The Truest Love Is Tortured By Time

Meeting Him

It was a shitty summer night, you know one of those nights where you're longing for something to do but it seems like there's nothing going on? I texted my best friend with the hopes she had found something to do, and somehow she had, a bunch of people were drinking at the park down the street from our apartments so we decided to go. We walked to the end of our apartments closest to it and exited the hole in the fence that had seemed to be there since before any of us came along, and walked down the dirt path leading to the sidewalk, we got to the park and could quickly see our group in a messy circle under the gazebo. The first person we walked up to was our other close home girl Katt, she looked to Crystal first, but quickly after shouted my name in a drunken slur
"Alyyycceee"
"Kaaaatttt" I say back mocking her, we both stuck out our tongues and proceeded
"There's Coconut rum, and whiskey of course their all over there" Katt points us toward the table of goods and Crystal and I go get a solo cup to share, I scan the crowd as I sip my rum. Johnathan the white trash alcoholic fuck boy, who was also everyone at the partys dealer, Jake the Asian friend who always has a car and was also dating Katt, and Zoe who met up with Katt earlier in the night, Crystal, Katt and I met her through school. I hand Crystal back the cup and look around again, the sun had just gone down so the shadows were doing dances of the dark and the only light we had was the one above us in the gazebo. I sat down restlessly and looked back at Katt, she saw my boredom and immediately stood onto a table and said "alright everyone let's go to munchie" I mouthed the words thank you at her and me and Crystal walked over to her and the three of us walked back up the sidewalk and up the second dirt path we got to top of the hill and all found somewhere to sit. The party really kicked off from there, drinking games, chugging competitions and just as fast as the party got going it stopped because we ran out of chaser, John stood up and said "hold up I have an idea" and runs off into the apartments. A few minutes later he returned "let move this party indoors ey?" we all got up and followed him down the dirt path to a building onto an apartment, the apartment was Jeff's an older friend of Jake and John's who was like the group dad. Immediately Katt went on the porch with her bubbler named Dragon swamp and immediately I followed because weed was alot more my thing than drinking. Me and Katt situate ourselves at the table on the porch and she takes a milky hit but barely clears it, I hear the door open but i pay no mind and proceed to say, "Drink yo milk, you need yo calcium" me and Katt laughed for a moment before we heard the unfamiliar voice laughing with us and looked up. A tall man, about six four, with red hair and freckles and tattoos stuck his hand out and said "my names Austin, you must be Alice" he was Crystal's other best friend that I was supposed to meet ages ago but the timing was never right, boy how I wish id known it still wasn't.