New
Neighbours
Chapter
Nine: Playing Dress Up
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"I'm so bored!" Lily whined, floating around the pool on her back.
"Me to! Let's go somewhere, do something!" I agreed with her.
The guys just laughed at the scene we were making. They were leaning up against the side of the pool, just talking about random things including girls, football and cars. They were being ultimately boring but what could you really expect they were guys!
"Ugh! You guys really need some personalities!" I was getting very frustrated and my skin was all wrinkled.
I swam over to the side of the pool, right next to the guys, and was just about to hoist myself up when two, very strong, arm curled around my waist and brought me back into the water. "Where do you think you're going Mary?" Tristin asked his hot breath against my ear was making me shiver deliciously.
I struggled for a minute or two but gave up quickly, strength really wasn't my thing. Plus it felt so comfortable and right to be this close with him. I had noticed that ever since I had admitted to liking him I had become bolder with him. Not that shyness had really been my thing before…
"Well I was thinking of going to call some people who have actual personalities to entertain me with!" I replied sarcastically, turning around in his grasp.
"Hey we have personalities!" One of the other guys spoke up, Jeremy I think but I wasn't sure.
I lifted a brow at the guy and when he didn't say anything I did. "I'm sorry did I hurt your feelings?" I couldn't stop the smirk from appearing, I'm tell you it has a mind of its own!
He glared daggers at me but I held my own, my blue eyes bright with laughter.
"Awe…Poor wittle baby!" Lilly cooed as she patted him on the head, a huge grin on her face as well.
The guys exchanged glances; they weren't used to girls acting this way around them. Usually when a girl came up to one of them it was to flirt or something, not to annoy them or make fun of them.
"Jeeze you guys really need to calm down! You can laugh a little you know!" I accused them.
"They're just not used to you guys yet. Give them some time." Tristin told me, still with him arms around my waist. Truthfully he didn't understand why the guys didn't like the twins they're like a breath of fresh air.
"Hmmm, and they even haven't seen us at our wildest." Lilly pondered quietly but just loud enough for everyone to hear. I stifled a laugh at that because I knew it was true.
"Ooh! I wanna go to Tank!" Lilly announced in a very high pitched squeal of excitement.
"Ooh! Me to!" I copied her tone and started jumping up and down mockingly.
"Tank?" Blake asked coming up behind Lilly, pulling her back into his chest.
"Yeah it's a club, you know like Velocity." I told him leaning back into Tristin, smirking when he groaned.
"Why don't we just go to Velocity! I mean it's the coolest club in Hartford." One of the other guys said, Brad I think.
I looked over at him, studying the way he held himself, the way his eyes were shielded and the way he talked. Everything about him screamed 'fake', from his professionally styled hair to that annoying overly used smirk.
"Yeah sure Velocity's the coolest place to you guys but that's only because you've never been to Tank." Lilly told them, "You guys should so come with us tonight! It'd be so much fun!" I noticed the evil gleam in her eyes and couldn't help but agree with her…if they came it would be a riot!
"I don't know about that Mare…" Tristin jumped in when he noticed the help us looks plastered on the faces of his friends.
I turned around to face him. I carefully placed my hands lightly on his shoulders and looked him in the eyes, my own pleading with him. "Why not?" I pouted.
"I don't know it just doesn't sound like something we'd normally do." He tried to sell the idea to me but added another thing in hopes of changing the subject "Why don't we do something outside?"
"Well lucky for you they have an outdoor area to!"
All hopes were dashed.
"Come on it'll be fun!" I smiled sweetly at him, hoping he would cave.
"'It'll be fun!'" He repeated. "Why did I have the urge to cringe when you said that?"
I tilted my head to the side. "It will be," I insisted. I wound my arms around his neck and gave him a stern look. "Plus it will help to broader your horizons."
"Yes," he interrupted. "And there are annoyingly angry music and brawls to be had by everyone! Do we all have to share in the experience?"
"We do," I insisted once more. "And I really don't think you're going to get into a brawl, Tristin."
"Well I don't know what it's like there," He said huffily.
I jutted my bottom lip out; my eyes grew big, begging him. Tristin felt his last resolve weakening, despite his efforts. "Please Tris, just let go tonight. Be spontaneous." I trailed my fingers back down over his shoulder and down his toned chest, feeling his muscles quiver under my touch. "I'll help you…" I whispered it into his ear for only him to here.
