TRIS POV
It's 5 o'clock right now. I'm at my best friend Christina's house, with my other friends Marlene and Shauna. Although Shauna is two years older than the rest of us, she still hangs with us. I am the youngest of all of us, the shortest, and the least outgoing. That's why for my 21st birthday I am being taken to one of the only clubs I will enter. This club, 'Divergence', is run by my mum's friend from university, Tori. Tori and my mum Natalie studied early together and then branched off, Tori doing art and business, my mum doing nursing.
I have just been dressed by Christina in a short, and I mean short, like above mid-thigh, silver dress and six inch silver pumps. Christina then passed me onto Marlene, who curled my long blonde hair and added a tight silver head band, to keep the curls from falling into my face and annoying me. Shauna swept me out of my bedroom and into the hall, where Christina keeps a full length mirror. She stood me in front of it and I was shocked. I looked like a ball of silver, but in a good way.
"Tris, you're striking!" Christina exclaimed coming out of the bedroom with Marlene.
These are the only times that I really believed her, when the girls dressed me up like this. Most people would think that they treat me like a personal Barbie, but when I see results like these, I would offer to be their Barbie every Friday night.
"C'mon girls, let's get going, we have to be there soon enough anyway." Marlene told us looking at her watch.
~~~~~~PAGE BREAK~~~~~~
When we arrived at 'Divergence' we entered through Tori's back door. Tori had expressed many times that we are her friends and that her friends don't pay. We come almost every Friday night and the occasional Saturday. All the employees know us, bartenders, waitresses, even the DJ. I probably wouldn't know the DJ as well as I do, but one night last year, it was time for karaoke, and they did a 'spotlight search'. They pick random people to sing, some duets, some singular. Out of hundreds, what would be the chance I would be picked. But I was chosen, and sang, and so I convinced the girls next week to get up and sing with me, and we've sung almost every week since.
We entered and said a quick hello to Bud, the DJ.
"I hope I'll see you girls later tonight." Bud told us.
"You will Bud, and I have the perfect song picked out for us." Christina said, and then we walked away onto the dance floor.
"OMG! Guys turn around." Christina cried.
We all turned and Marlene shrieked, "Look at them. Oh gosh…"
"Guys, don't stare they can see you." I tried to explain, "Guys… Hello? Are you listening to me…?"
"Shit! They're looking at us oh God." Shauna shrieked loudly, causing the four guys to laugh and multiple bystanders to watch us confused, as my friends shot back around to stare at me sheepishly. I couldn't help but laugh at their faces, and I noticed the guys behind them chuckling silently too. This gave me a chance to take a long glance at them. Four guys, one of which stood out to me like a sore thumb. He was tall, dark haired and looked awfully strong. Like the other guys, he wore black, more specifically, a tight black singlet that showed off his six pack. Tris, what are you doing? Stop checking him out! It's not like someone like him would look at a guy like me, short and young looking, I mean, I look about twelve years old.
~~~~~~PAGE BREAK~~~~~~
"And now, we would like to welcome back my personal favourite karaoke group, four young girls returning to the Divergence stage, Shauna, Christina, Marlene and Tris!" Bud called.
We walked out onto the stage listening to the sound of the audience's applause. We all stood in a line with our backs facing the crowd when Bud begun the music.
Christina started the song.
Oh Yeah…
Been watching the clock tick away
From one up to two and now three
I just wanna get out…
Let's go out, out, let's go out, out
Right now…
Right right now now, right right now now…
Marlene took over.
I've got my stilettos on, on already
Can't wait to go see those fly fly guys get friendly right now
Let's go out, out, let's go out, out
Right now…
Right right now now, right right now now…
Then it was my turn sing.
So get your glamour on and let's go do it
Before I lose my mind
We all sang the chorus together.
Let's rock the good times
And live the high life
Girls in the house
Come live the glory
Let's tell a story
Girls in the house
Cuz' tonight, some night
Life's a beach so let's go hit the lights
And like a tiger
We'll bring the fire
We'll be the girls in the house
This time Shauna sang.
Woah
I've got all this fabulousness
I'm feeling for craziness tonight
Yeah tonight
I sang the next part.
So get your glamour on and let's go do it
Before I lose my mind
Again we all sang the chorus together.
