Bent - Jaden Hossler

16.

"I'm not joking." 

"Dude, she hit you with the full name." 

"Why can they do it?" 

"Because they are nearly off age, you are sixteen. You're a child Quinnie." 

It was funny at first but they all could see how worried Alice really was, and though she didn't say anything, Josh knew that she was worried about him too. 

When Quinton came down, Bryce went up, making Quin a little mad, and Alice even more worried. 

The fact that Quin, Jaden, Kio as well as Anthony were safe on the ground helped her. As soon as Quinton was on the ground Alice held him an armlength away from her, checking him over one last time. 

Kio was hysterically laughing at the younger boy and Alice. "You're such a mom Allie."

"Somebody has to make sure that you guys don't fuck up too much." 

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AN:

This is how far i've gotten. many things changed and I decided not to include most of the things the boys post and make my own storyline a little more prominent. Braddison will also exist. Please be patient with me.

- Sarah

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Bryce and Josh decided to film a little segment for the video while the others were getting the living-room ready. 

Alice talked with Blake and Noah about the different versions of beer-pong they knew and decided to go with Alice's method. 

With that she sat up the cups, giving each side an extra one with water before she filled the cups with a reasonable amount of beer. 

The rest of the boys just watched the teams playing, consisting of Quinton and Alice against Blake and Noah. 

Jaden looked like the proudest boyfriend Kio had ever seen. He was admiring Alice's throwing skills, which were on point, it also surprised him to see how well she took the alcohol when the opposing team hit one of the cups, she also took some of Quinton's cups, not wanting him to drink too much in the night. 

At some point everybody was just jumping around, feeling the music, and having fun. It definitely wasn't a big party which made everything more fun for Allie. 

Blake jumped off the little balcony inside, breaking the table and hurting himself in the process, and with that Alice went back into mom-mode. 

Kio helped her with finding a first aid kit and cooling pads because Jaden was currently talking to someone on the phone. 

Blake kept on insisting that he was fine but did flinch when the girl applied a cream to his little wound and when Kio just smirked at him, he shut up. "Alice has anybody ever told you that you're like a mom?" 

"Kio did earlier." 

"Yeah, she's like a mom to a bunch of boys. I feel almost bad for you." 

"No I like it, it gives me things to do." 

"How are you, Allie?" 

"Yeah, we worry about you." She nervously glanced around, afraid of who might have heard them but it was 'only' Bryce who now joined them. 

"I'm good. What about you three?" 

"Don't bullshit us, Alice." 

"I'm fine, I promise." 

"We won't tell Jaden if you don't want us to."

 "Please don't feel forced to talk." 

"How can I not? You are literally cornering me." 

The boys now realized that they were actually putting Alice in a very critical situation and backed off immediately. 

"I wasn't lying. I am fine now, rough patch a few weeks ago." 

"You wanna tell us about it?" 

"Before you even say anything else, I already worked through it with my therapist so you don't have to worry anymore, I'm better now." 

The boys looked at her with curious eyes, trying to understand her but not really knowing anything. "I made myself throw up for a few weeks."

Bryce felt like he had collapsed. He thought that Alice was doing fine, she was smiling and eating but she just now proved to him, that she wasn't doing good at all. 

They had been so proud and happy to see her eat and to hear now that she did that to herself was shattering for them, especially for Bryce. 

Not only was he going on dates with Addison, her sister but he also felt like a brother to her. 

He couldn't even remember how many talks they had that actually left an imprint in his life. Bryce desperately tried to hide his tears but the girl had already seen them and pulled him in a hug, pressing his head into her shoulder letting him cry for a short moment until he had pulled himself back together again. 

The rest of the evening wasn't that eventful. 

At some point Jaden sat with Alice on his lap on couches, talking to some other boys. 

Alice slowly fell asleep on his lap and when Jaden noticed, he carried her to his room, leaving her to rest. 

Quinton tried to clean up a little in the morning, scared that Alice would go into shock again. He wasn't there when it actually happened but the way they described it in the video, scared him immediately. 

He wasn't completely done when she came down the stairs, but it didn't bother either of them too much, Alice just joined him and helped to pick confetti up.