Rouge Child

The Rescue Blues

A/N

Sorry for the wait. I broke my foot. Terrible excuse I know. But. Yeah..

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Lily knew it was a bad idea, but here she was in front of Dougray’s doorstep, again. The doorknob was just a few inches away from her hold. She shouldn’t have come, shouldn’t have tried to look pretty, or worst she shouldn’t have agreed to be there in the first place.

She felt dumb in her 70’s hippie costume – which she must say was better than her sixth grade witch costume.

A few days ago, Dan invited her to Dougray’s Halloween party. It was one of the rarest occasions, if not never, that he had invited her to a party. Heck, it was even the first time he talked to her in years since ninth grade. Just this morning, she thought about the invitation for one hundred times.

Should she go or should she just forget it? She ended up coming. Why?

Her life was boring.

Aside from the big fat fact that her life was boring, she wanted to have a life, not the boring one. If you asked her, her life wasn’t totally boring; she just didn’t know what she was missing. If you asked Jean, she would say that Lily’s life was fat-ass boring and she was missing a lot. She remembered Jean told her that she should get laid before her eighteenth birthday and, for the bunnies’ sake, she should get herself a boyfriend, a hot one. However, when she had her eighteenth birthday, she got nothing near her first kiss or first making out but a hangover.

Talk about the pressure, she thought. Her sixty five year old grandmother thought the same. She even told Lily that she had her first kiss at fifteen and lost her “precious” virginity at seventeen. Yeah, talk about pressure.

But, Lily was not there at Dougray’s front door because she was horny. After thinking it through a hundred times that afternoon, she decided to come over because she wanted to have fun and to prove to Jean that her life wasn’t entirely boring, that she was not born to be killjoy. She could appreciate high school too.

Lily was about to knock on the door and open it when someone opened it for her. She looked back and saw Jake Wright. He was a good looking guy with that dark hair and deep green eyes. He had that strong jaw and “bad boy” stubble. All in all, she could say he could pass for a cute poster boy. But, there was this feeling she got every time she came near him in school or anywhere in Fram Hill; he was the dark cloud to her sunshine.

A bad boy, ogling girls called him while a troublemaker for the teachers. The top detainee, the Bugle List named him.

Lily made way for him but he stared at her first before going inside. Then, he looked back and winked at her. He went directly to talk to a “Count Dracula” Dougray and disappeared into a room which looked like the kitchen.

Now, that was weird and creepy. Boys didn’t wink at Lily. So, she ignored it because Jake Wright flirting with her didn’t make sense. Verne Parson might start bitching on her if she did put up with that silly idea.

She knew that parties were always loud, but she never thought Dougray’s party was this “LOUD”. She could already hear the noise outside his house, but, when she got inside, she thought to check up her ears by the time she got home. It was LOUD. And wow! She thought all kids in her senior class were there.

The house seemed to be big enough to accommodate a party. Well, she knew Dougray was rich; everybody knew he was. Right by the foyer, she saw Amanda Pane kissing a blond guy. Making out? Yep. She was also not surprised to see both Ronnie Sawyer and Charles Dais present because they were Dougray’s best buddies. Oh my gosh! Was that Lea Green? Lily hoped she wouldn’t try to sing tonight. It would be a disaster.