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Chapter 25 - New Year

New Years is an underrated holiday. People don't get excited about New Years like they do Christmas.

But I like New Years. New Years is showing that you get a new start, and I definitely need one.



River has been happy all day, Pho and El went on a trip to see Pho's mom in Alleyah, so the party he's having will be toddler free. El said something to Pho earlier about getting to bring home Nico, I wonder who Nico is.

I sit on the couch while watching a show, waiting for Kingston to come down as I hear someone's steps come closer.

I look over, pausing my show as River e tees my peripherals.

"So Love, I might be changing you nickname again because I have realized your a bit of a wimp. So it is a toss up here, Baby, or Wimp?" He asks sarcastically as he leans forward on the back of the couch.

"Call me whatever you want." I say, disappointed and he throws himself back.

"Wow be more excited." He says sarcastically and I nod slowly, "I don't think I could."

"I am just gonna alternate I am to indecisive for this shit." He says, circling around the couch and sitting next to me. I lean on a pillow and put my feet into his lap.

"The party is starting in like five hours so I have to get up and start locking doors, sorry, Puppy." He says and I smile at him as he gets up, pointing to me, "You can go get ready if you want." He finishes as he leaves.

I look down at what I'm wearing, knowing that I'm just gonna stay in my room and try the piano.

I get up while I see River in the kitchen on his phone, texting somebody and getting out food. Slowly I walk up the stairs, flopping on my bed soon and looking at the ceiling.

The window is open, it's only two but River is rich and has to prepare so... I do too.

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The party is going, people everywhere downstairs and lining the halls. Music can be heard clearly through the thin walls of the house as I sit on a bench in front of the piano.

I hit a key, and another, not knowing how to play piano well. Somebody knocks and then enters my room, making me turn expecting another drunk couple but seeing Kingston leaning against the now closed door.

"Drunk party girls are a lot." He says and I furrow my eyebrows at him with a chuckle, "Okay, Kingston," I start sarcastically "Like you don't love the attention."

"I never- I- what do you want me to say?" He says and I stare at him for a while, eyeing him with a look only he will know.

After a second of looking into each other's eyes, my glare having faded, he coughs and shakes his head while coming towards me. "Do you play the piano?" Kingston asks and I shake my head, glazing my fingers along the keys.

"I wanted to for a while because my sister played, but I can't do anything, let alone read sheet music."

He furrows his eyebrows, pushing my shoulders over to move me out of the way in the bench. He sits next to me, "I will teach you." He says softly, being my hand under his and pressing down a few keys.

"These are A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. They are the notes on any clef. Any of them can make a song, no sheet music required." He says and I look up at him, wary at that statement.

"Here." He says, pushing down keys to perform a song. Not one anybody new, just him. It's beautiful, not very classical more spicy, but beautiful still.

I shake my hips, looking at the way he plays, his fingers moving fast and his lips turned into the smallest of smiles.

"It's beautiful." I say and he stops playing, turning towards me, he mumbles something along the lines of, "just like you.", but I don't buy what my ears sold.

"If you know what notes go well together it is easy." He says and I nod, looking down at my feet.

After a few moments of silence he gets up, putting his hands on both sides of the table I was leaning on on either side of me. Our bodies centimeters apart, his breath fanning over me while I look up at him.

"Why are you not at the party?" He asks, pushing a piece of hair out of my face. "I've never been to a party, I'm kinda scared of all of that." I say, his eyes sparkling with the moonlight shining through the window behind him in the dark room.

"Get changed." He says and I furrow my eyebrows, slowly going to my closet. "Don't wear something too revealing though... I for one don't want guys to hit on you and two don't want drunk me to accidentally hit on you." He says and I roll my eyes as I go get changed in the bathroom.

The light shines on my face roughly, different from the faded light in my room. I put on the black tight fitting dress pretty easily. As it slowly goes down my thighs as I pull at it, I look in the mirror.

Then I look down at my legs, knowing that the dim light and lack of people with right minds will make it some nobody sees my scars. But I put makeup over them either way.

I walk out, and he stares. Thinking.

"Come with me," He says after a second of thought, grabbing my arm and taking me out of my room. He heads past everybody easily, like it's normal to see three thousand couples making out along the walls of your home.

We go down the stairs, down a hall and towards the courtyard. Going straight past the courtyard and straight into a large room.

People dance in this room, one of the sources of the loud music coming from here. Everybody jumps up and down, trash music playing that I know River didn't pick.

People play a game in the courtyard, Kingston's friends are where we are in the what I assume was before a living room.

River looks at me with a smile, "Here's drunk River and sober Reid." Kingston says, Reid standing still with his arms crossed while River jumps up and down while drinking out of a bottle with his arm wrapped around Reid.

I look at Reid, "I'm sorry." I say sarcastically and he shrugs. "Comes with the job of being a bozo's friend." He says and I nod, pointing discreetly at a River even though I know he sees. Reid sneaks me a smile, with River gasping unrealistically.

