Fighting Liliana

Chapter Thirteen

"So you mean to tell me that the Nintendo Switch is better than a Nintendo DS?", Parker asked Charlie. I roll my eyes and start walking back into my room. "Wait, Lil, will you tell your brother that a DS is better than Switch?", Cierra says popping her head out of my kitchen with a bunch of food. "First of all, where did you come from?", I ask. "Oh, hi! Yeah, I've been out here with Charlie and Parker because Gigi and Scott went shopping.", she says.

"Oh. I think the DS is better bro. Sorry.", I frown. "You are all so lame.", he says storming into his room. We all start laughing and Cierra looks at me funny. "What?", I ask. "You've been crying.", she says. I look at Parker because as soon as she said that, his head snapped straight towards me. "No, I haven't.", I say walking back into my room and locking the door. "Lili, are you okay?", Parker says knocking. "Yes, I'm just getting dressed.", I say.

"Well, you weren't too shy about that yesterday. So are you sure everything is okay?", he says. "GROSS", I hear Charlie yell followed by Cierra's laughing. "Yes, I'm fine", I laugh and let Parker in. I look into my boyfriend's ocean blue eyes and see so much pain in them. "I'm so sorry about all of the stuff you've been through Parker. You shouldn't have had to tell me about it last night.", I apologize.

"No, it's okay. All of that just made me the strong person I am today.", he smiles. I smile back at him and give his hand a squeeze. "Hey, when are we practicing again?", I ask. He thinks about it for a few seconds before responding, "Let's get back to it tomorrow, so you can get ready for your fight next weekend." I raise an eyebrow and look at him. "I hope you chose a less crazy opponent for me next week.", I laugh. "We'll see.", he says and walks out of my room.

I lay across my bed and work on my paper for my Communications class until it's time for me to get dressed for the club. Once 10 hits, Scott runs into my room and throws my dress and some red heels at me. I take my reading glasses off and groan. "What's wrong?", he peeks his head back in my room. "Nothing! I'm excited. It's just my social anxiety. Girls often are groped in clubs and I really don't want anything like that to happen. ", I say back to him.

"Listen, sweetie, you're going to be with us. We won't let anything happen to you. I don't know if you've seen your boyfriend, but he's like 6'3, covered in tattoos, and muscle.", he laughs. I bust out in laughter and look at Scott, "Can someone be covered in muscle?", I ask. "Yes, of course. I am", he says walking out. I laugh at him and I go to get dressed. I'm so glad I have Scott in my life. He makes my brother extremely happy and he's always there for me just like Charlie is.

The best thing about Scott is, I can talk to him about things that would be too awkward to talk to Charlie about. I put my dress and heels on, then take a look in the mirror. I look at my curves and I try to push my insecurities away for the night. This dress is fitting to my body. My boobs are a 36 D, which means they aren't too small, aren't too big. The dress falls about 4 inches below my butt, but I can't help but feel like something is missing. "I have to make this a bit more like my style.", I say to myself.

I run into my closet and grab my fishnet stockings and put them on. I put on my red heels, then I walk out to see everyone in the living room. I hear a few whistles and I start to blush. Parker turns around and his jaw drops open. "You look amazing Liliana.", he smiles and grabs my hand. "You look amazing!", I smile back. "Aww, how cute. But I also look amazing. Maybe more amazing than everyone.", Gigi says. We all laugh and start walking out of the door.

"You all look amazing, and I'm glad all of my favorite people are here", I say smiling at all of them. "Aww", everyone says and we go in for our signature group hug. I get into my boyfriend's jeep with him, Scott, and Cierra. Gigi and Charlie take my car and follows behind us. "Nathan is meeting us out, right?", I ask Parker. "Yep, I'm sure Gigi will be ecstatic.", he laughs. "He is good to look at.", Scott says from the back. "Scott!", I yell. "I'm just saying.", he says quietly.

