Fruit Punch

Suprise! Fast Update!!! Yay. So I wanted to update cause i was bored and I felt like it. I also need to stress the fact that I really want a cupcake for some reason. I don't know. Enjoy!!!

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As soon as the mixer was over and, Neal and I were clear to go; we all piled into Olivia's 2012 Chevy Equinox with me in the front with Olivia then Neal and Gwen in the back.

The ride to Nolan's was quiet except for Neal and Gwen's constant banter in the back.

I felt nervous about this party, because of course this was my first one and I had no idea what it would be like. I sat wringing my hands on my lap, trying to get rid of my nervous tension.

At a red light, out of my peripheral vision, I could see Olivia taking her eyes of the rode to spare a glance at me. But I didn't return her gaze because I was too focused on the nerves building steadily in my stomach.

A smile appeared on Olivia's face as she reached out and grabbed my hand. I pulled my eyes up to look at her. She just smiled a wide smile, eyes sparkling. Olivia looked so stunning with the street lights shining softly on the side of her face; making her eyes look even pretty than they already were. Her hand fit perfectly within mine, it was the perfect distraction.

"It will be fine."

When the light turned green, Olivia dragged our joined hands to the middle of the car console to rest comfortably between us. Olivia had solved the problem of distracting me of my nerves but now I was hyper aware of how her hand felt.

I could her Neal snickering in the backseat, along with Gwen. But I ignored them and focused on Olivia beside me.

A while later we pulled up to Nolan's house. Cars were lined up and down the street, stretching even farther away from Nolan's house. Music boomed from the house, to the point where it could be heard throughout the neighborhood; No one seemed to be saying anything about noise control though. Teenagers were everywhere in and outside the house.

My nerves built up again regardless of the fact that Olivia was holding my hand. We clambered out the car slowly, in awe of our crazy surroundings.

"Whoa, what a party." Neal said staring at the teens running past with shoes on their hands and towels tied around their necks, shouting random things. It was some party.

"A-Are they always like this?" I said asking no one in general.

Gwen pumped her fist in the air, with a wild grin. "Hell yes! I need alcohol." She said grabbing Neal wrist pulling him towards to the front door. Before they entered, Gwen turned back giving Olivia a pointed glare. Olivia nodded in return.

When they were out of sight, Olivia held out her hand in front of me urging me to take it. I hesitated at first because we would be holding hands in front of the entire student body but then I realized everyone was either past out or wasted so it wouldn't matter; I take it.

Olivia danced excitedly on the balls of her toes then she tugged me towards the house. On the way to the door we both got side tracked looking at the guys standing on second floor balcony railing. There was a crowd of people below him loudly chanting "Do it!". He did it alright. He catapulted himself off of the balcony and into the crowd below. Luckily they caught him.

A "Wow." escaped my mouth as I stared at the crowd clapping the guy on his back.

"Wow indeed. Let's go." Olivia agreed before continuing our trek inside the house. I gasped when we entered. Outside the house was nothing compared to its inside. Olivia smirked as she let me take in the sight.

I don't know what I expected but I sure wasn't prepared for what I saw. There were people literally everywhere. People occupied every single room in the house. The rooms that used to be the living and dining room now doubled as a super crowded sweaty dance floor. The kitchen was packed with people, food, and alcohol. Horny teenagers were occupying every spot possible. A trail of people stood chatting and drinking on the stairs.

By looking at the scene before me I concluded I did not like parties. I was so out of my comfort zone here. I liked to be by myself with a calming environment, not a huge house with raging crazy loud teens.

People got even rowdier when they heard a remixed dance version of 'Mr.Saxobeat' by Alexandra Stan. The music bounced off the walls loudly along with multicolored strobe lights.

"This is crazy." I said still in awe of my surroundings.

"What?" Olivia shouted, trying to be heard over the loud music.

"Forget it!" I shouted back. Talking in this noise was obviously useless but it seemed like no one wanted to. I'm sure if you asked the couple, who were making out heavily to my right, they would agree.

"Want to get something to drink?" Olivia shouted, cupping her hands over her mouth so that I could hear her better. I nodded, knowing my small voice would not be heard.

Olivia clutched my hand tighter as we started through the monstrous crowd of people. I was afraid I might get lost in this huge mess. I bumped into so many people before we finally made it over to the kitchen, I didn't even bother to apologize.

In the kitchen, we went over to the counter with red solo cups piled high. Olivia grabbed two then we went over to where the drinks were set out. There were two punch bowls, that were surround by various bottles of alcohol. One bowl was labeled 'Safe' and the other was labeled 'Not so safe'. I pointed to the 'Safe' one. Since I have never had alcohol, I didn't think now would not be a good time to try it.

Olivia got our drinks while I took the time to scope out the kitchen. The kitchen seemed to be in the same position as the rest of the house minus the crazed dancing. As I was looking around, I could see somebody waving, apparently, at me.

