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"Kendall!" I yelled as I walked into his house, through the front door like a normal person. His mom was with his sister, Katie, shopping, so the two of us were going to get ready of James' Halloween party that was tonight.

"Upstairs!" he yelled back.

I walked up the spiral staircase and down the hallway, into his room. He was standing there, shirtless, digging through his drawers. I sat down on his bed after I made room for myself among the clothes thrown on it.

"Love what you've done to the place," I said, my tone thick with sarcasm.

"Glad you like it, since the mess is for you," he said as he handed me a hockey jersey. "Couldn't find the damn thing."

"You didn't have to go through all this trouble," I said as I held the white jersey up in front of me. It had Hopkins Royals printed in blue on the front, and Knight on the back with his number. "You don't have another jersey?"

"What's wrong with that one?" he asked as he started shoving his clothes back in his drawers.

"Is it a good idea for me to go there with your jersey on?"

"Who gives a fuck," he said and shrugged. He forced his drawers shut and sat down next to me. "Everyone's probably going to be so drunk they won't be able to read."

"True," I said and smiled as I leaned against his shoulder. "Thank you."

"No problem," he said and kissed the top of my head before standing up, making me fall over on his bed. "Ready to get dressed?"

"Yup," I said and grabbed my bag before I walked into his bathroom.

I quickly changed out of my clothes and into a pair of shorts and fishnet stockings. I walked out of the room and Kendall whistled.

"Shut up," I told him and laughed as I sat down and began to braid my hair into pigtails.

"Finally I have a hot date for James' party."

"Yeah, yeah," I rolled my eyes. "Do you have that black stuff to put under your eyes?"

"You mean the eye black?" he said as he picked it up off his dresser and shook his head at me since I didn't know the name.

"Yeah!" I said really excitedly. He laughed as he walked closer to me to put it on my face. He backed away when he was finished and I looked in the mirror. "Do I look intimidating?"

"As intimidating as a bunny," he said and laughed. I punched him in the stomach and he groaned. "That wasn't nice."

"You weren't nice," I said and pouted. "I'm leaving my clothes here by the way. I'll just pick them up whenever."

"They'll join the rest of the stuff you said you'd pick up whenever," he said as he motioned toward the box of stuff that was mine in the corner of his room.

"You have the same amount of stuff at my house, buddy," I told him as I sat down to pull on my boots. I stood up and twirled around. "So how do I look? Be honest."

"You look amazing. Now let's go before all the good drinks are gone," he said and grabbed my hand. He was driving to the party, but we were sleeping over James' house. We weren't stupid enough to drink and drive.

By the time we got to James' house, the party was already going strong. Kendall parked his car in James' garage and we walked into the house.

"Look who finally showed up!" Carlos said loudly, clearly already drunk. "Come party!"

Kendall grabbed the two of us drinks and then we went our separate ways. I found Camille and Stephanie sitting on the couch talking.

"You look so cute!" Stephanie said as I sat.

"Is that Kendall's?" Camille asked and I nodded. "Oh my God, that's adorable!"

"Calm down, Camille," I said and rolled my eyes at the overly excited girl. "He didn't want to wear his own hockey jersey and he only had this other one."

"I'm sure," she said, not convinced.

"I changed at his house. I saw his drawers completely emptied out on his bed and this was his only jersey."

"You changed by his house?" she said, sounding even more excited than before. I shook my head and just ignored her.

"Where's Carlos?" I asked Stephanie.

"Somewhere with James, being his wingman," she said and shrugged. "Safer for me, he flails his arms everywhere when he dances. I don't need another black eye."

"That's true," I said and laughed.

Steph and Camille went to go to the bathroom, so I decided to scan the room for the rest of the boys. I saw Logan standing in a corner talking to someone from our math class, probably about homework. James and Carlos were in the kitchen, talking to a group of girls and James was probably trying to figure out which one to take back to his bedroom tonight. The only person I couldn't find was Kendall.

I decided that I needed another drink and that I was curious to see how James was doing in the kitchen.

"Hey guys," I said to them as I walked in and received a bunch of nasty looks when I hugged them hello. "How's it going in here?"

"Fine. You know Jennifer and Mindy, right?" James said and smirked at me. He was determined to get one of these girls, and who was I to not help a dear friend of mine?

"Yes, on the cheerleading team, right?" I said and they nodded. "You know, James is one of my best guy friends. Nicest guy you'll ever meet."

"He seems really sweet," Jennifer said, clearly eyeing James.

"I think you two should get to know each other better. Carlos, why don't you get Mark over there to ask Mindy to dance," I said and nudged him in the ribs.

"Right! Mark!" he yelled, causing the poor boy in the corner to jump and almost spill beer all over the place. "Why don't you dance with Mindy? She's super hot and flexible."

"Sounds like a good time, thanks man," Mark said before going to go dance with Mindy, which left James alone with Jennifer.

"You owe me, my friend," I said as I passed him.

"You won't have to clean my house tomorrow."

"Done," I said and smiled before I grabbed another drink and walked back into the living room with Carlos.

"There you are!" Camille said as she walked toward us with Stephanie. "The wait for the bathroom was insane. This girl puked in the tub, I won't be cleaning that room tomorrow."

"I won't be cleaning at all tomorrow," I said smugly.

"What'd you do, have sex with James? He's always forcing us to clean," Camille said.

"Um, ew, no. I played wingman for him, an excellent wingman might I add," I said.

"You lucky bitch," Stephanie said.

