Aiden's POV:

Today is December 31st, 2023. My mom is hosting her annual New Year's party tonight and she invited everyone in my SCHOOL. I'm not even popular, I'm just one of those loners that two or three popular kids find interesting, so I wasn't expecting a lot of people to show. But when at least 150 high schoolers arrived at my doorstep I was definitely shocked. 

Turns out when I was banished to my room, Braedyn and my mom started to conspire against me and sought out the entire population of Tennessee while I was reflecting on my actions. Turns out, people actually like Braedyn and he's pretty popular. We are freshmen so I didn't expect freshmen, sophomores, juniors, AND seniors to waltz into my house. The place was jam-packed. With barely any room to get around, I made my way toward Braedyn who had a drink in his hand and his other arm wrapped around his ex Shyanna. 

I watch as the two make conversation, a gleaming look of desperation and longing in their eyes. It made me angry- really angry. I don't like drinking but it's not like there was something else I could do to stop the anger from coming through. I'm not sure why  I'm so mad though. Is it because I've listened to him sob about how she broke his heart and yet he continued to go back to her? That HAS to be it, there's nothing else it could've been.

So I turn around to the drink table behind me, grab a shot of God knows what in each hand, and chug both of them back in one swift motion. 

I start to choke on the nastiness and wonder why I did it in the first place. I find a closed Coke on the table and guzzle the whole thing down without coming up for air. I attempt to crush the now empty bottle with my hand but I'm too weak. I look to my side and watch as a bunch of Juniors laugh at my failed attempt at demolishing a can. I threw it on the floor with all my might and took a couple of more shots while I was there. 

I turn around when everyone around me starts counting down from 10, the alcohol kicking in fairly quickly. My head starts to spin, I'm aware of what's happening but I also have no control over my body and its actions. 

I want to make him jealous I think to myself

I don't think of why  I want to make him jealous, I just do. With the alcohol having full control over my body, I grab the nearest girl by herself and pull her in for a kiss when the clock strikes midnight and everyone screams, "HAPPY NEW YEAR"

I release myself from the kiss so I can figure out who the hell I locked my lips when I see Madison Meyers looking down at me. I turn quickly in shock, holding in the vomit in my mouth when I see Braedyn and Shyanna. There was an ungodly amount of tongue in the hot, steamy, french kiss. The two ran their hands around the other's body, and I couldn't help but stare at the sight. I knew that Braedyn had a thing for tongue, but I didn't know it was THIS bad.

The rage and fury that inhabited itself in my mind and body at that moment was one of no other.

I stormed off. I was drunk and upset. Not only upset about Braedyn but mad at myself for losing control like that.