Through the dimmed lights, I could see that it was Danika. She was leaned up against some guy while giving me a sultry smile. The guy also followed her line of vision and looked at me. It felt more like leering though the way his eyes were moving down my body. He finally took his gaze off of me to whisper something in Danika's ear. She nodded but she still stared at me with dark eyes.

Shyly, I turned back to Olivia and focused on her and not Danika and her guy friend.

Olivia handed me my drink not a second later. I didn't take a sip because I was too focused on not spilling it since people were bumping me left and right.

"Want to dance?" Olivia shouted, before sipping out of her red solo cup.

"Um well I'm like incapable of dancing." Which was true, since I was naturally a klutz, I always tripped over my own two feet along with everyone else's.

"I'm sure you're not that bad." Olivia said trying to reassure me. She wouldn't if she had ever seen me dance.

"No really, I can't dance."

"Ok, its fine. I won't pressure you. We can have fun doing other things." Olivia said slowly, looking at me through her eyelashes. My face coated with blush, catching what she had really meant by 'other things'.

Before I could even say anything back, we were interrupted by the high pitched squeals of two girls. I flinched when the screams got even closer. The squealers turned out to be Chassidy and Jocelyn. They ran over to Olivia, tackling her in a hug and completely ignoring me just like last time we had an encounter.

"Oh my god! You came!" Chassidy yelled with excitement. From the way her eyes were glazed over and the dopey smile she had plastered on her face I could tell she was drunk. Same goes for Jocelyn. They still weren't drunk enough to actually talk to me.

"We didn't think you were coming!" Jocelyn yelled in an equally loud voice.

"Well here I am, with Joey." Olivia said with a slight cringed, clearly effected by their loud voices. Chassidy and Jocelyn both stopped hugging Olivia and looked at me. Their excitement vanished and was replaced with indifference. As quickly as I had got their attention, they focused back on Olivia.

"Let's go dance." Chassidy suggested while teetering of to the side a little bit.

"I can't like I said I'm here with Joey."

"Urgg!"Jocelyn groaned annoyed. "You're so killing my buzz. Come on, come dance with us." Olivia looked at me, to see what I would say. I didn't mind if she went to go dance, I didn't want to ruin her fun just because I was accident prone. The only thing about it was that I would be left alone. But Olivia really looked like she wanted to go and dance.

"Ok."

"Are you sure? I could--"

Chassidy cut her off not being able to wait any longer. "She said its fine. Let's go!"

"But--" Olivia started to protest. But I cut her off this time.

"It's okay, I'll just be outside. I think I need some air anyways."

Olivia didn't look so convinced but nodded anyways. Then she let herself be dragged off in the raging crowd of dancing people. I sighed, now I was alone. I honestly had no idea where Neal was by now. There were too many people to be sure. Not that I was worried or anything. I'm sure Gwen was with him so he would be fine so I wasn't going to waste time looking for him. I really did want to get some air since it was getting fairly hot in here.

I sat my drink down, not really wanting it any longer since it was tepid and water down by the ice cubes.

I shuffled my way through the thick congested crowd over to a sliding door that led outside. I slid it open and walked in the crisp night. Some people were already outside hanging out, but it wasn't that many so I wasn't bothered.

I went over to the railing on the wooden porch to lean against it. The view was of a big large dark forest. It wasn't scary looking though, it was more serene like. I breathed in deeply, taking in the chilly air and the smell of the forest.

I was brought back to the party when some cleared their throat behind me succeeding in scaring the shit out of me as well. I turned to see the guy that was standing with Danika earlier, holding two red solo cups.

"Can I join you?" He asked coming to stand next to me anyways even though I didn't tell him he could.

"Here, have a drink." The guy said giving me one of the red solo cups. "I'm Nolan." So this was the famous party thrower extraordinaire. He was bad looking either. Nolan had light blonde hair which was styled in an off centered part that was comb through with gel making his hair curve off the right. He wore a white polo shirt that was covered with red baggy sweater. Nolan pulled off the look just well enough so that he didn't look pretentious.

"Thanks. I'm Joey."

"I saw you from inside. You seemed lonely out here and a pretty girl shouldn't be alone. That's why I brought you a drink."

"I'm not lonely. I'm just taking a breather. Does this have alcohol in it?" I asked trying to be careful.

"Not a drop. I didn't know if you liked that type of stuff."

Nolan leaned over the railing looking down at the forest as I drank my fruit punch.

When the cool liquid hit my lips, I realized I was thirstier than I had thought. Since it was only half a cup, I drank it till the last drop.

I'm pretty sure that was the moment where everything went all downhill.

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DUN DUN DUN!!! What will happen next? Was there something in Joey's drink?? What is Nolan up too? Where's Neal?? I don't know I guess you will just have to keep reading to find out.

P.S. To ease your minds , nothing serious like rape will happen. I wouldn't do that to Joey.

~~~Athena