"Anyone seen Kendall lately?" Logan asked as he walked over to us.

"Not since we got here," I said and shrugged.

"You want to dance?" Camille asked, but I knew that her and Steph would rather be alone with their boyfriends.

"No, I'm just gonna sit and try to get drunk. You guys have fun though," I said and smiled at them before they went off on their own. I walked to an empty couch and sat and watched the party go on.

"You look lonely," I heard a guy's voice say. I had expected it to be Kendall when I turned around, but it wasn't. "I'm Tyler. I think we have history together."

"If you didn't look familiar, I'd say that was a lame pick-up line" I told him and laughed. "I'm Jo."

I turned to look for Kendall again, and that's when I found him. He was dancing with this tall, blonde girl with long legs and dressed like a referee. I felt my stomach drop a little, but I couldn't place why.

"I like your costume. Not many girls come as hockey players," Tyler said, trying to make conversation. I took one last glance over at Kendall and sighed before turning toward Tyler.

"Thanks. My friends said that me and my other friend should come as something together."

"You came here with Kendall Knight?" he asked, clearly reading the name of the jersey.

"Yeah, but we're not like together. Obviously," I said and gestured over toward Kendall, who was now making out with the blonde.

"Well his loss is another guy's gain," Tyler said, trying to flirt. I laughed and smiled at him.

"You're funny," I said and he smiled.

"I've been told that a couple times."

"Well then I'll make sure not to tell you that anymore. Wouldn't want you to get a big ego."

"Yes, wouldn't want that to happen, since that would be bad," he said. I looked over at Kendall again and saw that he was still with the blonde. It was so dark in the room that I couldn't see her face so I still had no idea who it was. I felt my stomach drop a bit and I forced myself to turn away from them.

"Sure, I'll be right back," I excused myself before getting up and going upstairs to change.

For some reason, it didn't feel okay to be wearing his jersey anymore. I passed Camille and Stephanie on the way up and gave them a weary smile.

"Looks like he found his ref, didn't need me to dress up as one," I told them and they both gave me a sad look. I didn't understand why I felt so down all of a sudden.

I grabbed a few drinks before I went upstairs. I changed into my pajamas and popped a movie into the DVD player and climbed under the covers, into bed. Kendall and I were supposed to share this room since James only has three guest bedrooms, so hopefully he doesn't plan on bringing his new friend up.

It was about two in the morning when I heard the bedroom door open quietly and close. I heard someone slowly moving around the room and the weight in the bed shifted.

"Kendall?" I said sleepily.

"Yeah?" he answered. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, just wanted to make sure it wasn't some random person trying to take advantage of me in the middle of the night," I said and smiled as I rolled over on my side.

"No, it's just me coming to take advantage of you in the middle of the night," he said and jumped on top of me.

"Kendall," I said, laughing as I tried to push him away. "I'm trying to sleep!"

"You've been sleeping up here since twelve. I went to look for you and Camille pointed up the stairs and she looked pissed. Did I do something wrong?"

"No, you know how Camille is," I said and shrugged, even though I knew she was pissed because he was with that other girl. "I was bored and saw you were busy so I came up here to watch a movie, but I guess I fell asleep."

"Sorry," he said. "She came over to me and I figured why not. She was nice."

"Who is she?"

"Mercedes."

"Ah, yes. The Bitch of Hopkins High," I said and laughed. "I knew she would eventually find you."

"It was just a dance," he said. "Go back to sleep, Jo."

"Night," I said and closed my eyes. I felt him press a kiss to my forehead just before I went to sleep.

The next morning, I was woken up to a loud banging on the door accompanied by James screaming for all of us to wake up. Well, all of us besides me.

"I don't understand why you get out of cleaning," Kendall said as he sat up in bed and grabbed his head. "I think I drank too much."

"You? I drank my feelings up here," I said and waved toward the empty bottles on the floor. "If you could bring those downstairs by the way, you'd be a great help."

"You have feelings?" Kendall joked, causing me to throw a pillow at his face.

"I sat on the couch, talked to some kid who tried flirting with me, got hit on by someone else and almost puked on. Last night wouldn't get put into my top ten of fun parties held in the Diamond residence."

"Why didn't you stay with Camille and Steph?"

"Because they were with Logan and Carlos. It's not easy being the only girl in our group of friends without a boyfriend. I used to have Jett, but that didn't work out too well."

"Maybe if you told me I could help you figure out why it didn't go so well," Kendall said as he pulled me into his arms, causing my heart to flutter. The fluttering of the heart was definitely something new.

"No, I know exactly why it didn't go well. I'm just not ready to talk about it."

"Fine, fine," he sighed. "Sorry I didn't stay with you last night. Mercedes kind of ambushed me."

"It's okay. At least one of us had a good time. I half-expected you to bring her up here, but if you thought you were getting the bed you were sorely mistaken," I said and laughed.

"Nah, why bring her while I already had you?" he said and rolled over so he was on top of me. He let his full weight rest on my body, crushing me.

"Get off me you idiot," I said as I tried to push him off me, but failed. "I can't breathe."

"Leaving girls breathless, that's the Knight charm," he said as he rolled off of me and off the bed.

"Almost suffocating girls is the Knight charm? I'd work on that if I were you. Wake me up when you're done cleaning. I heard some girl puked in the downstairs tub, have fun with that mess my friend."

"That's just disgusting. What happened to just puking in the toilet?" Kendall groaned as he walked of the bedroom. I stretched myself out on the bed and fell right back to sleep.


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