There was more shouting from downstairs.
"That's definitely Robbie's voice. I need to go help him because he gets into bad situations," I said putting extra emphasis on the word bad.
"How bad?" Eli asked a little hesitant.
"Like finding myself waking up in Mexico with only one shoe and all my money gone, bad." Eli face formed a mixture of confusion and surprise. "He met the wrong people, made bad deals, got me involved. Long story." I gave up trying to explain and got up and went to the door, but quickly turned around. "Promise not to tell anyone about the whole Mexico thing. No one knows and Danni would never let me live it down." He lifted up his eyebrows but then just nodded when the shouting got louder.
Oh Robbie, what have you gotten yourself into.
Going downstairs I see Robbie and some senior yelling at each other. I rush to get in the middle of them. A crowd is already starting to form.
"Hey, hey, hey! What's the problem here?" I say demandingly.
"This little punk was hitting on my girl!" the senior says pointing frantically at Robbie. Robbie just holds his hands up in a "it's not my fault kind of way". I rub my face. It's going to be difficult to get out of this one.
I turn to Robbie, "Man, what were you thinking?"
"I didn't know she had a boyfriend!" he told me.
Clenching my jaw I look at the senior to see a pretty petite girl trying to calm him down, "Josh, it's okay." "It's okay," she kept repeating.
"Look, I apologize, he's the first one in his family born without a tail," I say to Josh, but that just seems to agitate him more. Guess it's not the time for jokes. Uhm okay...run maybe? No that won't work. He'd be on us fast. We're about to get screwed. And not in the good way. I start to nibble on my lip so hard it begins to bleed a little. I can taste the tang of the red liquid seeping onto my taste buds. I'm getting distracted. Focus Kadence, focus.
"Josh!" I hear someone yell from upstairs. I look up and would you look at that. Eli looking as dashing as ever. With a shirt on though. I'd be pouting right now if it weren't for the fact that a senior standing less than three feet away from me was looking to crush Robbie's bones and put them on his coco puffs.
"Josh, come on. From what I heard, it was just a misunderstanding. Let em go and I'll owe you one. 'kay," Eli says from up the stairs.
Wait. Do they know each other? Looking at Josh, I can see he's wearing a varsity jacket. Like the one Eli has from our highschool football team. Peachy.
Josh growls for a second before nodding his head to the door with a grunt. "Just get out of my party."
His party. Robbie, you hit on the girlfriend of a senior football player who's throwing this party. Good job. Really, just good job.
I push Robbie on the shoulder out the door. Danni, Jade, Nick, Eli, and Cameron trail behind us.
"Okay," I say stopping us once we're out on the lawn, "Robbie."
"Uh huh,'' he says like everything's fine.
"I don't know what makes you so dumb, but it really works."
"What are you getting mad at me for?" he asks.
"What- what am I getting mad at you for?" I say astonished he'd even ask that. Before giving him a chance to speak I answer his question, "We could've just gotten into a pretty bad fight. One we weren't going to win because you couldn't keep it in your pants."
I pause myself before getting too angry. I bite my thumb while thinking.
"I'm sorry," he says shyly. Ugh I can't stay mad at him long when he becomes all cute like that. I wanted to say I don't give a monkey's left nut that he was sorry, but I chose not to. I got out my phone and checked the time. 3:32.
"Shit," I speak while shoving my phone back into my pocket.
"What now?" Danni questions.
"It's 3:30, we've got to go now. Who knows if Mom and Dad are home yet."
"You guys snuck out? Nice," Nate speaks for the first time.
"Not nice, we've got to go," Danni responds.
Eli says goodbye to Cameron, who's surprisingly quiet and we say our goodbyes to Jade and Nate. "See ya guys Monday," and then we were off.
As soon as we pulled into the garage, we raced into the house and luckily our parents weren't home. We all breathed a sigh of release because heaven knows, our parents would've beat all of our asses. I wouldn't put it pass them to get Eli and Robbies' too.
"Ah home sweet hell," I say once we're inside.
Danni rubbed her eyes, "I'm tired guys, I'm just gonna go to sleep. Eli come to my room when you get ready to go to bed." He just nods his head as a response.
"I'm actually sleepy too. Cool if I sleep in your bed?" Robbie asks me.
"Long as you keep it warm," I say with a wink.
"Of course," he says. Him and Danni jog up the stairs into the rooms.
"Wanna stay up and tell dirty secrets," I say to Eli and jump on the couch in the living room. He smirks and walks over to me. We haven't turned on any lights in the house, but even in the dark I could see how attractive he was.
"Thanks for saving us back there," I speak looking him in the eye, "my knight in shining armour," I gasp exaggeratingly and throw my arms over my head. This earns a smile from him.
