Alright, so let me be the first one to comment on the fact that this isn't the best chapter I've ever written. The contrary in fact, it sort of sucks. The beginning is fine, then it just goes downhill from there. You have been warned.

Try to enjoy! ;-)

Chapter 9

"Brienne, please!" Arya begged into the phone. She had been nagging her friend for the past twenty minutes, lying on her bed with her headphones plugged into her phone, which was resting on her chest. "I can't go alone! Just go with me! We don't even have to be there for more than a couple of hours, I promise!"

"That's still a couple of hours too much, Arya" Brienne sighed.

"Please! I'm begging here for fucks sake!"

"I don't like parties! They just make me uncomfortable."

Arya groaned loudly. "Come on, Brie! It's just a party! Music, dance, free drinks and hot guys to ogle! What's not to like?"

"You just want to eye fuck Gendry…"

"Hey!" Arya spat. "I don't you that in confidence! Don't use it against me! And besides, I just found out a couple of days ago that he has a girlfriend… So there's not much to eye fuck anymore."

"I still don't know… I wouldn't know what to wear. And I suck at the whole makeup and hair thing!"

Arya sighed. "Look, I'm not claiming to be an expert when it comes to fashion and girly stuff, but I do have an older sister who used me as her dress up dolly for six years. Picked up a few tricks back then."

"I was planning on catching a movie with Renly anyway…"

"Who the fuck's Renly?" Then she realized. "Wait, Renly Baratheon? You know him?"

"Yeah…" She could practically hear Brienne blush on the other line.

"But you wished there was more?" Arya guessed with a small smile playing on her lips.

"No! Yes…" Brienne sounded sheepish.

"So what's stopping you, then?"

"Oh you know!" Suddenly Brienne was her old sarcastic self. "The small, insignificant detail that he happens to be gay and has boyfriend! He's with Loras Tyrell."

Arya was quiet for a few moments as she let Brienne's words sink in. "Ouch…" she finally said.

"Tell me about it. Ar, I'm sorry, but I'm not going."

"Fine! I guess I'll just have to go on my own then." There was no way she was missing her first college party.

XXX

So she ended up going on her own. Arya stood in front of the mirror, music playing in the background as she put some makeup on. Not a lot, just eyeliner, mascara and some lip gloss. Her clothes were simple as well. She had a pair of black skinny jeans, a blue singlet and a black leather jacket.

She had hoped that someone else she had some contact with would go, but Shireen said she wouldn't when Arya asked. At least she had Hot Pie and Lommy. But they would probably hang out with Gendry and she had discreetly been trying to avoid him for the last couple of days.

Arya turned off the music and put her phone securely in her pocket with her keys. She just had to make sure that no one got close to her pocket during the night. It was Friday after all, so she could be out for as long as she liked. Her parents never needed to know.

"Arya, you ready?" she heard Hot Pie call from the living room.

"Coming!" she called back. She turned out the light and stepped out, closing the door behind her. Hot Pie and Lommy sat on the couch, Lommy's legs in Hot Pie's lap. "Where's Gendry?" Arya heard herself asking before she could stop herself. Damn it! Wasn't she supposed to ignore him now?

"The stupid fucker got held up at work" Lommy answered without taking his eyes of the TV. "Said he'll be there as soon as he can."

Arya nodded slowly. "Shall we go?"

"Yup!" Hot Pie said and removed Lommy's legs from his lap so he could get up. He threw on a jacket and grabbed some car keys. But before he could do or say anything else, Lommy had gotten on his feet as well and yanked the keys out of his hand.

"Nope! I'm driving!" Lommy stated simply.

"What?!"

"My car, my rules, Hottie Pie!" He blew Hot Pie and air kiss and made his way out. "Come on, Arya! Let's raise the roof!"

Arya laughed and followed Lommy out, dragging Hot Pie with her. "But do we even have to drive? It's on campus."

"Because we at least have to pretend we have some sort of swagger" Lommy answered with a sly smile. Arya chuckled.

