Degrees of Desire (gxg, txs)

chapter five

-Isabella

I stood in front of my mirror trying to figure out what I was going to wear to this party. Nate and Iris were going to pick me up soon and I still wasn't sure of what I wanted to wear.

I put on a short black dress with sheer black tights underneath. I grabbed my black leather jacket, boots, and purse before heading downstairs. My makeup and hair was already done, I was just overthinking the entire outfit.

I hear a honk outside of my house. Nate loves to let me know he's here by honking. He literally could've just texted me. I say goodbye to my parents before walking out the front door and locking it. I ran over to the car where Nate was driving and Iris was in the passenger seat.

"You look so pretty Bells!" Iris exclaimed.

"You look alright I guess." Nate adds. Iris slapped his arm and furrowed her eyebrows at him.

"Sorry. I meant you look nice." He chuckled.

"Thank you guys. So do you." I smiled.

As we headed to the party, I couldn't help but notice it was on the nicer part of the town. This area is where the rich kids lived at.

Getting closer to the house, you can hear the loud music blasting in the distance. The street was filled with car and there were a bunch of people in front of the house.

Nate parked the car kind of far away due to the amount of cars there were. We all got out of the car and walked to the house.

Immediately as we approach the party, people were coming up Nate trying to talk to him and some girl came up to Iris. I stood there awkwardly waiting for them to finish.

It usually is always like this. Iris and Nate are fairly popular. It wasn't new to me that there were so many people greeting them.

Once they finally finished talking, we walked inside. The house was filled with people. There were people crowding a table where an intense match of beer pong seemed to be taking place.

Iris took my hand and dragged us towards the kitchen to find something to drink.

She grabbed 3 red solo cups and filled them with who knows what. She handed me one and gave the other one to Nate.

"Cheers! To the first party of senior year." She says holding her cup out in the air. We all clinked the cups together before taking a sip. The liquid burned my throat as it went down.

God what was even in this? I couldn't even distinguish what type of alcohol it was. There probably was more than one type in it.

As expected, Nate gets dragged away by some of his football teammates. Every time we come to these parties, he ends up getting taken away by his other friends. It's usually fine with me because I have Iris.

Iris and I continue to stand in the kitchen leaning against the counter. I turn towards her and she downs the contents of her cup in one go. She pushes herself off the counter and walks back towards all of the alcohol.

"Round 2 already?" I walked over and said in her ear. The music was extremely loud I couldn't even hear myself talk.

"I'm here to have fun Bella." She turns to tell me in my ear. She takes the cup from my hand and fills it up.

"We can have fun but we need to be safe, Iris." I told her as she looked into my eyes and began to down the cup she had just made for herself. She brought my cup to my lips encouraging me to drink with her.

"We will be safe. Don't be lame Bells." She laughed.

I took the cup from her hand and decided to drink it all in one go as well. I'm not lame. I don't know why I felt the sudden need to show her that. I watched as she watched me drink it. She had a smirk on her face.