CHAPTER TWO
Mike, Neil and Vyvyan were all sitting at the table when they heard a loud scream upstairs.
"What's with him?" Mike asked not even looking up from his newspaper.
"I think he's hurt" Neil said looking tense.
"Go check on him Vyv" Mike ordered.
"Why is it always me?" he whined
"oh please Vyvyan, I'm the one who does all the cooking I'm the one who does all the cleaning but I never get any thanks or admirer-"
"SHUT UP NEIL!" Vyvyan shouted annoyed yanking the table leg off and smacking him with it, the rest of the table collapsed.
"Wow thanks Vyvyan, the tables fallen over!" Neil complained rubbing his sore head
Vyvyan stomped upstairs wanting to get away from Neil and kicked open Ricks door, Rick was lying in his bed completely tangled in the sheets and was covered in sweat.
"WHAT DO YOU WANT VYVYAN!" Rick shouted
"I DON'T WANT TO KNOW ANYTHING THEY JUST SENT ME UP HERE TO SEE WHY YOUR SCREAMING!"
"DON'T BE SUCH A HIPOCRAIT YOUR SCREAMING TOO, ITS GIVING ME A HEADACHE! "
"TOO BAD! TELL MY WHY YOU WERE YELLING BEFORE I GOT HERE!"
"Oh, I uh…I just had a very bad dream that's all…" Rick said looking distracted. "It's nothing just.. GET OUT SO I CAN CHANGE PEWRVERT!"
Vyvyan smirked then walked back downstairs, Neil was currently trying to fix the table but it just kept falling over.
"Oh leave it Neil! Besides it looks better that way!"
"but Vyv were am I going to put the lentil casserole?" Neil said like it was the most important thing in the world.
"nobody cares about your bloody lentil casserole!" Vyvyan said sitting on the couch.
Rick came down the stairs and stopped starring at the table.
"Vyvyan!" he yelled angerly, Vyvyan flipped Rick off lazily.
Rick sat in his usual chair and starred down at the flattened table.
"Never had any food to eat on this table anyways…" Rick mumbled.
He looks so sad and defeated! What did Alex and Jack do to him! Vyvyan thought peeking over the couch looking at Rick.
"What are you starring at Vyvyan?" Rick snapped at Vyvyan folding his arms and leaning into the chair.
"Nothing, ya just look sad!" Vyvyan said in his usual cracked voice
Rick glared at him then went back to his sulking.
The phone suddenly started to ring loudly.
"NEIL ANSWER THE PHONE!" Vyvyan shouted even though he was the closest to it.
"Oh right." Neil said walking over answered the phone.
"Hullo? Oh ya, he's here." Neil said hanging up the phone looking accomplished. The phone started ringing again, Neil answered with another "hullo?"
"Oh right, hey Vyv, telephone call for you." Neil said holding the phone towards Vyvyan.
Vyvyan sneered and grabbed the phone from Neil.
"WHAT?" Vyvyan said loudly as a form of hello.
"Hey Vyv its Alex, look you want to come over for a party? I need to discuss some things with you and you can bring your house mates."
"You right basterd! You think you can just talk to me like that after what you did to my frien- I mean after what you did to Rick! It's my job to give him a beating! Not yours!" Vyvyan whispered shouted so Neil and Rick couldn't hear him.
"Chill man, that's what we need to discuss, im not trying to steal your boyfriend. The party starts around 9. See you and your loser friends soon." Alex said ending the call leaving Vyvyan fuming and started smashing the phone against the wall.
"VYVYAN! WE NEED THAT PHONE!" Rick shouted running up trying to grab the now broken hunk of plastic and wires from Vyvyan.
"Were going to a party at 9 so don't make any plans for tonight." Vyvyan announced letting the phone fall to the ground and walked upstairs and slammed his bedroom door shut
"What's his problem?" Rick asked to no one in particular.
The four of them walked up the steps and knocked on the door. When nothing happened Vyvyan kicked it loudly.
"What are you tryin to do? Break the bloody door down?" Alex said moving out of the way to let them in.
The house was packed with people dressed in leather and colored hair with music so loud it could make someone's ears bleed.
"This way Vyv" Alex said walking into the crowd, surprisingly Vyvyan obeyed following him. The rest just stood there looking around the room.
"Ah. Excuse me gents." Mike said walking towards two attractive looking girls
Rick crossed his arms and sneered at Neil who was occupying himself with his sleeve.
"Right well I'm not going to spend my time at a pawrty with a loser like you." Rick said having no idea where he was walking to but anywhere to get away from that hippy. God the music was much too loud and not his taste at all, he would of liked to just stay at home reading , but no, stupid Vyvyan had to drag him to this noisy room packed with underachievers who gave his generation a bad name
He found a chair in the corner and sat in it taking out his small pocket note book and started writing wuth a broken in half pencil.