They drove the one minute drive to the right campus building. The bass of the music could be heard from outside, even before they stepped out of the car. More cars were parked around them and people around them stood and chatted, of course whilst drinking.

"This is fucking amazing" Arya breathed, completely star struck.

"You ain't seen nothing yet" Lommy said and dragged them both inside the building.

Truth, Lommy, Truth. Sure, she had been to high school parties, but this was something different. Maybe it was just that everyone was age nineteen and up, maybe it was something else. Arya wasn't sure, but it felt completely different. Both Hot Pie and Lommy seemed to understand what she was thinking and smiled at her.

They almost ran out on the dance floor and started to dance with the other people there. Arya screamed the lyrics with everyone else as she jumped up and down. Hot Pie and Lommy were both doing some silly and clearly already practiced dance routine.

Arya ended up next to a group of screaming girls in their early twenties who gladly welcomed her into their circle. Though she was sure they wouldn't have been as welcoming if it wasn't for the alcohol they were most likely intoxicated in. But she enjoyed the moment and danced with them.

A while later they disappeared to do only the gods know what, so Arya snaked her way through the crowd to find her two friends. They were sitting on a couch sipping a beer each.

"Hey!" Hot Pie shouted over the sound of the music and handed her a beer. She wasn't that much into beer, she wasn't her brothers who both thought of the drink as gold. But she was thirsty and anything would do.

She sat down on the armrest and opened the can. It tasted like shit, but it was cold and helped with her thirst. Since they could barely hear each other, only a few words were exchanged. Lommy asked something about the group of girls Arya danced with earlier, but she couldn't make out exactly what.

"Gen is in the house!" Hot Pie suddenly shouted and Arya looked up to see her dreamy man walking towards them. But she was painfully reminded that he wasn't her man, he never had been. Because a girl clung to him arm like a fucking leech. She had to be his girlfriend, Bella. Her black hair was perfectly curled and she wore a tight, short red dress that would have any guy staring at her giant boobs. They had to be fake, no one had that big breast, right?

"And he brought his girl…" Lommy sighed and took a swig of his beer. Arya wasn't sure if Lommy was tipsy or not, however his tone made it clear that he didn't like Bella. Good. At least she had one person on her side. She had just decided to hate Gendry's girlfriend, for the simple reason that she was his girlfriend.

"Hey, guys!" Gendry answered and sat down on the other armrest with Bella immediately seizing the opportunity to sit down on his lap. "Hi, Arya."

Arya gave Gendry a look of acknowledgement and chugged down the last of her drink. She couldn't stop staring at the way Gendry's hand was placed on Bella's waist as he talked with Hot Pie. Bella hadn't even said hello to any of them, she seemed to prefer to just sit and play with the ends of Gendry's hair and giggle at nothing.

She couldn't stand the scene. The stupid jealousy was a monster within her that just clawed and screamed. She had to get out of there. After excusing herself from the group she opted for the nearest balcony to get some fresh air.

The music was muffled out there, and the fresh night air calmed her a little. Arya leaned with her arms against the balcony parapet. Sighing, she fished a packet of cigarettes from her pocket free from keys and the phone. She was just about to light one when she remembered her promise to Gendry. No matter how annoyed she was with him, or rather his stupid girlfriend, Arya felt as if she had to honor that promise.

So she threw it over the edge with a slight groan and watched it land on the ground. Inside she threw the rest of the package in the nearest garbage bin and thought that she would just have to cope without it. Just because she was stupid and wanted to honor a promise.

When she walked back to the couch Hot Pie, Lommy, Gendry and Bella sat on she noticed that the first two were gone. Hot Pie and Lommy were nowhere in sight. Gendry on the other hand had opted for sitting down on the actual couch instead of the armrest. Bella was tucked in under his arm, now more alike a leach than ever and dragged her hand up and down his thigh.

Arya stopped in the middle of her tracks. Gendry turned his head to face his girlfriend and Bella took the opportunity to latch onto his mouth, literally devouring it. Oh hell no!

She turned around and stalked off. There was no fucking way in hell she was going to spend any more time with those two. Now she just needed something to take the lid off, something to make her forget about Gendry for the rest of the night.

