Becoming Hers

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*LEXI'S POV*
Even after everyone had started to go to sleep or pass out in some cases, I was still wide awake. Don't get me wrong, I was fucking exhausted, but I just couldn't sleep. No matter how tight I clenched my eyes shut I couldn't get myself to fall asleep. My position continuously changed and I still hadn't managed to find a comfortable way of lying. It didn't take long before I gave up trying, I shifted off the bed and stood up, carefully moving Dani's legs aside so I could get up properly without waking her. She stirred a little from my contact but she didn't wake.

I'd only just noticed how cold it was, so I picked up a blanket from the floor, it must have fallen off earlier that night. I placed it on the bed, making sure it reached over Ember as well as Dani, then grabbed the other blanket for myself. I put it around me and I waddled out of the room like a penguin burrito. I held my breath until I reached the door, feeling like I couldn't even breathe otherwise I'd have woken them up. My tiptoes were silent as I exited the room. I knew my phone was downstairs somewhere but I couldn't remember where I had last saw it so I guess I was going on a hunt for my phone.

I steadied myself at the top of the stairs as I suddenly acknowledged the intense headache I had developed. My hands gripped hold of the banister as I took a second to readjust my breathing and collect my balance.

As I carried myself down the stairs, I slowly took in my surroundings of the red plastic cups and tiny shot glasses that were located all around the house, cluttering alongside pizza boxes and empty alcohol bottles-rum, vodka, beer, cider and a few wine bottles. It surprised me a little how much of a mess we'd left it downstairs, although, if it was spotless, not a single glass bottle in sight, I would have been utterly shocked. It's not a party without a little bit of mess.

Finley didn't turn up which was a bit weird because we gave her clear details of when it was. I guess she didn't want to be around Trin and especially not at her house. Ever since they broke off the relationship she became kind of strange, she started distancing herself from the rest of us and wouldn't meet up with us whenever we'd play basketball.

Even though Kate and Audrey were on the team for a little while, they weren't invited, and it was pretty clear that they wouldn't have came anyway.

I hadn't really seen Trin for a few hours, not since I started playing beer pong with Casey, Stella and Bobbie. It was actually fun to hang out with the three of them, whenever we used to train together I never really got to know them as well as everyone else, I guess I had other stuff going on. Trin's disappearance was strange, because the party was at her house and she didn't seem to be around much of the night. I was about to shrug it off and climb over Quinn, who was passed out at the bottom of the stairs, but then I realised I hadn't really seen Harley much either. Were they together?

In my head I attempted to order the few things I could remember, like always it didn't go very well. Beer pong that turned into Vodka pong not long after starting, attempting to comfort Bobbie whilst she cried about a guy from Cuckfield, Ember admitting to me that she has feelings for Caleb. Wait. Ember? Caleb? Ember has feelings for caleb! When did that happen? I guess I'd have to talk to her about that.

I had a beer chugging competition with Stella, I won, but she was very close behind which amazed me. Just thinking of the amount of alcohol I'd consumed made my stomach churn and my hands sweat. I fast walked to the toilet, not wanting to miss and throw up on the carpet. I couldn't afford to buy a new one for Trin's parents.

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"Are you alright bro?" Quinn emerged behind me, I hadn't noticed her until I peered in the mirror next to the toilet. I must have been sat there for at least an hour, but maybe it was only a few minutes, time was a weird concept when you're drunk.