My whole life I dreamt of living out by the ocean, studying marine biology, living my best life by the salty ocean. That's what my life has always been. Silence. Although when I go to my dream college in Florida to study marine biology my internship...
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Warnings- underage drinking, partying, throwing up, being drunk.
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"Cece I dunno about this." I admit. Cierra gave me her slim black dress that, by the way had no straps and went down to only my mid thigh. I felt like I was just going out completely naked, with my bralette going up and wrapping around my neck. The design was flowery and lacy. My brown hair was curled and I had my makeup done by Cierra. She gave me a look from her little pull out vanity she was sitting at. "You're not skipping out. You did that enough in highschool." Cierra said pointing at me. "Because my sister was at all of those with all of the boyfriends she wouldn't let me go within 20 feet of! Plus she'd snitch.." I scrunch my nose and sit down on my knees next to her.
"Okay well your sister is across the country right now so no snitching or boyfriends she wants you to be social distanced from." Cierra reasoned. A glint in her eyes as she smiled mischievously. I always wanted to go to parties, get out, do my makeup and snicker with Cierra the next day talking about a boy I kissed but I never had the chance. Evelina took that from me, and basically everything else.
"I have an internship tomorrow.." I mumble. I definitely didn't wanna get drunk when the next day was a full day of studying, getting to early lectures and spending the free afternoon at a marine biology lab with my Sr. "Mimi did you seriously sign up for an internship during the afternoon? Is that why you crammed all your classes at like 7am?" I roll my eyes. "It's only part time I told you I work better in the morning anyway."
Cierra sighs and finishes up straightening her hair. "That's too much work for me" Cece has afternoon classes, but she takes Pilates in the morning. Despite getting up early, getting coffee, and doing Pilates she is still sleepy and immediately slumps when she gets home. I don't even know how.
The whole process of getting into Cece's Mercedes, blasting her favorite songs is all a blur to me. Watching the street lights pass us we pull into the side of the side walk that led into the huge frat house. The music was bumping something I couldn't even make out aside from the occasional 'mustard on the beat,ho'
Walking into the double doors I feel like I'm already having a pre-stroke. What's that you may ask? It's a mini stroke that comes before the other 5 im about to have at this party that I barely even walked into yet. My hand immediately finds Cierra's back pocket of her mini Jean shorts. So if I ever get lost (I absolutely will) I can just look towards Cece for help.
I smell sweat, sex, so so many different perfumes as girls giggle and sloppily push their way through me and Cece, I can feel the rhythm of the music vibrating in my chest, suffocating me and taking my breath with every beat. Laughing, crying, yelling. Whooping from the boys playing beer pong or the immature "oooh" 's from the seven minutes in heaven people. I'm so overwhelmed at everything happening but at the same time my dull brown eyes sparkle and a smile overtakes me.
It's a different feeling, different scenery, but I feel so good in everything. Like everyone's doing their own thing and so can I. Me and Cece exchange smiles while we bee line straight for the alcohol. I got a twisted tea, so did Cece as we drank she perks up. "Oh- I just remembered, I have an apple AirTag on my purse, here's one for inside your bra. You know. Just in case we get lost and need to know where we are." Cece explained, handing me a sleek silver AirTag I shoved in my bra.
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My whole world was spinning, colours blurring, I swayed to the rhythm of the music on a table; thank god I'm wearing converse. It's like the only pair of shoes I have, and I had a feeling I was gonna be dancing a lot.
After a bit of dancing my shaky legs tried to gracefully come back down to floor. Gracefully ending up face planting straight into a hard wall-
That wasn't a wall, it was Jamie. He tilted his head in amusement and laughed a little, placing his hands on my lower back to gently take me off the table and put me back on the floor while I stumbled back I tried focusing on his face.
"You have a pretty face" I blurt. I can't even control what's manically fumbling out of my lips. Jamie laughs again, taking my hands into his as he swiftly moves through the crowd. I'm slightly stumbling over my feet and barely looking at any for barely a second. "Where-are we going" I manage to slur out. Jamie speaks up "we're going to get you water and find out where your friend is. "Stranger danger Jamie you don't even know me I could murder you" I threaten. I would never, despite me being tall at 5'9 im quite lanky and probably could get thrown across the room with his pinky. "Highly doubt that." Jamie snorts and as we reach the kitchen he pours a water. I keep stumbling back, can't even hold the solo cup straight
Jamie leads me out the back door to the backyard. The fresh air giving me a sense of stability and security. Holding me gently as it fills my lungs and wakes me up. Jamie helps me sit down next to him. It's quiet, there's barely anybody back here except a random couple in the corner sucking off each other's faces so hard it might be mistaken for a cannibalistic ritual. Jamie looks at me. "your name? serial killer?" I lean my head back and look at the milky spotted sky. "Merletta.." Jamie laughs and I shoot him a glare "your names Jamie and you're friends with a guy that probably texts girls once a day like a daily vitamin.." I slur out. At this point, a filter for my mouth is completely out the window and everything I hold in is just coming out. "No no.." Jamie quickly says after wheezing "I like the name it's just ironic you take marine biology."
My head snaps towards him "you know my major?" I ask, a little suspicious. Jamie flushes a pink. "I've seen you around going to your classes..sorry, I seem like a stalker." "Yeah you do" I say back. "You should've just said you were admiring me going to my classes it would've at least made me feel flattered." Jamie laughs and looks at his watch. "It's about time for you go to sleep it's late. You probably don't wanna end up going to bed on a nasty frat couch right?" I shake my head and look at my phone. Tracking Cece and seeing that she's in the kitchen.
"Cierras in the kitchen." Jamie nodded and took my hand. Leading me through sweaty people and couples. I see Cece munching on some pretzels looking board while Andy explains something about a..video game? I don't even know. "Cece. I need to sleep so bad- our dorm please" I say, Jamie let's go of my hand and I immediately place my hand in Cece's back pocket while she nods. "I've only had one twisted tea and the dorms are like 5 minutes away so we're good." Cece explains. Jamie hesitantly nods "and how much alcohol are in those?" He asks tilting up an eyebrow "not enough" Cece quips, taking me out the kitchen and to the front door.
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"Do you like him?" Cece asks while I smoosh my face against my pillow and sigh. "I'm too sleepy I have classes and an internship tomorrow.." Cece slumps down, rolling her eyes. "So that's why I asked an easy question it's yes or no."
"Yes I'm getting sleep and no you're not getting an answer sleep Cierra." The water sobered me up enough to form a proper sentence without stuttering or slurring. I pull the comforter above my head while I slowly start falling asleep.
Cierra grumbles, following shortly after me.
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Hope you enjoyed the second chapter! Eat something, drink water, get some rest.
And go read my other story if you want! It's great for horror / slasher enjoyers :).
