Chapter 2

Draco watched Lila dance with Nicole till he thought he would explode. She was wearing hot pants, which made him think very dirty thoughts. They were his favorite, and he thought it a sign from somewhere that something was going to happen in his favor. That is, until, he saw Kyle come over. He knew Kyle from a previous con and knew he was a cool guy, but it made him uneasy to see him dancing with Lila and Nicole. He bit back the bile that came to his mouth when Nicole left and it was just Lila and Kyle. The sight of Kyle grinding on the girl that he wanted made him want to rip his throat out, and take Lila for himself. Even in his head it sounded incredibly possessive, and he toned down the thoughts of killing for less illegal beatings. He turned through a rave move, and when he turned back Alicia was pulling them apart. For a moment he felt uplifted, but the bubble that had swelled in his throat popped as Lila yelled at Alicia and Alicia left, leaving Kyle and Lila again.

He watched as they kissed, and made their way over to a wall. His body burned as if she were touching him as he watched her hands pull up Kyle's shirt; and he shivered when she left a trail of kissed down his stomach. When he thought he couldn't stand another second without beating Kyle to a pulp, they stopped kissing, and sat down on the ground. He sighed and sat against an opposite wall and put his head in his hands and thought for a moment.

"If she leaves with Kyle my whole plan is ruined, but I can't rightly walk over there and take her to dance with me without her knowing who I am too soon. This is a bitch. I'll go talk to Sayne, and see if he can do something. Maybe he can tell Kyle to back off or something. I don't think Kyle will mind too much. He could get any girl in here." With that final thought he pushed his head up and looked over to where they were, Lila was walking away, leaving Kyle looking dazed and confused.

"The plan is back in motion!" He thought.

Draco quickly walked around in a wide semi-circle so he could intercept her before she got out of the dark and back over to the semi-lit tables. The crowd was worse than before, and by the time he was halfway there, she was almost to the table. She made it to the table before he could get there, and took the seat farthest away from the emo Alicia sitting on the other side. She sighed and knew that she couldn't just leave Alicia there crying for the whole night even if she was incredibly annoying.

"Allie what's wrong" she asked quietly. "Is this all because I yelled at you?"

Alicia sniffled a little before shaking her head without removing it from her arms.

"Well then what is it?" Lila asked.

It took a moment for Alicia to stop bawling long enough, to lift up her head and tell Lila what was wrong.

"It's just that I try so hard, but I can't seem to get it right. I want to be confident, but it just doesn't happen for me. When I get up in the morning all I think is, 'Oh great. Another day.' But I thought that if I told Sayne I loved him he'd think it back or something like that. But when I told him he freaked and that made me sink even farther down. It's just gotten to the point where everything sets off my emotions. Nicole, you, Sayne…just everything."

When she finished this rant, Lila rubbed her back and rolled her eyes. Alicia was one of the most dramatic people she knew, but she also knew how she felt. Like nothing could go her way, and everyone was out to get her. Lila had felt like that after Justin, but she shook herself out of it and made herself do things again. Like coming to the con. It was hard, but Alicia needed to get out of it. She had been stuck in this retarded rut for almost all of her life. It was one of the reasons her and Lila weren't very good friends anymore. A friend is a friend though and Lila knew that the rave of the con wasn't the best place for Alicia tonight. She sighed and looked back at Alicia.

"Hey. You want to go back to the hotel room, order room service and watch sappy movies on HBO with me?" Lila asked.

Alicia smiled and wiped the tears out from under her eyes.

"Alright then let's get going." Lila smiled and stood up.

She held her hand out to Alicia, and Alicia took it. They walked out of the con together and started towards the elevator. Lila remembered that she had left her little Barbie purse on the table and turned to Alicia.

"Oops. I left my purse on the table. I'll go back and get it. In this crowd it'll take a couple of minutes though." She said looking at the people streaming through the "In" door of the rave. "You go up and order the cookie dough, and I'll be up in a minute ok?"Alicia nodded and stepped into the elevator. Lila turned and stepped into the throng of people waiting to get in. After a few strategically placed pinches, and a couple of shoves, she was back in the rave headed for the table.

Sayne and Anita were back making out like crazy, and Lila stopped for a minute to admire. Sure it looked like they were aliens eating each other's faces, but who could blame them? It had been over a year of tension, all to be released in a few minutes. She shook her head and chuckled, and started walking again. She took the long way around to the table, letting the two people have a few more seconds before she approached the table. She looked for a minute and realizing her purse wasn't there, she started looking under things, around on the floor, and on chairs nearby. Not finding it in any of those places, she stopped, puzzled at where the hell it went. There was nothing in it beside lip-gloss, and glitter eye stuff, so no one was likely to steal it. It was fluorescent pink, so she was sure she wasn't just missing it, as she sometimes did. She looked around the table one last time before coming to rest behind Sayne and Anita. She hated to break them up, but she could see the strap of her purse under Anita's butt.

"It must have fallen onto the chair when they came back to the table." She thought. She tapped Anita on the shoulder, and waited. Neither, of them even recognized her presence, so she did it again, a little bit harder. Still nothing. She sighed and finally pushed Anita into Sayne, hoping that the force would make her realize someone was there, who wanted her attention. This failed to work, as Anita thinking that Sayne was just pulling her closer, and Sayne thinking Anita was just getting frisky, completely ignored Lila. Lila, watched them for another second, took careful aim and…

"OUCH! FUCK!" Sayne yelled, letting go of Anita, causing her to fall. "What the hell did you poke me in the eye for?"

