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14th September 2013

Music blared from an expensive stereo system in Isaac's large house. Well it was more like a mansion, really; his parents must have had successful jobs that brought in a lot of money. Isaac was one of the guys on the cross country team that had arrived at training with Zed, so he had invited all the team along to his party. Trinity had in turn invited Blue, who hadn't wanted to go but had forced herself to- she'd decided that she wanted a normal life from now on and didn't normal teenagers go to parties and have fun? She was going to try her best to enjoy herself tonight, whether she liked the majority of people there or not.

She was wearing a white tee with a backless cut-out that was slightly see-through so her red bra was seeable as well as a pair of super skinny grey jeans and red Converse. Daisy had insisted on doing Blue's hair and make-up and making it look nice seeing as she hadn't made much effort with her outfit. She normally wore her golden blonde hair tied up but Daisy had made her leave it down and had curled it in gentle ringlets. She had dark eyeshadow on along with fake eyelashes and thick eyeliner, and was wearing a bright red lipstick. The eye make-up made her bright blue eyes stand out more. When Blue had looked at herself in the mirror after Daisy had finished with the make-up, she had barely even recognized herself.

Trinity had arrived in a taxi to pick Blue up seeing as she didn't know where Isaac's house was. Elliott, who was unused to Blue going out to parties, had contemplated giving her a curfew but hadn't- they both knew that she wouldn't want to stay out 'til the early hours of the morning anyway. Blue could tell that her dad was simply happy that she finally had friends and was finally getting invites to stuff.

Trinity and Blue were now stood by the fireplace with Hannah and Bekah, slowly sipping from red cups filled with some sort of alcohol and juice mixture. It was the first time Blue had even had alcohol because it just didn't interest her but she wanted to be normal and her friends were drinking so she didn't want to be the odd one out. "So where exactly were you the past year, Blue?" Bekah, a dark skinned girl in a pink dress, asked politely. "I know you were staying with your aunt, but where abouts were you staying?"

"Just on the outskirts of Denver," Blue replied with a casual shrug. "Nowhere special."

"Oh my god," Hannah said in a disgusted tone. "Have you seen what she's wearing?" The other three girls looked over to where Hannah was looking. Stood in the doorway of the living room and talking to a few other people was Jodie. Her hair was completely straight and she was wearing a slinky red dress that showed far too much skin with high heels that had silver studs on them. Blue had to admit that Jodie looked 'hot' but it was ruined by the fact it looked too slutty for her age and she knew how good she looked. "God, she looks like such a slag."

"I thought you lot were friends with her," Blue said.

Trinity scoffed and shook her head. "It's sort of complicated, really. I mean, we sometimes hang out with her and we class her as a friend but we don't like her all that much. It's a love/hate friendship I guess you could say, I'm sure Jo feels just the same way." Blue felt slightly happy about that. She'd been slightly unsure as to what kind of person Trinity was if she was friends with the likes of Jodie. "Oh here he is, the one that Jodie's trying to impress. When is she going to get the hint that he doesn't want her?" She laughed.

She was talking about Zed Benedict. He entered the living room through another door – it was big enough to have two leading into it from the lobby – and looked around, probably scanning the room for his friends seeing as half of the people here didn't even go to their school. His eyes drifted past the girls once before looking back at them, zeroing in on Blue. His lips turned up at the corners in a small smile and he started to stride across the room towards them.

"What is he doing?" Blue asked nervously with wide eyes. "Why is he coming towards us? He's not going to talk to us, is he?"

"Why do you sound so scared?" Bekah asked with a laugh. "Zed's alright."

"I don't like him," she replied. "We just don't get along."

"Why not?" Bekah asked. Blue was saved from answering however when Zed reached them. "Hey Zed."

"Hey Bekah, hey girls," Zed replied, giving each of them a friendly smile before looking down at Blue. "Hey Blue. You look," he breathed out before finishing the sentence, "beautiful. You look beautiful."

Blue frowned, wondering why he was being nice to her after what happened on Wednesday which was followed by two days at school of them point blank ignoring each other. "Thank you?" She replied, her words sounding like a question in her confusion. She really couldn't put up with his constant mood swings anymore.

"You're welcome," he smirked, amused. "I didn't know you were coming. You should have said, I could have given you a lift; I'm not drinking tonight so I'm fine with driving."

"Doesn't matter. I caught a taxi with Trinity," she replied.

"Isaac's looking for you," Hannah, a tomboy with blonde hair, told Zed. "I think he's in the kitchen."

"Right, cheers H. See you around girls," he gave them all a final smile before walking away, disappearing into the crowd.

"Well that was awkward," Hannah said. "I think Zed sees your relationship with each other in a different way than you do. He didn't seem to think you don't get along. Do you know each other outside of school or something?"

