Believe In Us

3

"You left this" he rolls his eyes and holds out my books. I look him in the eyes as I slowly take the books. "I'm not as bad as you think" he winks and walks away. There's something about this boy that's intriguing to me.

I chuck my books on the counter and look at my phone as it vibrates. I get a text from Mia saying there's a party tonight for first day of Uni. After a few comments back and forth we decide to get ready here and go tonight. I don't know if this is a good idea, I mean it's a party in the woods. It's like out of a movie and someone gets murdered. Let's just hope it isn't me.

By the time 3 o'clock come around a knock rings through my flat. I groan as I stand up and answer the door. At my door stand a very excited Mia with a bag on her back and professional looking box with she shoves in my hands as soon as I open the door. She walks in and looks at me. "Well come on!?" She says firmly. "What?" I ask confusion hitting me like a bus. She sighs holding her hand on her hips "go shower while I curl my hair, then I will do your hair and makeup" she orders. I stand for a minute before she claps her hands and points.

I hold my hands up while walking to the bathroom. I get in the shower and start to shave and wash my hair and body. I quickly jump out and wrap a towel around my body and one around my hair to stop it dripping. I walk out and see that Mia is halfway through her makeup. I sit down and start to dry and straighten my hair, about half an hour later my hair is straight and Mia helps with my makeup as she's done. By the time We are done our hair and makeup it's 4:30 and we are trying to pick outfits.

Mia picks black ripped jeans with a blue boob tube. I end up picking a black skirt with Lacey tights and a black boob tube. I match my outfit with some boots and hoops for ear rings. To me accessories are everything, they make an outfit look complete. I grab my purse and keys and switch off all the lights and lock the door once we get out. As we leave I quickly glance over at Grayson's flat, maybe hoping to see him.

We get into Mias car and she drives to a little shop so we can get some booze for tonight. For some reason I have Caleb on my mind so while Mias in the store I text him just saying that I was going to a party. A few minutes later Mia slides into the car with a bag with 3 bottles. As we head there she starts chatting about Grayson.

"So what's the deal with you and Grayson?" She asks keeping her eyes on the road. "Nothing" I say rolling my eyes. "Sure, Mmh, okay" she says giggling. I laugh and shake my head. We arrive at a car pick that looks to be in a field with trees surrounding. We both bop out and start walking with our bag of drink. After 10 minutes of walking we come across a big crowd of people. People was trying to light a fire in the middle. It looked quite cosy.

Me and Mia take a seat on one of the think wood planks that lay on the ground. We pull out our drink and she pours into a cup while I just drink from the bottle. I take my first swig and feel the burning go from my tongue to my throat and I cough a little. She laughs at me and her eyes catch something or someone else. She smiles and pulls me up and brings me toward a group of boys.

"Issy, this is Brodie, my boyfriend" she smiles while kissing him on cheek. "Hi" I smile while he returns. Brandon was tall  and blonde haired, him and Mia looked like a good match, they just looked good together. "Hi I'm Alec, a boy that was about the same height as Brandon grins. "Isabelle" I smile. I take another swig of my vodka and look around at everyone. "Isabelle let's go dance" she giggles. Maybe drunk? I laugh as she drags me and start dancing while taking swigs out my bottle. Before I know it I'm half way through the bottle and stumbling while dancing.

I feel 2 hands grab my hips and I sway my hips. I'm too drunk to care who's dancing with me at this point and laugh while my arms are up still hanging onto my bottle. "I like drunk you better" I hear a deep chuckle. I turn round to see Grayson. I quickly push him away and stumble a bit. "Woah sorry princess" he holds his hand up. I groan feeling too drunk to deal with him and end up walking away.

I stumble my way around and end up running into Laurence. "Isabelle? Hey! Are you okay?" He asks as I wrap my arm around him feeling giddy. "I don't know? Am I?" I giggle. "Your drunk" he laughs. "Mm tell me something I don't know, have some" I hold my bottle. He shakes his head and takes a sip and scrunches his nose up. I laugh and take it and drink a mouthful. I look around and Mia is no where to be seen. "Did you come alone?" He asks. "No I came with a friend but i can't find her" I laugh and roll my eyes. Laurence introduces me to some of his friends. His friends are totally different from him. He seems more innocent and responsible, but that's a good thing.

I groan as I feel nauseous and everything starts spinning around me. "Laurence, I.. I don't feel good" I say clutching onto his shirt. He supports me with his other arm. "Let's get you to a seat" he chuckles. I start to cry slightly and Laurence stops dead " don't cry! Why are you crying?" He asks wiping my tears away. Before I could answer I feel my back hitting the ground as something hard his us.

My heads spinning and by the time I come back to realisation, I see Grayson on top of Laurence. What the hell! I rush to my feet feeling a bit sober and try to stop Grayson from hurting Laurence. "Grayson! Stop it! STOP!" I scream. As I scream one more time he looks At me and looks back at Laurence getting off him. He walks over to me and looks me up and down with worry filled in his eyes. "Did he hurt you?" He whispers his hands on my face. I swat him away and step back. "What do you mean?! He was helping me Grayson!" I say walking past him and helping Laurence up. Laurences lip was cut and his nose had a little blood.

"I thought he was hurting you! You were crying!" He says his teeth clenched. I ignore him and ask Laurence if he's okay with he nods and walks off. Shit. I look around and see Grayson is gone. Double shit. Mia comes up and asks if I'm okay with I nod and ask if we can go home. She's nods her head and leads me away while grabbing Brandon on the way which I'm guessing who's driving since Mia was drinking.

The ride home was silent but it was a comfortable one. I thank them both for tonight and driving me home and walk up to my flat. As I reach my door I stand still while looking over at Grayson's door. I walk over and knock. A few seconds later he opens the door with a sour face.

"What?" He sighs. "I'm sorry for being mad, I know you were just trying to help" I smile a bit. "It's fine, I'm sorry for hurting your friend" he says. I nod my head and start to walk away. "Your not a bad dancer by the way" I grin and take a glance to see him smiling. A true genuine smile. It made my night. He closes his door and I open mine. Feeling too exhausted from tonight's events I end up passing out onto my sofa with all my clothes and makeup still on.

Authors note
I feel like not a lot of people are reading my story which is quite sad and advice would be much appreciated, thanks for reading again x