best friends [ m.e. ]

One

"Merry Christmas Jess," Matt says as he walks in,

"Merry Christmas Matt," I say.

"We're opening our gifts in my room mom!" I yell over the crowd of people now in my home.

"Okay, I'll call you down for dinner," She yells back

Matt and I go up to my room and we set our gifts on my bed.

Every year Matt and his family come over my house, along with my family, and he brings the gifts he got over to my house. I don't open mine until he gets here because we open them together, and then after we open the ones we got from our family we open the ones we got for each other.

"You first Matt," I say bouncing on my bed.

He shrugs, opens each gift, and sort of tosses them to the side. I open my gifts, and I get every thing that I wanted.

I hand Matt his gift and he hands me mine. I open mine, and its a necklace with a heart on it. On the front it has a J for Jess and on the back it has a little quote that reads 'You're my best friend, in the end you're the only one that I need.'

"Oh my, Matt. It's beautiful. Thank you." I say and lean over to hug him.

"It's not a big deal, really." He says and hugs me. I notice how his hug is loose and not as sympathetic as it usually is.

He opens his, I got him a new watch.

"Thanks," He says.

He turns around and sits on the edge of my bed, facing the wall.

"Matt?" I say

"What." He says, not turning around.

"What's wrong?" I say. I crawl to where he is and put my head on his shoulder. I wrap my arms around his torso. He puts his hand on my arm.

"My grandpa died yesterday," He says.

"Matt.. I'm so sorry." I say.

His grandfather was the sweetest person you would ever meet. Matt and his grandpa were really close, he was the only father figure that he had in his life since he was two.

"It's fine. I'm sorry for not putting much effort in to talk to you right now. I'm just not in the best mood," He says

"It's fine Matt, I know how close you guys were," I place my hand on his stomach under his shirt.

"Can you get me a glass of water please?" He asks

"Sure," I walk out of my room and I go into the kitchen.

I grab a glass out of the cabinet, and I pour him a glass of water. I go back upstairs and he is sitting in the same exact spot, except this time his face is stained with tears.

I hand him the glass of water and I wipe the tears from his eyes. He gulps down the water and pulls me onto his lap.

He buries his head into my chest and sobs, "It won't be the same without him,"

Usually it's me in this situation, not with the death and all, but when I'm crying. I'm usually the one with my head buried in his chest.

"I know Matt, I know." I say.

"Hey, how about this. We can go downstairs and get some liquor downstairs and just have fun. We have a party room down the hall, and the all of the adults are downstairs. We can gather some alcohol an invite a bunch of people from school over." I say

"Sounds good, I'll invite my contact list and you invite yours," He says

I nod and we get our phones out. I call everyone in my contact list and he calls everyone in his. I go downstairs and push through my mom and dad's guests. I tell my mom that we invited people over, and a few hours later everyone arrives.

The party room is soon filled with drinking, smoking, dancing teens.

Later that night, Matt and I are completly wasted. Matt is with his group of friends and I'm dancing by myself.

Touchin' Lovin by Trey Songz comes on and I start moving my hips to the music and swinging my head to the beat. I feel a pair of all too familiar hands on my hips.. Matt. Being in the drunken state that I am, I grind my hips into him. I feel him getting harder each time I grind into him. He spins me around and smashes his lips onto mine, hungrily.

"Matt, come on. You're with me now," Vanessa pulls him away from the kiss and takes him to the hot tub on the balcony.

Vanessa and Matt have a long history, and by history I don't mean a history of friendship, I mean a history of sex.

I walk to the hot tub and try to get to Matt. With Vanessa being the stupid bitch that she is, she sees me and kisses Matt. I spin around and go towards Lilliana. Bryn couldn't come today because her parents wouldn't let

"I hate her soooo much!" I say as I approach Lilliana

"Who?" She says.

"Vanessa. She does it just to piss me off! She knows she can have him whenever she wants and she does it just to spite me! I could... I could... I could punch a pillow! That's how angry I am!"

I'm the type of person to yell out of anger but I would never fight someone unless there was a legit reason.

"Okay, calm down. Want me to go over there and get Matt for you?" Liliana asks.

I nod and she goes to the hot tub. I can see the hot tub from where I am, and when Liliana gets over there Vanessa kisses Matt again. This time Matt pushes her off of him and gets off of the side of the hot tub. Liliana brings him over to me and he hugs me.

"What's wrong baby?" He asks.

I know that it's only the alcohol that he's consumed that is making him say that.

"Her, Vanessa." I say

"Hey, no one likes her anyways. Why'd you invite her?" He says

"I didn't. I.. I thought you did." I say

"No, I haven't talked to her since the summer," He says.

"Oh, you can go back over there," I say

"Why would I do that? It's Christmas and I came over to be with you. I don't want to be with her anyways," He looks around as if he cares that someone will hear what he is about to say,"Between me and you, she's a slut,"

"Oh, I know." I say laughing.

"Wait, if she wasn't invited by me or you, then we can kick her out. This is an invite only party," He says.

I'm not sure if he is only saying these things about her because he's drunk or if he actually means them.

"Okay, I'll tell her to leave, but I need you to stay here," I say

"Okay," He says and sits down next to Liliana.

I walk over to Vanessa and she looks at me.

"What do you want?" She spits.

"First of all, this is my house so you can't talk to me like that, and second of all you can leave, no one invited you," I say