Chapter 1

It was a cold night, party music filled the air with ear shattering bass music, along with the distinct scent of alcohol and vomit mixed together to form one pungent atmosphere that could cause instant vertigo to anyone who has the misfortune of coming across the smell. Which is everyone inside the house considering their all completely drunk the aroma doesn't seem to be much of a bother. But for those unlucky few who were sober enough to actually think and focus inside the house it was like being inside a sewer with fresh vomit rushing through the floors and in this case the walls and everywhere else. The only place that can be classified as safe, safe being vomit free, saliva hungry guys free, and bitchy whiny girls free were the masters bedroom in the second floor. But only the prestigious can enter that being the owner of the house and his girl, and right now the room is suddenly occupied by two random teenagers...

"Hah... Finally hah.. i can breathe again.. Hah" the blonde girl exclaimed panting and out of breath, "hey babe! What took you so long? I was getting lonely here all by myself" said the guy with curly locks and almost too tight t-shirt that barely even fits him, barely containing his well-toned and developed muscles

"I told you not to call me that" said the blonde with an irritated expression and somewhat impatient tone

"But, b-" "again, i dont like it, get your drunken ass up, let's go" she cuts him off almost instantly as the b sound was uttered

"Cmon astrid whats the hurry? How bout you get your ass down here instead" said the guy while suggestively smiling and pointing to the space between his legs

"Augh.. Seriously scott i need to go, i have pratice tomorrow" covering her face with her palm while sighing at the sight of her boyfriend drunk out of his mind yet again. it was the annual friday party of berk high everyone who's anyone is invited it usually happens in the house of some alfa male jock, or maybe anyones house that has pool or something interesting enough to drink on, and this time it was on some jocks house who said it's his birthday and wanted to spend the occasion by being as drunk as he possibly can and what do you know, his wish came true, nearly naked on the couch with nothing but a sock to cover his dick while hugging what he says was his sisters teddy bear but was really his, well he forgot to hide the small detail sown on its ass, his name "tanner"

"But we just got here, and i know you can't resist this" still having the same suggestive smile on him while repeatedly flexing both of his biceps and peks

"We just got here 5 HOURS ago, and augh!.. I don't have time for this" looking at her watch and realizing its already 1:30 am which means no sleep and no sleep means no energy and no energy isn't going to help her maintain the volleyball ace status she has, right now. And it definitely won't do her any good engaging in any "strenuous" activities before her practice match

"Cmon babe... i haven't even congratulated the birthday boy yet" she instanly has the urge to punch him in the face for not listening and once again referring to her as babe, but thinks twice when he vomits to the ground trying to stand up. Even though they've been dating for three long years, she still resented being referred to as babe, whilst in private atleast. In her opinion it makes her seem weak and frilly which is exactly the opposite of her whole being and identity "the iron clad beauty Astrid hofferson" it was the nickname the other guys gave her and it fitted her all too well, sad to say those guys who made it up weren't so pretty after astrid heard about it, apparently she didn't like being called anything at all.. even if it hit the mark on so many levels

"We've been here for almost 6 hours now and you still haven't seen tuff?, in his own house... His the whole reason were having this party... Remember? Augh this is pointless.." she tries to talk sense to the wasted teen, trying to reason with what's left of his already tiny malfunctioning brain

"Huuh... I know, babe that's why we're here to celebrate right so relax.. Let's celebr- huuh" words slurring out of his mouth like vomit until he actually does vomit leaving astrid with a completely knocked out idiot to take care of

"Augh... Honestly why do i put up with This" gesturing to the alcohol induced zombie lying in front of her, maybe because he's the schools quarterback and football star and dating him would secure her status within campus and it helps keep horny guys off of her. She honestly didn't want all the drama that comes with other guys fawning over her, it would only serve as an annoying distraction, keeping her from achieving her goals.. to be an international athlete or atleast get out this town. to her one horny guy is better than a whole group of horny guys, and he doesn't really lack in the looks department either he could be model if he wanted to, besides dating scott was incredibly simple just smile and look pretty and if there's any problems sex was always his weak point so astrid always ends up on top(no pun intended), so it wasn't that bad, actually it was perfect, having the glamourous life any teenage girl would want. But right now she's thinking he's lucky his puke didn't stick to her dress or else he'll be sleeping on the side walk with the concrete as his bed

