Jaiden Stories !

Intoxicated Hearts

(Aiden's POV)

I wake up at 9:30AM on a Friday, with barely any sleep. Im annoyed. I force myself out of bed, already agitated, and change out of my clothes. I noticed that James wasnt in the bed when I woke up, so I assumed he was already downstairs. I finished changing, and headed downstairs, almost stumbling over because of how tired I was.

"Hey, Aiden! Good morning! I made breakfast, if you want to try it?" James greets me.

"Morning... Yeah, i'll try it." I reply as im dragging myself to the table.

He raised his eyebrows a bit. "Are you alright, hon?" James says as he sits down next to me.

"Yeah, sorry. I just didnt sleep all too well, I guess. Im not trying to be mean I promise!" I apologize.

"You dont have to apologize. Although, you may want to get out of that bad mood soon. We have a pretty busy day today!" James says excitedly.

"What? I didnt know we were doing anything. What are we doing?" I reply.

"Well, I talked with some people... And they wanted to have a big party at the bar thats nearby us tonight!" James exclaims.

"Oh..! Gosh, ive never actually drank before... Let alone been to a bar." I say as I look away, a bit embarassed.

"Really? Thats surprising. Trust me, we'll make your first experience absolutely perfect for you." James asures me.

I smile at him as he says that. We both start to eat our breakfast, but the thought of going to the bar tonight was racing through my head. I know what beer and all that stuff is, obviously, but ive just never ingested it. It sounds like a fun experience, but im still a complete nervous mess when it comes to thinking about actually drinking. Ive known people in the past who have easily gotten addicted to alcohol, and I think im just mostly nervous of it happening to me as well. If I do end up drinking, ill try to restrict myself from drinking too much. We both finish our breakfast, and I decide to watch TV for a bit, while James goes out to grab some groceries. Usually, we take turns buying groceries and it was technically my turn, but he understood how tired I was and let me stay home while he took care of it. I turn on one of my favorite comedy movies, and I think I watched about 30 minutes of it before falling asleep on the couch. Not being able to sleep well last night was definitely the main reason to me falling asleep.
I wake up to James sitting next to me and moving the hair out of my face.

"Oh! Sorry, I didnt mean to wake you up. Youve been asleep for a while, you sure your okay to have that party today?" James worries.

"I'll be fine, James. I just need to get used to being awake. Trust me, ill be able to go!" I reply.

"Okay... Well, if your'e not up for it, please just tell me. You wont hurt anyones feelings if you dont want to go." He says to me.

"James, seriously, im fine. I can go! Speaking of... what time is it? And, when do we leave?" I ask.

"Well, right now..." He checks his watch. "Its 1PM. We leave around... I wanna say 9?"

"1PM?! Ive been asleep for 3 hours?" I exclaim.

"Relax, you'll have enough time to do whatever you need to do to get yourself ready, or whatever." He laughs at me.

I sit up from my position on the couch and stretch my arms back to wake myself up. James gets up from his spot as well and goes over to the counter to unload the groceries. I follow him, as I obviously dont want to be useless, and I help him unload the groceries as well. We basically spent the entirety of our afternoon doing our thing. James spent most of it watching TikTok, while I sat outside and read a book that Lake had lent me. As im sucked into one of the pages in the book, James opened the back door, right next to where I was.