Jaki

Party Hardly (Deckland in the photo)

The day was long. My classes were boring, well, all of my classes without Jaki were boring. Jaki was in my Writing and History class, and boy, did she bring life to those classes. Jaki brought life everywhere she went.
"Ya know," Jaki said as I bit into my burger. "Ben and I were thinking that we should have a party."
"A party?! " Robin's face lit up with excitement as she smiled ear to ear. "God, Jaki, we haven't had one in forever! " She said.
"I know, I know, that's why I decided to have a huge one for little old, Tobias, here."
"Oh, it's fine guys, really you don't have to -"
"O,speak to me no more ;these words like daggers enter my ears!" Jaki shouted, dramatically covering her her eyes and ears with her hands. "Shakespeare," she giggled. "Tobias, are you telling me that you don't want a party ?"
"Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying."
"Fine," Jaki reached across the table and grabbed my cookie off of my tray. I could see down her shirt at her big, round...erm...cookies. "We won't throw you a party."

I flopped on the ground and sighed with relief. The day was over, no more classes finally!
"Don't be so dramatic, Tobias." I heard Deckland say.
I looked up and saw him laying in his bed. He looked as if he'd been there all day.
"How long have you been here?" I asked.
"I never go to my last period, it's so boring." He said yawning.
"Are you passing ?" I asked.
"The class? Yes."
"What?! How?! "
"Jaki, she brings me my work and tests." He crawled out of bed and stretched.
Jaki, that reminds me..."What is Jaki short for? " I asked.
He froze and then looked at me nervously, "why? " he asked.
"Oh, I was just wondering, cuz y'know she gave everyone a nickname and I was just wondering -"
"I don't know. I think it might be Jacqueline, but I don't know."
"You don't? "
"Nope, I don't think anyone does." He said, slipping out of his uniform into a new outfit. He wore a nude colored leotard under his clothes and he had his back towards me. He slipped into sparkly purple pants and a black shirt with black shoes. "Wait, no...I'm pretty damn sure Ben knows. Ben is super close to Jaki, so either he knows or Robin might know. "
He walked over to my drawers and dug through them. "She's so secretive, Tobias, even when you think you know her, you still don't." He threw a bundle of clothes at me. "Put these on."
"Why? "
"I'm kinda hungry and I wanna grab a bite to eat. C'mon we can talk about Jaki on our way there." He said, grabbing a small purple spray can and spraying a patch of his hair purple.
I obeyed and went to the bathroom to get dressed. When I finished I looked down at my outfit, had I always owned this? This made me look like I had just walked out of a magazine or something.
I walked out of the bathroom and Deckland had his car keys in hand. "Why do you dress so slowly, kid? "
I shrugged as we walked out the door.
"So, what exactly do you want to know about Jaki? " Deckland asked as we walked down the hall.
"Well..." There were so many questions I had, yet in this moment I couldn't think of one. "Where is she from? "
"No idea. " He chuckled. We stood and waited for the elevator.
"What does she like ?"
"Art, food, her friends and smoking." Deckland said, we stepped in the elevator. "I think that's all."
"She's an artist? " I asked.
"Yeah," the elevator dinged and we got off, walking to the front desk. "The thing with her is that she is a walking talking mystery. You have to read each and every clue carefully."
"Hello," the desk attendant said.
"Hi, we are going to Ducky's for a bite to eat. " Deckland said.
"Okay, please sign out right here and be back before curfew." She said pointing at the clipboard on the desk. We signed out and left.
"Jaki paints almost everyday which shows by the paint under her fingernails." Deckland said.
I never noticed any paint under her nails, I guess that's because I never looked hard enough.
It was almost night time, the sun was setting, I followed Deckland over to a big red Corvette, we got in and he began to drive.
"Jaki hates her real name, that's one thing I can tell you. She really hates it, Sam tried to ask her once and she just wouldn't drop it, and so...Jaki got pissed ...and if there is one thing that you don't want to see, it's an angry Jaki. It's scary, dude."
"But why? How bad can it be? Is it embarrassing? " I asked.
"Probably, I came up with a list. Jacqueline, Jakine, Jakis, Jakil, Jakira, Jakie, Jaki-"
"Those are dumb names. " I said.
