This is Us

Chapter 2-Garrick

"That calls for a celebration," says Carlos, stowing away his suitcase under his bed where it will stay for a while.

For the first time in forever (there'll be music, there'll be lights- JK, I'm not Anna. Or was that Elsa? Whatever.), we were able to unpack everything the first day here.

"What should we do? Call up the girls, invite them over?" suggested Denny.

"I'm thinking a little bigger than that," said Trevor, looking mischevious. I don't know how to feel about this. "Let's go to a night club." I still don't know how to feel about this.

Jonny spit his water out. "A FIGHT CLUB?"

"No, Jonny, Trevor said a night club." Jhaysen said, rolling his eyes.

"Why not?" Carlos spoke quickly, headed towards the door.

"Hold up, how are we going to get into a night club?"

"First of all, how are we going to get out of the school?" asked Jonny. Security was tight now, since last the senior prank involved driving the principal's car into the lake. If you ask me, it was kind of worth extra security measures.

"Let's blow up the school or build some monster robot to knock it down like BOOM!" suggested Arash.

"OR," said Jhaysen, "We could just use the roof access stairs and that ladder thing down the side of the school."

"Yeah, and I can use those fake IDs I got us to get into the night club." Trevor said, earning a lot of puzzled looks. "Don't even ask."

I'm not even gonna say how it was getting out of the school and into the night club. I'm just gonna say that if you're underage and looking to get into a night club, you might wanna bring some Pokemon cards to bribe the bouncer with when he doesn't buy your fake ID (like Arash).

"Wow, this is exactly like I pictured a night club would be like," I said, taking in the bright neon lights, the crowd of people on the dance floor, and the booming music provided by the DJ who was front and center.

"Well, don't just stand there and look at it," said Carlos. "Live in it!" And with that, he took off, shouting out the lyrics to a completely irrelevant song as he went.

Trevor didn't even say anything as he disappeared into the crowd of people. "Wait up!" said Jonny as he and Jhaysen stuggled to catch up. Denny was already at the bar with Arash, and they were just looking around. They never were much party animals, at leat not at first. I took a deep breath before plunging into the crowd.

The first thing I saw- and kind of felt too if I'm being honest- was a lot of jumping and grinding. The next was the vibrations caused by the loud music. And after that, Carlos.

He appeared to be in "a jiffy". A girl was trying really hard to grind on him. Upon seeing this, I was horrified and then could not stop laughing. He noticed me and his eyes were pleading "HELP" which just made me laugh harder. It didn't take too long for me to actually pull him away in the direction of the bar, but let's just say that girl officially believes all the hot guys are gay.

Denny and Arash noticed and walked over to us. "What happened?" asked Denny.

Carlos glared at me as he replied, "I was being molested by a hideous girl." Denny put on an empathatic (disgusted) expression while Arash just chuckled. "I strongly suggest you don't go in there."

Denny took a curious look at the bustling crowd on the dance floor before asking, "What now?"

Jonny and Jhaysen appeared out of no where, and Jonny just screamed, "LET'S DO SOME SHOTS!" answering the question he never heard.

"Oh god no," mumbled Jhaysen. Meanwhile, the bartender brought us our drinks with a wink.

"I think the bartender has the hots for me," Jonny said with a smirk.

"Uh, that was obviously for me, man," Denny replied.

"Guys, I think it was meant for me..." Carlos intervened.

"Bro she's been giving me clues all night, she like LOVES me," Arash says.

"Not that I would ever betray Emily, but the bartender wants to get with me," said Jhaysen matter-of-factly.

I just shook my head and downed my drink. She wasn't even that cute, although we all knew she was actually winking at me.

Long story short, we spent most of the night like that. To be honest, getting to the night club was most of the fun. The only other somewhat interesting thing that happened was when Denny walked onto the dance floor and came out looking pretty scared. "Butts," was the only thing he said. No one asked for a further explanation.

The next morning, we had a hell of a hangover and were incapable of attending any classes until 4th period. Also, Trevor ended up with a really hot girl in his bed. Don't ask me how, because I don't know.

"Let's not do that again," said Jhaysen before throwing up in the toilet for what seemed like the millionth time.