𝐒𝐡𝐮𝐭 𝐮𝐩, 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞
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Should I go to the party with Madi? Or should I stay home and find something to do?
If I go, I'd have fun. I would dance, without the use of alcohol this time because I'll be driving tonight. Plus, school is on Monday and I would like to take advantage of having fun the day before.
If I stay, however, I'll more than likely just stay in my room all day watching movies, maybe I'll even order a pizza. But I'll probably fall asleep early. My homework was done on Friday so I don't have to worry about that.
Without much hesitation, I quickly get out of bed and go into my closet. Madi said the party wasn't formal so I settled on a black body suit that dipped at the chest, and some blue jeans rolled up at my ankles. I chose my all white converse though I cringed at their dirtiness.
Reminder: must buy a new pair soon.
As always, I let my hair down, adding a thin choker with a crescent moon pendant to my neck and by the time I finished getting ready it was almost ten. I fix my bangs, letting them fall across my forehead, my hair was naturally in their curls with some hairs array but I didn't quite mind them.
I was in the middle of brushing my teeth when there was a knock on my door.
"Are you going out?" Jaque says poking his head in the bathroom. I look up to him through the mirror.
"What do you think?" I retort and spit out the toothpaste. I rinse my mouth and add cream to my hands.
"Jesus," he mutters under his breath. "I just thought I should let you know that I'll be going out as well, so."
I look up to him with warning in my eyes. "No drugs. And no drinking. And don't forget we have school tomorrow."
"I know, I know." He waves me off. "So where are you going?"
"A party, you?"
"Same." He says making me nod. "As your older brother, it is my job to let you know that if any guy were to disrespect you in anyway, I expect it to come back to me."
"Oh, please." I scoff. "What will you do?"
"Need I remind you that I took karate lessons?"
"Need I remind you, I did too?" I say. He was not about to give me that toxic masculinity speech older brothers do. The "I'm your older brother, guys can take advantage of you because you are a girl".
I am perfectly capable of taking care of myself, that should be a common privilege and not only directed towards men.
"It's my job." He says.
"No, your job is to stay away from drugs and alcohol or mom and dad will put you back in rehab." I say, pushing past him.
"Cool, I'm leaving now." He says. "Have fun at your lame party."
"I will." I say and hear the door close, signaling he left. At ten thirty, my phone goes off with a notification from Madi texting me that she was outside.
She leaves her car in my driveway and we take mine. "I sent you the location." Madi says, applying lipgloss while looking at herself in the visor. When I click on the location, it tells me that I already have it saved on my phone.
When we get there, it turned out to be the place where I followed my brother the last time. "You said this was a party." I say, looking at Madi, a furrow between my eyebrows.
"It is. Well, it's sort of an illegal nightclub." So that's why Jaque was there.
"Illegal?"
"Like underage drinking. It's isolated so no one can file noise complaints." She says. "Esmer said he's an artist, I don't know what she meant by that but I think she was just trying to brag. Come on, we're already here, let's just have fun." She whines, tugging on my arm.
I was hesitant about being here. The place was sketchy, though from the windows at the top I could see people dancing upstairs and flashing neon lights.
I groan as we both exit the car. When we reach the front door, Thomas and a few other guys stood against the wall with graffiti and a big Z painted on it.
"Mutuals," Thomas says with a chilling smile. "You ladies are free to enter."
"So you were charging?" I say making him nod with a shrug.
"Open bar. We gotta make our money someway." He smirks, opening the door for us. "Have fun in there." As we enter, the music only became louder. The place was dark although you could see due to the flashing neon lights from the DJ booth.
"You hear that?" Madi leans into my head so that I am able to hear her over the music. "Open bar." She grins, a devilish look on her face.
"You have fun, I'm driving, remember?" I say to her making her nod before walking away in the direction of the bar. I am left alone and I have no other choice but to dance, joining the other people who were dancing way too close for my liking.
The room was filled with smoke, both artificial from the DJ and cigarette smoke. It reminded me of being around my grandpa as a child, always followed by a grey cloud of smoke everywhere he went.
I scanned the place as I danced, noticing the people upstairs, some dancing and others sitting on a couch. Up there, I could make out Esmer and her boyfriend Zach. She was grinding on him whilst he drank from his cup.
Moving on, I saw a familiar curly head making me realize it was Jaque smoking a joint. Of course, he said he'd be at a party as well. I don't want to ruin Madi's night so I choose to ignore him just this once. At least we're in the same place so I'll know what he's doing.
When I looked away, I saw none other than Four leaning on the rails with a bandana pushing his hair back. It took me a second before I noticed him looking at me, and when he waved cheekily I turned around to see Madi with a red cup in her hand.
"Four is here." I breathe out making her scrunch her eyebrows, she did not hear what I said. I raise four fingers before pointing down.
"Where?" She asks making me point upstairs. She grins, her tongue placed between her teeth. "Looks like your little plan to get rid of him failed." She says in my ear before walking away. I furrow my eyebrows but before I could call after her, I feel warmth behind me.
"You're welcome." I hear his British accent in my ear making me jerk away. When I look to him, he holds a grin on his face, as well as a single cross earring dangling on his left ear.
"Excuse me?" I say.
He leans in to my ear, I can smell his cologne and minty breath. "For last night," he says. "You would've had a pretty horrible hangover if it wasn't for me."
"I'll give you that, you're good for one thing." I look away to see Madi dancing, a guy gets behind her and she continues to dance on him with a drink in her hand. I watch them carefully.
"I take it you won't be drinking much today?"
"Am I that predictable?"
"I was going for responsible," he says. "I saw you drive up, and your friend over there just chugged six tequila shots in the ten minutes that you've been here." I look towards Madi who's making her way back to us whilst dancing, she already appeared to be tipsy.
I shake my head at her, laughing as she showed off her unimpressive dance moves. Four stifles his laughter. "Thank you," I say making Four look to me. "For taking care of drunk me."
"Of course. However, I'd truly accept your appreciation if you let me buy you a coffee. No alcohol involved." I roll my eyes, a smile finding its way to my lips. No one had ever persisted me this much, it was nice for a change I guess.
"Okay." I say. I wasn't sure why he wasn't giving up from last nights antics, but I'm glad that he took care of me when I was drunk. He looks surprised that I said yes. "But remember, it's—"
"Not a date," he says finishing off my sentence before I even got to. "You are a bit predictable." He says making me shove him back playfully.
"Shut up, Five." He hears me call him this but makes no effort to correct me. He stared at me and we locked eyes for a moment before he looks away.
"I'll see you later, alright?" He offers me a half smile before walking away back upstairs. I kind of wanted him to stay here and keep me company but I'm glad he left so I can fully keep an eye out for Madi and Jaque.
I knew Four was fighting his way into being around me, and I don't think I minded it so much now after he took care of me.
Maybe he was the distraction I needed to let myself live.
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