It’s funny how you can get caught up in a silly little game. But I did. It was a typical Friday night for me, reading one of my many books, but it all changed when Jess came over and asked if I wanted to go to a party with her.
“Oh, it’s only a couple of people from school. You know all of them,” Jess said as she checked her make-up in the mirror. She grabbed my mascara out of my drawer and started reapplying. Her concern over what everyone thought about her dominated her life.
“Yeah, I may know them, but I don’t talk to them,” I said from my bed, my book by my side, ready at a moment’s notice to come back up for my eyes to read the next paragraph.
“Oh, c’mon. It’s not like you’re going to die if you come,” Jess plopped herself down onto my bed, causing me to jump a bit. She started fingering one of my pillows, then laid her head down.
“You know I don’t go to those things.” I pointed my finger at her.
She grabbed it, “Yeah, but I’m going to change that.”
I sighed, “You’re not going to give up are you?”
“Nope.”
“Fine, let me get changed and I’ll go,” I said as I swung my feet over the side of my bed. When my feet hit the carpet, I scrunched them, loving the feel beneath my toes.
“Oh! Let me do your outfit!” Jess scrambled to my closet and started tossing clothes at me. “There put those on.”
“Geez. Hang on a second.” I picked up the shirt and looked at it, then at her. “Seriously?”
“Yes, it’s fine. Now put it on, we’re going to be late.” Jess tapped her foot impatiently, trying to get me to move faster.
“Okay, okay. I’ll be right back,” I said as I slipped out of the room.
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“Here we are!” Jess said as we pulled up outside one of the more expensive houses in town.
I moaned, regretting my agreement to this already.
I followed her up to the front door, where she rang the bell and waited for someone to open the door.
“Hey!” Shayla said as she opened the door, “I was wondering where you were.”
Jess gave Shayla an air kiss and stepped through the threshold. Then Shayla turned to me, “Hey, Alex. Didn’t expect to see you here.”
“Me either,” I grumbled and stepped through the door.
Just a few people to me would mean about 10 to 15, but apparently it meant 30 to 40. The amount of people in this house was not massive, but it did make it a bit harder to move around. I had already lost Jess in the crowd of people and had beer sliding down my back, from somebody who was already drunk.
I found a spot on a couch in the sitting room open and took a seat. I wished I had thought to bring my book with me.
“Hey, Alex. Come join the fun!” I heard a familiar voice say from my right. I looked over and saw a group of people standing around a small table. Of course I didn’t want to join, but if I didn’t I wouldn’t hear the end of it at school, so I got up and walked over to them.
“So, what’re you guys playing?” I asked, spying the empty beer bottle in the middle of the table.
“What does it look like?” Tony asked.
“Spin the bottle,” I replied.
“Wrong, it’s 7 minutes in heaven!” Stephanie said.
I rolled my eyes, not caring about this at all. “So, whose turn is it?”
“Well, we need to decide that. And since you’re the new player, you get to spin!” Tony said as he pushed the bottle towards me.
“Really? Oh, well that’s very kind of you.” I gave him a glare, the sarcasm dripping from my voice.
But I took the bottle anyway, and gave it a little spin. It slowed down to a stop and landed to my left. Everybody started whooping and hollering and I realized I hadn’t even looked to see who I had landed on. I raised my eyes and met the gaze of Derek Collins. The one guy I had had a secret crush on for the past two months.
“What are you guys waiting for? Get going!” Tony said as he grabbed our arms and took us over to the closet. He shoved us in and closed the door, and I could hear him wedge a chair under the knob, to prevent us from coming out any sooner.
I then realized that I was chest to chest with Derek. I quickly backed away, only to find that there was only room to go back, deeper into the closet. I laughed nervously and said, “Uh, do you want to turn on the light?”
“Oh, sure.” It was the first thing he had said since I had walked up to the table. Hearing his voice was torture for me.
He found the switch and flipped it on. With the light I could see that it was a very deep closet. Perfect. I thought, What do they expect us to do? Have sex?
I looked back up at Derek and saw him looking at me, “It’s Alex, isn’t it?”
“Yeah, well Alexandria, but I prefer Alex,” I said. I had started moving towards the back of the closet, slowly but surely.
“Are you scared of me or something?” Derek said.
“What?” I was almost to the back now, just a few more feet…
Derek motioned with his hand, “You’re at the back of the closet, all the way over there.”
“Oh, I, um… We’re not going to do anything, are we?” I could feel myself start to panic, my pulse started to beat faster, and I could hear myself breathing.
“Not if you don’t want to,” Derek said walking a couple of steps towards me and then leaning against the wall.
“I don’t want to,” I blurted out. “It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s just that it’s a game. And when we come out everyone will start spreading shit or something like that.”
“Not always.” Derek paused for a second. “So, if it’s not because you don’t want to…and it’s only because of what the others will say…”
He left the sentence hang in the air between us, by now my heart rate was racing. Could this really be happening?
Derek had taken a few more steps; there was only a three foot distance between us now. He reached his hand out, and I flinched, but he just redirected his hand to the wall. He was leaning over me now, his face a few inches from mine.
I tried to make myself as small as possible; this was going beyond my limits. You shouldn’t have joined the stupid game! I yelled at myself.
I could feel his breath on my face, the moisture combining with the sweat that had started to form there. “What are you doing?”
“Well, you just said that you wouldn’t mind if nobody would say anything.” Derek smiled a little. “We’ll just make it look like we didn’t do anything.”
I stared into his eyes now, the murky depths there pulled me in. Before I knew it, his lips were on mine and his hand was now traveling up my arm. Then, before I could tell myself to stop, I let myself fall into the bliss of his kiss.
My hands had minds of their own, coming up to rest on his chest and traveling up to his shoulders. My back was flat against the wall, and Derek’s body was so close that I could feel the heat from his body.
His hand had come to the nape of my neck, then, slowly started to move down. I realized what was happening and opened my eyes, my hands flew off of his shoulders and I pushed him away with a force that I didn’t know I possessed.
I heard the chair being removed from the door and I ran to it, just wanting to get away from Derek.
“Hey, Alex. How’d it go in there?” I heard Jess say. She was sitting on the couch that I had vacated earlier, but she was in the lap of one of the guys in my English class. She had a beer in her hand, while the other was draped around the guy’s neck.
“Jess, we need to go,” I said. I strode over to her and grabbed her arm, yanking her up off the guy.
“Hey!” Jess said. “Watch it!”
Too late I had thought of the beer in her hand, most of it was now on us, coating us in the sticky liquid.
“Oh, who cares?” I pulled her along behind me as I made my way to the door.
I barely made it out before Jess pulled out of my grip. I turned and took the keys out of her pocket and unlocked the door to her car. I opened the passenger side door, “Get in.”
“Fine. What happened?” Jess flopped into the seat and folded her arms.
I went around to the driver’s side and got in. I started the car and turned to her, “I just got caught in a stupid game.” I said as I put the car in drive.
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