With his slow reaction time, Kingston looks at me, clear what he's thinking, I loved that about him, I didn't have it wonder unless he wanted to hide something from me.

Which he never did.

He smiles, his eyes bright lips curved upwards as he takes me over to the couch and sits me on his lap.

I'm enveloped with the smell I love, the vanilla and sandalwood that's oh so familiar.

He sneaks a long, slow kiss on my neck, something nobody ever does. He looks up at me with one exposed eye, smiling happily. "I'm happy you came down, you look beautiful." He says and I smile as I lean in and put my head in the crook of Kingston's neck.

"You Okay, River?" I ask when I turn around and he chuckles, "Only when I'm like this." He says and I slowly move him to the couch where Kingston used to sit, but he's gone.

I walk over to Reid and raise my eyebrows in surprise, "Welp, he's drunk." I say and Reid laughs. "You didn't notice?" He asks and I chuckle.

He takes my shoulders, lifting my chin up so I face him, "Just have fun, everybody except Kingston and I are too drunk to do anything except get more drunk and make out at midnight when it's finally new year." He says and I raise my eyebrows to which he and Reid just nod.

"I'm going to get River another drink so that he passed out before anybody else can see him like this. I'll be back." He says, messing with my hair before turning and leaving.

Finally I see Kingston.

I look at Kingston, dancing and having fun, thinking of what he said to me, thinking of his supposedly bad step mom. Thinking of what I want to know.

Kingston's always intrigued me, I should be used to it by now but I'm not, I want to know
him better, better than I already do.

I want him to love me.

STOP LIKING KINGSTON!

I won't pay attention to it though.

FINALLY!

Reid opens his mouth to say something but is interrupted by Lilah coming over and shaking me roughly. A very calm and sober Jerimiah next to her, crossing her arms and A drunk Rain on the other side.

Miah looks at Reid, then at the human-sized problem named River.

"That's not good." She says and Reid just stares at her a full in smile on his face, "Yeah." He says and I chuckle, Miah is the perfect amount of serious for Reid.

Lilah hugs me and and I smile, "Hi-" she cuts me off with a loud "HEY! I haven't seen you in so long, I want to hang out with you! See if your actually chill or if I'm getting my best-friend hopes up to quick." She says And I chuckle.

"You're a bit to drunk for me right now." I say and she backs away with a chuckle "Yeeeah.", dancing with Rain in the corner. "Tell me about it." Reid says, River having a new drink in his hand.

Kingston must have left again without me noticing. The tv in the corner of the room reads only a couple minutes until the ball drops, until It's finally new year.

I look around for Reid and River, seeing Reid on his phone while River lays passed out. As soon as it's about a minute left until he ball drops I sit next to River, stroking his hair as he sleeps maternally, my body laying next to his as I watch around him, knowing he'd do this for me.

I actually had whatever amount of fun you could have in less then twenty minutes where I met new people who were very drunk.... and I don't do that often.

People couple up, ready to kiss at midnight. I look for Kingston in the crowd, to tell him thank you for letting me have a small amount of fun that I never get with new people.

But I can't see anybody as I sit down.

But soon people start chanting, "3.... 2...!" They say, everybody in couples except Reid sitting next to a plant on his phone.

Suddenly Kingston is in front of me, hands on my hips with a smirk on his face. He leans in and quickly whispers in my ear an insincere, "sorry," before everybody yells out "1!"

People start kissing, only to leave me knowing the make-out sessions will get worse. But suddenly, soft lips are placed on mine, the ones.

It feels good, apart from the alcohol a girl definitely made him drink, though I know I'd never say that to anybody. He pulls his lips off mine, leaning his forehead against mine and smiling against my lips, "I am sorry, I didn't have anybody to kiss." He says and I pull back, giving him a sarcastic scowl.

"Say that to the girls waiting behind you." I say and he pouts, "But I've kissed them before!" He says like a toddler wanting a new toy, the typical Kingston and I.

I don't know what I was thinking, that maybe Kingston would kiss me because he wanted to but I'm not one of the girls he likes, I'm not blonde, I'm not pretty.

I don't know why I thought that Kingston could actually like me. Maybe it's because.. of something I've never done before, maybe I like him.

WHAT THE HECK WE JUST HAS THIS CONVERSATION:

STOP LIKING KINGSTON!

But that's fucking stupid why would I want him to like me. Why would I like him. Maybe because he saved me and he's sweet and caring and oh my Jesus is he hot. But no.

"You never change do you?" I ask quietly, him giving me a confused look. But I'm used to that, the rudeness, people using me.

I put my arms around his neck though, resting my head against his shoulder. "Thank you, your friends are stupid though." I say softly and he chuckles.

"Thank you for the kiss?" He asks sarcastically and I shake my head, he already doesn't know what he just said.

"I knew you were going to say that." I say, shaking my head.

He doesn't know. He doesn't think he did anything wrong because he didn't, I'm just over reacting.

Right?

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