Texas Tornado (Slow Updates)

CHAPTER NINE: THE PARTY

CHAPTER NINE: THE PARTY

The whole street is lined with cars. Finding a parking spot close enough to Heather's huge mansion took us about ten minutes and it's about a five minute walk to her house. And the worst part is all this time we've only been walking through her driveway.

I knew her parents were rich, since her dad is a retired professional baseball player and her mom is a doctor, but I didn't know they were this rich.

Aubrey and I are currently standing before the huge white mansion with our jaws lying on the floor. It's the biggest house I have ever seen. She even has a fountain in the middle of the driveway. Cliché, I know.

After drooling over the house for what feels like forever, Aubrey nudges me on the side and we walk up to the door's front steps. Since the double doors are open, we can see the inside of the house perfectly; and the party is indeed in full swing. The house seems full of people; as hard as that may be to believe. The entire school must be here.

Seeing the teenagers grinding on each other and sucking each other's mouths off makes me feel sick to my stomach; from what I can see, the parties haven't changed one bit.

I turn around to look at Aubrey and tell her that we have to go only to see full excitement in her eyes. Seeing her like this, like a child on Christmas morning, is heartbreaking. I realise now how much she loves coming to these parties. She is a very social and outgoing person and these parties are a chance for her to have fun and talk to other people; and most importantly meet boys. I feel like a horrible person for taking this fun away from her even though this is not really my definition of fun.

"This is great!" she squeals, clapping her hands together with a huge smile on her face.

I wish I could be as excited as she is, but I can't lie to her about it. I've never been able to lie in my life; I don't know if that's a good or bad thing.

When she sees my nervous and miserable expression, her smile turns into a frown. She wraps her hand around my upper arm and gives it a small squeeze before releasing me.

"Give it a try, I'm sure you'll remember how fun you used to find it", she says reassuringly with a weak smile on her lips.

I nod and turn around to look at the scene in front of me once again.

Aubrey's right; I have to give this party a chance. She's also right about me liking to attend these before. Of course I didn't like it as much as she did but I did enjoy drinking and having a little bit of drunken fun. And maybe this party's what I need to get over my biggest fear. Maybe this is going to be good for me. I just have to keep that in mind when I want to run away from here as fast as I can.

Aubrey wraps her hand around my arm, making me snap from my thoughts, and drags me further into the house.

As we're making our way through the sweaty drunken teenagers, I try to scan the crowd for familiar faces. I recognize pretty much everyone here, they're almost only juniors and seniors from our school, but I don't see anyone that I actually consider a friend, except for Aubrey.

Once we're passed the main entry way, we land into a large kitchen; which is slightly less crowded. There is a beer pong game currently being played on the kitchen table, but I can't quite see who the players are since there's a lot of people surrounding them.

I smile to myself when I remember how good I was at that game. At every party, there's always a beer pong tournament. It's played a little bit like king of the mountain. The winner keeps playing and he plays against the his challengers. I was always the one that everyone tried to beat. I could spend the entire time just standing next to that table drinking cups, cups and more cups of beer.