Sheep, sheep, roaming around, eating grass from the ground. Soon the noisy dogs come to tear at their now blood stained fleece, the farmer comes out with a pitchfork and the police, the dogs get caught and put away in a kennel to stay. Weeks later a little dog comes to watch the sheep, he sits quietly just to watch the sheep, but soon one spots him and starts to panic, starts bleating and running causing the others to form a cloud of dirt and wool. The farmer comes back with the police and catches the little dog that hadn't ever done anything wrong besides barking at a bird, but the noisy dogs before gave him a bad word.
Rick looked up pleased with his work. He sat in the chair for a little while longer but soon got bored and got up walking through the crowd, a girl who was obviously drunk elbowed him in the stomach, he stumbled forward clutching his belly until he got to the other side of the crowd and walked into a room, apparently this was where Vyvyan had gone off to because he and…Alex… were in the corner having a heated argument, suddenly they both shot up and punched each other both falling to the ground.
"WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO HURT MY FRIENDS JUST BECAUSE YOUR SKANK OF A SISTER DECIDED TO SNOG ME?"
Alex punched Vyvyan again making him fall backwards breaking a table. Alex and Vyvyan suddenly seemed aware that people were starring at them, including Rick.
Vyvyan stood up for me!
Vyvyan gave Alex a look full of hate and grabbed Ricks hand pulling him out of the room leading him into a surprisingly empty one
"How much did you hear my fat gob shout?"
"Right after you punched each other…thanks for standing up for me Vyvyan…" Rick said looking down
"It's alright! I just don't like it when he has to take everything away from me."
Rick gave him a confused look
"I mean! It's my job to give you a beating, not anyone else's."
Rick smiled then suddenly hugged Vyvyan
"Hey! Get off poof!" Vyvyan loudly said blushing. Rick let go
"Sorry, I've just never had someone care enough to stand up for me."
"Oh...well erm, your welcome." Vyvyan said still blushing
They stood in awkward silence for several minutes looking around the room.
"man this party blows." Vyvyan said finally
"yeah." Rick said not really paying attention, absent mindedly chewing on his thumb nail.
"want a drink? Boose always make things better!" Vyvyan said exited
"…why the hell not?" Rick agreed
"right..um, you stay here ill be right back!" Vyvyan said loudly shuffling out the room
Why does Vyvyan want to spend his time at a party with me? I thought he hates my guts… weird. Oh well hes probably already a little drunk he'll be better in the morning.
Vyvyan came back into the room with a bottle of vodka.
"sorry, I couldn't find were the other drinks were so I took this from the closet…not sure why it was there."
Vodkas a bit strong…but I am at a party. I should get a little drunk to forget the fact that im in…this house. Rick suddenly shivered.
"you cold?"
"yeah a little."
"here this'll warm you up." Vyvyan said handing the bottle to Rick
"thanks Vyvyan" Rick said hesitating before taking the bottle from his grasp. This weird friendly Vyvyan was scaring him a little, but he reminded himself that it was the alcohol.
Moments later Rick was feeling uncomfortably dizzy and light headed. Vyvyan was lying on the floor staring at the ceiling reciting for some reason the American pledge of alligience and was getting louder every word.
"WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!" Vyvyan shouted. He turned his head to its side staring at Rick who was slumped in the corner of the room
"ey Rick! Come heerree."
Rick crawled over to Vyvyan, which he would regret. Suddenly Vyvyan sat up and grabbed Ricks shoulders pulling him forward into a crushing kiss
"mmmphht!" was all Rick could muster, his eyes were wide and was pushing against Vyvyans chest to get free, but Vyvyan was much stronger. Ricks arms slowly became looser and stopped pushing against Vyvyan and closed his eyes. Vyvyan pushed his tongue into Ricks mouth which opened after some hesitation, their tongues rolled against eachother causing them to moan a little.
They pulled apart for air, Rick starred at Vyvyan with confusion.
"what the hell was that for?" Rick asked blushing
"your cute drunk…" Vyvyan slurred. Rick blushed even more.
"right, well, we should be getting back to the others." Rick said getting up offering his hand to Vyvyan' he took it and swayed. They walked out the room to see some people had gone home and some were still dancing, the rest were passed out. Mike and Neil were talking to some girl.
"yeah, yeah. Im volunteering to help him, my mom had some mental problems as well." Mike said pointing to Niel who looked confused, the girl smiled.
"that's so wonderful of you!"
"come on you sods, its time to go." Vyvyan said pulling Niel and Mike away.
"hey, hey. I was just about to get some action from a total cutie till you interupted." Mike said as they walked out the door.
"so was i…" Vyvyan mumbled to himself
"what was that?' Niel asked
"nothing!" Vyvyan said loudly punching Niel suddenly in the face making him fall to the concrete.