At 6:30 AM exactly, Chris Sabin's alarm clock went off. Chris was able to turn the alarm off immediately seeing as he was already awake. The young man had a very hard time sleeping last night due to catching some sort of sickness. He was defiantly still feeling a pounding headache, when his phone rang he could feel the sound in his brain.
"Hello?" he answered groggily, "Hey man, it's Jimmy" "What's up Jim?" Chris continued the conversation as he got dressed in comfortable clothes for school. Deciding on a sweatshirt and track pants since he really didn't feel well.
"You alright man? You sound a little tired." "I think I'm getting sick" and as if on cue, went into a fit of sneezing. "God bless you, man" Jimmy said politely, before holding the phone away from his face opting not to listen to his friend blow his nose.
"We're coming to pick you up, be ready." Jimmy shut his cell phone, looking over at Alex. "Kid sounds a mess." Alex just shook his head, "We have band practice tomorrow" he simply said, lighting his cigarette.
Jimmy couldn't help but roll his eyes at his friends comment, knowing Chris would have done the same thing had he been here. Chris and Jimmy had always felt connected to each other out of the group of three, in that they were both a bit more mature than their friend Alex, but their was no denying the fact that Alex and Chris were like brothers. They kept each other balanced out and it was clear to everyone that the two were best friends.
As the two pulled up to Chris' house, their friend was already standing at the mailbox waiting for them to pick him up.
"Thanks for the ride man" Chris slid into the backseat, lying down across it almost immediately. Seeing his best friend, Alex turned around in the passenger seat to face him. Alex watched as Chris lay on his stomach coughing into the sleeve of his sweatshirt in the back of the car.
"You don't look so good." Chris turned to face his friend, Alex, "I don't feel so good either dude" he said rudely before reaching into the front and turning the loud radio off, "I've got a killer headache, I can't breathe, my throat is on fire, I'm so dizzy I could throw up and worst of all, I didn't get a minute of sleep last night."
"Suck it up, you're starting to sound like Jimmy – Becky doesn't love me, what am I to do with my poor pathetic life, wah wah wah." The youngest of the three was met by two dirty looks by the remaining members of the car.
He sighed, letting a cocky smile peek threw, "lighten up, I'm only kidding, feel better Chris" Alex nodded to his best friend as he stepped out of the passenger seat of Jimmy's car into the school parking lot, "and Jimmy?" the smug brunette waited until Jimmy turned to face him, "your girl wants me".
Alex smiled and hopped on his skateboard, rolling up to the front of the school before the other 2 boys even got out of the car. Chris looked from across the parking lot at his friend, who kicked his board up into his hands as an attempt to impress a group of younger blondes walking by.
Kelly shot Alex Shelley a weak smile as he did a skateboarding trick right in front of her and her best friend, Tiffany. After they were out of view of the dark haired boy, she rolled her eyes and snickered with the fellow blonde.
"So Chris is having a party tonight, want to get ready at my house?" Kelly asked her friend, as the two walked arm in arm into the school. "He's having a party? But it's a Wednesday." "Come on Tiffany, Frankie told me that Adam Copeland has been asking about you." Kelly nudged the younger blonde and winked, "he's one of Chris's best friends, he's gonna be there tonight."
Tiffany wasn't surprised that Adam had been asking about her, she noticed him staring at her in art class, she just couldn't understand what he would want with her, Adam was a senior, and popular, and Tiffany, while not unpopular, had only just moved here last year and hadn't made many friends, maybe this was a good chance for her.
"Fine, I'll be at your house at 6 to get ready." "Great!" Kelly smiled, "Well, I've got class" Tiffany walked away from her best friend to head to her first period class of the day.
Madison stared at the empty chair to the right of her, before checking the time on her blackberry. "Velvet, where's Lacey?" "Don't know, don't care" Velvet sighed, reading the text that came into her inbox only seconds before.
Madison scoffed, at Velvet, what has been her problem lately? She quickly shook off her friends' attitude, and leaned a little closer to her. "Did you hear about Chris Jericho's party tonight?" "I'm going with AJ" Velvet responded in a monotone, not even bothering to look up from her phone.
