A/N: I'm sorry about the extremely late update. I've been busy, I went to a music Festival last month and I've been working a lot this month and the end of last so I haven't had a lot of time on my hands but today I have to stay in for the gas and electric people and I didn't sleep last night so I thought I'd update. Anyway, I hope you like it! Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Victorious
Chapter Four: The Party
"Ah, more people! Great, come in. Have a beer, A glass of wine a Vodka? Take your pick!" A young-man of about nineteen possibly twenty greeted Jade and I after we rang the doorbell of an off-campus house. It was a big house, with beautifully constructed walls. (In my head I'm laughing at myself for thinking I know about architectural stuff) The walls are painted a beige color and there's a Pickett fence covering the small un-kempt front lawn. The fence is old and loosing it's balance and the gate has already been broken.
Looking at it ,it looks like it could be one of those suburban family homes with soccer moms and a four wheel drive if it looked nicer that is! I guess student life has it now! That seems so stereotypical of me! Not all college students were like that, I was a college student and I wasn't like always having wild parties and that! Except, well college hadn't exactly started yet and I was attending a party right now. So I had no idea what kind of college student I would be!
The guy lead us through a small passage way, there was an abandoned shoe box to the left of the front door and a landline attached to the wall on the right. In the middle was a large arch-way that leads into the living room. There were a lot of people here. The furniture had been pushed back to make room for a dance floor in the middle of the room, the music was cranked up high and the furniture, I noticed was old.
That was a good thing though because drunk people tend to break things, sometimes by accident. (I remember the first time I got drunk one Christmas, we had gone to visit my Aunt Trudy and they'd let me drink red wine… I ended up breaking my aunt's china doll she used to keep on her window sill. She actually cried!) But anyway sometimes they break things on purpose.
"My name is Kelsey" The boy or guy, Tori wasn't sure what to refer to him as introduced himself to us. He offered a sweaty hand to shake; I politely shook his hand;
"Tori" I told him my name. Jade shook his hand away refusing to shake it.
"Nah, It's Jade" She told him, a little rudely. She shrugged her off as if her behavior was normal.
"Welcome to my party, there are plenty of drinks in the kitchen, over there. Help yourself!" He said, pointing to his left. Jade smiled at me as he left. It was weird but that smile seemed genuine to me, as if she was glad I was here with her. It made me feel… I don't know something.
Jade made herself a glass of disaronno and coke while I opted to a simple WKD blue. It was easy and had less alcohol. Jade laughed at me slightly.
"That'll do until I get you on the stronger stuff later!" Jade joked, I tutted but also couldn't help but smile. Jade wanted to get me drunk and for some strange reason I felt like I might actually let her!
"I love this song!" I exclaimed, giddily reminding myself of Cat from back home. Jade raised an eyebrow at me. The song was 'Stay High' by 'Tove Lo' or at least that's what I thought it was called. I don't know why exactly I like this song, I'd never actually been high in my life but felt like I understood the girl in the song. If anyone had gone and told me in was encouraging the youth of the day to take drugs, I'd have to disagree. To me it was about someone trying to cope with their pain, by doing something extreme.
Drugs just happen to be the coping method; everyone has their own coping method. And hey, why am I defending a song to my mind?
I take a sip of my WKD and turn my attention back to Jade.
"You of all people 'love' this song?" Jade asks, an amazed-shock expression playing on her features. I nod, I feel my cheeks burning bright red.
"It's got a nice beat" I offer, as I shrug my shoulders and sip more of my WKD
"You… Vega, you surprise me sometimes" Jade admits, after downing almost her entire contents of her drink. I notice now that her glass has Tinkerbell on it.
"So how'd you know about this party?" I wander, changing the subject. Jade pours herself another of what she was drinking before then pours out a glass of coke.
"Pick one!" She demands pointing to the bottles of; Malibu, Vodka, Gin and Disaronno. I point to the Malibu and she pours a fair amount in the glass before handing it t me. I sip it cautiously, it's coconut but for some reason I taste pear… it's weird, I drink more. It's not as strong as I thought Jade would do but I guess that's because she poured the coke in first. I finish the rest of my WKD then turn back to the Malibu. It's so lovely.
"I know some of the people here" Jade say's suddenly as if finally remembering my question from before.
