12. Bottoms Up For The First Time

Laney....

The noise brought us back to reality from the fantasy we were in. We heard the voice even before we saw her.

"OH MY GOD! Did you both............ really just.......kiss?" My eyes landed on Alissa who was standing at the far end of the shelf with her mouth hanging open. Her eyes were darting back and forth from me to David in confusion but the excitement in her eyes was unmistakable. This was only the start, I'm sure, she has tons of questions running around in that small brain of hers.

I felt more hot than I felt a minute before, probably, because of the raising embarrassment. I was trying to breath properly as I felt my breathing get uneven. My heart was thundering loudly inside my rib. I thought to myself whether everyone felt this way after there first kiss. I can feel myself turning red by the rising temperature of my body. And was very sure, I would be looking like a tomato by now.

As I was controlling my uneven breath, I felt David stand and leave without a word. I opened my eyes to stop him but he was gone even before I opened them. As if, the kiss we shared meant nothing to him. Or am I over-reacting and putting too much meaning into it.

God! Just kill me already. It's so embarrassing. I want to deny everything but my heart is too excited to deny a thing. Denying won't even work, even if I tried, as Alissa had become the prime witness to it.

"What? Did he just leave without a word? Wow! What a jerk." I jumped at her sudden outburst and could feel my heart thundering loudly in fear. she was fuming in anger and was ready to rip apart whoever dared to cross her path.

shouldn't I be the one, fuming like her? I wanted to but was not able to.

"Tell something." She said irritated and confused at my quite response which made me jump again.

"Can you please, stop shouting out of the blue and scaring me to death? I can hear alright. You can speak normally instead of shouting and scaring me." She was looking at me as if awestruck by my response.

"What? Why are you looking at me like that?" I asked even though I knew the answer to it.

"Don't you have anything to say? He just left like that without even a goodbye to you." I wasn't sure of what has gotten into her but was sure, she was probably going through a menopause.

I sighed and replied with a bored expression "So what? Do I have to cry and make a scene here?"

"SO WHAT?" She thundered after me which made me cower back in fear. Is she possessed by some ghost girl who was rejected as badly as I was? I wanted to calm her down so I added "It was not that big of a deal I can't handle."

"OH REALLY!" She thundered again making me shiver in fear and turned back. Don't know if to calm herself down or to find something to break my head. But I hoped for the first one desperately.

To my surprise, she laughed out loudly. And as her laughter began to grow louder, I became sure of my thoughts earlier of her being possessed. But her next words were not the one a possessed one would say.

"You are so funny sometimes, Laney. I can't believe, you took it seriously that means I'm not that bad of an actor and would do good in that field, don't you think?" And this time, my mouth was the one hanging open in shock of what she had pulled off.

"You know what I think-"

"What?" She said smiling big as if I was going to give her an award for her acting.

"I think, you need a good kick on that taut ass of yours, you bitch, you literally scared me to death. At some point, I thought you were possessed or something." I said in horror.

"What??? I can't believe." She asked and started laughing more loudly. "Oh my god! I can't believe this. Really?"

I looked at her in bewilderment.

"Really! You thought I was possessed." She said in between of her laugh.

"Shut up. Do you think, it's funny to scare someone like this when they are in their most embarassing moment, huh?"

She shut herself up at my harsh barking but started again and this time she was banging her fist at shelf behind her in excitement.

She was so busy laughing her ass out that she didn't hear a loud scream of the librarian "who's there, laughing as if they are in some movie theater or something? Just let me get hold of you and then you will see!" Who was approaching us with a quicker pace. I took hold of her and dashed out of there even before the librarian can get hold of us. I could still hear her faint screams "Run! Run as fast as you can and mark my words, if I ever catch you, I would surely get you expelled for breaking rules.

This time, Alissa heard it clearly and asked "what happened? What made her charge on us like bull?"

"Really! You are asking me. Why didn't you laughed more loudly and let the Dean come himself to award us." I can't believe that she looked happy.

"Really? You should've said so before I would've done it happily."

"Are you crazy? We were about to be expelled and you are acting cool. Have you gone nuts?"

"Oh come on. It's not that easy to get expelled and there are tons of students like us who break dozens of rules in a day. So chill!"

"Oh yay, I forgot, you are Dean's daughter-in-law, aren't you? So, he's gonna spare you, right?"