The small blonde rolled her eyes at Velvets bitchiness, it wasn't exactly out of character for her friend but it was still unnecessary, but at the same time, Madison couldn't help but be a little jealous that Velvet was already going on a date with AJ. Of course Velvet was beautiful, like Madison, and no guy in this school would turn them down, but Madison had only just proposed Velvet going for AJ and they're already going on a date.
She thought of Adam, and that she hasn't even talked to him since deciding he was going to be her next boyfriend. Madison knew for a fact that he would be at Chris's party tonight, so she had to look good.
"How about shopping after school?" She leaned over to Velvet once again, only to get another rude remark. "Me and Lacey are getting manicures" Velvet looked up to see Madison taken a back a bit and she soaked up every minute of it. Madison was always bossing the other two girls around, and had even proclaimed herself the 'leader' of their little group.
Madison had enough, and snapped at her so-called friend in a little above a whisper, so the rest of the class couldn't here. "Lacey isn't even here, Velvet!" The recipient of the remark raised her eyebrows, "There she is now." Madison followed Velvets eye line out the window, where they could view Senior Parking Lot.
Are you kidding me? Madison thought to herself, she couldn't believe what she was seeing. Frankie Kazarian's sleek black Escalade whipping into the parking lot as though he thought he was in an action movie. Lacey emerged from the passenger seat, her unmistakable blonde hair flew around in the wind a little bit. She laughed in an innocent way, holding her hair down with hands.
Frankie came around the other side of the car and pulled Lacey under his arm, placing his baseball hat on her head and kissing her, right there in the parking lot.
Madison's jaw must've hit the floor from what she just witness, was she really the one left out of her friends? Although Velvet wasn't acting like much of a friend right now, she knew sweet Lacey wouldn't be as cold as the much more independent Velvet. She knew still something had to change, she wasn't going to put up with whatever was going on for much longer.
Austin sat on the couch of his apartment with his good friend Jack Evans, as the two passed a joint back and forth. The two juniors decided to skip school today, while Austin's girlfriend Cayden went for the day. It was a rare occasion that the two of them weren't together, but Austin couldn't be bothered to go to school today.
"Someone's at the door, bro" Jack nodded his head toward the door; Austin sighed and got up, dragging his feet all the way to the door, groggily answering it. His mood perked up when he saw his beautiful girlfriend leaning up against the door frame "Forgot my key, sorry".
"Babe...I uhh... wasn't...expect-" "Austin, are you stoned?" He smiled, leaning down to kiss Cayden. He gave her a small laugh, "Baby, I couldn't tell you how many blunts I smoked today." Cayden smiled at her boyfriend, he was so cute without even trying.
Austin took notice to the two girls, standing off to the side of his girlfriend. He recognized one of them as Becky Bayless; he was sort of friends with her ex-boyfriend, Jimmy, though he was in a grade above him and Cayden.
Becky was one of Caydens only girlfriends, most of the time she was just one of the boys, and Austin was almost positive that's why her and Becky got a long so well. He always saw the younger of the two, hanging out with Chris and Alex, even her ex-boyfriend, Jimmy.
The other girl he didn't recognize, he was sure he'd never seen her at school before, but it was a good possibility that she did go to their school, it wasn't very often that Austin actually went to his classes.
"Hi Becky" Austin gave the brunette a toothy smiley. She smiled back and returned the hello, also introducing him to the blonde, "This is Kaitlyn, she's new to town". "Hello" Austin said, almost brushing off the introduction, grabbing his girlfriends hand and guiding her into the house. "Girls, you can come in."
Kaitlyn followed Becky into the living room area, where the two were making small talk with Jack. "Are you going to Jericho's party tonight?" Jack shook his head, "Nah, I gotta work, I heard Austin saying something about it though."
"Yeah, we're going." Austin and Cayden emerged from the bedroom, hand in hand, "You two can catch a ride with us if you want." "Actually, we're going with Jimmy and Alex" Becky said flatly, "You and Jimmy? Back together again?" Austin and Becky were having a nice back and forth conversation, "No, but he's my friend and so is Alex."
Cayden rolled her eyes listening into their conversation, she sometimes wondered if Becky had even liked Jimmy in the first place. Cayden looked across the room at Kaitlyn, who was joking around with Jack, the two had just met minutes before but by looking at them you would have guessed they were life long friends.
