Chapter 38 Broken Rules
Uriel's POV
Something bad was happening.
Something really bad.
I don't know but...
I think I found Ryder ... Attractive.
How does that even make sense?
He's like the worse human to ever live on earth.
But somehow, only him had the ability to put me on my toes.
He challenged me in so many ways.
Sparked up parts of me that I didn't know existed in me.
I groaned out loud into my palm.
"Are you good, girl?" Kathie asked, holding out two dresses.
I paused for a while, slowly raising up my face to meet hers. I had totally forgotten I was with them.
"You know, you've been hiding something from us." Chloe said, taking a seat in front of me.
"Me? What could I possibly hide?"
A lot.
I was hiding a lot and I just didn't know how to tell them.
"You tell us. Ryder? Chase?" Chloe folded her arms, raising her eyebrow at me.
Kathie quickly sat down, narrowing her eyes at me.
"Since when did we even start keeping secrets, girl?" Kathie yelled.
"It's not like that." I sighed, covering my face. "I... "
Chloe brought my hand down.
"Have you had sex with any of them?" Chloe asked carefully, a ghost smile on her lips
"Ew!" I said immediately, shaking my head.
"Kissed?"
I bit my lips, my eyes darting to the door.
"No fucking way! Tell usss" Kathie shook my shoulder.
I laughed, "okay, okay. So it's not exactly a kiss but Ryder..."
"Ryder?!" Chloe and Kathie yelled in disbelief.
"I knew it." Kathie wiggled her eyebrow. "Go on."
"Shared a sweet." Their faces fell in disappointment. I almost laughed. "I licked first and then he licked from where I stopped and I licked the rest. I don't know if it makes sense."
"Errrr. Baby steps." Chloe encouraged. Kathie rolled her eyes, making me chuckle.
"How did you guys get there?" Kathie questioned, giving me a suspicious stare.
"It started when he referred to me as his girlfriend." I said shyly.
"No shit."
Then I went ahead to tell them everything starting from the Chase eat out thingy and Ryder showing up and we lying just to get free ice cream, the sharing of sweet and that was all.
I left out the stuff that happened in the class and other private things.
"I'm so rooting for you two!" Kathie cooed.
Rolling my eyes, I stood up. "There's nothing happening between us."
"Thought you're with Chase though. I mean, you guys kissed?"
"We didn't. We just discussed in the room that day. Nothing serious." I picked up a dress, placing it on my chest as I stared into my reflection in the mirror. "Chase is ..."
Not like him.
No.
Why would I want Chase to be like him.
"I don't know. I'm just going to try him out since he's been pushing for it."
"I don't know about Chase." Chloe shook her head. "I saw him with Emma two days ago. It looked intense."
"They used to fuck back then, innit?" Kathie asked, throwing a top over her head.
We were getting dressed for the party tonight.
This was going to be our last party because we had to prepare for exams.
"Yeah but it's been a year, I guess." I shrugged. Emma wasn't a straightforward person.
Wait. What if they're still fucking?
I'll ask him.
"Just be careful around that one." Chloe said, applying her mascara.
"After the last outing he's requesting for, I might just tell him I'm not interested and end it there." I said truthfully.
There was nothing in my heart for Chase.
Boys were distractions.
"Cool then." Kathie said, brushing my hair. She applied some gloss on my lips and that was it.
"Lance and I made up. We're just not talking much." I told them.
"Yeah, he apologized to us too." Kathie rolled her eyes. "Anyway, don't look for me girls. I am on operation 'get dirty with Mason'. I don't know to what extent but yeah."
"And I'm on operation 'show Peter what he's missing out on'. If he doesn't show interest, I'll just say yes to Hudson. He's good looking too anyway. It's been long I got laid and my body is begging." Chloe groaned.
"Did I hear laid?" Mrs Lauren yelled from the door, holding it open.
We all froze.
"Can't wait to get laiddd." I sang some random song I didn't even know exist, nodding my head.
"Yeahh. My pussy is getting drier." Kathie chimed in, almost cracking me up.
"Boyyy, fuc-"
"Ew girls. That song is disgusting." Mrs Lauren shrieked, eyeing us in disgust.
"It's Gen Z mum. Can't beat this one?" Chloe smirked, giving us a thumbs up from behind her back.
"I'll drop you girls off. Gen Porn." She muttered the last part, closing the door.
We burst into laughter, holding our hands.
"Fuck that was close." Chloe said breathlessly.
"My mother would cancel whatever outing and take me for a test." Kathie picked up her bag.
"Your mother doesn't even approve of parties." I raised my eyebrow at Kathie.
"And yours doesn't give two shit about you." Kathie shot back.
"Okay, ouch!" I pushed her by her shoulder. Chloe had this nervous look as she looked between us.
"We're not fighting Chloe. Chill. She's use to it." Kathie said in a duh tone.
"Doesn't mean it isn't sensitive." Chloe scolded
"True. I'm sorry, Babes. I didn't mean it that way." Kathie said, her voice soft.
"Are you girls not so sweet? Seriously, I wasn't offended. You were just stating facts." I shrugged, a little bit of sadness settling inside of me.
I couldn't help it.
"Forget Ryder. Forget Chase. Have mad fun, okay?" Kathie told me, pulling me with her.
"Rule 1: Don't take drinks from strangers." Mrs Lauren started to lecture.
"We knowwww." We all groaned, chuckling lightly.
Mrs Lauren rolled her eyes at us, increasing the music. We all sang, moving our body rhythmically to the beat.
Mrs Lauren was just so cool.
But she can be strict when she wants.
The car came to a halt. She surveyed the house, nodded in approval and bade us goodbye.
"Ouuuu... I can feel it in my soul already." Kathie cheered, shaking the beat of the loud music that blasted through the windows.
I wondered how inside would be.
I winced at the deafening sound of the music as we closed the door behind us. My eyes caught onto the guys who smoked pipe by the corner, stoned as fuck.
At the other end were people who played games, different types.
"I'm going to get drink." Kathie yelled in our ears.
"I need to find someone to use." Chloe yelled back into my ear.
I smiled, nodding at the both of them. The smile faltered when they left and I found myself standing all alone with nowhere to go.
"Move out!" Someone yelled, pushing me to a corner.
I was about to cuss the person in my head when mouth hung open with no words coming out.
My chest heaved up and down as I stared at Ryder.
His hands were buried far underneath the girl's cloth, his hand grabbing her ass shamelessly as she licked him up his neck, grinding into him.
His eyes met mine, icy and hard.
The girl moved his face to hers, locking her lips onto his. He didn't break away...
Both from looking at me and from kissing the girl.
His stares pinned me to the wall while I watched him taste someone else.
I swallowed hard. A sharp piercing ache stung my chest, knocking off my breath.
I was burning up and I didn't even know why.
Maybe because you thought you were the only one he touched like that?
To think that I even let him touch me.
"Drink?" Someone extended their hands to me.
Without thinking twice, I took it and threw it's content in my mouth, regretting it immediately. My throat burned like fire, my taste buds infiltrated by its bitterness.
"Yuck. This was what people drank?" I cleaned my mouth with my wrist.
I turned around, almost losing my balance. My hand clutched the edge of the wall hard, my eyes spinning in circles.
My whole body froze as realization dawned on me.
I had broken Rule 1.