"So Mexico huh?" he breathes out a chuckle. I put my head in my hands.
"No," I laugh, "We're not talking about this story. All I'm going to say is it happened a few months ago, I was only gone for a day, Danni and my parents thought I was at Robbie's house the whole time. Sometimes, I'll be at his house for a few days so it's normal."
"How come his house?" he asks curiously.
"He has a really nice house, with lots of food. Lots and lots of food," I say in admiration. "That's why you've never met him before. We're always at his house."
"So Robbie... is he gay or what?" Eli asks clearly awkward by his own question. "I ask this because he was talking about girls back at the party an-and he was hitting on Josh's girlfriend"
Awe he was fumbling with his words. How cute.
"It's not just gay and straight you know. There's gay, straight, bisexual, lesbian, asexual, and so forth. But Robbie's bi." I say clearing up the air.
The door opens just after I finish my sentence. Mom and Dad walk in obviously both drunk. I've been to one of their elegant dinners they go to and they basically bring you gallons of wine. So it's no surprise here.
"Hey Mom. Hey Dad," I say to my parents.
"Hey Lisa. Hey Bryan," Eli says.
My mom looks like she's trying to say something but she can't. It's funny because the way she's doing her mouth, she looks like a gold fish eating food.
"Why isn't my voice box working?" My mom says grabbing her throat.
"Birthgiver," I say slowly. I'm trying so hard not to laugh. "On a scale of Sweden to North Korea how messed up are you?"
She bust out laughing. Mom's a happy drunk. Dad. Not so much. Dad grumbles under his breath, "We need another plague."
"Okay!" I say loud getting everyones' attention. "Me and Eli are going to go outside for a bit."
"We are?" he questions.
"We are," I nod joyfully.
"Okay honey," Mom says, but I don't think she knows how many eyes she has let alone what I just said.
"Come on," I grab his shoulders. We walk out in our socks.
"Why are we outside?" he asks me.
"Why not?"
He looks at me like I'm crazy. I roll my eyes. "Look, I want to show you something." He narrows his eyes. "No, it's not Spongebob at the Christmas party."
I lay down on the drive way pavement, but let my head hang off the short drop. Slowly Eli does the same.
"Why are we on the ground?" he asks.
"Look," I say in response.
"What? What am I supposed to be looking at?"
"The stars."
After a short pause I hear Eli reposition himself so his head is also dangling of the edge and he looks up into the sky. It's clear that in less than an hour sunrise will happen but for now it's pitch black, except for the billions of twinkling stars.
"Whoa," Eli says amazed. I can't help but smile.
"I know right."
He laughs a bit, "It's like we're looking down at the stars."
"Doesn't it? It's so cool," I say.
"So let's talk," he says.
"About what?" I say.
"I don't know," pause, "What job do you want in the future? Like a permanent job?"
I ponder on this question for a while. Honestly, I avoided this question many times, because I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do. Maybe work in an office? "I have no clue. You?"
He had no problem answering the question, "I want to go pro. Play football in college and then in the NFL."
"That'd be cool," I said to him.
"Yeah," he agreed.
"Okay, I have a story," I said to him sitting up.
"Ooh now I'm intrigued," he says with a smile propping himself up.
"When I was little, I always wanted to be a prince. Always. I used to have a crown and I'd prance around pretending to be a prince. Never a king though. Too much responsibility."
He chuckled, "Lazy since day one eh?"
I shoved his arm, "I'm serious," I said laughing a little bit myself. "But that's just always how I imagined my future. Being a prince."
"You are a prince," Eli says. "In your own way."
We were both staring into each other's eyes. Just like earlier today at the party. I wanted nothing more than to kiss him and hold him. I bit my lip again, reopening the cut.
"Your lips bleeding," Eli says reaching his thumb out to my lip. He gently rubs my lip before wiping the small amount of blood away.
"That reminds me, how's your shoulder feeling?" I ask.
He moves his thumb away and moves his right shoulder in a small circle.
"Hurts, but it'll be better. I wonder what coach will say. He won't be too happy."
I hop up, "Come on let's get inside. We need to get as much rest as we can because spring break's over tomorrow, since it's technically Sunday." He nods and we head inside. But I have a feeling that the whole staring into each other's eyes won't end. It's just the beginning.
<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>(A/N) Howdy! Thanks for reading and I really hope you're enjoying what you have read so far. Things are about to get heated real soon. Please comment, it means the world to me and shows me that you're there. Picture is of Eli! But seriously is anyone else curious as to what Spongebob was doing at that Christmas party. Lol xP Alright guys love you.
-Emily
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