Disclaimer: Only people I own are Shane, Candi, Dan, and the guy from the club… But if JKR ever decides she wants to give a few of her characters away, I'd be first in line.
A/N- I know, I know. I said I'd have a new chapter up every few days, but I didn't anticipate homework. Yes, thanks to the workload that my evil teachers have dropped onto me, my ME time has been greatly reduced. When I'm not doing homework, I have rehearsals to go to, voice lessons, tennis, Starbucks to work at, swimming lessons to teach… etc, so I'm pretty busy. Still, I WILL get the story up eventually, even if I have to feed into my insomnia for it.
Now, moving on to reviews from the last chapter. Sorry I made it so dark and depressing, I guess I can't write without little angsty plot twists. From here on it's basically all smiles though.
Muffy: When I do MST it, I'll put it in my folder so you can see it.
And thank you bunches to all my FANTASTIC reviewers, without you, I wouldn't have the inspiration I do to write this story: Wigginout, skateboardchick, Potter Princess, Elanor Odd Socks, marshmellow16b, and Music.
PS- Another reason it might be a while between chapters is because I realized that my ending is pure shit and I want to redo it.
PPS- I am right now extremely pissed at FFN. Who the fuck do they think they are, taking away all the NC-17 fics? I know it's just a matter of time before mine is deleted. I want to boycott and help show them how many people they're going to lose if they make this permanent, but I wouldn't do that to you guys, especially since I'm at such a crucial part of the story.
PPPS- (Sorry!) One more reason this chappie took so long. I basically "posted something that wasn't in the FFN guidelines" or whatever, so my posting rights were suspended. FFN is really starting to go too far. I'm posting it again, and if they don't like it, they can kiss my ass.
Ok enough A/N… back to:
Life After Hogwarts
Still August 25
3:57pm
Woke up a few minutes ago to find myself in an empty dorm. I slept longer than I originally planned. Found a note from Candi, it said:
A~
Just writing this so you don't get worried when you wake up and don't find me here. I went out with Shane to go pick up a few last minute supplies before classes start and George had to work today. Later we're going to talk about what happened last night with you and Shane, alright? Don't make dinner plans. We're going to go out, just you and me. I'll be home around 7 if not earlier.
~C
That's right. Classes start the in three days. Shit. I already have enough to deal with without even thinking about all the work I'm going to have to do. Stress. I swear to God it will be my downfall. Right now though, I can't deal with thinking about adding anymore to the already immense burden on my shoulders. Why am I getting so fucked up over a guy? All of this is George's fault, yet I still melt every time I think of him.
Looked in the mirror, I look terrible. After my shower I had just gone to sleep with my hair wet. I hadn't even bothered to brush it and now it stood up in clumps all over my head and was tangled something terrible. I have dark, black circles under my very red and bloodshot eyes my skin is a sickly white, and I have a dark bruise above my left eye and a long cut down my left cheek. Very noticeable against my white skin. I guess that guy hit me harder than I realized. I feel sick just looking at myself. I can't remember ever looking this bad. That's it. No more drinking for Alicia Spinnett. Ever.
I need to get out of the room. If I don't, I'm definitely going to go crazy. I need to go somewhere where I'm not all alone with my thoughts. I need to think about something else besides last night. I need Shane to be here so that I can thank him and apologize and then it will be all over. Maybe I just need to talk to someone about it. Just get it off my chest.
Still August 25
6:45 pm
After deciding earlier that I needed out of the dorm, I did my best to make myself look at least presentable. Believe me, it wasn't easy. I didn't know what to do with my out of control hair, so I put it up the best I could and shoved a newsboy style hat over it. A few strands fell out of my ponytail, but I didn't really care. I washed my face about three times, which helped get some color back into it but made my bloodshot eyes even more so. So I put on a pair of dark sunglasses, grabbed a book, and headed outside to do a little reading.
I found a nice spot in the quad under a tree and settled down, taking my sunglasses off so I could read better. I became so absorbed in my book that I didn't even notice when someone came and sat down next to me, until he pulled off my hat. I gasped and my hands flew to cover my disgusting looking hair.
"Dan!" I cried trying in vain to get my hat back. He grinned mischievously and held it up out of my reach as I jumped to get it. Then I got an idea. Mimicking his smile, I began to tickle him. It worked.
"Truce! Truce!" He cried laughing, and tossed me my hat back.
"Fine, truce." I said and stuck my hand out. But instead of shaking it, he began to tickle me. Giggling, I fell to the ground. "I thought we had a truce!" I managed to choke out in between laughs.
"Fooled you." He said. After a few more minutes, I got the hiccups and he finally stopped. "Haven't seen you in a while, Miss Alicia," He said as we leaned back against the tree.
"Well, I've been busy." I said, playing with a blade of grass.
"You must be. What's going on with you and Shane?"
"I don't know right now." This wasn't what I wanted right now, I didn't want to think about it…
"Hey, what's this? What happened here?" Dan touched the large bruise on my forehead. "And here," he pointed to the gash on my cheek. "Look's painful."
"I… uh… walked into a… tree."
"A tree?"
"Yeah. I had sunglasses on and I… um… didn't see it."
"Alicia, has anyone ever told you that you are a really bad liar? Tell me what really happened." He wrapped an arm around me protectively. Suddenly I felt safer than I had since I had gotten to this college. That's the thing about gay guys; they always feel so honest and trustworthy, like you could tell them anything.
And that's what I did. I poured my heart out to him. I told him everything, George calling me four-eyes the first day that I met him, opening the door to find that George was my perfect roommate's boyfriend, the kiss, finding out Shane liked me as more than a friend, finding George and Candi in the bathroom, getting completely trashed, the bartender trying to rape me, and then finally about Shane saving my life. By the time I finished, I was crying hysterically. Dan just tightened his grip around me and held me like that for a while before he spoke.
"You were lucky to have Shane there."
"I know."
"Have you talked to him since yesterday?"
"No. He's out with Candi."
"You're going to have to talk to him sooner or later, Alicia."
"Yeah, I know."
"And Candi. You have to tell her about George. It's not right to keep it from her. The truth will come out sooner or later and I'm sure she'd rather hear it from you than anyone else."
"I don't want to though. She was such a good friend. I don't want to hurt her…"
"I know, you never did anything to purposely hurt her, but she still has a right to know. Look, you've been through a lot in the past few days. Just take this slowly." I nodded, trying to stop the tears still streaming out of my eyes. "And Alicia, if you ever need to talk, I'm here."
Awww don't you just love gay guys? How sweet are they? If you don't remember, Dan is one of the people Shane introduced Alicia and Candi to in Chapter 2. He's based after my best guy friend, who is gay, so yes there is a guy this perfect out there. Too bad he only likes guys… Oh well, I know this chapter kinda sucked, but I promise it's gonna get better. Next one is written, and I'll post this as soon as my sentence is over.
Hey, you know what's cool? REVIEWS! Give me some! I wanna get to 100… not like that's gonna happen with this chapter, but help me on my way there! I'll heart you forever and ever and ever and ever… *Gets dragged off by Mush Muse to go start her Newsies Interactive fic* That's the one that FFN didn't like… hehe… see if that stops me…