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14

Alana

"Need help sweetheart?" I turned around to see the guy Danny from earlier today. "No thanks I'm good." I stumble away from him but instead I loose my footing and fall on him. He catches me before I fall.

"Let's take this upstairs shall we?" He begins to guide me. My head is too heavy to comprehend what's going on.

He stops at a secluded corner. "I can't wait, you're too sexy to resist." His hands slip down my waist and to the shorts I had put on. His fingers unbutton my shorts and pull them down.

"Hey guys take it somewhere else- what the fuck are you doing with her." Danny Barry whatever his name was is thrown off of me. "Dude what the hell? We were just trying to have some fun." He argues.

My hands automatically go to my head. "Too loud." I whisper. My head was pounding and I felt really dizzy.

"Sure you were." I hear a crack and a scream. Next thing I know is I'm being carried by two strong arms and I bury my head into them. "Hey I got you alright? No one will hurt you."

"Too loud. Head hurts." I groan.

A few seconds later I'm being set on a bed and a water bottle thrusted in front of me. "Drink." I take the bottle and chug it also taking the medicine I'm being handed right after.

Finally my vision starts to clear after a while and head starts to hurt less but not completely gone.

I open my eyes to see Vinnie crouched in front of me. "What happened?" I ask him confused. He looks as if he could kill someone. "Bastard roofied you that's what." He snarls. "Wait what how?" He frowns at me. "The cup he brought for the game." Everything clicks in my head.

Vinnie gestures to one string being undone. "May I?" He asks and I nod. I feel his fingers tie it back. I grab his hand to see his knuckles bruised. "What happened?" I look at his to see that he's already looking at me.

"Punched the bitch might've broke his nose." He shrugs. "What the hell Vinnie?"

"He deserved it okay? If I hadn't come in god knows what he would've-" he stops himself seeing my expression. "You know what? It doesn't matter all that matters is that you're safe now." I nod.

He sits beside me. "He didn't do anything did he?" I shake my head. "Not a lot just tried to undo my-"

Vinnie groans putting his head in his hands. "God I'm so sorry trouble." I rub his back gently. "Tis not your fault Vin."

"I feel fine now." I stand up. "I need to get back to check on my friends." I go back downstairs, Vinnie hot on my heels and open the door to the backyard. The cool night air hitting my face. There's only a few people out here now.

"Alana! Where were you?" Tati demands. "I just needed to use the restroom." I lie. "Okay! I thought you ran off somewhere to do you know what." She wiggles her eyebrows and I shake my head. "Nothing of that sort. You guys need me to drop you off? It's getting late."

Tati shakes her head. "No the night is still young-" she is cut off by Mona. "It's almost 1 am, sure why not I'm very tired." She comes over to hug me. I go to grab my keys and they follow me. "Where are you going?" Jack asks. "I just need to drop these two off and I'll be back." He nods in understanding.

"Be careful Lana, it's not very safe this late at night to drive after drinking." Alex warns. "I haven't had too much and I did take medicine." I reassure him. He still doesn't look convinced. "Vinnie can you go with her just in case." Vinnie's head snaps to Alex from whatever conversation he was having with some random girl who was now pouting. His gaze treacle led from Alex to me then back to him. "Yea sure. Let's go."

He plucks the keys from my hand and we follow after him.

Tati takes the opportunity to jump into the passenger seat, leaving me and Mona to sit in the back. Before I can open a door and hand grabs mine. "You sure you're okay right?" Vinnie whispers in my ear. "Yea positive." I give him a weak smile. He nods then opens the door for me before jogging towards the drivers seat.

Vinnie starts the car and hands me his phone to put in the location. "So you're single right?" Tati looks at him dreamily. Gosh she's had too much. "Um yea." He states rubbing his head.

"Okay cool. That's good." Vinnie adjusts the rear view mirror and gives me a weird look which makes a smile a bit.

"So did you guys have fun today?" I try to break the awkward silence. "Hmm? Oh yea I had loads of fun today." Mona looks up from her phone then goes back to texting. "Yea me too. Hey I saw you talking to a cute guy earlier. He looked into you! You thought about that?" I try to rack my brain but nothing comes to mind I have no idea what she's talking about.

"What guy?" She shrugs. "Beats me. Before we left, you were talking to him."

"I don't remember. I probably won't think about it if I don't even remember him." I chuckle. She hums placing her head on the window. "Okay we're here." Vinnie announces as we reach the entrance of the hotel they're staying at.

"I had fun today. I'll see you soon babe." Ramona gives me hug. "What are you doing tomorrow?"

"You know just the usual sight seeing we're taking a 3-day tour." She explains. "So I'll directly see you at the fight then?" She nods climbing out. "Night love ya."

"Love ya."

Tati greets me and before getting out places a quick kiss on Vinnie's cheek which surprised us all. "I'll be rooting for you on Saturday." She winks and gets out. Being too lazy to actually get out I just climb over the seats to get into the passenger seat.

"Um that was-" I start. "Weird? Yea." I sigh. "Look she's not like that it's just she can be very affectionate when she likes someone." He nods.

"Where to now?" Vinnie asks. "I could do with some coffee. I need to stay up to answer a few emails."

We pull up at a Starbucks and opt to go inside, the line in the drive thru being too long. Cool air hits me as I step out of the car. This was the only Starbucks on our way home and it's in the middle of fucking nowhere. "This place looks sketchy." I look around to find a few people smoking and roaming drunk.

"Good thing I came along then." We hear a few whistles. "Hey babe mind if I fuck your brains out in that tiny bikini of yours?" My hand immediately fold in front of my chest. Thank god I put on shorts before leaving the house. Vinnie's eyes darken as he tries to go towards them.

I grab him arm turning him to me. "There's ten of them and one of you." He sighs then nods, placing an arm on my waist pulling me against him. "Do you have a jacket in your car?" He asks.
I shake my head. "Okay no worries, just stay close to me yeah trouble?" I nod lodging myself into his side entering the shop.

We spare no time to grab our coffees and drive off. "I swear to god I wanted to fuck that bastard up so bad." He grumbles. I give a small laugh. "Take out your frustrations in the fight."

"You bet I will."

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Sup I hate going to school. I hate the people at my new school. *sighs* just a few months to go then I'm free.