse every lesson."

"Nick stop being a menace." James said and they laughed

"I cannot believe you just threw a chip at me, that was pure disrespect from you." Nick replied and I laughed "Anyway I'm not a menace! I'm just interested in the relevance of Elias' questions so what better way than ask him directly? Plus it just distracts Mr Williams so he doesn't harrass Verity any actual physics questions."

"Okay fine that's a little bit true." Verity admits in an amused tone "It just makes Elias go on this whole rant about how great he is because he's part of Mensa and how his thinking is just so out of the box that he understands why 'normal people' like us might have a hard time grasping his advanced questions."

"Actually I think you'll find he called me a mentally challenged peasant today not even a normal person." Nick said.

"Ain't no way." I replied, bursting out laughing "There's no way he got away with saying that in front of your teacher surely?"

"Nah he got off with a verbal warning which basically means nothing." Nick said, emphasizing the words verbal warning with a formal accent. "Anyway how was History for you guys?"