"It's pretty hard to come up with a name when you only have four letters." He said.
"Yeah, I guess. " I said. "But I don't get why she gave everyone cool nicknames and then she names me Tobias, which is already my name."
Deckland chuckled, he began parking his car behind a big dark house. "Yeah, I don't know why she did that."
"Where are we? " I asked.
"Oh, I need to stop by my old home to get some cash from my dad." Deckland said, hopping out of the car. "C'mon."
I followed Deckland out the car and around to the front of the house. He knocked seven times before someone came and answered. It was Ben. He was holding a red cup in his hands and smirked at us. "Nice job. Nice job." He said, slurring a little. "Come on *hic* in guys. "
I walked inside and saw alot of people, like at least half of the school. The lightbulbs were red and blue and pink creating a strange look. I saw clouds of white smoke swirling in the air and red cups in basically everyone's hands.
Deckland pushed me in and shut the door.
I saw Jaki pushing her way through the crowd. She had a cup in each hand and she was moving to the beat of the music. "Heyyyyy, Tobuas!" She slurred, clearly drunk. "How do you like the pawty ? Is it fun? *hic * Is it fun? Do you like it? " She slurred, sipping from the cup in her right hand then from the left. Liquor dripping from her gold lips. She wore a gold tank top and a black skirt with gold and black boots. Her hair was in a wild curly afro and she wore gold earrings.
"Jaki, you threw me a party? " I asked astonished.
"Yeahhh, duuuude!" Jaki hopped on the table and shouted at the top of her lungs, "TOBIAS, THE PARTY BOY IS HERE!"
The crowd whooped and cheered, but I'm pretty sure half of them were just her for the free liquor.
Deckland grabbed Jaki off of the table and layed her on a couch.
"You want some 'licker'?" She asked me holding a cup up to my lips. "C'mon. You know how *hic * much money it took to buy all of this weed and licker ? Annnnd the cigarettes!"
I took and sip and sat next to Jaki. The taste was sour and strange, and
gross, but it had a sweet and sour aftertaste.
"Go ahead, drink some more. Drink some more, drink some moredrinksomemore!" Jaki sung grinding on the couch.
I obeyed and threw my head back glupping the remains of the liquid down my throat and swallowing hard.
Jaki grabbed a big bottle of red liquor from beside the couch, and popped the top off and began to gulp it down.
"Er...who's house is this, Deckland? " I asked glancing at Deckland, he was grinding on a girl and a guy, sandwiched between them.
"This is technically all of our house." I heard Sam say. She had been standing beside me and I had just noticed. "We all pitch in to pay for it. It's our party house."
"Oh, that's cool..." I could see the room swirling around me.
"Have you seen Robin? " She asked, craning her head over the crowd. She wore black ripped jeans, black tshirt and black boots.
"No..." My tongue felt thick and my words were all twisted around. Jaki pushed the bottle to my groin and drunkly smiled at me. I took the bottle with two hands and began chugging down the drink, I think it was wine mixed with maybe some vodka. It was disgusting and made my throat tingle.
"Good, right? " Jaki said. "Very Gouda, like the cheese!" She bellowed.
I took another long swing and gulped, the bottle was close to empty now.
"James !" Jaki shouted from the couch, a tall stoner looking guy walked over. "Where's the weeeeeeeeed?" She giggled, lighting a cigarette and taking a long puff.
James sat on the ground and began to roll the weed that he pulled from his pockets.
Jaki let out long, loud dry coughs, smoke swirling around her head. I noticed this cigarette had words written on the side. They read 'act natural'.
I took another long swing of the drink, my belly began to feel full and I felt as if I'd vomit any minute now.
"Here," James said, practically shoving the "blunt" down my throat. I took it and took a long puff, and hen swallowed, then the smoke left my nose.
"Tobyus, do you pawty hawd or pawty hawdly?" Jaki giggled.
The music around me began to swirl around my head, like smoke, like the smoke I just smoked. That was a nice smoke. I enjoyed. That smoke. That smoke was a good smoke. I liked that smoke.
I reached for the weed and Jaki put it between my lips. I took another long puff, swallowed and it came from my nose like a dogs, or is that a cat? No I think its a bull. Maybe a bulldog.
