The Devils King

17

"I hate you for this." I mumble as she puts on my 'M' Necklace. She scoffs. "You'll thank me later, Mads."

"Yeah right."

She laughs at me and pushes me towards the mirror. It was getting darker by the minute outside, and the sun was setting. We were already late, so Aleigha was hurrying the best she could.

I looked in the mirror and smiled. Aleigha did a good job. She picked me out a pair of bleached high wasted jeans paired with a black tank top and a grey and black flannel. I slipped on a pair of all black vans to go with it. My hair was loosely wavy in its natural blonde state. I think I actually looked pretty cute.

I smiled to myself. Aleigha did good! She knows me so well!

"You look hot!" She says. I look down my shirt and pull it up some. The plus side was I had on a pushup bra that made my small boobs look bigger. But the shirt did keep falling down some.

Oh well.

"I guess." She slaps the back of my head. "You do! Now let's get to that party and rock the hell out of it!"

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Chris and Mason drove us to the party. They agreed that they would allow me to be alone only if I took the panic button. So of course I did. It was a small button that I kept hooked to my belt buckle. And if I was in trouble and hit it, it would immediately contact them and give them my current location.

I just had to make sure I didn't accidentally click it. Having it made me feel safer, because it was like having Chris and Mason both there to protect me but still having my own privacy to do what I wished. I was grateful.

When we arrived, there were so many people at Ace's house. Outside they had beer pong set up, and probably dozens over dozens of kids were surrounding it, cheering, drinking, screaming and laughing. The music was so loud inside that it echoed to the outside. Cars were parked all throughout Ace's huge yard. A group of motorcycles stand propped up side by side along the right wall of his house. His house was huge, and this time almost every light on the bottom floor was on, illuminating through the large glass windows and walls he had.

"Aleigha!" Nick and Dylan yelled as they ran towards us, a drink in one hand. They both had smiles on there face. Nick then smiled more when he looked over to me. "You came! We were starting to think you would chicken out on such a big party!" He yelled excitedly. I shrugged. "Couldn't miss this opportunity." I lie.

How could all these people just... celebrate after Casey?

I don't get it.

"Well come on in! Get a drink!" Nick says as he throws an arm around my shoulder and leads me inside. The music gets louder as we enter the house. It gets hotter at the same time. Nick was wearing a nice long sleeve white dress shirt, that fit him perfectly and hugged his muscular arms. He wore nice regular jeans with them, and white Nikes on his feet. He honestly looked really really good.

Hot sweaty bodies filled the living room and hallways. Which is saying something because Ace had a huge house. Granted, I couldn't see exactly how nice it was due to the partying, but it was really big. More than mine.

Nick led me into the kitchen, where there was another drinking game. Two kids would go head to head, being held upside down and chugging as much beer as they could for ten seconds. Then they would let them down and they had to run over and flip an empty cup from the side of the counter.

I smiled, that looked interesting.

We walked over into the dining room, where coolers among coolers among coolers sat, filled with all kinds of alcohol. Nick looks over at me and leans on the dining room chair. "So what'll you have?"