Hey! So this is the last part of the party, and then we will be exploring the medical side of CB's life. I've finished my GCSEs for this year yay! But i do have three science mocks, one next week two the week after aww :( so yeah I have to revise for those but after that I will be free so I can write better, more detailed chapters. Anyway enjoy chapter 21 and thank u to all my new followers I really appreciate it! Reviews are 3 xxxxx
Disclaimer: I do not own Morganville or any of its characters (apart from Aria) xx If only I did . . . lol
Shane's POV
I tried to forget the incident with Eve and Michael. I mean it wasn't really my business, but I was a bit curious, I mean who wouldn't be? And Eve, well she looked a bit torn up about it. She looked kinda exhausted.
"What was that about?" I asked her as we walked back to the garden. It was getting a bit darker now, coming up for 6 o'clock. I'd make everyone leave in an hour or so cause I'm pretty damn sure the place is gonna take a while to clean.
"Dunno, don't care. I'm getting drunk, how about you?" She replied. Was she joking? Hell no.
"Um I'll pass. Eve seriously, I wouldn't recommend getting drunk in front of all these people. You tend to act, um slutty and sexy when you're drunk."
"I do not!" She exclaimed. "How dare you even say that?" Her words should have been full of spite, but instead they were just empty. As we entered the garden I could see there were other frat boys starting to get slightly wasted, as well as some girls. Maybe Eve could do with letting go a bit.
"Fine, knock yourself out. But please," I began "do not do what you did last time I beg you."
"What do you mean?"
"You pushed me up against a wall, slid down my body and began to unzip my pants. I'm not even going to recall some of the names you called me. It was very disturbing." I informed my roommate with a straight face.
"What?!" She shrieked, her black lined eyes wide with shock, her white face a pink colour she would despise.
"Kidding." I smirked, seeing Eve exhale in relief. "But seriously Eve, don't be stupid. I could really do without you having a hangover from hell tomorrow morning."
She flipped me off and said "Yes, dad." before marching off to the nearest keg. If she got really drunk, which I'm sure she will, this might be entertaining.
I guess I'll go find Claire. And maybe a camcorder.
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Claire's POV
I looked out of my bedroom window which faced the back garden. My roommates were no longer out there, probably in the front room. Even though it was coming up for six, and people had been here for like four hours, the party was still roaring, the music blasting, people dancing, laughing, having fun.
Behind me I could hear the sound of Aria's suctioning going on. She told me that at home if she needed to do this, her brother would generally do it for her, but seeing as I had no idea what I would have to do, she was doing it by herself. I tried not to stare as she inserted a tube down her tracheotomy. I could here the slurping and sucking sound coming from the tube as my friend gagged a little. I don't think I'd ever be able to do something like that, not even once. But then I suppose this is kind of necessary for her else she might get an infection.
It only last a minute or so before Aria was wiping out her suction tube and packing it away in the backpack.
"Ok, all set, I think." She said perkily as she stood up from my bed.
"You do that everyday?" I asked.
"More than once yeah. Along with percussion therapies, vest treatment, neubilisers, inhalers and lots and lots of pills. The joys of being a CF patient." She said, as if it were nothing.
"Wow, that's pretty intense." I replied, astonished. I was trying to figure out how she managed to fit all these things into her daily routine when there was a knock at the door.
"Come in!" I yelled.
Shane's head popped around my door for the second time today and smiled. "Hello ladies. Am I interrupting anything?"
"Nope, we were just coming down. Why?" I asked.
Shane laughed. "Because Eve's getting drunk that's why."
"What's so funny about that?" Aria asked from the other side of the room.
"Eve doesn't get drunk very often." I explained. "But when she does, she gets up to some very amusing, possibly eighteen certificate rated things. Something you don't want to miss."
"That's right. So come on." Said Shane. Then looking at Aria he asked "Do you need any help carrying that down the stairs?" He pointed to her oxygen tank.
She giggled, obviously enjoying the attention. "No thank you. You guys go on and I'll follow you down a bit slower." She insisted.
Shane took my hand as we made our way down the stairs and through the house. "How is Michael letting Eve get drunk?" I asked him.
"Mike's not here right now, so I think Eve is making the most of it, and I think she wants to annoy him when he gets back."
I began to ask why he wasn't here, but Shane cut me off. "I dunno Claire, but I'm sure its nothing. Now come on." And with that he pulled me through the kitchen, and that was the end of that conversation.
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Claire's POV
Eve did not disappoint.
Out the back people were crowding around a table we hand put out there, one that used to contain food. Not so much now. Eve was stood up on it, giving anyone who was standing close enough a full front view up her dress. I'm pretty sure I already know what she was wearing. I'd seen her underwear draw. It's . . . interesting to say the least.
Some on had changed the music to 'Get Sexy' by the Sugababes, and Eve was enjoying it. Maybe a little too much.
When I'm walking down the street they say hey sexy hey.
Eve did a slut drop and whilst down there grabbed a boys shirt and licked his nose playfully. Now standing straight she spung her hips around in a smooth, sexy movement and began to lift the netting of her dress up, revealing black laced underwear. You know what I'm on about.
"You weren't kidding." Aria's voice said from behind us. I turned to look at her approach, and saw her eyes widen. Like really widen. "Claire you might um wanna. . ." She just pointed, speechless.
I turned my attention back to Eve, only to see . . .
. . . the black laced underwear was coming off!
"Woah." Shane exclaimed next to me. I hit him and yelled. "Not appropriate! Your fiancee is standing right here you know!" Wow, those panties were coming down fast. Ok this has to stop.