After a few minutes of pulling and heavy lifting, another figure enters the room almost bashing the door against the tv next to it "hey! You two hornballs hows the sex?" But the blonde girl was suprised to see scott lying in a small puddle of his own vomit which sends the girl into a frantic laughing fit holding her stomach and stomping on the ground

"Shut up, you know ruff.. for once maybe you could try helping out for a change" says astrid as she walks towards her boyfriend trying to position herself in order to carry his unbelievably heavy body

"Eww... im not touching that, wait a sec i gotta take a picture of this" she fumbles prying her pockets trying to find her phone after a few shakes her phone breaks free from her pocket and is now armed with a 5 megapixel camera ready to capture the embarrassing and disgusting moment for life

"ok.. Ready smilee, cmon scott smile a little why dontcha" she laughs at her own comment tongue sticking out of her mouth while focusing the camera trying to find the perfect angle until she zooms on astrids face who was less than pleased "oh cmon astrid, you're no fun" as she finally presses the screen and a loud camera shutter sound was heard, ruff upon seeing the photo laughs as hard as she can snorting in between breaths

"I swear rachel if you dont delete that im gonna kill you" as she plainly stated with eyes that stare at her clearly insinuating her seriousness all the while still carrying the big pile of wastedness on her shoulders

"I'd like to see you try hofferson, besides look how happy you two are aawww... You two really make a cute couple" as she jokingly says showing the photo to astrid and laughing yet again at her own jokes.

"Yeah, Real happy" says astrid with an obvious sarcastic tone and finally giving a slight giggle as she looks at the picture and notices herself with her death glare on and scott half asleep still drooling, Astrid seizes the opportunity and grabs ruffs phone and taunts her by almost dropping and breaking it "ok, thorstone now we'll play by my rules... Or else"

"Damn, i just bought that... Fine astrid, what do you want? You do know I'll delete that even if you didn't tell me" ruff sighs to herself for letting her gaurd down while having a spat with astrid she should have known better

"Yeah right, you'll probably post it on Facebook the moment i give it back" astrid stares at her with a smug grin as she deletes the picture from her album shoving her phone in her pocket

"Ok you got me there, just tell me what ya want already?" Scratching the back of her head.

"First, help me get this drunken pile of muscle on his feet" astrid gestures to the passed out scott on her shoulders

"Fine... But you owe me for this one, augh.. Is he still alive? Cause he seriously smells like his dead" she grabs the vacant shoulder of scott and proceeds to lift him up all the while covering her nose with her only available hand

"I know, ok i owe you one... And stop being so dramatic, you'll get used to it by the time we get to my car" astrid and ruff slowly head towards the door of the room, scott was pretty heavy since he had all those muscles weighing him down, maybe because of all the muscle weight on his body, even though he isn't physically fat on the outside, inside his weight was that of a cow, or a fat kid like finn perhaps

"Damn, his heavy! Ow.. Astrid can't you just dump him here?" Ruff exclaims visibly in pain trying to walk downwards while carrying scott down the stairs "that way we won't have to babysit, and my parents would take care of the vomit and stuff, they'll understand since its basically tuff wasted but with more muscles"

"As much as i want to, and i Really want to.. i promised his mom I'd take care of him... Speaking of tuff where's the birthday boy anyway?" Astrid tries to avoid the topic of their relationship and asks while curiously scanning left and right for any signs of the birthday boy

Ruff laughs out loud at the thought of her brother "who knows! Probably running around the house wasted" Then she bursts into another laughing fit and continues talking "we dared that idiot to run around the house with nothing but a sock on his dick" she laughs even harder with a very satisfied and content expression on her face leaving astrid to respond with an awkward laugh

"And did he do it?" They slowly enter the living room where tuff apparently decided to take his nap and make the couch his bed

"See for yourself" ruff grins and immediately points to her half naked brother sprawled out across the sofa hugging his big white fluffy teddy bear

Astrid upon looking to where ruff points and realizing it was actually tuff and he did in fact have nothing on, quickly averts her eyes. She didn't want to see anything, definitely not nakedness. She prays that whatever disgusting thing she just saw she can just un-see, but it wasn't that easy

"Ok, my eyes are now ruined.. just tell him we went to his party" astrid covers her eyes and focuses on the black empty space in her eyelids and quickly dissolves the image burned into her eyes

