Author's Note: This chapter is from Anthony's perspective at the party. Hope you enjoy. xx


"I DON'T ASK YOU TO," Anthony shouted, before storming out of the office. He crossed the balcony and grabbed onto the charred wooden hand rail that framed the barrier. Anthony felt as though he could go back inside and apologise to Ian. Then again why should he, Ian was the one who overreacted. Ian was the one who was acting heroic, when it wasn't even needed. Anthony hated being treated like a child by Ian, he had always done it, and it didn't seem like it would stop.

Anthony didn't hear the door open behind him, and so flinched when he felt a hand touch him.

"You want to go back in?" a sympathetic Joven asked. Anthony shook his head.

"Let's go down."Anthony suggested, indicated to the people below them. All with their own separate troubles and secrets. Joven agreed, and lead Anthony down the metal staircase, back into the main section of the party.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Joven asked, needing to lean in closer to Anthony, in order for his words to be heard over the pounding music, which was beginning to annoy Anthony.

"Not really." Anthony said. It wasn't something that could be resolved by "talking about it", the problem went deeper than the talking about it with a person with whom it didn't concern. Joven agreed simply, and attempted to change the subject.

"I really want to find that girl. The one that I was talking about before. Would you mind looking with me? It might take your mind off it." Joven said, almost in embarrassment, and Anthony swore Joven had turned a slightly redder shade.

"Yeah, alright. We'll go look for your crush." Anthony joked.

"She's not my crush." Joven said defensively.

"Mmm. Yeah. Sure" Anthony agreed sarcastically.

"I'm serious. It's not like that between us" Joven continued.

"What do you mean. What is it like?"Anthony asked suspiciously

"It doesn't matter," Joven said defiantly. Then, when Anthony gave him a questioning look, added "If you help me find her, then you'll know"

"Alright, I'm interested now." Anthony said. Jove didn't really say that much, well he said a lot but nothing really of interest. Anthony felt as though he did not know his senior at all, and he felt compelled to know more.

The two boys weaved in and out of the crowd for what seemed like ages, they had even passed David and Ian, dancing together. The sight of Ian brought a wave of bitterness to Anthony, the sight of Ian being happy made the feelings even worse.

"So she's got brown hair." Anthony asked in an attempt to distract himself. Joven nodded, "And how tall is she exactly?" Joven indicated to just at the bridge of his nose. He remained silent, still concentrated on finding Annie. Anthony noticed that Joven began becoming agitated and nervous, his hands constantly fidgeted with one another and he pushed up his glasses frequently.

"Joven, are you okay?" Anthony asked as they began to search the outside are of the party, close to the wall and underneath the balcony. Joven said something, but Anthony couldn't hear it. "Joven is she really worth it. I mean wouldn't you rather be enjoying the party?" Anthony had begun to feel as though his first big party was being wasted looking for a girl he didn't even know was here. Joven snapped round to look at him dead in the eye, there was a deep anger that lay there.

"Yes it is worth it. If you don't want to come with me then go and apologise to Ian and go follow them." Joven said shouting profusely in Anthony's face. Anthony had never seen this side of Joven before, he had seen him angered at a video game, but that was different. This Joven scared him and intrigued him, and seeing as he definitely didn't want to go back to Ian, he decided to continue following Joven.

They walked around the edge, Joven closely inspecting each person as they passed, Anthony following behind, not saying anything. There had been one moment when Anthony could see Ian dancing again, but this time he was dancing with a girl. He looked away dumbly, it should have been him dancing with pretty girls, not Ian. Ian was gay, it didn't even matter that much to him, and instead, Anthony was the one who wasn't enjoying the party he wanted to go to in the first place. Ian wouldn't even be here if it weren't for him.

Yet that was it. If Anthony hadn't begged Ian to come, Ian wouldn't be here at all. It was Anthony who had wanted to come, and he knew that if Ian hadn't come with him, he would probably be at home already, recovering from another on of his stupid panic attacks. When he was with Ian, he felt safer, more secure.

One summer Ian had gone to Europe for six whole weeks, during this time, Anthony wasn't able to maintain contact with him, and his panic attacks got worse, more frequent. Only when Ian came back did his panic attacks seem to subside. Ian gave Anthony a sense of security that no one else in his life had been able to give him. He didn't know why, but he also didn't care. He just wanted to go back and apologise. To have fu at an amazing party, with his best friend.

He was just about to tell Joven this, when Joven grabbed his arm, rather too tightly and pulled him in.

"That's her." He said indicating to a girl in a black dress, leaning against a wall. Several people seemed to have gravitated towards her and a small crowd had formed. Anthony felt as though he could not leave Joven now, just when he had found her. He realised his heartfelt apology would have to come later.

"Well then lets go over to her." Anthony said beginning to walk towards her. He would be there for Joven as Ian was there for him.


Author's Note: Next time will be the final chapter from this party, from Joven's perspective. Annie was based off tumblr user smosh-crew, who is bae so check her out. After next chapter it will be Sohinki's perspective at his party (remember him). Love you guys so much, see you in the next chapter.