Lux Carter walked home with his friend from a long day of school, they were happy for two reasons. One: It was a Friday. Two: It was Lux's 18th birthday. Lux was a brown haired gray eyed guy who was almost six foot. He had short hair and wore glasses. His friend kept talking about how all the teacher's had remembered Lux's birthday and how awesome it was that they decided not to give them homework over the weekend. His friend looked through his backpack and pulled out something.
"Happy Birthday man!" Lux's friend exclaimed and handed Lux a small, poorly wrapped up box.
Lux just chuckled for a few seconds, seeing that his friend actually took the time to try to wrap up something. He unwrapped it to find out it was two concert tickets for Three Day's Grace, one of his favorite bands.
"No way…thanks Ethan! This is awesome!" Lux said happily.
Ethan looked back at him and smirked, "No problem, but you know there are two tickets right?" He raised an eyebrow as he asked the question still smirking.
"Yeah? Their right here." Lux said waving them infront of his face making sure Ethan wasn't playing another prank on him.
"Don't worry dude, their real. I'm talking about the person you should ask to that concert." Ethan said smirking a bit bigger.
Lux blushed hard, and Ethan just laughed. "You got these for me and-?" Ethan nodded. "And you think I should ask her to-?" Ethan nodded again getting a little irritated.
"I don't know man…" Lux said uncertainly, "I don't even know if she likes me plus she would never want to go to something like this with someone like me."
"Are you even listening to yourself right now? You're the most popular kid in school! Plus I heard from a little bird that she really likes you and wishes you would ask her out already." Ethan stated letting Lux know he wasn't lying.
"Little bird? You mean Twitter right?" Lux asked.
"Yeah well that does- Did you even hear what I said?!" Ethan asked angrily.
"Just wanted to be clear, and yeah I did, chill out man." Lux shrugged and said, "Sure I guess, I'll ask her later."
"Cool, now that we got that out of the way, how about that birthday party? I can invite Bonnie over and you can ask her tonight." Ethan said already getting out his phone and texting everyone to come over to Lux's house.
Bonnie, the name made his stomach weak and made him talk unintelligently. She was the most popular and prettiest girl in high school. Lux tried to ask her out multiple times but it always ended with him being brain dead and Bonnie snapping her fingers in front of his face till she gave up and walked away. He always imagined being with her and what they would do after they started dating.
Lux sighed happily while Ethan sent the text message. The phone in Lux's pocket vibrated, he picked it up and read the text:
Every1 who wants to party come 2 Lux's house for his 18th bday!
"Seriously?! Three exclamation points and you sent that to everybody in our grade?!" Lux yelled out and punched Ethan in the arm.
"Ow man what the hey-hey." Ethan said as he rubbed the spot where Lux punched him, "I was just trying to hook you up with Bonnie."
"I wanted to ask her alone!" Lux said still angry, "I don't even have enough food for everyone!"
Ethan pulled out his phone and texted everyone, making sure to not send the message to Lux.
"You told them to bring food didn't you?" Lux asked sounding defeated, also calming down a bit.
"You know it bro." Ethan replied happily, "Now back to what you were saying. Let's face it you could never have asked her with just the two of you."
"Yes I-"Lux began to say before Ethan interrupted by saying, "You and I both know you couldn't, moving on, You are way more confident in a crowd. You could ask anyone to date you and still be chill about it, even Bonnie."
"I guess so." Lux said now thinking about it.
They had just arrived at his house; Lux unlocked the door and went in, followed by Ethan. Lux went to turn the light on but he heard someone sneeze. He then froze in his spot and looked around. When his eyes finally adjusted to the darkness he could make out a bunch of people standing in his living room. He quickly turned on the lights and found out it was all of his friends in his grade.
Lux let out a sigh of relief, "Thank goodness it's just you guys…"
"Just us?" Someone in the crowd said.
Lux looked around suddenly realizing and remembering what happened on the way home more quietly he said, "Why do I get the feeling my house is going to be completely trashed?"
"That's the spirit Lux! Now let's get this party started!" Ethan said excitedly.
Everyone cheered and started to set up the food in the kitchen and went to go hangout and dance. Ethan talked with Lux for several minutes, trying to run him through scenarios with how to talk to Bonnie so he wouldn't mess up like he always did. Lux saw Bonnie in the crowd, her long pink hair as beautiful as ever. She was chewing something which Lux could only guess to be bubblegum. Bonnie chewed that stuff so much people just got used to calling her Bubblegum Bonnie.
She hadn't noticed Lux until Ethan yelled out, "Hey Bonnie, Lux wants to talk to you!"
Bonnie looked over to where Lux and Ethan were standing and smiled walking over. Ethan gave Lux two thumbs up before leaving to go talk to a group of girls hanging out near the stereo.
"What did you need Lux?" Bonnie asked sweetly.
He smelled her sweet bubblegum breath and started to go into a daze before he caught himself.
"Uh…do you like Three Days Grace?" he asked nervously.
"Well of course I do silly! You should know that, I'm one of your best friends." She said smiling at Lux.
"Oh, yeah right…" Lux turned around and face palmed then turned back around, "So I...Uh…was wondering if you would…I mean if you wanted to...You don't have to..But if you want-"
Bonnie looked at Lux with a questioning face, "Are you okay Lux? You're sweating a lot…"
He rubbed his hand across his forehand and liked she said, he was sweaty, his hands started shaking, "Uh yeah I am haha…" Lux let out a nervous laugh and cleared his throat, "Would you maybe consider wanting to go to a Three Days Grace concert this weekend possibly?"