"Yeah, yeah sure, IF he wakes up tomorrow he'll probably sleep through the whole day" ruff yet again laughs. They finally arrive outside the house and is only a few steps away from where astrid parked her car "so.. How's This working out" She asks just before dropping scott to the front seat of astrids car and points to his unconscious face

"Huh? What are you getting at?" She answers almost instantly confused at her friends question, "you know what i mean" ruff blankly stares at her face with eyes that clearly states dont play dumb all over them. Astrid shuts up for a couple of seconds staring at the grass, the ground anything to keep her from engaging eye contact with ruff

"Everything's great ok, so stop asking stupid questions" she feigns being aggrevated, with the whole expression on her face furrowed brows, scowling lips, then she attempts to end the conversation by storming inside her car and driving away as fast as she can but ruff clearly saw through her guise and cuts her off before she can slam the car door

"Really astrid? Really? I'm not as stupid as my brother, i know when youre lying.. And when you're faking something" she holds the car door and resumes her don't play dumb stare at her

"What? Everything's fine.. Now if youre done harassing me, I have practice in the morning" she answers coldly trying to be nonchalant and nonchalantly leave she fumbles for her keys searching every possible pocket she could've put it into only to hear the clatter of steel coming from the front side of the car

"Looking for these, i think you forgot to give me something" she grins evily and tops it off with an evil chuckle, then she stares at her friends face as she slowly exits the car and hands her her phone

"here, now my keys please" she extends her arms out eagerly waiting for her keys to be given back, ruff slowly hovers the keys down to her palm but just when astrid was about to grasp them ruff brings it back up "whoops, oh no you dont" she lets out a laugh followed by an evil grin "revenge is so sweat, now back to my rules hofferson" she confidently states pocketing the keys

"I don't have time for this ruff i have to get that drunken mess back home" she says with a clearly annoyed expression and pointing to the passed out scott in her car

"Nope, answer my question first, no answers no keys" she teasingly says laying out the rules to her quiz show

"Augh! How many times do i have to tell you were fine, were great, were perfect" she almost shouts her answer and is inches away from legitimately punching ruff in the face

"Ok fine, if you're just gonna lie to my face all night, here" she throws her keys towards Astrid's hands and she catches it almost instantly "thank you"she replies with an obviously annoyed tone "but seriously astrid, ive known you since our first year, you're not fooling anyone with your act.. you're not into him anymore right?" Hearing those words from ruff she lets out a big sigh and looks at scotts face and sets her eyes back to ruffs "it's complicated ok, but you're right about one thing... we make a cute couple" she finally eases up and the tension evaporates from the air followed by a laugh from ruff and astrid

"Whatever hofferson, atleast you're being honest" she smiles at her and waves goodbye as she heads back to the front door, astrid waves back and proceeds to start the engine. She drives off to the direction of scotts house, its not as far as her house from ruff and tuffs is but it's still a 30 min drive and their little intervention lasted more than she'd realized. It was already 2:30am leaving her with about 3 hours and 30 minutes left for sleep, she could already sense how shitty she's gonna feel in the morning. After 20 min of driving they luckily arrive 10 min early mostly because its already past midnight and the only traffic you'll get is one or two occasional trucks. Astrid slowly taps scotts face and shoulder to wake him up "hey, scott scott wake up already" but after a few minutes of useless tapping and shouting she gives up and tries an old trick that got him back up

"scooott hey.. wanna do it" and as soon as she whispers the provocative offer to him he wakes up from his alcohol induced coma "ok im u-up, im ready i-its g-good to go, l-lets do this b-babe" words still slurring like vomit but atleast no more actual vomit this time.

Scott starts furiously kissing Astrid's neck and grabbing her ass but before his lips reaches hers astrid blocks his face with her hand. It's strange even though they've been dating for so long they've only kissed for a small number of times it's not as little as below 10 but it doesn't exceed 50 and almost half of those kisses happened in their first year as a couple whereas during sex it should automatically add about 15 with foreplay alone and getting into the mood but it felt different.. especially after the one year mark, but it doesn't really bother scott or rather he's too much of an idiot to actually notice the lack of kissing in his point of view sex feels way better than kissing so he doesn't really see it as a problem

"Huh? thwast thwong thwabe?" Slurred words from being pressed against astrids palm, matched with a confused look and eager eyes

