Chapter 51: Afterparty

[Edward POV]

'The reason I am joining the party in the middle of the ocean is quite simple.'

'An escape…I wanted to escape from my life and just steer clear from any work or troublesome matters and just bask in the concert's sense of fulfilment right now.'

'I want to let loose, and I don't want to be treated as a 14 years old boy over there.'

'I just need one day to live my adult life once more…the kind of life that was the norm for me before I was put into this child's body.'

'I had been living as Edward Newgate for 26 days now. I just want to feel as Edward Franzetti for one.'

Well, that was the kind of internal struggle I had before I decided to go to the afterparty. Right now, the concert aftermath was spreading quickly and I knew that my life would change completely after this.

Paparazzi, obsessive fans, special treatment and future expectations, all of it would come raining down on my current life, completely changing it.

'At the very least, I hope that my friends won't change the way they treat me and continue as if nothing had changed. I….sincerely hope for that.'

[3rd Party POV]

"That man is a god." Jacob murmured as he was reminded of Edward flirting with Taylor on top of the stage in front of a crowd of 5000 people.

"What god?" Elsa asked as Jacob was suddenly talking to himself as they were driven home by Mr. Green. The trio was sitting in the same position as before, with Elsa in the middle, Jacob behind the passenger seat, and Jenna behind the driver seat.

"N-Nothing. What are you girls going to do now?" Jacob asked to change the subject.

"Hey! Call him!" Jenna demanded after being quiet for a while.

"What- Why? He must be tired after the performance. Didn't we already call him to congratulate him before?"

Before they left, they had called Edward and talked to him for a minute before Edward said he was already on the way home.

"Yeah. But he said he's going to the afterparty right? Do you know what happens there? It will be a full-blown sex party!" Jenna said with a raised voice. Jacob couldn't help but become nervous and looked at the front of the car. Luckily his mom was taking a nap as she was too tired from the concert.

"Phew!" Jacob breathed in relief before saying to Jenna, "It's Edward. Do you really think he will do degenerate things?"

"He was in a relationship before. Now, he's single! Who knows what he will do now!?" Jenna asked in desperation as she couldn't help but imagine the mingling of bodies on top of the ship – just like the scene she saw once in her house after sneaking back when her mom sent her away to play while she had some people over.

Elsa patted Jenna's shoulder and comforted her, "It's okay. It's okay."

"Do you want to sleep at my house tonight?" Elsa added as she knew Jenna was hesitant to go home whenever her mother was working. Jenna nodded and said meekly, "Okay."

In Mitch and Cam's car, Haley and Tara were hesitant to tell Abby what had happened on the stage before this.

Mitchell interjected their conversation and said, "Just tell her. It'll be better for her to know that so that it can be easier for her to move on."

"But Uncle Mitch…we don't want her to move on!" Haley said in a begging tone,

"Haley, You can't force love. Edward and Taylor clearly have something going on in between them. As a good friend, you need to support him." Cam interjected.

"Uncle CAM! THAT'S A CRIME!" Haley said in exasperation.

[Edward POV]

As I walked along the crowd in the party, I noticed that Taylor and a lot of the other participants in the party had gone to sleep while only some sporadic guests were partying at the ship's deck.

Well, I thought she was asleep. She was actually sitting inside her room, rewatching the Youtube video of the performance a few times while working on the melody for 'You belong with me' song.

In less than 3 hours, the video of our performance had hit 500k views, and it would be the fastest video to ever reach 1 Million in Youtube in 2009. Taylor didn't know why, the more she watched the performance, the easier it was for her to create the melody that she had been stuck on for almost a year now.

"Hey, Romeo is here! Juliet is sleeping though!" Kaya muttered with her cheeks flushed. She walked staggeringly towards me before clinging on to my body just to stand up properly on top of the deck.

As we were having a boat party, she was only wearing a golden coloured bikini and short pants like the rest of the dancers. Some even decided to walk around topless on top of the deck.

"You're drunk." I said with a scrunched eyebrows.

"Noo… I'm nooot~" Kaya replied with slurred speech. I saw some of the studio execs laughing as they offered alcohol to the underage dancers and were touching them inappropriately as they danced with the drunk dancers.

Although this type of behavior was normal in Hollywood, for me personally – to mislead the dancers with promises of fame and reputation by casting them in movies or music videos was a disgusting behavior.

"Why don't you rest in my room first till you sober up?" I said to Kaya before leading her away from the slimeball studio execs.