"It's a long story," Blue sighed lightly. "Our families kind of know each other, it's complicated. Plus we live next door to each other."

She quickly changed the subject to avoid any more talk of Zed and somehow ended up joining a large group of people that were in the lobby area of the mansion, dancing. Bekah and Hannah were doing over-the-top dance moves whilst Trinity and Blue were much more reserved and Blue – whom usually wouldn't be seen dancing in public at all – found herself laughing along with them and genuinely enjoying herself. I finally have good friends, she thought to herself in delight. This is great.

They spent over an hour dancing together and drinking still, Blue feeling like a part of the group and like she had been friends with the girls for a long time. She really was having fun and she was glad that Trinity had invited her to come along.

She watched as Bekah and Hannah danced up against each other before Hannah grabbed hold of Bekah's face and pressed her lips against hers. Bekah giggled and wrapped her arms around Hannah's waist, turning the kiss into a full on make-out session. Blue looked at Trinity questioningly and the other girl shrugged before shouting, "they're both lesbians but they're not a couple. 'Bout time they were though," she called over the music before laughing and pulling Blue away, giving the two girls as much privacy as they could have whilst surrounded by a group of classmates and strangers. "Come on, let's get another drink! I want to end up so drunk tonight that I feel dead in the morning!"

Blue laughed and followed Trinity into the large kitchen, going to the fridge that was holding all of the drinks. As Trinity started to make a mixture of about five different alcohols (Blue wondered if maybe she was trying to poison them both or something), Blue felt an itching at the back of her neck as if she needed to turn around.

She slowly turned around and paused in shock. Zed was leaning against one of the kitchen counters, his hands holding the edge as he faced the person in front of him: Jodie. They were talking, both smiling, until Jodie stepped forward and ran her fingers up Zed's chest. His smile faded but he didn't stop her. Then Jodie leaned in and pressed her lips against his.

Before Blue even realised what she was doing, she had rushed out of the kitchen. She heard Trinity shouting her name but didn't go back in. She rushed out of the house and into the front garden, greedily breathing in the air in a panicked state. She thought back to the sinking feeling in her stomach she'd felt when she'd seen Jodie kissing Zed and realised... She was jealous.

What is wrong with me?! She despised Zed; he irritated her beyond belief and she had never been attracted to guys that were as cocky and self-obsessed as he seemed to be. She was still angry that he never stopped his friends from bullying her and she still judged him from the company he kept. The fact that he was fine with Jodie kissing him was just more proof of how much of an idiot he was. She shouldn't be attracted to him, she shouldn't like him, she shouldn't be jealous that he was kissing Jodie... But she was. This fact made her furious but she would be damned before she let Zed know all of this. Nothing was going to change with him, she wasn't going to try and make more of an effort with him. She was going to keep these idiotic feelings she – for reasons that she couldn't comprehend or understand at all – had for him buried deep down inside of her and she was going to do her best to never remember them again.

"Blue?" Trinity was calling her name from the doorway. "Are you okay?"

Blue forced a smile onto her face, hoping that it convinced her friend that she was fine. "Yeah, I just needed some fresh air. Let's get to work on getting so drunk we feel dead in the morning," she joked. "I want to forget everything."

Trinity grinned and dragged her back inside, agreeing that they needed to get drunk and just have a good time.

Jodie lived right at the edge of Wrickenridge, quite a drive from Isaac's house, so it took Zed longer than he would have liked to drive her home. After Jodie had kissed him and he'd pushed her away as soon as his mind registered what was going on, Jodie had apologized straight away and said that she had probably just drank too much alcohol. Zed believed her seeing as he didn't think she would kiss him whilst sober so he'd offered to drive her home before she drank even more and did something stupid.

He knew that taking her home was the right thing to do, especially because they were friends, but what he really wanted to do was run straight after Blue. He hadn't even known that she was in the kitchen until he'd heard Trinity calling Blue's name and he'd just caught a glimpse of her escaping through the doorway. He wondered if she had seen Jodie kissing him and whether she was upset about that. He doubted she had been upset, she'd probably just left the kitchen for another reason.

He thought about going straight home but felt like he needed to go and find Blue, explain that he didn't kiss Jodie. It was obvious that Blue didn't like Jodie so if she thought he had been kissing Jo, that would just give her another reason to dislike Zed. He wanted to make Blue feel special, he wanted to make his attraction to her known. He wasn't in love with Blue, he didn't know her well enough for that yet, but he certainly liked her and the fact they were soulfinders was something that made his feelings for her even stronger and more evident in his mind. He had to prove to her that he didn't like Jodie in that way; he had to gain her trust.

