Rivers Edge

Rivers Edge

Chapter Nine

It was mid Friday afternoon and the week had sailed along smoothly, as smooth a Knights Ridge sails with its rocky river running down the middle of the small rich town and the over sexed, drunk teens who morphed around it. Things were always changing but people were too immune to it.

The music was blaring loud from one of the tall trees up above hiding in one of the quickly made tree houses, probably the most work any of the Knights Ridge kids had done in their past eighteen years. It was worth it, until the next fragile item came crashing down as it had earlier that day leaving the kids with one more broken speaker.

"Charlotte get your bony ass up here!" Serena called down to her best friend who for once and only might have been more drunk then she. "Mhm." Charlotte-Marie Myers said downing vodka shot as she looked up at the blonde bombshell smiling down at her. "Hold on." she continued as she dropped her brand new Chanel flats she had gotten at a trunk sale in Manhattan early in the morning to cure the hang over blues.

Charlotte jumped up grabbing on to Serena's hands as she leaned down over the fencing marked around the tree house. "Shit!" the brunette cried as she fell onto the flimsy wooden floor. The two friends erupted in a sincere drunken laughter as Serena popped open a third champagne bottle. "Darling you're looking gorgeous." She said in a British accent. "No gorgeous you look darling." Once again they erupted in a fit of giggles. "Charlotte!" an obnoxiously dumb voice called up from woodsy floor.

Both Serena and Charlotte rolled over on their stomachs and looked down at Reagan South who was staring up with his empty doe brown eyes. "Hun?" He asked again as the brunette and blonde hair mixed together as the wind blew across the river. "Girls only." Serena bellowed tipping the champagne bottle over the flooring of the tree house. "Hey guys..." One of the first underclassmen to arrive called up to the two seniors.

"Shit." Katie Scott said jumping back at the champagne poured down her back soaking in Nate Westerfelds sweatshirt that she had seemed to be wearing for days. "Sorry Kate!" Serena said standing up on her knees. "It's alright." She replied with a smile looking dimly down at the wet hoodie.

As Katie walked away towards her boyfriend who she could see sitting on the other end of the cove merging herself around the groups of people she could still hear Charlotte-Marie and Serena yelling down to Reagan, Charlottes dumb boyfriend.

As Lorelei Miller saw the oncoming sophomore her bright white smile faded as her pale freckled skin shinned. And while for once Nathanial Westerfeld didn't look like he was about to slit his wrists every time Lorelei spoke or let one breath past her shimmering lips his face noticeably light up as he felt his girlfriends lips on his cheek and her soft sexy voice whisper: "hi Natie." In his ear.

"Kate!" he said turning around only slightly drunk as he tugged on her hand allowing her slim body to fall onto his lap and kissed her passionately making it completely clear that Lorelei had become just another memory. "How much have you had to drink?" Katie replied giggling as she rested her palms on his smooth neck brushing her fingers back and forth on his skin. "I'm straight. Promise."

Nate smiled as his fingers felt damp as he ran his hands along his best friends sisters back. "Jesus what did you do to this thing?" He asked laughing slightly as Katie shrugged. "Don't you want to take it off its warm?" Katie shook her head I only have a bra on underneath." "That's alright!" he said with almost too much enthusiasm. "Yeah that does sound good." A fellow senior said from behind the two his eyes bugging out of his sockets. "And so does your balls up your ass but that's your choice Danny." Nate said keeping composure.

There was a loud sound from behind the two as there were few sounds of horror and those of relief while there were still those who hadn't noticed the Knights Ridge godess crashing to the ground a champagne glass in hand. A familiar looking face rushed to her side his Caribbean blue eyes matching to Katie Scott's apparent as she arrived hanging on Nathanial's back.

"Jesus Christ." Serena Allen moaned as she released the champagne bottle from her hand her deep navy blue eyes closed as she winced in pain. "Is she alright No?" Charlotte called down as she reluctantly looked down at the scene from the slightly smaller tree house. Noah Scott knelt down next to the blonde brushing the hair away from her face, "are you alright?" "You guys need to make shit better." She cried as Noah slowly lifted her up into his arms like a decaying corpse. "Are you sure you're alright?" Noah asked again looking deep into her eyes.

She nodded a bright smile as he softly kissed her drunken lips as two feet began to press down on his shoulders. "Stay still Noah!" Charlotte cringed as she finally sat down her legs resting on her best friend's stomach as Noah held strong carrying the two girls. "Can we play chicken or something?" Charlotte said holding out her hand to Katie's as herself and Nate neared the threesome.

"No more falling!" Both Noah and Nate made a devilish grin their eyes connecting as they went running towards the rapid moving river not twenty feet from where they were standing all three girls screaming as they could feel the boys grasps around them falter as they hit the water the cold fast it sucking them in as the sun rose above them and the water whisked them into a state of ecstasy time stood still.