Just The Way It Is
Part 3 - Clubbing
Jamie stood on her tip toes looking around for Gustav's black baseball cap but it was nowhere in sight. She sighed but soon laughed it all off, she had only seen him in that cap once which meant he could be wearing something different now. She leaned back against the bar and reached for her drink. It wasn't anything special – she didn't really like to drink but now that she was in Germany where drinking at her age was legal she decided to sick to the customs.
After she was finished, Jamie slapped a few German dollars down on the counter and slowly made her way back to Nathan who was sitting in a lounging area next to the dance floor. Tyson and Taylor were most likely off dancing somewhere. She looked around again as she made her way through the crowd. Gustav had told her that he would be at this club and she should hang with him and her friends. She thought it sounded a bit shaky, after all He was just some German boy she had only just met the day before but she had jumped at the idea. For some reason she really like him. She had never felt this way about a boy before. She felt giddy.
After eating, Jamie had convinced her friends of the idea with leaving the part out about Gustav. They had stopped at the hotel to put on "clubbing" cloths and had taken off. That had been over two hours before and there was no sign of Gustav anywhere. Her heart sank. She decided to give up and have some fun anyway.
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Taylor jumped around to the music with Tyson right next to her. Dancing always made her feel so free. She missed high school with all it's school dances and prom and even the drill team. The only dancing she got now was at clubs with friends which she never turned down. She could dance to absolutely anything.
She swung her short red hair around as she danced. She could feel Tyson's hands on her waist now. She smiled. How long had they been together now? It must have been over two years. 'Wow...' she thought to herself. She had never spent so long with one guy before. She remembered now the first time they had met. She had been walking down the halls of a new school in small town Minnesota which had a population of like zero. She had still been getting use to the size coming from the big city, Chicago. It had happened suddenly, "Shit!" She had walking right into some guy with out even realizing it. She apologized picking up her dropped things. Thats when they had locked eyes and she was done. And she had fallen in love.
Tyson was cute with his brown eyes and his blond hair and she had even liked his eyebrow piercing which she had regularly said to others that piercings on the face wear tacky. It hadn't taken long for her to pull Tyson into her grasp and they had been together ever since.
Just as the song ended, another started up and Taylor continued to dance. Then she caught sight of Jamie trying to push her way through the crowd, obviously trying to get back to the lounging area. She frowned with disgust. She couldn't stand that girl. Jamie was too pretty, too perfect. She hated how Jamie's shinny amber hair fell right every time and how her make up never got messed up. Taylor hated how boys would turn and look at Jamie's 5' 8" figure which wasn't too small or too large in any place. It made Taylor sick. She had to work for her figure and was constantly watching calories to make sure she didn't go over 1000 a day. She just wanted to hit that girl.
From the look on Jamie's face, Taylor could tell she was a bit sad. She obviously had not found her "savior", Gustav. 'That's to bad...' Taylor laughed silently to herself.
No one was supposed to know the real reason Jamie had wanted to come to this certain club, but Taylor knew. It was all to easy. She had all ready planted a seed in Nathan's mind earlier that day about Jamie liking her new German boy toy and then now, it would crush him to see the two together. She had found out about their little arrangement from reading Jamie's text messages when she was in the shower even though they said nothing about meeting up directly but did mention times and places and names...
She really didn't mean to hurt Nathan but he was a necessary casualty for the secret battle to be won waged against Jamie. It was obvious he had liked Jamie in high school and even now that he was graduated and she was still there living up her last year in high school. It surprised her to think about how she had only been a senior in high school 5 months ago and now a college student attending a community college.
She watched how Jamie finally made her way over to Nathan and plopped down beside him. Taylor decide to just shake off all her hard feelings and keep dancing for now. Maybe she could make Jamie's life hell but that would have to wait until three more songs were over.