The incident the day before had gone and past leaving nothing more than a mere memory, and now the weekend had finally arrived.
The nights young, and so are the teenagers downing drinks at the Agatsuma household on a humid Saturday night.
Aoi clutches her red solo cup tightly, half because she's not the best with alcohol and partially because she doesn't feel the slightest bit safe leaving her drink unattended with anyone within a 15 feet radius.
Normally she'd just ask Kanao to watch it for her, and she'd do the same, but the girl with a side ponytail had disappeared into the crowd of teenagers leaving her with a single explanatory text message.
"cute boy! ill be back soon!"
And with that she had vanished into the abyss with a faintly familiar burgundy haired boy and a cup that was to the brim with vodka so strong the mere smell could get you wasted. Leaving Aoi in a room full of drunk adolescent high schoolers doing things that would probably get them arrested.
She knows she shouldn't have came, but Kanao really has a way with words, and peer pressure is a magical thing. So now all she can do is hope that the rest of the night can go peacefully and she wouldn't have to regret this more than she already will.
Of course, she jinxes it.
Because in the crowd filled with glitz, glam, and alcohol, she sees him. And not only is the boy so obviously intoxicated, it's Inosuke Hashibara. The bruise she left on him is bluntly obvious, but he wears it proudly. Later she'd find out he'd been telling people "You should see the other guy".
"Holy fuck--! It's you, the bitchhhh-- I mean, class prez.." He slurs, half-crashing into the counter she's leaning on.
"We have GOT to stop meeting like this." She sighs, turning to the completely wasted boy who's world is spinning like a carousel.
"LIKE WHAT?" He screams over the music, half laughing. The alcohol sways in his cup, and he twirls it around before downing half the cup.
"Woah, you're drunk."
"Am not!" He laughs, shouting and whooping to the loud song that's blaring in the background.
Everything's loud and giving Aoi a headache, so she takes his hand and leads him to a nearby bathroom. Shutting the door, she locks in and sets him down against the wall before emptying her cup in the sink and replacing it with water.
She crouches beside him and hands him the cup, which at first he pushes away, but after insisting that it's actually 90% vodka, he downs it.
"We first meet when I caught you stealing snacks from the storage room, and now completely wasted at a party? I'm almost scared for the next time around."
Her words dance one ear and out the other, and before he can even form a coherent sentence he's vomiting into the nearby toilet.
Aoi sighs, taking one of her bright blue hairpins from her pigtails and ties his shoulder length hair out of his face with it. She can't help but smirk at the pathetic ponytail.
Once he's done throwing up, he turns to her with a confused look.
"Aren't you supposed to be making some medicine or somethinggg?"
She cocks an eyebrow, hands on her hips as she looks down at him. "The hell are you talking about? I'm no pharmacist. I can't do anything of the sort."
He throws his head back in a laugh. "HAH! What does Gompachiro call it, deja vu? That must be ittt--!"
"Pfft. I've heard that deja vu is remembrance from your past life. And believe me, if I knew somebody like you in my past life, no wonder I died."
"Whateverrr. I just feeeel like I've heard you say that before- "I can't do anything~". He imitates her voice with a high-pitched tone, and even though he's teasing her, she can't help but laugh.
"Who did you come here with? I don't want to take you home and have to explain to your parents how you got super drunk at a highschool party."
"Heh-- I don't have parents. I'm here with Motitzuuuu!"
"Agatsuma? Seriously?" Aoi ask, eyes wide with surprise. She didn't expect him to hang out with the likes of him, but after thinking for a moment she realizes they're both equally as weird. So in a way, it makes sense.
A chime rings on her phone, and the notification happens to be from Kanao.
"he's gona take me home, want ride?"
She snorts at the barely comprehensible message, and looks at the half concious drunk boy on the ground before texting back.
"wait outside, i'll be there in sec."
Quickly she writes her phone number down onto a nearby piece of toliet paper, with the note "Text this number if you aren't dead in the morning", and slips it into his t-shirt pocket despite his resistance before exiting the bathroom and making her way through the crowd.
She completely forgets about her hair ornament, leaving her with one pigtail and the other side down, which definetly gains her some strange looks on the way out to the car. She recognizes a familiar ponytail by a run down black car and walks over to her.
Aoi observes the boy in the drivers seat, who's for the most part sober, or at least enough to drive. He fastens Kanao into the passenger seatbelt with Aoi's help, and she learns that the boy's name is Tanjiro, and he's also the boy in question from earlier.
"Thank you for looking out for her."
"No problem! It's common courtesy right?"
She can still hear the loud music and conversations from the house as the car pulls away, and Tanjiro turns up the radio to drown out the sound of it. And as Aoi dozes off in the backseat, all she can think about is deja vu, and what her life before this one could was been.
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i just thought i'd clarify that they are all 17/18 in this story! i'm trying to depict the more accurate parts of highschool and show that it's not as glitter and rainbows as it seems ❤️ i'm pretty proud of this chapter, so thank you for reading!
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