Let's rock the good times
And live the high life
Girls in the house
Come live the glory
Let's tell a story
Girls in the house
Cuz' tonight, some night
Life's a beach so let's go hit the lights
And like a tiger
We'll bring the fire
We'll be the girls in the house
For the next part of the song we each sang a line each, one by one.
You know you like this crazy life and now it's time to live it
Let's go be free, come on with me
We'll turn it up so hot like it's our last time
Woah, like it's our last night
Woah, like it's our last chance
Woah, yeah whip your hair!
Let's rock the good times
And live the high life
Girls in the house
Come live the glory
Let's tell a story
Girls in the house
Cuz' tonight, some night
Life's a beach so let's go hit the lights
And like a tiger
We'll bring the fire
We'll be the girls in the house
As the music fades and we take our bows, the crowd erupts into applause we go to walk back off stage and onto the dance floor when Tori steps onto the stage and stops me from exiting. So as the girls walk away I am left standing on stage with Tori, all eyes on us.
"Well, first of all, let's give it up yet again for Shauna, Christina, Marlene and Tris!" She calls above the noise in the club and the audience cheers again, "But we would also like for everyone here to wish young Tris here, a very happy 21st birthday!" I thank everyone awkwardly and go to exit again when Marlene shouts from the crowd, "Sing!" That single word gets my other friends shouting, which in turn get almost the entire club going, so I take the microphone back from Tori and whisper the song I had in mind to Bud. He nods and goes to set it up.
Quarter past five and it feels like another dimension
Everybody knows that we're going out tonight
Somebody says no and that's when I remember to mention
We're gonna party party like its 1999
So pick me up lets go
Go far away from home
It doesn't matter where
Cuz baby I just wanna roam
We're putting on a show
Varieties and vouge
Let's do it let's do it let's do it
You can take the darkness outta the night
You can take the tick tock outta time
Go and take the angry outta the world
But you can't take the party
You can make a rocket blast into space
You can make the Earth into a better place
Go and give me diamonds rubies and pearls
But you can't take the party outta the girl
Paris in the spring
And New York in the middle of summer
I don't care where we go as long as everyone is there
And if it feels slow we'll dance until it sounds like thunder
And when the ground starts shaking that's when you'll know you'd better beware
So pick me up lets go
Go far away from home
It doesn't matter where
Cuz baby I just wanna roam
We're putting on a show
Varieties and vouge
Let's do it lets do it lets do it
You can take the darkness outta the night
You can take the tick tock outta time
Go and take the angry outta the world
But you can't take the party
You can make a rocket blast into space
You can make the Earth into a better place
Go and give me diamonds rubies and pearls
But you can't take the party outta the girl
Take me away from a bad day I just wanna play
You can take the darkness outta the night
You can take the tick tock outta time
Go and take the angry outta the world
But you can't take the party
You can make a rocket blast into space
You can make the Earth into a better place
Go and give me diamonds rubies and pearls
But you can't take the party outta the girl
But you can't take the party outta the girl
I sang a fun song, because that's the mood I was in. I took my bow and walked off stage in search of my friends. A slow song had started playing by now and as I walked through the dance floor, past all the happy couples, I saw a couple familiar faces, Christina was dancing with a blonde boy, who looked familiar. He was one of the boys she spotted before.
Marlene had her arms around another guy's neck smirking at me over his shoulder. I chuckled softly, gave her a slight smile, and she motioned toward Shauna, who was slow dancing with another one of the guys we saw earlier. She was talking with him happily. I wasn't planning on being a third wheel or in this case a seventh wheel. I went to talk to Max, one of the bartenders, who gave me a cocktail, wished me happy birthday and congratulated me on both my group song and individual.
I sat down and chatted to Max, him leaving occasionally to serve other customers. I was talking to him about not having a boyfriend, it wasn't awkward, I mean it's not like Max is interested in me or vice versa, he's like old enough to be my father. But anyway, he were talking about how I wasn't to bothered with trying to find a boyfriend, even though there were quite a few hot guys at the club tonight, when a guy sat down next to me. Not just a guy, but the guy. The guy tall, dark haired guy wearing the tight black singlet that shows his six pack.
