Story of my Life

Liqour isn't a girls best Friend

Kai and Layla were riding in the front, Tia, Seven and I were in the back. Seven rested his arm on my shoulder and Tia just smiled the whole time. We all were joking and having fun with each other, but that didn't stop the nagging feeling I got whenever I looked up at Layla.

"She said it was okay, so I shouldn't feel bad. Maybe it's cause the day before she punched me in the face because she thought we were sleeping with each other. She apologized after I explained what happened that night. So you know what I shouldn't feel bad!.............Right?"

My smile dimmed and Layla was the only one who noticed it, she tapped my knee and mouthed "It's okay!" Then smiled brightly. It felt good to have her reassure me, but it also felt kinda forced.

"I didn't want to break up what they had built since freshman year. That's fucked up." I kept faking my smile and laughed at the jokes that Seven and Kai shared with us.

We slowly pulled up to Alec's house and realized how packed it was. There were people outside and inside listening to music, smoking, drinking and just blatantly having a good time. We parked with the huddled masses of cars out front and stepped out.

Kai, Layla, and Tia all went ahead to meet up with Alec.

Seven lightly grabbed my arm signaling for me to wait for a minute. So we stood there for a moment staring at Alec's house.
I remembering that I was supposed to come to see if that boy from my childhood still lived here. Seven and Tia told me the only people who lived in this house is Alec's family, but I just wanted to make sure.

Seven could see how much I was thinking about it and wanted to help me stop it, he gently pressed his lip against mine and I jumped from the sudden action. "What are you doing." I laughed.

"You were thinking to hard and I wanted to bring you back outta your head." He bit his bottom lip and let his gaze flick from my lips to my eyes. I smiled at him earning myself another kiss. His lips were soft and this kiss felt more meaningful. When we pulled apart he smile and intertwined our fingers. He wanted to make a statement.

We got to the door and he stopped to let me walk in first. As I walked in he put his hands on my hips and followed me close. The looks that some of the people gave were nice but the others made me feel self conscious.

When I noticed how many had started whispering about me everything closed in fast and it became hard to breath. Seven moved around me, and led me to the back patio. He grabbed a couple cups and poured some cherry juice, lemonade and vodka into them.

                 "Hey, look at me!" He said taking a small sip from his drink. I hesitated briefly before I looked up at him and could feel my best pounding. "Don't let them take you out of your space! Ninety percent of them don't know you, and don't go to our school it's fine." He kissed me again as if to give me life, and I could almost feel it working.

We sipped on our cups for a bit before we went back in, the house had gone damn near pitch black except for the black lights and rave lights they had going all around the house.

The whole group met up in the kitchen and put different symbols on each other so that we could recognize our group in the dark. Then we all went different ways again. Layla and Kai went towards the stairs, Tia and Alec went to the back patio and Seven lead me to the living room where the music was strongest.

We drank and danced together occasionally dancing with other people, but someone always found ourselves back together. We would occasionally stop and get more alcohol when our cups got empty but we would go right back to the same place. I was 3 cups deep and started to get a bit of tunnel vision. I looked for Seven's little diamond symbol and when I saw it was going into the kitchen with someone. I started to follow them.

I made my way to the kitchen doorway, but was stopped by a tight grip on my arm. The strong and cautious hands spun me around and when I looked into those deep hazelnut eyes, my breath hitched.

He led me closer to him and held me against himself grinding his hips to the music. I pushed some space between us and tried to walk away hoping to find one of my friends, but he pulled me in a different direction. Andy stumbled around the house with my wrist in a  lock, eventually dragging me upstairs.

I started to feel nervous and didn't fight back when he walked me into an empty room. "I don't feel good." I said quietly.

He looked at me and half smiled, but it didn't look right this time. He pointed to the bathroom door inside the room and I slowly made my way towards the door, but stopped when I saw the picture of the little boy who I saved way back before the move.

                 "Who is this?" I asked lightly.

Andrew pointed to one of the other photos drunkenly and when he stood up I instantly went into the bathroom and closed the door.

I pulled my phone out and quickly texted Tia, letting her know I locked myself in the bathroom, in Alec's room. When I finished sending the text I turned on the water and slashed cold water in my face, to try and sober myself up. It worked a little and I was glad for that, but when I opened the bathroom door to leave Andy pushed me back in and closed the door.

                 "I forgot to tell you how good you look tonight." He said drunkenly. He looked at me for a minute taking in my entire outfit, then when he was done looking he moved closer to me. We were at an almost kissable distance, when the butterflies became too much.  I pushed him back and slapped him, but he laughed lightly then pinned my arm against the wall.

He rested his free hand on my hip and his head against my weak shoulder slowly taking deep breaths. We stood just listening to another breathe and when he turned his head and looked at me, something felt different. I could see it in his eyes, and felt a bit uneasy, his grip tightened on my wrist and a small groan escaped my lips.

                   "Andrew, your hurting me." I whispered hoping he would hear it and let go. I put my free hand on his shoulder and started to push him away, but his body felt like it was bolted there. He slid his head closer to mine and started kissing my neck.

                  "Why didn't you answer my texts. I've been trying to talk to you, but I guess I resort fucked up." He didn't even give me a chance to respond he just started rambling. "I like you alot, but you probably think that these feelings haven't been hurting me? Huh?" He whispered the words into my neck, and continued to kiss that spot.

                  "Andy stop! You're really hurting me." My eyes started to sting from the tears that were forming. "Please, I'll answer your text I promise." I said desperately.

He pulled his head away from my neck and looked deep into my blue eyes. "What happened? I thought....." He slammed my arm against the wall and I shrieked in pain. "I thought you liked me." His free hand grabbed my pants and tugged them down a little.

He let go of my wrist but was still standing close. "Pull em down. Show me that you're a boy." He slurred still pulling my pants down. He sniffled as small tears rolled down his face.

I desperately shook my head no, and tried to massage my throbbing wrist. "I can't do that! I'm sorry!" I stepped towards the door and he followed me. "Andy seriously! I promise I won't tell anyone about this but you need to sober up." I walked out and headed for the door, but it swung open so abruptly that it startled both of us.

                  "What did you do?" Seven asked angrily before charging towards Andy. I stepped in front of him and lightly pressed my hands to his chest. "Did he hurt you? What did you do?" He asked again. I pushed Sev back stopping him from trying to attack Andy.

                   "Hey, it's alright. I'm fine." I looked back at Andy and watched as the tears rolled down his face harder than before. "He saw me going around in circles looking for you. I got dizzy and needed to throw up he brought me here. I got a little scared without you guys but it's fine." I pushed him out the door way, closing the door behind me. As we went back downstairs Seven kept looking at me with concerned eyes.

It didn't take long to find everyone else, once I let them know I was uncomfortable we all left to get some food.