Tonight You're Mine

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I pour the last bit of beer into my mouth and painfully swallow it down. I hate the taste of beer, but figure it will take the edge off from earlier. John is staring at me, smiling.

"So that's your third beer and I don't see you running for the hills," he grins widely.

"Well, you arent the worst company I've had."

"Alright, I'll take it." He laughs, revealing his perfectly white teeth. His thin, light pink lips look soft and cool. My gaze runs up his face, my eyes catching his. I gently bite down on my lip, curling it underneath my teeth. He lets out a small chuckle as he raises his eyebrows and lets his tongue gently wet his lips.

"Ughmm," he says, clearing his throat, hinting at the fact that I'm staring at him.

Shit. I am staring. I quickly snap out of my little day dream and glance down at my phone to check the time, 1:56.

"Shit" I mutter under my breath. I'm supposed to meet Ali and Devin in four minutes.

"Everything okay?" John asks.

"Yeah. It's just...uh I'm supposed to go meet my friends now."

"Oh," he says too dramatically. "I see. You just wanted free beer. Yeah, that's fine. I get it. Go meet your 'friends' or whatever," he says snarkily while putting air quotes around the word friends.

"Excuse me?" I state. "I actually do have friends that I came here with and am supposed to meet right now. And in no way did I just want free beer. For your information, I actually hate beer, but I drank it to be nice. You know nothing about me. You just met me. So don't you dare go off calling me some sort of liar." My face has turned red at this point and I'm fuming. Is everyone just an asshole today?

"Now if you'll excuse me I have to go meet my friends," I say grabbing my bag and starting to walk away. I stop and turn back towards him. "Oh. I'm sorry did I say friends? Oh you got me. I meant to say my 'friends'," I say slowly and sarcastically, adding the very obnoxious air quotes as he did.

I continue to walk off expecting him to call after me with some stupid remark, and I am genuinely surprised when I don't hear it.Whatever. I shrug and make my way towards the Riot Stage where I immediately spot Ali and Devin. Ali is waving her hands in the air like a lunatic and shouting,

"Anna! Over here! Anna!!"

I wave back to signal that I see her so she can stop shouting.

"Hey Al!"

"Where were you? You almost missed the set?" Ali asks.

"I was uh.....just getting something to eat. Lines were crazy." I didnt dare speak about John. What was the point? He wasn't worth talking about. Just another asshole. Devin still wasn't speaking to me. She just stood next to Ali staring at the stage, waiting for the set to start. Ignoring me. Not that I minded, I had nothing to say to her. Yellowcard walked out and began their set. We watched the entire thing, Ali dancing and singing at the top of her lungs. That was Ali. The set finished and Devin and I still hadn't said a word to each other. Ali turns to us.

"Alright. Fuck this."

Devin and I stare at her baffled. Ali never curses. She may rock out and often drink too much but I've only heard her curse twice in my life and we've been friends since we were seven.

"Listen. You fought. You both said somethings that were hurtful. But not talking is just making it miserable to be around you two. So forget about it. Hug and move the fuck on. Okay?"

Devin and I both smile, laughing that Ali has now sworn twice in less than sixty seconds, a new record. Devin turns to me.

"Anna...I'm sorry. I was being a bitch and I should've just layed off. Your issues with Matt are none of my business."

"It's okay. You were right. You called me out on my shit and I just wasn't ready to hear it. So thanks. In fact.." I say puling off the braclet Matt gave me, "He is history." I say as I throw it into the trash. Devin smiles and holds her arms out. We share a nice hug, something we don't do very often.

"Yay! Friends again!!" Ali cheers, "Now lets go get some booze!" We laugh and link arms with Ali as we walk toward the liquor tent. Suddenly a guy with his head down not paying any attention walking across the feild stumbles into me spilling his beer all over my shirt.

"Fuck! Asshole watch where you're going!" I shout.

"I'm so sorry...I didn't see you there.." he stumbles before raising his head. 

"Oh.  You got to be kidding me. You again? First you call me a liar, then you spill your beer on me? " 

"Anna!" Ali exclaims, "What are you talking about?" 

 I glare into his eyes and grit my teeth.,"Ali, Devin this is..."

"John." He says holding out his hand.