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Chapter 26: The After-Party

This gets a bit dirty.....just a warning...sorry!

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I’d never host an after-party. Never never never. There were always so many people. Do you know what it means if there’s a lot of people? It means a lot of snacks, food, and booze. The only person that was able to host this was…Jack.

His house was huge, and his parents conveniently left after graduation for Vegas. Don’t ask why. There was a huge, gorgeous pool in the back with about one hundred people splashing around in the hot summer night.

That was only our grade. If you weren’t a senior, you weren’t allowed into Jack’s house.  

Besides the hundred people outside, there were about another fifty inside raiding the kitchen.

When Jack said he wanted to celebrate, he wasn’t kidding. He always thought big, so I had to respect him for that.

“This is crazy!” I had to shout over the music to Jack.

“It’s fucking incredible!” He yelled back, louder.

He grabbed my hand and we ran into the kitchen. He grabbed two red cups and filled them with vodka.

“To us and our graduation!” He toasted while handing me a cup.

I wasn’t a huge fan of drinking. I’ve gotten drunk before and it sucked. The feeling you get the morning after is hell. It’s been a long year, though. I felt like I deserved to have a good time.

Jack and I downed the alcohol.

I already felt the vodka pulsing through my body. The stress of all the people and the loud music started ease away.

We did another shot.

I could tell that the shots were causing me to smile like an idiot because of the way Jack looked at me. He started laughing and put his arm around my shoulder.

“Let’s party!” He shouted and a bunch of people in the room cheered with him.

I would be hanging out with Hailey, too. She would probably tell me to calm down with all the drinking, but she decided to go out with Harry to celebrate instead. I wanted to hang out with Louis, but he insisted that I go have fun. I really think it’s because he doesn’t want to push us too far. We just got back together, and I think that he didn’t want to ruin that, yet. Jack had been talking about this party for a while, so I was excited when I actually ended up going.

Jack escorted me outside and we started dancing, wildly to the music. Even though neither of us said anything, we couldn’t stop laughing.

A few minutes later, we both had a beer. I was starting to get drunk. I knew it. Based off last time, I knew I was a bit of a lightweight when it came to drinking. It wasn’t long until I was drunk.

After some more drinks, Jack and I both went near the pool. The pool was bright blue and appeared to be sparkling. It was so intriguing. I was captivated.

“Let’s go swimming.” I’m pretty sure I slurred.

“This pool was made for swimming.” He smiled wide. Jack then took off his shirt and unbuttoned his pants.

I screamed and covered my eyes while laughing.

“I don’t want my clothes to get wet!” He then jumped into the water and it splashed me. “Come in!” Jack said.

“I don’t have a change of clothes or swimsuit.” I shouted over to him.

“Then take off your clothes like I did! I’ll give you some clothes later.” Jack said.