"Well, no. But if he has a son who is more hot than today's weather, I can consider it." She said with a wink.

I sighed "Well, I don't doubt it."

"Good if you don't. By the way, are you okay?" She said and looked at me with sorry expression and continued "You know - about him, leaving abruptly and all..."

I wanted to say I'm not but I said "I'm cool" with a flattering smile.

"Well, why don't we go and get wasted? And I know just the right place for it." She cahnged the suject instantly in hopes of not upsetting me any further and looked at me with her expectant eyes. But she frowned as she saw I was ready to ditch her.

"Look, the weather is pretty awesome to get drunk, don't you think, huh?" She said with a huge smile when my silence and ignorance became unbearable for her.

"As if, it is." I just wanted to go and lay down on my bed for sleep to come and take me away. Nothing she said made me feel the excitement she wanted me to feel.

"Come on, Laney. Don't be a moron ." She dragged me out and to her car which was just out of our dorm entrance.

"Where are we going at this late? You know, I need my beauty sleep."

"Uh-huh, not before getting wasted and I know just the right place to lose ourselves."

She started the car and drove out of the driveway with a loud cheer "Here we come to get wasted."

It was a half an hour drive from our university campus. We made inside the shabby looking building which seemed to have seen good days as soon as Alissa had parked her car.

It had a bright hording outside but the lights inside were dimmed-out. It took me minutes to be able to see in the dark. And as we neared the main entrance to the club, I could hear the music which was blasting inside and the cheers of gathered people. The place was dark except the neon lights which were set on the stage and above the bar at far corner. The place was spacious enough but it was too crowded to make out the space.

Alissa dragged me to the bar. It was long with high chairs set to it. She asked me something which I was unable to hear over the music. So, she scooted near me and wisphered shout in my ears "Vodka or Tequila?"

It was my first time coming to a place like this. I have neither been to such places before nor drunk in my life so far. I was bit confused and ashamed to say the truth so, I just went with the drink, I have heard before from Luke. I still remember, he always prefered vodka.

"Vodka!" I said in fearful voice of what was about to happen. I knew, I should tell her that it's my first time in here and goes same for the drink. But somehow, I held myself back from revealing it.

As our drinks were served, Alissa thanked the blond guy behind the bar who was eyeing her with lust with a wink of an eye. I gasped in horror. I would have ran for the hills if someone eyed me that way.

But to my horror, the blond guy winked back with a wicked smile. I took hold of her and dragged her away from the bar. She didn't resist but kept swaying with the beats of music.

"What were doing there? You literally, send him an invitation which he was very ready to accept."

"Come on, it's not that big of a deal. He would be behind that bar till 4 in the morning and we would be gone by then." I sighed in relief "He looks hot you know. I flirted with him just for fun, no harm - you see, right?"

I shook my head in disbelief. But I had no time to dwell on it as she dragged me to the stage and swayed with the beats. I was shy at first but the drink probably loosened me up a bit. It was hard to drink after a sip made me chock and cough constantly, I felt like my throat was on fire. But after few more sips, I got used to the burning sensation which Alissa said was the fun part in drinking.

The songs kept changing with changing pace. We were jumping and swaying with the beats. We had already drunk enough tobe drunk. But we kept on drinking. As the drinks kicked in we were not ourselves. We were shouting at the top of our lungs and bumped into others while dancing.

As we lost our strength to dance anymore, we took seat at the far end of the bar and kept drinking. At some point, we started to compete each other of who would drink more among the two of us.

"I won again." Alissa said in slurred voice.

"It's unfair. Why do I always have to lose?"

"Come on don't be a jerk now, losing is a part of life." She said, this time her words were barely understandable but I understood and cursed her under my breath.

"Bitch!"

"Who? Me? No, it's you. You are a bitch." She said as she ordered more drinks.

"Let's lose everything together and be losers for life." She said in a sing-song voice.

I, too, started to hum it with her. I was too tired to keep my eyes open anymore. I felt myself being sleepy. I tried to keep myself awake but lost it against my sleepy self. As my eyes closed against my will, I could hear Alissa sing the made up song with the same enthusiasm as before which worked more like a lullaby and made me go to sleep as fast as I had thought. The last thing, I heard before the sleep took me away was her soft humings.

Without any worries of tomorrow, I fell asleep........................

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Author's Note

Drinking for the first time!

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J. Sammy