Adam
They say that high school is the most important years of your life. It's where you make your friends that will probably stick with you for the rest of your life. Yeah, I guess that could be true. I mean, most people do make some important friends in high school from what I have seen.
It's summer, the last few days of freedom before we all have to go back to school. There's a party at the end of the summer and lasts to the last night of summer. That would be tonight. It starts at one person's house and goes down the rows of popular kids houses until it ends with the most popular student's house in the school. To those who want to be popular, this event is really important.
My parents weren't home. They were out on a date night all on their own. My older brothers were in their rooms getting ready for the party tonight. Me, I was just laying on my bed staring at my ceiling. I wasn't planning on going to the party. What was the use? I got no friends here in Deerfield.
"Adam! Get your lazy butt off your bed and start getting ready!" Jack yelled to me through my door. I groaned loudly and rolled off my bed slumping on the floor. I swear my brothers are the worst. I already figured they would force me to go to school, but, I really wish they would stop trying to get me out of this house to meet people before I start going to school here.
I moved here this summer, my Bio father had recently died in a car crash some months before my moving. If he hadn't been crushed by a stupid truck I would be still back in good old Canada with my buddies. But sadly life can't be simple. So I was moved here to America with my mother and stepfather.
Jack busted down my door walking into the room and right over to me picking me up and throwing me over his shoulder. I struggled trying to get out of his grasp.
"Come on Jack! Please let me down you big lug! I refuse to go!" I protested swinging my legs and beating my fists on his chest. He ignored my protests and threw me on his bed and started rifling through some clothing he had. I frowned, knowing exactly where this was going.
"Jack, I swear to god if you dress me up into something hideous-" Jack laughed and pulled out some grey cargo shorts, a black t-shirt that was probably gonna hug my figure and a red black checkered flannel.
"Don't flatter yourself." He said, trying to playfully insult me. I shot him a glare and looked at the clothing he had in his hands. He threw them in my lap and pushed me into his bathroom. "You get dressed in that stuff while I get you some shoes." I groaned and locked the door and looked at the clothing that I was given. I stared at them and pulled off my shirt looking at myself in the mirror. I was ugly.
I walked out six minutes later dressed in the clothing that my brothers gave me, messing with the hem of the black tee. Jack looked up from his closet and whistled.
"Damn, if I didn't know any better i would have thought you were a really hot playboy." He said smirking. My face went red with anger and embarrassment as i stocked him over the head with my fist. "Ah, alright alright." He said laughing still and handed me a pair of black converse. I stared at them.
"Are you trying to make me look like an emo?" I asked looking up from the shoes to his shit eating grin. He shook his head and shoved the shoes into my hands.
"If I wanted you emo, you would be in a whole lot more black." Jack said matter-of-factly. I rolled my eyes and sat down putting on the shoes and tied them. Raven came in at this time looking over.
"We ready? Cause if we don't leave now we won't find a place to park." Jack nodded grabbing my arms and dragged me out of the door. I yelped as i stumbled after him, not actually expecting him to drag me down the stairs. Once down the stairs Jack dragged me to the garage to his car and told me to get into the back as he got shot gun and Raven in the driver's seat. I crossed my arms.
"I can't believe you two." I muttered under my breath.
"Why?" Raven asked looking at me as we pulled out of our driveway. I huffed.
"Cause you are dragging me to this stupid party." I replied going silent after answering him. Raven laughed and drove down the street. The ride was fairly quick, and as soon as we turned onto a private street, we were face to face with the largest house I had ever seen. My eyes widened so much, they were threatening to fall out of my head. Jack had this shit eating grin on his face again when he saw the look on my face. I glared at him and punched his shoulder.
"Welcome to the last day of summer party." Raven said pulling up to the side of the curb parking the car. I continued to stare at the house, with less of a shocked expression this time.
"Get out of the car Adam." Jack said, getting out of the car as soon as Raven parked it. I blinked and unbuckled and jumped out shoving my hands into the pockets of my jeans.
"So what now." I asked looking at my older brothers with a bored expression. On the inside I was bursting with excitement, but I didn't want the two idiots before me to know they actually did a good job for once.
"Go inside, party, and come back to the car at 2am. We'll be leaving then." Raven said pocketing the keys to the car and turned to head inside. I was frozen in my spot for a while before I snapped out of it and ran after them.
"Wait, so, I just go in, and….talk to people?" I asked. To be honest, I have never been to a party before. Every time I had the chance I stayed home.
"Uh yeah, basically. Just stay away from the blue cups, those things are spiked with drugs." Raven advised. Drugs, spiked with drugs. Yeah I had a really bad idea about this party now.
It was maybe an hour into the party, and I was on my own, sitting on one of the many couches in the mansion house trying to get rid of this pounding headache I had from the blasting music.
People were drinking from alcohol bottles, drunk, grinding into each other on the dance floor. It made me sick to see them doing this so I looked away not wanting to see it. I reverted to looking at my red cup full of ice water. Most of the drinks at this party were Alcohol, so I just grabbed an empty cup and filled it up with tap water. My brothers were somewhere here, but I hadn't seen them since we walked into the party. It was only 8pm, I couldn't go home til 2am, so I was stuck.
