The Moment

Chapter Ten

Rolling over, I reached over to grab my phone that I keep on the opposite side of my bed but instead, I felt a body next to mine.

"Ow." He said, lifting his head from the pillow.

"Tayler! What the hell are you doing here?" I yelled, sitting up in the bed.

"Bryce took the spare room and you know how fucked up he was, I'm not risking him rolling over and throwing up on me."

"I wonder why he was so fucked up." I said, getting out of bed and walking towards my bathroom.

"Hey, Addison should have said something. This was not my problem."

"Tayler!" I couldn't believe how insensitive he was being about the situation. Bryce has never cared for anyone in the way he cares for Addison so I can only imagine what he was thinking as he sat there and watched her heart break...and not to mention the fact that this was the second time it was breaking...because of him.

"What!?" He asked, shrugging his shoulders.

Rolling my eyes, signalling the end of the conversation, I closed the bathroom door and began gathering myself back together from last night. Looking in the mirror, my hair was a greasy mess, I had done a terrible job at taking off my makeup and I could still taste the alcohol on my tongue. Everything about me was disgusting. Running my fingers through my now wet hair, I could hear the boys all yelling downstairs and I just prayed to God they were yelling as they were cleaning...

"What am I going to do? I was making things up to her and now...she'll probably never give me the time of day again."

"Obviously it's not ideal walking in and seeing the guy you've got a thing for getting danced on by however many strippers," I joined in, walking into the kitchen. "But all you can do is just give her time. It was probably more of a shock than anything else."

"Yeah and where the hell were you?" Griffin asked, switching up the conversation. "So much shit happened and you were nowhere to be found."

"Yeah, and I'm not mad about it." Letting out a laugh, I looked over at Noah, whose head had been down the minute Griffin spoke and I didn't know if it was just because of the conversation or if it was because of me.

"Well boys," Casey said, clapping her hands together. "Tomorrow's another big day. Which means we've got some planning to do. Let's go." Taking Josh's wrist and dragging him out of the kitchen, the others followed suit and I just knew my birthday was going to be something I'm not entirely prepared for.

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The day seemed to drag on and I swear the others hadn't said a single word to me since they left this morning. I sure as hell didn't want a party as out of control as Bryce's but I knew somewhere along the line...that was going to get lost in translation.

I hadn't talked to Noah all day and I didn't know if I should text him or just wait it out. Sure, the kiss was nothing but amazing but I would have avoided it if I knew it would cause Noah to avoid me. I just hope the others don't know so if it does end up being nothing...it never has to be talked about. Throwing my hair into a ponytail, I climbed into bed, hoping tomorrow wouldn't be too crazy.

"Hey, wake up." The whisper came so quiet I was sure I was dreaming it. "Regs, wake up." The violent shaking...yeah, I wasn't dreaming that.

"Seriously?" Rubbing my eyes to help them adjust, I looked over at the alarm clock that read 2:23am and sighed. "Go away." I said, rolling back over and hoping to go back to bed.

"You're going to make me do it." Scrunching my face, I wondered what was happening but when the covers went flying off my body and a pair of cold hands wrapped around my waist...I knew I was about to be picked up. "Let's go."