Gulping, he felt the battle leave him. "Tonight?"
I smiled widely at him, "Tonight. Come to my house at…let's say 8?" At his nod I slowly leaned up and placed a feather light kiss on his cheek before removing myself from his embrace.
Lilly was so happy for me, I could tell when I turned around and saw that she was practically jumping up and down with glee, her smile was so big it looked as if it was taking over. I smiled a little, cocking my head to the side letting a small laugh. Sometimes Lilly was to hyper for her own good! She turned around slowly, facing who I suppose is boyfriend, and whispered something for only him to hear. She laughed casually before throwing her arms around his neck and giving him a big hug. The look of disappointed on his face was more then enough to make both Lilly and me burst out laughing. Like me she placed a soft kiss on his cheek, purposely kissing the side of his lips just to tease him. The both of us swam over to the wall, ducked under.
When we were waiting for the seal to open, Lily suddenly remembered that the guys didn't have a car or anything. I quickly solved the problem, sticking my head out the window of the back wall I called over to the guys, "Hey! Catch!" And then threw the keys to our mom's jeep out onto the deck. "See ya guys later!"
(Regular P.O.V.)
The minute the girls got home they ran up to their bedrooms trying not to trip in their soaked bottoms. Both went straight to their closest, Lilly grabbed a pair of jeans and a rolling stones shirt, and Rory grabbed a pair of red plaid pants and a plain black tank. They both went into the bathroom and pulled down their hair, Lilly put hers back up into a messy bun and Rory brushed hers. The twins looked at each other for a minute before nodding and walking out of their rooms, down the stairs and into the foyer. They both grabbed their skate shoes and their purses and were out the door.
They took their dad's old '99 Ford Explorer 5.OL, and drove over to the Hartford Mall. It was just five so they had 2 hours to find their outfits. The drive to the mall was pretty much uneventful and quiet –well as quiet as it can be when you're listening to Marilyn Manson.
"Okay so where should we go first?" Lilly asked once they entered the mall. The mall was huge; it had three floors and millions of shop and boutiques all selling clothes and accessories.
"Let's go to Target…" Rory answered happily.
After looking through most stores on the first floor the twins decided they'd break for some coffee and then they'd start on the second floor. They walked over to the food court on the first floor and situated themselves at the end of the line for Starbucks. Once they had their large coffees, they seated themselves at one of the tables.
(Rory P.O.V.)
"What's up with you and Blake?" I asked out of the blue.
"What do you mean?" Lilly responded trying to keep the smile off her face.
"Well are you guy's friends…or casually dating or like going out?" I clarified, turning my attention to her once again.
She finally let her smile show, and it was so big and bright that I knew, instantly, that she was the happiest I had ever seen her. "We're dating…officially!" We both squealed excitedly.
"Lil that's so great! I'm so happy for you!" I declared with enthusiasm, leaning over the table and giving her a big hug. "I can tell you really like him." I whispered into her ear before letting go.
She had the grace to blush at that comment. "Am I that transparent?"
"No but I do know you probably more then you know yourself…" I said off handedly but she nodded, understanding. "Wait a minute if you guy's are dating then why didn't you kiss him when we left?" I inquired.
"Because he looks adorable when he pouts…" She dreamily replied.
I looked at her and I could tell she was falling. I couldn't be more happy for her, being in love is probably your best experience in life, and falling is half the fun. Which you should already know! The thought came out of nowhere; it just hit me point blank. Yeah right I'm not falling for Tristin…I just like him. Hoping to diverge from this train of thought I quickly asked Lilly something. "So Lil, should I make up the wedding invitations now, because you're obviously falling for Blake?" I commented sarcastically.
She gasped at me but quickly turned the tables. "Falling? Oh you mean what you're doing with Tristin!"
"I'm not falling for Tristin! We're not even dating!" I said in total denial.
"But you like him…"
"Yeah I like him, that doesn't mean I'm in love with him though!"
"No, not now," she chirped. "But you'll get there…very soon."
"Right…" I drawled but found myself actually agreeing with her.
We were finishing our coffee when all of a sudden Lilly jumped out of her seat. "Oh my god!" She shrieked.
"What!" I asked jumping up to and trying to follow her gaze.
"There's a Hot Topic here!" She screeched.