Alcohol was the answer.

Well inside the kitchen she took and unopened bottle of liquor. You never knew where the opened ones had been, or whose mouth they had touched. She poured the liquid into a shot glass and downed it. Then another, and another.

After a while she wasn't sure how many shot she had taken, but she was certainly past tipsy. Arya hadn't seen any of her friends for over an hour, instead just sitting and laughing with some other drunken girl in a corner.

The girl was in the midst of telling a slurry story of another party and Arya was giggling at nothing. Shot glasses be damned she thought and took a swig directly from the bottle.

Some part of her that was still sensible told her to slow down, and the weird thing was that she actually listened to it. Arya left the drunken girl and stepped out on the balcony again. The cold air brought her back to reality slightly.

She couldn't stay here. She had to leave before she got even more drunk and did something she'd regret in the morning. People were still everywhere and she had to push and pull people aside to make her way out.

"Arya hey! Where are you going?" The deep voice rumbled. A strong hand grabbed her arm and turned her around. Gendry's blue eyes stared into her gray, now glossy ones.

"Let me go!" Arya yanked her arm free. "I'm out of here!" She continued to make her way out

"Wait! I should walk you to the dorm."

Arya turned around with a sarcastic smile plastered on her face. "Oh no, no, no! You stay here and continue to suck face with your girlfriend!" She gave him a hard pat on the arm and then walked out, leaving him behind.

XXX

No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't go to sleep. It felt as if the room was spinning slowly, and she felt so freaking warm. Tossing and turning let out a loud groan. She was tired, but sleep wouldn't take her. Stupid…

She heard the door in the hall open and close. The voice of Hot Pie saying good night could be heard, and the voices of Gendry and a giggling girl shuffling their way to the bedroom beside hers.

Arya turned to her phone to check the time. The light blinded her but she was able to make out that it was 02:37 am. She groaned.

Suddenly the sound of a bed shuffling and the sound of a girl gasping could be heard. For fuck's sake! Arya could hear Bella gasping and moaning Gendry's name and the sound of Gendry's small grunts.

She took her pillow and covered her face with it to try and block out the sound of the guy she liked having sex with someone else. But it didn't work. The sound just continued to haunt her as she lay on her bed and tried to fall asleep.

Eventually Arya got up and walked out of the room.

"Boo on you!" Arya hissed as she walked past Gendry's closed bedroom door.

She knocked on Hot Pie's door and was surprised to hear him tell her to enter. Hot Pie was half sitting, half lying on his bed with back against a pillow leaning against the wall.

"You okay?" he asked when she entered and closed the door behind her. "Still drunk?"

"How did you know?" Arya asked, puzzled and slightly slurry.

"Gendry told me you were drunk and went home" Hot Pie answered simply and grabbed his phone and started checking his social media.

"Right… Can I sit down?"

"As long as you're not going to puke on my sheets." Hot Pie winked at her.

"I'm not that drunk!" Arya retorted. She sat down on Hot Pie's bed and just sat quiet for a few minutes before lying down across it. "Do they always fuck this loud?" The sounds could be heard from in there as well.

"Yep" Hot Pie answered, popping the p.

"So this isn't the first time?"

"Nope." Again, popping the p.

"Where's Lommy? I thought he was going to stay the night."

Hot Pie sighed. "No… He isn't very fond of Bella. So when he heard she was going to stay, he didn't want to."

"Smart guy" Arya scoffed. "She's kind of a slut, right?"

He sighed again. "I'm not going to answer that, Arya. Gendry is my friend so I won't say anything about his girlfriend for the sake of keeping peace."

"Only because you know I'm right! You don't like her either!"

The look on Hot Pie's face was enough to convince her.

After a while, when the sounds died down, Arya walked back to her own room, hoping that she would now get at least a few hours of sleep.

Now, I've never been drunk before, which is why I'm terrible at writing from a drunk person's POV, but I didn't want to write Gendry having sex with Bella in detail so this is the result. Hopefully the next chapter will be better… Bye!