CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 1_

It was the night after my graduation in highschool, and my best friend Nicki invited me for this party she will be going to, sounds like fun. Nicki right from the beginning of our friendship has always been the better half, the classy one, while me on the other hand will always fall at her mercy when it comes to doing literally anything and trying to blend myself to her kind of lifestyle. Shopping for this party has really taken so much of my time and without Nicki forcing me to it, I just would lay in my bed looking up which College I should be enrolling in or some boring stuffs or best be sleeping.

Sophie!! I hear Nicki call me from downstairs, I scramble down, this girl is really something. Oops my best friend looks amazingly gorgeous with her heavy makeup on, it would be difficult to identify her if you do not know her that well, what magic she has to transform herself to however she wants to look like. Hey girl are you ready? Nicki asks me which I nod in response to her question and this makes her to look at me with doubt in her face so im forced to give her this reassuring smile. I head to the Kitchen to inform my parents that im leaving. I dont even wait for their opinions or any questions from them and back to the living room I pull Nicki and together we are out of the house, I can hear my mum yelling 'be home on time...and some other words' which I just shut the door to avoid hearing anymore.

Its my first time to attend a party and im really nervous. Nicki decides to park a block away from the building where the party is going on with reasons that she wouldn't like to get blocked by any other car and be able to leave silently when we are ready. I don't argue so we move alongside each other. You ready? she asks me again _haha I got a caring friend _ Yes I'm ready I tell her squeezing her hands tight.

We are in the hall way, people scattered around moving up and down, drunks trying to get laid with some bitches and the rest doing their things, seriously if this is what all parties look like then i wouldn't be attending anymore of it. I turn around when I hear my name from a little distance to see it was Nicki who called me, she waves for me to come over to where she's standing which I do. She gives me a glass with some drink. Although I do not know its content but I take it anyways afterwards she won't try to drug me. Nicki is telling me about her new crush Jeff, he used to be one of the hottest guys then in highschool, believe me I once had a crush on him but I knew he would never notice me so I had to kill whatever crush was trying to grow. I have been so distracted to even notice that Nicki was gone, she left my side, how sad, I begin to search for Nicki as she is the one who invited me here and she's literally the only one I can talk to here. Now I'm beginning to wish I had a social life, I really need to create one.

I find Nicki but she's on a table with some other people, she has always been the social one between us and having a lot of friends, they are playing the game of truth or dare, I wonder how they even enjoy playing that. As I move closer I think Nicki is dared to kiss this guy cause she crosses the table and kiss him, how disgusting! I roll my eyes talking about a new guy now and ripping off the lips of another 5 minutes later. I'm bored so i walk away from there before she notices my presence.

I'm back with the bartender, she is cute and even nice, I don't know if she is nice for real but she offers me a drink which I willingly take. I sit across her and she asks with concern if there's anything she can help me with and I shake my head. She begins to flirt with some random guy before a lady pulls him away with her, she smiles at me which I smile back and before I can leave she's already engaging me in a conversation. She's telling me why she got the job as a bartender and how well it pays and help her to take care of bills...I'm not even interested in what she's saying anymore so I just keep drinking shots after shots until she asks for my opinion in what she was saying. Oops! Yeah! I would do the same thing I say and she shakes her head in disappointment before leaving my side so I begin to search for Nicki again.

Searching room after rooms but Nicki is no where to be found so I decide on going outside to receive a little air. I keep walking until I get to the point our car was parked but it isn't there anymore. I look at the time on my phone and it's 12:22am Nicki isn't here anymore which means I don't have a ride back home and mum had asked not to stay out too late, she would probably be worried about my whereabouts. I quick dial Nicki's number but it goes directly to voicemail and at this point I know I'm stranded. Just then I receive a call from a strange number.

Hey! where are you? I've been searching for you the whole time Nicki says in the speaker, frustrated I ask her where she is and that I'm at the spot where she parked.

Turns out I'm not there because she tells me that she is there and can't find me so I decide to make a turn back to the party house and ask her to meet me there. The road back seems longer than it was but I make it there anyways.

Nicki scolds me for wondering off again but I'm too tired to listen to her besides if she had not left my side to join that game, I won't be lost. I can see the car from here so i walk past her and move towards the car while Nicki follows behind me.