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Pushing my way through the crowded room, I find myself entering another living space, this one even larger than the last. I swear the ceilings are thirty feet high. There’s a table set up in the middle of the room where some of the football players are playing beer pong, drunk girls giggling and watching them with lust-filled eyes.
I really must have lost that teenager trait somewhere along the way. Maybe it’s because of how my mom raised me, maybe it’s because deep down I’m just a really good girl, but either way I feel like I exist on an entirely different planet than most of these people.
I ignore the twist in my stomach that tells me I should leave and push further into the room in search of Court. It takes me a while to finally find her, spotting her through a wall of windows along the back that give a perfect view of the pool where she, Ant, and several other people seem to have migrated.
I’m seconds away from going out to join them but stop dead in my tracks when I realize that not feet from where Courtney is sitting, her legs hanging over the edge of the pool, is Dylan and Taylor. Of course, you’d have to know what they look like really well to even know it’s them, considering they’re practically swallowing each other’s heads.
I swallow down the bile that rises in my throat and quickly spin on my heel, taking off up a flight of stairs along the back wall, just needing a second to compose myself.
When I reach the landing at the top, I turn left down a long corridor, desperately needing a bathroom to hide away in for a few minutes.
Why did I come here?
Why did I ever think this would be fun?
The further down the hallway I go, the quieter my surroundings become. It’s a testament to just how big this house is. I can still hear the thump of the bass and the voices that filter through the house, but it’s nothing like being downstairs in the thick of it.
When I come across a double glass door that opens up to an empty second story balcony, I quietly slip outside. Closing the door behind me, I make my way to the edge of the balcony, looking out at the thickly wooded landscape that seems worlds away from the other side of the house where all the action is.
Taking a deep breath, I let it out slowly, feeling my anxiety start to slip away.
“Enjoying the party?” I hear his voice before I see him, startled by the sudden awareness that washes over me.
Tiny pinpricks pepper my skin as I turn, finally spotting him hidden in the shadows of the house.
Sebastian.
