just friends

Kickbacks

Real Life

"So, whose place are we going to again?" Kelsey says from the backseat. I turn around in my seat,
hi
"Remember that fuckboy who DMed me the other day? Lil Xan or Diego. He's friends with Ethan and invited him, so we're all going over."

"Ew the fuckboy with a girlfriend?" She says pinching up her face in disgust.

"Hey! In his defense, it's an open relationship, so his girl is cool with him hoeing around." He says as he drives us towards Lil Xan's/Diego's.

"That may be true, but it's still weird and kind of gross. Like I don't think I could ever be about that." I say rolling my eyes.

"Well it aint your problem now is it? "He says pulling into a large driveway. "We're here"

"No shit." I say unbuckling myself. "Come on Kels." I push up my seat, so Kelsey could crawl out from the backseat.

We all walked up to the house, Ethan knocked on the door. A girl with messy long black hair, dressed in a hoodie and leggings answered the door.

"Hey Ethan," She smiled letting him in the door, turning towards us, "Hi, I'm Jess," she said smiling, letting us through the door.

"Hi, I'm Melissa, and this is my best friend Kelsey." Kelsey gave her a small wave. Jessica looked me up and down,

"Hey babe, isn't this the girl you were trying to hit on?" She calls out, and a boy with his brown curly hair tucked under a beanie, with tattoos littering his body, with a few on his face as well. I tense at her comment, slightly nervous she may attack, when i felt Ethan wrap his arm around me.

"Oh shit, hey. E you didn't say you were bring over your girls?" He said as he looked me up and down, wrapping an arm around Jess. "Nice to meet you two, I'm Diego."

"Well I knew you were having a few people over, and I wasn't trying to be at a sausage fest. This is Melissa and Kelsey." He said laughing, leaning into me.

"Uh should we go?" I say looking wide eyed ever since Jess made the comment.

"Oh, shit no girl, you're totally fine. Both of you. Come join the party, everyone's in the other room" Jessica said grabbing my arm, pulling me with her, I quickly grabbed Kelsey's hand and dragged her with me.

When we walked into the other room, it felt like I walked into a cloud of smoke, music was playing, lots of people were mingling and partying. Ethan and Lil Xan trailing behind us.

"Look I don't have a problem if you and Diego hook up, as long as he doesn't do shit in front of me, it's cool." Jess says as she passes me a cup of some alcoholic drink.

"Oh, I mean that's cool, that you know, you're cool with it, but I'm not really about that." I say sipping the drink. Jess nods as she passes Kels a drink.

"Yeah, Melissa is a prude." Kelsey says rolling her eyes, I smack her arm giving her a glare.
"Hey, I am not a prude-"
"Melissa you are a prude, you gotta be wild like Kels" Ethan says laughing, wrapping his arm around me. Taking my drink and sipping it.

"Okay is it attack Melissa day or something? And I am wild, I'm just not like you two." I say rolling my eyes. Everyone laughs, as Diego approaches us.

"Hey, you guys want to join us? We about to smoke another joint." He says wrapping an arm around Jess.

"Yeah babe, I'm down." Jess says leaning into him. He then turns toward Ethan, Kelsey, and me.

"I'm down, what about you guys?" Ethan says looking to Kels and I. Kelsey shrugs, looking to me.

"Uh, yeah sure. Why not?" I say, following Ethan as he Diego leads us toward a couple couches, grouped into a circle.

We all sat down on the couches, I made sure Ethan sat next to Kelsey, and sat on the other side of him. Diego sat across for me with Jess on one side of him and this other guy named Steven, I think on the other side. There were a couple of other guys gathered around us. We passed around the blunt for a while, the music and chatter flowed around us. A couple hours later when people started to leave, I kept nudging Ethan, so he would take the hint that I wanted to leave.

"Ethaaaaaaan can we get going soon?" I whisper into his ear, Kelsey leans over Ethan towards me,

"Yeah Ethan can we go? I want food, they don't have anything good to eat here" She whines.

"Yeah, yeah okay girls lets go. We got to say bye to Diego and Jess first." He gets up, pulling Kelsey and I to our feet.

"Yassss I want more veggie grill." I say excited to finally get food

"Veggie Grill is closed right now Mel. We can get taco bell though." He says leading us towards another room.

I lean into Kelsey, whining about no veggie grill. Kelsey and I were so high and completely focused on each other that we didn't notice that Ethan had stopped walking and walked into his back.

"Hey watch it thotties." He whines pulling us both in, he turns to Diego and Jess who were cuddled together on a couch. "Hey, we're about to head out right now, we'll see you guys later, yeah?"

"Oh y'all leaving already?" Diego says, looking up, barely keeping his eyes open.

"Yeah, the girls are super hungry, we'll see you later."

"Alright, all right sounds good, You guys should come through more."

"Yeah, we'll see. But it was nice to meet you two." I say smiling.

"Yeah, you guys know how to throw a cool kickback." Kelsey says

"Ight well bye guys" Ethan says dragging us todoor, waving bye to Diego and Jess.