Game On {1}

Chapter 6

After the traumatizing incident, Evan had cleaned up pieces of glass scattered on the floor so no one was allowed in the kitchen. Jonathan had to go to the restroom to wash the spit that had also left his mouth when coughing out the bottle.

So that left Evanee, Tyler, and David stuck in the living room.

"We all heard you upstairs." Tyler's statement caught their attention. "We shoved a bottle into Jonathan's mouth to your music."

The three laughed. Evanee had realized that it was Tyler who was always kidding around. She also observed that he didn't like silence.

"Seriously though. You guys are pretty good."

Tyler's compliment earned him a warm thank you from the girl and a pillow to the face from one of his best friends.

Evanee found it seemingly odd that Evan's close friends had accepted the fact that she just barged in on their pre-party, but she was absolutely certain that their company brought her joy.

Evan and Jonathan entered the living room, ending the entertaining small talk amongst the three.

"Evan, can we see the pictures?" David asked. Evan tossed his phone to him in reply and everyone crowded around him on the small couch.

"Calm the fuck down," Tyler had shouted as Jonathan tried to claw his way between David and Evan in order to se the pictures.

David was already at the gallery and began to swipe. It was just a mass of consecutive photos of Jonathan trying to fit a bottle the size of Evanee's forearm into his mouth and failing to do so. Their joined laughs were probably loud enough to wake the entire neighborhood, until the end of the bottle incident. The five had stumbled onto a picture taken last night none other by Gemma.

"Damn Evan. You could have just told us you two were dating," Tyler stared at the picture of Evanee cuddling against Evan's chest. "Who took the picture anyways?"

Evan was slightly too embarrassed to speak.

"My aunt Gemma is a total nutjob. Whoops." She grabbed the phone and handed it back to Evan. "We're not a thing. It just so happened that this booger and I fell asleep after a movie."

She received questionable glances from Tyler and Jonathan, a grateful look from Evan, but she had no clue about David. The tall boy just sat staring off into space again.

"Well, its been fun seeing a bottle being shoved down someone's throat, but I'm not a party type of girl so I'll be seeing you guys," Evanee didn't bother to stay lokg enough to hear their farewells. She just took off running into the cold Autumn wind into her own home.

"I like her," David blurted out randomly, causing the others to stare at him. "She's pretty cool. A bit weird, but cool."

Evan thought the same thing. His neighbor was nothing but weird and he liked that. She was different.

"She's hot too." Tyler shrugged after his statement. It was weird having another person at their pre-party, but he didn't mind. "Anyways, we still have a shit ton of beer and people are probably going to start arriving in like ten minutes. So Jonathan turn the music, Evan set out some beers on kitchen counter, I'll move all the breakables into Evan's room, and David go do what you normally do."

Similar to Evanee, David wasn't very fond of parties. He didn't like the overwhelming stench of alcohol wherever he went, seeing a couple doing inappropriate things publicly, or having to reject any girls since there were drunk out of their minds. His friends understood, so they were fine with him always leaving in the middle of the party.