Chapter 23

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I stand next to Carl drinking my fifth beer while we all chat around the pool table watching Rick, Mike playing against Darren and Alex

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I stand next to Carl drinking my fifth beer while we all chat around the pool table watching Rick, Mike playing against Darren and Alex.

The whole house is occupied with drunk teenagers grinding on one another while some song blares through the speakers.

"I wanna dance" I slur my words as I speak to Carl

"I'm not really a dancer, but you can go" he says and I nod in slight disappointment and make my way to the dance area.

I smile wide once I spot Emily and Ethan dancing, I walk over and join them.

"THIS SONG" Ethan yells as we start to dance 'the real slim shady'

Five beers and four shots later and I'm officially drunk.

After dancing with Emily and Ethan they each went off with their boyfriends while I walk around the house trying to find mine.

I spot Alex in the kitchen and decide to just give up looking for my boyfriend.

"Hey, have you seen Carl?" I ask

"Oh hey, ya he was knocked out so I took him to the room" he says as he pours himself a drink.

"Oh thanks I thought he did a magic trick and disappeared" I joke

"You want a drink?" he asks and I nod

"Ya sure"

"I have a great Idea, follow me" he says as he grabs two whole bottles of wine and walks upstairs me follow suit.

"Where are we going?" I ask as we approach a hallway and Alex pulls a lever on the ceiling and a small ladder comes down.

"Just follow me" he says as he opens the window and we enter the attic

"The Attic?"

"You ask to many questions" he says as he opens a door that's on the right side of the wall and we reach the rooftop.

"Wow the view up here is beautiful" I say as I admire the silent lake and the trees.

"Ya I really like to come up here"

"How come no one else is up here?" I ask while Alex opens a wine bottle.

"Cause no one knows that you can be up here" he drinks from the bottle and passes it to me.

"Where's Jess?" I ask

"She fell asleep while puking, so her friends wanted to take care of her, she didn't want me to see her like that I guess"

"You're her boyfriend you've seen her without makeup I'm sure it's fine"

"I haven't actually" he says while I drink from the bottle, after I drink I look at him with disbelief.

"What do you mean? Y'all have been dating for like almost six months, hell Carl has seen me without makeup and we haven't been together that long. I mean you've seen me without makeup."

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