About an hour later the girls come walking in laughing. Nice to know they had fun, I shut my laptop and hop off of the kitchen counter, walking towards them. None of them notice me standing there and continue talking. "Hello?" I say, they laugh at something Lauren says and I try to listen, "So all of us are even right? I take Four, Molly with Eric, Shauna, you'll go with Zeke, and Malene you're with Uri, and that'll leave Christina with Will,"
"Wait, what about me?" I ask her, she doesn't even look at me. Lauren smiles at them and says "Lets get ready girls!" I follow all of them to my room and Lauren opens the door, with a red liquid stain on the carpet seeping through from the other side. She opens the door and my body, my body, is on the ground with a lifeless gleam in its eyes and a deep red gash across its neck. Lauren steps over it, strutting around my room in her cherry red stilettos smiling and saying "Christina, thank you so much for letting me move in with you."
I jolt up and pant, cold sweat and shivers going down my spine swinging my feet over to the floor in case I need to bolt for the bathroom. I cant help but stare at my feet, flashes of what happened going through my mind. Christina walks in as I'm rubbing my eyes and says "Oh, good you're up, we leave in two hours, so take a shower and get ready," I glance at her and see shes just walking around in her underclothes. "Chrissy, what time is it?"
"Eight, you slept forever, you know Lauren tried waking you up."
"Yeaahh…" I dragged out while getting off the couch.
"You okay Tris?" I nod, and make my way to the shower, grabbing my towel along the way. After I'm done I walk back to my room, dreading what I'll see. I open the door and see Lauren doing her nails on the floor where my body was. I shiver and walk to my closet, "Heeeyyy Triiss," Lauren says with the biggest smile on her face, oh no.
"Yes?" I ask cautiously and pick out a black set of underclothes.
"Can you help me with something?"
"What is it?" I slip on the clothes while she blows on her newly pearl white nails.
"I need a date for tonight,"
"I thought it was a girls night out?" I give her a confused look and dry my hair one more time.
"Well, it was, but with the guys next door…"
"They're hosting the party," I say with a smirk, I turn on the radio with my computer.
"Yeah I know that, but, you didn't really click with anyone there, and well…"
"Which guy?" I smile and she blushes,
"Four," she mumbles, of course,
"And what do you need help with? You're pretty Lauren, you don't need my help,"
"How do I ask him?" I raise my eyebrows at her and feel the corner of my mouth curve up, "Ask him, just do it, when you're all dressed and flashy, he won't say no to you, unless he's a jerk, then I don't know," Lauren smiled at me and nodded,
"Thank you,"
"Yeah, now if you were asking for a booty girl ask Christina," Lauren laughs at me and blow dries my hair as we joke about high school and catch up on family. Her dad was doing well but she hadn't heard from her mom in a while. Her little brother was starting high school soon, and she just got a job as a makeup artist for models. Lauren was having a steady climb into life, it was easy for most of us. But our conversation drifted to the girls and light snooping that we've all done on each other, all the rumors and why they became rumors. All the good stuff, before we all go to college. When she was done Molly walked in as if on cue and said "Good you're both done, Tris there's someone here to see you,"
"Who is it?" I ask,
"They're in the living room," I nod and slip out of the chair. Walking to the living room I hear laughing and when I round the corner I see two tall guys. One with dirty blonde hair and the other with dark brown. One turns to me and I'm met with dark sparkling green eyes and a perfect boyish grin, his sharp face, and pointed nose. "Hey Tris," he says in his low friendly voice.
"Jacey what the hell are you doing here?" I ask. The blonde turns around and I meet the familiar face of my brother, with his stormy green eyes and all. "Beatrice!" He engulfs me in a tight hug, "Heyy Caleb," I smile, "What are you doing here?"
"I'd like you to meet my boyfriend, Jason," He says pulling away from me, I don't fight the smile that finds my face "I knew it," is all I say, Jace has had a thing for my brother for as long as I've known him. Jason smiles at me and says "You look stunning, am I missing something?"
"We're all going to a party in about," Christina says and checks the time "Ten minutes,"
"Right," I say sadly and turn to Caleb, "Where are you staying?"
"The Five high hotel, for a few days at least," he says.
"Okay, you want to get breakfast tomorrow?"
"How about brunch so we can actually catch up?" Jason suggests, "Theres no way you're gonna be all bright and stunning tomorrow morning," I laugh at him, he knows first hand how bad I get in the morning. "Yeah Tris, we're gonna have some drinks tonight anyway, so might as well take it up," Molly says. She's wearing a black maxxi dress with pink cross straps against her back. I nod and say "Sounds like a plan, I'll see you both tomorrow at 10 a.m. sharp at room…"
"426," Caleb fills in, "Fourth floor,"
"Okay," I say with a smile and hug them both, then they leave and I put on my heels and grab a black sweat shirt. I glance at the girls and see Shauna in an all black strapless dress that has a cut from her upper thigh to the floor, and Marlene in a blue cocktail dress. We all get into Laurens s60 volvo and drive for a couple of minutes before the car starts to tremble in a beat. I'm guessing we're close cause Lauren starts cursing about parking and how people suck. She scoffs and pulls into the driveway saying "We're here," I look out the window and see a mansion with flashing lights inside and music blasting whenever someone opens the front door. "They used to live here?" I ask amazed as I get out.
