Beck's POV
"The theme is candy land?!" Jade yells, throwing one of the thousand flyers Trina spread all over school on the trash can "I knew she wasn't going to top last year's theme"
"I love it!" Cat yells, sitting down between Robbie and Tor; This is all I've heard all day, Trina's party, but people say pretty much the same thing 'it is always epic' and 'I don't remember any of it'; so I am kind of exited to go, it's not like I'm going to drink since I have a plane to catch at six AM. I don't need any extra substances to have the worst headache on the plane, and I really don't want to find out how that feels plus a hangover. And of course, Tori, I can tell she's not really in the mood for the party. And I'd rather spend my time with her, than in a room with a bunch of high, drunk teenagers while being sober "It's much more fun! No mean felines this time!"
"Those hyenas were awesome" Jade argues back "even though I wasn't allowed to play with any of them…stupid animal control!" She yells getting up and walks away tearing all the flyers in her way. She is a weird girl. The bell rings and everyone starts to head back to inside of the school slower than usual since today is the last day before winter break.
"Let's skip the rest of the day" Tor says, right before we go in "I want to enjoy the day before you go"
"And I am not one to argue" she smiles taking my hand and we turn around heading to the parking lot "where do you want to go? We can't go to my RV, Consuela is there today"
"Consuela?" she asks, and I turn the engine on
"The housekeeper" she nods and I take off, something's different about her today. She seems more down to earth, she's not all that cheery like on the last three days. But I don't think she shifted back just yet, I mean she's not crying on anything like that, she's just quieter. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
"let's go to the garden" she says, smiling I smile too, almost as a reflex "maybe we'll get lucky and it'll start to rain again" I laugh at the thought, we are the only people in LA that enjoy rain, absolutely perfect. I really should take her to Vancouver with me someday, I bet she'd fall in love with the city. And my Grandma would love to meet her, she's always the one saying I shouldn't hand out with my best friend Moose, because he has sort of a reputation of being very 'fond' o Canadian girls and 'go steady' with a nice girl.
I make my way to it and park a couple of blocks before, on the only public parking in the area and we start walking towards it, no rain though "Tell me about Trina's party last year" I say and she raises her eyebrows placing on hand on her forehead as if she had regained the hangover.
"it was…" she laughs "I honestly can only remember drinking a lot, doing a lot of stupid things and locking the door to my room so no one would enter because lots of couples were trying to get in" I laugh and she grins "I have a hard time controlling myself in parties"
"I can see that" I put my arm around her lower back as we go around the corner, and I can already see the gates to it "how does Trina manages to get the house cleaned by the time your parents get home"
"She pays a cleaning company to do it, it's really expensive, but gets the job done in two hours, tops" impressive, I wonder where she gets all that money. We reach the front gate and I take a look at it before pushing the gate "they took the sign off"
"Maybe they are going to put up a more threatening one" she says pushing the gate, that doesn't even move "what?" I push it too, and it's locked. They take the sign off, and lock the damn garden.
"No way…" I say, nodding my head, and hopping on one of the metal bars on the gate "a lock won't keep us out, c'mon"
"What?!" I offer her my hand and she looks at me stunned "no…no…we're not breaking in"
"We already did it before" I tell her and she keeps denying my hand "I'll help you jump"
"No, one thing is breaking in when the gate is opened, it's a whole new thing if we have to climb the gate" I wait for her and sights, looking up at me "fine, but if they call the cops you are totally kidnapping me" she says, holding my hand and hopping on it too and I laugh
"And I'll make sure to run and get on the first flight to Vancouver" she chuckles softly and I help her move to the other side and I follow; In a matter of seconds we're in inside the garden and nothing happens, no cops, no alarm, just like I imagined "was it that bad?" I ask her and she gives me a slight push going over to the fountain and running her fingers in the water, the same way she did that day after Andre's barbecue.
"Not yet" I grin and pull her by her waist pressing my lips against hers "coming here was a great idea" she breathes out with the cutest smile on her face "holy…" we hear a very loud clap of thunder, right before it starts to pour "an amazing idea!" she yells, wrapping her arms around my neck and kissing me again.