"Wait.. Let's take this somewhere more comfortable" it absolutely disgusts her that she has to act this way but if it would mean making him stand on his own and not carrying his heavy drunk ass all the way to the door then, a little embarrassement is fine "how about your room" she seductively whispers in his ears, ok its kinda sorta feels nice for her to be able to play with the quarterback to have him following her whims it gives her a rush of power of dominance and control

"Ok b-babe" scott stands up giddily, opens and exits the car and hurries to the front door, which to his surprise was opened by his parents and that means sexy time is officially over "h-hey dad, h-hey mom whats u-up?" Obviously still drunk it was a miracle he could stand let alone walk to the front door on his own but he managed, honestly what teenage boys can do when their horny. His father sighed both in relief and in disappointment

"huh, wasted... Again..huh Atleast you're still alive son" sighing once again while scratching his neck

"Wh-what are y-you talkin a-about dad im completely fi-" and before he can even finish his sentence he falls straight to the floor but of course his dad caught him before he hit the ground, probably run out of libido and couldn't keep his consciousness

"Thank you dear, i don't know where we'll pick up this idiot son of ours if you weren't there" his mom calmy says and shows a genuine smile that seems to mean genuine gratefulness "anyways he'll take it from here, dear" looking at her husband with expectant eyes, Mr jorgenson just sighed again while hoisting Scott's unconscious butt off the ground

"No problem mrs Jorgenson, it's the least i can do I'm his girlfriend afterall" smiling and pointing to scotts back "I'll be going now, have a good night mr, mrs jorgenson"

"Astrid dear, you should spend the night here, it's not safe for you to drive alone at this hour" again flashing a smile and a frown at the same time all the while seeming genuinely worried

"It's ok mrs J, i appreciate the offer, but i think I'm capable enough to get back home on my own" she refuses as politely as she possibly could smiling so innocently

"But astrid-" "seriously it's fine, besides i already texted my dad I'm on my way" she stops her and gives her a reassuring smile, "oh i see then, be extra careful ok" holding her hand and firmly grasping it "i will mrs J" smiling again and waving goodbye as she walks back to her car

"Phew, that was close, good thing i texted his parents" she admits praising herself while grinning contently. The last thing she wants to do right now is to have sex with scott, she drives off again and the road, the sky, and the wind all seem so calm and so peaceful this makes her ponder what she really felt about their relationship as a whole, she scoffs at nothing probably still furious at ruff for bringing up the topic and making her think about it more than the usual.

Part of her admits that ruff is right but who else is out there who'd be better for her, not to many choices either, even though they seem perfect for each other, star quarterback and star libero of berk high, the king and queen, there are often times when she feels empty like something's missing. She doesn't really expect to live forever as Scott's right hand woman, everything was set, it was already planned in her mind getting scouted for college as a varsity star, move to somewhere far from this place, hopefully getting full scholarship, with her grade's it's a possibility IF she keeps a straight A average but for now, "this" being popular and being at the top of the schools social ladder, is enough. It's one of the many perks of dating the football star, It all seems so simple yet so fragile maybe that's the reason she clings on to scott to maintain her perfect highschool life and status. How hard could it be? what could possibly happen? only one year left until she graduates and finally be able to get rid of scott and have a fresh start on her life not being tied down by anyone especially her dad...

It's already 3:00 am in the morning only 3 hours of sleep left, she slowly parks her car in the side walk close to her house, astrid is unusually sweating and heavy breaths are escaping her mouth as she opens the front door she looks for her father, she doesn't find him anywhere in the living room or kitchen she assumes he's already in his room upstairs. She lets out a big sigh of relief as her whole body eases up she continues to walk cautiously up the stairs, still slightly unsure if her father was really out again and walks across the hall she passes her father's bedroom, and there he is, passed out, too drunk to even notice her arrival although that was her plan all along, get home late enough for her father to just pass out in hopes of avoiding any and all forms of sick contact with him, she almost hurriedly walks to her room and once there she immediately locks the door. To astrid, her room was a safe place it was a haven of privacy, a place where she can be just astrid and not the "iron beauty astrid hofferson". It was where she and her mother used to bond in, it was the only place in the house that reminded her of her mother the only place that wasn't tainted with horrible memories of the past and unfortunately the present, that's why she strives for her future to be different and it will only get better if she's living somewhere other than this cursed house, but most importantly away from her piece of shit father... Astrid hurriedly climbs to her bed without even changing her clothes and as soon as her head touches her pillow, she's out cold not wasting a single second more of sleep...

End of chapter One