Our Sandbox

four - piper

four

piper

I. Am. An. Idiot.

I groan as I wake up, the light way too harsh on my eyes. I look down at my white pillow, and see smudges of black all over it. Fucking makeup, I probably have pink eye or some sort of STD, oh my god thinking hurts my brain.

My door opens softly, and I look up to see my mom and Jerry at the door.

"Hey, sweetheart." My mom coos, moving to sit at the side of my bed.

"Karen, don't baby her. She blatantly disobeyed me." Jerry snaps, crossing his arms over his chest.

"Jerry, give me a minute." She whispers, shooing him away with the wave of her hand.

Once the door closes behind him, she stands from my bed, walking to my bathroom. I hear the sound of running water, and she comes out with two pills and a glass of water.

I take them from her, getting up slowly as to slow the pounding behind my eyes. I swallow the pills, chasing them down with the blissful taste of water. My mouth feels like its been through a desert and back.

"I'm sorry, mom." I say, my voice hoarse.

"Oh, I know you are. But I understand why you wanted to go to a party, I did some stupid things when I was your age too. And so I know, that the hang over will be punishment enough." She reaches behind me, fluffing my pillow.

I groan, and lower myself on the pillow slowly.

"Get some more sleep, and make sure to thank Nolan for making sure you got home safe." She says before she shuts the door.

"Yeah, Nolan..." I open my eyes wide.

Oh, crap. Nolan. My memories of last night are very fuzzy, but I remember being in the room with Nolan, and how we almost...

Nolan is my best friend, just my friend. He's the boy who used to pants me in elementary school, and the one who broke my first training bra. He's my...the boy next door. That's just how it is.

I reach over to the bed side table and grab my phone, sliding it open. I have about a million texts from Quinn.

"WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?" One reads.

"ARE YOU STILL ALIVE?!"

I press call on her contact, and wince at the sound of the ringing phone. Way too loud.

"PIPER ELIZABETH REYNOLDS." She shouts into the phone

"Jesus! Too loud, Quinn." I grumble, and she humphs.

"I thought you were dead!" She whisper-yells, and I sigh.

"I'm fine, some douche was trying to hit it, and then Nolan saved me, and then we were talking in this room, and we almost kissed, but then the cops came-"

"YOU WHAT?!"

"Oh my god, Quinn. Inside voices."

"How am I supposed to use my inside voice for that? You almost kissed Nolan?!"

"Almost, being the operative word here. We were both drunk and he had just broken up with Melissa, it was just a moment."

A really intense moment that I found myself replaying over and over inside my head.

"That is insane, Piper. Thank god nothing happened! You would have had so much drama to deal with!"

"Quinn, this is whisper time, and if you yell one more time, I will make it my life mission to murder you."