I quickly snapped my attention to where she was pointing. Up on the second floor I could just see the sign for Hot Topic. My eyes went wide and I let out an excited little gasp, almost jumping in place. Hot Topic had been our favourite store since forever but there wasn't one in Hartford…until now.
We had drawn the attention of a lot of people by now. They were all just kinda staring blankly at us probably thinking we were insane or something but we didn't even notice. Instantly we broke out of our trance and ran over to the store.
We got back home around 7:30 so we had time to put away all our clothes and stuff that we bought before
the guys were supposed to show. We piled all our bags on my bed then went down to the kitchen for some more coffee. We took our cups out onto the front porch and sat on the steps to wait. It wasn't long before the jeep was pulling into the driveway and the guys were getting out. Except that there were only four guys.
"Where's Jeremy?" I asked as they were walking up to us.
"Well I didn't know you would miss him that much…" Tristin commented, lowering himself down onto the step behind me. "I mean if I had known then I would have made sure he came."
I rolled my eyes at him playfully punching his arm. "I don't miss him; I just wanted to know if he chickened out."
"He didn't, he had to go to something with his parents." Brad told everyone and I could pick up a hint of jealousy coming from him.
"Well we still gotta get dressed so come on." Lilly told everyone, taking Blake's hand in hers and dragging him into the house. We all followed them up the stairs and into my room. Lilly and I cleared the bed of all the bags so everyone could sit down. The guy's all sat down, taking everything in, from the black walls to the dark red ceiling. All my furniture was black, and all the fabrics were solid red, stripes or plaid.
"Nice room," Tristin said after a while of silence. Sure he had been in here before but she didn't know that…And she wasn't going to find out. Blake sent him knowing look but Tristin just glared at him.
"It's kinda morbid don't you think?" Brad asked. He got off the bed and was walking around the room.
I came up beside him, placing my arm around his shoulders. "Actually I never really thought about it that way…Guess that's why it always freaked my dad out…" I pondered questioningly. He gave me the weirdest look and quickly broke away going to sit on the bed again.
"So what are you guy's wearing?" I asked, trying not to laugh, it was fun to freak people like them out!
They exchanged confused looks, looking down at what they had on and back up at me. Lilly came to stand beside me, cocking her head to the side, looking at their outfits, her face amused. Tristin had on a light blue polo shirt and khakis, Blake was wearing a striped button up shirt with considerably tight jeans, and the other guy's were both wearing t-shirts, one that said, 'Abercrombie' on it and the other a solid white, with athletic pants. We looked back at each other both highly amused with their choice of clothing for tonight.
"Okay word of advice?" I asked them and they all nodded cautiously. "If you walk into Tank wearing those outfits, you'll probably get the crap beaten out of you."
At their stricken looks Lilly decided to add, what was supposed to cheer them up. "But you know there's only like a 90 chance of that happening."
They all looked panicked, and I could just see the wheels turning in their heads trying to come up with some sort of excuse to get out of going. That was so not happening! "Oh but don't worry we can dress you!" I smiled reassuringly at them and Tristin smirked.
"Yeah she meant that in a lot less whorish way then what you're thinking…sorry!" Lilly told Tristin, and he frowned disappointedly. "Well come on, we better get your outfits." She went over to the bed and grabbed Blake's hand once again, pulling him out of the room. Blake just let her drag him with Brad following him.
"You have guy's clothes?" Matt asked, following me out of the bedroom.
I looked over at him, as he walked next to me. "Yeah, there my brothers but they should fit you guy's." I told him.
He laughed slightly his brown eyes twinkling. "Good 'cause for a minute I thought you were gonna make us where your dad's clothes or something."
I almost burst out laughing as the images assailed me. "Oh no! God I would never make you wear my dad's clothes!" I was half joking and half serious; some of the things my dad wore were like an abomination!
I like this Matt guy. I thought looking over at him, walking timidly about a half step behind me. He was different then his friends. Especially Brad! I hadn't liked Brad the minute I met him, there had just been something about him that didn't sit with me right. And the fact that he was a major player wasn't helping.
"You know you're really different from your friends." I voiced my opinion, looking him straight in the eyes.
He looked up at me surprised but answered quickly and politely "I'm just a lot quieter then them."
"Yeah and you're not so…annoying!" I smiled sweetly at him.
