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Not My Place

Chapter 6: The Getting to Know You

Marian smiled blandly at all the people she'd just been introduced to, unsure of what to say exactly. "Right well, I've got an idea," Allan chimed smiling mischievously. Almost immediately there was a course of 5 people saying, "No Allan." Marian had to laugh at the sad puppy dog look on Allan's face as he said, "You're all no fun. Here I stole an entire bottle of vodka and none of you will even play with me," he cast a sidelong look towards Marian, "Although, I bet you'd play with me." Robin tensed up knowing he'd told the gang of Marian's drinking habits and wondering if she would notice, but Marian only laughed again and said, "Why not," causing Allan to grin. He moved to sit on the floor and placed the bottle on the large circular coffee table. Marian sat down as well, and reluctantly the rest of the gang did as well.

Once they were all sitting cross-legged around the table Allan said, "So Marian, Truth or Dare?" before winking.

"No way, if she's new we should play 'I've Never' so we can get to know her," Eve interjected.

"Hey, you can learn a lot from someone by playing truth or dare," Allan defended his game.

"No, you can learn someone's cup size from playing truth or dare," Djaq said, "I agree with Eve," and the rest of the gang, Marian included, did as well.

"Why does this group have to be so damn democratic," Allan murmured, "Can't you do something Robin?"

"I was going to, but then they voted against it," Robin said grinning, "Okay so who goes first?"

"Never Have I Ever stolen anything," Eve said triumphantly, her aim was to get Allan drunk first, but everyone took a drink except for her. She pouted and pointed to Much who was next to her to go.

"Never Have I Ever," he paused, "had a dream about someone dying in the past 2 weeks," there was confusion for a moment while everyone in their tipsy state tried to work out what he had asked, but Robin was already glaring daggers at Much as he lifted the shot glass to his lips, he was surprised to see that Marian also had the tiny glass pressed up against her delicate lips. He watched as she poured the shot glass into her mouth, everything in almost slow motion as she closed her eyes, barely wincing at the burning in her throat, then her eyes snapping open and his bright green met her burning blue ones as he tossed back his shot fast. "Why are you so weird Much?" asked Djaq laughing. Much just laughed along with the rest of them, but he'd known about Robin's dreams and wanted to see if Marian was having similar troubles, apparently she was.

"Okay," Robin said, as he was on the other side of Much and they were going in a clockwise direction, "Never Have I Ever," he paused and shot an wicked grin to Marian, "Hated the Crusades," Marian laughed loudly knowing that one was for her and gingerly sipped her shot. Allan said, "What is it with the weird questions tonight? Where are the 'Never have I been high' or the 'Never have I cheated' or the ever popular 'Never have I had sex in a moving vehicle' ones?" he sounded incredibly disappointed.

"Just for you Allan, Never Have I Ever had sex in a moving vehicle," Will said, and Allan, Djaq, and Robin all took shots. Everyone broke out into laughter, some more forced than others and made Djaq and Robin blush.

"Alright, Alright," Djaq said, " Never Have I Ever committed a misdemeanor, regardless of being caught or not," unsurprisingly Allan, Will, Robin, and Much all took drinks while the girls laughed. "Oh Come on Marian, I don't believe you," Robin accused with a smile. "It's true! I would never break the law," she said giggling the drinks going to her head, "Well not technically," she amended. Robin rolled his eyes.

"Okay my turn!" Allan said excitedly clapping his hands together, "Never Have I Ever made out with someone of my own gender, including dares!" he broke into huge laughter as Marian, Djaq, Robin, and Will all took drinks, "it was a dare!" the four of them cried out at the same time. "Marian, Djaq give us a reenactment!" he cried out, but both girls shot him dirty looks and he mumbled, "I bet you all wished we played truth or dare now," as the others laughed.

"Let's see," Marian said while running her finger over the rim of her shot glass, "Never Have I Ever," she glanced up and saw Robin and Djaq staring at each other and mouthing something, both with huge smiles on their faces, and when Robin leaned forward she knew that under the table he was probably caressing her leg or something. Her eyes went to Will who was in between them, and she didn't think she'd ever seen a more miserable looking person, except perhaps in her mirror. The moment she heard Djaq's adorable giggle at something Robin had said she knew she couldn't let this keep going on. "Never Have I Ever been more bored," she said quickly standing up and going back into the main room of the party, 4 sets of confused eyes on her, 1 pair of understanding ones, and 1 pair of hurt ones, they were bright green.