"Yep, sweet isn't it?" A familiar smooth deep voice says, with a hint of playfulness. I look up and see Zeke standing there with a grin plastered to his face, holding a red solo cup. His hair isn't messy and he's wearing dark blue jeans and a black shirt. "Well you look nice," I say, he doesn't look or smell drunk, weird. "And you look, prettier," He says back, then his eyes find Shauna and widen a bit. He doesn't say anything, but his lips move to say what I think was 'wow'. I smile and watch as the girls get out, Chrissy's hair doesn't look as bad as she thinks, and the colors faded a bit. "Hi Zeke," Shauna says shyly,
"Can I just, hug you? Please? You're so beautiful," Shauna laughs a little at him and nods. She steps towards him and he sets his cup down and hugs her. "Zeke, where the hell did you go?" Uriah's voice rang out as he walked to the porch. He looked at us, then at Zeke and smiled this smile that would probably hurt. "Zeke, you said you would let me be your wingman. What happened?" He says the last part in a pout. Zeke breaks from the hug and glares at Uriah, who just sniggers and gestures to the house. "You coming in or not?"
"Yeah yeah shut up we're coming," I say and make my way towards him and the girls follow. I notice Uriah has his arm around Marlenes shoulders as he shows her the punch bowl which is long spiked. Zeke and Shauna are talking and laughing in the kitchen, Molly is off somewhere, and Eric is no where to be found. Lauren is off on the dance floor in front of the blasting speakers of the D-J, getting a lot of hungry looks from men, and a few women. So that leaves me with Christina, who is blushing and looking at me, "What's wrong Chrissy?"
"Maybe we shouldn't have come," she says shyly,
"Oh come on, don't tell me you're backing out when you dragged me here in the first place," I smile at her and link our arms, "Loosen up, lets go and see if they set up a game of beer pong in the back yard,"
"I like that game," she mumbles,
"Yeah, you up to challenging me?" she stops and scoffs at me, smiling and saying "Oh please Tris, back in high school? I was a legen wait for it dary beer pong player," I laugh at her use of language from one of my favorite shows, "So is that a yes?"
"Depends, will you be able to hold it in if you don't miss?" I laugh again and she grins at me as we walk to the back yard. There are tiki torches set up in a path to the bonfire, off to the side is a bar and jacuzzi, a few meters down the way is the pool. There are people laughing and drinking, dancing to a different kind of music, giving off an electric feel that was coming from the bar. I smile and walk closer to the bar and see a crowd around people spinning fire, and the pong table off to the side with another small crowd. I smile again and drag her over to the table. "We get next game!" I yell over the cheering, and see one guy get drunk off his ass so much he had to quit, the other guy though, not much better. Everyone has a good time and I finish off my fruity spiked smoothie that Christina got us while we watched. I walked over and gave her the ball, "Ladies first,"
"Ah huh thats right Trissy, I'm the lady here," she taunts and smiles, then she does this little hop and gets the ball in first try. An 'oohhh' comes from the crowd and I giggle as she downs the cup in a second. She gets a little too confident because she tries curving it, a trick only I can do, and misses completely. We laugh and cheer, and I toss it, bouncing it real high getting it in the first cup. I cheer with the crowd and chug it as fast as I can, setting it on the ground when I'm done. The game continues for a few more minutes until we both have one cup we can't get, both in the middle. "Okay, Okay, Christina," I pause for a moment, "Lets make a bargain,"
"What do you offer?" She asks in a posh accent, I giggle at her.
"If I make this, you are letting me pick out clothes for you when we go shopping," I say and she smirks "And you have to wear them!" I quickly add. She smirks wider "Okay Trissy poo, I'll take it up if you make it, but if I make it, I get to play cupid and get you some, rather than Lauren," A chorus of 'oohs' play through the crowd, "Seal it on a double pong?" I offer,
"Seal it baby!" She squeals and gets another ball from someone, "Three," I say.
"Twooo,"
"One!" The crowd yells in unison and time slows as I toss the ball for the cup, Christina does it under hand. Hers bounces and mine scores before hers does, time comes back right as my voice finds me "Shit," I curse. She squeals and starts doing this little dance and I just laugh at her. Well, now I guess it's official, Christina is a legendary beer pong player, and she keeps her word too, God she's gonna give me hell for a boyfriend.
A/n: Hello! I am a terrible person for not posting. Okay! Caleb just never clicked with me as a straight guy, sorry if you all don't really like it, but what about Jason? (ahem the serial killer) By the way, if there are any errors pleaaaase point them out, oohh or if you have any ideas for the chapters after six and maybe seven feel free to say! c: and thank you for reading.