I brush the hair from our faces and capture her lips with mine, as she opens her mouth deepening it, the water pouring down both our faces and at this point we are both soaking wet, and neither she nor I could give a crap. We just want each other.
"This is too perfect" she says I lock my eyes with her, trying to figure out what she means by it, but it definitely wasn't in a good way
"What's wrong with perfect?" she nods her head, and her eyes glow as if she was keeping an enormous secret; I cup her cheek keeping her from breaking eye contact
"Once you reach perfect…" she says, and I can see sadness flashing through her eyes, this isn't good "you know what? Never mind" she presses her lips against mine but I pull away
"Talk to me Tor" she bites her bottom lip, and I run my hands up her back until her shoulders and down to her hands, intertwining my fingers with hers "what's wrong with perfect?"
"It's all downhill from there" she looks down, and I tilt her chin up "Shit…!"
We jump hearing another even louder clap of thunder, and notice a lightning bolt and a three falling on the house right across the street "I think we should go!" she says; I lift her up helping her jump to the other side, and we hold on to each other while walking back to my car. I breathe out when we are both in it, and she bursts into laughter "that's was actually pretty fun"
I roll my eyes with a smirk on my face "I think it's best if we go to your house" she nods and I drive off, turning on the window wipers "this situation is not perfect" I tell her, and she shrugs looking out the window "it just isn't, because if it was you'd be going to Canada with me tomorrow, or I'd be staying in LA and we wouldn't have to be apart" I stop there, before we opening the window to the future talk, because that's the one that I'm really trying to avoid, the college subject, I've never mentioned any of it to her because she's already too worried with too many things; And I really just want to enjoy the right now while I can instead of getting caught up with the thoughts of being apart from her for good, or at least a semester.
"That's true, it could be better"
"Oh hell no!" Trina yells as soon as we walk in the living room "You two are soaking wet! You're going melt my candy!" I look around in the few seconds before Trina forces us to go upstairs without touching anything. And I have to give it to her, she might not have any talent for singing, or dancing, but she does a great job planning events. She took out most of the furniture from the room and replaced it with candy-themed chairs and love seats. There are cotton candy clouds, and huge candy canes all around and thousands of peppermint candies hanging from the ceiling; And it's not even completely ready according to her "Just stay upstairs until you're both dried"
She unlocks the door to her room and in the second we get in and locks it back "Trina's going nuts" she laughs and turns on the TV taking her shoes off "give me your clothes" I look at her suspiciously doing as she asks. I hand her my shirt and she goes back into the bathroom handing me a towel and I hand her my pants
"I'm the only one who has to strip down?" she smirks and throws me my shirt that she took home one night "I'd like it better if we both striped down"
"Shut up" she holds both my cheeks and presses her lips hard against mine briefly "I don't have any pants, but I can get one of my Dad's for you"
"No need" I shrug and sit down in her bed and flip through the channels "what time does the party starts?"
"Eight" she says, from inside her closet, and it's huge, probably half the size of my RV. I look around her room, and she comes back in leggings and a hoodie jumping right beside me "but the music starts way, way earlier, Trina needs her warm up"
"And when does the good stuff comes?" she turns her head sideways
"…the drinks?"
"The food, I'm starving" she looks at as if not believing what I just said
"We had lunch twenty minutes ago" No one ever said being a seventeen year old teenage boy was easy "I don't think there will be food expect for candy" I get up "where are you going?!"
"To get some candy" she gets up and takes the key from my hand "what's wrong?"
"You're going in your underwear?" I look down, I almost forgot about it;
"I really don't mind" her chin drops
"Trina's downstairs" oh, not a good idea to be near her on my underwear "What do you want I can just get it for you?"
"No it's fine" I hold her hand taking her away from the door, and kiss neck her neck "I think we can do something better than eating food"
"I agree" she kisses me running her fingers through my hair, and we sit down in her bed, yes this is a lot better than eating
"TORI! THE DUDE IN THONG IS BACK!" she cuts off the kissing with the poundings on the door and Trina shouting on the other side of it "HE'S NOT LETTING ME REHEARSE MY ENTRANCE!" she rolls her eyes, and I let her go.
"I'll be back as soon as possible" she says going out.