"Eve!" I yelled. She couldn't hear me, or she wouldn't. "Damn it. Shane help me." I ordered as I began to push through the crowd of wasted people to get to Eve. She was going to have a hellish hangover tomorrow.
Shane's POV
"All right people let me through!" I made my way through the crowd and tried to keep up with Claire. Finally I made it to the front and reached out a hand to help Eve down from the table that was beginning to look unstable from all the jumping around.
"Come on Eve, let go inside. No no, keep the pants on!"
"I'm not coming down!" Eve protested. "I wanna stay up here forever and ever!"
"How to you propose to do that?" Asked Claire who was next me.
"My animal friend will help me! They will do my washing up and bring me food and . . . and they will make me a bed out of their feather and stuff. I will never 'ave ta move! Nuh ah!" She decided, crossing her arms. Wow, I forgot how fun she could actually be.
"Not gonna happen Gothica." I pulled her leg, causing her to lose balance. I caught her as she fell. She screamed and giggled a bit."Hey handsome."
"Oh brother." I groaned. "Alright shows over guys. Bye!"Everyone got out of our way as me and Claire brought Eve over to where Aria was still standing, mouth wide open. God, forgot she was only like, what, 15, 16?
I layed Eve on the grass, where she was completely still. Passed out.
"Well, I guess she enjoyed the party. What about you two?" I asked the remaining sober girls.
"The best my girlfriend, no fiancee, said, getting on her tip toes to kiss me.
A phone beeped and Aria looked down at hers. "That's my ride." She said. "I better go. I had a great time. Happy Birthday Claire!"
"I'll walk you to the door." Claire said to Aria. To me she said. "I'll be right back. Look after her." She nodded to the unconscious goth lying on the grass, smiling slightly to herself in her sleep.
"Right." I replied. "I'll just . . . hang around here a bit."
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Claire's POV
Aria's brother was actually quite cute. Chace, I think his name is. He had shaggy hair, a little like Shane's and his arm was leaning half over his wound-down window of his car. As we approached his car, he took off his shades and raised a eyebrow at me.
"Ari, this chick the birthday girl? You never told me she was so hot." He said to his sister, who gasped. "Chace!" She exclaimed at his rudeness.
"It's alright." I laughed. I held up my hand, showing him my new ring. "I'm sorry, but I'm engaged." To that he just nodded.
Aria on the other hand began to jump up and down. "You're what? And you didn't think to tell me?"
"Well sorry but I only just found out too!" Still, she continued to jump around, clapping her hands excitedly.
"Sis, you'll tired yourself out if you keep that up." Chace said, getting out of his car to join us. "And I don't feel like dealing with that tonight."
"Whatever, you never feel like dealing with anything anymore." She smiled at me. "I better go, got things to do."
I stepped forward and hugged her. "Thanks again for coming. It means a lot." I turned to her brother. "Nice to finally meet you. I've heard a lot about you."
"I bet everything you've heard is completely fabulous." He joked.
"Hardly." Aria smirked. "Bye Claire." They both got into the car and I waved them off. Chace seemed nice. It's good that Aria has someone who really cares about her in her life. Like me. Thinking of, I better go and see him!
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An hour later I had finished saying goodbye to everyone and was stood in the kitchen with a conscious Eve, who had her hand on her head, moaning.
"Urg, remind me to never get drunk again." She complained, leaning against the counter.
"You said that last time." I told her.
"Well you didn't remind me did you!"
"Shane did." I shot back. To that, she had no answer. I went to the sink, filled a glass of water and passed her some of my headache pills. For once, I wasn't the one who needed it. "Here, take this. It helps."
"Thanks." She replied. "I suppose we should start the dishes, seeing as the boys won't be doing it."
So we did. Eve asked about what happened when she was out of it that Shane kept teasing her about, but I told her it was probably best if she didnt know. We continued to do the dishes in silence.
The truth was, I was beginning to feel a bit unwell and just felt like sleeping the sickness off, but being my eighteeth birthday I knew I had to make the effort and stay up with my friends for a bit.
It then occured to me that I hadnt told Eve I was engaged yet. I wanted nothing more than to tell her, but Shane had wanted to wait until we were all together to break the good news. I had taken my ring off and put it in my bedroom for safe keeping at the minute.
"Do you remember," Eve began, breaking the silence, "when you first moved in here when you were sixteen and we were making pasta together?"
"Oh yeah," I remembered. "You were going to take credit for that meal!"
"Ah but I didn't. " she laughed. "I'm nice like that. "
We stood in silence again for a bit until Eve said "It feels like ages ago"
I just nodded, scared that if I talked I might cry. Because even though I'd been black and blue after nearly being killed, I wish I was back there. Because back there, there was no craniopharyngioma, no brain tumour. And even though I was close to death, I hadnt been dying. But now I was.
A tear slid down my cheek and I tried to wipe it away before my best friend could see, but the tears kept coming.
"Hey." Eve said softly. "Don't be sad, come here you." Eve gently pulled me into her arms and held me as I cried. We stood there for a minute both listening to my sobs before Eve said "I'm sorry for making you cry."
"You didnt." Told her, my head still on her shoulder. "I guess I've just been holding it in for a while."
"We know you have sweetie. But you can always come to me if you need to talk." She pulled away and smiled "Now doesn't that feel better hmm?"
I laughed because actually it did. "Thanks Eve. Love you."
"I love you too baby girl. Now lets go and persuade Shane to watch a movie with us while we wait for Michael to come back. I need to have some serious words with him. Very serious words."
And even though I was happy, I couldnt help but here a bukowski quote over and over in my head: I wish to weep, but sorrow is stupid, I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.
I hoped like hell that wasnt true