"C'mon, it'll be fun!" Louis grabbed both our hands and pulled us to the middle of the room.
"Spin the bottle was fun when we were 12 Lou" Sarah retorted but he didn't care. Sarah just shrugged her shoulders and sat down in circle of people, pulling me down beside her. The party was in full flow, literally our whole year had turned up for it. Me and Sarah had stuck together and mingled with the majority of people, blatantly ignoring Jenna of course. Luckily she didn't seem to be involved in Louis' attempts to get spin the bottle going. I wondered why Sarah was suddenly so keen to play and then I noticed who her eyes kept flicking up to...Niall. Niall was one of Louis' best friends and Sarah had had a thing for him for ages. He was kinda cute, had to admit it, and his Irish accent was to die for.
"Ok, the game is quite easy, all you do..." Louis began but I cut over him.
"Louis, its spin the bottle, everyone knows how to play!" I said exasperatedly and a few people in the circle chuckled appreciatively.
"Ok, ok, you go first then!" he handed me the bottle and I shrugged before setting it in the middle of the circle and spinning it. I waited and it landed on...Sarah! Everyone burst out laughing.
"Oh come here Ali dear!" she said dramatically, pulling me towards her and kissing me massively on the cheek.
"Fine, I'll let you off...Sarah your go!" Louis said and Sarah span the bottle. It landed on Lee, one of our friends, and she smiled and went and pecked him on the lips and received a few wolf whistles.
"Oh, this looks fun, what's going on?" Jenna's high pitched squeal sounded from above my head. She squeezed herself into the circle right next to Harry, what a shocker.
"I'm just going to the loo" I lied to Sarah before getting up and leaving the game. Instead I went over to the drink counter and poured myself a vodka and coke. No way was I risking having to put my mouth anywhere near that bitch.
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"Guess who got to kiss Niaaallll!" Sarah came bouncing up to me half an hour later.
"Ah, nice one Sarah!" I said slapping her a high five. She was grinning from ear to ear.
"Let me guess, Jenna managed to get the bottle to land on Harry?" I asked and Sarah nodded.
"Yep, at least three times, sick making" she commented, far too happy to really care.
"Poor Harry, someone should warn him!" I said, suddenly angry. I put it down to the fact that I had probably had a little too much to drink in that half an hour...
"Yeah...hold on, why do you care so much?" Sarah narrowed her eyes at me suspiciously.
"I don't! I just think it's about time someone stood up to her!" I said, feeling my cheeks flush. I downed another vodka shot to fill the awkward silence. Luckily Sarah dropped the subject.
"Lets go dance!" she said, grabbing my hand and pulling me into the mass of dancing people in the living room, instantly removing all thoughts of Harry and Jenna from my mind.
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"If you want to keep the content of your stomach in your stomach, do not look to your left" Sarah yelled at me over the din of the music and the dancing mass of bodies we were surrounded by. So of course, I look to my left. Jenna had Harry pinned up against a wall and they were playing what can only be described as extreme tonsil tennis.
"If her mouth had any more of his inside it I'm pretty sure that would be classed as attempted cannibalism" I replied disgusted and Sarah doubled over in laughter, almost knocking over the people next to her.
"Whoops, sorry!" she giggled, straightening up as they glared at her a little.
"Hey, Sarah!" Louis grabbed Sarah's arm as he finally managed to shove his way through the dancing crowd to reach her, "Niall asked for your number, so I gave it to him!" he glared at her.
"Ok... and now you look like you are going to kill me because...?" she looked at him questioningly and he just shook his head.
"Sarah you are far too good for any of my friends" he began and Sarah cut across him.
"I'm sure they would love to hear you say that!" she retorted and I laughed. Sarah was so cute when she was mad.
"Let me finish! Just don't get your hopes up, I know for a fact Niall is texting about 30 different girls right now" he said triumphantly and I saw Sarah's face fall slightly, only for a split second. Louis must of seen it too, "Sorry Sez" he said softly, pulling her into a hug, but she shoved him away.
"Hey, who said I cared?" she said defiantly before turning her back on Louis, grabbing both my hands and dancing wildly to the new song that had come on. Louis looked at me questioningly over her shoulder and I just shrugged my shoulders. We waved the last guest's away at 3 o'clock in the morning. The house was a state, bottles everywhere, drink spilt on the carpet, crisp crumbs and general food and wrappers everywhere.
"Mum and dad aren't back until tomorrow night...I say we sort this in the morning?" Louis turned to Sarah as we went back to the living room. To my surprise Harry was still there, lying on the sofa texting on his phone.
"If by we, you mean you, then sure! Lets not forget who's party this was Lou" Sarah replied and he rolled his eyes.
"Whatever, I'm beat, coming Harry?" he said to Harry and Harry got off the sofa and followed Louis up to his room, giving us a small smile as he passed.
"So Louis has a new friend eh?" I said after they had left the room.
"Looks like it...as long as he doesn't start bringing Jenna here with him it's cool" Sarah said, giving the messy house one more long suffering look before heading up to her room.
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I woke up early, far too early, the room was still in darkness. I sat up but quickly lay back down again as my head throbbed in protest. Ugh, how much had I drank last night? Slowly I reached across for my phone to check the time. 6:30am, what? But my throat was so dry and achy I knew I would never be able to sleep again until I had had a drink. I sat up gingerly on the edge of Sarah's sofa bed, clutching my head in my hands. The pain subsided slightly and I managed to get up and slip out of the room without waking up Sarah. I padded downstairs to the kitchen in my bare feet and to my surprise the light was on. I edged through the door and saw Harry, sitting at the table with a cup of coffee and a tube of pringles. He looked up when I walked in and I raised my eyebrows questioningly.
"Hangover food" he mumbled and I just nodded sleepily, heading over to the fridge and getting out a carton of cranberry juice. However, the smell of meat from inside the fridge made my stomach turn. Oh god. I dropped the carton on the floor and legged it to the bathroom, just in time to throw my body weight in alcohol up into the loo. Yuck, I hated being sick more than anything in the world. Except Jenna of course. I cleaned my face with cool water and headed back to the kitchen, my head throbbing even worse than before.
"You ok?" Harry asked looking slightly concerned and I nodded before getting myself a glass of water from the tap. I wasn't risking opening that fridge again.
"Why are you up so early?" I asked, my voice croaky.
"Well lets just say I was in the same state as you about half an hour ago" he grinned and I nodded, instantly starting up the throbbing again. OUCH, no nodding Alice.
"Jenna said Louis sister was a lightweight, I just had no idea how right she was" he chuckled teasingly and I glared.
"One, I'm not Louis sister, Two, Jenna is a skanky, slutty bitch who isn't fit to lick the mud of a poor man's boots" I snapped and he looked shocked.
"Wow harsh, she was just kidding..." Harry looked slightly shocked at my outburst and I rolled my eyes. How had this conversation gone downhill so fast?
"Mhm, yeah, that's nice" I said sarcastically and he glared at me.
"What do you have against Jenna so much?" he snapped and my eyes widened.
"Do you have all day? I have a whole freakin' list" I retorted and he just stared at me, stunned, "You know, I owe you congratulations, of all the boys Jenna has sucked into her little games you are the one who has fallen for it the fastest! You met her what, this morning? Niiice going Styles". After finishing my little speech I turned my back on him and headed back to Sarah's room to try and get some more sleep. Yeah right, like I was going to be able to sleep now.