Beautiful Secrets

XOXO - Cassie

The only noise you could hear was the sound of our forks and the constant moaning from the room behind us. My phone buzzed on the table as I went to grab a egg roll.

"You guys up for a party?" I say unsure.

"Are you serious? What about Lia?" Andrea asks.

"Look she may be there I mean its with a bunch of older guys right? It's a possibility." Landen says.

"He has a good point." Hunter agrees.

"Please don't make me wear a mini skirt again." Andrea says as we head up the stairs to Lia's room, leaving the boys and our trash behind.

We look through Lia's closet and the clothes from yesterday like we normally would if Lia was here. I convinced Andrea to wear a gold sparkly tank top with black shorts and a light pink and rose gold dress for me with my dirty blond hair in a bun. The guys had switched shirts and fixed their hair.

We didn't look as "perfect" as we did yesterday or any other time we went out but it was for Lia.

I rode shotgun because I had the directions on my phone. It was just outside of town, riding the whole way in silence.We got out and adjusted our tight cloths hoping that coming to the party was the right choice.

"Should we stay together or split up?" Hunter says turning to us.

"Your choice, if it were up to me I'd be at Lia's watching Friends and eating ramen" Andrea says bitterly.

"We can split up for ten minutes and if no one finds her then meet back here." Hunter says.

We all head inside, each splitting up into different rooms. Not knowing where to go I head out back to the fire pit to see if anyone had seen her. I step outside with a rush of cold and windy air hitting me. There was a couple out back, half naked and making out.I turn to go back inside as someone grabs me by my waist

"Hey baby, didn't know you would make it tonight." Jake says pulling me in for a kiss.

"Jake I can't right now. Have you seen Lia?" I say pulling away.

Looking at him I couldn't tell if he was sad or mad.

"I don't think so, did she not come with you guys?" He asks me as if I'm oblivious.

On that note I head inside trying to find anyone at this point. I look over at the group dancing to a song I don't know and find Landen and some college guy grinding on each other and making out. I roll my eyes heading to get a drink only to find a group of girls all hovered around Hunter who are obsessing over his hair. Almost ready to give up I go over to the makeshift bar run by a girl with purple highlights.

"What can I get you?" She says clearly looking down at my boobs.

"I don't care, anything."

"Alright, you look like a rose girl, are you a rose girl?" She asks walking away.

She comes back over to me handing me a pinkish colored drink with flakes of gold in it.It was almost too pretty to drink. Nonetheless my aching to drink to take away the stress went away and the urge to enjoy my drink took over.

I started to forget what we came for and had another drink.Which turned into four.

"Weren't you looking for something or someone?" The purple hair woman asks me.

I nod.

"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?" Andrea yells over the roaring music before I can continue.

Following behind her we're Landen and Hunter who were clearly enjoying there time before she dragged them along to find me.

"This is hopeless, you guys are hopeless." Andrea says clearly mad. "If you want to go back to drinking or your man candy or whatever then go ahead, I'm going back in the car to actually look for my friend."

She has a good point. Without hesitation I grab my drink and we head back to the car. At this point I don't think any of us knew what to do. We all sat in the car waiting for an idea to come to mind.

Andrea's phone goes off.

We all look at Andrea waiting to see if she was going to tell us who texted her. But as I looked back at her she drops her phone trying to hand it to Hunter.

He bends over to grab it and reads it out loud.

"Andrea your very persistent to find a girl who may not even still be alive. Take my advice and stop looking before people get blamed and others go missing.
XOXO"