scoring you

Chapter 46

Alyssa

I feel myself sliding.

Deeper and deeper until I can't breath.

The bathtub fills around me with hot water, reaching its way up to my shoulders and I slide into the depths with ease, sputtering out the water that escaped into my nose.

A loud bang on the door distracts me, "hurry up Al!" Tess says. "We're leaving soon and I want to have a quick shower!"

"Y- yeah," I call out, "one sec."

"You okay?" She asks concern lacing her words.

"Completely," I force on a smile that she can't see.

"Good." I can feel her leaning up against the door as she strains her neck to talk to me. "Also did you go to therapy last night?"

My heart drops down to my stomach because I haven't told her that I haven't been going- not since that one.

"Yeah, very- helpful. Thanks for asking Tess." I struggle to say as I hop out of the boiling hot water, shivering head to toe. 

The lie's eating my alive at this point.

If I'm going to drown I'm going to drown in silence instead of pulling everyone under with me.

"Also I'm coming in," she twists the doorknob because this fucking house doesn't have locks. "Are you naked?" She closes her hands over her eyes.

I chuckle, "wouldn't you like to know."

She lets them fall. "I would actually, so I don't see you butt-ass naked." She looks around the room, "why is it so steamy in here?"

I shrug, "I like hot baths."

She giggles as she draws a dick on the steamed mirror.

"Your so immature," I snort.

"Just drawing the thing I'll never see," she says drawing the finishing touches.

"Gross," I say as she takes a step back to admire her work.

"Beautiful."

"Your really fucked up in the head, y'know that?"

"No more than you my crazy little friend," she adds with a flick to my nose. "Now, Matthew and the other guys are gonna pick us up soon so make sure you pack your bags."

"I have-" I begin.

"Uh- no, I know you haven't because I was stalking through your room to find some cute underwear and I couldn't find any."

I narrow my eyes, "why do you need my underwear?"

She shrugs with a smug grin, "wouldn't you like to know?" She repeats my previous words.

I sigh with a chuckle, "your nasty Tessa."

She gives me a quick flick of her auburn hair before pushing me out of the bathroom. "Now move, I needa piss."

"I thought you wanted to take a shower?"

"Nope, I just said that so you'd get out quicker." She grins in response.

"You little bastard."

She shrugs, "I take pride in it."

Half an hour later a car honks outside of our apartment and three boys poke their heads out of the cramped car, waving us in from our building.

"Hurry up girls!" Matthew yells threw cupped hands, "I'm the birthday boy, I deserve special treatment!"

The car honks another ten times and I hear Aiden grumbling things to Matthew as we carry our bags out to the back.