I began coughing hard. Maybe if i cough too much my heart will come out my pie hole. Jaki laughed so I laughed. She is a very funny girl. Very very funny.
I felt a vibration at my leg. What is that? What is this thing ?
I grabbed the thing from my pocket,i t was a rectangle and it had a picture on it? Who is this? This pretty white girl? She looks like a fairy princess. I think i like fairies...do I? I don't like that this magic fairy box keeps vibrating.
"Stop it," I hissed at the box.
Jaki laughed. So I laughed.
I wiped my nose, "Stop it, magic box!" But it didn't stop. So I threw it across the room.
"Fuck you, fairy princess." I shouted.
And then I took a long swing of the liquor, then another and another until the bottle was empty.
I took another puff of the weed and I like it.
"I like to partie hardie!" I shouted.
"Me too!" Jaki said. "I pawty weal hawd."
"Harder than deez nuts !" I laughed.
Everything was slowing down, I saw rainbows everywhere and I think some rhinos too.
Rhinos.
Rhinos.
Rhinos.
Jaki grabbed my face and poured more liquor in my mouth, this one was salty. I swallowed it and laughed. This was amazing.
Jaki handed me some multicolored pills.
"What are does!" I asked.
"Skittles."
I grabbed them all and put them in my mouth. Chasing them down with some salty liquor then some sweet liquor and then a long puff of weed.
The room began to spin, I fell on the floor and I felt my face being covered in liquid. I opened my mouth, it was gross, very sour and salty. I opened my eyes and saw someone with their dick pulled out, peeing on my face.
I quickly sat up, my mouth began to water and my belly wretched violently. I vomited all over the couch. It was green and white and pink and clear and red and rainbow.
And then everyone began to dance on the ceiling.

I awoke to a huge throbbing pain on my head. I slowly opened my eyes, I was in my dorm, on the ground. I looked around and saw Deckland laying, half dressed next to some guy.
I think I've seen that guy before. Last night...at...the party! The party that Jaki threw for me last night. The party? I got drunk...maybe high...drugged.
I clutched my throbbing go head and sat up. The room spun around me and I fell right back down, creating a loud thud. And that only made the pain a whole lot worst.
I groaned and whined gripping my head.
"No, stop!" I heard Jaki shout. I looked up at the top bunk and saw Jaki sit up violently. Her hair looked wilder than usual and her makeup was smeared across her face. The makeup, the gold makeup, the party...
"Oh! My head!" Jaki groaned, holding her head in her hands.
"Was last night real?" I asked,the words sounding too loud.
"Huh?" Jaki asked, slowly climbing out of the bed.
"Last night. Was it r-"
"Oh, yeah. It was all totally real. Unless you saw like animals or some shit. Cuz if you did then that shit was fake." Jaki fell on the ground and groaned, she reached over and slapped Deckland on his butt.
He rose like a zombie, he didn't look like he had any drugs at all.
"Hey, Tobias, Jax. How ya guys feeling?" He asked.
"Awfully," I hissed. "My head is throbbing."
Deckland hopped out of bed and walked over to his vanity. "You and Jaki took some hardcore drugs, dude." He grabbed something from his vanity drawer and walked over to us.
He handed me 3 blue pills and 1 pink pill.
"More pills?" I hissed.
"They cure hangovers, idiot." He sad., he tossed a few to Jaki and she took them and sighed.
I did the same and tried to stand again. "What time is it? " I asked.
I heard loud banging beside me, I turned and saw Jaki had tripped over our coffee table.
"Where the fuck did this thing come from? " She hissed.
Deckland walked over to he and helped her up. "I'm gonna take her to her dorm." He threw her over his shoulder and left the room.
I partied last night. For the first time, and I loved it. But I can't really remember much.... But still....
"Are you Tobias?" I heard the boy from the bed ask.
"Yeah."
"You like Jaki? "
"..."
"I'll take that as a yes." He stood and grabbed his clothes and walked to the door. "I'll warn you about her,she's a mystery, but she's also a bitch." He stepped out the door.
"You can't say that! " I hissed grabbing my head.
He turned and grabbed my collar. "I know Jaki, you don't. She's a selfish, sadistic bitch! And everyone knows it." He dropped me,left and slammed the door behind him.