Waking Up! – Chapter 2
Julie slid her key out of the door and entered her house. Walking into the living room she put her bag down on the table and turned to face her parents who were standing in the kitchen silently looking at her.
"Before you say anything, I know I wasn't supposed to stay the night, but it got really late. I should have called. I'm sorry."
Please buy that! Julie prayed, but knowing her parents she highly doubted it.
"Did you hear that, Eric? She knows she was supposed to come home." Tami Taylor said with sarcasm.
"Mmm, hmm. I sure did, Tami. Supposed to call, too." Eric Taylor said taking a sip of his coffee.
"Well, she did say she was sorry."
"I heard that too, but I'm just a bit confused. Could you help me out a little here, Julie?" Eric asked. "Are you sorry that you disobeyed us, made us worry, or that you got caught?"
Crap. She was too hung over to deal with this.
"Mom. Dad. It's not a big deal. I was just over at Tyra's and we got to talking, it got late and I crashed."
I so wish that was true.
"Talking? Talking is what made you look like you tumbled around in the yard for awhile?" Tami asked with disdain.
God, just how terrible do I look? Julie had to think fast. "We played a stupid game of hide and seek."
"Oh, Julie! How dumb do you think we are? Hide and seek?!"
"No, Mom, really! Landry and Matt came over and we got to talking and then somehow we got the idea to play it in the dark. I hid in a shed, which was stupid, because that was the first place Landry looked and yeah, I got a little dirty."
Julie hoped the ridiculousness of her story was just crazy enough to believe. She was a worried at how quickly she was coming up with the lies and started to feel a little guilty.
"How much did you have to drink last night, young lady?" Eric asked through clenched teeth.
"Nothing, Dad. I promise." Another lie. This was becoming scarily easy.
"I don't buy it. I'll tell you that right now, Missy!" Tami fumed, slamming her hand down on the counter. Her outburst woke a sleeping Gracie Belle. Tami flashed Julie an angry look and stormed off to pick up the crying baby.
"Dad, really, we just hung out and I fell asleep."
Oh, yeah, and before that I lost my virginity to Tim Riggins in the back of his truck. Julie tried to keep it together, but was loosing her grip on her emotions fairly quick. The reality of what she had done was bubbling to the surface and it wasn't pretty. She watched as her dad paced back and forth in the kitchen.
"You have to stop doing things like this, Julie. I know you have to test our boundaries as some damn right of passage or something, but you're burning up your chances."
Standing still, she did her best to look solemn as her father continued.
"You know I had to stop her from driving out there and dragging you home."
"What?!" Julie horrifyingly exclaimed. She couldn't even begin to think of the nightmare that would have wrought.
"Look, we're all tired. Go and get cleaned up and I'm telling you, stay out of your mother's way today. We're not done with this either, but I think we all need to calm down a little, or at least your mom does."
Julie nodded. "I am sorry, Dad."
He gave her a curt nod and motioned her out of the room. Julie quickly turned, grabbed her bag and ran to the bathroom. Turning on the shower she began to frantically remove her clothes. She caught sight of herself in the mirror and stopped to look at her reflection.
Her mind reeled and tears started to roll down her cheeks. She had sex with Tim Riggins. The biggest manwhore she knew and in the back of his truck no less. How had her plan gone awry? She had no intention of taking it as far as that. She tried hard to remember the previous night. The party had gotten out of control pretty fast. She vaguely recalled doing shots, Cherry Bombs or something like that. She knew Red Bull was in them, but couldn't remember the liquor. Then Matt showed up. She went to talk to him, but he was still being indifferent toward her. That damn Carlotta had been gone for a few months now and he was being so stupid.
"Oh my god!" She exclaimed as the memory came.
"Whatever, Matt. You're not the only guy in Dillon." She said with a toss of her hair. Turning around she spied Tim Riggins sitting on the couch with a cup of beer and some skank laying across his lap. Julie wanted to hurt Matt and Tim would do just fine plus being a safe bet. Strutting over to the couch she looked at the girl with hatred pouring out of her eyes.
"You're services are no longer required here. Move along."
The girl looked at Julie with shock and quickly looked to Tim.
"You heard her, honey." Tim replied callously, causing the girl to storm off while flipping a quick middle finger to both of them.
Julie took the now vacant seat next to Tim.
"Hey, Tim Riggins."
"Hey back, Julie Taylor." An obviously trashed Tim replied.