He watched ahead of us, and he could see that Blake had his arm around Lilly's shoulders and was animatedly explaining something to her, while Brad walked backwards in front of them objecting at parts and yelling loudly when he agreed. "Yeah I can agree with that. But I know Brad would object!" He answered knowingly with a smile on his face.
I looked over at Brad who was now shoving Blake out of the way and saying something to Lilly. "Yeah I can see that happening. Have you guy's been friends for long?" I asked curiously.
"Me and Brad?" I nodded. "Yeah, ever since we've been in diapers." He told me proudly.
"That explains how you can stand him." He looked over at me quizzically and I hurried to explain it to him. "It's just that Brad is exceptionally arrogant and at the same time he seems like he walking around with a corn cob stuck up his ass!"
His lifted his eyebrows at that but I could tell he was trying not to smile. "Yeah Brad has this image that he has to maintain." He tried to explain it to me.
"Yeah I guess but I think he'd probably be that way even without an audience." I looked over at him, my expression unreadable. He looked over at me, straight into the eyes trying to read me just like I had believed he would. He looked away quickly and after shedding a glance at Brad he gave me a minor nod. I smiled at that, I really liked this guy who was now walking comfortably at my side.
I stopped walking for a minute looking at Matt, then at the three teens in front of us. Drawing my brows together in confusion I turned around completely then focused back on Matt who was looking at me like I had three heads or something. "Where's Tristin?"
He went to say something but hesitated with his mouth hanging open. "I don't think he followed us." He told me.
I was even more confused now, why wouldn't Tristin follows us? Everyone else did. "Hey listen, I'm gonna go back, see what he's doing. You just follow Lilly, okay?" I told him distractedly.
"Yeah sure." He was nodding and threw me a small smile before jogging up to the others.
I slowly made my way back to my room, the whole I tried to come up with a reason as to why Tristin hadn't come with us. The best I could come up with was that he had to go to the bathroom or something but even that seemed odd, it's not like he really knows how to get around by himself yet. I slowed down when my room came into view, and stopped right next to the door. Carefully I poked my head through the door that was closed over a bit, frowning at what I saw. Tristin had his back to me, and he was standing in front of my desk, I could tell he had something in his hands but from where I was standing I couldn't see what it was. Silently I slipped through the door and walked until I was behind him almost. Anger was quickly building up inside of me, spreading throughout my body like wild fire.
I squared my shoulders and cocked my head to the side. "Put it down Dugrey!" I was surprised at how calm it came out.
Tristin reacted instantly, the book he had had in his hand dropped to the floor and he turned around guiltily. He gulped and I saw fear flash in his eyes before he lowered them to the ground. Yeah you should be scared! My eyes flickered to the floor and I saw that it had been my scrapbook he'd been looking through. "You wanna explain to me what the hell you were doing?" I asked him, my voice a lot more raised then it had been before.
"Well…you see…ummm…" He stuttered. He stuck his hands in his pockets, shifting from foot to foot, trying to find the words he needed to get out of this unscathed.
"No! I don't see!" And this time I yelled it.
"Well I had to go to the bathroom…" The words stumbled out of his mouth before he could think He hated that he had to lie to her but he couldn't tell her the truth. The real reason he had stayed behind was so that he could maybe find something in her room that could tell him something about her. Like what she does for fun, past experiences, things she'd want to do or things she hates. But he knew if he told her that then he would have to tell her the bigger plan. I mean sure he liked her, a lot, but if she knew about how his dad was using their relationship to further his business, she would never forgive him.
I looked at him, trying to see if he was lying. "You had to go to the bathroom?" I repeated. He nodded his head vigorously. "And you thought that you'd find the bathroom in my scrapbook?" I asked sarcastically.
"No, I went already. I was just about to leave and catch up with you guys but…I saw that the book was on the floor." He was praying she would believe him.
I narrowed by eyes, I knew for sure that he was lying. I had worked on that book Friday night, and then I had left it underneath by math textbook so that the pictures would stay down. I hadn't touched it again all weekend, so I knew for sure that he would have had to move the text to find it. I smiled sickeningly sweet at him, gradually I moved closer to him. Stopping when we were only inches apart, I smirked at him before bending down and grabbing the book. I heard him let out a breath of relief and could tell he had visibly relaxed, he probably thought that I believed him. Poor thing… I thought as I stood back up. I closed the book quietly before looking him straight in the eye as I slammed it down on my desk knocking off random papers. He winced once it hit, knowing he was busted. I heaved a sigh, backing away from him until we were about three feet apart.
