We hurriedly rush outside the arcade to check, only to come across a giant stone wrapped in paper, lying on the ground beside the millions of smashed glass pieces. Someone has obviously, purposely thrown it to break the entry doorway of the mall, but whatever good for us, we can leave now.

"Let's go, Tiger," I say as I pick up my ten bags and start heading towards the exit, stepping carefully in between the glass pieces.

"Zofia, we have a problem," Teresa says as she unlocks the trunk of her car for us to keep our bags.

"What?"

"The tires are punctured," she says pointing to the two back tires of the car.

"The asshole who broke the glass must have done it,"

"What do we do now? There are no cabs available currently," she says as she scrolls through her phone

Suddenly a car pulls up on the main road, just stopping parallel to us, Teresa instinctively takes out her taser and my hand goes to my pocket knife, as the window of the car rolls down, "Hey Teresa, you, okay?" comes the voice of most likely a teen boy from inside.

"Oh, hey Luke, yeah, we are okay, but our car has flat tires so do you mind giving us a lift?"

"I am going to a party but it is closer to the dorm so I can give you guys a lift to the party?"

"Sounds good enough," Teresa says and locks up the car, calls a mechanic to pick her car early in the morning and hops into the shotgun of the car of the random dude and me following her to have a seat in the backseat.

"Luke this is Zofia, my new roommate and Zofia this is Luke Hemperson from my psychology class,"

"Nice to meet you Zofia," he says looking behind from the rearview mirror with his grey eyes.

"Likewise,"

"So where are you from?" he questions,

"You probably do not even know about the place, it is such a small town,"

"Are you from Vermont?"

"That is low key creepy how you guessed it correctly,"

He just shrugs in response and does not say anything more.

After about twenty minutes of awkward silence, we reach a house the size of a resort, it seemed so eerily calm as if there was no party.

"Do you guys want to join the party?"

"I don't know if we should, what do you say Zofia?"

I shrug in response.

"C'mon guys it'll be like a welcome party for Zofia," Luke says being persuasive.

"Okay then,"

"Also, it's a pool party," Luke says once we are out of his car which makes Teresa give him a death stare.

"You could've told earlier! I am not in a pool party attire,"

"I knew you would say that that's why I didn't tell you,"

"Smart," I say as I chuckle seeing the frustrated expression of Teresa.

Luke leads us into the house, which is full of half-naked drenched teens dancing to loud music (personally I could Dj better), as we head deeper into the party Luke keeps introducing us to people and then finally, we reach the pool area which is comparatively less crowded.

"What are you doing here?" A voice comes from behind me, making me turn just to see shit brains.

"She came with me," Luke says from behind me.

"Damn, you arrived just yesterday and now you are already fucking the Princy's boy?"

"Shut up Isaac," Luke says but he just chuckles which makes my blood pressure rise causing me to punch him in the nose.

"Keep your nose out of my business or you might actually get it broken," Is the last thing I say before I go and have a seat at the edge of the pool, with my feet dangling inside. I am soon followed by Luke, who came and sat beside me.

Meanwhile Teresa has ditched me for her friends from her design class.

"Damn so you are a Princy's boy?" I ask Luke quoting what Isaac said earlier.

"Yeah, my dad's the principal here, it kind of sucks,"

"I know, back home my mom is the principal of my old school,"

"I would have never guessed," 

Before I can reply back to him, someone pushes me into the pool, making me cause a huge splash in the water.

I came up from the water to see the smirking face of Isaac looking down at me.

Oh, he is so dead.

I grab him by the leg and pull him into the water too, which makes people think we are having a splashing competition or shit, and suddenly everybody wants to join in, so they keep jumping into the water headfirst.

I close my eyes as water keeps splashing around me, and amidst all the chaos Isaac pulls the T-shirt I had over my head and vanishes.

For God's sake can he stop being such a brat.

I get out of the pool, drenched head to toe and just in a black sports bra and shorts, if I stay outside, I will defintely fall sick, so I head inside and search for an empty bathroom or towels.

I find one towel inside a storage closet and dry myself up and that's when I notice Isaac with my T-shirt around his neck playing beer pong. "Hey, fuckturd give me my shirt,"

Some dude from the crowd interjects and says, "Girl, if you need your shirt back, you have to beat him at beer pong,"

"Gary, c'mon man she'll pass out after one shot," the fuckturd mocks at me.

"Challenge accepted," I say as I take the opposite position from Isaac across the ping pong table.

I go first and easily get the ball in, making Isaac drink but Isaac doesn't miss either, so I chug the components of the red cup constituting of clean vodka. We go on for about ten more rounds and no one misses a shot, the people around us start getting bored and yell at us to finish the game already and finally at the 13th turn, Isaac loses a shot, making me the winner.

"In your face you fuckturd" I say as I wobbly make my way across the table and extend my hand for my T-shirt. Isaac, who had way more than me to drink, looks at me dumbly and then takes off his own T-shirt and hands it to me. I am not complaining though, now I could finally read his tattoo which read Hestia in a curly swirl flaunting his collar bones.

Meanwhile, the girls around me start giggling and fawning over his body, the only thing I want to do is punch him. But instead, I snake my arms onto his neck, and he brings his hands to my waist, I slowly close the distance between our faces and kiss him, my eyes automatically closing. I can feel the heated gaze of people around me, as I roam my hands over his shirtless body, stopping just at the loop of his jeans, teasing him.

To counter my teasing, his hands grasp my ass, squishing it slightly making me gasp and giving him with the perfect opportunity to deepen the kiss. Suddenly he stops kissing me and moves back, making me open my eyes to see him breathing as heavily as me. His eyes are a shade of deep green just like the forest around this town.

He stares blankly at me, at a loss for words so I turn around and start looking for Tiger for us to head back to the dorm. I am on the first floor where a couple of bedrooms are, when suddenly someone gets ahold of my hand.

I turn around to find Isaac, "Want to continue where we left?" he asks.

"I am heading back,"

"Oh," he says letting go of my hand, "Okay then have a safe night," he turns around and is about to disappear down the stairs when I call him, "Hey fuckturd!"

He turns around just to find me millimeters away from him, I grab him by his silver chain and close the little distance between us, giving him a small peck on his lips, which is enough to unleash the beast inside him.

I hop into his arms, and he holds me securely, wrapping his hands under my thighs, my arms automatically snake around his neck, and he pushes us towards the wall such that my back is against the wall. We kiss until we are both breathless, but Isaac does not stop kissing me. If we aren't kissing on the lips, he trails hot kisses down my neck, stopping just below my collarbone.

A door opens from the end of the hallway, and a couple walks out, a short redhead and a well-built tall guy, I am sure he could easily pass as a wrestler, whom I assume knew Isaac.

"Woah, Isaac the room's all yours," he says and leaves with the redhead trailing behind him like a lost puppy.

Isaac doesn't reply to him, but he carries me into the bedroom showing that he heard him alright.