I wake up with my head pounding. I take in my surroundings the realize that I'm not sure where the hell I am. What happened last night?

I sit up on the uncomfortable couch and see a familiar red head at the other end of the couch.

I think I know her but I can't put my fingers on it. Who is she?

"I don't want to go upstairs with you."

"Chill. I'm getting another drinkity drink."

"Well, you might be very beautiful, but I don't take orders, from anyone. Except my mommy."

Oh god. I made a total fool out of myself, I hope she doesn't remember anything because I sure in hell don't want too.

The red head flutters her eyes and sits up on the couch, matching my position.

"What the hell?" She says while she puts her hand to her head; I assume she has a pounding headache like me.

I hope my mom won't be mad. Fuck that, she's definitely gonna be pissed. Ugh, I really do screw up my life.

"Uh..hey" I say.

"Who the fuck are you?" She says with her face scrunched up in confusion.

She's a really feisty person. I got win this bet though.

"I'm.. a friend? I guess. We talked last night." I tell the beautiful girl sitting beside me.

"Friends? With you?" She lightly laughs. "Not a chance."

Damn this girl. She is so complicated.

"You seemed fine with it last night." I tell her.

"I was drunk. We're not friends." She shortly states.

"Why not?" I challenge her.

"Because, I cannot be friends with you."

"Makes sense." I say and roll my eyes.

"Doesn't have too." She says and gives me a sarcastic smile.

"You're feisty." I tell her.

I let my eyes travel down her body. Her long shirt sleeve raises a little bit, showing off a bruise that wraps around her small wrist. Is that a hand print? I look at it and scrunch my eyebrows, she just tugs at the sleeve to pull it back down.

"What are you trying to do? I don't want to be friends with you. End of conversation." She says.

Well damn. How am I ever gonna win this bet? I'm not, I'm just gonna have to face my friends. No screw that. I'm gonna win this bet.

The red head gets up and walks away from me. This girl is hiding something, I can tell. She has a mask on that I need to take off. Wait..that's not what I want to do. All I want to do is to get her to fall for me. I don't want a girlfriend; Meredith ruined that for me.

I stand up and look around to see a bunch of sleeping people scattered across the floor. I've never actually slept at a party house before. I must've been very drunk.

I didn't even get the girls name. Wait did I? I think I did.. her name is like Leslie or something. Man, this is gonna be a hard ass challenge to complete.

I stand up and look around to see if I see anyone familiar. Levi has to be here somewhere; he wouldn't leave me.

Me and Levi has been friends since we were kids. Our parents were friends so it was easy for us. We would hang out everyday and do dumb kid shit and in middle school we met the rest of the group. We were popular back then, so they where easy to be friends with us. Apparently a lot of people want to be friends with us, I'm not sure why though, we're kind of assholes.

I see Levi and the rest of my friends at the couch where I left them. They're all fast asleep. I need to get home because my ass is already grass.

I shake Levi to try to get him awake. He's always been the easy one to wake up, it's the other assholes I gotta worry about.

Levi wakes up and rubs his eyes.

"Help me wake them up" I tell Levi.

He gets up off the couch and walks over to Dayton. He then pushes Dayton off the couch, hitting the floor with a thump and some curse words. He moves to Jayce, then Noah.

"What the fuck man!" Noah says when he hits the floor.

If there was anyone I could kick out of the group it would be Noah; He's kind of a pussy.

"We gotta go. It's nearly.." I pull out my phone to check the time. "Fuck man, it's 11:30!" My parents are gonna be livid.

"Shit. I gotta get home." Jayce says.

"Just let me sleep. I don't give a fuck." Dayton says.

"You'll give a fuck when your parents send you to a boot camp or an all guys school. They've already threatened it." Levi says to Dayton.

Levi's always been the smart one in the group.

"I'm strong enough for boot camp. And I'll just learn how to be gay for an all guys school. Easy as that. Let me sleep." Dayton says plopping on the couch.

I bet he has an awful hang over right about now.

"Come on man. I ain't leaving your ass here." Levi says to Dayton.

Dayton groans and stands up from the couch, almost falling in the process.

We all are finally standing and ready to do. Levi gets us into his truck and we head home.

"Dayton did you fart?" Jayce asks from beside me.

"What? Of course not." He says and rips a loud one, stinking up the whole cab.

Everyone groans and rolls down their windows. He stinks, really bad.

"Come on Dayton. Have a little decency." I say

"Never have, never will." He says and lets out another fart.

I don't know how I'm gonna get through this ride.

I am the first person dropped off; thank god. I don't know how I made it through those couple of minutes. I am regretting coming home period, I'm gonna be in some deep shit.

I cautiously open the front door. I look inside and my mother is sitting on the couch. Great, just my luck.

I come inside and close to door and get ready for the blow.

"Where have you been?" She asks calmly.

Why is she calm? She should be chewing my ass out.

"I..I was at Levi's. I forgot to tell you." I lie to her.

"I can't smell the alcohol from here. Please don't lie."

She looks tired. Tired of my shit probably.

"I was at a party." I say and look down at my feet.

"Ever since your dad di-."

"Please don't" I beg her

I don't want to hear about my dad.

"It's true. You've been spiraling. Meredith messed you up too. You can talk to me, you know?" My mom says

"I know. I'm sorry mom. I will try to do better." I tell her.

She's been through enough and I just keep adding more to her plate. I feel bad in some ways.

"Please mean it this time. I love you. Get some sleep,you look tired." My mom says

"I love you"

I walk up to my room and plop down on my bed.

I try to sleep but the only thing that seems to be coming to my mind is a beautiful red headed girl that intrigues the hell out of me. I want to know her story; I want to win this bet.
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