Last Love

chapter 7

After two drinks, I'm already drunk. I begin to feel hyper and all I want to do is dance. Mandy plugs her phones into some ghetto speakers that make the floor shake with the base. She has the best taste in music. I tend to stick too the same three artists and listen to their songs on repeat.

            We all sit in a circle and start doing shots of green apple vodka, drinking pickle juice after each shot to take the burn away. As gross as it is, it really works. Fifteen minutes later, we're all hammered. This is going to be an amazing night- I can sense it now.

            We pile out of Crystal's mom's car and thank her for the ride. It's not even ten o'clock yet but the party is in full swing. There is at least a hundred people here- although the alcohol buzzing in my veins makes my counting questionable.  I see the remaining girls from our friend group and I let out a shriek of excitement. Even though I have no control of my actions at the moment, I'm still really embarrassing. Hopefully I won't end up being that annoying drunk girl tonight.

            After Victoria, Crystal and I finish our first lap, I'm very surprised at the crowd here. There are people from many different schools, my mouth drops when I see Gemma standing beside her boyfriend next to the beer pong table. She rarely comes out with us anymore since she staring to date her current boy toy, Seth.  I can't believe she never even told us that she was coming.

            "Gemma!" I scream while wrapping her in my drunken arms.

            "Hey..." she unhooks her arms from under me and snakes her hand in Seth's. Even though they are very clingy to each other, they're very cute.

"You look hot!" she screams over the loud, pumping music.

"Thanks!" I yell pulling her into an embrace once more, only this time I plant a firm kiss on her lips.

            "'Hurray, some girl on girl action!" someone cheers behind me.

            I whip around to see Liam and snatch the red solo cup out of his hands before he can say anything. I though it was beer when I first started drinking but I must be more impaired then I though because the drink is a dark brown, almost black. The flavor of the coke is clear but I'm not sure what the alcohol is in it. Maybe rum?

            "Whoa there, slow down killer." He grabs the cub but is to late to savage his drink-I already drank it all. Before I even know what's happening, Liam wraps his arms around me and slides his tongue in my mouth. I don't understand what's happening, but I'm too drunk to care. His hands squeeze my bum and he opens his mouth even wider when I tug at the ends of his blond hair. I taste the rum on his tongue and give myself a mental pat on the back from recognizing the taste in his drink before.

            "Liam, we're up for beer pong." Some short guy with long black hair says, breaking our kiss.

            "Oh, okay." Liam says, and then turns his attention back to me. "Come find me later?"

            I swing on my heels to go find my friends and he swats me hard on the ass. I yelp slightly and turn my head just enough that he can see me stick my tongue out at him.

            "What the fuck was that?" Audrey asks, cutting in front of me.

            "Nothing, puthing."

            She rolls her eyes at me- clearly she's not having any of my "good humor".

"Was that Liam?"

            "Yes, twas Liam."

            "Gonna' get kill number two tonight?" she laughs, making her eyebrows dance on her tan forehead.

Audrey and I take a seat on one of the couches in the living room, having to almost fight for our life to get there. We've only been here for less than a half an hour and an enormous amount of people have arrived since. The best part is, is that there are no trouble makers- everyone here just wants to party and have a good time.

            There you guys are!" a voice slurs, pushing it's voice through the crowds. Short little Mandy finally makes it out of the group of girls dancing and collapses next to Audrey on the couch.

            "There are so many hot guys here. We have so many options." She shouts with glee. There really are a lot of really attractive guys here. My heart leaps with joy when I see two of my co-workers stumble down the hall and Taylor spills her drink all over herself.

            Natasha scans the room and grins at me. Even though she's two years older than me, Her and I are very good friends. She actually introduced me to Liam a couple months ago.  I can't believe she's here.

            I jump up and she shoves a drink in my face, it tastes terrible but I swallow it anyways.

            "Why are you here?" I shout in her ear.

            "Taylor's boyfriend is Alec's older brother, so a ton of people from our school are coming." She screams back loudly.

            "Okay, I'll see you later babes." I say as I head back to the couch.

            After an hour I decide to go find Liam. I ask the short kid with long hair- the one that broke our kiss earlier- where Liam is and he just shrugs and points at the stairs. I chug the remaining half of my cooler and remind myself to be brave.

            After a long journey up the stairs, I have no idea what room to look in. Maybe he's with another... and I should leave him alone.

            Almost on point, Liam emerges from the room farthest from the stairs.

            "There you are, Kate." He says before wrapping his arms around my waist and kisses my neck. "Want to know go into on of the rooms."

            "Yes." I say as I pull myself onto him even more. He forces me backward, into the room behind me. I laugh loudly and peak my head around to see if anyone is watches us. There are a couple of older kids sitting in the room that Liam came out of, their eyes watching us. The last thing I see before Liam's closes door, are Nate Mather's green eyes staring into mine.