Diamonds or Dirt?

Chapter 1: Birthday Party

"Rylee get up!!!!" I hear Chloe screaming as they beat on my door, "it's your birthday sleepy head and we gotta get you ready for tonight!"

I ignore her and roll over in my bed and pull the pillow over my face. She continues to pound on the door for another three minutes before i finally get out of bed and let her in. When i open the door i have to squint to see her. It's so bright outside. I walk back over to my bed and look at the clock. It says it is 10:45 a.m.

"Wow, I guess I realy did sleep in." I say shrugging at her, "Did I hear you say we are going somewhere tonight?"

"Well of course we are! It's your birthday. We are taking you to a bar and not leaving until we find you a cute guy to go home with." She says only half joking.

They have been trying to get me to go home with a guy for three years now. I dont know why they think this year would be any different. I've been pretty good at figuring out their plans. I just look at her and shake my head. She already knows what I would say since I've told her the same thing the past two years.

"I know you dont think it's gonna happen, and you may be right, but this year is different. There will be alcohol involved this time, and even you in all your prudeness will loosen up once you get a few drinks in your system." She says moving to my closet, "now what are you gonna wear?" She asks herself... not like I'm gonna get any say in the matter anyway.

It takes about four hours of her ordering me around and fixing my hair and makeup before she finally said she was finished. I hadn't been able to look in the mirror since I dryed my hair and I have to admit I'm pretty curious about what I look like.

When i walk over to the mirror I gasp! I don't look anything like the normal boring person that i normally see in that mirror. It's like ive been transformed into a totally different person. I can see Chloe in the mirror smirking at my reaction.

I turn around and face her, "Chloe, you have really out done yourself this time."

"Well I need every guy in that club to be looking at you and not me tonight, and trust me the way you look right now every single male in that club gay or not will want to talk to you. Now we need to go meet Sarah and Lilian at my place so we can give you your present." She says with an evil look on her face.

She drags me to her apartment where I'm greeted with hugs and a chours of happy birthday from Lil and Sarah. I just smile and keep my mouth shut worried what the present might be. Chloe pulls me onto the couch and goes to her room to get the present. The way that Lil and Sarah are looking at me makes me even more nervous about what it might be.

Chloe comes back out of her room holding a birthday bag in one hand and a card in the other.

"We were just gonna give you the card." Sarah says, "but Chloe insisted we give you the present too." Lil finished.

I take both of them and decide to save the worst for last, so i start with the card. I open it to find a stupid corny joke like normal, but this time there is $100 worth of twenties in the envelope. I look up at them my eyes big, "Guys you shouldn't have. I dont need this." I tell them

"Just open the bag!" Chloe screams at me.

I swallow hard and reach for the bag. I close my eyes and reach insiden to find a long box. I pull it out of the bad and look at it. My eyes almost pop out of my head when I see whats in the box. I can hear them all laughing at the expression I have on my face. I drop the box back in the bag and look up at them.

"You got me a vibrator!?" I scream at them. "Why the hell would you give me something like that??"

"Look Rylee, we all just want you to be happy and to relax sometimes. We just thought that if you arent gonna have sex we would give you the next best thing." Sarah says.

I just give them a warning look.

Now I'd tell you what happens for the next three hours but it was pretty boring so I'm just gonna skip to the good part.

It's nine o'clock by the time we get to the club. There are only a few people in the bar right now but they assure me this place will be packed by 10:30.

We sit down at the bar and order a few drinks, and by the time I was done with my third there were guys lining up to buy me drinks.

My friends smiled at me every time a new guy would come up and talk to me. I would just roll my eyes at them and have a casual conversation with each person, well until he came along. He couldn't have been much older than me. He was tall and had black hair with the most hypnotising blue eyes that seemed to look right through me. His smile was as perfect as the rest of him, it showed his straight white teeth that seemed to light up the space around him. He was more than ten feet away from me but I can tell he is ripped. His t-shirt fit him perfectly and i can see his well defined bicepts peeking out from under his short sleeves.

He catches me looking and smiles at me. I blush and look down. I stay like that until I hear someone clear there throat. I look up and am startled to see those mesmerizing blue eyes looking into mine.

"Hello" he says in a sexy british accent, "my name is Toby. I couldnt help but notice you sitting over here all alone, a gorgeous girl like youself should never be alone in a place like this."

He takes a seat on the stool beside mine and orders a Beer for him and a Blue Lagoon for me. I pick it up and take a sip. He smiles at me. "What's your name?" He asks me.

"I'm Rylee." I tell him, "I'm actually not here by myself. My friends are over there somewhere" I say guesturing over my shoulder, "they made me come here tonight because it's my birthday."

"Well happy birthday then Rylee." He says lifting his glass and clinking it with mine.

After that we sit and talk for hours. Every now and then some other guy would try to interrupt but all Toby had to do was look at them and they would get the picture and walk away. It didn't seem that I had been there so long but the manager soon came over to us to notify us that the club would be closing soon. I looked around for my friends but they were no where in sight.

"I guess we should be going." I tell him and start to stand up but i stumble and I'm sure I'm going to hit the ground when I feel a strong arm wrap around me and pull me back up turning me around in the process. When I'm standing upright I look up into Tobys face and he smiles at me. We are so close together I can feel his washboard abs through his shirt. He leans down towards me and just as I think he is about to kiss me he leans in and whispers in my ear "do you wanna go back to my place?"

I pause for a minute thinking about what that could mean and knowing that if I say yes there is no going back. I look up at him and I know what I'm going to say. Its time for me to take a chance so without looking away from his eyes i nod my head and we walk out into the night.