"Listen Rory…"
I held up my hand silencing him, trying to concentrate on what I should do. I was split in two, one half of me wanted to go crazy on his ass until he told me the truth, the other part of me wanted to forget about this whole thing for the night and just wanted to have fun. I thought back to earlier today, I had been so psyched about going to Tank with the guys, and that thought made my decision. "I'm gonna forget, about this little incident for tonight, okay bible boy?" He looked shocked; he had thought he was going to get creamed or something, he nodded hurriedly though. "Good. But do understand that I will find out what you were doing!" I told him, confidently smirking.
"Oh right you will Mare." He leered, reverting back to his regular old self. I didn't say anything but I did throw him a knowing look on my way out the door.
The two of us walked in silence both caught up in our own thoughts. Tristin was bewildered. He couldn't believe that I had caught him and that he was still fully intact. I just kept throwing curve balls at him. I, on the other hand, was still torn between myself. Had I made the right decision? Should I have made him tell me the truth? I knew that by letting this go for the night I was giving more time to work out his cover story. Not that that would help him, I already knew he was lying. This was another thing that stumped me. Why couldn't he have just told me why he had been looking through me scrapbook. If he had just said he was curious or really, really nosy I would have just laughed and thought twice about it. But it's not like I can get mad at him for lying, because well I've lied plenty of times before and if I had blown up at him it would just make me a hypocrite. God this is so annoying! Alright I'm just gonna stick with my former decision and forget about this for the night! Thank God!
"Hey are we getting any closer to…wherever we're going?" Tristin asked, jerking me away from my train of thoughts.
"What?" I was totally confused as to what he was talking about.
""Where we're going?" I nodded. "Are we getting any closer to it?" He was looking at me with an odd expression. Probably thought I was crazy or something.
I stopped walking for a sec, looking around at where we were. "Yeah it's right over here." I led him over to the last door lining that hallway and pushed is open. Everyone else was already in there and they were all lounging on the king sized bed.
"Yo where you guy's been? You laying it into her Dugrey?" Brad asked us the minute we walked in the room.
I rolled my eyes at him and stuck out my tongue. I made my way over to the closet in the far side of the room, opened the door and flipped the light switch.
"Yeah what were you two doing?" Lilly asked me pointedly, her eyebrows rose in question. I gave her a look clearly telling her that I would tell her later. She frowned slightly but nodded all the same.
"So we gotta get you guy's dressed in some new outfits. This should be fun!" I chirped happily.
"Yeah what kinda outfits are we talking about here?" Blake was the first to ask.
"Well you guys just can't walk into Tank looking like…that." Lilly told them, smiling sweetly at Blake.
"Why not I think we look good!" Brad announced.
"Yeah, you would!" I commentated sarcastically. He just glared at me.
"Come on, really Mare, what's wrong with what we're wearing?"
I snapped my attention back to the bed. This was the first thing he had said since we got here. Jeeze I thought he'd gone all mime on me! "What's wrong with you're outfits?" I asked incredulously. All they did was continue to stare at me, blank faced. "You look like you stepped out of an 'Abercrombie and Fitch' catalogue!" Beside me Lilly stuck out her tongue and pointed her pointer finger at her mouth. I looked over at her and laughed.
"Yeah yucky!"
The guys just kinda looked at each other; I could tell they were still skeptical about the whole situation. I glanced at Matt who was leaning against the headboard; he automatically felt my gaze on him and turned. He reddened a little but held me gaze. I gave him the puppy dog look trying to convince him to come tonight and when saw his eyes flicker to me left I knew that Lily was doing it to. He watched us for a minute before lowering his eyes and nodding with a small apprehensive smile on his face. We both squealed suddenly, jarring the others out of their discussion. The three of them looked at us for a minute before turning to look at Matt who just shrugged innocently.
"Are you guys coming or what?" Lilly asked finally getting fet up with the situation, she really wanted to let loose. I too was beginning to get annoyed but I also knew that since Matt was going the others should go to, even if it was sort of like an obligation not to let their friend go alone.
After a few seconds of silence Brad let out a frustrated sigh. "Yeah we're going…" He mumbled.
