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Chapter 24 : Alter Ego

~Sandra

We stop beside a large house. I can feel the upbeat music shake the ground, I can see the teenagers squealing and running around the backyard and the windows shows bodies moving together under the neon light.

Lucas pulls the keys before he exits out the car, but I take one last look at myself on my phone. I pull the strands of hair over my shoulder to somewhat appealing even though Lucas said I look fine, what does fine even mean ? I don't even have a time dwell on my question when Lucas startles me by knocking on the window; He taps on wrist as if I'm wasting time. I sigh and open the door. I'm immediately meet the cold wind that tempts me to go back to the car, but Lucas closes the passenger door as I let it go.

"Promising", He states unexpectedly.

"What is ?", I ask, my breathe is vaporizing in the cold air making question on why I didn't bring a jacket.

"The party", He stuffs his hands in his pockets, "Hopefully I can grasp me a hot chick to grind on the dance floor"

My heart clenches painfully but I chuckle it off, "Good luck with that",

His words linger longer in my head,  Hot chick ? I'm not that attractive to grind with ? I should've ditched my glasses and probably should've bought heels to wear.

"Here the rules you need to follow; One - Don't take any drinks from anyone, Two - If your going to talk to any guy make sure they're are sober and not in a group, chances are they are college frat boys in there, Three - Avoid wasted people. If a guy tries to forces you to do something you're not comfort with, kick his groin hard and you call me or if you feel like you are been preyed by frats, call me and we will leave, okay ?"

I wrap my arms around myself as I nod, "I don't if you're trying to insure safety or increase my anxiety level by 110%"

He chuckles and wraps his arm around my shoulder, blocking the chills from the wind and providing his warmth and his intoxicating forest scent , this makes me think how lucky the girl who will be dancing with him is.

"Don't worry", He leads me to the door You'll be fine" . I believe him but as soon as the door opens and we walk in the house and we are met with loud music and faint smell of alcohol I am immediately overwhelmed by the many people that seems to have no care in the world; many holding plastic red cups, moving their bodies to the beat but what stand out is how small and tight the girls outfits are and here I am looking like I'm going to the skate park.

Lucas removes his arm from me but his eyes are trained on the girl who is stumbling towards us.

"Oh my gosh, she squeals, "Welcome you guys!!!", she slurps on her red cups , "I'm Brittany, the host of the party"

"Cool party", He comments, his eyes wandering on her body making me self conscious. She has on black short sparkly cocktail dress that show her cleavage, matching wedges that are tied on her legs and brown hair curled with smokey makeup.

"Thank you, enjoy yourselves and drinks are at the end of the room so every alcoholic beverage is available" She giggles before someone yells making her walking away.

"Alcohol ?", I glance at Lucas

"Yeah, what's a party with it." He answers looking around.

I sigh. So no sodas

"There you are, oh hey, Sandra", Jordan says appearing through the sea of people. I smile and wave my hand. "Bro, you need to come so I can win $20, I keep telling people you're in town, they don't believe. So let's prove them wrong"