C1 The House Party

Beverly

College parties are so much more fun than high schools' are but after two months of these parties, I've had my fill, which is why I am sitting here in a corner holding my phone with one hand and clutching this Jack and Coke with the other hand. I have been nursing this drink for almost an hour. Katy Perry's voice blared from the speakers and looking around I can see that the night is just getting started there are people in the pool outside and in here some are playing all sorts of drinking games and the rest are coupled up dancing so intimately they are practically fucking on the dance floor. A couple is sitting beside me feasting on each other's mouth and moaning loudly, I rolled my eyes, maybe they don't know there is a place meant for that called a Room.

My roommate and bestie Ari is nowhere to be found, it is thanks to her that I'm at this party and with Austin refusing to come with me I am here alone. It's not like I am a loser with no friends. I just usually prefer my own company if you know what I mean. Ari and Austin are more than enough friends right now, without those two my social life is practically nonexistent. Austin is my boyfriend, we have been dating since I was fourteen years old. I chose the same college as him because I don't want to be separated from him. He is my best friend and we love each other so much, fate was on our side since we got accepted to the same college. Ari on the other hand I met on my first day on campus. She is the yin to my yang, she is like a sister and we have been inseparable even though my lifestyle is quite different from hers but in some weird way, we complement each other. She dragged me to this party tonight as she has done many other nights before. If I didn't follow her I would be at home alone with her monster cat, probably reading and sharing a tuna with Pokemon.

I looked up and saw Ari sashaying towards me with a gloomy look like someone had killed her cat, not that I wouldn't do anything to kill the cat myself. The little monster hates me, Pokemon loves to scratch and hiss at me, I don't know the cat's deal, so yes I might be happy if someone murders him but if it would make Ari look like she looked right now I might have a change of heart.

“What's up girl? Is the guy that bad at finding your G-spot?” I teased her and when she didn't smile as she'd normally do, I knew something was wrong with my friend. She left me to hang out with some hot football jock earlier. “Talk to me Ari, what is going on with you?”

"I can't tell you because you wouldn't believe me." She finally said, her voice didn't have the usual life it always carries.

"You're my best friend and you know I will always believe you, if you can't tell me what is bothering you, who will you tell?" I pulled her closer, "it's not like you have another bestie somewhere else and we both know you don't have a boyfriend, or do you have a great guy like Austin you haven't told me about? When I mentioned Austin her face fell.

"Look B, I don't want to be responsible for breaking your heart or be the bearer of bad news but then again I won't forgive myself if I don't tell you."

At this point, I'm starting to get frustrated. "Ari you left here with that gorgeous guy and came back here looking like your mother walked in on you while you were having sex, now you are telling me you don't want to break my heart." I am getting confused, what could it be that Ari feels like telling me but thinks telling me will break my heart. I still talked to my parents before we arrived at this party so nothing could have happened to them, right? "Arielle Mary Bolton, tell me whatever it is or I'm unfriending you and moving out of the house." We both know it was a meaningless threat, we would always be friends even though I might kill her someday out of frustration or she might kill me first but whatever.

"Beverly I can't tell you, but I guess I could show you what that bastard is doing." She suddenly stood up and headed towards the direction she came from earlier, she looked back and beckoned on me to follow her, because I was still seated looking at her confused. Who was she referring to as a bastard? I thought curiously and followed her to the back of the house where the party was being held.

The pool was crowded, it seems the people out here are more than those inside the house, still following Ari then suddenly I stopped in my tracks, I couldn't make my legs work even if I wanted to, I saw Austin with a girl with boobs that looked four times bigger than mine, they were kissing and were all over each other. Tears began to fall freely from my eyes and Ari came to my side to hold me, it was at that point the subject of my tears took notice of me. He wasn't remorseful and the girl with him started laughing, Ari left me and went to pull the girl's hair.

"You little slut!" She yelled, "You knew they were together, was this your plan all along". Austin was pulling Ari away from the girl I now know was Camille. Camille was one of those girls that are a total bitch to everyone except those they think they can use, she has always been coming at me and Ari since we shared a class. Her sorority sisters were gathering and it was about to become a big scene. I was still numb and Austin was not looking at me. I looked at him and he seemed to be enjoying all the drama unfolding. He smirked at me, I wish I could slap it away from his face for making me an object of ridicule. Almost half of the school is at this party, I will be referred to as the girl who her boyfriend cheated on. I hate this.

I finally got control over my legs, so I pulled Ari away from pulling all of Camille's blonde hair out.

" Ari, that's enough, let's go home."

"How can you just let that bastard and slut get away with this."

"You know I hate attention and Austin would never hurt me like that, he knew I was going to be here tonight, so he must have come looking for me."

Ari scoffed, "of course in Camille's pants, I am sure he found you there."

"You have never liked him. I am sure he has a reasonable explanation as to what he was doing with Camille."

"And there is a valid reason why I don't like him. I can't believe you're making excuses for him. I don't see him running after you to give you that explanation you want, he just doesn't care about you, the sooner you see that the better."

"You don't know him as I do, I lost my virginity to him, I have known him since we were kids, I started dating him when I was fourteen. College and the new environment are just getting to him, I am sure he will come around because this is not the Austin I know." You will see, I added not for my friend's sake but more to reassure myself.

"That guy is bad news and you deserve better, but whatever you decide to do I will support you," she said, hugging me. "Oh, and next time I see that bitch Camille I am beating her like I should have tonight, if not that they were all pulling me I could've removed one of her teeth."

"Don't fight anyone on my account Ari"

"I am doing it for me, she got me wet tonight, she is lucky my dress is not torn and for every other time she has been a bad girl, I need to teach her the lessons her mother forgot to teach her."

Somehow I managed to smile, Ari is God's sent, I wonder how I would've managed without her. Holding each other, we walked into our apartment.