Currently listening to – True to Me, Metro Station
Quick review on the first chapter, I know it was a little slow, but believe this chapter has the goods coming. Bree gets asked to Formal so she can go with her best friend Sara.
Slow huh?
When: Winter Formal night
"Wow." Was all he said.
"It's okay right?" I asked nervously.
"WOW. It's perfect. You look so pretty. Wow." Marcus said again. He shuffled a bag around him and pulled out a corsage. It was simple like my dress, but still beautiful. It had little white rosebuds coming out of the neutral green leaves. Marcus looked pretty good. He had a well fitted tuxedo, with a tie matching my cream white dress; I just couldn't bring myself to tell him that.
We followed Ethan and Sara, arm in arm, to the small limo filled with other people, such as Jessica and Justin, who making out in the back… lovely.
30 minutes, after dancing like maniacs in the cramped spaces and taking turns sticking heads out of the sun roof, we arrived to the Cabin Lodge outside of the Olympia Mountain Range.
"OH MEE GOSHH! LOOK AT THOSE LIGHTS! AND THE STARS! Wow that dress is really trampy..." Sara screamed continuously.
We walked through the doors and into a roomful of bodies sweating and pumping to the beat.
"AHH THAT'S MY JAM!" Sara screamed and dragged Ethan onto the floor.
"So you want to dance?" a handsome voice whispered in my ear.
I turned to Marcus "Yeah, after this song. I just want to take this in"
2 hours later
After 4 slow dances and countless upbeat dances, Marcus and I slumped into the chairs outside the floor and took a breather. We sipped our punches and talked. We talked about my life, and his life, what freshmen year was like for him and then finally, I asked him,
"Why did you ask me to Formal?"
He sighed. "I just wanted to"
"That's it? Nothing special?"
"Well…" he averted his eyes away from my gaze. "How about we just go dance again?"
"You're hiding something from me."
"No I'm not, now lets go dance" he retorted back.
"Yes you are! You're not telling me why! I just asked a simple question for a reason you asked me!" I yelled over the music.
"You really want to know! I like you! Yeah that's right! But then Sara spreaded all these rumors about you being a whore and partying like one and getting drunk every night! I got scared and I stopped my feelings to you! Then, Formal came up and I had no one to go with! Sara said why didn't I ask you, you were a real party girl and I would have lots of "fun" if you got drunk enough" he said using air quotes around "fun".
My eyes widened in horror.
"Fun?" I mouthed.
"Yes FUN, but you're not really. That's why I asked you, I wanted to see if you really would put yourself to me."
I sighed in relief. I knew Sara gossiped but I didn't think she would about me. Some best friend.
"Oh. Thanks. Uh, how about I dance with you one more time and I go find Sara and talk to her about these rumors?" I asked.
"How about now? She's coming towards us."
"Sure. I promise, I'll talk, then its just you and me the rest of the night" I smiled.
"I'd like that" he smiled back.
I got up and grabbed Sara by her arm and walked to the door.
"Hey are you having fun?" she asked.
"I'm okay. I have to talk to you about something Marcus said" we got outside and I faced her.
"Did you spread rumors about me being "fun?" emphasizing "fun"
"Of course not." She answered "That would be so mean and untrue."
"Are you sure? Cause Marcus said you did."
"Come on Bree, you really believe him? Come on what happened to hoes over bros? You're gonna believe a guy instead of your best friend for life?"
"You do gossip quite a lot, maybe school got too mellow for you to say anything so you made stuff up about me." I answered back.
"I didn't!" she yelled at me.
"Are you sure? Swear on our friendship?"
"I swear."
"You swear swear swear, on everything important to your life, like Ethan and your iPod?"
She cringed at Ethan's name, and finally cracked.
"OKAY YOU KNOW WHAT!? MARCUS WAS SUPPOSE TO ASK ME, I WAS SUPPOSE TO GO WITH HIM! YOU WERE SUPPOSE TO GO WITH ETHAN. HE'S NOT EVEN CUTE! I DON'T DESERVE HIM! I DESERVE MARCUS NOT HIM! I AM TOO PRETTY FOR HIM! ME ME ME AND MARCUS! LOOK AT YOU! YOU'RE JUST A LESS HOT VERSION OF ME! YOU DON'T DESERVE MARCUS!" she screamed and started sobbing. People started staring and I wrapped her arm on her shoulder and led her closer to the trees to avoid attention. She sobbed into my shoulder " H-HE SHOUL-D-D HAV-VE BEE-N MI-INE!"
I had nothing to say.
20 minutes passed, and she finally stopped. She sniffled every now and then apologizing for what she had done.
"I was just so mad and jealous. I had to get him." She explained. "So I started talking about you, I'm so sorry. I'm a horrible person and an even worse friend." She cried again.
I remained silent. We stood there together.
What seemed like another 10 minutes had passed, we were still there. It was quiet, since we walk 20 feet into the forest.
All the sudden there were noises. Someone was brushing against the pine needles on the ground. Assuming it was the wind, I kept silent, letting Sara cry a little more. The pine needles brushed again, and I kept ignoring. But it came back.
"Hey, Sara how about we go back inside? I'm getting scared out here…" I asked.
"huuh? Oh yeah sure." She choked out.
We walked a few feet and then,
"Oh dear, where oh where can be going?" a voice called out.
We turned around and faced a animal-like woman. She stood like a lioness, proud, hungry, terrifying. My eyes gazed up to her fierce orange hair. It blew gently, but still emit the fear it hoped for. I moved my gaze lower to her eyes, a bright blood red. I shivered as her gaze pierced me repeatedly. Sara shivered also, no doubt seeing those eyes and the fire hair.
"Heehee, I think they were just about to leave our little party. We can't let that happen can we?" another voice rang. We turned again and stared into another pair of bright blood eyes. Except this time, it was a boy, a few years older than me. With blond hair, he was beautiful despite those eyes. Pale skin, god-like features, just like the woman, those same eyes, terrified me. Every cell in me begged me to leave, but my body wouln't respond. I felt the nerves rampaging my body, trying to force it to leave, but nothing. I stood there frozen alongside Sara.
"Uh. We were just about to go back to our dance.." Sara explained.
"Oh no, I'm afraid that won't be possible. Not today, not ever. You see, you're one of us now." The feline woman, all the sudden appeared to the blond boys side. She grinned a vicious smile.
"Now now, my mistress. Which one would you like tonight, my fair lady?"
"I want to one in the white. She's scared off her mind. Handle the other one Riley."
His name was Riley, the blond boy, Riley, a name fit for him and his boyish looks. The fire hair moved away from him, slowly approaching me. Riley followed his mistress.
"Now, now, children, this will only hurt a little bit" she smirked.
I screamed, and Sara screamed right after, I felt it sinking, my shoulder, started bursting into flames, I imagined the cat womans hair inside my shoulder, burning it with its fiery might. I heard Sara scream and wriggle all around. Then, we were flying. Flying but burning.
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Fin. Wait till the next chapter. I know the first 2 were slow, but I hope it's getting more interesting. (:
