Chapter 9 – The Party (Part 2)
Dionne slammed the door behind her as she exited the car. Pulling her skirt down a little she felt a little nervous. She usually avoided parties and stuff like this, just because she could never see herself at one. It wasn't that she couldn't dance or anything, no young dance classes as a child had ensured she could. She just for some reason always felt out of place.
She turned slightly when she felt Leon grab her hand and pull her along to the house. It had taken them an hour to get here. But now that she thought about it, she was glad she had decided to come.
Leon pulled Dee to walk beside him as they entered the house. "C'mon baby this is gonna be fun!" he whispered to her as he sensed her nervousness. Maybe a drink would help her unwind.
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9:55pm
Dom threw his arm around Letty, as they walked over to get a beer. He could feel people's eyes on them, noticing that they were new. Grabbing 2 Corona's with his free hand he handed one to Letty.
"Here babe."
Taking the Corona from him, Letty unhinged the cap with her teeth. She glanced over to her right, as she saw some redhead staring at Dom. Fixing her pants that already rested very low on her hips; she took a chug of her beer. A corner of her mouth turned up, as she gave a hard stare to the girl, who turned away quickly when she saw Letty. She was in a good mood tonight, she almost wished one of those ho's would come up to Dom.
Hearing her song 'Oh Yeah' come on by Foxy Brown. She shuffled her feet and faced Dom. "Yo Dom I'm gonna go dance." she said as she put her finished beer down on a nearby table. She began to walk towards everyone else that was dancing. Shit she wanted to get the party started.
Dom smiled, Letty always wanted to dance. He nodded, and watched her ass admiringly as she walked away. He was distracted as someone bumped his shoulder. He turned around slightly to look at the person. It was Dwayne, holding a beer, looking a little pissed.
Leaning against the wall Dwayne watched Leon and Dee enter out of the corner of his eye. Why the hell had she come with him? Since when did Dee go to parties? He turned to Dom and bumped him slightly, motioning over to the other two. "So how'd he get her to come?"
Dom smirked at Ice. "He asked her, jackass." he said dryly while nodding to another girl that tried to catch his attention.
Dwayne frowned. He still couldn't believe she was here. Drinking his beer, he felt someone grab his hand. Turning slightly he noticed an old "friend".
Janine Carter smiled invitingly at Ice. "Hey Ice, long time no see baby. . ." she purred as she stroked his arm.
Dwayne smiled, one that didn't reach his eyes. This was exactly the kind of distraction he needed. "Wassup Janine?" He motioned with his beer at Dom. "This is my boy Dom, Dom this is Janine."
Dom smiled politely not too interested in the invitation that Janine sent him with her eyes as well. "How you doin?"
Janine noticed the disinterest in Dom's face and turned back to Ice. Too bad, Dom was lookin pretty tight, might have been a nice lay. She continued stroking Ice's arm again. "So you here with anyone tonight? You wanna go upstairs?"
Dwayne shook his head. Looking down he saw her hand descending. He nodded towards the dance floor, as he took one last slug of his beer. That was his third one already. "Let's dance first gurl, we can get to the rest later." Nodding at Dom he followed Janine to the dance floor.
Dom shook his head slightly and smiled. Looked like Dwayne was gonna get some ass. But if he wasn't correct, he could almost swear that that wasn't the ass Dwayne wanted.
Looking around he spotted Jordan sitting with a bunch of guys, playing poker. Moving through the crowd he made his way over to him.
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10:04pm
D.A. jumped out of Lina's car. She was wearing her dark blue almost black jeans, that looked as if the had been painted on and her stiletto heeled boots (which she stole from Kia). And she wore a tight baby doll tank top, with no bra. Her long hair had been curled and rested back on her head with her sunglasses on top.
Turning to Lina as they approached the front steps, she grabbed her arm. "Hey maybe we should go through the back . . ." she said, looking a little anxious.
Lina rolled her eyes, at D.A. Now was a great time for her to chicken out. "Ok, but you are coming in right??" she said, as she followed D.A. along the side of the house. She swore under her breath as she almost tripped on the tall weeds under her $600 BCBG shoes.
D.A. laughed at Lina as she heard her stumble behind her. "Ha ha, and yes I'm coming in, I just wanna have some fun before or should I say if Ice catches me."
Seeing the backlights on, she proceeded more confidently, glad to find they could enter through the back.
"He'll catch you D.A., I'm pretty sure of it. Your cousin doesn't look like an idiot." she said and smiled as she heard D.A. mutter, 'you'd be surprised' in front of her.
D.A. grabbed Lina's hand and almost ran up the wooden steps. She felt giddy; it had been a long time, since she'd been able to get to a party. Especially now that Jordan was gonna be here, wouldn't he be surprised.
D.A. and Lina stopped as they walked in the back door, D.A. because she was scouting the place for her cousin and Lina cause she was scouting for Jordan. Looking around, D.A. immediately loved the atmosphere. The music pounded in her ears and she could feel the bass in her body. She was definitely gonna have fun.
Lina took in the large back room they had entered. On her left she noticed a couple basically fucking on a pole, while three ho's reapplied their makeup in a hallway mirror. The hallway was narrow, and it gave the ho's ample time to brush up against all the guys that kept passing through to get to, it looked like, 2 bedrooms.
In front of her Lina tried to see over everyone standing around, but she wasn't tall enough. But she could tell that's where the music was.
Leaning over to D.A., she had to shout in her ear so the other girl could hear her. "Let's go upfront and get a beer or something." Seeing D.A. nod, she began to push past the people in front of her, noticing the stares from some of the guys, and the not so nice ones from the ho's.
D.A. was itching to get on the dance floor. She opened her eyes wide, excitedly as she heard one of her favorites songs come on. "Don't Mess With The Radio" by Nivea. Dropping Lina's hand she moved out from behind her and almost ran to meet the people 3 feet in front of her.
Lina laughed out loud as she saw D.A. sprint past her. That girl was too much, and she just knew that bringing her here tonight was guaranteed to get her in trouble. But in truth, she had her own reasons for being here, and she wasn't leaving till she got them settled. Grabbing a beer of a nearby table she stood watching D.A. dancing with a cute Latin guy. She had a feeling D.A. would be a little occupied, but she'd still keep an eye on her.
As she turned her eyes away from D.A. she noticed a familiar face. Her heart almost stopped beating in her chest. Her nervous hands had already begun their pattern on the bottle. Taking a quick but large gulp of beer she, moved through the crowd towards Jordan.
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10: 28pm
"Wassup now bitches? I won all the money, and ya'll were just laughing cause I was taking my time." Jordan yelled at the other male players around the table. He spread his hands out in front of him and pulled all the money towards himself.
"Yeah right ese, yo ass was loosin. 'Takin yo time' my ass." another player yelled, as the guys broke out into laughter.
Jordan rolled his eyes. "Don't hate, cause I'm the one with all the cash now, punkass." He yelled back. Turning his chair back around, he leaned back and joined the guys laughing at one of the guys leaving after an invitation from a skank. He'd had plenty invitations so far, and hadn't acted on any of them. He wondered why. Oh yeah, he was sort of involved. He smirked to himself, sort of? Yeah right he was in fucking deep now.
Feeling someone's eyes on him, he glanced up and locked eyes with the one person he did not want to see. 'Fuck' he muttered under his breath. Looking up at the ceiling he mouthed the words 'why me?'
Lina approached Jordan, now standing right beside him. She put her hand on his shoulder lightly, still unsure exactly what she was doing.
Jordan tried to ignore Lina, but knew she wouldn't go away. Catching the guys' expressions, "A yo, I'ma be right back ya'll, DO NOT touch my shit, or I will fuck each and every one of you up. I'm not playin," he yelled playfully.
The guys laughed basically ignoring him, because half of them were twice his size.
Jordan got out of his chair and grabbed Lina's arm, dragging her through the people, passed the couple that was still screwing on the pole, to one of the rooms.
He pushed her inside snapped on the lights, only to find a couple in bed.
Jordan glared at them when their faces locked with his. "Get out, go find another room to fuck in.," he said, while turning around to face Lina, who wore an expression of doubt.
The couple glared back at Jordan. "Hey listen homie we were here first, you can't just . . ." he said but was cut off as Jordan literally picked him up, opened the door and threw him outside.
The girl quickly followed suit.
Jordan closed the door and turned back to Lina. "Why are you here?" he asked coldly.
Lina closed her eyes for a moment before answering." I-I just wanted to talk to you Jordan."
Jordan rolled his eyes. "What exactly about Lina? I didn't realize we had unfinished business."
Lina flushed with anger. "Unfinished business! That's it, that's what you call a fucking year and a half relationship Jordan?"
"We broke up Lina, get over It.," he yelled back at her. "So what, you show up at my crib now, tryna act all friendly and shit with D.A., just so you can talk to me about bullshit??"
"That's just like you Jordan, you're so fucking conceited. No I know D.A., you asshole. Not everything is about Jordan fucking Juarez."
Jordan smirked. "So why are we talking?" he asked in a slightly lowered voice.
Lina took a breath before continuing. " Jordan we never actually broke up, and I never—I never got over you."
Jordan stood silently, folding his arms over his chest. "Listen Lina, you left for college, we agreed to take a break . . ." he sighed.
"But I'm back now—and I just, there isn't anyone else for me Jordan. You were my first everything," she whispered as stepped directly in front of him, close enough to feel the heat coming off his body.
Jordan looked down at her. He shook his head slightly, clenching his teeth. "Look, I know I was—but that doesn't mean that I'm the right person for you Lina. You can't just come back and expect us to pick up where we left off," he said quietly.
Lina's eyes glistened with tears. She knew she had been taking a risk coming here. God all this time, she'd been hoping he'd been waiting for her, but of course not. They had basically broken up, and now she'd made a fool of herself. She couldn't lose him.
She stared up into his hazel eyes, feeling her cheeks getting wet. She moved her hands up his arms and rested them against both sides of his face. "Jordan you can't just pretend we didn't share a year and a half of our lives together."
Jordan kept himself still. Fuck! How did this always happen to him? He stared back into Lina's light green eyes. She was beautiful, and it would be easy to fall back into that pattern. Of being there for her, helping her, being someone else for her. But he couldn't do that again. Not even if he wanted to, he hadn't waited for her, because in his mind they had broken up. And he had moved on with…D.A. Squeezing his eyes shut, he thought about D.A.
He moved Lina's hands from his face, stepping back. "No I can't pretend Lina, but Fuck. It's over ok. I've moved on and you should too. I'm not the same guy you left behind. I'm not willing to be the "perfect boyfriend" for you again," he said with finality.
Lina wiped at her tears. She leaned forward and whispered 'I love you' before meeting his mouth with hers
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D.A. moved off the dance floor. Not even the tiniest bit tired. She needed some water though her throat was dry. Moving towards the table she glanced around looking for Lina. 'Where the hell had she gone?' Gulping down the water she set the cup down. She tapped her feet impatiently, where the fuck was Lina?
Looking to her left she saw Dionne sitting on Leon's lap while he talked to Dom. D.A. smirked. 'Well, well, well' looks like they were getting friendly, she almost wanted to go over and bug Dionne, but then she remembered. She wasn't supposed to be here. 'Fuck!' she muttered under her breath. Putting her water down, she headed towards the back of the house.
She was about to go upstairs when she saw Ice, coming down with his arm wrapped around some skank. Narrowing her eyes, she knew she'd seen that one around Ice before. Quickly before he noticed her, she turned swiftly on her heel heading towards the other bathroom. She walked quickly down the hall, into the small alcove of rooms.
Not knowing which one was the bathroom she looked around between the three rooms and went for the one on her left. She opened the door bursting into the room, stopping short, eyes wide, as she stared at the scene in front of her.
Dionne slammed the door behind her as she exited the car. Pulling her skirt down a little she felt a little nervous. She usually avoided parties and stuff like this, just because she could never see herself at one. It wasn't that she couldn't dance or anything, no young dance classes as a child had ensured she could. She just for some reason always felt out of place.
She turned slightly when she felt Leon grab her hand and pull her along to the house. It had taken them an hour to get here. But now that she thought about it, she was glad she had decided to come.
Leon pulled Dee to walk beside him as they entered the house. "C'mon baby this is gonna be fun!" he whispered to her as he sensed her nervousness. Maybe a drink would help her unwind.
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9:55pm
Dom threw his arm around Letty, as they walked over to get a beer. He could feel people's eyes on them, noticing that they were new. Grabbing 2 Corona's with his free hand he handed one to Letty.
"Here babe."
Taking the Corona from him, Letty unhinged the cap with her teeth. She glanced over to her right, as she saw some redhead staring at Dom. Fixing her pants that already rested very low on her hips; she took a chug of her beer. A corner of her mouth turned up, as she gave a hard stare to the girl, who turned away quickly when she saw Letty. She was in a good mood tonight, she almost wished one of those ho's would come up to Dom.
Hearing her song 'Oh Yeah' come on by Foxy Brown. She shuffled her feet and faced Dom. "Yo Dom I'm gonna go dance." she said as she put her finished beer down on a nearby table. She began to walk towards everyone else that was dancing. Shit she wanted to get the party started.
Dom smiled, Letty always wanted to dance. He nodded, and watched her ass admiringly as she walked away. He was distracted as someone bumped his shoulder. He turned around slightly to look at the person. It was Dwayne, holding a beer, looking a little pissed.
Leaning against the wall Dwayne watched Leon and Dee enter out of the corner of his eye. Why the hell had she come with him? Since when did Dee go to parties? He turned to Dom and bumped him slightly, motioning over to the other two. "So how'd he get her to come?"
Dom smirked at Ice. "He asked her, jackass." he said dryly while nodding to another girl that tried to catch his attention.
Dwayne frowned. He still couldn't believe she was here. Drinking his beer, he felt someone grab his hand. Turning slightly he noticed an old "friend".
Janine Carter smiled invitingly at Ice. "Hey Ice, long time no see baby. . ." she purred as she stroked his arm.
Dwayne smiled, one that didn't reach his eyes. This was exactly the kind of distraction he needed. "Wassup Janine?" He motioned with his beer at Dom. "This is my boy Dom, Dom this is Janine."
Dom smiled politely not too interested in the invitation that Janine sent him with her eyes as well. "How you doin?"
Janine noticed the disinterest in Dom's face and turned back to Ice. Too bad, Dom was lookin pretty tight, might have been a nice lay. She continued stroking Ice's arm again. "So you here with anyone tonight? You wanna go upstairs?"
Dwayne shook his head. Looking down he saw her hand descending. He nodded towards the dance floor, as he took one last slug of his beer. That was his third one already. "Let's dance first gurl, we can get to the rest later." Nodding at Dom he followed Janine to the dance floor.
Dom shook his head slightly and smiled. Looked like Dwayne was gonna get some ass. But if he wasn't correct, he could almost swear that that wasn't the ass Dwayne wanted.
Looking around he spotted Jordan sitting with a bunch of guys, playing poker. Moving through the crowd he made his way over to him.
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10:04pm
D.A. jumped out of Lina's car. She was wearing her dark blue almost black jeans, that looked as if the had been painted on and her stiletto heeled boots (which she stole from Kia). And she wore a tight baby doll tank top, with no bra. Her long hair had been curled and rested back on her head with her sunglasses on top.
Turning to Lina as they approached the front steps, she grabbed her arm. "Hey maybe we should go through the back . . ." she said, looking a little anxious.
Lina rolled her eyes, at D.A. Now was a great time for her to chicken out. "Ok, but you are coming in right??" she said, as she followed D.A. along the side of the house. She swore under her breath as she almost tripped on the tall weeds under her $600 BCBG shoes.
D.A. laughed at Lina as she heard her stumble behind her. "Ha ha, and yes I'm coming in, I just wanna have some fun before or should I say if Ice catches me."
Seeing the backlights on, she proceeded more confidently, glad to find they could enter through the back.
"He'll catch you D.A., I'm pretty sure of it. Your cousin doesn't look like an idiot." she said and smiled as she heard D.A. mutter, 'you'd be surprised' in front of her.
D.A. grabbed Lina's hand and almost ran up the wooden steps. She felt giddy; it had been a long time, since she'd been able to get to a party. Especially now that Jordan was gonna be here, wouldn't he be surprised.
D.A. and Lina stopped as they walked in the back door, D.A. because she was scouting the place for her cousin and Lina cause she was scouting for Jordan. Looking around, D.A. immediately loved the atmosphere. The music pounded in her ears and she could feel the bass in her body. She was definitely gonna have fun.
Lina took in the large back room they had entered. On her left she noticed a couple basically fucking on a pole, while three ho's reapplied their makeup in a hallway mirror. The hallway was narrow, and it gave the ho's ample time to brush up against all the guys that kept passing through to get to, it looked like, 2 bedrooms.
In front of her Lina tried to see over everyone standing around, but she wasn't tall enough. But she could tell that's where the music was.
Leaning over to D.A., she had to shout in her ear so the other girl could hear her. "Let's go upfront and get a beer or something." Seeing D.A. nod, she began to push past the people in front of her, noticing the stares from some of the guys, and the not so nice ones from the ho's.
D.A. was itching to get on the dance floor. She opened her eyes wide, excitedly as she heard one of her favorites songs come on. "Don't Mess With The Radio" by Nivea. Dropping Lina's hand she moved out from behind her and almost ran to meet the people 3 feet in front of her.
Lina laughed out loud as she saw D.A. sprint past her. That girl was too much, and she just knew that bringing her here tonight was guaranteed to get her in trouble. But in truth, she had her own reasons for being here, and she wasn't leaving till she got them settled. Grabbing a beer of a nearby table she stood watching D.A. dancing with a cute Latin guy. She had a feeling D.A. would be a little occupied, but she'd still keep an eye on her.
As she turned her eyes away from D.A. she noticed a familiar face. Her heart almost stopped beating in her chest. Her nervous hands had already begun their pattern on the bottle. Taking a quick but large gulp of beer she, moved through the crowd towards Jordan.
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10: 28pm
"Wassup now bitches? I won all the money, and ya'll were just laughing cause I was taking my time." Jordan yelled at the other male players around the table. He spread his hands out in front of him and pulled all the money towards himself.
"Yeah right ese, yo ass was loosin. 'Takin yo time' my ass." another player yelled, as the guys broke out into laughter.
Jordan rolled his eyes. "Don't hate, cause I'm the one with all the cash now, punkass." He yelled back. Turning his chair back around, he leaned back and joined the guys laughing at one of the guys leaving after an invitation from a skank. He'd had plenty invitations so far, and hadn't acted on any of them. He wondered why. Oh yeah, he was sort of involved. He smirked to himself, sort of? Yeah right he was in fucking deep now.
Feeling someone's eyes on him, he glanced up and locked eyes with the one person he did not want to see. 'Fuck' he muttered under his breath. Looking up at the ceiling he mouthed the words 'why me?'
Lina approached Jordan, now standing right beside him. She put her hand on his shoulder lightly, still unsure exactly what she was doing.
Jordan tried to ignore Lina, but knew she wouldn't go away. Catching the guys' expressions, "A yo, I'ma be right back ya'll, DO NOT touch my shit, or I will fuck each and every one of you up. I'm not playin," he yelled playfully.
The guys laughed basically ignoring him, because half of them were twice his size.
Jordan got out of his chair and grabbed Lina's arm, dragging her through the people, passed the couple that was still screwing on the pole, to one of the rooms.
