You All Along

A date and a party... or just a party? (15)

Anita's POV

I went outside to find Dan standing outside a VERY nice roofless car. He opened the door for me, and kissed me on the cheek as I got in.

¨Very nice.¨ I said.

Dan looked great. He was wearing a white shirt with the sleeves a little rolled up, exposing his also very expensive watch. He had curly brown hair and blue eyes which popped with his white shirt.

¨Are you ready?¨

¨Where are we going?¨ I asked.

¨Oh, you'll see.¨ He smiled at me.

We talked the whole way there. He was so nice and easy to talk to. We finally got there, and the maitre d led us all the way to the back, to a table very poorly lit with a view to the ocean.

¨Wow¨ I said.

¨Neat, huh?¨

We sat down, and the waiter brought us the menus. As I opened it, I got a text from Levy.

LEVY: He finally make you come?

Dick. I internally rolled my eyes. The worst part is he knew what he was doing and had no problem doing so.

¨So, tell me a little bit more about how you got here.¨ He said.

I put my phone away. ¨Well, I've always wanted to study business, and I heard great things about Umiami, so with my cousin and his friend we moved here to go there.¨

¨You're starting at Umiami?¨

¨Yeah.¨

¨That's awesome. Some of my friends go there too.¨ Dan said as he opened his menu.

¨Really?¨

¨Yeah. I'm at Dade.¨

¨Wait actually? That' so cool.¨

The waiter came, and we ordered. My phone rang again, with another text from Levy. I was beginning to think the waiter had something to do with him, like it was a sign warning me his text was coming.

LEVY: 808 9th Ave. Come by.

I ignored him, and put my phone away again.

We kept on talking with Dan the rest of dinner. He told me about his family, how he grew up here, his life at Dade. It was actually really nice. I told him about mine too, and I almost forgot about Levy until he brought him up.

¨So the guy from the other night, is that who you're living with?¨ He asked, very politely though.

¨Yeah, he's my cousin's friend. I'm sorry about that by the way, he gets really drunk and stupid.¨

Right as I said that, I could feel Levy laughing at me for that one. "Drunk and stupid, yeah right monster."

¨Don't worry about it. And your cousin, was he around?¨

¨Yeah, but he was rather busy.¨ I chuckled.

Dan laughed.

¨Right. Hey, do you want to come back to my apartment? I can show you around the city on the way.¨ He said.

I doubted my answer. ¨I wish I could, but 've got an early thing tomorrow. I'll make it up to you though.¨

He smiled. ¨Sure.¨

We kept talking for a while, and then headed out. He offered to take me home, but there was a very clear thing on my head bothering me. After Dan left with a kiss on the cheek, I opened my texts. 808 9th Ave. I sighed. Why am I doing this? The worst thing is that I actually had a great time with Dan, and even agreed on seeing him again. But it was like there was a magnet connecting me to Levy, that was screaming at me to go to that party.

Fuck it. I ordered an uber, and arrived at a fuckload of a party.

I got out and started walking to the front door. There were people dancing everywhere, and I mean everywhere. I bumped into at least three couples making out on the way to the door. I started looking for Noah and Levy, and luckily I found Noah fast.

¨Hey!¨ Noah yelled and hugged me. He smelled like pure vodka. ¨You came! Here, here, this is Tracy. Tracy, this is my cousin I told you about, Anita!¨

¨Hey!¨ Tracy hugged me. She also smelled like pure vodka. ¨It's so nice to finally meet you! I love your name¨

¨Thanks guys!¨ Small talk or not, I'd gone there for one reason and one reason only. ¨Have you seen Levy?¨ It was almost impossible to talk with the music so loud.

¨I think he's with Mia.¨ Tracy said. ¨We'll go look for him with you.¨

¨Oh, okay¨

Tracy, Noah and I started walking around. The amount of people there were at this house was actually surprising.

¨There they are! Oooh fuck yes I knew it, Tracy you owe me 20 bucks¨ Noah laughed.

I turned around and saw Mia on top of Levy on a couch, making out. I felt my heart drop to my stomach. Of course he was with Mia after making me ditch Dan.

I seriously considered booty calling Dan out of sheer frustration. I also seriously considered interrupting them, but figured probably both of those options weren't the best idea.

I don't know how long those thoughts lasted, but I turned around to Noah and Tracy violently making out. Great.