Rowena | H.S

2: Memories

The bass is thrumming. Pulsing through the grungy basement full of drunk, or getting there, young adults. Unless you're Rowena, who's only now freshly seventeen. As a gift from her older sister, Rowena and her select few friends were allowed to come and stay with Aurora at her apartment in Cambridge for Wren's birthday. Her older sister, even though she's barely twenty-one, decided to opt out of this night's escapades, and let the younger ones go wild with their fake I.Ds. She moves further into the crowded room with her best friends Alina, Grayson, and Adrian all trailing behind her, letting the birthday girl take the lead.

Rowena and Alina became friends first. When your parents both work for a high-profile company, they tend to get grouped together for a lot of the country club outings. From the tender age of six, they were cooking up trouble, and the trouble only amplified when the got into their adolescence and found out how fun alcohol is. Adrian joined in around that time, and thank god he did. Rowena is sure that they'd be dead, or at least in jail, if it wasn't for Adrian. The dark skinned guy is the designated mom friend, and often is the voice of reason when Alina and Rowena can't see straight. Finally Grayson came last a year or two ago. Although he is new, he became fast friends with the group and meshed well. Soon enough him and Adrian ended up taking it to the next level and becoming boyfriends.

Now here they are, pushing their way through the crowd of Harvard elites and trust-fund babies, which are direct reflections of their futures. Their first stop is the bar, Alina handles the orders, knows more about alcohol than the rest of them. She makes a big deal, going on about Rowena's birthday, pulling the dark haired girl next to her, and leaning them up against the bar to show off their killer cleavage. The promiscuous girls get to skate by with free drinks, and they didn't even get to use their fakes. The boy on the other hand unfortunately had to pay full price. The gang downs their drinks at the bar, then orders some more. These ones, although, are intended to be sipped on while out on the dance floor.

Lots and lots of grinding was going on. No matter who it was with, someone was dancing in someone, and Rowena felt obligated to join. So she slide in front of the first decent looking
man she could find, and wound her hips in a way she knew would keep him satisfied. The brown haired girl moves to the beat of the new The Weeknd song blasting through the underground club. She giggles as she catches they eye of Alina, who wiggles her brows, also playing the same game Rowena is with a different man. Nothing is serious for these girls, and as long as it gets them attention, they're down.

Across the room, with another girl (whose got nothing on Rowena) a man seems to catch her eye. Even in the dimly lit club she can she how fucking stunning he is. The lights flash at the right angle which make his eye pop, showing off the spectacular green color, and Rowena makes it her duty to get closer. She moves and twists her way through the crowd to the beat towards the mystery man. She finally is able to replace the girl and slot herself in front of him, with the finesse of someone whose done this many times before.

The brown haired girl turns her head slightly, to look into his eyes, and flutters her lashes, "Hi."

He smiles back at her, and puts his hands on her waist. "Hi."

The night goes on, they down more shots, and more men. Let them feel up their bodies, with lots of promise but little more. Rowena still thinks about the green eyed man, however. Since Adrian and Grayson are a packaged deal they mostly stick to each other and watch over the girls. Alina and Rowena are having a great time, that is until a specific pervy man tried to try his luck with Alina, and got upset when she said no.

"Fucking cunt." The man spits out at Alina.

As if a switch flipped, Grayson, Adrian, and Rowena all stomp out off their shock and towards the man.

"The fuck did you just say?" Rowena starts.

"Back away from her." Grayson says.

"Hey, hey, hey." Adrian finally goes in, always the mediator.

Alina in the middle of the group is a small, flaming ball of rage, ready to spew out any insult as soon as she gets a chance. She's always been the most impulsive one of the group.

"Listen man, no need to use that language, she doesn't want to go with you, leave it be." Adrian tries to reason.

"She's nothing but a bitch, who can't keep a promise."

"Don't try that, if she says no she says no, I think you need to leave ." Grayson intervenes, giving a soft push to the perv's shoulders.

Maybe that wasn't the best idea, as the unidentified man lands a punch straight to Grayson's cheek, making him stumble back. Alina and Rowena gasp in shock, while Adrian tries to stable his boyfriend, shoot glares at the man. Before anyone else can do something, a sixth person comes into the picture, roughly grabbing the man's shoulder. It's the green eyes man from earlier.

His muscle are budging as he order "I suggest you leave this club, mate. I'd be happy to walk you out, if that pleases you."

Although Gray and Adrian are scary when they want, they've got nothing on Rowena's mystery man. Alina breathes a sigh of relief as the perv seems to submit to him. The small girl thanks him as he pushes his way through the crowd, hand still on the gross man's shoulder. Alina is fine to leave that situation where it was, and to go get herself another well deserved drink, but Rowena is too infatuated with the man to let him go.

"Excuse me, I need to go to the bathroom." She tells her understanding friends.

Rowena sneaks herself up the staircase and to the entrance of the club where she can see from the glass door, the green eyed savior push the man into the cab, with a couple of bill shoved into his hand. She waits, feeling creepy and a bit awkward, but she's Rowena Pierce, she's got no problem seducing crushes. Though, a weird feeling deep down inside her, something that she doesn't have the emotional maturity to unpack, makes her feel like this is much more than a seduction or a crush. He walks back inside, ruffling a hand through his hair when he catches sight of her.

"Oh, hey." He smiles, veering his path towards her.

Rowena smiles up at him. "Hey..."

She's at a lost for words, and god does she feel like a stupid schoolgirl for getting caught up in a charming stranger. She doesn't normally do this. Getting caught up in her feelings that is, picking up strangers is a second nature and she's much better at getting her way than she'd like to admit. She's also not very careful with her body.

"What you did back there, I really appreciate it. It happens way too often and I know Alina thanked you, but I also wanted to do it." Rowena says, and she means it.

"No, no, no. You shouldn't be thanking me, it's what any decent human being would do. Women don't deserve to get treated like that ever." He responds just as sincerely.

Rowena is actually almost in tears by that statement, she blames it on the alcohol mostly, because she isn't a little bitch.

"I'm harry by the way way." The stranger, Harry, adds.

"Rowena," She responds, staring at his lips then flicking up to his eyes. "And I really want to kiss you."

"You're drunk." Harry deflects, but she sees it in his eyes, she's got him hooked.

"Not drunk enough, I can hold my liquor, baby boy, I know what I'm doing."

They have a stare off. Both daring each other to try. It's five second of silence, before Rowena breaks it and lands a chaste kiss onto Harry's soft lips. She pulls back, searching his eyes, and making sure he wants it too. He answers her question almost immediately by backing her into a wall and kissing her like his life depends on it.

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Author's note
So, we now know Harry and Rowena's history, I am so very excited to get into the juicy stuff. It's going to be very fun to say the least!

Your comments and votes motivate me so so so much, so please don't hesitate and tell me what you think!

Also, I've had this in my drafts for a while but I've been extra inspired by Gone Girl (mostly the cool girl monologue) and Gossip Girl, so there might be hints of that coming in the fanfic!