Alex and Paige made their way to Alex's apartment, where, as suspected, her mom was passed out on the couch in the living room. "Hi Mom" she said, clenching her jaw, making her way over to the kitchen to grab a few things.
"Oh hi baby! Paige, its so nice to see you!" Emily said sitting up on the couch where she had previously been laying with an open beer can on the floor. Paige went over and made small talk while Alex rummaged around the apartment and gathered up things she would need for the weekend.
"You guys graduated today didnt you!" Emily said happily, "my high school graduate" and she became pensive as Paige smiled, sitting on the couch next to her, "and here we thought you'd never make it—I'm so proud that you proved us wrong, Lexi!" smiled her mom, not noticing the angry and hurt look upon Alex's face.
Alex made her way over to the kitchen table, not really knowing what she was looking for, but she came upon an eviction notice, dated last week, poking out of a pile of papers which only made her even more angry at her mom for forgetting one of the most important days of her young life. Keep it together, Lex she thought to herself as she balled up a fist to try to calm herself down. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Paige noticed this and made her way over to Alex, putting an arm around her waist, "you alright?" she asked tenderly, knowing how upset she must be since her mom let her down once again.
"Fine" Alex said quickly, pulling off a smile, "ready to go, Beautiful?" she asked interlocking her fingers with Paige's as they walked towards the door. She intentionally forgot to say goodbye to her mother, but Paige waved at least.
A few hours after they arrived at Paige's, Alex, who was still steamed, said "do you mind if I take a walk for a bit?"
"but the party is in just a couple hours, hun" Paige pouted, making Alex slightly smile.
"I'll meet you there" she replied, holding Paige's hand and pulling her into a body hug, "I just need some time alone to think." she pursed her lips, trying to hold back angry tears, still thinking about how much her mom sucked right now. The two kissed sweetly before Alex ventured out on her own, just missing Marco pulling into the driveway. Paige met him outside where they hugged hello, "where's my favorite lesbian, Alex?!" he inquired, wanting to give her a hug too.
"she's not too happy tonight" Paige shrugged, "her mom blew it again, Marco." she looked pensive, "I think I'm worried about her."
Marco hugged his friend again, trying to let her know that everything would be okay, "she's got us" he winked, "we wont let nothin' happen to her" and with that, the two walked inside the house to finish getting ready for the ultimate party of the year.
"what
the fuuuck" Alex
said loudly as she walked alone in the park, "why does everything
have to start going well for once in my life and then some bullshit
thing like this happens!" she found a swing and started to slowly
swing on it, still talking to herself. You know what,
she thought to herself as she continued swinging, brushing some
strands of her beautiful black hair out of her face, I dont
give a shit. I'm going to have a good time tonight, I dont care what
anybody says. And with that, a
little smile appeared.
The party had already started and Paige and
everybody else were probably already there, so Alex made her way
towards the house where the party was going to be, just meandering
along, trying to smell the roses and figure out ways to not stay
pissed off.
When Alex turned onto the street where the house was, she could already hear, and feel, the vibration of the music in the house several houses down. As she got closer, she noticed a few kids showing up with more kegs, and several more play-fighting in the front yard. As she entered the house, she paused and scanned the room for a familiar face. She noticed Hazel right away and made her way over where an already tipsy Marco threw himself onto her, "I LOVE YOU ALEX!" he said happily, "you're my favorite lezzzbyan" he slurred.
"Thanks," she said with a smirk, patting him on the back, amused by the way he threw himself onto her. She turned around only to be met by Paige, who was excited to see her, "I'm so glad you came!" she yelped happily, "ready to have a good time?" Alex nodded. As she sat in one of the comfy chairs next to her friends, she noticed Jay lingering off in the distance, pacing slowly, looking her way.
Alex stood up, "Excuse me guys" she said as she beelined towards him. Nobody really noticed her leave, they were too immersed in each other's conversations and jokes that it barely phased them. She was glad for that. Alex was still very angry inside, especially after not being informed about the eviction letter, but for some reason she figured Jay would be able to help ease her frustrations.
"What are you doing here?" she asked after she stopped in front of him.
Jay
stopped pacing, "looking for you." and with a little sweet talk
and saying "I've missed you, Lexi, hang out with me tonight", he
was able to convince Alex to party with him and their old friends. First, though, he handed her a concoction of sorts he made earlier in
the night, "its on me" he said, smiling.
"I'm not looking to
get drunk tonight, Jay, I'm too pissed off for that--"
"no no" he said, "just taste it and tell me what you think. Just juices"
Alex apprehensively took a sip of this funny colored concoction she had in her hand. To her surprise, it was really good! "no alcohol?" she asked.
Smirking, and lying, Jay replied, "not in that batch—good huh!" he thought to himself, you cant even taste the 151 in there—two of those suckers and she'll be waaaaasted. "Good ol' Lexi, now lets go party!" and he pointed to a room where their old friends were hanging out. For some reason she was already starting to feel better.
"Beer Pong!" she yelled excitedly as she entered the room filled with her old friends. Jay came strutting in behind her, surveying the room. These old friends are the ones who dropped out or got kicked out of school so it's definitely a wonder how they knew about this particular graduation party.
She began playing beer pong with a couple of guys, drinking even more of that flavored concoction as the night drew on. She started getting loud, and as she said earlier in the week, that "destructive dumbass gene" began showing itself. Jay knew far too well how easily influenced Alex became once intoxicated, and this time, he used it to his advantage and began spewing toxic rumors about her new friends, especially her girlfriend, Paige.
