City Lights

Chapter 18

Days had been going by in a blur.

It'd been a little more than a week since we joined back college and everything seemed to be as usual.
Boring.

Anna seemed to have gotten over her 'issue', if that's what I can call it.

She'd been behaving a little weird lately, spending a lot of her time on her phone, more than she earlier did.

She'd managed to go back to her 'late-night-partying-almost-every-other-day' phase and I guess I'd accepted it.

Surprisingly, there were no more random guys fucking Anna encounters.

She seemed to have changed, a bit that is.
Even thou she still came home drunk off her ass, slurring words that I couldn't understand and last night she almost said a name but then she passed out on me.

I ran my fingers through my hair.
It'd been a long week and I was thankful that it was finally Friday, which means I could stay in as per usual and read my most favorite book series again.

Anna was getting ready in her room.
I could hear Tove Lo's 'Stay High' blaring out the speakers and with that I could also hear Anna's horrible attempts at singing.

I shook my head at how terrible she sounded. The worst part was that she knew she sounded like shit yet she did it just to annoy me.

I went back to reading my book.
Patch and Nora were just about to kiss for the first time and I was Fangirling.
Why oh why didn't they?
Ugh
I've read this book probably more than 20 times but every single time they're so near, its just so perfect and heart melting.
Sometimes I wish I were a book character, so I would have a swoon worthy guy and life full of adventure and everything had be perfect.

Just as my mind was going on and on about how wonderful patch is and how I wish he was real and well, here, Anna crashed into my room, almost falling over me and then jumping up and down excitedly.

Oh-oh.
This meant one thing for me- Trouble.

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We were standing outside another one of those college party's.

Somehow, Anna had managed to drag me along with her saying that she wanted me to meet someone extremely special.

When I asked her why at a party, she just shrugged and went back to her room, leaving me with no other choice than to oblige.

If this someone special made Anna happy enough to commit, then I sure as hell wouldn't mind going out this one last time.

Surprisingly, Anna had let me wear whatever I wanted too and obviously seeing the escape, I wore a pair of short shorts with a grayish black crop top which had 'california' written over it with my pair of white converse shoes.
It was actually a very casual attire for a party but in no way was I going to get all dolled up to meet someone who I had not even a slightest hint about.

That being my outfit, I'd finished up my look with some eyeliner and mascara.

To say that Anna was disappointed in my choice of outfit would be an understatement.

She tried to make me wear a dress but I refused and threatened that I wouldn't go with her then.

Reluctantly, she had to agree.

This time, we went by cab.
Anna had said that the party was just a few blocks away and I could hear the music already.

We made our way inside where Anna said to meet me up later as she wanted to talk to 'that someone special' for a while alone.
I saw her after a while, she was with a guy, talking and laughing at something that he had said.
She seemed to be having a lot of fun while I, on the other hand was already regretting agreeing to come.
I considered getting myself a drink but then I remembered last time and shuddered.

No.
Never again.

My eyes searched for a familiar face but when no one came into view, I just decided that I'd stay outside and get some air.

Making my way out, I had to push through swarms of sweaty bodies and drunk people.

I was sat at the porch.
I was thankful that this wasn't a apartment else like last time, this reminded me of my own home and I zoned out again.

We had a swing set outside the house and April and I spent majority of our childhood there, always just playing on it or running around, I mean that's what all kids do, right?

I also remember that one time when I'd fallen down and I was crying and April was comforting me by telling me that if I stopped crying, she would feed me loads of candies and I immediately quite down in hopes of eating chocolates and candies.

Whenever we remembered that incident, we both always burst out laughing and then she'd always say that I never really changed.

I took a deep breathe and looked around.
This wasn't the place to remember old times and drown in sadness.

I sighed and felt someone look at me and I turned my head to see a guy I'd definitely seen before, wearing a leather jacket.
He was smirking at me, as if we had some secret joke between the two of us and I squinted my eyes wondering where I'd seen him before.

My eyes widened in realization when I remembered that he was the same guy I'd seen that day on campus and he was the same one who'd found me in the park last party.

He was coming towards me and I swear I could feel my heart beat faster.
This wasn't going to end well.

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