Nice & Spice

Chapter 1

Lauren was still curling her hair when I peeped my head into her room to tell her the boys were on their way.

It was a Friday night and after a long tiring week, going out was the last thing I wanted to do. When Eli suggested on the group chat that we needed to get out and party, nobody was reluctant to stay in, except me.

Of course it took some convincing and it wasn't until Jace said that he'd cook us a fat breakfast in the morning and he'd make Eli take it down a notch with all the pestering he'd be doing lately, I typed 'fine.' and ran to start up my shower.

Now I was sat on the couch, scrolling through Instagram when the doorbell interrupted my stalk of the guy over the road (and his fiancé as I had just learnt from his posts) and before I could even lock my phone, Eli raced through the door, jumped on the sofa next to me, knee-ing me in the tit in the process.
"Fuck sake Eli! That hurt you dumbass!" I groaned to myself, regretting my choice to give in to their bullying to get me out.

Lauren came out of her room after hearing all the commotion cursing Eli for already breaking his promise to leave me alone. She did look good. My best friend was an absolute beaut and boy did Jace know it. When my eyes flicked to his, his eyes traced her curves and took in her gorgeous figure. He cleared his throat after realising he'd been staring and I looked to Liam who gave me a small shrug followed by a smirk.

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With Liam's hand on my lower back, we followed the rest of the group through the entrance to Lucky's. The music was sickening but the place was heaving with bodies as the majority of people here were barely twenty and had clearly not gotten over the whole clubbing scene yet.

I find it boring. Sure, the first few nights out are fun and all but when it becomes an every weekend thing and the same people are out every time you are— ew, get me out of there.

Not even half an hour had passed and Eli already had his hands around a girls waist and was very clearly grinding on her with no care. Jace and Lauren had tried to subtly escape to the bathroom to which everyone in a 3 mile radius noticed. This left just me and Liam. I was stood sulking against the bar and twiddling a straw between my fingers with my legs folded over one another. While Liam was scoping out the room clearly as bored as I was.

The creepy guy who had been very obviously sneaking glances my way since we'd been here, began slowly making his way over to us. I uncrossed my legs, mouthed a 'fuck' to the floor and turned to Liam, putting my signature fake smile on my face.

He knew what I was trying to do and he raised an eyebrow at me as if he didn't. In the corner of my eye, I could see Creepy dude getting dangerously closer. I let out a loud sigh and looked Liam in the eye silently begging him to please just help me out.

A familiar look came flashed over his face. I knew what it meant. It meant I was going to have to pay him back for this "favor". Why would it be such a horrific experience to act like my boyfriend for 5 minutes anyway?

With a quick eye-roll and a barely there nod, both from me, his hand slid round my waist. He pecked the side of my head and slightly leaned back to look me in the eye. Finally, as rehearsed tonnes of times when in this situation, his lips connected with my neck and my eyes fluttered shut.

This wasn't faked. His lips anywhere on my body sent heat straight to my core and as he moved towards my ear and whispered, "We're leaving early." a quiet breathy groan left my lips.

His mouth came to mine quickly, ending both of our suffering. A quiet groan escaped my throat making my mouth open very slighting but enough for Liam to add our tongues to the mix.

Breaking apart so we could both catch our breath, Liam looked over my shoulder and nodded. I quickly followed his line of sight and saw the guy walking back to his friends. I could hear loud laughing coming from his friend group, making it known to the world he had failed as I turned back around to look at Liam. His head gestured to the exit and on cue, Lauren and Jace appeared at the bar, beginning to order their drinks.

"Hey guys, I think we're gonna head out. I'm not feeling it. And we all know she isn't either." Liam nodded down at me to which I took noticeable offence to. My two 'friends' chuckled.
"Yeah that's cool. Oh- Eli already claimed the pad tonight and we" his thumb switched between himself and my best friend "-plan on getting fucked up, so leave the door unlocked would you?" Liam nodded and Jace slapped his arm.

Through their very normal exchange, Lauren and I had been trying to sort out the strap of her shoe to which she claimed had been bumming her out all night. Our very abnormal exchange which meant Lauren was bent over with one foot resting on my knee seemed to grab the attention of a few men around us and for the wrong reasons. They weren't interested in Lauren's shoe, they were just very observant of her perfect ass.

With a kiss on each cheek and telling Lauren to be safe, the four of us said our goodbyes and parted. We grabbed the attention of Eli and waved 'bye' on our way out and started the half mile walk home.

~1005 words~

Alaia

Lauren