Although Becky had only just introduced Cayden herself to the blonde today, Cayden already considered her a friend; she must just have that effect on people. "Cay?" She quickly looked across the room to Jack, who was calling her name, "You mind dropping me off at home? I have work in a bit." "No problem at all" she smiled at him, grabbing her keys off the table. Jack was probably Cayden and Austin's best friend; little favors like this were kind of expected of each other.
"Ill drive him baby, I gotta run to the package store. You'd think I was the only kid in this town with a fake." Austin joked; referring to him having a fake I.D. he's been providing alcohol to every ones party since he was 15. "This way you can hang out with your friends too." Cayden threw her boyfriend the keys and gave him a quick kiss goodbye, "Bye Jack" "Damn, I'm high" Jack mumbled as he stood up, putting on his jacket and sunglasses, "Bye sweetheart, have a fun night. Bye girls"
"I'm gonna get it in tonight, bro" "That's what I'm talkin' about man" Frankie fist pounded his older friend, Adam, as the two walked into Chris Jericho's house. The two boys agreed to go a little early to help Chris set up a little bit. "Who's the lucky lady gonna be? Tiff or Madison?" Frankie joked with his friend, as he threw a pack of cups and a bag of ping pong balls on the table. "We'll see, man."
"Hello? Anyone here?" "In here!" Chris called out to the voice. Austin Aries appeared carrying 2 brown bags, presumably filled with different types of liquor and beer. "Oh thanks man, what do I owe you?" "80's good" Chris pulled out his wallet and handed Austin some money. "You staying to hang out?" Austin put out his cigarette in the ashtray on the table and nodded, "lemme just go home and grab my girl, then we'll chill." The boys said goodbye and Chris went into the other room where Adam and Frankie were still setting up.
"Who was that?" "Just Austin, he went to the package store for me" "Who?" Adam asked, looking threw what Austin had picked up for the party. "Aries, the one who dates Cayden" Frankie answered his friends question. Adam smiled to himself, "Do you know everything about everyone?" Chris interrupted the two, "He still dates Cayden? I don't get why such a hot girl would be with such a tool."
Frankie laughed, "She's a dirty bitch if you ask me, doesn't matter though, he's got her all wifed up." The boys all joked around and continued their boy talk, before an influx of people started to come in. In just a short amount a time they had a pretty good party started. Everyone was dancing, or drinking, some people were talking to each other, some were playing beer pong, and everyone was just having a good time.
"We look great" Lacey said as her and Madison walked into the party together, Madison nodded in agreement. Lacey immediately spotted Velvet and AJ talking with her new man, Frankie, AJ with his arm around Velvet. Lacey scurried over and put her hands over Frankie's eyes, "Guess who?" Madison could hear her say from all the way across the party. Madison scanned the room for Adam, and spotted him playing pool with his best friend Christian.
"Well, there's one thing I miss about high school" Christian said, nudging Adam in the ribs, "Madison Rayne's rack, damn, she is so fine." "You think so?" Christian nodded, "Oh yeah." Adam looked at Madison up and down, she did look great tonight, not a hard task for her. He thought about it, and didn't think of a time that she didn't look great.
"Boys" Madison smiled, grabbing a pool stick that was leaning against the wall, "mind if I join your game?" "Go right ahead" "Be my guest" Both boys seem almost dumbfounded by her presence, this was going to be easy, Madison thought to herself, leaning over the pool table.
"Chris couldn't make it tonight?" Becky leaned toward Alex to talk over the loud music. "He's sick, so I made sure to look good enough for both you ladies". Jimmy rolled his eyes, secretly wishing that Chris was here so he wouldn't have to listen to Alex hit on his ex-girlfriend all night.
"Sup Jimmy? Alex?" Austin greeted both the boys with his arms wrapped, "Hi girls". All four said hello to Austin and Cayden. Austin stuck out his hand for Jimmy to give him daps; when they were close enough Austin took the chance to whisper to him. "You got anything man?" He shook his head, "I don't fuck around like that anymore, sorry my dude". Austin told him not to worry about it, and told the rest of the group he'll see them around.
Cayden grabbed his arm before the 2 walked off together, Alex watched as they danced together only feet away, Cayden really knew how to move.