A few girls walked over to me, most of them drunk, trying to smother me with sweet talk, get me to "dance with them". I know their type, so drunk that they act like sluts, and even if some weren't even drunk, they were still acting like sluts. I refused all offers to go on the dance floor and stayed in my spot on the couch.
It was maybe a half hour later that the music seemed to die down a bit, and the doors slammed open dramatically, like you would see in a movie or something. A lot of people went silent as a boy, not to much older than me walked through. He was hot, like wicked hot.
He smirked at some of the ladies, finger gunning them, winking seductively. I rolled my eyes and looked back down at my cup. Well that is until he got up to the DJ and took the mike from him.
"Hey everybody~," He said, his voice smooth. It was almost like a Sirens' luring everyone into his trance just by talking. "I'm back." He said with a wink to the crowd. They are cheered loudly, some throwing drinks in the air, the contents of them spilling out of them on to the floor or the people around them. I simply rolled my eyes, this guys is probably the most popular kid or something.
If that was the case I was gonna steer clear of him if all possible. Should be possible, I mean, I'm not the type that goes out of his way to get to know everyone. Nor am I the type to be remembered.
As soon as the new guy got down from the DJ's platform, he was surrounded by girls, and a few guys. I rolled my eyes and sipped my water finishing it and getting up to go get more, maybe find Jack or Raven and convince them to take me home early, though knowing them, they would probably say I would last a few more hours here.
I walked through the crowds of drunk, horny, even some half naked teens to the kitchen to get some tap water. I walked past a couple in the bathroom undressing. I immediately blushed and hurried on, trying to forget what I just saw. Parties are the worst. I grabbed the knobs that turned on the faucet and started running the cold water filling up my cup. I felt hands slide up my sides and I immediately jumped, spinning around to face the person that was touching me. There was a familiar cackle of laughter and I knew exactly who was touching me.
"JACK YOU ASS." I screamed at him my heart hammering in my chest. "I thought you were some girl trying to get it on!" Jack just laughed harder, kealing over holding his stomach at how hard he was laughing.
"Y-you should had s-seen your face!" Jack said through his laughing. I frowned and dumped my ice cold water on his head angered at him. He gasped as the sudden cold water and glared at me.
"Why you little-" I yelped and dropped my cup and booked it. Jack raced after me, being much faster than me he would have easily caught me, if there weren't so many people around. Luckily I was small, so I was able to loose Jack in the crowd of drunk people and ran out into the front lawn, there weren't that many people there. Maybe a few stragglers out here but that was it. I held my chest breathing a little heavily, the running being a lot on my body. I wasn't use to running because of my Asthma.
I flopped on the grass a few seconds later. The grass was pretty soft and mostly dry, spare the few patches of dew here and there. The sky was mostly dark, the stars peeking out from their hiding spots one by one to greet the night time.
"Hey cutie, what you doing out here all by yourself?" A voice said. I frowned ignoring the voice, it probably wasn't talk to me anyway. I closed my eyes breathing in the fresh air enjoying the somewhat peaceful outdoors. "Hey, I'm talk to you, red flannel." I blinked my eyes open and sat up. I looked at the only other person that was out here, the playboy that came in late to the party.
I rolled my eyes and laid back down ignoring him. This didn't seem to go well with him. He marched right on over to me, towering over my body and looked down at me. I stared at him with a very annoyed look.
"What do you want?" I snapped. The playboy held his heart, acting as if I just insulted him.
"I'm hurt," Yup, acting all dramatic. "I just wanted to know who you were. You look new to town." I blinked at him not letting his kindness not sway me as easily as some of the girls he flirts with.
"Yeah I'm new, so what?" I said in a kind of sassy tone. Way to go me! I'm talking to myself again. The playboy smirked and sat next to me.
"New, that's cool. So what's your name cutie?" I sat up as well glaring at the other boy.
"Adam," I muttered "and I'm not cute." I said under my breath so that he couldn't hear me. The other male stared at me, probably checking me out and leaned back on his arms.
"Well, welcome to Deerfield Adam, hope you enjoy it here." I stared at the other. He seemed more relaxed, and, well, not flirty at all. It was weird but nice since him being a flirt was getting on my nerves.
"Are you gonna tell me your name?" I asked. The other looked at me and smirked.
"Name's Jason." He said with a cocky smile. Jason, best I remember that name, might have to use it in the future. What am I talking about, I will never use his name in the future, I'm gonna stay as far away from him as I can.
I was able to get away from Jason maybe 10 minutes after us sitting alone. Some girls had found him outside and ran outside mobbing him. I took that time to run inside and try and find one of my brothers.
Raven was over by some of the seniors, talking to them with a drink in his hand. He seemed sober enough so I ran over to him and his group. He looked at me, confused at why I ran in, but didn't question it.
It was maybe around midnight that Raven took me to find Jack, who was drunk on one of the couches, singing completely off key to one of Britney Spears songs. I laughed and helped Raven get Jack to the car and we drove home. It was such a relief to go home.
As soon as we got Jack inside the house I ran up to my room, my bed warmly welcoming me back. I laid on the soft sheets and nuzzled into them. Yes, so good to finally be home.