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two.

Aria's POV

"Guess who finally decided to show up," Kayla says as she sees Jon and I walk through the door. "We got a little bored just drinking so we're playing truth or dare. Hurry, we're just about to start."

I look at where Kayla was to see the whole gang sitting around the couches. Our gang consisted of me, Kayla, Jon, Alex, Mikey, and Megan. Our group started out as me and Jon in grade school. When we reached high school, Kayla and the twins Mikey and Megan became part of our little group and during senior year of high school, Jon and Alex became close pals due to football and eventually became one of us. And now here we are, just finishing our first year of college together.

I scan around and got confused. Kayla said she just wanted a party with the group and a few of our close friends. I didn't know she meant the entire school was going to come.

"But before that, you know the rules." Alex says putting his arms on me and Jon, leading us to the table where all the drinks were placed. I don't know if you guys did this but ever since our first night out drinking, we all decided to set a rule that we would drink a shot for ourselves and the people who we came with. Since I only came with Jon, we both had to take two shots each.

After taking our shots and making our own drink, the three of us joined the gang and some other people in the game of truth or dare. Alex spun the bottle and it landed on Kayla. Alex dared her to kiss someone in the circle who she was attracted to. Part of me always thought she was attracted to Alex but to my surprise, she walks over to this guy in our computer class named Cody who she's been relatively close with. After Kayla finished placing a kiss and everyone cheering, she goes back to her and I see her wink towards him. I ask her what was going on and she just played dumb as if the whole thing didn't happen.

A few more rounds passed. I was asked to drink a weird mix of alcohol which ended up tasting pretty good, Jon did a keg stand resulting into him already being tipsy, and Megan ended up prank calling an ex while she was drunk which ended up into an actual fight between them. Some guy almost set the house on fire too after trying to make that drink he saw that was on fire. After a few more spins, the bottle lands on Alex. Everyone thought of something crazy for him to do.

"I dare you to do a body shot on Aria." Some guy suggests and everyone else agrees. My face flushes as Alex makes his way to me. Its been a long time since someone done that to me and I'm usually already drunk but now that I'm just a little tipsy, it was kinda awkward.

I decided to do it, it's the last party as a freshman anyways. I take my top off and everyone cheers. After lying down on a near by table, Kayla pours tequila on my stomach, places some salt on my chest up to my neck and puts a piece of lime between my lips for me to bite. After everyone counts down, Alex hurriedly sucks off the tequila, licks the salt and takes the lime off of my lips using his. To my surprise, after he pulls away with the lime, he comes back and places a hard kiss on my lips. I pull away after realising what just happened.

"What was that?" Megan asks in surprise. I just shake my head in shock. This is the first time I've had any sexual contact with anyone in my friend group and it was weird considering I treat them like siblings. I look back at Alex but he doesn't even look my way, he's too busy being hyped up by everyone. I decided to just shrug it off as nothing, Alex was probably just drunk and got carried away.

I looked around and realised Jon was missing. I stand up and look for him in the tight and filled place. I see him in the drink area and my heart sinks as I see him flirt with some girl. I didn't know why but something inside me just turned bitter. Walking to the table where the drinks were, I purposely bump into Jon.

"Sorry, didn't see you there." I say before grabbing another drink and going back to the group. After the body shot thing, we played a few more rounds until it got boring. We eventually just drunk some more, danced and sang.