Three Times is Enemy Action (NaNoWriMo 2013)

Ch 3: You Can't Sit With Us

Ch 3: You Can’t Sit With Us

I wake up to the cacophony of yelling rowdy teenage boys. Oh joy. When I open my eyes, it’s not Sebastian’s beautiful face I’m confronted with, but the backs of the guys huddled around his bed. When I try to shuffle into a sitting position, the creak of the bed gives away my state of alertness. All at once, six pairs of eyes focus their attention straight at me. I was extremely intimidated. The average height between them was 6’1, and the minimum amount of build was a six pack. I was reminded of Mean Girl, when they were like, “You can’t sit with us,” because my female ass sure as hell didn't belong with this pack of testosterone. I only recognized one of his friends: Theo Harrison. He was in my AP World History class sophomore year, and he and Lana had a brief “thing” before she broke up with him. That’s right, Lana is just an all out heart breaker. Me, on the other hand, had never even had a boyfriend. That’s the curse of the AP student, it seems. But who cares, I had already gotten my first kiss out of the way, what more does a girl need. I bet I just peaked your interest. Last year- I know, it took a while- Lana took me to the last “bash” of the summer, and I must admit, drinks were passed around. Now, usually I’m not some sort of party animal, but Lana pulled in a no-questions-asked favor, and the rules of sisterhood--or “The Girble,” as I prefer to call it-- demanded my presence. Oh, I bet you're wondering who had the honor of my first kiss, and I’m semi ashamed to admit it was Tommy Johnson, who was much more appealing after a few drinks, but back to the topic at hand: the strangers in my room.

The wider their eyes got, the wider my eyes got, and I had the added bonus of an eyebrow raise. Sebastian broke the silence with the most cliche phrase ever, “Good morning Sleeping Beauty.” My frown deepened. I was nothing if not a confident, semi-feminist, woman, and Sleeping Beauty had to have been the most useless of all the princesses. I was a giant Disney Princess fan, and am not ashamed to admit it, and when I was a kid, all I wanted was to be Belle. She remains to this day my favorite, and Sleeping Beauty remains the most useless. I had never, even as a five year old, seen a princess be so useless; all she did was sleep! Jasmine fought, Pocahontas (though not a princess) was really involved, Belle was smart, Cinderella...tried really hard, but Aurora, all she did was sleep! God dammit! I would not be some wimpy simpering girl. “I take offense to Sleeping Beauty, I am not a woman in distress!” “Alright Xena Warrior Princess, tranquil.” Much better, she was a badass. “So… How goes it” I asked awkwardly, “Oh, you know, just nursing by broken ribs, arm, and clavicle, so all in all, I’m just peachy” he replied sarcastically. “Well, there’s no need for sass here, I was asking a legit question, alright. So what happened after I went to sleep.” His eyes softened, and he let out a chuckle. “After you passed out, you mean. Nothing much. I fell asleep a little later. The police came while you were still asleep, though, and asked me about what happened, and then these guys got here.” He gave me a meaningful look when he mentioned that Portly and Stringbean had stopped by, I knew that meant that we would talk about it later; however, he lightened up when he mentioned his friends coming by, and he playfully punched one of the guys in the shoulder. “Did your parents stop by too?” I asked, “No, why?” he responded. “Oh, well, I just thought that parents had to be there when police have to talk to their kids.” I said. He looked at me with a shy smile and downcast eyes, and all his friends had knowing grins. Gosh darnit, I hated being kept out of the loop. “Bash turned eighteen a couple weeks ago,” Duke chimed in.  Ahh, I see, he was one of the oldies. And also, this was the second person to refer to him as “Bash,” but whatever, he’s still Sebastian to me. His friends all laughed at the surprised expression on my face, and then Sebastian decided to take pity on me and started the introductions.

“These guys are friends from the team. This guy is Duke Emerson, my best friend, right next to him are the twins, Jared and James Holt, and then there’s Ryan Ford, and Theo Harrison,” he exclaimed, pointing to each one individually. Duke had dark brown hair and piercing green eyes, you could tell by the way they would playfully punch each other that they were really close. The twins looked like the British YouTuber’s Jack and Finn Harries. Ryan was also blonde haired and blue eyed, and Theo had tan skin and brown hair and eyes.