bury you by my side| dream x oc

26

*Friday night, party starting*

I sat on the edge of my bed, nervous about the night to come, I knew there was no way of Daniel showing up but I still got anxious thinking about it. As thoughts were racing through my head, I hear people begin to arrive, taking it as the final push to get ready finally.

I rummaged through my closet and stumbled upon a short, dark red dress, deciding to throw it on and fix my hair to look presentable. Before I could leave my room a knock on my door is heard, I open it to find an already slightly intoxicated Nick, he pauses for a moment and looks me up and down, "wo- Clay is wondering where you are-" he says, continuing to run his eyes along my body.

"Im coming" I say brushing past him. I thought he was done being weird. Walking down the stairs I am thoroughly impressed by the decorations and general atmosphere the boys managed to create. I couldn't help but feel warm inside knowing they all wanted to make sure my birthday was special and comfortable for me.

I stand at the end of the steps, taking in everything, while at the same time my eyes wandering for Clay, although these are all people I chose to be here, my anxiety is still getting to me, I need Clay for a while in order to warm up to everything.

After scanning for a while, my eyes finally catch him, surrounded by quite a few people, Hannah, Niki, Karl, and a girl that I don't quite recognize. I start to walk towards him, but I quickly stop in my tracks when I witness the unfamiliar girl place her head on his arm. I couldn't describe the feelings that rushed over me. Anger and slight pain were just a couple. Immediate bad thoughts started running through my head, blacking out.

As I'm standing there processing, I guess I missed the part where Clay slipped away from the group and walked up to me, placing his hand on my arm and snapping me back to reality, "hey baby, you look gorgeous" he says to me placing a kiss on the top of my head. "Thank you, hey Clay I have a question?" I respond, "what is it?" He asks leaning closer to be able to hear better over the music.

I let out a sigh, "who was that girl?" I ask sheepishly. "What girl?" He responds. I stare blankly into his eyes, "you're joking? The girl that was leaning on you over there?" I respond, a little bit of anger leaving my throat. "Oh, her. She came with Hannah, I think she said her name was Chelsea, she is apparently a fan of ours and wanted to meet us and we told Hannah it's fine to bring her since they're friends" he says shrugging his shoulders.

I nod in response, not wanting that to ruin my night, I immediately go into the kitchen where Nick placed the alcohol and poured myself a shot, throwing it back quickly and slamming the shot glass back down, "damn, that seemed personal, you good mamas?" I hear Nick say over the music. "Yea. Fine. Just some bimbo trying to ruin my night" I say pouring another shot. He chuckles "you mean Chelsea? She's Hannah's friend, they all used to come over before you moved in."

I turn towards Nick, "what? You guys were friends?" I question. "Yea, not really anymore because she always throws herself at us but-" I cut him off, "Clay said she was a fan that you have never met before, is that why he lied to me? Because she wants to sleep with you guys?" I say throwing my second shot back. "I guess so" Nick says shrugging, taking a drink out of his cup. I stare at him and scoot the shot glass over, and grab a cup to pour the liquor into. I definitely need to be drunk for this shit-show that's going to unfold tonight.

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About an hour later, I walk back into the living room, and see Clay, Hannah, Karl, and Chelsea sitting on the couch. Chelsea notices me and glares at me, putting her hand on Clays knee, turning back towards him, pretending she didn't notice me. I roll my eyes and turn around to pull Nick to the side, "I think it's time to play spin the bottle" I bark out. He nods and gathers the group into a circle.

We all sit in the circle, after a few rounds of bottle spinning, and meaningless pecks, it's Chelsea's turn to spin the bottle. I watch as she flips her hair before lowering her hand to spin it. After a painful amount of time the bottle finally comes to a stop, my stomach tightening when I glance up to see it landed on none other than Clay. Great. I watch as he glances over to me, I raise an eyebrow at him and sit back a little, no emotion on my face. He switches his glance over to Chelsea, leaning forward on his hands, extending his head towards her.

I watch as her mouth forms into a slight smirk, placing her hand on his cheek, instead of a small peck like the other people did, she kisses him roughly, for a solid minute before he pulls away, "okay Eva, it's your turn" she says to me wiping the lipstick from the corner of her mouth.

I know that we all agreed to do this, but after knowing Chelsea's motives, and Clay lying to me about it I couldn't help but feel... jealous. Me being slightly drunk and non confrontational, I figured I might as well try to one up him, I spin the bottle, watching as it slows down, landing on Nick. I couldn't help but think to myself how perfect this was. Clay already had insecurities about Nick's feelings towards me.

I lean forward towards Nick who was sat next to Clay, even better. I make eye contact with Nick, his face already heated and rose colored, I make sure my arms slightly push into my chest, making my cleavage more visible to the two, I watch as Clays body language shifts into something less comfortable. I make sure to get closer to Nick so that our knees touch, I place both hands on his cheeks, planting my lips onto his. Shifting my hands from his cheeks to his neck, pressing closer to him. I also made sure to count in my head, I had to make this longer than Clays kiss with Chelsea.

After I felt it was long enough, I pulled away from Nick, finally moving my arms from his neck I stare into his eyes, and shoot a small smile at him, before moving back to my original seat. I glance over at Clay and see that he looks jealous as well. He shoots me a look almost as if he was challenging me as the circle continued to play.

AN: I think this was the longest chapter so far. The next chapter is gonna be a rollercoaster of emotions by the way. There's gonna be slight smut, Clay and Eva are also going to get in a fight🤫🤫