Make My Way

Chapter Thirty-Four

Stella's POV

I had my phone out but I wasn't paying attention to it. I was too busy thinking about Luca sitting beside me. I looked up and saw Aria waving her arms like some kind of insane person. I turned to Luca. "I'll be right back..." I walked down to Aria and Vivian to see what this was all about. "What?"

"VIVIAN HAS SOMETHING TO TELL YOU!" Aria exclaimed excitedly.

"Well I....." Vivian told me all about her kiss. I congratulated her with a hug.

We ran out into the hallway and Aria demanded details. "Tongue?" she questioned.

"Heck no! It was my first kiss!" Vivian exclaimed.

Aria held her hands up in surrender. "You never know," she stated defensively.

"Well as much as I want to stay and listen, we both should get back." I pulled Vivian away and winked at Aria. When we got back into the gym I looked back at where aria was standing, Julian had joined her and they both got behind the boxes again. They would make a cute couple. Merrick came over and grabbed Vivian's hand. He took her back out to the dance floor.

Someone stepped up from behind me. "I broke up with her," Luca's voice came from beside me. I looked up. "It wasn't working."

We stood in a awkward silence until a guy's voice came from somewhere by the door. "Just dance already!" Julian screamed and I sighed. Luca shrugged and turned to me. We moved closer to the dance floor and I put my hands on his shoulders.

His hands went to my waist and all I could think was Holy crappoly, his hands are huge. "Are you ok?" I questioned.

"Yeah it's good to get a break for awhile." The awkward silence made a return. The song came to an end and he looked me in the eye. "Thank you."

"For what?"

"Everything," he said. "For being here for me."

"Well," I thought for a moment, "You're welcome."

We both walked away to go talk to our friends and I saw Luca go over to Julian and Aria. Aria was giving me a thumbs up and a huge grin. I rolled my eyes and went over to Aura, Blake, Easton, Everly, and Adrian. We talked for a while and decided everyone would just go straight there. We kinda knew that they'd all be sleeping there, so some of them were stopping by their houses to grab stuff. Aria didn't have to because she was over so much that I had a drawer in my dresser of her stuff.

The dance ended and I had danced beat Julian a total of 5 times. That's not much when you think about it, but I didn't care and it didn't seem like he did either. I think he was too busy grinding with this girl, Chloe, to even notice.

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Back at my house, we decided on rooms first. Aria and I would share my parents bedroom, Easton and Adrian would share the bunk beds, Aurora and Blake would share the basement guest room and Vivian and Merrick would share the middle floor guest room. Xavier made the executive decision that he would sleep in my room because it had the softest bed. Willow and Everly slept on the couches in the living room and Liam would be on the basement couch.

We decided we would play comparability first. A game in witch you have to pare up with someone and see how compatible you are with them. I paired up with Aria because we both didn't have men there and we know each other best. Willow paired up with Everly. Vivian and Merrick, and Blake and Aurora paired up. Lila and Liam decided they would do well together. Adrian and Easton were partners. And Xavier decided he would be the referee just in case, even though he was the weakest person there.

We got out the cards and started the game. The first theme card read "cute." I looked at Aria and smiled. We both laughed. I looked through all the cards in my hand. We all had the same cards and had to try and pick the same five cards as our partner. I chose a card of a baby, a really hot guy, the word "sex" a black card, and a picture of vegetables. Then, I had to rank them from cutest to least cute. The sex card was last, then the black, then the baby, the hot guy, and finally, the vegetables. Aria and I flipped over our cards. She had the sex card last too, then a card with a grandma who looked like she was high on crack, then the hot guy, the baby, and the vegetables. The others looked like we were insane and we just laughed. "What can I say?" Aria shrugged, "Vegitables are hot. So is crack Gramma."

I could already tell we were going to kick some serious ass.

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Aria and I won the game and we moved on. We opened Cards Against Humanity and passed out the cards we needed. I drew a card from the deck "How did I lose my virginity?" All the cards were pretty boring except for one of them that read "The Make a Wish® foundation." I immediately knew who laid that card down.

"Adrian, I think you won this round." I said with a smirk on my face. Everyone laughed and I handed him the card. It was Aurora's turn to draw a card, it read, "I got 99 problems but ________ ain't one." The cards varied from "dying" to "poor life choices." She studied the cards for minute or two then she narrowed it down to two. Finally she picked the card that said "Becoming a blueberry." Of course of all the cards she picked that one.

"Yes!" yelled Blake, almost jumping out of his seat.

The next round, Everly judged. The black card said, "What am I giving up for Lent?"

Everyone turned in their cards and Everly looked at them. Adrian thought he was hilarious by turning in "deez nuts," but Everly just shook her head. Others included "pretending to care," "dick fingers," and "free samples." But in the end she finally decided on, "Getting naked and watching Nickelodeon."

Then Merrick went and the final result was "A romantic, candlelit dinner would be in complete without," "Multiple stab wounds."

Then it was Easton's turn. "What's that sound?" Some of the cards read stuff like, "Some god-damn peace and quiet," while others said thing such as, "Whining like a little bitch," but the ultimate winner was "Sexual tension."

We played for a while longer and got some good answers. Xavier's round judging brought us, "I drink to forget Alcoholism." When Adrian drew the card "What's my secret power?" Easton said, "Concealing a boner." Thanks to Willow's perfectly timed cards, she gave Blake the sentence stating, "Lifetime presents "The Great Depression: the story of my sex life."

After an hour and a half, we had gotten through almost all of the cards since there were so many people playing. We put the game away and, after getting some food, the real fun started.