"Yeah!" Lilly and I both exclaimed happily. "Okay so we need some band shirts because they're the best thing to where at Tank." Lilly explained to them, walking into the closet starting her search.
"So do you guys have any bands that you'd prefer?" I asked them, hoping that they'd know at least one good band.
"How bout Coldplay?" Blake asked.
I looked at him for a minute, steadily. "How bout no!" He just nodded politely. That's when Lilly came back into the room, holding four shirts. She handed two to me and then walked over to the guys with the other two.
"Okay so we have Velvet Revolver and Good Charlotte." She told them holding up the shirts for them to see. They eyed them for a minute before Brad spoke up.
"I'll take the Velvet Revolver one…" He announced and immediately Lilly threw the shirt at him with a smile on her face.
"Who wants the Good Charlotte one?" She asked.
They all exchanged looks. "I'll take it." Matt said after a while. Lilly tossed him the shirt before plunking herself down on the bed beside Blake.
"Okay now Tristin and Blake you guys get to choose between Rancid and Green Day." They both looked over the two shirts and Blake quietly took the Rancid shirt leaving me to throw the Green Day one at Tristin. "Now we need to find you some pants."
"Oh now this will be fun!" Lilly squealed before running back to the closet with me right on her heels. We picked out four pairs of pants and returned to the room. We dropped a pair on each of their laps. We gave Brad black baggy jeans, Blake got a pair of black and red cargo pants, Tristin got black cargo pants and Matt got a pair of zip off, black cargo pants. The guys took their outfits and went into the bathroom beside Billy's room to change.
"Okay so we should go get dressed to." I told Lilly who nodded her agreement. We went over to the bathroom and told the guys through the door that we were going to change and that we'd meet them downstairs in the living room.
Lilly and I walked out of our rooms after changing and went straight downstairs. We could already here the guys so we followed the sound into the living room where they were sitting on the couch watching music videos. Tristin and Blake looked over at us when they heard us come in and we saw their mouths literally drop.
"Wow!" Blake exclaimed. I knew he was talking about Lilly though because his eyes were fixated on her. She was wearing, like me, the new outfit we'd bought at Hot Topic and Rampage that afternoon. Lilly had her hair down and she'd put it into loose waves, with the bright red showing. She was wearing a black corset tank top, with a plaid skirt that had a lace hem. She had on a pair of black ankle boots and knee high black socks. Completing the look was her black eyeliner and mascara, red eye shadow and red lips.
I turned my head slowly; I could feel a strong gaze on me. I knew who it would be but when I met his eyes it stills sent a shock through my system to know that he was staring at me. I had straightened my hair and left it down showing off my purple streaks. The outfit that I had on was a black sleeveless top that has an asymmetrical neckline with a purple vinyl X strap on the left shoulder. I'm also wearing a black skirt that has a jagged, multi layered hemline with two purple ribbon bows on the sides. I had on a pair of fishnets with my combat boots. My makeup was light, black eyeliner, purple eye shadow and lip gloss.
We continued to stare at each other; my heart was pounding so loud I wouldn't have been surprised if he could hear it. I could feel his eyes take in every inch of my body, starting with my feet and ending with my hair and it made my skin feel hot. I could feel the tension in the room but I couldn't tear my eyes away from his –they were such an intense blue. It almost felt like the whole world was falling away and we were the only people left. That's when Brad coughed rather loudly to break the spell between us. I shook my head trying to rid my thoughts and feelings for now. Tristin smiled charmingly at me as he offered me his arm. I laughed at him but nether the less took him arm and let him lead me out into the driveway.
The six of us got into to Tank without problems, and grabbed two tables on the second floor. Piling around them Lilly and I watched with amusement as the guys practically turned their heads around trying to see everything. The place wasn't to busy tonight because there wasn't a band playing, just the DJ.
"So how do guys like it?" Lilly asked them.
They looked over at her for a minute but none of them actually answered. I could see that they were starting to relax a bit. "You just have to wait for them to start playing some music." I told them. The DJ was probably having some problems because they usually had the music on already.
Brad turned around to look over at me. "It doesn't seem any different then Velocity. Maybe a little dirtier." I almost choked on my drink when he said that.
"Yeah because that really makes it so much worse!" Lilly told him, obviously trying not to laugh. I, on the other hand, wasn't even attempting to hold in my laughter. He looked over at me, shooting daggers at me with his eyes, before he got up and leaned over the balcony to look over the lower level. No one was on the dance floor, which was the main part of the lower level, along with the bar.
