Unconditionally

Two

Two

Beth-

As Simon drove us towards the party my stomach started to flip. You know that feeling you get when you’re just about to go on the scariest rollercoaster ever and you know you’re going to hate it, but you just do it for the experience.  I couldn’t go into a room full of people who didn’t know me. However, it felt as if I had no choice really, Simon insisted on me going too. When I was getting ready in mine and my father’s large empty home I couldn’t decide whether to pretend to come down with the flu miraculously. But somehow I was seated in Simon’s car waiting to have a night from hell. With Simon’s precise driving and full attention it took us quite a while to get to the party. Let’s just say Simon drove like my Grandmother, and she’s no longer with us.

“Do you think Lauren will be here?” Simon asked nonchalantly as we walked up Zeke’s pebbled pathway. I was now struggling to hear Simon over the loud music we could already hear when we turned onto the road. Red cups and various items of clothing were already scattered outside his house.

“So you’re finally going to talk to her?” I teased.

“Well I figured if I make a complete fool of myself I never have to see her again, so what the heck?!” He grinned. I stopped just outside Zeke’s door and turned to Simon.

“I know you’re leaving for your internship in a couple of days but promise you’ll call me. It’s bad enough I have to last the summer without you, I don’t think I can deal with not talking to you at all.” I begged him.

“Beth I’m only going to be an hour away and besides at the end of the summer we’ll be at our dream college together for four amazing years. But tonight we’re going to act like every other stupid teenager our age and get completely drunk. Deal?” Simon asked extending his hand.

“Deal.” I agreed, shaking his hand laughing.

Isaac-

Zeke’s party was as crazy as every other one he’d ever thrown. It looked as if every one of our classmates were there. The drinks were flowing and the rooms were full of wasted teenagers enjoying their youth. For me I wouldn’t see any of my friends for a long time. Most of them had received football scholarships or where following in their parents footsteps, taking on their occupations or joining the family business.  However my plans were different, for months I’d been bussing tables and mopping floors to save enough money to buy an ancient truck and have just enough to get out of the small town I’d grown up in and go and make a life for myself as a writer in the big city. It wasn’t what my Dad had expected me to want to be, I think he was under the impression that I’d also be getting a football scholarship and joining my friends in the fall. Instead, I’m going to do the thing I love and write even if the odds were piled against me.

“Isaac, you spaced out again man.” Tyler joked ruffling my hair. Tyler was a good guy, but I doubted most of the girls in our school thought of him in the same way.

“Sorry, I was just thinking some stuff through.” I smirked back at him, smacking his hand away.

“Contemplating life again? Dude you’re always so serious, loosen up.” He laughed.

“Just get me another drink.” I rolled my eyes and handed him my empty beer bottle.

“Yes master.” Tyler mocked and made his way outside to get us some drinks. 

It was beginning to feel rather awkward standing there waiting for Tyler to return with our drinks, I had been waiting for nearly five minutes and finally came to the conclusion he must have seen a pretty girl and began to hit on her, poor girl. Just like the typical player he was I could just imagine the lines he was using on her.  I cringed at the thought and watched the sea of faces dance.