Tori's POV
"California girls, we're unforgettable
Daisy dukes, bikinis on top
Sun-kissed skin, so hot
We'll melt your popsicle
California girls, we're undeniable
Fine, fresh, fierce, we got it one lock
West-coast represent
Now put your hands up"
Turns out Trina needed more than just scaring the guy in the thong off, and by the time I got back to my room the party was about to start. At least Beck's clothes dried soon enough for him to go out eat a whole cotton candy cloud and some candy canes.
"THIS IS SO COOL!" Cat yells taking another shot of tequila with Jade, and eating some of the candy from the heart shaped bowl "OH MY WHAT IS THIS?!" she asks pointing at it
"BIBBLE!" Trina yells, getting a drink "A BRITISH TREAT" Cat runs off with it, and more and more people get in by the second, and all of them already drunk, or at least not sober enough to know that they're not actually inside a magical place called Candy Land.
She outdid herself this year, the whole living room looks like Candy Land, she even hired some guys to dress up like Oompa-Loompas and carry shots around, they're funnier and less threatening than hyenas so I guess everyone, expect Jade, is digging this theme more than last years.
"HEY SWEET THANG" Rex says, and Robbie keeps quiet this time "I HAVE SOME GOOD STUFF" he says, and Robbie covers his mouth
"REX! DON'T YELL!" he comes closer and shows me a little bag of weed "WE'RE ALL IN THE BACK PORCH, IF YOU WANT" he says, and I glance at Beck that holds my hand
"I THINK WE SHOULD GO UPSTAIRS" I say, and he nods, I don't want to ruin the party for him but I'm pretty sure there were at least five Northridge girls trying to touch his hair and he looked really annoyed by it "DO YOU MIND?"
"I WAS JUST WAITING FOR YOU TO ASK" I smile and we make our way through the crowd, being pushed several times and almost getting spilled drinks all over four times. But we manage to get to my room, to see a line of teenagers waiting for the guest bathroom, and I've never been so glad to have a suite.
I shut the door, and it barely blocks the music, but if we whisper really close to our ears I think we'll be able to hear; Not that I plan on doing a lot of talking.
He stands on his knees to button up his shirt, and I stand on the same position wrapping my arms around him and shutting my eyes holding on tight, he's going away now I have to face it, he's going away for five days. Five days Tori, you can handle five days, it's only five days! You managed to live sixteen years without him…barely "don't go yet" I cry and he kisses the side of my head hugging me back
"I wish I didn't have to" a single tear streams down my eyes and falls in his shoulder "don't cry, I'll be back in five days" he pulls away a little and presses his lips softly against mine and I run my hands on his hair, down his neck and to his shoulders holding firmly to it, because I know that as soon as I let go… I won't think about it, I'll enjoy the few moments I have left with him.
"I know" I kiss him again, quickly allowing him to deepen it; and I block everything that's going on outside of the room. The loud music, the eventual poundings on the door and the screaming and talking, right now it's just me and him, nothing else is going on. The world ceases to exist, and all its left is me and him, our lips and this moment "I found myself in you" I whisper the words in is ear
"I love you…" I pull him back to the bed and he lies half beside, his torso on top of me, and his eyes locked with mine "…I love you so much" I pull down his head and he lets his weight fall over me, and before he tries to lift himself up again I hold him like this.
He strokes my hair, and we kiss again, and neither of us wants to let go yet, and we part our lips for half a second to breathe only to find them again, and making each kiss longer than the one before, knowing that any time he's going to have to go. His hands trace down my body and I place soft kisses on his neck trailing the up to go back to his mouth and no words are necessary to express how much I already miss him; Most would think I'm overreacting, but he doesn't, he understands.
I feel his phone vibrating on my bed, and we both let out a sight of disappointment and frustration, it's his alarm. Time to go. He kisses me once more, and sits up, but I don't this time. I just lay there, watching him get his things, telling me he loves me again, and pulling away from one last hug, kissing my cheek, my forehead, the tip of nose than my mouth. And finally, heading out the door.
Hey guys, so Beck left! What do you think is going to happen to Tori? Please please please, review! Love you all,
- Kiribati