Inside | Shane Harte

12 | Party until we die

We sit in the car for a pretty long time before we finally reach the end of a small road. A huge mansion appears and all I can see is hundreds of neon lights shining all over the place in all colors. It's quite similar to Stefan and Isabel's house, but even bigger if that's even possible.

Outside the mansion is several young adults dancing, drinking and making out with each other. It's a rather gross sight, to be completely honest.

"What are you looking at? Come on!" Crystal squeals and hurries to the front door. It feels like everyone is staring at my every move as I follow Crystal. Inside the building is even more people packed against each other. The music is so loud that I can barely even hear my own thoughts and the smell of alcohol makes me cough like a 70 year-old smoker.

Crystal grabs my hand so I don't lose track of her when she squeezes by the crowd into the living room. There, by a large table in one of the corners, is all the rock people from acoustic. As we approach them Crystal hugs a few and I greet them as well. That is until I see Shane sitting in a chair, and just when I look at him, he turns to look at me as well.

"What's Kayla doing here?" he asks and raises an eyebrow. Actually feeling a bit offended, I take a step forward and put my hands on my hips.

"Excuse me but I'm here and I'm fully able to talk and interact with other people, which means... Stop talking to everyone else about me when I'm practically standing next to you! Besides, aint I allowed to party as well or what?" I smile and tilt my head slightly to the side. Being sassy really isn't my style but it feels good to just not be all polite to everybody all the time.

He chuckles and everyone around the table says "oohhh..." while I keep staring at him with a proud look on my face. Someone behind me walks by with a tray full of shots in his hands, so I grab one and shove the liquid down my throat. It burns all the way down but I don't care. I can't wait to just relax and forget about all my troubles for tonight.

What I didn't notice was that everyone started giving me a round of applause for taking the shot and Trevor walks up to me.

"Heyy, well done little freshman" he smiles and I chuckle. "Here"

He hands me a bottle with the word 'vodka' on it and without even thinking I take multiple sips. The transparent liquid burns even more than the shot, causing me to cough a bit. Some people start laughing and I take some more sips. All of them become silent while I keep drinking.

"Okay, maybe you should take a break with that" someone says behind me while grabbing the bottle and I irritably turn around.

"And why do YOU of all people care?" I laugh at Shane and he grabs my wrist when I try to take back the bottle. "You think you're so-"

"Everyone, gather up! We're playing truth or dare" someone shouts trying to drown out the music. I immediately walk over there and sit down by the table, leaving Shane behind. The world start getting a bit blurry when I've sat down but I don't care.

The first one to ask is Crystal, who asks Trevor.

"Trevor, truth or dare?"

"Truth"

Everyone starts screaming "PUSSYYY" but he just chuckles and wait for Crystal's question.

"Who of the girls around the table do you think is the hottest?"

His eyes wander across the circle of people and stop at me. He stares right into my eyes and smiles.

"Kayla"

I smile and everyone screams. I thank him and it's his turn to ask.

"Kayla, truth or dare?"

I consider my options for a few seconds before thinking 'fuck it' and answering.

"Truth"

"Are you a virgin?"

"Yep" I answer and some people start giggling.

"Wow, seriously?!" he exclaims and I nod. He raises his eyebrows and I search the crowd for our next candidate.

"Bridget, truth or dare?" I fake-smile and she fake-smiles back. Bridget is wearing the shortest, most low cut dress I've ever seen with twice as high heels as me.

"Dare" she says and narrows her eyes.

"Make out with... That guy" I point at a short guy standing on the other side of the room. He's wearing glasses and a shirt with a tie.

She gives me a disgusted look before standing up and walking away to the guy. Everyone stand up and follow her when she just attacks the poor guy and starts making out with him. I can almost see how he shoves his tongue down her throat and I would never want to imagine what that feels like.

After a few seconds she pulls away and almost runs back to the table, where everyone is laughing their butts off.

"Funny guys, really funny" she rolls her eyes and we all sit down again. "Now Shane, truth or dare?"

"Dare" he answers with a completely numb look on his face.

"I dare you to... Kiss Kayla"

I look over to Shane who's eyes widen. Oh well... If it couldn't get more awkward than this.

"No, I'm not kissing her" he suddenly states, and the group gasps. Oh... It's not like I care about it or anything, but...

"What do you mean you're not kissing her? Of course you are"

"Nope"

"Uh, why?" she asks, undoubtedly annoyed by his answer.

"I don't kiss girls in truth or dare"

Everyone burst out laughing. I have no idea why it's such a big deal, I mean if someone should care it's me. No, I didn't mean it like that! I meant... Whatever.

"Are you kidding? You're always kissing tons of girls on parties"

I've got to say, I'm not surprised.

"Not this party" he simply shrugs, stands up and walks off.

"Party pooper" she snorts and sits down to ask someone else. My head is spinning and I wobble as I stand up and start walking off. Nobody notice that I'm leaving and I'm happy for that. I walk towards the bathrooms since I'm feeling nauseous.

Soon the whole room is spinning and I can barely make my way into the bathroom before vomiting all the contains in my stomach. I put my hands on the toilet ring for support while throwing up some more. Someone walks up behind me and holds up my hair, and the last thing I see is a certain handsome guy's face asking me something but all I can hear is a beeping sound before everything turns black.