"No. He said he'll make me an Ironette..You know…for the Iron Man movies…" Kaya tried to resist but she was too drunk to even walk properly. I walked her to my room and slammed her down on the bed.

"Uhh…soo rough? Is this how you like it, Ed?" Kaya muttered before I said, "Go to sleep."

As I turned my back to her, she suddenly clinged onto me and said, "Wait …don't you want to do it with me?"

I turned back facing her and pushed her forehead slightly with my finger. Her body fell easily on the bed, and she crossed her legs while biting her lower lips.

"Be rougher…I won't mind-"

"Go to sleep. I'mma get Anna too. You girls are too drunk, and something bad is going to happen to you tonight if you continue dancing with those greaseballs."

"Hey!" Kaya tried to protest, but I had already walked out of the room and turned off the lights. When I walked in after getting Anna who was surrounded by 3 middle aged men and was already tricked by those men to take her top off, Kaya was snoring loudly in the room as she was too tired from the concert before this.

"Sleep here for tonight." I said to Anna before throwing her on the bed too. As she was barely conscious, she automatically wrapped her legs around Kaya and sucked on her neck as she laid down.

I didn't want to wait and see what was going to happen to them, therefore I walked out of the room and joined the party. There weren't any underage or immature girls on top of the deck now, so I just let the execs do their hunting while I talked to some of them.

"Wait. You're working with Sarah Finn?" I asked the Asian female assistant casting director that I was talking to.

"Y-Yeah. But not that guy though. He's only tricking the girls, therefore I already reported him to Sarah, and he is fired now. He just doesn't know it yet."

"Ahh I see. Do you want me to get the crew and lock him up in the mini jail we have?" I asked teasingly.

The 29 year old girl with a thick glasses frame on her face and a sweater instead of a bikini chuckled before she said, "Are you the big boss here? I thought this was your dad's ship."

"I'm the grand boss. My dad is the big boss." I joked. She thought that I was just a teenager cracking some jokes therefore she laughed and accidentally snorted. She became very embarrassed after that and covered her mouth quickly.

"Sorry." She apologized.

"No need. I thought that it was cute." I said.

"You're very smooth Mr Newgate-"

"Please, just call me Ed. Mr Newgate is my father."

"Ahh. Okay. Ed… Please don't grow up to be a player or a greaseball okay?"

I laughed and said, "Okay."

As we talked for a while, I found out that the Iron Man 2 movie was in the initial stage of production right now and the Ironette dancers casting was indeed true, but the dancers would need to properly audition for the part.

The only reason she was there right now was because Taylor's agency dancers had a lot of prestige in the industry therefore they were trying to scout some potential actresses/dancers for the Ironette part.

"Do you want to hear the plot for the movie?" Linn said in a teasing tone as she already had too much to drink. "I won't tell you~"

"Want to make a bet?" I said with a sly smirk.

"What bet?" Linn asked, intrigued.

"If I guessed the plot of the story, then you will recommend and help my friends throughout the whole audition process."

"And if you fail?"

"What do you want if I fail?"

She pointed at me and said with a sly smile, "You're going to be one of the background actors."

"Deal." I said and we shook hands to finalize the bet.

"Let me start by guessing the main villains first." I said and pretended to think about it. "Ivan Vanko, or Justin Hammer…or maybe both…" I muttered. Linn widened her eyes and accidentally gripped the cup hard, spilling most of her drinks as the plastic cup was crushed.

"W-W-Who told you that?"

Shrugging my shoulders, I said, "I'm just guessing. But from your reaction, I guess I was correct."

Sobering up quickly, Linn said, "You still need to guess the plot."

"Let me see…So…Tony will be dying…"

Linn staggered and needed to hold on to the railing just to keep herself standing up despite her shock.

"And SHIELD will try to save him because his dad was a founder and former director of SHIELD. Maybe Nick Fury will place Natasha Romanoff inside his company to get closer to him…"

Linn shut my mouth with her palm before looking left and right to make sure no one else heard about the plot. "Y-You! How do you know the plot?!!"

"Mmmph…mphh.." I mumbled.

"What?" she asked in confusion.

Removing her hand, I said, "How was I supposed to answer when you were keeping my mouth shut like that?"

"Ah..Sorry."

"Like I said…I was just guessing."

After a few more shocks, Linn finally realized that she had lost the deal and reassured me that she would honor her part of the deal.

It was almost 2 am, and there were less than 5 people ;eft on deck right now. Whether they were sleeping alone or 'sleeping' together with the execs, the party was almost dead right now from the lack of people.

