Chapter 3:
Elena's POV:
8 A.M.
I walk into my first class of the week and sit in a random desk. I pull out my phone as I wait for the teacher to arrive.
"Good morning class," I hear from a woman walking into the room causing me to shut off my phone. "Welcome to first year Physics. I'm your teacher Ms.Hard."
"Before we begin, I'm just going to read out the list of names I have here. If you are not called, that means you're in the wrong class," she said as she put on her glasses. She read off a few names before I heard, "Ethan Dolan."
What? I thought he was a year older.
"Oh, Mr.Dolan, I remember you. I'm still so surprised how you failed this class," Ms.Hard said looking at Ethan sitting in the back corner. I turned to look at him and we made eye contact for a spilt second before he turned looked away.
"I mean, I've never seen a student go from a 96% to a 50% in just a month," she continued. "Well, shit happens," he responded and then Ms.Hard continued to read the rest of the names.
Ethan dropped almost 50% in a month? Wait how the fuck did he have a 96% in physics at one point?
*
Friday 5:00 P.M.
The week went by pretty quickly since nothing really happened. Ethan isn't isolating himself as much. Like, when I came home from school on Monday, he was sitting on the couch watching TV. Also at breakfast on Wednesday, he didn't cause any problems.
Oh and turns out, Ethan and I both only have Physics on Monday, so we're home alone until 4 P.M which is kinda awkward since he hates me. I think we both also have Friday's off since he was home all day with me. He left 10 minutes ago somewhere but he didn't have his bag with him so I'm assuming he didn't go to school.
I was now just sitting on the couch watching TV before Savannah walked in with 2 bags filled with alcohol.
"What's with all the alcohol?" I ask. "Surprise! We're having a party tonight!" She cheered. "It's the first party of the school year and everyone's coming," she explained as she walked into the kitchen with me following behind her. "How'd you get all that?" I asked. "I'm in fourth year, remember?" "Oh, right! That explains why you're the most responsible one of us all." "Yes, and speaking of me being responsible, since you, Grayson, Maya, and Ethan are underage, I will only allow you guys to drink at parties, special occasions, and if you're going through a breakup. But max, two cups!" She says.
"Oh, and same with Evan since he acts like a 6 year old," she adds making me laugh. "Do you need help with anything?" I ask. "Yes, I need help cleaning up this floor and the basement," she says as she puts the bags onto the counter. "Okay, I'll go get started on the basement," I say as I head towards the basement.
I walked down into the basement and the first thing I had noticed was that there was a box in the middle of the room with an empty bottle of alcohol next to it. I walked over to it and picked it up to put off to the side. Of course, I ended up dropping the box and everything came out.
I groaned as I began to pick up the things that fell out. I was curious to why there was a tuxedo in a box in the basement when I saw a sheet of paper filled with written words. I couldn't help but read the first few words.
"I take you to be my partner for life-"
I stopped reading there realizing this was a wedding vow. My mouth dropped open and I quickly put everything back into the box. What is this even for? Is Grayson proposing to Maya?
Suddenly I hear someone coming down the stairs. I quickly put the box in the furnace room with the other boxes and shut the door.
"The basement already seems pretty clean, let's go clean upstairs," Savannah says.
*
9 P.M.
The music was pounding loudly as everyone danced to the rhythm. I usually don't dance with random guys at parties, but tonight I was. I felt different, maybe it was just the adrenaline of my first university party that is being held in MY house. I was now on my third drink as I continued dancing with the three guys around me. I then looked around the room to see if any of my roommates were around but I couldn't find anyone. I actually hadn't seen anyone since the start of the party except for Ethan. I actually saw Ethan down here drinking. I was expecting him to leave the house for the party.
Suddenly, someone from behind me wrapped their arms around my waist. I went with it and danced with him for a bit. He spun me around and leaned in for a kiss. I stopped dancing and his lips met mine before I pulled away.
"S-sorry, I'm not like that," I said to the guy. "Oh, c'mon, you were just basically grinding up on me," he said and put his lips on to my neck. My heart started to pound hard and my palms started to get sweaty.
"No, get off," I said and pushed him off me. "Why not? I know you want to," he said and pulled me into him. I tried to pull away from him but he was too strong for me. My breathing started becoming heavy and I started feeling light headed. "What's the big deal?" "I'm not the type to hook up with random guys. I'm not even the type to be dancing around with guys like this." "Well you're dancing with me, might as well do the other thing that you don't usually do," he said and tried to kiss me again. "Just leave me alone!" I yelled as he continuously tried to kiss me.
Suddenly, he was pulled off of me. By... Ethan?
"She told you to leave her alone man," Ethan said. "This isn't any of your business dude," the guy said before pulling me into him again then sliding his hand down to my ass.
Ethan pulled him off of me and took a swing at him.
"ETHAN!" I yelled not wanting a huge scene to start. But, people started to form a circle to give them space and then the other guy took a swing. He hit Ethan in the side of his jaw before Ethan hit him hard. He took a fall to the ground and Ethan jumped on him taking swings at his face just letting out all his anger.
"ETHAN, STOP!" I yell getting scared of what was happening. He continuously punched his jaw and then the guy took a hit at Ethan's nose. Before Ethan could take another swing, Grayson then came in and pulled him off.
"ETHAN WHAT THE HELL?" Grayson yelled. He wiped off the blood from his nose then walked away. The guy that was on the ground got up and walked out the door. I was still shaken up after what happened so I decided to go outside and get some air. I walked out to the edge of the driveway and sat down.
I've never experienced guys acting like that with me, I felt almost violated.
"Hey, are you okay?" I hear from behind. I turn around to see Ava. "Yeah, I guess. I mean, it wasn't THAT big of a deal..." I respond with as she sits down next to me. "Well, I know things like that don't happen to you." "I know but, I don't want to be too dramatic or something. I mean, it's not like he raped me..." "Yeah, well, he still did touch you, it's okay to be a little upset and feel scared," Ava said and wrapped her arms around me. "I was really scared... I didn't know what to do... I didn't know what was going to happen, I wasn't prepared..." I said and rested my head on her shoulder. "If it weren't for Ethan... I don't know what would've happened," I added. "Ethan?" Ava asked. "Yeah, he pulled him off of me. I don't even know why he helped me considering he like hates me or something," I said.
*
3 AM.
The party was now over and I was now just laying on my bed thinking about what had happened earlier. I couldn't help but imagine what would have happened if Ethan didn't come help me... Speaking of, I should go thank Ethan.
I walk over to the terrace to see Ethan leaning against the railing drinking from a bottle.
"Uh, thank you... for what you did," I say from behind him as I walk up to the railing and lean against it. He glances over at me before looking down into the water of the pool in our backyard. He takes another swig from the bottle and looks down at the small navy blue box he was holding in his hand.
"I loved her... I loved her so fucking much," he suddenly says, still looking down at the box. His ex? "But she just had to deceive me, didn't she," he says almost laughing at the end. He then whips the box into the backyard before turning around and walking back into his room. What's in the box?
I walked back into my room and decided to go down and get the small box.
I picked it up from the ground and brushed off the soil. I decided to respect Ethan's privacy and not open up the box. I just decided to keep it safe just in case he didn't really want to lose it. He was drunk when he threw it off the terrace, so maybe he wouldn't have done that if he weren't so drunk...
(A/N: oooo lots happened in this chapter
- what do you guys think what the box is for?
- I'm so excited for you guys to get further deep into this!!
- didn't edit this so excuse the errors if there are any!
- and hey tysm for 1000 reads already!!)