I look at myself in the mirror one last time. My hair was done with nice beach waves, my makeup accentuating my y/c eyes, and my outfit fitting my body perfectly.
"Are you almost done in there?"
I hear f/n yell through the bathroom door.
"I'm coming!" I yell back.
This is the first time I go out without Dan so I'm not sure what to expect tonight.
I walk down the stairs only to find f/n waiting for me. They look up from their phone and smile.
"He was wrong for doing what he did to you." they say nonchalantly.
I look down and try not to think about what has happened the past couple of weeks.
"Yeah." I simply say.
Their phone dings before I could say anything else, thankfully.
"Oh! Our Uber is outside!" they say excitedly. "Let's go!"
I grab my purse and closely follow them.
~time skip:))~
We arrive at the club and immediately find our friends. Most of them are from college who I haven't seen in a while.
"Oh my gosh y/n! It's been so long since you've been out with us!" They all say. Well not at the same time but you know each of them said almost the same thing along those lines.
I just smile at their comments and look down. I would spend so much time with them before Dan. But when I started dating Dan I would just rather spend time with him. Guess not anymore.
"I'm gonna go get us some drinks." I say more to f/n than the others.
"Okay!" they say quickly before returning back to the conversation.
I walk over to the bar trying my best not to bump into others but failing miserably. I sigh. This is gonna be a long night. I get to the bar and see that the bartender is busy with others. I look around and notice people doing karaoke on a small stage near the dance floor. I'll ask f/n if they want to do a song later. I was suddenly snapped out of my thoughts by the bartender.
"What can I get you?"
"Umm just two beers please."
As I wait for him to get the drinks, someone sits right next to me. I give a side glance not wanting to be rude and intrusive. As I look though, I completely freeze. Is that....Louise? I try to give another look without making it too obvious and I notice her blonde hair with pink ends. It is her!
I can't let her see me. She'll probably ask about my whereabouts since Dan, Phil, and I would hang out with her often. I was contemplating whether or not to walk away or stay, the bartender again snaps me out of my thoughts.
"Here you go."
Unfortunately I was not expecting this and was startled. This then led to me spilling the beers.
"Oh! I'm so so sorry!" I start saying frantically trying not to drag attention to myself but it was all too late.
"Y/n! What are you doing here?"
I look over to see Louise ecstatic to see me.
"Hi." I say awkwardly. Why am I like this? She continues talking though unfazed.
"What's going on? I haven't seen you in weeks!"
"It's only been a couple." I say trying to make the whole situation less extreme.
"Yeah but we use to hang out every other day!"
I do not want to talk about this right now so I try to casually change the subject.
"Yeah! Well what about you? You never go to clubs!" I say trying to sound as enthusiastic as her. She chuckles.
"Well we all decided to come and have fun!"
I gave her a confused look.
"We?"
"Well sure you know like Zoe, Alfie, Dan, Phil, Caspar, Joe, Hazel. The usual."
My stomach drops.
Dan is here? Right now? In the same building?
"I gotta go." I say while leaving Louise by herself before she could say anything else. I quickly walk over to f/n who is talking and laughing amongst our, or I should really say their, friends.
I abruptly pulled their arm and said "We have to leave."
"Hey! What took you so long? I got drinks before you!" They say completely ignoring what I had just said.
I try to keep calm and repeat myself
"Yeah, so can we leave?"
"Why we just got here? Don't be an introvert for once!
"I just wanna go."
They stand up straight and look me right in the eyes. I really don't know what to do so I just awkwardly stand there.
"He's here, isn't he?" They ask.
My eyes widen. I was always terrible at keeping secrets but I wasn't gonna give up. "What? Who? I don't know who or what you are talking about." I say all at once like a blabbering mess.
They cross their arms and look at me sternly. "Listen y/n you are gonna have to deal with whatever is between you and Dan sooner or later. Might as well do it now."
I sigh. "I get that but not right now. I'm not prepared and I don't even know what I'd tell him."
"Confront him! You didn't do anything wrong yet he is still accusing you!" They say almost upset and they're not wrong. And it's not like I'm not mad at him because I am. He never even let me explain my side of the story. I gained back some self-assurance after thinking about this but I knew I wouldn't be able to confront him sober.
"Okay! I'll do it but not until I have something to drink." I tell them.
"And not to the point where I have no idea what I'm saying. Just to where the alcohol will calm my nerves." I add because knowing them, they'll give me something where I'll start doing things out of my nature.
"Duh!" They say to me as if it were obvious.
She hands me the shot glass and I glance down at it nervously. I'm not a big drinker but anything that helps me right now will be worth it. I drink the liquid and feel it burn down my throat. I shake it off and instantly feel it kick in. I really am a lightweight when it comes to drinking. I began to look around the room and my eyes instantly land on the karaoke stage.
"Let's go do karaoke!" I say to f/n.
"What?!" They yell.
I roll my eyes and decide to just drag them by the arm around the crowd towards the stage. There was really no point in me trying to be louder than the music that was booming right now.
Once we were in line I watched the couple on stage performing and couldn't help but to watch them. They really weren't great singers but looked very in love with each other. I watched how they looked into each other's eyes while singing 'Wannabe' by The Spice Girls. Classic.
I remember singing that song to Dan just to annoy him. He would laugh that laugh that I admired and start singing with me. I smile thinking about this nice memory. I was snapped out of my thoughts by
f/n.
"Y/n I have to go to the bathroom!" They say distressful.
"Come on! We are next in line though!" I say sounding more rude than I had wanted it to be.
"It'll be quick!" They say while trying to give me puppy dog eyes.
I roll my eyes and say "Fine."
They quickly make their way to the bathroom while I wait in line to go next. Gosh I hope they come back soon. I look behind me to see the line and geez did it get long.
The couple on stage suddenly finishes and f/n is still not back. I hesitantly grab a microphone and slowly walk up the stage trying to buy f/n more time.
Crap! I forgot to pick a song. As I was about to make my way down the stage, I see him walking up the stage. With a microphone?
"Dan?"
~Hello reader! Thank you so much for reading this story that I've been thinking about publishing for a while now:)) hope you enjoyed and part 2 will be coming soon!~