At dinner that night Annie dropped a bombshell on me. Erik, as she called him, had all but asked her out. Okay, I'm exaggerating. He probably just wanted to talk to her or something. At midnight. Alone. Ughh, she had all the luck. I only ever got scolded by the guy I liked. Granted he was my professor and headmaster of the school but it still wasn't fair. I don't care how petulant that sounds.
I resigned myself to another night alone. Joey was unfortunately still sick and Annie was busy getting ready for her date. I decided on going back to my room at least for a little while. I called my mom knowing she hadn't talked to me in a while and surely wanted to hear from me. Unfortunately, I got no good news. Turns out my father was in the hospital and would likely be there for a while. I began tearing up knowing I likely would not be able to leave school to come visit for a couple of weeks yet. She assured me that he would likely be out by then but I didn't feel too comforted. Already they had projected he'd be in there for a week which was the longest I could ever recall either or my parents being in a hospital.
To make matters worse I was told they couldn't even find him a room yet. When my mom walked in he was in a bed in the hallway of the emergency room. By now I was full on blubbering. Normally I was not a very emotional person and to be perfectly honest my dad and I had never had a great relationship but he was still my father and I still loved him. Naturally I was worried. I stayed on the phone with my mother for a while. I felt like I was five years old again. My mom reassured me countless times that my father would be okay but I just couldn't shake the worry. I think being away from him really concerned me.
By midnight my mom was coaxing me to try to get to sleep and I would likely be able to function better in the morning. Reluctantly, I got off the phone with my mother but I knew sleep was not in the cards. I wished Annie was around. Even I knew I would probably shake off my illogical concern by the morning but right now I just really wanted company. Settling in to bed I flipped on my tv and waited to fall asleep.
The next morning I felt slightly better. My mom was right. Everything did seem a little better in the morning. I decided this weekend I would run home and visit my father and see how he was doing and I had received a voicemail during the night from my mother informing me that they had found him a room. Quickly getting ready I ran across the hall to meet Annie knowing if anyone could improve my day it would be her.
Turns out Erik kiss her last night! But get this instead of continuing to kiss him back and having it segue into wild sex she WALKED AWAY. After I properly screamed at her for her stupidity, I convinced her to come down to breakfast with me. Over the course of our meal I explained my less than thrilling night to her assuring her I felt much better now and that it was nothing life-threatening. I was feeling much better truth be told. I even felt unnaturally happy. I blamed it on the giddiness I experienced from hearing Annie's good news.
Before long Annie was begging me to leave. I had no clue what was making her suddenly urge me to leave the cafeteria but I figured something must have been bothering her so I finally gave in. Along the way who should we run into but Raven. I suppressed an eyeroll. Neither Annie nor I cared for the girl. Well, let me rephrase that. Annie didn't really like her. I fucking hated her. In the first place she was kind of nasty like she thought she was better than everyone else but I also hated her for a much more vain reason. Her head was lodged so far up Charles' ass it wasn't even funny. She was the biggest suck up there was and was constantly and very obviously vying for his attention. It was no secret many girls had a crush on our headmaster but she was by far the most overt and annoying about it.
She motioned for me and Annie to come over and although I was more than content to ignore her and keep going, Annie started walking toward her so I followed. Turns out Brian was having a party tonight. Perhaps not all was lost in talking to her. There was sure to be alcohol and Brian's parties usually weren't half bad. I deserved a night of drinking after last night and it would be a good way to relive some stress. I confirmed we would we going and began walking away.
Annie seemed hesitant but I eventually won her over with a few puns about Darren, better known between us as "the cute boy who breathes ice." She assured me never on her life would she go for him but still seemed willing to go. Excitedly, we began getting ready together while occasionally dancing around to the music she had put on from her iphone. Annie must have been in a good mood because she even let me do her hair. After one last glance in the mirror we headed out toward Brian's room.
Before even walking through the door I could tell this party was a little bit wilder than some of the ones in the past. The door was shaking from the bass that was thumping from the large speakers inside and there was a bar set up in the corner of the room which was exactly where I made a bee-line for. After setting myself up with a rum and diet coke I saw Darren checking out Annie from across the room and gently teased her about it. Before long Darren had worked up the (most likely liquid) courage to make his way over to my best friend. I took this as my cue to leave and made my way over to the other side of the room.
Sipping my drink I danced for a while and made my rounds saying hello to friends I ran into as the party continued. After a few more drinks I was feeling slightly tipsy and started dancing with a guy I knew somewhat from my self-defense class. I think he name was Matt? Max? At this point I didn't care. After a while Matt/Max started getting a little handsy but I decided I didn't entirely mind. I came out to have fun tonight and he was pretty cute. Somehow we had ended up in a slightly secluded corner and began making out.
My rum induced distraction was ended soon enough by shouts. Separating myself from Matt/Max, I realized Logan and Erik had been sent to break the party up. Looks like Brian wouldn't be having any more parties. My new goal became trying to sneak out of the room before Logan or Erik could manage to catch me. Unfortunately, Logan gripped me roughly before I could put said plan into action and began dragging me out of the room. "I was leaving anyway," I growled. Surely I would have to face the consequences of my actions tomorrow. The only silver lining would be perhaps I would have to serve my detention with Charles.
Meeting up with Annie I was told that I would be attending detention with her and a couple of other kids I knew tomorrow at nine. I groaned. They had to have made it that early on purpose. Whatever, it was detention. I could just sleep through it. Unfortunately detention would be served with Professor Lehnsherr. That was great for Annie but not so much for me. I walked straight back to my room and headed straight to bed not looking forward to the next morning in the least bit.
