Finally Coming Undone

Chapter 1

              I'm finally finishing up getting ready for the party when I hear Martin yell out to me,

             "Aurora, Anthony is asking us to go pick up the cake so you gotta hurry up." 

            "I'm almost done, I just need about 5 - 10 Minutes." I let him know as I'm finishing up with my makeup and putting on my clothes for the party. "Okay I'm ready" I let him know as I'm heading down the stairs. 

             "Baby beautiful as ever" he says as he checks to make sure his hair is fine 

             "Thank you my love. Did Tony let you know where to pick up the cake from?" 

               "No, he said he was going to text it to me" 

               " Well let's start heading out, I'll text him from the car. I have the keys okay. You drive" I let him know as I grab my purse and start heading out of the house. As I get in the car I see Martin lock the door to the house and check his pockets for his wallet. "The cake is at the bakery that's down the street from his place" I let him know as he gets in the car and we start heading out to Anthony's.

               As soon as we get to the party we are instantly separated due to our friends pulling us in different directions. As I'm being dragged down the hall to the kitchen I turn to see Martin being dragged away by Saul and Bryan. 

           "Rory, finally you're here! We thought you were going to be the last person here as always" my long time friend Beatrice tells me. 

           "You know I had to wait until my hair was dry so I can straighten it" I tell her as I get my first beer of the night. 

          "I thought you weren't going to drink since you have to drive?" 

         "Oh Tony said we can leave the car here and get an uber back to my place" I let her know as I looked around for Martin. I see him with some of his old college friends as well as the guys from our friend group. I still love the fact we are all still friends after all this time. After about an hour of reconnecting, seeing Anthony's family members, old school friends, and singing happy birthday it is now the 13 of us drinking and picking up after the mess that was left. 

         "Luna I still don't understand why you come to Parties if you aren't going to drink. You smoke, how is it that you don't drink? It makes me feel sad seeing you sober and knowing you are just bored" Isabella tells her. Isabella is a five foot four not too big but not too skinny with long black hair. We became friends back in high school when they moved all ninth graders out of the middle school and into the high school. We both got lost trying to find the way to drama II as we were both new to the building. 

        "Isabella, I just don't like it" Luna replies as she ties up her hair. 

         "You know what. I finally have enough alcohol in my system and I'm finally going to just say it. I don't believe you. You like smoking, what's the difference between smoking and drinking?" 

         From across the room Bryan yells out as he is picking up all the fallen streamers "Liver and lung damage is the difference Isabella" which causes all of us to chuckle.

        "Yeah but no matter what you can be addicted" Isabella retorts back getting a bit more sloppy now that the hard stuff is entering her system.

           "Yes but smoking doesn't alter your mind and thoughts as fast as alcohol does. Plus you can actually remember things when you smoke" Luna says as she continues to pick up empty beer bottles and puts them in the bag Ximena is holding for her. I always seem to forget that she prefers smoking cigarettes instead of weed. I honestly don't blame her since I don't like weed either.