Tiffany couldn't have felt like more of a third wheel as she stood with Chris and Kelly, who were being all lovey dovey with each other. She looked across the room and saw Adam dancing, Madison Rayne's ass completely in his lap as she moved up and down in front of him, I guess Kelly was wrong about him being interested in her.
Suddenly she noticed him looking right back at her, and he flashed her a big white smile, she turned away quickly then realized how lame that made her seem so she slowly turned back around to see him still looking at her. She sent him a smile back and the two had a fixed gaze on each other.
"Who are you looking at? Tiff? Tiffany?" Kelly was being ignored by her best friend, but was able to figure out who the other blonde was concentrating on when she looked across the party and saw Adam Copeland winking in their direction. "What a skank" Kelly turned to her older boyfriend, "Babe, your friends have horrible taste in girls".
Chris looked around the room to see Adam dancing with Madison, and AJ and Frankie both with their arms around Velvet and Lacey. All of the three girls were gorgeous in his own opinion, but he was smooth and knew how to talk to his girlfriend.
"Not everyone can have a girlfriend as pretty as mine." Tiffany rolled her eyes; she wasn't sure how Kelly couldn't see threw Chris's sweet talk. "Isn't he adorable?" Kelly squealed, pinching his cheeks with a huge smile on her face.
"You girls should come to our next practice" AJ suggested as he and his best friend sat with two of the hottest girls in school. Velvet knew she would not be caught dead going to one of those practices, a game maybe, but her time would not be wasted watching these boys run drills. "I was thinking we could go on my Daddy's boat instead" Lacey nodded in agreement to her best friend.
"Baby girl, it's getting kinda late" Frankie took a hold of Laceys hand, "You wanna go back to my place for the night? I'm starting to get tired" Lacey saw Madison sitting with Adam, both of them laughing, and figured it was probably okay if she left with Frankie, even though the two girls had arrived together. The tall blonde grabbed her purse, "I'll just go tell Madison I don't need a ride home" "Sounds good" Frankie kissed her and gave her a light tap on the butt, sending her in the direction of her friend.
"Hey sexy!" Madison stood up giving Lacey a smooch on the cheek. It was clear to Lacey that her friend was wasted. "I'm gonna go, Frankie's giving me a ride", "Kazarian? He was supposed to be my ride." Adam looked at Lacey for some kind of answer, but the sweet blonde didn't quite know what to say.
"Madison will bring you home, right Maddy?" Frankie appeared out of no where, putting his arm around Lacey. Adam thought about it, he wouldn't mind going home with Madison, she was smokin' hot, but he couldn't help but continue to make eyes with Tiffany. He knew he had to keep his options open.
"I don't think you're sober enough to drive, sweetheart, I'm not getting in your car tonight" Adam scanned the room for another option, Christian was chugging something out of a funnel, he spotted Austin, the younger boy who brought the bottles before, dancing with his girlfriend, AJ making out with Velvet Sky by the speakers, Jimmy Jacobs and Alex Shelley owning 2 sophomores in beer pong, his eyes traveled and became fixed on Tiffany, as her and Kelly danced with each other, twirling around and laughing. What a beautiful girl she really was, "I'll get a ride, don't worry about it, go have fun with your girl" "Thanks man".
The party slowly started to dwindle down, but a few guests still remained, having a good time. "Have I told you how great you look tonight?" "Only about 6 times" Becky giggled at Alex, he was cute, but he tried to hard. "Sorry" he gave her a small smile, Becky's fix on him softened a little bit, she really liked when Alex acted like a normal highschooler, and not some pick up artist.
Alex bit his bottom lip, trying to think of something to talk about, "Your friend, Kaitlyn, she's cool". Becky nodded, "She's a blast to hang out with too." "Yeah, it seems like it, I'm sure Chris would think so too, once he's feeling a little better." "You wanna like, set them up? You think he'd be into her?" Becky asked, a little bit weirded out that Alex was so focused on setting their friends up, she had known Alex for a while, and he was never one to really care about others, but maybe Chris was an exception to him.
"For sure, we could do like a double date type thing" His motive was revealed, "Oh, a date?" Becky joked. Alex quickly stiffened up, becoming nervous almost, something that never happened to him, but he played it cool. "You want them to be comfortable don't you?" "Sure, it's a date."