Make My Way

Chapter Forty-Three

Stella's POV

I watched as Xavier grabbed Aria's hand and dragged her out. Vivian and Merrick looked at each other, grabbed the packet and walked out arm in arm followed by Blake and Aurora. Adrian and Easton grabbed envelopes and looked at each other. Adrian's arms reached for my legs and before I knew what was going on, I was slung over his shoulder, leaving Willow with Easton.

We made it to Deadwood and as the first thing we did, we went shopping. I went into the men's section and browsed around for a while before deciding to make him freeze. I grabbed some black basketball shorts and a lime green t-shirt (it's my favorite color). I only spent $15 on that and the condoms.

I met Adrian by the bathrooms and we exchanged clothes. I looked at what he was holding, an size large crewneck sweater, no pants, he was lucky I was wearing spandex. Although we both know that he was hoping that I wasn't wearing them. We both went into the bathroom and changed. I came and he laughed I punched him in the gut. He groaned.

Next we rode the trolley to a nice hotel with a casino on the main level. We checked if there was any rooms available. They was a vary from one twin all the way to two kings. We went with a room with a queen and a pull out couch. This particular room cost $159 a night.

I sighed "four down seven to go." Adrian looked at me and smiled. I knew that couldn't be good. He walked over to a random girl kissed her and then pulled her pants down. He ran back to where I was watching and I heard faint cuss words in the distance. Five left.

"Well let's go find a gift shop and buy the shot glass and then we can go eat." Adrian suggested. We found a shot glass that had the black hills on it and said Deadwood, South Dakota. We started walking over to the restaurant and bar. On the way we talked about life and school. I saw Willow walking down the street but Easton was nowhere in sight. Instead, none other than our extremely hot snowboarding instructor was waking beside her. I raised an eyebrow and smiled questioningly at her but she simply put a finger to her lips. I laughed and went on.

We made it to the restaurant and bar and Adrian somehow convinced them that we were twenty-one and that we didn't need to show ID's. We sat down at the bar and I ordered a steak and he got a burger but no drinks. Our hotel had unlimited drinks at the bar so if we wanted alcohol, we could easily get that later. We had the bartender take our picture and finished up.

After we ate, we walked downtown towards our hotel. We checked in and dropped off our other clothes and stuff. Then we went downstairs and I saw my target. He was a cute guy who was probably around 19ish. I kissed him and pulled down his pants, revealing a pair of boxer-briefs that were a little too tight for my liking. I ran away before I could get too many weird stares.

I met up with Adrian I the hotel room again after a while of taking pictures of the trees and cliffs and stuff along with the buildings that surrounded us. I sat down on the bed next to him and we turned on the TV to a movie.

The movie ended and he turned off the screen. "Well, might as well do this now," he said and I looked at him, confused.

He put one of his hands on the back of my head and pulled me closer to him. He pressed his lips to mine, gently at first, but then pushing more. I turned my head to better kiss him and he pulled me into a laying position. I couldn't help but think, Wow, Aria was right. He really is a good kisser.

The only other people I'd ever kissed had been Neil once at homecoming and Julian when we were dating. He was my first kiss and we kissed several more times after that, but that had been over a year ago. Adrian was the only other person I kissed since homecoming.

His hands played with the hem of my shirt and I ran a hand through his hair. I felt his hands moving up towards my bra and I pulled away. I didn't want to get to second, not now anyway.

At 5:30, we decided to take advantage of our free drinks and the bar downstairs for dinner. We went to the restaurant section and ordered some food before sitting down at the bar. We stared talking and asking each other questions.

"I guess I'll start it off easy, who do you like?" I said shyly.

He looked at me, then proceeded "Well that's complicated. I thought I liked this girl but then it turned out she was just a bitch who flirted with everyone so...." He faded off. "What about you, who do you like?"

"Well I like a couple people," I drifted off. He looked up at me like he was waiting "Neil and Luca. Describe the perfect girl." I said, trying to get off the subject.

"Well it makes me sound terrible but she has to be attractive. She also should be smart and has to be able to make me laugh. Now how far have you gone?" he asked.

"Just first," I told him. "How far have you gone?"

"" he looked kinda sad, but then straightened up and asked me "Out of all the guys here on this trip who would you date if you got the chance."

"Well Blake and Merrick are obviously taken and Xavier is my cousin. Easton is just gross so I think I would have to pick you." I looked away for a few seconds and then looked back "And you? Who would you pick?"

His eyes shifted down and then back to me. "I would have to say you too." Their was silence for a minute or two. I had started playing with the baggy sleeve of my sweatshirt. I don't know how long we say there but I know it was long enough for him to have a good number of shots. He broke the silence by saying "You know Stella you are a very pretty person." I immediately darted my vision back to Adrian.

"Adrian you're drunk let's just go up to the room we don't have to finish the scavenger hunt." I said calmly but before I knew it he was running out of the hotel. I followed him and watched him run into a strip club across the street, taking his shirt off on the way.