"Having fun?"
"I am now."
Flirting with Tim was coming too easy. She hadn't let herself think about the random pangs she had felt for him while he was living with them and they hadn't had much interaction since he left their house, but she knew he could be useful in making Matt jealous.
Julie closed her eyes, it got a little foggy after that. Her cell began to vibrate and her incoming message tone sounded. She flipped open her phone to see a text from Tyra.
CALL ME!! 911!!
Letting out a long sigh Julie pressed the speed dial for her friend's cell. Tyra picked up on the first ring.
"Holy shit, Julie! What the fuck were you thinking? Don't answer that, obviously you weren't. He didn't hurt you, did he? No, Tim wouldn't do that. Did he?!"
"No, he didn't hurt me." Julie said through her tears.
"Julie, you do know the bed of a pickup isn't exactly private, right?"
"Oh, god! Did anyone see us? Does Matt know?" Julie sputtered.
"It wasn't so much what people saw, more like what they heard."
Julie was mortified. She was never drinking again. Even though she told herself that before, she was serious this time. That probably wouldn't matter though because if her parents found out she and Tim were both dead.
"What am I going to do? Why didn't you stop me? My parents are going to kill me."
"I only found out about this from Landry a few minutes ago. When I didn't see you anymore I thought you went home, you know, like you were supposed to."
Julie knew Tyra wasn't trying to make things worse, but that dig didn't help her sense of shame.
"This is great, now I'm just some random slut who let Tim Riggins pop her cherry." Julie sobbed.
"You did go all the way? Honey, how the hell did this happen?"
"I don't know." Julie said closing her eyes. That wasn't exactly true.
"You have to try this!" Julie said shoving the shot glass of whiskey and the cup with Red Bull in front of Tim. They had migrated to a corner of the kitchen while most of the people had gone out back to where Landry's band had set up.
"Nah, I'm a beer guy tonight." Tim said pushing it back.
"Oh, what? You're going to let a chick out drink you? Some big, tough guy you are. The mighty Tim Riggins being bested by a girl. Come on, pick it up and drop it in, and you HAVE to chug it. Don't wimp out on me." She said with a raised eyebrow. She knew Tim couldn't resist a challenge.
"You're on, little Taylor." He said picking up the shot glass. "One."
"Twwwwooooo." Julie said with a naughty, lustful look in her eye.
"Three." They both said dropping the shot in the glass and upending their cups.
"Christ! That's awful." Tim said slamming his glass down.
"Awfully good, right?!" Julie laughed. "Ready for another one?"
"How about this instead?" Tim said pulling her in for a crushing kiss. A kiss she recalled that was pretty spectacular.
"Julie! Julie, are you still there?"
Julie snapped back to reality. "Yeah, yeah...sorry. Let me call you back, OK?"
Julie closed her phone without waiting for Tyra to answer. She knew she was going to have to fix this and Tim was going to have to help her whether he liked it or not. Hell, she'd lied her ass off to her parents already today, it shouldn't be to hard to work that drunk bastard.
Julie finished her shower and went to her room to get dressed. She heard a knock on her door and her mother entered.
"Mom..." She started.
"No, let me talk. I know you're hiding something, Julie, and while I'm sorry I flew off the handle before, you have to know you're better than this, sweetheart."
"Nothing happened, Mom. It's just..."
"Just what? You can talk to me. Is it Matt?" Tami said in a desperately pleading voice.
Julie hated to take advantage of her mom like this, she knew that since the mix up about her driver's license her mom was trying harder to connect with her, but she needed to have the flexibility of not being grounded for eternity. Maybe her mom would go easy on her if she thought Matt was involved.
"Things are just weird, Mom. I, I'm just trying to figure them out." That wasn't a lie, but Julie knew it was misdirection.
"Well, your dad and I have to take Gracie in for a check-up. We'll be home later and we can talk about it, OK? I expect you to be here when we get back."
Julie nodded. That worked out perfect for her. After her family left Julie stormed out of the house and headed toward Tim's. The entire way there she was fuming, she was angry at herself, but even more angry at him for taking advantage of her. He was going to pay for this and he could either do it the easy way or the hard way, she just prayed he took the bait. Arriving at his front door she began pounding.
AN: Planning this out with WhoJ was a riot. Hopefully reading it is as much fun. Thanks to those who reviewed (we love you) and hey, if you haven't yet, why not do it today? :)