So, he headed back to Isaac's party. By the time he got to Isaac's house, nearly two hours had passed since Jodie kissed him and it was nearly one o'clock in the morning. Zed's parents usually gave him a curfew of one, especially when it was one of Isaac's parties, but tonight they had told him to be back by two so he wasn't worried about getting home in time just yet.

He pushed through the crowds of people as he entered, looking around for Blue or for anyone that might be able to tell him where she was. It took him a moment until he saw her but he finally did. He actually saw Trinity first and then Blue beside her. Blue was dancing with a bottle of vodka in her hand that her Trinity were passing back and forth between them as they each took gulps of it. Issac was behind Blue with his hands on her waist, both of them moving to the rhythm of the music together; it looked like Isaac was kissing Blue's neck and she was just giggling away and letting him.

Overcome with a rage of jealousy, Zed stormed towards them and grabbed hold of Isaac's shoulder, pulling him away from her. "Dude, what the hell?" Isaac shouted. "Can't you see we're dancing?"

"Fun's over," Zed said angrily to his best friend. "I'm taking Blue home."

"No you're not," Blue slurred, looking unsteady on her feet. Clearly she had had too much to drink. "You're not the boss of me, Zed Benedict!" She pointed at him with the hand that was holding the bottle and the bottle slipped from her hand, smashing on the floor. "Oops!" She started to giggle. "We're going to need another bottle."

"I'll get one!" Trinity shouted loudly and stumbled away in the direction of the kitchen.

Isaac took a step towards Blue again but Zed pushed him away. "Leave her alone, Isaac. I'm taking her home." Before Blue could protest or try and get away from him, he easily lifted her up and threw her over his shoulder, keeping a tight grip on her legs so she didn't fall as he pushed his way through the throngs of people again. Blue screamed at him to put her down and smacked her fists against his back but Zed didn't acknowledge any of it. Not only was he jealous that she had been dancing with another guy so closely like that, but he didn't like that she was so drunk. It just wasn't in Blue's nature from what he knew about her and he didn't like the thought of her getting so drunk that she did something she would regret in the morning or she decided it was a good idea to walk home on her own in the early hours of the morning. If he'd left her at Isaac's in a state like that, he would hate himself forever.

He unlocked the car, holding onto Blue with one hand, before opening the passenger side door. He put her in the seat, glad that she didn't try to get away as soon as he sat her down. She folded her arms across her chest, pouting and silently sulking. He reached around her to fasten the seatbelt before slamming the door closed and walking around to get into the car himself, pulling on his own seatbelt.

He set off back to their houses. The car ride was silent for the first ten minutes and he couldn't stand it so he was the first to speak. "I'm sorry for being so controlling," he said. "I didn't mean to be like that, that's not what I'm usually like. I just feel protective of you and I couldn't leave you there that drunk. Besides, Victor would have killed me if he knew about it. You're like his little sister in his eyes."

Blue didn't say anything to his words, instead choosing to answer with something off subject. "I don't care that you're dating Jodie," she said, shrugging her shoulders overdramatically in her drunken state. "It's not like I'm jealous or anything, 'cause I'm not. Nope. Not jealous at all. You date her; that's great for you. She's really beautiful."

He hesitated for a moment. She was saying that she wasn't jealous but it sounded like she actually felt the opposite. Or was Zed just imagining that he heard that in her voice because it was what he wanted to hear? "I'm not dating Jodie," he finally said. "I pushed her away when she kissed me."

When Blue didn't reply he looked over and smiled when he saw that she was asleep, her head resting against the window. She looked so peaceful and young and happy, a side that he was yet to see in her whilst she was awake. When he pulled up outside of their houses, Blue still wasn't awake so he decided to let her sleep. At least this way she wasn't telling him how much she hated him.

He lifted her out of the car bridal-style and walked to Blue's front door and rang the doorbell. The door opened just a second later, revealing a tired-looking Elliott; his thoughts told Zed that he had been up waiting for Blue to return home. "What's wrong with her?" He asked immediately.

"She had a little too much to drunk," Zed replied. "You shouldn't blame her, all her friends were drinking too. I'm sure she just didn't want to be left out. As soon as I realised she'd had far too much to drink, I decided to bring her home. She fell asleep in the car."

"Well I'm not happy that she was drinking but I expected that there would be alcohol there," Elliott answered. Zed gently handed Blue over to Elliott, making sure that he had a strong hold of her before letting go. "At least she had fun and wasn't in her bedroom alone all night. I'll talk to her in the morning about it. Thanks for bringing her home Zed, I appreciate it."

"It was no trouble. Goodnight Mr Williamson," he smiled before turning around to go to his own house, ready to collapse onto his bed and welcome sleep.

A hint about the next chapter: Blue has a visitor.