Your Love Is Standing Next To Me

Chapter 22 - Number one party anthem

There were more people than I'd expected. Too many unknown people. It was stuffy!
Matt had two naked blondes on his side, Nick was desperately kissing a brunette's chest, Miles and Laura were gulping happily from a bottle of Smirnoff and Jamie was half naked, snorting some white dust from a girl's boob.
Alex pulled me back on the verandah.
"It's ok if you don't want to go there. Let's go somewhere else, ok?"
"No, we should go inside! With your friends!"
"You sure? It might get ugly if..."
"It's ok, Al! It's an important night for you! But promise me it's the last time..."
"Promise!" he grinned.

***

It was exactly how I've always imagined their new AM album!

"Marie, gimme that bottle, girl!" Matt shouted to give him my JD bottle.
"Nooooooo waaaaayyyy" I opposed.
"You gotta try this, honey!" Alex invited me to try his cigar.
I puffed on.
"Fuuuuuck!!! It's strong!!!" I screamed to cover the noise.
"Sex drugs n' rock n' roooooll!!!!" Jamie shouted while kissing a naked drunk girl.
Everybody was screaming, dancing, kissing, making out, drinking, smoking and snorting funny things, the music was breaking the speakers and I could barley hear my own thoughts.
I'd forgotten when or how I lost my t-shirt, maybe during the poker game, but Alex was enjoying at maximum my bra.
I was drunk, high and extremely tired but I wasn't giving a fuck. I was having fun! I somehow managed to get rid of my demanding and guilty conscience, which kept reminding me of what happened the last time I went to such a wild party - "This will end with a fight, a fistfight most probably, then someone will find a knife, or the police will eventually come, someone will start a fire or stab someone or..."
"And this... (I gulped a huge amount of whiskey)... Is... (Again)... How... (And again)... British PARTYYYYYYY!!!!" I shouted at the top of my lungs.
Everybody cheered me. I guess I was so too drunk to remember I wasn't British at all.
"Aleeeeeeex!!!!" I called my boyfriend. "Gimme some more of that strong shit of yours!!!!"
"Right nooooow, loveeee!!!"

***

What the fuck? My head was spinning and dizzying, all my body was hurting like hell and I had a dead arm. And like it wasn't enough, I was only wearing a bra and some guy's jeans - most probably Alex's. I'd been sleeping over Jamie's naked body. Ouuuugh!
I tried to raise my head and noticed a JD bottle in my left hand. I threw it away. I immediately realised it was a wrong move when it hit a girl. Ooooops...
Everyone was sleeping "like a glove" - Matt's favourite phrase. The whole place was a mess. I eventually got up and realised I was dead on my feet. I regained my balance and managed to walk through the immobilized bodies to the bathroom. I opened the door and found two people sleeping there. Bad idea.
I searched through the thrown clothes and bottles for a more suitable pair of trousers and stole an unlucky girl's shorts and a boy's The Strokes t-shirt - which fit me perfectly and I decided to keep it. I was the first to wake up, so I could take whatever I wanted. I found my purse on the bar and checked if there was everything in it.
Now I had to look for my boyfriend. I scanned all the corps and eventually found Alex's lying on the floor in a corner. At least he was alone - not like me and Jamie. I praised God nothing had happened between me and him that night!
I woke him up.
"Alex, wake up!!!!" I shouted, feeling like I was losing my balance again.
He started moaning. I dragged his heavy body to the door. Unbelievably, Alex was still completely dressed, which made me wonder whose jeans were those I woke up wearing. I slammed the body to a wall trying to open the door.
"Auch!" Alex murmured.
"Sorry, love..." I mumbled.
I had no idea where we were. I searched for Alex's mobile and looked in the phone book for Mark - the driver.
"Mark... I'm Marie, Alex's girlfriend... Could you please come and pick us up... Where? I've got no idea... Where you drove us last night... A house?... Yep... Thanks!"
Thanks God he had a driver! It would've been nice from me if I had woken up the other band members too, but...
Mark came driving a Prius.
"Good morning!" he greeted us.
"Mornin' Mark! Could you please help me with this..." I pointed towards Alex's body.
Mark helped me carry him inside the car and then inside our hotel apartment.
Alex was lying drooling on our bed. I swallowed two aspirins and made myself a very strong coffee. I couldn't eat anything, afraid I would throw everything up. I took a shower and spotted my drained body.
I looked horrible. My face was all white, my make up was a disaster and so was my hair. My body was all sticky and I smelt like alcohol and smoke. I'd been drunk before, but I'd never felt like that. I had been high as fuck last night. But damn, I enjoyed the moment!
I came back into the room and searched for the day-after pills. I didn't remember having done anything, but I couldn't be sure. I was keeping them in the bathroom cupboard just in case of emergency.
Alex finally woke up.
"What the..."
"Mornin', Al"
"Please don't tell you brought me here..."
"I did!"
He slammed his head to the pillow and started to complain about his terrible headache.
"There's no need explaining me how it feels like, Al! Stop crying like a little girl and go take a shower!"
"I'm so sorry..."
"Stop! Was happened, happened, ok? It was the last time as you promised so it had to be... The best, right?"
"I just wanted to tell you... I've been PROUD of you, girl!"
"What do you mean?"
"You outlasted every other girl! And you... Were... TROUBLE, girl! The best by far... I don't know how much you remember, but all eyes were on you, love!"
Oh no!
"How much. I drank? Took?"
"Like anyone would remember a shit... But you were MINDBLOWING!"
"Ok, I got it"
"It was your first time like that, wasn't it?" Alex laughed.
"Shut up!"
Please someone kill me!

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Heyyyy!!! :)
Interesting chapter, isn't it?
I've posted 12 chapters in the last 10 days or so... Wow! I've been on holiday with my parents and I found inspiration for writing.
I'll be busy the next two weeks, so I'll try and make a couple more chapters before taking a short break - but don't worry, I'll be back!
Thank you for tolerating all my crazy ideas!

Have a great day! ^.^