April's dress above *Ashley Benson*

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Heels really weren't my thing. But Lexie insisted I wear them.

"They look good on you," she assured, pushing her hair to one shoulder as she worked on her makeup.

She was right. My legs look nice and long with heels, I'm just going to have to deal with the pain.

"Fine, but do you think this looks good?"

She turns around and I survey her face, it lights up with a big smile.

"You look hot girl." She giggles and I am shocked by her words.

Do I really?

I turn around and look into the floor length mirror. I actually look nice, I'm impressed.

I am wearing my usual makeup, just a little bit fancier because I'm going out. I'm wearing a plain black dress without sleeves and lace trim on the bottom. My dress fits pretty high on my thighs, but I'd rather show off my legs than my chest, even though the cocktail dress snugs my chest and hips tightly. And to finish it off, my terribly uncomfortable, plain black heels.

"Alright, are you ready?" Lexie turns around and stands up from her bed, walking over to where I am and looks herself in the mirror.

Lexie is wearing a deep red satin cocktail dress that sits just above her knees. It's a low v-cut down the chest, but she seems really comfortable showing half of her breasts. Pairing it with nude heels and a nude coloured bangle.

She is wearing her curled brown hair down, while I'm wearing mine up in a low bun with strands of hair falling out, it's messy but elegant none the less.

"Ready," I sound so nervous but I'm trying to keep my cool.

She looks at me with a shocked expression.

"You've never been to one of these parties have you?" I can tell by the look on her face that she already knows my answer.

"No. But I'm trying this thing where I try and live my life a little crazier and fun while my young age lasts." It's true, I need to spice up my life a little, I need to do things out of the ordinary like what most 19-21 year olds do, like in books and movies.

"You really should, you'll enjoy it. And don't worry about the party, it'll be fine just stay with me." She says placing her hands on the sides of my arms, in a sort of comforting way.

"We're going to have so much fun," she squeals excitedly, "Let's go."

She grabs my hand and pulls me out of the room before I have any second thoughts.

Okay, let's do this.

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We pull up at a large, expensive looking house.

When I step out of Lexie's car, I see beer bottles strewn about on the lawn, they're people in clusters sitting around outside making out. Along with a drunk person stumbling around.

It's starting to get dark. We walk past the drunk guy and up the stairs into the house, Lexie steps in first not bothering to knock.

It's super hot and sticky with really loud thumping music, I cringe as I pass more people making out on the couch. It's very dark and hazy in here.

Lexie leads me over to the kitchen in this huge place and I instantly feel sorry for whoever has to clean up the mess in here. There's cups and bottles everywhere.

"What do you want to drink?" She asks grabbing her own bottle of beer from the fridge.

"Ah, whatever there is," I reply. I don't really care right now, I need something to ease the nervousness but at the same time I don't think I can deal with a hangover tomorrow morning, especially when classes start back up Monday and I need to prepare myself. So I think I'll just drink a little.

"Here," she hands me the same type of drink she is holding in her other hand and closes the huge fridge.

I pop the cap and take a sip of the beer. Not too bad!

"Should we go to the main room?" Lexie doesn't wait for my reply before grabbing my wrist and pulling me along the large house, making it hard for me to keep up in these uncomfortable heels.

When we return back to the place we were in before, when we entered, I became extremely nervous. What do I do? Talk? Go crazy and play beer pong?

"Is....that," I look up to see Lexie with her eyes wide open in shock as her jaw hangs low. She raises her hand slowly, pointing over to where she is looking and I confusingly look towards the direction to where her finger is pointing.

.... And wish I didn't.

"Nick." I answer her sentence, looking more shocked than Lexie did. I swear I look like I've seen a ghost.

I can feel my stomach drop and the blood drain from my face.

And even though I only knew him for like 2 days, it felt like my heart had known him forever, but now my heart felt like it was ripped out of my chest by him.

In a small group of people huddled on a couch, Nick was kissing a girl. Passionately.

The only sound I can hear is my breathing and the hammering of my heart in my chest.

