SOMMER'S POV
"I can sleep over tonight though, right?", I ask Carrington as I lay my head in her lap.
"Of course, we're not really doing anything tomorrow anyway", Carrington says as she continues to play with my hair.
"We should start getting ready to go to bed, you know since everyone is already asleep", I say slowly getting up and walking over to the bathroom.
"Yeah, yeah you're right", Carrington says pulling out her phone.
"I'm just gonna quickly go to the bathroom"
"Mmhmm...I'll go in after", she says paying me no attention.
I nod and head into the bathroom. Carrington was still moving things around her room so her bathroom was quite messy. I stepped over a few boxes and made my way over to her vanity. I inspected myself in the dirty mirror. My skin was looking dull and I had massive bags underneath my eyes. I had a breakout on my forehead and my hair was a mess. I sighed and opened Carrington's vanity to get a toothbrush. Inside there were packs of hair ties, toothpaste, empty plastic bags and.... multiple unopened pregnancy tests.
"Carrington...", I say slowly shutting the cabinet.
"Yeah?", she asks from the bedroom.
"Why do you have so many pregnancy tests in here?"
"Just in case, you know. Hit me up if you ever want one", she says with a laugh.
I nod and begin brushing my teeth. How many times does she have unprotected sex that she needed that many pregnancy tests? I couldn't really say anything, after all I hadn't gotten any action in months. How old was I getting, oh my God. I had let work distract me so much that it was physically showing on my face and I hadn't gotten laid in months.
I rinsed my mouth and headed back into the bedroom. "What?", Carrington asks finally looking up from her phone.
"Get dressed, we're going out."
"It's like two in morning, nothing's open"
"What're you talking about? It's LA, something's always open"
"Ok but all the good clubs are closed"
"I know a few good place that'll still be open"
"Sommerrrrr, I don't want toooo", she says in a whiny voice
"Trust me we'll have fun, dance, drink...maybe even get laid?", I say raising my eyebrows and giving Carrington a look.
"Alright, Alright give me a second to get ready though", she says rushing into her closet excitedly.
•••
Our Uber arrived at the club and Carrington and I stepped out onto the busy street. "I can't believe there are so many people here at three in the morning", Carrington says looking around while I tip the driver.
"It's the city that never sleeps", I say as we show our ID's to the bouncer. The bouncer give us a nod and points us towards the VIP section. Carrington immediately pulls me to the dance floor and starts dancing. "Sommerrrrrrr...come onnn...dance with meeee", she says tugging on my arm.
"Nah, I needa drink something first", I smirk looking around.
"Okay, okay. Let's go then", Carrington says as we walk over to the bar area of the massive club. "Can we get t-", Carrington starts before I quickly slap her arm. "What?!", she asks, annoyed.
"We're not buying our own drinks"
"Well then find a guy quick, because I wanna drink now and I'm feeling impatient", She says grumpily.
"Alright, Alright", I say looking around trying to find a guy who was decent looking and would be willing to buy us drinks, "How about them?", I say pointing towards two guys in the middle of the dance floor.
"Okay, okay I see you girl, of course!".
"Let's go", I say pulling Carrington over to where the two guys were standing.
"Heyyy!", Carrington says moving closer to the guy on the left. He had dark brown hair and multiple colourful tattoos running along his arms. He also had two studs in and a face tat of a red heart.
"Seriously, him?", I whisper to Carrington under my breath.
"Doesn't matter, it's just a casual hookup", she says loud enough for the whole club to hear.
I nod, slightly embarrassed, and walk over to the other guy standing awkwardly, fiddling with his fingers. "Sommer.", I say giving him a smirk. Fuck, was that too formal? Great, I've even forgotten how to flirt. Ugh, I had to stop stressing and just relax.
"Jack.", he says grinning back.
"Do you wanna uh....dance", I say reluctantly. Oh my God, this wasn't a middle school dance, what was I doing. He should be like grinding on me or something, I don't know. Okay, Okay Sommer just stop stressing no one cares.
"Nah let us buy you two some drinks first.", He says with a wide smile.
"If that's alright?", The guy with the face tats adds, "It's Manu by the way".
"Right", I say slightly scrunching my nose at the strong scent of expired axe deodorant. Well, Carrington was gonna have a great time.
"Yeah, of course that's alright", Carrington says latching onto Manu as we walk back over to the bar.
I changed my mind two shots in and decided not to drink and so did Carrington. It was a bit of a disappointment but I realised that both of us had a meeting the next morning and work was a top priority. Luckily, the guys didn't mind and we decided to just dance for a bit.
"Yeah we should really head home", Carrington says picking up her phone to call an uber.
"Come on, why don't you come over to mine?", Manu says a wink. I wrinkle my nose at his stench. It wasn't that he was ugly or that I didn't like the tattoos he just smelt really bad and looked like he hadn't showered in forever.
"Well I mean I'd be saving money, so why not?", Carrington says with a giggle.
"Guess, I'll call an uber and get home then", I say hoping that will Jack will say something, but he just nods.
I give Carington a hug and follow behind her as all four of us leave the club.
"Hey.", Jack says just as my uber arrives.
"Hey??", I say looking at him with raised eyebrows.
"We can head back to my place...If you want", he adds nervously.
"Yeah sure", I say as I pay the uber driver, after all he still showed up so I had to pay him.
"It's gonna be a fun night", I say with a smirk, getting into his car.
"Bet."
