"Stacy! Wake up! It's party day!" August was violently shaking me
"Can you stop waking me up like this?" I try and push him away
"No it's fun. C'mon get up, we gotta get stuff for the party ready!"
"It doesn't start till 8 pm, it's currently 8 am. Leave me alone." I roll over and put my pillow over my head
"No." He takes the pillow off my face and throws it on the floor "Get upppppp" he yanks my blanket off me. Now I'm awake. And mad.
"Okay fine! I'm awake get out!" I scream at him. He backs up and leaves my room. I'm going to kill him at some point I swear.
I angrily get up and go downstairs and see Theo cooking some sort of something in the kitchen with August at the table. I sit down at the table across from him and lay my head down on it.
"Oh and here's the grocery list for tonight" he slides the list across the table and I stare at it
• Chips
• Dip
• Punch
• Alcohol
• Pizza
I slam the list back down on the table "1. I don't have money 2. I'm not old enough to buy alcohol and I don't want either of you two drinking."
"I have money," Theo pulls out two $20's "and when has age stopped you from getting alcohol?"
"Okay screw you, and where did you get that much money?" Did he steal it?
"I have my ways, also while you're out can you get a speaker for the stereo?"
I roll my eyes at him "Why am I the one who has to go out?"
"Because Theo doesn't want to and no one is going to sell beer to a 14 year old." August chimes in
"Who's going to sell it to a seventeen year old?" Are they dumb?
"If people don't sell to teenagers then how did you Marshall, and Hannah get that beer a couple years ago?" How does he know that?
"How the hell do you know about that?"
"Oh please all three of you came back with bottles of beer under your coats, mom was just too distracted to notice." He has a stupid smile on his face "If people don't sell to teenagers then how'd you get it?"
"We stole it from old man Carson!" August starts laughing beside me "He passed out drunk on his bench with a full case of beer beside him and we took it."
"Well just steal some again"
"No! I don't want you two drinking!" I pause "Plus stealing is nerve racking and I don't like doing it."
"Buzzkill." August whispers. I hit his forehead and go back upstairs to my room.
These last four days have flown by, I spent them with gang doing miscellaneous activities. We snuck into the movies, 'robbed' a gas station, ate a lot of food, and joked a bunch. I've also gone out to see Johnny every night, he's quickly become my best friend. I've spent so many hours talking to him in the lot about everything, and I mean everything.
I take a shower, change into a one of my regular 'beach looking' outfits, and do some light makeup. I go back down stairs to see Theo and August eating breakfast. "Thanks for waiting for me." I say sarcastically
"We didn't know if you were coming back and we didn't want to check. Neither of us wanted to get hit again." I fill my plate and sit down beside them
"So what's an estimated head count for this? I've got 6 people coming." I'd like to know how many people I'm going to have to kick out later.
"I have about 6 maybe 7 people coming." Theo says. We look over at August who is counting on his fingers
"I invited 14 people. I'd probably say only 12 are going to show up." We look at him dumbfounded
"Twelve? How the hell did you get twelve people?" Theo echos my thoughts
"Well it's Bob's crew, their girls, and a few others." The house is going to be destroyed
After we all finish we clean up the kitchen and the boys go back to their rooms. I grab Theo's money off of the counter and leave the house, I hate grocery shopping. I don't want to go alone. I start to walk to the Curtis's, maybe one of them will go with me.
I get to the house and just walk in. They yell at me if I knock for some reason. I see the three brothers, Two-Bit, and Dally "Hey guys! How's it goin'?"
"It's alright, but hey are you excited for the party today?" Two-Bit asks me
"I'm actually kind of nervous about it." I sit down on the couch beside him
"Why?"
"Well my mom comes home tomorrow and I'm worried that the house will be a wreck or she'll just somehow know about it."
"I'm sure it'll all turn out alright." Soda says coming out of the kitchen "What kind of food are you getting?"
"Just classic party stuff," I hand him the list "my brothers made that." He looks over the list and nods. I watch TV with Two for a little while delaying me having to go shopping.
After about 20 minutes I stand up can't delay this much longer "Does anyone want to go to the store with me? I don't like going alone."
Two looks at me "I'll go," he stands up "as long as I can buy beer." You know what? Screw it.
"Ugghhhh fine," He does a little happy dance and I laugh. He's such a child. "Let's get going, August is probably wondering what's taking me so long."
"Hey I'll come too, it's been awhile since I've stolen anything." Dally lights up a cigarette and takes a drag.
We talk while we go down the street, Dallas keeps talking about this girl he hooked up with, god he's so gross. I make attempts to change the subject but nothing is really sticking.
"So Johnny was the only one who wasn't at the house today, where do you think he's at?" Final attempt at changing the topic.
Two-Bit and Dallas look at each other and try to stifle laughs. "What?"
Dallas suppresses his laugh but is still smiling "Nothing." Two looks like he's about to burst out laughing.
"It's clearly not nothing so what is it?" They shake their heads. Why are they being so weird? I don't like it. "Come on just tell me!" Im getting a little irritated
Dally's back to being stone-faced and Two is back to being whatever his 'normal' is. "It's nothing don't worry about. Just an inside joke." Dally says cracking another smile.
"You guys suck."
Dally's telling us one of his New York stories. Man, he's led an interesting life. I had no idea he even lived in NYC till a couple days ago. Apparently he got caught up in a murder and ran away. That's wild.
As soon as we get to the store Dally starts shoving stuff in his pockets. He's gonna get us kicked out. Two-Bit helps me get the items on my list.
After wandering around for like 25 minutes we have everything except the beer "I got this area covered." Two starts to walk away but I pull him back.
"How are we going to buy it? We're all underage." Two-Bit shrugs
Dallas hands me his driver's license "I'm not underage, I'm 21." I stare at it.
"Is this real?" I wouldn't put it past Dallas to have a fake license
"Yup. I'll meet you guys at the register." He starts to walk away
"Buy some Tequila, the little clear bottle with the cowboy on it!" Dallas gives me a weird look "What I can't have a favorite drink?" Tequila gets me drunk fast and that's why I liked it. If I was going to party I was going to do it right.
"Oh and get some limes and salt!" Two yells after him. Dal nods and keeps walking
"What're those for?"
"Oh y'know, shots and body shots."
"I'm fine with shots but no one is doing body shots. No way."
He rolls his eyes "You're so uptight. You need to loosen up a little bit, just have some fun would'ya? Just be a dumb teenager for tonight." He's right, I haven't really been a 'dumb teenager' since before Jesse about two years ago.
Dallas and Two-Bit dropped off the groceries at my house and went back to the Curtis's. Theo and a very excited August help me set up all the food in preparation for the party. August gets very excited when I start taking the bottles of alcohol out of the bags, I tell him to 'keep dreaming you aren't drinking' and he deflates. I hid one of the tequila bottles under my bed for 'safekeeping'. But we've still got about seven hours till people start showing up anyway.
This is going to be an interesting night
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Don't really know what to put here but I liked this chapter.
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