"I'm so sorry April." That was the only other thing I could hear as Lexie put her hand on my shoulder.

I can't move, I just stood there my feet gripping to the ground. Staring in shock as the girl wraps her arm around Nicks neck to deepen the kiss. She is straddling his lap and I can feel the bile rising in my throat by just seeing that.

And at that moment, as if he can sense my presence, he releases the kiss and looks straight at me.

His icy green eyes show exactly what he's probably feeling right now, guilt.

"It's not like you're actually together, he can do what he wants." My subconscious tells me and I shove her aside, to the back of my head.

I can't even look at him right now. Suddenly I feel my feet start to get the hell away from here. Where do I go? I hear Lexie call out to me, but I can't concentrate right now as my feet start to pick up speed. I take once last glance at him but that guilt I saw in his eyes earlier has now disappeared and he turns back to the girl climbing off his lap.

I hate him, I hate him, I hate him.

I get to the hallway and immediately open the closest door I could find. I need some alone time. When I open the door, I quickly close it shut when I see two people making out on a bed and the guy has his shirt off.

"Ugh." I cringe and go to the next door in the hallway. When I open it I find that it's a small bathroom. Thank you!

I step inside and lock the door before anyone can see me.

When my breathing calms down I slouch over the sink. I look up at my stressed face before the tears start to spill down my face, I watch my crying state in the mirror as my mascara runs down my face.

I knew it was too good to be true. Just look at me!

I realise that it's not worth my time crying over him, I'm a big girl. I need to go out there, have fun and act like nothing ever happened and that I was never affected by the kiss. It's not like I'm his girlfriend.

I try to rub off my smudged makeup but I end up looking like a zombie. Maybe I should ask Lexie if she can take me home?

I continue to work on fixing my makeup, until I hear the door knob trying to open followed by loud banging on the door.

"One second!" I croak to the person on the other side of the door. I let out a deep breath and quickly check my figure in the mirror before walking over to the door.

Turning the door knob, I slowly open the door to see who it is.

Nick.

Oh no. Just by the look on his face I can tell that I look horrible. But I don't care. I don't care what he has to say or how he feels about me. I looked up into his cold green eyes, as I started to feel my eyes well up again.

Don't look vulnerable April! Don't look vulnerable!

"April," he started but I was already stomping off away from him to hear what he has to say. He is such a dick and whatever he has to say won't change my mind.

I practically run through the hallway, hoping that he doesn't follow me. I'm so thankful that I didn't drink enough beer to make me drunk, especially in these very high heels.

When I look back to make sure Nick isn't following me, I let out a sigh and run a hand through my hair that has now fallen out. I need to find Lexie.

"Lexie!" I call out, spotting her near a bunch of drunk people gyrating, and when she turns around I can tell by her bloodshot eyes that's she's drunk as well. I must have been in that bathroom for a while.

"Damn it!" I mumble under my breath.

"We should head back," I try to convince Lexie but she shakes her head and swings her hips to the loud music being played over the speakers.

"Nah, we party." She replies, slurring the last word and grabbing my hands to try and make me dance. She is really drunk.

I can't use her car because she won't be able to go home, hopefully when she does decide to come to the dorms, she will be sober.

There's only one other option. Take the bus.

I know I shouldn't be taking the bus so late at night, but I would rather that than be in the same area as Nick.

When I make my way out of the house and onto the front patio, the music has now turned to a muffle and the cold air hits me like a truck.

Regretting that I didn't take a cardigan, I took out my phone from my small bag and begin to Google directions to the nearest bus stop. I start to walk along the front lawn, the yard is so long. I make my way to a good place a far distance away from the house, still close enough to hear the music, but far enough for no one to see me.

"Going somewhere?" A voice sounded, causing me to jump back.

I looked up in the dark to find the source of the voice, sitting on the freshly cut grass.

"Ah...I... I can't seem to figure out how the Google maps work, I need to find the nearest bus stop." I explain, probably sounding stupid.

He chuckles at my stupidity and pats the grass next to him, signalling for me to sit down.

