My ex-best friends brother

Chapter 4

Just as I suspected Emma showed up around 11:50 with her brother close in tow. When she came throw the door, just as anyone in our school would suspect, Cody Hamilton was practically attached to her hip.


Like always a sharp, ever present, pain shot straight threw my chest. Every time I see those two together, I get the same, heart splitting pain. The same pain I felt when I saw those two at the Halloween party two years ago. I guess you could say that I'm not completely over him, but at the same time I am. I know you must be thinking I'm on crack or something, but really, I still get hurt when I see them so close together, but when they're apart he doesn't effect me. It could be just knowing that he was cheating in me with someone I used to call my best friend that hurts, and not their relationship. I'm not even sure anymore.


Cody was my first love, so he will always have that affect on me, I guess. Also, he must know exactly how I feel about Emma, so when the guy who used to tell me he loved you, tells the girl I hate the same thing, it hurts a little. Or a lot.


Time kept ticking, drinks were being chugged left and right, and there was a lot of yelling. Most of the people at the party were piss drunk. There were the occasional few that were sober drivers, or just didn't like alcohol. Maybe even both. Some people had migrated towards the pools and were swimming. There were little pools of vomit outside the bathroom door last time I was there, and it was disgusting! Some people cannot hold their liquor, but they keep drinking anyways.


Looking around I could see Jill in the middle of the dance floor, against some guy I'd never seen before. Clare was dancing at a respectful distance away from her unknown partner, but her dancing alone was pretty trashy. I mean I love these two girls with every fibre of my being, but after a few drinks, both of them are unrecognizable. They dance like strippers when their drunk, but refuse to move at all sober. I guess it's true what they say, your true colours shine when you get drunk.


I, however have only been drinking Soda, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a party pooper. I'm also a complete alcohol virgin. I've never had a single drop. Lets just say I've seen the affects it can have on you, and they are not pretty.


Jessie, who had had one glass of beer, and is dancing beside me, decided to try and talk to me over the thumping of the music. I have no clue what she tried to say, but from what I did hear, it almost sounded like "tan cooou fjfthhp dink!" So feel free to explain that one if you can..


Jessie sauntered away leaving me alone, at a party, full of drunk slobs. Great. So I guess she was trying to tell me he was going somewhere?


I don't think she ever came back, but even if she did I wasn't there. After dancing by myself for a good 15 minutes I got kind of lonely. I started walking towards the back door to see who was all at the pool. Not many people I know were back there, but I did see Becky, who I sit by in history, and Sarah who sits three rows over from me in math.

I sat down in one of the lawn chairs beside them, they acknowledged me, but they didn't really talk to me a lot. I was really antsy for an unknown reason, I couldn't sit still, I wanted to know where heir had vanished off to, I wanted to know if Jill and Clare were still dancing with their mystery guys. I needed to know they were okay.

I got up from my lawn chair and made my way back inside. When I walked in the smell of beer filled my nose, and through the corner of my eye, I could see that someone had set up a keg stand. With a keg stand setup it was almost a given that Jill would be lined up to try it. And where Jill was, Clare wasn't to far behind.. I don't think Clare would actually try it, but I know Jill would. I had to get her out of here at least slightly conscious, so I had to find her, fast.


After finding, and talking her out of the keg stand, Jill said she would behave if I let her stay until 2am. How could I refuse?


Jill seemed to be keeping her word too. She was still dancing really close to an unknown guy, and now Jessie had joined them, but I couldn't complain, I knew where all three of them were. So why did I still feel like I needed to know where someone was?



I don't know who I was looking for, but I couldn't help myself. I kept checking over my shoulder, and I would look across the floor, but never once did it occur to me who I was looking for. That is, until I found him..