Vanished

Chapter 12

*** Some Mature content in this chapter. ***

Blasting music. Underage drinking. Sweaty people dancing.

Yup this was definitely a house party.

So far Lorenzo, Josh, and I have been at this party for a half an hour. Due to being underage, I'm not drinking and for some reason neither is Lorenzo. Even though he's also underage, I just assumed he would be drinking and partying with his friend that invited him. Instead he has sat on the couch with me this entire time, most likely just trying to be nice. On the other hand, a couple minutes after entering the house party, Josh saw a cute boy and left to try and flirt with him. It seems like it's going smoothly, considering they are in the middle of the floor dancing to a song I've never heard before.

"You know you don't have to stay with me." I tell Lorenzo with humor in my voice, slightly screaming so he can hear me over the loud music. "If you want to drink, I'm not stopping you."

Lorenzo smiles and leans in close to me, so I can hear him.

"I'm not a big drinker. Plus, I like being next to you." He responds with a warm smile that could make anyone swoon.

I blush slightly, punching Lorenzo lightly in the shoulder to try and seem like that small comment didn't affect me as much as it did.

"Shut up, I'm being a buzz kill." I joke lightly.

"No, you're not. If you don't want to drink then that's not being a buzz kill, it's just you being who you are and like I said, I'm not a big drinker.

With a smile, he gets up off of the couch and offers me his hand.

"In fact, would you want to go upstairs into a private room? Its pretty loud down here and I want to hear your voice without any interruption."

Damn. Why was he being so charming today? If he keeps this up, I'm going to be a tomato until this party is over.

"Yeah I would actually like that a lot. Let me just tell Josh where we are going."

I smile shyly, taking his hand and walking over to Josh who currently dancing messily with the random guy he just met.

"Josh, were going upstairs so we can talk better." I scream over the music.

He looks at me and laughs.

"Oh yeah okay, have fun talking" He winks at me, and continues dancing with the guy.

Was that a dirty insinuation? Of course it was, its Josh I'm talking to.

I shake my head and follow Lorenzo up the stairs. He still hasn't disconnected our hands from when he offered his to me, causing butterflies to swarm in my stomach at that realization.

After checking several rooms, all of which were either full of people or locked, we finally found one room at the far end of the hallway that was empty.

"This will do just fine." Lorenzo says, opening the door and leading me inside.

He sadly disconnects our hands to close the door behind him and lock it.

"Just so no drunk idiot comes in the room and ruins the privacy." He tells me, referring to why he locked the door.

I jump on the bed and sit down on one side, Lorenzo following my action and sitting right beside me on the bed.

"So, what do you want to talk about?" Lorenzo asks, looking at me with his chocolate brown eyes affectionately.

"Well, we don't know much about each other. How about we play 20 questions?" I suggest, just now realizing that I barely know anything about the boy to my right.