Journey for the Truth

Chapter 9: Party Hard

This chapter is told by the POV of Steven

Its been three days since Antonio was taken to the hospital. He has a broken left arm and two broken ribs on his right side. He has a cast and had to rest at the hospital until today. Both him and Milton get released today, which is a Saturday, and I'm on my way to pick them up now. We are throwing a party at Beth's house tonight because of it and the whole gang is invited. I continue riding my bike to the hospital, I'm about a mile away, so it should only take about 5-6 minutes now. I get there in only 4 minutes and find a place to lock up my bike so it won't get stolen. I walk in and ask the receptionist for both the room numbers. Great, the 4th and 8th floors. I'll pick up Milton first since he's not as badly injured. I wait for the elevator then take it up to the 8th floor. Milton's room is only the third from the elevator. He's awake and watching TV when I walk in there.

"Hey, how're you feeling?" I ask approaching the bed he's lying in

"Ready to leave, like now" he says jumping out of bed and grabbing his small bag of stuff that he was brought

"Ok but we have to go get Antonio first" I say walking down to the elevator with Milton following behind me. We get in the elevator and head down to the fourth floor

"Yeah, I heard about that, is he ok?" he asks concerned as the doors open

"Hiiii!!" Antonio yells in our faces as soon as the doors open "Oh thank god its you guys. I have done that to 5 different people so far"

"Yes, I think he's perfectly fine" I say answering Milton's question. We check out at the front and, after some confrontation about why I am picking them up instead of their parents, go to Beth's house to get ready for the party. Antonio isn't much help because of his cast. Kelly and their friends Samantha and Olive came over as well. The girls are in charge of the fashion aspect of decorating and me and Milton are the laborers, which means they tells us what to do and we do it. Talk about equality between men and women. We spend three hours preparing and the house is now completely party ready.

"Wow guys, we did amazing!" Olive says in excitement

"We? You five didn't do a thing! It was all me and Steven!" Milton yells at her, obviously exhausted and cranky

"Aww Milton, your right" Samantha says walking over to him "Thanks for being such a big strong man for us" she seductively says in his ear then kisses his cheek. He starts stammering like an idiot then turns all red faced and turns away

"Milton, ur redder than a tomato now" Kelly says laughing to herself. All the girls are laughing now and Milton leaves the room pissed off. I'll have to go talk to him later. The party starts in 10 minutes and he's already mad. Great. There's a knock at the door and Beth gets up to answer it. Its Mike! Yay!

"Hey everybody!" he shouts as he walks in "I brought booze!" he shouts holding up a case of beers and a paper bag of other alcohols

"Really Mike?" Beth says shaking her head "You really had to bring alcohol to my party?"

"Hey this stuff was hard to get!" he says walking into the kitchen to put them away. I go with him to see what Milton's doing in there.

"Hey what's up Mike?" Milton says from the kitchen table where he's eating a sandwich "See you brought the good stuff"

"You know it" he says opening the fridge and putting it inside

"People are gonna be here soon, so let's go back with the others" I say walking out of the kitchen. We all wait in the living room as people start coming over. In total we have me, Antonio, Mike, Oliver, Desmond, Milton, Kelly, Beth, Olive, Samantha, Jack, and Andy. I really don't want Andy here especially after what he caused with me and Antonio, but he told Beth that Antonio started the fight and, thanks to him getting into other fights recently, it wasn't very hard to believe, so she invited him as well. He gave me and Antonio both glares as he walked in then instantly walked over to Beth and gave her a big hug. We were having a pretty fun time and everybody seemed to be getting along. Mike decided to play beer pong, but only three others wanted to play. They split into two teams, Mike and Milton vs Desmond and Antonio. They have been playing for about a half hour now and Mikes team was getting destroyed for the third time, with only one cup left before they lose. Antonio aims the ball and launches it across the table plopping it directly in the glass winning the game again

"Yeeaahh boy!!" He yells victoriously. He takes all seven cups of beer left and chugs them down then shouts something I can't quite understand. We all laugh as he does his little victory dance

"Ok, ok" Mike says calming him down "I think its time for some shots! Who's in?" Everybody except me and Andy raise our hands. He heads into the kitchen and brings out four bottles of some expensive looking vodka and ten shot glasses and pours each one full

"Alright guys, I'm sure you all know how to do this but I'll explain anyway. You all drink until you can't anymore, and the last one to pass out wins" Jack explains raising his glass. Everybody gulps it down and the game begins. I sit there and watch as they down an entire bottle, then two, and on the third bottle people start going down one by one. Kelly is out first, then Olive, followed by Desmond, Jack, Milton, Mike, Samantha, then Oliver. The only two left are Antonio and Beth. Both of them seem perfectly fine as they approach the fourth bottle. They just keep taking shot after shot and when half of the bottle is gone, Beth falls out of her chair passed out on the floor with the others. Antonio laughs to himself a little bit then picks up the vodka bottle and downs it all. Andy gets up and walks over to me

"Hey, we should get these guys blankets and stuff then I'm gonna head out" he says actually in a nice tone. I wonder what that's about. He walks over to Beth and shakes her a little bit

"What're you doing?" I ask quietly so not to wake anybody up "Let her sleep"

"I'm gonna have her come with me upstairs to show me where enough blankets are" he says shaking her again

"I dont know if that's a good idea" I begin "I don't exactly trust you after you-"

"PURPLE DRAGONS!!!" Antonio yells at the top of his lungs inturupting meand then begins flapping his wings and pretending to breathe fire. He gets up and pounces on Kelly and begins nibbling her arm like hes eating his prey. I run up to him and pull him off carefully so he doesn't wake her up.

"Dude, you had waayyyy too much to drink" I say as I lead him to the couch. I turn on the T.V and he sits down on the floor to watch. I look around and realize that Andy and Beth are gone. God damnit. I head upstairs to where I hear talking and walk up to Beth's door. Its locked and I can barely hear them in there. I put my ear to the door to hear better

"No Andy, I don't want to have sex with you. I just want to go to sleep" Beth says sloppily

"I know that you want me Beth, dear. So let me give it to you" He says as I get madder and madder

"No! Get off of me! Help!!" Beth screams and I start pounding on her bedroom door. It won't budge at all. I hear her screaming for help and back up and start slamming into the door.

"Don't worry damsel. I'll save you!" I hear Antonio yell from downstairs as he runs upstairs and slams full force into the door sending him flying back unconscious finally. Good job dumbass. The cast on his arm has alcohol stains on it and is covered with sharpie doodles from tonight. I start banging on the door again and hear Beth still screaming until theres a loud shattering sound like a window breaking

"Who the fuck are you?!" Andy shouts from the other side of the door. I stop banging and listen. Theres a crackling sound like what you hear in a fire or an electric fuse box. All the lights go out and I hear Andy and Beth both scream. I step back in shock and trip over Antonio. Andy goes flying through the door sending wooden splinters all over the place. He hits the wall and falls to the ground unconscious with his skin blackened and burnt and his hair standing on end.

I look up and see a shadowy figure of a man standing at the recently fainted Beth's side. He turns to me then back to the window and jumps out, then all the lights turn on once again.