LITERAL LEGEND 🕷 HEARTREAK HIGH

one, twenty five: bust a move

"dealing drugs in speed dealers is a bit cliche, don't you think?" darren spoke as they opened the door to find both cash and mara stood there. she wore a pair of cash's trackies, not very mardi gras of her. darren's eyes flickered from cash's glasses to mara's lip and cash pulled off his glasses. revealing his own bruise.

"jesus, what happened to you two?" they asked, looking between them.

"tripped on the stairs last night." mara quickly added. when darren look behind them. finding malakai looking around.

"darren, who is it?" she heard amerie asked, as she and quinni danced to the front room.

"oh jus those nice boys we weren't totally just talking shit about." and mara couldn't' help the chuckle, god she loved them. malakai came running up the stairs. giving her a smile before noticed the cut on her lip.

"are you-"

"i'm fine. i tripped." she spat pusing past him to go into the room with quinni and amerie. quinni came running over to her straight away, practically jumping on her in excitement. they watched the awkward interaction between malakai and amerie.

"can we have a yarn somewhere in private maybe?" malakai asked amerie, it took quinni and mara one look etween them before she jumped u again, heading for mara.

"are you wearing that? let me do your hair." quinni grinned dragging her off to darren's room where they had previously been getting ready. quinni's clothes were strung around the room. she clearly had a hard time choosing what to wear for herself. the girl was spitting out something about hair tinsel when she let out a scream. cash came running in the room. mara felt her heart leap out of her chest only to find quinni holding up a dress. cash calming and going back to his original spot, hiding in the hallway.

"dress up!" quinni screamed and soon the whole room were switching clothes and taking shots. she shimmed into the dress quinni had gave her. not even bothering that she was stripping. amerie saw the marks on her skin and decide to take a mental note of asking later. she couldn't help but follow the dips of the girl's skin, mara was so breathtakingly beautiful. amerie liked malakai, but god she would if mara gave her the chance. just kidding. she didn't like mara like that. did she? mara wore a dress that looked almost like stars, she was shimmering. a mirrorball. she looked like a mirrorball. she looked pretty. as usual as cash handed her the pill and a shot. quinni was stringing tinsel into her hair as malakai continued to dance with darren. it felt homely. she felt safe. like nothing could go wrong in this moment. she wanted to stay in this moment forever.

"come on, get a selfie with me!" quinni shouted lifting up the camera. mara jumped on cash's back, wrapping her arms around his neck as he slid one under her leg. amerie stuck her tongue got. everything felt right. and they got a group photo. and they continued to take photos. everyone was too tipsy to care, she was definitely asking quinni for these photos so she could hang them in her room.

"this jingers not gonna give me pink guy is it?" cahs asked and mara couldn't help but laugh at him. he had a thong strung over his face. she pulled the camera quinni gave her and took a pic of him stood there confused. and soon they were making their way to the party. and she saw spider for the first time since he was running away from cash after the abuse allegation.

"wow." he spoke as she walked up to him.

"a good wow or-" she started but was cut off as he wrapped his arm around her and pulled her closer. going to kiss her when he noticed the mark.

"you're so beautiful." he commented, deciding not to say anything about the cut. because she was smiling at him. she looked beautiful and he didn't want to make her frown by commenting on. so she remained shining. literally.

"lgbti acab." darren added as they noticed the igs awaiting and she laughed a laugh as they got inside. the party in fulls wing. everyone was dancing and watching the performance on stage. everything was perfect. everyone looked so pretty, everyone was having fun. she was mingling between dancing with darren and cash, ant and spider and by herself. she was really feeling herself. maybe it was the drugs. maybe it was the way sider was looking at her. and then darren was on stage, hartley was screaming for joy. they looked so good up there, something cahs would agree on. he had never looked more in love. his eyes were glazed over and he was smiling. he had never looked happier. until he saw darren speaking to someone else. cash reconised it as one of darren's exs. and his mood dropped. he wanted mara and him out now. he saw her dancing with spider, they looked like they were aout to stat fucking so he carreid on for the door when spotted him. one of chook's guy. shit. and he was heading straight for him.

"chook is a psycho, bro." he stated before leaving him. phew.

what mara didn't expect was to be dancing with amerie and malakai when cash came running over with a light up cock. he was on a cock and run.

"what the fuck are you doing!" she laughed as he pressed it to her face, trying to get it away from her. before he was running off again. and then she saw it. the moment she had been waiting for since cash mentioned liking darren. he was pressing his lips to theirs in the middle of the room. in front of everyone. even if nobody was looking.

"i think i love you." she said to spider. she had never said it to him, ever. he mentioned it when he was drunk. for example when he was on stage at dustin's party ut this was the first time she was saying it to him. and he didn't seem to care that her eyes were glazed and dilated. because he heard the words he so desperately needed to hear from her.

"i've been trying to ignore it because i don't want to end up hurt like my mother, but it's true. i am in love with you spider. no. spencer." and he pressed his lips against her. kissing her softly not to hurt her hip. and no, everything was perfect. nothing could go wrong. right?