Irresistible

November 17

The next week I came in for my Saturday morning shift, already ready to get this day over with. There were a ton of servers scheduled today so it was almost sure that none of us would make good money today, but right after shift I was heading back to campus for the last big party of the semester. My roommate was out of town and I was already planning to take my best friend Noelle to the party because she was in town early for Thanksgiving break.

The shift was dragging on as suspected and I was getting antsy. I was on with Jake and Natalie and he had been avoiding me all day, probably not wanting any confrontation.

Walking over to Natalie, we started chatting about plans for the weekend, "yeah, I'm going back to school tonight for this big party. You should totally come! I'm bringing Noelle too, you know her right? I think we were all in English together."

"Oh yeah, that sounds so fun! I haven't gone to a party in so long, but don't we both work tomorrow morning," Natalie replied excitedly.

"Yeah I'm thinking I'll just drive back in the morning, that's what I did last night, I just came back at 7 and there was no traffic and I got here on time," I countered.

She nodded, "Okay yeah, what should I wear though?"

"Well it's '80's in Aspen' themed, so something like ski wear or 80's. I think I'm just wearing leggings and an off the shoulder top, no one takes our parties too seriously though so you can kind of just wear whatever you want. It'll be kind of cold outside, but inside the frat it's super hot because everyone is literally on top of each other."

"Okay are you sure though?" Natalie questioned, "The party I went to at state, everyone was pretty dressed up."

"I'm one-hundred percent sure, you could honestly show up in your pajamas and no one would even question it," I could tell she was nervous but Natalie nodded and looked a little less tense about the whole situation. Earlier she had told me that since she had stayed close for a community college before going onto a state school next year that she hasn't really gotten to experience the whole college scene yet.

"Okay guys, back to work," Our manager griped rolling his eyes at us. We scurried off in different directions pretending to be busy.

At the end of our shift, we were chatting together again, "So do you want to meet up and I'll drive us up there and back?" I ask to confirm.

"Yeah, actually do you think Jake could come too?" her question caught me off guard.

Thinking about it, I couldn't exactly think of why he shouldn't come to the party with us. It's not like he was going to suck a girl in and break a girl's heart in 12 hours of being on my campus and over the past couple of weeks he'd been on his best behavior. "Um yeah, sure, why not?"

She looked unsure with my answer, "well I know you're not like great friends or anything but I just think it'll be fun, plus him and your friend at school Mia are really close friends." Natalie's rambling faded out as Jake came over to let us know he was about to close out his shift too and she asked "Lily is cool if you wanted to come to the party?"

He looked a little surprised, "yeah, I'd want to come, but I don't want you to get mad at me or anything."

"I mean yeah as long as you don't fuck over any of my friends while you're there. We just can't let Camryn find out because she'd be mad that I partied with you," I bit out.

"Yeah, um okay, that sounds good. I'll see you guys later then?" He asked.

"Yup, I'll pick y'all up around nine."

Natalie decided it would just be easier if she came over and picked out her outfit and get dressed at my house before we left and then we would do hair and makeup in my dorm room at campus as the party wouldn't pick up until around 11:30. She was upstairs fussing over her clothes, mainly because she didn't want Jake to see her while she looks bad, while Noelle was chatting with my parents waiting on us. Natalie finally settled on a tied up white tee and electric blue running shorts and we headed out to get Jake.

We started driving towards our small town, asking Natalie to get Jake's address so we could plug it into maps, but instead she directed us to his house from memory. Of course she would know exactly where he lived and his gate code like the back of her hand. We pulled towards a couple of driveways, "Wait, it's not this one, that's the second house. It's definitely the next one that goes to the main house." We drove down the long winding driveway to see him pop out and start walking towards my car.

He hopped in and immediately thanked me, "thanks for driving and letting me come, I have something for you," and he handed me a few dollars in cash. Per usual, any time he does anything that's not entirely evil, it surprised me. "Alrighty well on to other topics, what's the situation with alcohol?" he asked.

"Well, Natalie kind of mentioned you could get us some?" I mentioned.

"Yeah, but we'd have to go to the 'shitgo' to get anything because they don't card."

"Um that's twenty minutes out of the way but I guess we could make it work."

"I'll buy as long as you can stop at the bank in town so I can grab some cash," he piped up.

"Yeah sure, do one of y'all want aux or?" I trailed off and he took it from my hand plugging in his phone and playing some hype up music that I tried to keep on the low while we drove towards our small town to go to the bank and the rundown Citgo gas station.

The ride was pretty quiet and tame on the way, Noelle and I gossiping about school and how she's skipping a few days to be home early for break and Jake and Natalie flirting quietly in the back. You could tell he was egging on her obsession with their soft conversations and closeness in the backseat. "No fucking in my backseat y'all, save that for the dance floor or something," I quipped.

We arrived at the drive up ATM and he had to get money out but Natalie was on the driver's side closest to the machine, Jake being on the passengers side. He questioned, "So how do you guys want me to do this? Just get out and go around or?"

"I mean you and Natalie get on so well anyways why don't I just roll down the window and you reach over her. It doesn't exactly look like y'all are strangers to being close," I remarked, insinuating the obvious.

"Awesome, problem solved. Roll that sucker down," he replied ignoring my smartass remarks towards them, Natalie keeping quiet on the topic.

I rolled down the window and you could hear the little grunts and groans as Jake reached over her to try to get to the machine. She also made smart remarks about his bum being in her face and other questionable comments. Then, once he was seated we took off towards the shady 'shitgo.'

"Okay ladies what would you like to drink tonight?" he asked.

"Noelle, you want hard cider right? I'd like the same and probable like some Ice's or something," Noelle and Natalie nodding and chiming in agreement. He got out of the car and ran inside to get the goods. "Guys we're literally going to get mugged or arrested," laughing about this whole situation.

"Yeah, we should lock the doors or something," Noelle said, hitting the lock button.

"Does this make us a getaway car?" Natalie joked. "What if we just drove off without him right now."

We all laughed at the sketchiness of waiting on him to smuggle our alcohol, as the girls here are pretty good usually. He finally came out of the store with what looked like a ton of stuff that he hastily shoved in the trunk, for us to deal with at campus later and banged on the door when we wouldn't unlock it, all of us girls laughing at him. Once he was in we yelled at him to buckle up and I sped off quickly because if I was a cop, I would frequent the 'shitgo' for kids on a Saturday night.

The forty-five minute drive to campus went about the same as earlier, Natalie and Jake giggling quietly in the back, not really talking to Noelle and I. We made it a point to talk a little bit louder when we were jokingly talking about them and what they were doing in the back.