New Boy [Daniel Seavey]

five

I finished my last first week of high school. Thank god. But now I'm forced to third wheel to a party with Bailey and Daniel. Oh yeah, my best friend and Daniel got together. And she even made a group chat with all three of us.

"Do you think this is cute?" Bailey asks me for the hundredth time in the last hour.

"Yes Bailey it is along with the other ninety-nine outfits you tried on and looked amazing in." 

She shakes her head, "I don't get how you do this so easy."

"Do what so easy?"

"Find the perfect outfit for parties." 

"All I do is wear a dress with vans."

"But I could never pull that off." Bailey whines.

I shake my head, "do you want me to pick out your outfit?" I ask.

She looks at me and smiles, "would you mind? Daniel's going to be here in a half hour."

"Just go with your short blue jean skirt and that cute white tube top and your nude sandals."

"Oh my god, that's such a cute outfit. What the hell. How do you do that so easy?" 

I shrug as Bailey throws more clothes on to her floor. "It just comes natural, I guess." Bailey now has the outfit on and it looks perfect. "Yup gorgeous." 

"You have a talent I swear to god." Bailey says turning around looking at me with a big smile on her face. 

from New Boy: I'm here

"Daniel's here lets go." I say to Bailey.

"Oh my god, I'm not ready for this."

She's going to be fine. She's already gone out with Daniel once this week and she actually went alone with him. "God Bailey you'll be fine lets go."

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We've been at the party for about a half hour and I've already had a good four beers. I've been dancing with random people that I know, I'm in mid dance and I hear someone yell, "Ashlyn!" I turn around and see that Thomas shouted my name, so I walk over to him getting ready to play beer pong.

"What do you want Thomas?" 

He puts his arm over my shoulders, he's a little tipsy, "I need a beer pong partner. Wanna play?" 

I don't know where Bailey is. I don't know where Daniel is. So sure why not. I smirk, "hell yeah lets play."

"You heard the girl lets play!"

Me and Thomas are going against our friends Will and Chance. Rumor has it that Chance is horrible at beer pong so this shouldn't be too hard.

"Who goes first?" I ask. 

"We flip for it here." Thomas replies.

"Heads or tails?" Will asks.

"Heads." Thomas answers.

"Heads. You guys wanna shoot first?" 

I smile, "hell yeah. Hand me the balls." Thomas hands me two ping pong balls and I take my time aiming the first one. It lands in the front cup. The people around us start clapping. I aim my second ball and make it in a cup in the second row. Another round of claps happen as Will and Chance chug the beer in the two cups.

"Hey go easy on us." Chance says before laughing.

"In your dreams baby." I reply.

"Don't get cocky yet. The game just started." Will says.

After about ten minutes me and Thomas have only one cup to make, while Chance and Will have three. I can say that I've drank more in this game than Thomas has. "Your shot." Thomas says handing me a ping pong ball.

"I can barely stand and you want me to throw this ball into a cup on the opposite side of the table?" I ask.

"That's exactly what I want you to do." Thomas whispers in my ear.

"Okay." And with that I'm aiming the ping pong ball at the last cup. Everyone goes silent as the ball bounces off the table and then it lands in the cup. A loud roar of applause happens. 

"Hey I think I'm going to go find a bathroom. Is there one that won't have a line?" I ask Thomas since we're at his house he would know.

"Yeah upstairs, take a left down the hall. Second door to your right is my room, there's a bathroom in there."

"Thanks." I walk up the stairs, slowly, but surely. Then I find my way to Thomas' room. I open his bedroom door. Then I see it. Daniel and Bailey. Fucking at a party. How classy. They both look at me. Bailey looks mortified.

"Ashlyn get the hell out." Daniel shouts.

 I close the bedroom door and walk right back down the stairs and out the front door. I grab my phone out of my pocket and call my mom. "Hey mom can you come get me from Thomas Meron's house?" 

"Yeah I'll be there in five." 

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