It's A Long Story

part 13.

POV: Lexa

"So, it's the day before christmas. What should we do?" Anna asks.

"Um, I don't know, Nathan?" I say

"There's this thing my sister and I used to do. We would sit around the christmas tree and we'd ask eachother things and then we would tell stories about the topic."

"That's great, maybe we can get to know eachother a bit better." Sean says

"Yes." I say and walk towards the small christmas tree.

"Okay, I'll start." Anna says "When was your first drink?"

I begin "Well that was at one of your friend's parties." I say and point at Anna "We were both 16 and you had already drinked before, but I hadn't. Then your friend came over to me and gave me this drink, I had no idea what it was, but your friend said it was sweet. So I took a sip and it was indeed very sweet. I thought it was lemonade or something. So I just drank a lot of it. You must already know what comes next, I got terribly drunk. Anna had to tell me what I had done the last night, because I was so wasted. Yeah that's it, my first drink." I laugh when I think about it. That's and advantage of not having parents. There's no-one to tell you drinking is bad. Miss Golding didn't give a shit.

"I remember that night. You were almost out of control man. You danced on top of the table and everyone was just cheering and giving you more drinks. You threw up multiple times and I had to hold you hair in the bathroom." Anna laughs.

"Becuase that's what friends do." I laugh

Nathan chuckles "That's real love."

"Yup." Anna says

"Who's next?" I ask

"Oh, I'll go." Dion says. He had been quiet all this time. I understand why. He's the new kid. I've felt that too.

"Go for it." Anna says

"Well, in Italy the legal drinking age is still 16 so my first drink was like... when I was 14 I think. I was hanging out with my brother and some cousins. My brother was 15 at the time and my cousins were all older than me. So we all went to this small grocery store and my cousins bought two sixpacks of beer. I had always wanted to drink beer, but my father wouldn't let me and in Italy when your dad says someyhing you have to obey him. But that day I waw feeling like a real rebel and I thought if my cousins do it I could too. So I just grabbed a beer and I immediately just spat it out. It was so digusting. My cousins laughed at me and I felt so embarassed. After that I kind of learned how to drink beer and now I love it." He says and I chuckle. I picture Dion spitting out beer and I laugh.

"I get that man." Nathan says and laughs aswell.

"Yeah, at my 16th Birthday I had to act like I had my first beer ever. My father gave it to me and immediately knew I was faking. He laughed about it, so I have to be glad I'm alive." Dion laughs

"Okay, my turn." Brian says "My first drink was actually kinda sad. I was home alone, Becuase my parents were out of town. Like always. I was just kind of depressed and grabbed the vodka from my father's liquor cabinet. It was disgustingly good. I know, weird."

"My story is also kind of like that." Nathan says

"I just snatched a beer from the fridge when my dad wasn't home and I drank like the whole thing at once. My father was not happy." He says and chuckles.

The others laugh aswell, but I can only imagine his dad beating him afterwards. I don't want to. I hate it.

"My first drink was also at a party." Anna starts "I was 16 and everyone at the party was already 18 or 19. It was like this graduation party and I was invited, Because my friend said I would have fun. Well I had fun, it's just a shame I had to throw up afterwards. But I do have to say, it was one of the greatest nights of my life. No regrets."