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Chapter 4: the Party
Dash’s POV:
After a little while of walking and closely to running I arrived at Mike’s neighbourhood. Even from here I could here the loud music playing and the people at the party having fun. I arrived at Mike’s house where I saw a lot of people standing outside with drinks in their hands, just talking with each other. Most of the people at this party were between the sixteen and the twenty- five. I walked through the front door which stood open because people walked through it every second. I arrived at the living room, which was full with dancing and partying people. In the corner I saw a little bar with beer and other kind of drinks.
I looked at Mike’s house; it surprised me every time when I saw it. His house was just.. Enormous. His parents were really rich and Mike has had almost everything from them. When he wanted to move out his parents searched for the perfect house for their son and ended up with this villa. And too be honest, this house is just too big for someone at this age.
Suddenly I felt a hand resting on my shoulder, I turned my head and I saw Dean standing in front of me with a girl on his side.
The girl annoyed me because she was kissing and trying to do things with Dean while he was talking with me. “So you decided to come huh?” “My mother wasn’t that happy about it, but hey it might be the last time this school year that I can do something fun” “true” I heard something behind me and I saw that someone was lying on the floor and that the people around him all were laughing. “What happened to him?” I asked at a girl who wanted to walk away “don’t know for sure, all I know that he was that nerd from school and that he was dancing and screaming: ‘look at me’ and than I think he fell over his own feet or something like that” “thanks, so even the nerds dared to show up at this party” I turned to Dean again which was busy with his new girlfriend. “Do you know where I can find Mike?” “I think he is at the swimming pool” I smiled and walked through some rooms where I didn’t know the purpose for and ended up in the garden with the swimming pool.
In the middle of the pool I saw Mike sitting on a rubber band with some girls aside him. They were having fun and tried to get Mike in the water. I wanted to walk away because Mike seemed to be too busy with the girls, but than Mike looked up and waved at me. “Glad that you could come” I waved back and shouted: “nice party” back at him but he was already with his mind somewhere else. I walked away and ended in a room, which looked quite similar to the living room.
On the cough I saw Anouk sitting there with two other friends. I remembered my bet with Dean and some other friends of mine. But she was talking to her friends but I didn’t like them at all. They liked the popular boys, though I was one of the boys they liked, I didn’t liked them. I saw that she looked up and saw me standing at the other side of the room, she said something to her friends and walked at me. Why me? “Hey, Dean already told me that you would come to the party.” “He did huh? It has been a while since I saw you but how are you?” “What?” off course, my change to win a bet and I can’t even talk to her because of the music. Anouk smiled and pointed with her finger upstairs. Maybe this is it? What’s that important that she wants to talk with me? Upstairs? Most people who are going upstairs at these kinds of parties will be doing it.
I nodded and followed Anouk to the rooms upstairs, behind me I heard people whistle and when I looked down I even saw Dean smiling, and holding his thumb up. We went through a door and ended up in one of the May bathrooms. Anouk sat down on the toilet seat. What does she want from me? This is not really the place to..? “I want to talk to you, and it’s a bit personal but somehow I feel that you are the only one that I can trust.” Where is this leading too? “Will you promise me that what I’m going to tell you that you’ll keep that between us?” “Yes sure? For what? “Okay, it’s a bit hard but this is going on for a couple of years now and at first I didn’t wanted to believe it. But two weeks ago.. I saw a girl walking through my street and when I saw her walking there, I just felt that I should be there.. With her. It felt like I was in love with her..” Anouk now looked up at me, and I saw tears coming up. “I think I’m..” she started to cry. And my breath stocked. This wasn’t quite the thing I had expected. She looked so sad so I wrapped my arms around her and let her cry out on my shoulder. Ironically we both heard a sad song called: Forgive me from evanesce playing below. “It’s not that bad, many people are.. Like that. But you should come out for it, talk to you parents about it, most of the society accepts gay people leaving out some jerks who likes too hurt people.” Still sobbing she smiled. “Thank you, you are a real friend”
Later that night I’ve spent some time with Anouk talking about all kinds of things, and she even laughed again. I made a sign to Dean that I would talk about my little conversation with Anouk tomorrow. When it was late in the night, I didn’t even know how late is was I went on my way back home. So that was the reason.. I’ve never thought that she was?.. And how on earth I’m going to explain this to Dean and the others who are dying to know what has happened between us.
Selphie’s POV:
When I came home, I saw Hannah sitting on the couch watching the news. She looked back when she heard me come in and stood up. “Listen, I know that I’ve got nothing to tell about you, what you do.. Is what you do? But please remind that I’m here for you, and that I want to help you” “I know” Hannah smiled and sat down again, she knew that talking right now will only make it worse. I just needed some time alone and think. Pretty strange actually.. She knows more about me than I do about myself.
I went up to my room; I closed the door behind me and walked to my bed, which stood near the window. I sat down and looked around. My room was a bit weird if you would compare it to other rooms. Normally people liked it when the rooms were colourful and full of light but I preferred that everything was dark. The walls were black red just as my ceiling, my desk and closets were made of wood which was painted black, and my curtains were dark blue close to black. The lights in my room were dimmed so much so that it made my room even scarier. I lay down on my bed and stared at the ceiling and thought about all kinds of things but I ended up with that boy again. What was his name? O yeah, Dash.. He seemed different than all the other people I’ve met. And why did he stare at me at school? Did he fancy me? Probably not, I can bet that he has had almost everyone at school. Or at least the one who were a bit popular. I sighted, stood up and walked to my desk and picked up the photograph of my mother that I have put there since I started to live here. It was my only photograph of her and it was my only good memory of her. “I miss you… you would know what to do.. I know.. For sure” I felt tears coming up because memories of my mother started to rush through my head and most of them weren’t that great. I sniffed and wiped the upcoming tears away. No I must be strong! I’ve made a promise to her and I’m not going to break it!
I walked to my stereo and made it play my CD of gothic music. Than I walked to my closet, opened it and I grabbed a big box out of it. I dragged the box to my desk. In that box there were all kinds of materials, but most of them were meant for drawing. I grabbed some special paper out of it and some pencils. “Now what should I draw?” I looked around and spotted a book of school with all the photos of the students on school. I opened the page of my class and looked at the photograph of the boy I met. Don’t ask me why, but I started to draw him. There was something about him that attracted me to him. Many hours I sat behind my desk drawing that boy from the photograph until I heard Hannah knocking on my door. “Yes” Hannah opened the door and came in; she was dressed in her working outfit, which meant that she had to work this night. “I just got a phone call that they need me at the hospital, so I’ll be there if you need me.” I nodded and I saw that Hannah walked away and a few minutes later I heard the door opening and getting closed again. I looked on my watch and noticed that it got pretty late. I left my unfinished drawing as it was and went to bed. “Tomorrow another boring day”