AFTER SEEING YOUR FACE.

‘’Hey,’’ I called Emily softly. Hesitantly placing my hands over hers, scared that she might remove it, but she doesn't. We were standing there in comfortable silence for some time. Looking and savoring the beauty of the sky full of bright stars.

‘’hey’’ she replied smiling at me

‘’I am so sorry Em, I didn’t know I made you feel like-‘’

‘’ don’t’’ she says and hugs me ‘’I am sorry, for being so inconsiderate’’

‘’no’’

‘’you can tell me whenever you want. I know it might be something very hard for you to share, but tell me whenever you are ready, I am always there, yeah?’’ I nod and hug her tightly ‘’and I am sorry for my sudden outburst’’

‘’Neah, it’s fine’’ I say smiling at her, ''that side of yours is hot by the way'' I say with a wink.

''Really? So I guess, I should show that side more often?'' she replies with a teasing smile,

''No thanks!!.'' I reply immediately making her giggle.

‘’so? What now?’’ she asks quietly.

‘’let's go up, to the room and get ready, because I am excited to wear that dress’’

‘’you don’t-‘’

‘’I want to, now let's go! Our ride would be here soon!’’ I say, in my most exciting voice.

We head upstairs and started getting ready for the party.

By the time we were done with our makeup, it was already 6:30. Within 15 minutes we were dressed up and were busy taking selfies. I wore the blue strapless dress with nude heels and held a dark blue clutch. Emily on the other hand wore a knee-length bottle green strapless dress with brown boots.

‘’Aren’t you guys looking gorgeous?!” Baby squeals entering my room

‘’Thanks, baby mum’’ I respond with a smile

‘’now stand together, lemme send Ells your pictures’’

We pose and she keeps snapping our pictures until the door bursts open with an excited Cyrus

‘’Why did you guys start snapping pictures without me!?’’ he says exasperatedly, ‘’and why are you both dressed like this?’’ he says raising his eyebrows

‘’is something wrong with these outfits? Mary said we look pretty’’ Emily nervously chimed, looking back at the mirror and fixing her hair.

‘’what I meant to say is that I would need to fight many horny teenagers tonight’’ Cyrus groans making all three of us laugh

‘’ don’t worry, Jace is there to be Em’s Knight in shining armor tonight’’ I say with a wink which causes Emily to blush but she soon recovers and scowls.

‘’shut up!’’ she exclaims

‘’Am I missing something over here’’ Baby mum asks raising an eyebrow questioningly before I could answer there was a sound of a horn,

‘’I guess our ride’s here, I will tell you after coming back’’ I say hugging Baby mum and we all head downstairs. I bid goodbye to Anj and Pete and head towards the doorway.

‘’wait, Kate, keep the spare key, we might fall asleep before you return'' Baby mum says handling me the spare key.

‘’yeah, thanks’’ I say and kiss Baby mum's cheek. The three of us head towards the familiar car where Jace was already leaning on and We look back when baby mum shouts,

‘’Use safety, Emily!! Don’t wanna be a grandma before even having kids’’ causing both me and Cyrus to laugh and Emily shoots daggers at Baby mum who just shuts the door, and mutters ''So much for not being embarrassed.''

We come across a confused Jace, he was going to say something but stops as his jaws drop and he keeps staring at Emily with wide eyes,

‘’ Come on bruh, close your mouth, don’t wanna swallow a bee now? Do you, Jace?’’ Cyrus says smirk

‘’huh?’’ he says coming out of his daze.

I and Cyrus both chuckle and Emily blushes.

‘’Okay, let’s go’’ Jace says motioning us towards the car. Emily sits on the passenger seat in front as I and Cyrus jump at the back-seats.

After half an hour we were parked in front of a big house and the music was already exploding out of the house. We all hopped out and started getting inside, there were already couples making out in the lawn, making me scrunch my nose in disgust. The moment we entered the house the smell of alcohol hit my nostrils, everyone was grinding against each other on the dancing floor, which made me feel a little uneasy at the thought of someone touching me like that. But at the same time, I thought would I be ever able to dance? I remember I used to love dancing when I was young and happy. I remember dreaming about dancing with my prince charming, as his hands would be on my waist and mine would be on his arms and tugged closely to him. But everything changed. I cannot have anyone touching me let alone anyone dancing with me.

