My Adventure Is A Boy Named Kota.

Chapter 35 - Cold Tiles and Forgiving Smiles.

I am able to step back just in time before she unleashes a pool of vomit.

"Holy shit." I say. "Quick do it in the toilet!" I yell as she runs into the bathroom with her baby blue heels and falls right next to the toilet.

I'm about to leave until I see her perfectly blonde ringlets getting soaked as she hunches over the bowl.
Taking a deep breath I decide to do the right thing.

"Here" I say coming up behind her and grabbing her hair. I then tie it up in a low ponytail so its out of her face. "Thats it, get it all out." I say patting her back as I go to sit down on the cold tiled floor next to her.

She tenses slightly and moves her head so that she is able to look up at me as she wipes her mouth on her forearm.

Her mascara was smeared and she looked like an absolute wreck, which I don't like to admit gave me some joy.

"Why are you helping me?" She slurs slightly.

"Wouldn't want you to choke on your own vomit would we?" I say leaning against the wall next to the toilet and staring at the opposite wall.

"I'm sure you'd love that." She replies.

"You're right I would." I say matter of factly making her chuckle.

"I think I'm all puked out anyway." She says as she rests her head on her forearm on the toilet lid and faces me with droopy eyes.

"So where's your boyfriend?" She asks doing the finger quotes around the boyfriend part.

"Who knows" I reply but deciding to be even more honest I add "I don't think he's my boyfriend anymore."

"Why what happened?" She asks as I continue to stare at the blank wall.

"You don't know? Well thats a surprise considering you make it your life's mission to make mine more miserable than it already is." I reply.

"I guess I've been a bit out of it recently." She replies sitting up and leaning against the wall next to me. I know the feeling.

"Did you know that starting this year we have been going to the same school together for 12 years." She says after a moment of silence.

"Yeah I guess it has been that long." I reply.

"12 long years of bullshit." She mutters making me turn to her with a dubious look.

"No not you." She waves her hand seeing my reaction. "I mean just in general." She says looking at the blank wall. "It's all bullshit."

"You seem to have had a pretty good time." I reply curtly.

"Yeah it seems that way doesn't it. The cute boys, the cuter clothes. But thats pretty much it isn't it. 12 years and I have nothing but bullshit, no real memories I can cherish forever, not like you." She says turning to face me.

But I stay silent, partly because I wasn't sure what to say, and partly because she seemed like that stage of drunk where you just talk and talk and I wanted to hear what she said.

"You've always seemed to have this natural ability to connect with everyone around you. It drives me insane. I can never do that, I just don't know how to connect with people." She sighs.

"Even Ben, my god I swear I was actually in love with that boy at one stage." She laughs. But I could hear the sadness in her voice. "He was just so kind you know? You could tell he cared about people, unlike so many boys in our grade. But he wouldn't give me the time of day and the more I tried to get his attention the less he would give to me." She says sadly. She spoke of someone who was hurt and I could tell that she really did love Ben once upon a time. "You guys would do anything for each other. And then in walks the Kota Rivers, you guys literally collide into each other. Anyone could see the connection between you two from the start."