Stars by the Shore

Chapter 4

I smiled and put fingers to the keys, "fuck your love life"

Third person
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Doxa's surroundings got dull and woozy (hehe woozi) as she glanced around the living room full of fellow drunks. She felt herself getting tired and wanting to go home. She scanned the room trying to find the pretty girl from earlier. 

She stumbled up from the couch and wandered until she found herself back beside Jackson Wang. 

"Doxa-" he paused, "Oh shit you're FUCKED up."

She rolled her eyes and grabbed his arm, "In your dreams, bud."

He raised an eyebrow and laughed at her, "What can I help ya with?"

"I'm looking for that one pretty brunette."

He deadpans over to her, "Babe, we're at a house party. Mine, at that. I can guarantee there's more than one pretty brunette here. Did you happen to get a name?"

"uhhhh.." Doxa recalls the brief interaction, "Atena."

"Oh the younger girl that offered to be a DD? She stepped out the front door. Said she was gonna sit on the porch."

Doxa frowns, "How do you keep up with all these people?"

He winks. "I don't, only the pretty ones."

Doxa facepalms and pushes Jackson lightly, "NEVER know where I am."

He laughs at her statement, "Yes ma'am."

"Goodbye."

"Going home?"

Doxa froze, "STOP TRYING TO KEEP TRACK OF ME!"

Jackson laughs at her and nods, "Goodnight beautiful."

Doxa flipped around and quickly found her way out of the door. Sat on the first step was the girl she had met earlier, "Atena!"

She turned her head, "Oh, Doxa, hi! Are you ready to go home?"

Doxa nodded with a grin, "Let's go," and quickly hooked her arms around Atena without giving her warning.

She laughed and stumbled a little, leading her to the vehicle, "Do you have everything you came with?"

"Besides my car and my sobriety." doxa nods assuringly

A chuckle escaped Atena as she sat in the vehicle and waited for her passenger to buckle up. "Alright, where are we going?"

"home."

Atena blinked a few times before whispering to herself. "I hate drunk people."

"hm?"

"Nothing. Where do you live?"

"oh! If I give you it, you have to promise not to come flirt with me" Doxa gave off an intoxicated (awful) wink and smiled wide.

"Yes, cause your boyfriend would kill me-"

"girlfriend. and yeah. She's scary when she's mad."

"Okay, yeah, your girlfriend will kill me. now just tell me where you live."

doxa sighed, "But this is funnnn" She paused, "ok fine. 143 Lonely St. (I am literally OUT of ideas so my stayville is coming into play)

"Alright, thank you. Just lean your head back and I'll let you know when we get there."

Doxa threw her head back against the seat and zoned out for all of the ride, finding herself home in what felt like seconds. 

"You're home, hon. Go drink some water and sleep."

"Thank you" She nodded and got out of the car, stepping towards the front door, she took a deep breath before opening it. The living room was mostly dark with a lamp being the only thing lighting it. Doxa slid in the door, closing it quietly before taking her shoes off and collapsing on the couch.

"So glad you're home." A voice spoke from the staircase, slowly coming into view.

"Hana, I'm sorry."

"I told you not to go out. But you did anyways."

"I just wanted to have a little bit of fun. Why can't I do that?" doxa pleaded

Rihana retorted, "Can't you have fun while I am there?"

"That's" not what I mean!"

Ri scoffed lightly, "So what DO you mean?"

"I-"

Ri cut Doxa off, "All I do is care about you. I try to make sure you're safe and I don't even get a message when you directly disobey me." 

Doxa paused, taking a deep breath, "Dis..obey?" she smiled lightly, "Is this a relationship or is this a superiority? I don't recall signing on to take ORDERS from you."

Ri sighed, "Damnit Doxa, that's not what I meant."

"so what DID you mean?"

"I just... there's things you don't know about and I don't want you to be unsafe."

"If you don't want me to be unsafe, stop making me feel like I have to sneak everywhere."

Ri was taken aback, "That's.. that's the part you had an issue with?"

"yup."

"I told you I was hiding something from you and you just.. don't care?"

Doxa rolled her eyes, "It's not that I don't care, it's that I'm used to it." Doxa continued, "Confidential this- Confidential that. Secrets around every corner. Hana, you've been keeping things from me since BEFORE we got together. At this point, I just assume you're a murderer or something."

Rihana sighs through her nose and sits beside Doxa, "I'm sorry. I do these things for your safety."

Doxa turns away from Ri, "You've said that." she stood and walked back over to the door, "Don't wait up. I won't be sleeping here tonight."

"Where are you going?"

"out."

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Yo I've gotta be honest, I hate this chapter. I had such bad writers block that I had to get through. Since I knocked it out, I should be able to continue like normal now.

Last main character has been introduced. Poor Rihana.. She's truthfully a sweet girl but I just had to spice her character up for the pLoT