‘’Disgusting yeah?’’ Cyrus says, bringing me out of my daze.

I hum in response and look away,

‘’where are Emily and Jace?’’

‘’Em straight wanted to be high so Jace took her towards the kitchen’’

‘’won’t you drink?’’ I asked

‘’Nope, who would accompany you then?’’

‘’Cy, it’s fine, go. Have fun’’ I say ushering him towards the kitchen

‘’No’’

‘’GO!’’

‘’Kate-‘’

‘’oh hey!’’ I say waving at a random person, ‘’looks like I got some company’’

‘’who’s that?’’

‘’Oh he’s there in one of my classes’’ I say and see the person I waved at, walking in my direction

‘’are you sure-‘’

‘’Cy, go!’’ I say and push him in the direction of the kitchen and walk towards the random human I waved.

‘’Um, hey, sorry I mistook you for someone else’’ I say reaching him

‘’No problem, I guess everything happens for a reason’’ he says with a cheeky smile

‘’Chase!’’ a Blondie says putting her hands on his waist, his girlfriend I guess

‘’Avery leave me alone’’ the boy named Chase says her removing her hands from his waist.

‘’You!’’ the girl Avery spats pointing at me ‘’what are you doing with my boyfriend?’’

‘’I am not your boyfriend’’ Chase says sounding annoyed

‘’um, excuse me’’ I say starting to leave

‘’wait’’ I turn around and see Chase following me and Avery shooting daggers at me

‘’ your girlfriend’s furious, I guess you should stay with her’’ I say looking in Avery's direction, who was still sending murderous daggers at me.

‘’she’s not my girlfriend, she just loves being clingy and all,’’

‘’oh’’

‘’so are you alone?’’

‘’no, I came with my friends’’

‘’you look like a junior’’

‘’Yeah, I am a junior. Do you know Jace? He invited me and my friends’’

‘’Ah, now I get it. What’s your name?’’

‘’Katherine’’

‘’So, Katherine may I know why are you lonely’’

‘’I am not much of a party type, my friends enjoy drinking and dancing, I, on the other hand, don’t like any of it’’

‘‘My friends are calling me to play some games, you wanna come with me?’’ I didn’t know whether to accept the offer or not. He didn’t seem to be harmful and it's not like have anywhere else to go.

‘’you sure they won’t mind?’’ I ask nervously.

‘’of course, they won’t and now you are my friend, so I cannot just leave you alone here, can I?’’ I smiled at his behavior and started following him upstairs. He opened a door and I saw a group of teenagers sitting encircling each other.

‘’Chase, about time man! We were just going to start playing’’ a guy shouted

‘’who’s the chick Chaysey?’’ a dark-haired boy asks shamelessly checking me out, instantly making me uncomfortable.

I even got a little self-conscious and nervous with the amount of attention I was getting along with the glares the girls were shooting me.

‘’Guys this is Katherine’’ he said with a smile looking at me ‘’and I want, all of you to leave her alone. Katherine these are my friends’’ he said motioning towards them. While I was waving hi to everyone, I felt someone’s gaze behind me, I turned around and saw Christian staring at me with a girl on his lap and he immediately removed his eyes from me, when he saw I caught him staring and started flirting with the girl.

Okay, he wants to behave as strangers? Fine.

The door flew open revealing more familiar figures; the boys of the football team,

‘’don’t you look gorgeous!’’ Mark exclaimed

‘’Thank you’’ and waved towards the other boys.

‘’Well, let’s start playing’’ one of the boys said

They took a bottle and I understood what they were playing.

‘’Come, Katherine, sit, we are starting’’ Chase said patting the space beside him

‘’No, I don’t wanna play. How about you guys play and I will watch’’ Chase seems to understand and nodded ‘’you can sit on that couch, it’s clean’’ he said with a small smile pointing towards a couch.

‘’Are you scared little girl?’’ the girl sitting on Christian’s lap said with a smirk

‘’I wasn’t but now I am, after seeing your face’’ I replied with a smirk and the whole room erupted with ’óoohs’

‘’Feisty’’ a guy commented and I ignored him along with the glare the girl was sending me.

They started playing and the bottle landed on a boy named Wes

‘’Truth or dare Wes?’’ another guy asked.

‘’Dare’’ the guy replied with a smirk

‘’Makeout with Sally’’

And with that, I knew it was going to be a looong night!