Bonnie looked a bit shocked, "I…"
"That's cool; I can understand that you wouldn't want to go." Lux said and was about to walk away quickly when he was stopped by a hand that was on his shoulder. It was Bonnie's.
"I want to Lux." Bonnie said smiling again.
"Y-you do?!" Lux said disbelieving.
Bonnie nodded and Lux gave her a big hug. Bonnie hugged back and Lux let go.
Lux smiled again and asked her, "Is five good?"
"Yes it is Lux." She said and gave him a kiss on the cheek, "See you later, I gotta go home and help my dad with some of his lab work." She waved goodbye and left.
She was very smart; she had been helping her dad with a lot of experiments since she was 7. Eventually, when she got old enough, her dad's boss offered her a job and she started to work with her dad on various things. Lux sighed, his hand on the spot where Bonnie had kissed him.
Ethan walked over and saw Bonnie leaving he sighed and said disappointedly, "Well…I'm sorry dude, guess I lied about the whole 'you being more comfortable with a crowd' thing. Maybe next time."
"She said yes dude." Lux said very happily.
Ethan's eyes grew wide, "Dude that's totally awesome! You hear that everybody? Lux just got a date with Bonnie!"
Everyone in room cheered and congratulated Lux on finally getting a date with Bonnie. Lux blushed and scratched the back of his head. Embarrassed, Lux just looked away from the crowd but still smiling.
Ethan looked at Lux and gave him a pat on the back, "It's time to celebrate! Who brought the party drinks?"
Lux looked at Ethan confused, "Party drinks?"
"Yeah you know, alcohol, party drinks. That's just what I call them." Ethan said explaining what he meant to Lux.
"I don't know man, I haven't had that before, don't even know if I could handle it." Lux said unsure if he wanted to have a drink or not.
Ethan looked at him and found out he was serious, "Don't worry we won't give you too much to make you completely wasted, but just enough to get you buzzed."
Lux shrugged and went to the kitchen with Ethan where they were serving the drinks, "You guys won't drink too much right? I don't want anyone calling me and saying you were in wrecks or something." Lux said a bit scared for the safety of his friends.
A friend next to him replied, "Its fine man we'll just drink some water, we'll be good if we have some of that every few drinks."
Lux thanked him and went to look at the different types of drinks.
"Which one should I get?" Lux asked Ethan.
"For you? Hmm…how about that." Ethan said pointing to a small bottle.
"What's that?" Lux asked and picked the bottle up, "The Enchiridion..." He looked right under the name, "For true heroes only...Weird." Lux said and gave it to Ethan to make a drink.
Ethan poured it in a glass along with a Sprite, "Here you go man, be careful and don't drink it too fast."
"Will do bro." Lux said and took a sip.
BOOM. A massive headache started to form, and Lux's vision was being distorted. He dropped to his hands and knees.
"You okay man?" Ethan asked putting a hand on Lux's shoulder.
"What…was in that drink?!" Lux asked, panic rising in his throat.
Ethan looked at the ingredients and replied, "Nothing that could have done what it did to you…it wasn't even that strong of a drink either."
The pain started to fade and Lux slowly got up.
"I think I'm good now," He sighed, he picked up the drink.
"Are you sure you want more of that?" Ethan asked.
"Yeah…I might have just needed to get used to it." Lux said, afraid to actually say no.
"If you say so man." Ethan replied and continued helping to make people drinks.
Lux went to go to the living room and sat on his couch. It was a really uncomfortable couch but he couldn't afford a better one. He was saving up to get this awesome sword he saw in the catalogue. It had a gold blade and a black hilt with a ruby at the end. It cost a lot but he really wanted it. He took another sip of his drink.
BOOM. Another massive headache followed, his vision started to blur now and he started to grow more panicked. He curled up on the couch to try to help the headache but it didn't seem to work. Lux looked around for a friend of his and he called her over.
"Could you get me some water?" He asked.
The girl smirked and went to get him one. Lux started to think better than to ask her, she was never really one of his good friends and continuously pulled pranks on him. He just hoped she would be serious this one time.
The girl came back and handed him the water, "If you need anything else just call me." She said, smirked again and left to go talk to her friends.
Lux waited a bit and looked over at them, they started to laugh but they didn't point at him so he just shrugged and took a drink of the water.
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BOOM. A massive headache followed after a few seconds of taking a sip. Lux groaned softly, but still some people heard, one of them left to go get Ethan. Lux's vision started fading from complete blackness to blurry, his headache started to get worse and worse.
Ethan ran up and kneeled next to the couch, "Dude you okay? You don't look good at all."
"I-I'm fine…just…getting used to…the drink…" Lux said curling up, his headache being tremendous now.
"Don't lie to me man, you need me to tell these people to go home so you can just chill in the quiet?" Ethan asked concerned.
"Let them enjoy themselves bro…I can deal with it…" Lux said, his vision had now gone almost completely dark.
"It's your party man, but anytime you want me to call of the party just tell me alright?" Ethan said hoping his friend would get better.
Lux looked at were Ethan was kneeling and said, "Sure…sure…."
Ethan got up and looked at him one more time and walked off.
Lux's vision had now become completely black; he hated to not see anything but he didn't really worry about that right now. His headache hurt him so much; he could feel himself slipping away every time it hit his head.
His hearing started to give out until all he could hear was someone softly whisper, "Welcome to Ooo."
He was going to ask a question but he felt the last of him slip away into the darkness.
AN: So tell me what you guys think, please read and review. Next chapter will have a lot more interesting stuff.