I however was not feeling tired thanks to the nap I had already taken before coming here, I walked around the ship till I entered the captain's place.

"Hey, You're Eddy right?" Dwayne asked as I walked to the yacht bridge with a red-coloured plastic cup in my hand.

"Yup-"

Before I could finish answering, he snatched the cup from my hand and smelled it hurriedly.

"Ah, orange juice." He muttered in relief after he realized there wasn't any alcohol inside the cup. "Good choice."

"Of course. We're not serving drinks here at this party, right?" I smirked as I heard that.

"Well…we do… Just not to you…" Dwayne replied hesitatingly.

As Taylor was still under 21 years old, the business's model didn't allow the ship's crew to serve the participants of the party without looking at their ID first.

However, we also allowed the party people to bring their own drinks to the boat in order to circumvent that very same rule. That way, we wouldn't lose our alcohol distribution license if we'd accidentally served a minor in the bar.

"Don't worry Dwayne. I am the one who set up those rules. And I won't be the one to break them." I said as I had a nice conversation with Dwayne 'The Boulder' Johnson. The Boulder was his old nickname in the navy.

It was almost 3 am when I finally saw Taylor walking out of her room to join the party. As the dancers had gotten their rest, a lot of them had already joined the party, making the environment lively once more.

"I guess I need to go mingle now. Good luck Johnson." I waved to Dwayne before walking out of the cabin room.

"Please don't drink too much. I still need to answer your dad after this." Dwayne begged me as I exited the door.

Chuckling a little, I said, "Okay. I will make sure to be sober before we get back to the port."

"That's my boy!" Dwayne smiled and waved me off to have fun.

As I walked on the deck, I saw Taylor looking around as if she was searching for something. She was wearing a short skirt –a one piece, white dress that gently swayed in the windy ocean and her cheeks were a bit red from the cold wind.

"Hey!" I called out to her from afar.

"Where is- Ahh!" Taylor noticed me from my shout and ran toward me hurriedly before she hugged me.

"Oof-!" All of the air inside my lungs was forcefully pushed out as she tackled me.

"I DID IT!" Taylor released me and said in excitement.

"Did what?" I asked perfunctorily as I rubbed my sore ribs.

"I finally finished the melody for You Belong with ME!" She announced loudly, causing the crowd over there to give her a round of applause. She finally realized that we were in the middle of a party and thanked the people there for their support before dragging me into her cabin to have a private talk.

Her cabin was the biggest cabin one in the ship where there was a king size bed in the middle of the room. The luxurious suite had its own kitchen and fully stacked booze compartment. As Taylor was underage, the booze compartment was emptied, but she did bring her own liquor.

"Tequila?" She offered me playfully. "Just Kidding-"

"Yes Please." I took the offer before she could change her mind.

"Wait…You drink?" Taylor was baffled by the sudden development as I picked up two shot glasses, some lime and salt packet, before sitting next to her on the edge of the bed.

"Sometimes. Yeah." I replied ambiguously before taking off the tequila bottle cap.

After 30 minutes…

While giggling, Taylor said, "Okay, this time. You're going to lick the sugar from my neck…" She sprinkled some salt on her slender neck, "...do the shot…and then get the lime…"

We had already done 5 shots and her initial inhibition for drinking had disappeared.

"Okay~!" I said gleefully and licked the salt from her neck. "Uhn~" Taylor moaned before she patted me to stop and said, "Shot…and then lime."

"Ah…okay." I said and took the shot. I looked around and found out that the lime was gone.

"Where is it?" I asked hurriedly.

"Here." Taylor said and showed the lime inside her mouth. I laughed and stuck my tongue into her mouth before it turned into a full blown make out session.

Before we turned the session into something a little more fun, Taylor said, "I'm going on a 9 month to a year tour after this. So this will be just a one time thing."

"Sure. It will just be a drunken mistake for us. Not to mention the kerfuffle you would get into if this actually got out." I said.

"...I don't know why, but that sounds really hot."

…

After Taylor and I spend some time together, I returned to my room after avoiding Dwayne and the rest of the party people so as to not create any scandals.

"She's ferocious." I murmured as I entered my room. Kaya and Anna were still sleeping on my bed, therefore I just took a blanket and a pillow before sleeping on the floor.

The clock struck 12 pm. I was alone in my small cabin room when I suddenly heard a small knock on the door.

"Who is it?" I asked groggily as I raised my head from the pillow. I was sleeping face down on top of the twin-sized bed and parts of my hair were sticking out as if I was licked by a cow.

"It's Kaya. Get up. Let's go get lunch."

I stood up slowly and changed my clothes without making a sound and without realizing that Kaya had opened the door to wake me up.

"Hmmm…" She exclaimed with lustful eyes as she got a peek behind the curtain.

"Perv." I muttered when I noticed she was watching me and walked out to the buffet together with the dancer. I dined with Kaya and Anna while sharing stolen glances at Taylor during the meal.

"Hey, there is something I need to ask." A movie studio exec walked to me with an offer for the song 'Two is better than one'.

"Twilight movie?" I muttered as I heard the details.

"Yes. The director listened to the song, and wanted to use it as the movie OST." The not so important exec said.

"Hmm…" I thought for a while before saying, "Okay. I have no problem with it, just run the offer by Pepper. I will talk to Taylor about it."

It was a good opportunity to get some publicity for the song. Even though I abhorred Twilight, it doesn't mean that the movie was terrible.

With a humongous fan base for romantic genres all over the world, turning the duet into an OST would help me increase my reputation as an artist. Something that would be a great help for my aim to become a studio artist in the future, I need to work hard to cement my image into the people's mind and hearts before getting out of the public eye.

The party moved faster than I expected it to be. At 4 pm, the boat was finally turning back to get home. The expected time of arrival to the Marina was 8 pm therefore we had 4 more hours to party.

That was when the people here really went crazy. Motorboating the girls chest, doing shots, dry humping in public before they walked to the corner and just went to town on each other, some people even used MDMA to party, and a lot more stuff a kid shouldn't see.

"Okay. You're done." Dwayne picked up the back of my neck like a kitten…metaphorically…although I know he could do that and pulled me into somewhere I would be safe from the hedonistic activity currently going on in front of me.

He threw me in my room before warning me, "Don't come out. You've partied enough already. Just rest before we arrive home."

"Okie~" I said as I pretended to be obedient and laid down on the bed. Dwayne showed a fatherly smile before saying, "Good boy. For that, I won't report to your dad the fact that you have obviously been drinking."

"You're a good friend." I said to Dwayne before he walked back to the ship's bridge, feeling content as I took his words seriously.

The minute that he had disappeared from the hallway, I sneaked out quietly to rejoin the party before I saw Taylor walking sneakily to where I was. Without talking much, she pulled me by my hand to get to her room and shut the door. Of course, she remembered to lock it this time and put a do not disturb sign on the doorknob.

[3rd Person POV]

At 8 pm, the ship arrived at the port and the passengers started to get off the ship. Claire walked into the ship and knocked on Taylor's door.

"Miss Taylor. Are you there?" Claire asked.

"Uhn~..I'm…here…" Taylor replied. The moaning from inside the room caused Claire to take a step back before she braced herself and said, "Can we get a picture of you in front of the ship before you go home?"

"OH GOD!" Taylor accidentally let out a moan from behind the closed door before she replied, "Yes…Yes I will…Please wait in front of the ship…I will be going there soon."

"Oh…Okay." Claire was flabbergasted when she realized that the young teenage popstar was doing someone inside her room. To give her some privacy and avoid the scandal, she cleared out all of the other rooms and left the star alone without any disturbance for her to complete what…or more accurately 'who' she was doing.

"Hopefully she will rate our service 5 stars after this." Claire mumbled to herself as she continued to provide the after care for the guests. The drunk guest would be escorted home by a member of the same sex, and the dancers also took some pictures in front of the ship to be used for promotional purposes.

As they knew it was Edward's family business, there was no one there that would not spare the effort to do something to help the prodigious artist.

After 15 minutes, Taylor finally got out of her room while walking a bit funnily.

"You bastard." She cursed the other guy walking behind her. "How did you have the strength to go at it for that many hours!"

"Well…I am still young. Besides, You enjoyed it right?" Edward muttered.

"Well…it's all your fault that I can't walk properly. Now, everyone will know that I'd fucked someone on the ship!"

"Me? You're the one who kept begging me to keep going." Edward said and grabbed her ass before they giggled and walked together to the deck.

They didn't get off together as it would create a scandal, therefore Edward waited in his room for a while before getting off and hitched a ride with one of the crew members who was getting ready for the morning shift in the marina.

"Dylan. You bought a new car?" Edward asked.

"Yup. It cost me 1000 dollars this time. The cougars gave me some money after that night, and I can afford it." Dylan said in embarrassment.

"They also gave you something else." Edward teased.

"Shut it. It's already cured!" Dylan said in agitation before they laughed together and Dylan drove Edward home.