Strawberries and cigarettes | vh

19

Alana

We pulled up to a bar named 'the high' which seemed ironic cause the bar was underground. It was kinda like your average bar with the drunk people grinding and the red neon lights giving everything a devilish glow. This was a members exclusive only bar which we had booked for tonight. Well technically Bryce had since he wanted to party after his big win. That aged well.

"Let's head up to the bar then we'll go find everyone. That okay?" I nod absentmindedly looking around. I saw a lot of familiar faces around. Even some of the YouTubers showed up.

"Alana hey!" I snapped out of my thoughts to see Nick coming towards us. "It's been so long!" I gave him a tight hug. "I know right we definitely need to go out more often." He smiles and gives Vinnie a handshake. "There's our big winner!"

"Thanks man. Good to see you!" He smiles at him. After a bit of catching up Nick excuses himself to go greet a few other of his friends.

"You and Nick hang out?" Vinnie raises an eyebrow. "Yea he's a cool guy and we get along really well." He just nods not giving an answer.

I got held up by at least five more people before we reached the bar, Mia tagging along with us. "Someone's popular today." Mia teases. "Fuck off Mia." Vinnie scowls.

"Why don't you fuck off. I need some girl time."

Vinnie flips her the bird before signalling the bartender to get our order. "Uh we'll have a round of tequila shots." The bartender nods and gets us the glasses pouring the tequila in and sliding them towards us.

I grab the two shot glasses, handing one to Mia. "Cheers to Vinnie." Mia toasts. I clink my glass with hers before chugging it down. The tequila feels warm and flows down my throat easily.

"Lana let's go dance, I want a partner and Thomas is too much of a prissy princess." She practically drags me to the dance floor where there are a lot of people dancing. Mia places her hands on my hips and dances with me.

From the corner of my eye I see a girl approach Vinnie and leans in to tell him something. He smirks and follows her to god knows where. Wait. Why do I care what he does? I don't even like him. If he wants to go fuck another girl I don't care.

I remove thoughts of Vinnie from my head when Avani and Kouvr too join us.

"Let's go join the others." Avani suggests.

We walk over to the table where everyone is sitting and just laughing. Jack was seated next to Vinnie, the girl nowhere to be in sight. Thomas made space next to him for Mia to sit. I went ahead and sat in between Jack and Larray. The former put his arm around me. "Lana you finally made it." Jack gives me a hug and Larray does the same.

"Girl you are looking sexy as fuck." Larray gushed. We just gossiped for a while sipping on drinks till Jack got up. "Let's play truth or dare." He suggested and most nodded in agreement. "What are we 12?" Mia groaned.

"For that young lady you'll go first. Truth or dare." Jack asked.

"Truth."

"You're boring. Fine is it true that your brother caught you and Thomas getting at it in a restaurant bathroom?" A few people whistled in response. "Yes." She squeaked, her face turning red and she hid her face in Thomas' shoulder.

"Damn Thomas you dog." Patrick teased from across the table.

"Okay enough of that. Alana truth or dare?" Mia asks.

"Dare." I smirk at her gaining a few oohs. "Alright then. I dare you to flirt with that guy to get you a free drink." Mia gives me teasing smile.

"Oh damn now that's a good one." Jack and Mia high five. "Alright I'll do it." I see Vinnie gives me a weird look but I ignore it walking towards the bar where the guy is standing. I stopped in front of him. He wasn't that bad looking with his blonde hair and blue eyes.

"Hi." I lean against the bag table. "Hey." He gives me a polite smile subtly checking me out. "Alana, nice to meet you." I offer him my hand to shake and he obliges. "Oliver."

Well fuck my life. "What brings you here?" He snaps out of his daze, his eyes coming back to my face from where he was staring at my breasts. "Just you know, wanted to have a bit of fun. was hoping to take a pretty girl home tonight." He smirked at me.

Oh God Mia what did you get me into?

"Oh that's cool." I saw awkwardly. "So Alana," he emphasises on my name. "What brings you here?" He gestures to where I'm standing.

"Just wanted to get a drink and saw you standing alone so thought that you might need company." I placed my hand on his arm and gave him my 'fuck me' eyes.

His eyes darkened at that. "Well I must be a lucky guy."

"Yep just need to get drunk enough to make a few bad decisions." I smirk and stroke my hand near my collarbones watching his gaze follow my hands.

"Well for a pretty girl like you, drinks are on me." He steps closer to me placing his hand on my waist. "That's too nice of you."

"You won't be saying that after tonight baby girl." I internally cringed at that.

I called the bartender over and asked for a dirty martini and he ordered a cheap beer. Could he get anymore basic than that? Oliver paid for our drinks and I slipped from his grip. "Where are you going? I thought you were coming with me?" He looked confused.

"Sorry babe, you're not as good at flirting as you thought. Just a dare to get a free drink." I pat his arm and get away from him before he could say anything else and he just stared at me dumbfounded.

"That's my girl!" Mia yelled when I went back to our table with my Martini.

"That was some flirting you did there, dude looked in a fucking trance." Alex whistled.

"Thank you. Thank you."
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I'm so single:( and I fucking hate exams why do we have to study?
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