We all start laughing and soon we pull up at the club. We all get out of the car and I start getting really excited. We all grab our IDs and line up. "Hey, guys!", Nathan says walking over to us. We greet him with a bunch of "Heys" and "What's up". Gigi pulls me to the side and tells them to hold our spots. "Gigi what are you doing?", I ask. "Hook me up with Nathan.", she whispers. "Okay, be patient!", I say and walk back to the line.

When Parker is done talking to Nathan, I slowly walk over to him. "Hey, Natey boy!", I say smiling. "Oh goodness, that means she wants something.", Scott says. "Natey boy?", Nathan questions. "Yes. Anyways, Gigi is pretty hot huh?", I whisper. "She's really pretty", he says staring over at her. "She thinks you're pretty too!", I say excitedly. "Liliana! This is why I don't have you talk to guys for me. You literally suck.", she yells and walks off with Nathan to talk.

"Ungrateful ass.", I say and push by her. Parker laughs and throws his arm around me. "It's okay Lil, you did a pretty great job talking to me for the first time." "Thank you! See Gigi, Parker says I'm great at talking to guys.", I say proudly. "He's lying!", she yells back. We all start laughing and we finally make it to the beginning of the line. "ID's please", the bouncer says.

We all hand him our ID's and go in one by one. Once we pass the bouncer, my anxiety skyrockets and I start getting nervous. "You okay?", Cierra asks me. "Yeah, I think so.", I smile reassuringly. She grabs my hand and we walk into the club. There are so many people in the building and they're all extremely close together. I feel like I could catch something just by walking through the crowd of people making out and dancing really close.

Gigi and Charlie immediately run into the crowd and starts dancing, Parker and Nathan go to the bar to get us drinks, and Scott, Cierra, and I are in a corner to ourselves, dancing. I Love It by Cheat Codes & DVBBS come on and I scream. "I love this song!", I yell over the music. Parker hands me my drink, but I set it down and pull him to the dance floor. He grabs my hips and we start swaying along to the music.

I start feeling a bunch of pushing and I look over to see that there's a fight in the crowd. Parker quickly pulls me back over to our friends and away from all the chaos. The bouncer rushes to the dance floor and pulls the two guys off of each other. I'm not sure what happened, but I do know that one of them yelled, "Keep your hands off of my girlfriend." So he must have been sticking up for her.

Suddenly I'm not in the "clubbing" mood and I go to ask Parker if he wants to leave, but he must've already had the same idea because he starts pulling me to the exit. "Are you okay?", he asks when we get outside. "I'm fine! You know how anxiety goes.", I laugh. He laughs and looks down at me. "Let's go get some pizza. ", he says and starts running towards the pizza parlor across the street. "Wait, Parker, I can't run in these heels.", I yell laughing.

"Oh yeah, I have Vans for you in my car.", he tells me. "No way?", I ask him. "Yes, way. I knew you'd want these things off of you eventually.", he laughs. We walk over to his jeep and he hands me the shoes out of them. "Omg, I'm so glad you're my boyfriend.", I say. "If all I have to do is keep shoes of yours in my car for you to be glad I'm your boyfriend, that's great.", he laughs at me. "You're an idiot.", I laugh with him.

We go and get pizza, then we lay under the stars on the hood of his jeep. "This is better than being at any club.", Parker says quietly. I smile and give him a kiss on the cheek. "Hey look, a shooting star. Make a wish.", I say. "Don't need to, I already have you.", he smiles cheesily. "Wow, Parker. You're pretty cheesy, you know that?", I ask him laughing. "Nah, It's the cheese pizza I just ate.", he grins patting his stomach. "So when do I get to see you fight?", I ask curiously.

"Saturday, actually.", he says looking at me. "Maybe I'll throw the towel in during your fight.", I say sarcastically. "Not funny, Lil.", he says laughing. We both start laughing until Charlie runs over to us and tells us that Scott was beaten up. Parker and I both get up and run over to the exit of the club. "What happened?", I yelled. I look around to see Scott with a bloody nose and a skinny drunk guy with his girlfriend a few feet away with a black eye. Well, looks like I'm fighting tonight too.