"Who?" I asked, looking around us as if they would suddenly materialize in front of me screaming; "I'm Jade's friend"
"Just a few people, a girl called Mandy she's about two years older than us, she's in her second or third year now, she used to be my neighbor she's been living here with some of her mates for a year now. Then there's a guy I know called; Dan but you don't need or want to know how I know him!" Jade explains, before suddenly standing up and walking towards the back door. I follow her like a helpless sheep!
The garden is filled with people laughing, talking and smoking. Jade sits down on a bench and hands me her drink while she starts to search through her bag for something. I catch her red handed with a packet of cigarettes and a clicky lighter!
"I know it's a bad habit" Jade says. "But I smoke when I drink" she added. I nodded.
"I'm not judging you" I assure her as she lights the thing. I watch her curiously for a moment then suddenly I get this random urge to try it myself, see what it's like.
"Hey, um… Jade can I try a drag or two maybe?" I mumble nervously. Jade chuckles at me as she hands me a whole cigarette from her packet.
"Sure, but I don't share cigarettes" She tells me as she hands me one. That confuses me. " I like to have the whole thing to myself" She clarifies. Jade lit it as I held it between my lips and I took it in, I felt it going through my throat and started a coughing fit but even after that I try again. I end up smoking the whole thing.
'Oh no' I think to myself as I realized what I had just done, I was probably going to turn into a real smoker now?
It was now midnight; I'd drunk myself through one blue WKD, three Malibu & Cokes and two Cherry Sourz shots. I was dancing with Jade's friend Mandy and a random guy with green hair and a non-matching goatee. (Random) His name was something like… Paul? Or was it Patrick? Anyway, I think it begins with a P. Jade had gone out for her tenth cigarette of the night, considering we'd been here since ten… it wasn't so bad. She was with that, Kelsey guy from before and her friend Dan. Dan was tall, with blonde hair. He had young eyes.
He looked almost child-like and innocent with those eyes. He said he was nineteen. This was his first year here too. Mandy was his step-sister but they didn't live together, she lived with her dad and he lived with his mum. It was actually their fathers that were married.
I excuse myself from Mandy, saying I'm going to the bathroom but instead I head towards the kitchen. It's funny, I've drunk a lot but I don't feel drunk. I've walked into a few walls tonight but that's…
'Oh that hurt' I think rubbing my head; I just bumped into a girl. I try to apologize but she doesn't notice me, she just walks of holding her head. I carry on walking and pick up a beer. I've never actually had beer before but there aren't really a lot of options left.
"Vega!" Jade's voice startles me and I drop the glass bottle, its contents spilling all over me and the glass shattering. I attempt to clean it up but Jade takes over. I grab another and start to drink it. I don't like the taste but at this point I'll drink anything. It's funny that.
"Another drink? Wow you're on a roll tonight and none of this is my doing!" Jade say's half laughing, I don't know what the other half is doing though.
'Ooh, wow! Jade's eyes are so, so green or blue I don't know they're beautiful. She's you know beautiful!' I think to myself as I try to climb onto the kitchen counter, I feel myself slipping but Jade helps me up.
"Steady yourself now, Vega!" Jade warns me, in this stern-motherly way. That makes me think what Jade would be like as a mother, what we'd both be like as parents... wait... as parents to the same children? Did I just think that?
"You okay there, Tori? You've gone white" Jade asks, concerned. I almost missed the fact she called me Tori, I nod.
"Just thinking about things" I explain. 'Things I shouldn't' I say in my head or at least I think I do.
"What's that?" Jade asks, I shake my head.
"Nothing" I reply, excitedly and take a gulp of the beer. Jade tries to take it off of me but I clutch it tightly and shake my head.
'I need more Alch-ma-hol. He, He... That's not even a word' I'm laughing now, uncontrollably Jade is staring at me worriedly. i shrug. I've let out my weird side!
The room starts spinning next. I realize, the music is loud and Jade's head is spinning round and round in circles like that cat in 'Alice in Wonderland'
"Tori are you okay?" Jade wanders. "I think you should stop drinking now" She adds, slowly taking the beer away from me.
"I need more alcohol" I say, sleepily. My eyes start to flutter shut I try to keep them open but my eyelids are like heavy weights dragging me down. I feel really tired now, I could sleep anywhere. I start to drift of and I feel my self start to slip off of the counter but then I feel Jade's arms catch me.
"Thanks Tinkerbell!" I mumble.
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