Stripped to the Heart

Chapter 2: Killer Party

When I reach home I enter my closet, yes I'm rich but I never boast. I float through the racks of clothes until I see the perfect outfit. It is a tight crop top, a neon pink one. Then neon green fishermen pants and 7.5" heels.

I saunter out to my car, my cheapest one - I don't want to ruin my car. Then I start the car and drive to the party. It's not that far and it's being held in a pub near the waterfront.

As I enter the music vibrates my body and I watch as people dance, grind, drink and vomit. The ground is littered with shot glasses, plastic cups and vomit, "This will be fun!" I mutter to myself, grabbing a drink from the table, probably spiked but whatever.

Soon I've had enough to drink that it would make any normal person collapse and lose their ability to think, but I'm very resilient against the power of alcohol. Although even I'm starting to stumble around a bit, there are a few people who left early.

Now most people are lying around on the ground or in piles of vomit. You can't walk anywhere without stepping on cups and glass, the furniture is covered in bodies. I don't think you need to know what they're doing really. I began to wander upstairs and I found 6 rooms, 3 on each side. The first room had moaning and reluctantly I opened the door, this was a bedroom and everywhere you could see there were kissing people and the bed was full of people. You'd think that you would lock the bedroom, the next 2 rooms were also bedrooms but the 4th room was a bathroom.

When I entered the smell hit me and I acted on instinct, left and shut the door. It had smelled of vomit and the toilet had overflowed, the bath was full of gin and altogether it was horrible. I didn't even check the other rooms, scared of what I might find if I did.

Downstairs everyone was still dancing, grinding and drinking. Crazy I thought, then I saw a boy coming towards me. I freaked out when I saw it was someone I didn't know but stopped when I saw him. He had dirty blonde hair and grey-blue eyes, he was much taller than me. My head reached his chest and my heart was pounding in my rib cage and I was starting to sweat.

"Hi, who are you?" he seemed genuinely curious. "Hey" I said, with a tummy full of butterflies "My name is Anna" "Mine's Leo Smith, nice to meet you" he said. I was about to ask where he lived (yeah, not like that-not creepy) but I heard sirens, not that far away either. "Shit" we both said simultaneously!

Then I ran, towards my car and away from the party.