new year's —
31. surprises

saturday - san francisco time

kruiz  1min ago

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      "Let's get this party started!" Someone yelled.

Everyone at the house cheered, the music getting louder and drinks being served promptly. Blair and Kira arrived at the party with Flynn and Marcus, who decided to tag along. They decided to stop by the kitchen to grab some drinks for themselves and went outside, where some people were scattered around doing some drinking games, talking or just simply enjoying the music. The house was right next to the beach, so it had these stairs that led you right to it and since it was a chill night, the majority of the people were outside; a bonfire being held.

"Let's go dance, please!" Blair exclaimed and took Kira's hand.

She looked at Flynn and Marcus, pleading silently for help. Blair was a dancing machine and even though Kira loved to dance, she couldn't keep up with her. Her friends just laughed and clinked together their plastic cups, earning a middle finger in response from Kira. The dance floor was something improvised on the beach, a dj booth - more like a table and a laptop and these small lights flashing on the floor. 

"Love the vibe we're getting." Blair snorted and Kira joined her.

"Don't laugh, I like it."

Blair placed her hand on Kira's shoulder. "You like everything."

Kira shrugged her shoulders and grabbed Blair's hand, spinning her around. The girls started to dance to 00's music, more people joining them and soon enough, everyone was screaming to the lyrics of Britney Spears. Marcus and Flynn, not wanting to be left out, joined them. They danced for what felt like hours and decided to step out a bit, to rest, sitting on a log closed to the bonfire.

"My legs feel like jelly." Blair sighed and started to strech her legs.

"Come here, you silly."

Flynn grabbed her legs and placed them on top of his, massaging them. Kira looked at Marcus, both friends smirking at each other.

"Oh yeah, that feels good." Blair rested her body against Marcus and closed her eyes.

Kira looked at Flynn and did a heart with her hands, this one giving her his middle finger in response. Marcus laughed and started to do kissing faces, Kira soon joining him. Everyone knew that Flynn liked Blair, but not her apparently.

"Stop it." He whispered.

Kira and Marcus leaned on to each other, laughing - it was too easy to pick on on Flynn. Kira grabbed her phone soon after, recording Flynn and Blair, evidence to show to Lucas and Elliot tomorrow afternoon. They kept talking, the drinks coming one after another - courtesy of Marcus, enjoying the long night they had ahead and Kira found herself back on the improvised dance floor with Blair, now dancing to this upbeat song from the 90's. Flynn stayed back with Marcus on the log, typing most of the time on his phone, getting a eyebrow raised from his best friend. He could see that Flynn was nervous by the second and he even tried multiple times to ask him what was wrong, but he wouldn't give in.

"Can I do the honors in dancing with you, Ruiz?"

Kira stopped and looked behind her, watching Matthew extanding a hand toward her. He had this big smile on his face, dressed with a short sleeved shirt and a pair of shorts, complemented with a baseball cap; he also smelled like vanilla. She heard Blair giggle beside her and she looked at her, silently pleading with her eyes to calm down.

"Matthew! Of course she wants it, right Kira?"

Kira looked at her best friend, this one smiling forcibly with her drink's straw between her teeth and adverting her eyes constantly to Matthew's still extended hand. She looked at his hand and then his face, the smile never leaving, and looked at Blair again. 

Live the present

She made up her mind. "Yeah, show me your moves." She grabbed Matthew's hands.

"Well, a girl need to rest her legs." 

Blair stepped away, Matthew taking the opportunity to get closer to Kira and while he had his back to her, her best friend gave her thumbs up. Kira tried to contain her laugher and looked at Matthew again, focusing on him and failed to see Blair getting back to Flynn and Marcus, her pointing to her best friend and Matthew dancing and Flynn literally panicking to the sight. 

"It's very hard to keep up with you these days, you know?" Matthew, still having a hold of her hand, gave her a spin.

Kira laughed. "Why's that?"

"Once the class ends, I never see you again until the next day." 

That was true, once she finds class ending she runs to her car, trying to make it on time to her job and then after that, she goes to the beach and swims a little, being it day or night. Then she comes home, does her assignments and goes to bed. Nothing to exciting. 

"I have this thing called a job, I have to make it on time."

Matthew snorted. "Oh I'm sorry, don't know what that is."

Kira laughed with him and took his baseball cap, placing on her head. "Spoiled enough."

He laughed and took her hand again, pushing her close to him. She placed her hand on his chest, the other still grabbing her drink, trying not to spill anything. He was looking at her with that look. She didn't know if she liked that.

"So, I was thinking..." He started to say, looking down once in a while and she realised he was quite nervous.

"You think?" She tried to lighten the mood a bit.

"Shut up." He laughed. "Yeah, like, we could, you know...Hang out sometime? The two of us?"

Kira's smile started to fade a little, even though she was really trying not to. Don't get her wrong, she liked Matthew, he was funny, caring and a good friend, but that was it, a friend. The whole living in the present thing, moving on? Yeah, no, that was bullshit. She couldn't do it, not until she had answers to her questions. She was still tied to Drew and everything that they lived together; even how short it was, she still liked him. She couldn't do that to him.

She was so stupid, thinking that she could just move on from him like that. And now Matthew was getting the consequences of her actions. He did started to notice the way she stepped back a little from him, her hand no longer on his chest, her forced smile. He just knew.

"I'm sorry Kira, I-I shouldn't have said anything." He tried to say.

Her eyes widened. "Oh god, no. It's not your fault." 

She didn't want Matthew feeling bad about this. This was her fault entirely.

"I should have know that you weren't into me like that. We're just friends." He looked down.

"Matthew..."

Kira made a step towards him, but a voice made her stop in her tracks.

"Kira?"

She couldn't look at the person behind the voice, a voice she knew very well and that she didn't hear it since that call from two months ago. Matthew was looking between her and the person, eyebrows raised but a look of surprised and confusion, mixed together on his face. 

"Look at me." The person dared to say again.

She closed her eyes, took a deep breath and shook her head. This couldn't be real, it just couldn't. Not here, of all places. She tried herself, she opened her eyes and looked at him. Drew was standing right there, a pleading look on his face, his hair all over the place, looking straight at her. 

He was right there.

"We need to talk, please." He said once again.

She discreetly looked at her surroundings. She saw how some people were whispering, probably recognizing him, looking at both of them, trying to understand why on Earth was Drew doing on a college party. She was asking the same thing to herself. Drew, willfully, coming here, a place full of people who could know him and asking her to talk? After all this time? She was curious and that's why, without thinking too much of it, she grabbed his hand, without saying a word and took him away from there. Away from everyone, away from the whispers. 

She just wanted to know what a hell happened to the both of them.

author's note.       hi...
omg i'm so sorry, been a bit away from wattpad since i had a lot of stuff to do back home, but i still tried to write a bit. i'm sorry if this chapter was kinda rushed, i just needed to drew to appear so we could skip to the next chapter and unfold everything. or almost everything? hmm, just wait and see.

also, i just want to give you guys a huuuuuge thanks, like for real. after having such a big break last year from wattpad, coming back again and revive this story again and this being one of the best decisions i made is just wow. we're reached 60k too, like what??? this is insane, i feel so loved from all the comments thank you guys so so much!

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