Almost Forever

Tequila

"Kaylani," Annie yelled, "Kaylani!" She yelled even louder throughout the apartment.

"Annie! Who's here? I have a bat. Hide behind the couch!" Golden brown haired, blue-eyed girl with a petite build yelled back in her british accent.

"Kaylani, my TA asked me out for drinks..." Annie said, almost shuddering at the thought. Not that Annie though he was creepy, she just had too many memories still flooding through her head. Memories of yelling and screaming. She remembered how she used to wish she never existed.

"Well, from your pale face and slouched shoulders, I am going to guess you said no?" Kaylani guessed.

"It was just weird Kaylani. Like he didn't even know me, just looked at my face and asked me out." Annie remarked, her feminist ideologies showing through from her distaste of being judged strictly off of her looks.

"Awe, love at first sight." Kaylani said sarcastically while poking her friend's sides.

"I think I just choked on my own vomit." Annie stated.

"Oh, don't be such a cynic." Kaylani laughed as Annie glared at her for not taking the issue more seriously.

"He was my TA, like, there would be an age difference and just...weirdness." Annie complained while pouring a glass of wine.

"You know, if you are going to pour that much wine into a glass, you might as well just drink it from the bottle."

"Oh, would you shut the hell up?" Annie laughs.

"Okay, that's it." Kaylani yelled.

"What?" Annie asks innocently, despite her previous,slightly bitchy, slightly comical outburst.

"Grab your purse, we are going out." Kaylani yells while walking into her own bedroom.

"Why? Can't we stay in, order pizza, and watch Thor?" Annie moans from the barstool she was sitting on.

"Nope, you are in a funk. We are going to the bars, I am going home with someone, and you are going to have fun!" Kaylani yelled, dragging a tired Annie behind her.

"Kaylani, let me change, I look like shit!" Annie complained while Kaylani dragged her out the door.

"You're cute." Kaylani laughed, her blue eyes glinting with mischief.

"Kaylani, what the hell." Annie whined.

"Today, you got asked out by an older guy, said no, and you're still insisting that you look like shit." Kaylani stated.

"What's your point?" Annie asks dumbly.

"If I were you, I wouldn't have turned him down, I would've fucked him by now, and certainly not have come home just to mope around." Kaylani deadpans.

"I am not you!" Annie whines, now being dragged down the stairs.

"No, but you would sure have more fun if you were, not to mention a lot of fun casual sex." Kaylani adds.

"Oh my goodness, Kaylani!" Annie laughs not being able to control the laughter that left her lips.

Annie always was a tad bit jealous of Kaylani. She was gutsy, and had no shits to give what others thought of her, and her occasionally lose lifestyle. Kaylani had been a relatively well-behaved child throughout high school but then let loose in college. She never shied away from telling Annie the full, unrated versions of her one night stands and the wild things she did the morning after. It got to the point where Annie was simply living vicariously through Kaylani's explorations of the multitude of men that she paraded through their apartment every other morning.

Kaylani was soon dragging Annie into the bar that was kitty corner to their flat. They walked in, and it took Kaylani less than 30 seconds to get them both five shots of tequila, each.

"You do realize, if I drink this, I am fucked?" Annie asked her smirking friend.

"No, you will still be celibate, unfortunately." Kaylani smirked, "Now, come on, drink the fuck up!"

Annie sighed and downed each shot in a matter of 30 seconds.

"Damn girl, damn." Kaylani yelled through the bar that had become strangely and suddenly packed.

"Shit, Kaylani." Annie started.

"What?" Kaylani asked.

"That's him. The TA I turned down," Annie said quietly, "Shit, he is looking over here."

"YOU. ARE. A. MORON." Kaylani yelled at the girl trying to duck behind the collar of her coat, while simultaneously slamming her hands against the table with every over exaggerated syllable. Her slender finger was pointing at the tall, slim man that was walking through the door of the bar.

"Shut up he will hear you!" Annie quietly yelled, while trying to grab her friends hands to keep them from rattling the table.

Before Kaylani could say anymore to Nadia, the tall and handsome, blonde boy walked over to the girls' table.

"Funny seeing you here." His voice rang out through the dingy bar. His voice wasn't low like the majority of men but strangely attractive

"I'm Kaylani." The blue-eyed girl winked while sticking her hand out for Weston to shake.

"I'm Weston Sheppard, but call me Wes. I was your friends substitute TA today. Although, she doesn't really pay attention in Calculus." He states.

"Well if you were my TA, I wouldn't either." Kaylani mumbled while glaring at Annie from across the table. Annie returned the glare mouthing a subtle, 'fuck you' across the table and nudging her in the shine under the table.

"Um, thank you?" Weston replies awkwardly.

"Why don't you sit down and have a drink with us?" Kaylani suggested.

"Sounds good. I'll buy you guys a drink. What are you having?" Wes asked.

"I drink a sundowner and this peach sitting next to me drinks vodka and cranberry." Kaylani informed him, still dominating the conversation to a tee.

"Well, then I will be right back." Weston announced as he walked to the bar.

"Since when do you drink sundowners ?" Annie asked confusedly.

"Don't change the subject! Look at him! He is hot with a capital 'H'!" Kaylani yells a little too loudly for Nadia's comfort.

"Dude, can you, like, chill out a little bit?" Annie asked.

"Never..." Kaylani smirked wickedly as Wes came back with the drinks.

He set them down on the table, and then slid into the booth next to Annie , who was happy for the dim lighting of the bar that hid her pink cheeks from any watchful eyes.

"So, Kaylani, where are you from?" Wes asks.

"I come from the ever so beautiful Cornwall." Kaylani says while taking a drink , "How about you? Tall, blonde, and handsome." She says, adding a wink for good measure.

"I'm from Glasgow." Wes smiled at the wild girl, who was either flirting or just messing around. Surely Annie would have mentioned that he asked her out.

"How about a round of shots!" Kaylani yelled at the bartender, who she had no doubt, slept with before.

"What do you want Kaylani?" The bartender yelled.

"Tequila, baby!" She shouted across the bar, earning glares from the other patrons gathered around.