I obliged after thinking that he'll most likely help me.

When I reach the spot on the grass next to him, I pass him my phone and take my heels off my aching feet.

Maybe I shouldn't trust this guy. I did just give him my phone.

"Having a rough night?" The phone light illuminates his face as he taps the screen of my phone, clearly concentrated on the device.

Luckily he isn't drunk.

"Ugh, yep!" I sigh, looking at the blonde haired boy who's got light stubble covering his jaw. He can probably tell by the way my appearance looks right now.

This time he looks up from my phone and his deep blue eyes stare into mine.

"What happened?" He questions, looking back down to the bright light.

"I'd rather not say," I answer, picking at my already half picked nail polish, I had painted two days ago.

"Tell me, I'd like to hear because I've just been really bored at the party and I'm bored here so I could do with a bit of gossip." He says, saying the word 'gossip' in a failed attempt of a girls voice, making me laugh.

I really don't want to talk about it, but hey, I am a girl and I like to talk about things that are annoying me. Plus, this guy seems nice enough.

"Okay then-"

"Wait!" He cut me off before I could start. "Let me first introduce myself.... The names Jay." He cheers, giving me one of his hands to shake and I return it.

"It's nice to meet you Jay, I'm April." I say and he shakes my hand really crazily like a little boy.

"You too April, now you can start the gossip." He smiles handing me back my phone, with the location of the nearest bus stop on the screen.

"Well I guess I'll tell you because you did help, thanks." I take it from him and place it in my bag.

I tell him about Nick and how I liked him and then what he did tonight and how I now I hate him. Unlike with Lexie, I didn't get into much detail about him and thankfully he didn't ask too many questions.

I felt relived after telling someone, even though my blood began to boil with each mention of his name.

"Wow! He is a dick," Jay says with a shocked expression.

"I know," I clench my fists at the thought of him. I look at my phone to see the time reading midnight.

"Crap! It's midnight I better get going if I want to catch the bus," I say, quickly standing up and brushing off the grass on my backside.

"Hey! Calm down Cinderella, I'll take you home." Jay gushed, standing up and grabbing his car keys beside him.

"Ah... It's okay, I don't get in cars with strangers." I tell Jay and he rolls his eyes.

"Well, it looks like I'll have to get to know you more." His blue eyes sparkle and a grin appears on his face.

He doesn't look like a murder or anything and he is offering me a free ride instead of catching the bus. And if I'm completely honest, Jay is someone who I would actually like to get to know. I came to the city wanting to make friends and maybe he could be my friend?

"I guess we should get to know each other more." I mumbled and his grin turned into a genuine smile.

"Stay there Cindy, I'll go get my pumpkin carriage. Don't forget your slippers." He cheered, pointing to my shoes I had taken off. I couldn't help but laugh at his chivalry.

Shortly after, Jay came to the front of the house with his old looking car. I picked my shoes up and walked to the car in bare feet.

When I'm in his car I text Lexie so she knows I'm okay before we drive away from the place I do not wish to return too.

In the car, I got to know Jay a little bit more, I found out he goes to the same university as me and I'm surprised that I've never seen him before. But I shouldn't be because I do see new faces everyday and the university is really big.

We pull into the parking area in front of my dorm. My mind instantly went back to last night, when Nick dropped me off and kissed me on the cheek in the exact same spot. It feels so long ago. I push the memories aside, trying to think of something else.

"I'll walk you to your room," Jay addressed, opening his car door.

"Oh... No don't worry. I don't think that's necessary," I say to him but he's already out of the car.

I follow after him and we walk up the stairs, into the dorm building. We reach my dorm room and I fetch the key from under the mat, unlocking, then turning the silver knob on the door.

I push the door open and walk inside.

"Thank you so much J-"

I stop dead in my tracks.

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Dun dun dun.

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Just to clear something up, this is a fictional story. It will not be 100% accurate geographically, meaning that the only thing true about her uni is the name. The location is not in Melbourne city in real life but in our story it is. Also, the design of her uni is made up including her dorm. Thanks for understanding :)

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