The birds & the birds

The party (part 2)

We arrived to the house and it was already filling with people. The sun is just now setting and people are flowing out of and into the front door. I grabbed Ike's sleeve and he leaned down to me, "Can we leave... Please?!" He shook his head and looked back at the house. "I don't really want to be here either but, it'll help make friends right?" Before he could look down I turned on my heel and started walking home. "Hunter!" I turned around and Ike was full out running to me, I tried to run but being me a tripped and fell. Game over I guess. I looked up and Ike was staring down at me, "Really Hunter really?" I nodded. "I regret leaving the dorm, I wanna go back." He grabbed my arm and pulled me up, dragging me with him. "Come on they have a pool, you can be like Haru!" Damn it. "Fine..." I let him drag me along once again.
We walked into the house and music blasted everywhere, not even to good music, just crappy music. Half drunk people clogged the halls and the pool reflected lights threw the glass door.
Ike stayed close to me and I was grateful he was. "So uh what do you want to do...?" I looked at him as he looked around. "Follow me!" He held my hand and led me across the house, his hands were soft and warm and strangely comforting. "What are we doing-" Beer. He brought me to the beer table. He took out two beers from an ice chest. One for me and one for him. "Today I'm going to teach you how to drink!" He handed the glass to me and I looked at it. "Uh... How do you open it...?" Without saying anything he took the bottle out of my hands and held the neck near the counter. He pushed down and POP, the cap was off and the beverage was back in my hands. "Since its your first time drinking it's gonna taste pretty bad..." I nodded and took a sip. The liquid was terrible and when I swallowed it, it burned my throat. "Nope nope I'm good! That crap is nasty!" Ike chuckled and took a swig from his own, "So tell me about your life." What? We're dorm mates and best friends and he just now asks about stuff like this. "Uh... I already told you what I like and evr-" "You never told me about your family." Oh... Well I guess someone was going to ask about my family one day. "Well I'm an only child, didn't have a lot of friends going up, I had a cat when I was seven, and I lived with my mum." Ike smiled and made circling motions with his finger on his bottle. "You always talk about your mum...What about your dad?" I sighed and looked down. "My dad was abusive when I was younger and... Yeah he left." I explained to Ike what my younger life was like and he explained his.
"Maybe you should take another try again at the beer?" I was about to take another slip when I realize, the bottle was empty. "Was the whole point of this conversation was to get me to drink without knowing or something? Cause it worked." He smiled and pasted me another drink, "Your welcome." We continued to talk and soon enough I can tell I was sort of drunk, and I'm pretty sure Ike was too.
"Hey Ike wanna.. Wanna go swimming?" My voice didn't sound right and my vision was a light bit on the blurry side. He nodded and I swayed as I followed Ike, who was walking perfectly fine. "We didn't bring our swimming stuff.." "That's not a problem." What? I turned to Ike, who was starting to take off his clothes...oh god I think I'm blushing... Why am I blushing?! "Wooohooo!" Ike screamed as he ran and jumped into the pool in nothing, but his boxers. Without even a second thought I peeled off my shirt and dove into the water, and swam next to my friend. "I'm proud of us!" Ike shouted over the music and people talking. "We socialized and you drank for the first time." I smiled and floated on my back next to Ike, he did the same. "I'm surprised there isn't a lot of people in the pool..."
"Nah, there's like twelve over people here."
"Good point Ike."
  Ike and I floated on the water and looking up at the stars, I think I almost fell asleep in tell someone's warmth woke me up, which lead me to opening my eyes. Ike was holding my hand, pulling me to the steps of the pool. "You started to fall asleep and you got cold. I decided to drag you out while I got something to drink again." I nodded and started to slowly push myself up, "Grab me one too." He smiled and walked off into the house, leaving a trail of water behind him.
  While waiting I looked around to see if anything has changed. No one was in the pool, the music stopped playing, and only a few people were inside for what I can see from the windows. How long was I sleeping..? I patiently waited for Ike till he popped his head out the glass door, "it's just your friends left. I got you a towel, so get lot of the pool so you don't get sick." "But it's cold!" "Then run!" I did as I was told, I ran straight out of the pool and into the towel Ike held in his arms. I basically just ran into Ike and he held me as he dried my hair. "Why are you drying my hair..?" I looked up at him and tilted my head. "Causes you- you're cute... And you're cute." I backed away from him and walked to the cooler. "I'm not going to question that Ike!" He swerved back and forth as he walked to me. "N-n-need help with that?" (paytonthekidd  I don't know what I'm writing at this point) I shook my head and opened the bottle on my own.