"Could you get up and I'll tell you?" Lila asked sweetly. Sayne stood up and waited. Lila bent over grabbed her purse and straightened back up.

"Thanks Sayne." She said brightly as she walked away.

Sayne shook his head, rubbed his watery eye, and thought for a second.

"Wait!" he cried. "Are you leaving?"

"Why else would I need my purse?" Lila asked.

"Oh. Are you leaving with a guy?" Sayne asked with a grin, thinking of Draco.

"No." she answered. "Alicia is having a meltdown, so we're just going to have a girls night."

"Uh…well Alicia can handle it herself can't she?" he asked.

Lila shook her head. Obviously Sayne didn't know what was up when it came to girls.

"No, she can't. She needs support, and as annoying as she is, she's my friend, and I have to go help her." She finished as she walked away.

"WAIT!" he cried after her. She stopped and tapped her foot as she waited for him to say something.

"Yes?" she replied impatiently.

"Uh…" Sayne's brain was scrambling to find something to keep her there. It found nothing so he just stood there for a moment with a confused look on his face. Lila rolled her eyes and started walking again.

"Are you coming back at least?" he called after her.

"Maybe." Came her faint reply, as she walked away.

Lila got through the doors again and started walking over to the elevator when someone pushed her to the side. She turned to yell at the person, but she saw Blaise's smiling face.

"Hey!" she cried wrapping him in a hug. "I thought you couldn't make it!"

"Well I had to work, but I got someone to cover my weekend shifts so I could come." Blaise answered.

Lila hugged him again, and looked at him. He was a potential to make-out with this weekend. She had always liked him, but not so much as to do anything about it. She shook her head at her own blatant thoughts and smiled at him.

"Where are you staying? With the other guys?" she asked.

"They thought I wasn't coming, so they both got a room with other people. I was going to just camp out in the rave room, and stay there." He answered.

Lila thought for a second before making a decision.

"You can come stay in our room if you don't mind staying with all girls." She said with a grin.

"Are you sure…I wouldn't want to…interfere with anything…girly like." He said.

Lila laughed. "You won't be, trust me. We could use a shot of testosterone every now and again this weekend any ways. Not that we think of you that way." She grinned.

"No of course not." He laughed back. "Alright then. I'll stay with you. Can I bring my stuff up now?"

"I was just on my way up there now. You can come with me." She said as she steered him towards the elevators. Before they could get there though, Lila was intercepted again. Kyle had stepped in front of her and smiled.

"Hey, can I talk to you for a second?" Kyle asked.

"I'm actually showing Blaise to his room, so can it wait a little while?" Lila replied.

"Well…it's kind of important." He finished after a moment's pause.

Lila sighed. She didn't know what he wanted, but she needed to get back before Alicia thought she abandoned her.

"You can come up with us and just tell me after I get him settled in. Okay?" she answered.

Kyle looked at her, and then at Blaise. He thought for a second, and nodded.

"Yeah. That'll be fine."

"Good. Now, if there are no more interruptions, can we get moving?" she replied as she moved towards the elevators again.

The boys followed her, to the elevator, and they all stood in the line for the next elevator. There were only a few people ahead of them, but Lila had already been thirty minutes, and she knew Alicia would be thinking that Lila had just ditched her, so she was bouncing in place, waiting.

"You know…bouncing won't make it come any faster." Blaise teased her.

"Yes it does. See?" She answered as the elevator stopped and opened in front of them.

It was a glass elevator, and Lila loved to look out to the outside and look at the people walking on the street. She turned to the guys, but they were both staring intensely at the buttons of the elevator, so she decided not to disturb them, and enjoyed the view herself. The elevator stopped on floor twenty-two and they stepped out into the hallway. Lila turned left and headed that way, while the boys trailed after her.

"What room is it?" Blaise asked as he caught up with Lila.

"211." She answered as she made a left down another hallway.

"Jesus. You could get lost in here." He thought aloud as she turned again down a new hallway.

"Here we are!" she said stopping outside a door a few moments later. "Let me just grab the room key…"

Lila Reached down her shirt and into her bra. She came up with the room key, and turned back to the door. The boys were looking at her strangely.

"What?" She answered to the boys questioning faces. "It's the only way it won't get stolen."

She slid the key into the slot and waited for the light to turn green. "I warn you Blaise. It's messy in there, so you might want to clear out a corner for your stuff, so it won't get mixed with ours." She said opening the door.

"You're girls." He replied "How messy can you…" His voice trailed off as he took in the room.

"Told you." Lila said.

They walked into the room, and Alicia immediately jumped off the bed.

"There you are! I thought you had abandoned me!" She cried as she waded through the mess towards Lila.

She saw Blaise though, and looked shocked.

"Hey! I thought you weren't coming." She said as she gave him a hug. "And you guys brought emo kid with you too. How…nice?"

Lila quickly explained Blaise's situation to Alicia and she agreed that Blaise could stay with them. They cleared out a corner of the room, and called the front desk to bring up a cot. There were two big beds in the bedroom, and the couch in the living room folded out into a bed too. Lila had volunteered to sleep on a cot, so it would be two girls a bed. The front desk called a few moments later, and said that they were all out of cots, but they could bring up an air mattress if they wanted. The air mattress was delivered and the boys set it up while the girls, took all the food they had ordered, and tried to find places to put it. After it had all been setup and everything was in some kind of order, Blaise left for the rave, and Alicia, Lila and Kyle were sitting on the couch.

"Ok Kyle, what's so important?" Lila asked.