I Should've Listened

Chapter Four

Friday couldn't have come fast enough. It's not like I had a rough week or anything. Unless you took in to account the number of texts I got from Ben. I loved him, but he really needed to learn to let go.

Even Drew had gotten it into his head that letting me live a little was beneficial to me. Too bad his identical twin brother hadn't realized that yet. I was trying to be optimistic in thinking that eventually Ben would ease up a little bit, but I knew deep down that he wouldn't. He was the oldest of the three of us, what with being older than Drew by only five minutes.

So, he always felt responsible for us when our parents were working hard to keep a roof above our heads and food in the house. It's not like we weren't well off, but we weren't rich either. My family got by just fine and Ben helped out as much as he could which made him overbearing as I got older.

Again, I'm grateful for him, but more than once this entire week he had made me want to pull my hair out. He was constantly checking how my classes went and telling me if I needed anything to let him or Drew know. No matter how many times I said "I'm fine" and "Everything is good" he still asked the same questions. This is why I couldn't wait to let loose tonight.

"So, you guys wanna hang out tonight?" Grey asked as we were walking out of class.

Erica and I had been spending a lot of time getting to know Hunter and Grey this week. We ended up exchanging phone numbers with them and have been friends ever since. It's safe to say that whenever Grey would text me, I would get excited every. Single. Time.

Yes, if you hadn't guessed it by now, I had a little bit of a crush on Grey. I mean how could I not? His tanned skin complemented his black hair and blue eyes so well. I wasn't sure if he felt the same though. The wink he had given me when I first laid my eyes on him has ever since been ingrained in my brain, but other than that there weren't any other telltale signs.

"Actually, Cassie and I are having a girl's night with some of the girls who live in our building," Erica replied.

We had stopped walking and stood right outside of Grey's biology class.

Hunter held up his hands in mock surrender. "Oh well excuse us. We wouldn't want to interfere with girl's night."

I gave him a knowing look that said I was messing with him. "You're right you wouldn't."

"Fine," Grey said putting his arm around Hunter's shoulders, "we'll just have a guy's night then. No girls allowed."

I rolled my eyes and smiled. "Whatever you guys need to do to entertain yourselves," I said.

"Well boys as much as we'd love to continue this conversation, we need to go pick out our outfits for tonight," Erica said looping her arm with mine and turning me in the direction of the building's exit.

Hunter raised an eyebrow. "It's not even 1 o'clock yet and you guys are getting ready now? That makes no sense."

Erica turned her head to look over her shoulder at him. "It's a girl thing it doesn't have to make sense to you." I noticed her wink at him when she said that. "Bye boys!"

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When we showed up to the club it wasn't what I had expected. It was about twenty minutes away from our school and right smack dab in the middle of town. The word Fiction was plastered in green neon letters on the front of the tall brick building. I thought it was an interesting name for a nightclub, but I wonder how they came up with it.

Since Erica and I didn't have cars of our own, we had carpooled with Dana, the girl from Erica's philosophy class. Not that our parents couldn't afford cars for us. It's that neither of our parents trusted Erica and I on campus with a car which is completely unfair on their part. I didn't care what my mom said, I was a great driver.