Chapter 6:
All I could think about for the rest of the day was Joe. Why was he all of sudden being kind to me. Joe and I being friends is like and oxymoron.
I spent a few hours cleaning my room and doing other such house-related things.
I still hate Joe for all the things he has put me through all my life. Even if he is being nice, I still hate him with every ounce of myself. He has always treated me like dirt. Once, when I was nine, my mom took Daniel, Joe and I to the park. Joe decided it would be ‘hilarious’ if he tripped me so that I would fall into an ant bed, and guess what, I did. I had red welts on my face for weeks. He is not the sweet, flirty, innocent guy everyone has brought him up to be. He is much worse than that. But yet, I was still just having a reasonable conversation with him and I am going to a party with him tonight. It’s like I am contradicting myself. My long though process raged on. Why wasn’t he hanging with Dan? Why didn’t he get one of his other girl friends to take him to this party? Still pondering these questions, I decided not to give it anymore thought.
I spent the rest of the time I had relaxing trying to rid my head of these useless questions. It was finally time to get dressed so I decided to turn up the music and just have ‘Demi’ time. I plugged in my CD player and began to listen to the radio as I touched up my make up and slipped on my little black dress. I stood in the full-length mirror hanging from my closet door, glaring at my reflection. Internal, negative comments were being made but I tried to ignore them. Tonight is going to be fun right?
After I was completely ready I sat in the living room…waiting. I was trying to come up with a plan of action. I sat there pondering on how I was going to act. I decided it would be best if I continued acting like I hated him. It was extremely uncomfortable to be ‘nice’ to him. My thoughts were swirling around my head but before I could even realize it I heard a knock on the door. The sound brought me out of my trance as I slowly walked towards the door and opened it, finding Joe in a button-down shirt with rolled up sleeves and skinny jeans.
“Hey.” I said as I grabbed my purse off the front table.
“Hey. You look…great.” He said as I pushed him out of the way continuing walking to my car. He followed behind.
I know being mean isn’t the solution to my dilemma but it felt so…natural. “That makes one of us.” I retorted back as I unlocked the car and got in. He followed by opening the passenger door and slowly sitting down in the seat.
“Ouch.” He said as he slipped on his seatbelt and repositioned himself in the car seat. I slowly backed the car out of the driveway and onto the street. The drive was a good thirty minutes. “Do I really look that bad? I thought I looked pretty good! Actually I know I look good.” He said as I snickered a little but kept my focus on the road and the map I had printed online. “So are you excited?” he asked trying to keep from being slient.
“Sure.” I said as we slowly pulled up into the large house. The house had three stories with a beautiful garden in the front and palm trees everywhere. It was definitely a place that housed a bunch of rich kids who get whatever they want.
“Demi…” he said as he turned towards me so that he could see me clearly. “I am trying to be nice here. I want to be friends. You’re just making this really…difficult.” I slowly released my seatbelt and got out of the car. Joe did the same and walked around the car towards me. We continued to walk up towards the front door of the extremely large house, in silence. Joe knew he had made things even more awkward.
I finally got the courage to reply as I started to ring the door bell. “Why?” I said under my breath, but knowing that he heard me. His face turned towards mine, making eye contact with me. He began to speak but was cut off by the sound of the door in front of us opening. “Dudeeee! I am so glade you made it! Who’s the chick?” a guy from the door continued, obviously with a large amount of alcohol present in his body.
“She is my friend,” emphasizing the word friend as if trying to convince him as well as me that we are actually, maybe friends.
“Well ‘friend’ you can call me Drew. Let me escort you to the drinks.” He said grabbing my hand and pulling me into the house, leaving Joe alone. We still hadn’t resolved our little issue but I knew that once this party was over we were going to have to have our little conversation.
Drew pulled me to the drink table where there was every brand of drink you could possibly imagine. I wasn’t a drinker so I pleased myself by grabbing a diet coke from the cooler. “So… ‘Friend’ do you have a name?’ he said trying to raise his voice loud enough to be heard over all the music and people talking. There had to be at least 50 people here.
“Demi. My name is Demi!” I said trying to do the same.
“Well Demi…you look absolutely HOT tonight,” he said as he grabbed another drink off the table. “Wannnnaa dance?” I didn’t really have anybody else to talk to and this Drew kid seemed to be decent. So I agreed. He pulled me to the dancing area as we started to move our body’s to the rhythm of the music. The song playing was “Low” and it was definitely one of my favorite. I enjoyed myself as Drew and I danced and continued dancing. We continued to talk as we danced and I learned that he was a senior and this was his house. I informed him that I was a sophomore but I was 16 about to be 17 and he replied explaining that he was 17, about to be 18. He was nice and I started to feel rather comfortable around him. I had no earthly idea where Joe was and to be honest I didn’t really care. He had his own friends and I was making some friends also.
Finally after about 30 minutes of constant dancing, drinking, and talking, I had to use the bathroom. “Hey Drew!” I said trying to get his attention. “I need to use the bathroom! Where is it?” He grabbed my hand trying to pull me out of the massive crowd that was dancing. We made it to a stair case and he continued pulling me up the stairs. We came to a door and I walked in leaving drew waiting outside. I checked myself in the mirror and touched up my make- up. I was extremely exhausted and wanted to go home, so I knew I needed to tell Joe. I took out my cell phone finding his number in my contacts list. Finally, I found it and hit call. It rang for about 15 seconds until I heard his voice coming through the ear hole.
Heya this is Joe! I’m sorry I missed your call. There is a beep about to come so I hope you know what to do with it!
Typical Joe, not answering his phone. I slowly walked back to the bathroom door and slowly opened it finding Drew standing right there. He pushed me back into the bathroom causing me to slip and fall to the floor. “Drew what are you doing!” I said screeching.
“You know you want this!” he said as he slowly made his over to me causing me to flinch but I couldn’t move. Unlike the house, the bathroom was very small. He grabbed my hands causing me to struggle. He had me locked in, his body pushing me against the sink. He was a very large guy, football player probably. I tried to yell and got a thunderous ‘help’ out before he covered his hand over my lips. I continued to move violently trying to push him away from me, but he was too large and had too much of an advantage over me. He then removed his hand and leaned in to kiss me. Tears began to fall as he slowly took away my…first kiss. His lips pressed against mine.
“Demi!” I heard someone calling my name.
I quickly pushed Drew off of me causing him to fall back “JOE! I am in the bathroom!” Drew quickly ran out of the door leaving me in the bathroom still with tears running down my face. I lowered my head as blanket of sorrow fell over me. I heard Joe walk into the dark eerie bathroom, raising my head with his hand and pulling me into a hug. I wrapped my hands around him and not caring about anything else, just replaying what had just happened in my mind. I had a feeling Joe knew also so he just quietly rubbed my head with his hands adding little a little ‘shhh’ and ‘don’t cry’.
Ok, So I tried to make it as PG as possible. I hoped you like it and I hope you are completly honest when you tell me what you think!! COMMENTS!!!