He pushed her inside snapped on the lights, only to find a couple in bed.
Jordan glared at them when their faces locked with his. "Get out, go find another room to fuck in.," he said, while turning around to face Lina, who wore an expression of doubt.
The couple glared back at Jordan. "Hey listen homie we were here first, you can't just . . ." he said but was cut off as Jordan literally picked him up, opened the door and threw him outside.
The girl quickly followed suit.
Jordan closed the door and turned back to Lina. "Why are you here?" he asked coldly.
Lina closed her eyes for a moment before answering." I-I just wanted to talk to you Jordan."
Jordan rolled his eyes. "What exactly about Lina? I didn't realize we had unfinished business."
Lina flushed with anger. "Unfinished business! That's it, that's what you call a fucking year and a half relationship Jordan?"
"We broke up Lina, get over It.," he yelled back at her. "So what, you show up at my crib now, tryna act all friendly and shit with D.A., just so you can talk to me about bullshit??"
"That's just like you Jordan, you're so fucking conceited. No I know D.A., you asshole. Not everything is about Jordan fucking Juarez."
Jordan smirked. "So why are we talking?" he asked in a slightly lowered voice.
Lina took a breath before continuing. " Jordan we never actually broke up, and I never—I never got over you."
Jordan stood silently, folding his arms over his chest. "Listen Lina, you left for college, we agreed to take a break . . ." he sighed.
"But I'm back now—and I just, there isn't anyone else for me Jordan. You were my first everything," she whispered as stepped directly in front of him, close enough to feel the heat coming off his body.
Jordan looked down at her. He shook his head slightly, clenching his teeth. "Look, I know I was—but that doesn't mean that I'm the right person for you Lina. You can't just come back and expect us to pick up where we left off," he said quietly.
Lina's eyes glistened with tears. She knew she had been taking a risk coming here. God all this time, she'd been hoping he'd been waiting for her, but of course not. They had basically broken up, and now she'd made a fool of herself. She couldn't lose him.
She stared up into his hazel eyes, feeling her cheeks getting wet. She moved her hands up his arms and rested them against both sides of his face. "Jordan you can't just pretend we didn't share a year and a half of our lives together."
Jordan kept himself still. Fuck! How did this always happen to him? He stared back into Lina's light green eyes. She was beautiful, and it would be easy to fall back into that pattern. Of being there for her, helping her, being someone else for her. But he couldn't do that again. Not even if he wanted to, he hadn't waited for her, because in his mind they had broken up. And he had moved on with…D.A. Squeezing his eyes shut, he thought about D.A.
He moved Lina's hands from his face, stepping back. "No I can't pretend Lina, but Fuck. It's over ok. I've moved on and you should too. I'm not the same guy you left behind. I'm not willing to be the "perfect boyfriend" for you again," he said with finality.
Lina wiped at her tears. She leaned forward and whispered 'I love you' before meeting his mouth with hers
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D.A. moved off the dance floor. Not even the tiniest bit tired. She needed some water though her throat was dry. Moving towards the table she glanced around looking for Lina. 'Where the hell had she gone?' Gulping down the water she set the cup down. She tapped her feet impatiently, where the fuck was Lina?
Looking to her left she saw Dionne sitting on Leon's lap while he talked to Dom. D.A. smirked. 'Well, well, well' looks like they were getting friendly, she almost wanted to go over and bug Dionne, but then she remembered. She wasn't supposed to be here. 'Fuck!' she muttered under her breath. Putting her water down, she headed towards the back of the house.
She was about to go upstairs when she saw Ice, coming down with his arm wrapped around some skank. Narrowing her eyes, she knew she'd seen that one around Ice before. Quickly before he noticed her, she turned swiftly on her heel heading towards the other bathroom. She walked quickly down the hall, into the small alcove of rooms.
Not knowing which one was the bathroom she looked around between the three rooms and went for the one on her left. She opened the door bursting into the room, stopping short, eyes wide, as she stared at the scene in front of her.