+Chapter One+
+Night Out+
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"I'll drop them all if I just find out he at least likes me."
Dawn said evenly, smiling at her best friend;
"Right now, I'm enjoying the others, like Reese, for example."
Sighing, Rain dropped her eyes back to her book;
"Ewe..."
Dawn looked at her, appauled;
"What's wrong with Reese?!"
"Nothing...until you also include that you're dating half of the football team as well..."
Smiling, Dawn pushed her long, red highlighted bangs out of her eyes, faking a shocked expression;
"Only three!"
Rain shook her head, looking toward the Jack Skellington alarm clock on her bedside table;
"Party starts in a half hour..."
Standing up, and laying down her book, she pulled on a pair of silver studded combat boots, as Dawn stared;
"Going to a party or a boot camp?"
Rain stared up at her, unamused;
"Haha, aren't you just hilarious."

Rain and Dawn left the appartment building and onto the New York streets, towards their car.
Hopping into the car, Dawn held the keys, smiling. Rain sighed, shaking her head;
"I don't think so, last time you drove, I had to get a new paint job. Not to mention the rear bumper was mutilated."
Dawn looked away, playing with a strand of her hair;
"So your car has problems with our mailbox...and the gearshift. Don't blame me for it's issues."
Rain put her fingertips to her temples;
"Don't make me force you out of the car, Dawn..."
"...Fine...but you've just called designated driver then."
Rain sighed, and nodded slowly, realising that meant she'd have to deal with a drunken Dawn;
"Fine...I don't need to be drunk around you anyway. I might die...or worse..."
With no intent to deny anything, Dawn smiled widely, tossing Rain the keys, before slipping into shotgun.

Neon lights flashed, lighting up the otherwise coal black room. Crowded together, people stood, undistinguishable from one another. Rain took one look, before turning to leave; but Dawn had another thing in mind. Grabbing her arm, Dawn dragged her dark friend to the first guy she saw. Rain took one look, and began throwing around her most colorful language, mostly aimed toward Dawn.
Unfazed, Dawn just kept walking, a smile on her face.
Dawn smiled at Reese, and Rain grimaced;
"God, what's up with you and football players?"

Dawn stops abruptly, nearly shouting to be heard over the ear pounding music;
"It's his party, Rain. Try to be nice--"

All of a sudden, Dawn's breath catches in her throat, and Rain follows her gaze toward the front entrance.
To guys glide through the crowd, never glancing up. But the rest of the party, girls and guys alike, wait as the two leave. Their presence simply demanding attention.
Suddenly, the two look up, toward two girls in particular: Dawn, and Rain.
The only interruption of the silence, was the string and bass in the background. The dull beat of the music aroung the still people.

The guys snap out of their daze as soon as the two leave, pulling their dates back to dancing, or such.
Dawn stood there, reviving as Reese tries for her attention; she was the last to come to her senses.

Dawn stutters over something undecernable, and Rain and Reese try to hear her. She tries again, managing a feeble question;
"Who...were....they?"
Reese just shakes his head, and Rain can't speak through the remenants of her daze.

Rain would have sworn that Dawn had asked everyone at the party who the two guys were; by the time they were halfway into the party. Though, not a soul could tell her anything about them. No one had ever seen the pair of gorgeous guys before that night. It was odd, but then again, not abnormal for a teenage/collage party in the middle of New York City, New York to have some random people from the street wanting a free drink, or wanting to drop in for the social gathering.

"Could you get anymore drunk?!"
Dawn smiled, and Rain doubted that she even knew who's lap she was sitting in. Then again, if Rain mentioned it at all, about it, Dawn simply kept insisting that she drink to stop worrying herself.

Dawn took another swig of whatever she had in the dark blue bottle was clutching onto for dear life;
"I'm not sure. But I can sure try."
Rain sighed, and let her head fall into her fishnet covered hands;
"Whatever. Don't complain to me when you get a hangover."
"Sure, sure."
Rain shook her head, uncomfortable at the all to close guys that Dawn seemed to immediately atract upon entering any party, bar, or well...anywhere, really.
"Let's go. It's getting late."
Dawn frowned, and the boy she was sitting with tightened his grip around her waist. Sighing, Rain nodded;
"C'mon. Take your bottle with you...but leave your buddy here."
"Already--?"
"Now!"
Grudgingly, but not willing to start a fight with Rain, Dawn stood, bottle in hand, and followed, taking another long drink, grinning as her throat, now numb to the burning, tingled as she swallowed.

"Crap. They blocked off the road we parked the car on... We'll have to take the alley next to Reese's house to get to the car...c'mon"
Dawn took a look at the dark, dingy alley, and involentarily shivered;
"There is NO way I'm going down there..."

The alley was dark, and narrow, and Rain had Dawn by both hands, pretty much dragging her down to the other side.
Dawn tried to get away; though her efforts were futile; Rain had her in a death grip and like it or not; she was going.
"Oh stop being such a....spaz."
Dawn felt the blow to her pride, but only managed a feeble grunt, and half a step forward, breathing hard, and still swaying from the former alcohol consumption. She was WAY close to her limit.

Suddenly, the darkness around them was interrupted by a quick flash of bleach white.
Dawn screamed, jumping back a good two feet.
Rain contained a laugh,
"Stop freaking out, it's just a---"
It sounded like she was going to say more, but she followed Dawn's gaze as she spoke, and nearly screamed, herself. There, no more than five feet from the two of them, stood the two guys they had seen leaving Reese's party.
Their skin shone pale from the moon's light, and their eyes seemed to glow.