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Marian shoved her way past people, all of whom were fawning over her cute outfit or how adorable her hair was or how glad they were she'd come to the school, no doubt trying to earn popularity points by being seen with the new girl who had been automatically accepted by the popular group. She managed to get herself a drink and far away from Robin and his friends; she hated to admit it, but the few moments spent with them had been both the most fun and the most excruciating since she'd arrived. On the one hand they were all funny and clever and amusing, and most importantly real friends who looked out for one another, but on the other hand Robin was there, and so was Djaq, and seeing them together with their perfect couple-ness was more than she could take, and she wasn't so masochistic as to make herself go through that.

She stared out through the crowd of people all grinding together on the dance floor and felt the presence of someone behind her. Marian turned around and saw the bright blue eyes and floppy black hair and strong jaw of Guy. "Marian," he inclined his head towards her and she replied, "Hello Guy," with a small smile. Marian knew she liked Robin, but that whole situation with him was so confusing that she like being around Guy because she knew exactly where she stood and it was easy. "Enjoying yourself?" he asked, she noted that he tended to be a man of few words when he was around her, but she heard he actually had quite a tempter. "Much more now that you're here," she replied, she could always claim that it had been the alcohol talking, but truthfully she wanted to exert some control over her love life, and Guy was the perfect way to do that.

"Wanna dance?" she offered. His well shaped lips turned up into a smile, for the first time that Marian had seen anyway, but she figured that was because he liked to play the brooding bad boy character, he certainly had the looks to pull it off: hot body, black clothes, sexy scowl, and penetrating baby blues. He was one of the most sought after guys in the school, but Marian had been told that it was actually Robin who had more admirerers than he, and it caused Guy to hold a bit of a grudge against him.

"Of course," and he led Marian out to the dance floor. Although she hadn't expected it, Guy was actually quite a good dancer. He slowly spun Marian around so that her back was to his chest and they danced, dipping and swaying and his hands moved from her waist up her side and back down. She pressed harder against him and moved side to side teasing him. She could have sworn that she heard him groan, but that wasn't possible, was it?

She grinned and grinded harder, now she heard the groan for sure. He realized what she was doing and smiled thinking that two can play that game. He bent his head to the crook of her neck and lightly brushed behind her ear with his lips and then followed that trail to her neck, she tilted her head to give him a better angle, but he simply let out a breath that traveled over her skin and neck and down her shirt a ways giving her goose bumps.

She tilted her head back to his neck, where she knew he could see a tantalizing view down her shirt, without actually revealing anything, she backed her head up to his shoulder and breathed against his neck, she felt him shudder from pleasure. She grinned against his one side of his neck, while she moved her hand to the other side. He looked down at her and moved his face to look at hers. Their eyes locked and they realized how close they were. His lips were moving towards hers and she closed her eyes when she felt the soft touch of his lips on hers, she didn't close her eyes to savor the feeling, but more so she could image someone else.

His lips moved softly against hers and his hands went to her waist, turning her around to face him. She reached one hand up and put it at the nape of his neck, her fingers threading through his hair and her other on his shoulder for balance, while he had one hand on the small of her back pressing her closer to him and the other on her shoulder blade. As the music turned into a electronic song with a raging beat and violent lyrics, so did their kiss change. It went from soft to fast and hard and sloppy, but Marian didn't mind.

They continued to make out on the dance floor for a while before they were interrupted by a scream, "COPS" everyone raced to get out the front door, but Marian ran against the crowd and into the backyard, searching for a back exit. She couldn't find one, so with one glance over her shoulder to see the hordes of people all scrambling to find their belongings and clothes before sprinting from the pool, and hiding all the drugs and alcohol, she started to climb the wooden fence.

Her heart was beating so fast and her vision blurred as she got her footing and attempted to hoist herself over. Normally this would be a simple act for her, but due to the distractions all around her and her less than sober state she couldn't get the balance. Her foot slipped and she fell off the fence.

Her gaze flew back to the house, she could see that there were several police officers entering the door, and now there was no one left in the backyard, probably in the entire house, which would leave Marian the only witness. She cursed her stupidity not to just follow the crowd, but noooo she had to be all clever and think of a back exit.

With a renewed determination she launched herself at the fence, no longer trying to skillfully climb it, but now just getting over it in any way. Her fingers caught the top and now she was hanging. Slowly she pulled herself up until she was straddling the gate, and then she looked down. It was a few feet higher up than the other side, but she could still jump and not get injured, but if she landed wrong it would definitely hurt. She could see the light from the police's flashlights shining on the backyard; it would only be a moment or two until they were searching it. So she jumped and took off running.

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