Hey there, readers of mine whom I love so much. Yea, this chapter is kinda short, but the next one is gonna be longer. Promise :)
-SDSL
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Reid
I woke up, sun shining in my face. "Urgh!" I grunted, covering my eyes with a pillow… a pillow that wasn't mine. I sat up, dazed and confused. But then I saw a picture of Alice, myself, and the rest of the sons that was taken a few years ago, and I made the safe assumption that I was in Alice's room.
"Good morning, sleeping beauty." Alice said, coming into the room, kissing me on the cheek. "Do you remember anything from last night?"
I pinched the bridge of my nose, closing my eyes. She sat down next to me, and I opened my eyes. She was wearing one of my shirts and a pair of my boxers with her hair piled on the top of her head in a messy bun. "No, but I do have a killer hangover." I then smirked, pointing to her attire. "Did you steal those from me?"
"You remember the first time we, you know… did it?" She said, crinkling her nose in disgust. She hated saying phrases like 'did it' or 'doing it'. Her reaction to those such phrases were actually quite humorous. "You left some stuff behind, and well, I liked that it smelled like you."
"You're freaking adorable, you know that, right?" I laughed, kissing her on the tip of her nose. "And you can steal my clothes any time you want." I told her. However, I was suddenly feeling queasy.
"Baby, are you okay?" She asked, concerned.
"I need… I'm gonna…" I heaved, and she seemed to get the point. She pulled a trash can up from the side of the bed, into which I graciously emptied the contents of my stomach.
I finally finished, putting the trash an on the ground. She handed me a tissue, and I wiped off my mouth.
"So, what did I do last night?" I asked her. "You know, besides getting trashed."
"You got wasted, declared your undying love for Baby boy, and then proceeded to give us all a show we will never forget." She said seriously, so much so that I almost took her seriously. Except she burst out into laughter only a few seconds later.
"Hah. Funny. Really, you are."
"I know, right?" She said with a smirk. "But seriously? You got mad about Evan and then got drunk off your ass. Then you stumbled off and ended up in some random park, and I found you there like an hour later. I broke a heel and then threw my favorite stilettos into the woods… and then I got rained on. Oh yea, and when you passed out, the boys came to pick us up, and they thought I actually snapped and committed first-degree murder." And then I remembered.
"Oh shit." I said, feeling like crap, despite the humorous light she was attempting to shed on the situation. "I fucked up."
"Yea…" She took my hand. "So did I. Come on, let's go." She said, pulling me into the kitchen where there was an array of rather gross-looking smoothie-type things on the counter next to the blender. "Sit." She ordered as she moved to the blender, and I did.
"How many hangover cures do you have?" I asked.
"A lot." She told me. "Trust me, when I found out my dad died, I needed 'em." She then pushed a button on the blender, and it made a loud noise; one that was too loud for my hung-over ears.
"Ngh!" I let a loud noise escape from my mouth before burying my head in my hands.
She quickly turned it off. "Shit, I'm sorry honey." She then poured it in a glass. "Drink up. We have school to get to."
Sarah
Kate and I sat waiting in the front of my car listening to the radio, waiting for Reid and Alice to drag their butts outside so we could finally leave. We lived together, and it still took Alice for-freaking-ever to get ready to go anywhere.
Suddenly, they came out, the two of the sliding into the back seat. Alice pulled the door shut, and Reid put his head in his hands. He then proceeded to keel over and put his head down in Alice's lap, as he muttered, "Turn down the damn radio."
Kate did, and she and I exchanged a look with Alice. I pulled away from the curb. "Hun, I gave you sixteen of my '100-guaranteed-to-work' hangover cures. Surely at least one of them must have worked." Alice murmured to him, stroking his hair.
"How long do they take to work, though?" I asked, looking at her in the rear-view mirror.
"Ummm…. The vary?" She said meekly as he groaned.
Evan
I was sitting in my first period class when some kid came in and gave the teacher a piece of paper. The teacher beckoned me down, giving me the paper, and I left the room. I looked down at it, and the meaningless words that were meant to simply get me out of class disappeared, and the real message began to appear. It read;
My room. NOW. No excuses.
-DC
"Well isn't she a ray of fucking sunshine?" I muttered to myself as I pocketed the note, going to her dorm room. I knocked on the door when I got there, and she opened it, pulling me in quickly. "What do you want, Darcy?" I said, exasperated.
She looked at me with a small smile. "What? No greeting? No 'thanks for getting me out of class, oh great cousin of mine'?" I gave her a look, and she rolled her eyes, jumping onto her bed. "Oh, alright, fine. Gee, Evan, when did you become so not-fun?"
"Darcy, I have a low tolerance for your games today. Cut to the point." I told her.
"Okay, fine." She said, dropping her dumb blonde act. "Chase decided that since my new task pertains to splitting up Alice and Reid, and that you're kinda sucking at it, you being assigned to it is kinda stupid." She then continued. "Before I get to the second part, is that a problem? Evan, Chase is starting to wonder if maybe… you love her." She said, her eyes shining with concern.
"No." I finally replied, and she seemed relieved. "I don't." At least, not anymore. I thought. Falling for her was the stupidest thing I have ever done. She was in love with Reid, even I couldn't change that. I was done trying to win her over. Trying to destroy her worked well enough for me at this point. "What's the next part?"
"Your new assignment. "She said with a grin. "As you can tell, that Sarah girl is beginning to be a big problem. She's very protective of Alice. She keeps getting in the way and ruining everything."
"Obviously." I said with a nod.
"Your new assignment is to… distract her." She told me.
I caught on immediately. "Chase wants me to seduce her?"
"Umm… yes?"
"That could be a problem." I told her.
"Oh?" She said, her eyebrow jerking up. "Why?"
"She hates me."
"Oh." She said. "Well, did you forget? You're a succubus."
"So basically, I just do it, despite everything we know up to now is pointing towards me ending up castrated by a very psychopathic blond chick with delusions of grandeur if I go through with it?"
"That would seem to be the case."
"Fucking wonderful."
"Well, if it makes you feel any better, here." She said, tossing me a folder with "Wenham, Sarah" written on the tab.
"What is this?" I asked her, opening it up.
She laid flat on the bed, resting her head in her hands as I sat beside her. "It's her personal file. I figured you might have some trouble with Sarah so I snatched it from the school's files in the main office. I hoped it might give you some... leverage." She told me.
"Well, well, well." I said after reading through it quickly.
"What is it?" Darcy asked, looking interested.
I looked up at her. smirking. "It's just the leverage we've been looking for. Just what I need."
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-SDSL