My first every time writing anything... Kind of.. I hope you enjoy
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Okay the music was actually so loud I was beginning to get a headache. I searched around for my best friend Nudge, to see her "chatting" with some guy over in the corner. Great now I have to make sure that he doesn't try anything while she's more than a little drunk. Awesome just how I want to spend the night, looking after my friends and making sure they don't get themselves hurt. This scenario happens way too much for my liking. Well somebody has to play mother duck.
Nudge and I are basically chalk and cheese. Where she likes to go shopping, I like to play sport, where she likes to keep up to date on gossip, I like to read novels, where she is all bubbly and super chatty, I'm sarcastic and moody. Yea I don't know why we're friends either. We're also opposites in looks, I'm fairly pale, 5"8' straight long blonde hair and brown eyes. Nudge was a beautiful chocolate brown colour with short brown frizzy hair with light blue eyes. Of course her name isn't really Nudge, it's Monique, but after 14 years of nudging her to shut up, it kind of stuck.
I wasn't going to walk over there and be a cock block, she'd never forgive me for that, but I could just hang around and keep an eye on her.
It was Lissa Gold's annual "Back to School Bash!" Where we all get hammered and drown our sorrows of another year about to start. Her parents own half the town of Riverview and as a result have probably the largest house this side of Melbourne. So there were people dancing in the games room, people swimming in the pool, people playing cards in the living room, more people dancing in the other living room, people watching movies in the theatre room and people having sex everywhere. I hate my generation. With a passion.
"Maxie!" I hear someone say. I scowl to myself, I hate being called Maxie. I mentally prepare myself and stick a smile on my face, got to at least appear pleasant, as I turn to face whoever it is. It's just Sam, one of my friends. I slap him on the arm as I say "Don't call me Maxie, Sam or I will be forced to hurt you" he laughs as if I threaten him on a daily basis. I guess I do a little.
"Here I got you a drink, stop looking so boring and sullen. No guy will want to sleep with you if you act like you're going to murder them." I roll my eyes and grab the drink off of him and take a sip almost choking on how strong it is.
"And I'm assuming you plan to get a guy by getting them drunk off whatever the hell this is?" I ask him indicating towards the cup. Sam grinned and skulled the rest of his and winked at me. "You never know what kind of people turn up at these parties." And walked away from me. Well if he finally finds another openly gay guy at this party that he hasn't already been with, Sam won't need a drink, charismatic bastard. However the drink never seems to hurt. I look back over at Nudge and her new friend and they have moved from talking to making out, well they're still in this room surrounded by people so I have time to head into the kitchen to get some more coke to try to minimise the strength of the drink. As I walk through the door I see this guy standing against the wall also looking at Nudge and the mystery guy. Well that's not weird at all.
As I walk back out he looks a little frustrated and I turn to see Nudge and the guy getting… more intimate is probably the best way to describe it, her hands through his blonde hair, his hands running along her body. Awesome just what I want to see. I turn to look at the guy standing against the wall and notice that he is really quite attractive, like seriously one of those guys you look at and just… well you know. He was wearing all black, black jeans, black V-neck shirt, black converse. He even had long black hair that hung down in front of his eyes. Okay 3 guesses what his favourite colour is. I see Sam out of the corner of my eye. He noticed me looking at the guy in black and walks over to me. "I see someone has finally caught the intimidating Maximum Ride's attention" he wiggles his eyebrows at me.
I laugh at how ridiculous he looks and reply with "Hardly, he is just standing there alone staring at Nudge and her new… friend. Not even a drink in his hand, girls are eyeing him off. Seriously why even come to a party if you aren't going to talk to anyone?"
"Maybe he's new?" Sam reasons, "and maybe the reason he's staring is he's jealous and he actually bats for my team" he winks at me and I laugh again.
"Well you could always ask him? And I doubt he's new, I mean new kids normally look awkward and try to find someone to latch onto, he's probably from St Joes or some other private school and thinks he's too good for us."
"Why don't you go and find out?" He says and before I can stop him he's pushed me towards the other guy and I stop myself just before hitting him. He turns to look at me with a blank expression and I notice that his eyes are also black. I shouldn't say blank expression, his face was saying nothing but his eyes were saying "What the fuck do you want?"
I stood there in silence for a moment before I realized I should probably say something, "Uh hey, sorry umm… my friend pushed me, thinks he's hilarious and all that." The stranger said nothing, rude much? "Anyway uh I don't think I've seen you before, my name's Max" I did a little wave and he looked at me like he couldn't believe I was still standing there. And honestly neither could I. "Right, great chat I really learnt a lot about you, see you later bestie." I said walking away covering the awkwardness with sarcasm. I walk towards Sam and see him standing there laughing at me, great he heard the whole thing, asshole.
"Okay so that was fun, can I go now?" I asked just as Nudge ran up to me, phone in hand.
"Hey uh so mum is here and wants to leave, no chance you can give me another 5 minutes by distracting her?" I sighed and said sure as Sam and I walked outside and chatted to her mum for at least 10 minutes before Nudge finally walks out. As soon as Nudge gets in the car Sam and I start walking home, we live next door to each other and are less than 5 minutes' walk from Lissa's.
"Ah well, so you got rejected, at least you tried and you never have to see him again." Sam said swinging his arms as he walked. "And just think in 2 days' time you'll be too stressed to even think about it."
That was very true as I felt the dread of my final year of high school settle over me.
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