One Last Chance - Z.Dempsey

NINE.

CHAPTER NINE

We walked into Bryce's hangout at the back of his garden, Monty still with his arm around me not having let me go since we left the house.

"Marcus and Zach are here, I'm sorry, I didn't know you would be coming here tonight," Bryce said before we went inside.

"It's fine, honestly. Anything is better than my house right now. Seriously, Bryce, I can't thank you enough for everything you've done for me and Monty" I said grabbing his hand.

Bryce let go of my hand to open the door.

"Hey, Bryce! You're back" I heard Zach shout from inside. The second Monty and I walked in everyone went silent. "What the fuck happened?" Zach got out of his seat to look at my face.

"Nothing, stop." I said pushing his hands away.

"This isn't nothing Natasha, Monty what happened?" He turned to his other friend.

"She obviously doesn't want to talk about it dude" Monty replied moving me onto a chair.

Bryce walked over to me with a small first aid kit starting to clean my face. "Isn't the first time I've done this" He smiled.

I laughed a little "Probably won't be the last"

"I'm sorry this happened," Bryce said putting his hand on my upper thigh.

I made eye contact with Zach who instantly walked over "Hey man, I'll do it, go get yourself a drink"

"Thanks" Bryce smiled giving Zach the kit.

What. The. Fuck. Was. That.

"You okay?" Zach asked me quietly.

"Do I look fucking okay to you?" I said annoyed. I couldn't stay annoyed for long before I started sobbing.

"Come here," He said hugging me and stroking my hair to comfort me.

...

It was a couple of days later and a few people were over at Bryce's. We were drinking and passing around a joint.

"So who wants to play poker?" Bryce asks setting the game up.

Jess instantly goes to the table dragging me along with her.

"I don't know how to play" I whine walking over.

"I'll show you, Tasha," Zach says beckoning me over. I walk over and sat on his lap hugging him.

"Keep your hands to yourself Dempsey" Monty calls over from the sofa where he was playing a random game.

We start the game off, Zach was trying to teach me but I was too drunk and high to understand so I just laughed everytime he picked up his cards. For literally no reason.

"Justin, hey!" Jess said excitedly over the phone.

I tuned out the rest of the conversation and started kissing Zach's cheek and then up his jaw. He turned to me and smirked. "What are you doing," He said quietly to me putting his hand on my hip. I look him up and down and start to lean in but were stopped by irritating noise. Oh wait, it's just my brother.

"I see you Dempsey" Monty shouted making everyone laugh.

We carry on joking about and having a good time when Justin and Alex walk in.

"Justy! Alex! 'Bout time you guys got here these cards were getting stale" Bryce said shuffling the pack "Take a seat"

"Actually I'm not staying. Me and Jess have a late-night dinner thing tonight" Justin said.