"Well he's got a point. I mean it seems to be exactly the same as any other club in Hartford." Matt said sipping at his drink.
I was about to tell him why it's so different but that's when the DJ came over the speakers, announcing that he was sorry for the delay and that if everyone was ready he would start playing some stuff. Lilly and I, along with all the other regulars in the club, starting to scream and yell, jumping out of our seats.
"That's more like it!" He exclaimed before the club was filled with the heavy beat of Bad Religions, 'New America'. I could see out of my eye that the guys had all jumped when it started to play. Laughing I walked over to the balcony and leaned next to Brad.
"So what do think now?" I yelled, even though he was standing right next to me.
"I think the music's a little loud!" He yelled back at me and I laughed before I shook my head.
"It's gotta be loud!" I yelled once again.
"Come on guys let go dance!" Lilly shouted before she grabbed my hand and we ran down the stairs and onto the dance floor. The guys followed us, not to keen on staying up their by themselves. Lilly and I tried to teach them how to dance to the songs that they were playing but they weren't picking it up. At the next song the whole crowd started to jump up and down, I grabbed Tristin's left hand ignoring the tingles, and yelled into his ear to start jumping. He looked at me confused but obeyed anyway. The other guys jumped to and I could see the smiles on their faces despite how much they tried to cover them up.
For the rest of the night the six of us danced and talked but mostly we just hung out. We all had a surprisingly good time together, even though all of us are very different. Even Brad admitted that he'd had fun when we dropped him off at his place later that night. After we dropped off Matt, the four of us went back to the Hayden Mansion.
We walked into the house, and I almost tripped over one of five suitcases lying on the floor. I stumbled backwards for a minute before regaining balance and walking around them and into the living room. "What's with the suitcases?"
No one answered me right away. "Oh um those belong to Mr. Dugrey and his wife." My dad told me, shedding a look at mine and Lilly's outfits. "Were you two out somewhere?" He asked.
I looked at him confused. I had left him a note saying we were going to Tank that night. That's when I noticed the other people in the room. The two elder Dugrey's and Mavor's were sitting on the couch facing my parents. I rolled my eyes at my dad's attempt to seem clueless as to why I'd be wearing what I was. "Yeah dad Lilly and me took the guys to Tank," I told politely.
Suddenly Mr. Dugrey stood up and cleared his throat loudly grabbing the attention of everyone in the room. "I don't know what you let your daughters do Mr. Hayden but I will not allow my son to be out at all hours of the night with two hooligans!" He said fiercely.
"Yes I would expect my son to be home at decent hours also," Mrs. Mavor told everyone but she used a softer voice.
"Yes well we're very sorry that your sons were out later then you'd want. Trust me when I say that they will be home earlier in the future." Lorelai told the other parents, trying to make peace with them.
"What? That's not fair! It's not even midnight!" Lilly shouted. She stepped towards our parents but Chris held out his hand to stop her.
"Lilly you can not control the rules that other people set for their children. All you can do is help to follow them."
"Oh come on dad you can't be serious! We've never had a curfew this early before!"
Mr. Dugrey leaned over and briefly shook hands with my father before he stomped over to me. "Now miss, I see that you're parents might let you run wild but I will not let my son do so." He whispered through gritted teeth.
I didn't say anything back, just glared at him. He stood up right again a fake smile plastered on his face. "Well our little stay here was…enjoyable and I do hope we can all get together again." He said and motioned for his wife to get up as well. The Mavor's also stood and said their goodbye's to.
"Aren't we staying here though?" Tristin asked his dad.
"Well we were planning to but they finished the house ahead of schedule so we won't need to stay here." He explained timely before walking past his son and instructing for the butler to move his things.
I turned to face Tristin. "Well then I guess I'll see you and Blake tomorrow, huh?" This couldn't get anymore awkward! I thought, glancing over my shoulder to watch my parents try to pretend they weren't listening in.
He leaned in a little closer and whispered so that my parents couldn't hear him. "Too bad! I thought that we could maybe get together later tonight…up in your bedroom." I rolled my eyes at his suggestion before pushing him away from me.
"Goodnight Tristin."
He smirked before walking away. "Night Mary!" He called over his shoulder.
-Ella
