It was finally the night of the highly anticipated beach party. Jade had been trying her best to not to get too excited, to avoid getting let down if she didn't see Rose there. Instead, she figured it was best to focus on her best friends, who really got her in the mood to party and just enjoy their night. The drinks were being passed around, but Jade didn't want to drink too much and end up forgetting a potentially great interaction with Rose and avoid saying anything embarrassing to her either.
An hour had passed by and people were still dancing, beach volleyball was still going, glow sticks were everywhere but Rose was still nowhere in sight. The more time went on, the more Jade started to feel anxious- causing her to drink more and more to calm herself down. Callie then notices a guy from high school and grabs Jade to get her close enough to hear her;
"Omg, Jesse's here!"
"And I'm supposed to care, why?", Jade replied.
"What if he still has that crush on you? You guys would be so cute together! J&J!"
"Girl, I already told you! He's sweet and all but he's not my type!"
"Screw your type! I heard he still likes you! And he would treat you so well too! I mean, isn't that good enough?"
Jade then stared at him and analyzed him for a few moments, while considering what Callie was saying. He had nice brown hair that he styled spiking up and he had brown eyes to match. He was also a gym freak so he would spend most of his time there instead of hanging out with friends because he was kind of a shy person. But he had some muscles on him and he was also pretty tall as well- but these were all things a straight girl would care about and not Jade. Jesse then ended up noticing her staring and so he smiled at her. But she got freaked out that she had been caught, so she took Callie's arm and pulled her away with her;
"What I really need is another drink! Let's go!"
Callie then rolled her eyes before they both giggled away to get some more drinks. At this point, Jade didn't care about monitoring her drinking at all and so she drank enough to actually forget about Rose and just have a great time with her friends.
The time had finally came to go to the bathroom. Jade ran off from the other partiers to go and find the rest room, before suddenly seeing a girl sitting under a far away tree, while on her phone. As she focused on the girl, she noticed her hair. And you guessed it, it was Rose. All alone. Jade couldn't even believe that she was actually right there. Still in disbelief and feeling heavy from the drinks, she reluctantly walked over to her, almost like she was in another trance. But suddenly, a guy walked out of the rest rooms from behind her and walked past her, as he made his way to Rose and leaned in to kiss her. Jade didn't want to believe what she was seeing. But she just stood there, watching them kiss each other.
"That's supposed to be me..." she said to herself.
Her heart felt like it was slowly breaking. The guy then took Rose's hand and walked her over to the parking lot. But before leaving, Rose suddenly noticed Jade standing there and staring at her. She was shocked to see her there too. But this time, when Rose stared at her back, Jade had ran away from her.
She ran until she finally found herself inside of the rest room and tried opening the bathroom door before her tears started to roll. After rushing to lock the door behind her, she sat on the toilet seat and started to cry. But this time, she was crying alone. A part of her kept wishing that Rose she would just barge in there like she did the last time but the other part of her didn't even want that anymore. She felt like she had been holding onto that one night for too long now. So she took her pride back, wiped her tears away and stomped back over to the party and made her way through a bunch of people, until she finally found who she was looking for. Jesse.
The next morning, Jade's eyes slowly opened and her head started to throb as she tried to sit up on the bed she found herself in. She then realized that she wasn't in her bedroom and that she was in her bra and underwear. She then slowly turned to her right to find Jesse laying right next to her. She then looked around the room and remembered that she was at Holly's boyfriend's house where Holly, Holly's boyfriend, Jade, Jesse and some other people from the party were crashing at- since he lived at walking distance from the beach. But what she couldn't remember was what she ended up doing with Jesse after she kissed him at the party. Theories started to flood her mind and she started to feel herself get overwhelmed. She then decided to slowly grab her beach bag and grab her outfit in her hands so that she could quickly change into them and get out of there as soon as possible. She then slowly got out of the bed, walked around the people that were still asleep and scattered on the bedroom floor, quietly opened the door & quietly closed it behind her and rushed to put her clothes back on in the hallway. But as she was putting on her shoes, the door behind her opened and she jumped a bit as she turned around to find a shirtless Jesse, rubbing his morning eyes while closing the door behind him.
"Hey, where you going?" he quietly asked, his eyes still half shut.
She then stared at him for a few seconds before bluntly asking;
"Did we have sex last night?"
Jesse then paused before answering;
"Wait, you don't remember?"
Jade then scrunched her face up in disappointment and turned around to leave in shame, before Jesse gently turned her back around to say;
"Hey, hey, hey. I was kidding."
Jade, feeling confused, asked;
"Wait, what?"
"We were both pretty drunk but I remember what happened last night and I promise we didn't have sex."
"Well then why was I in my bra and underwear when I woke up?", Jade asked, still feeling confused.
"Well after we made out at the party, we held hands back into the house and we all went to bed. But when we got in, you got on top of me and grabbed my face to kiss me. Then you tried to pull my shirt off, so I let you and I pulled yours off too. Then I pulled your pants down and you pulled mine down after. But after we made out some more, I asked you if you were sure you wanted to have sex. But you just replied with a mumble, and that's when I knew that you were gone. So I just moved you off of me and put you next to me so that I could tuck you in and let you fall asleep before you did something you regretted. I mean, I could never take advantage of you if I knew you were-"
Jade then cut the rest of his sentence off, got on her toes and kissed him. She then grabbed onto his neck and so he grabbed onto her waist as they kissed for a few moments, before she pulled away to hug him. She was surprised at how sweet he actually was. Plus, the Rose situation was obviously dead, so instead of spending the rest of her summer in misery, she figured she should just give Jesse a chance. So she then pulled away from him, but stayed close enough to look up at him and ask;
"Wanna get breakfast with me?"
Jesse then smiled down at her before answering;
"I would love that."
