Athena

School went by in a flash, the halls were filled with talk about Dante's party. I had never gone to a party, I had drunk alcohol before but I had never been drunk.

Since Olivia and I last spoke, we had had plenty of conversations with the group, however, we began sitting by ourselves, preferring the lack of awkwardness that came with it.

As it was Friday night, and Olivia and I were going to have a sleepover, we decided to go to her house because, after many hours of convincing, I finally agreed to go to that party. The one hosting was that Jock, the one who asked Alex to join the football team the minute he saw him. I laughed slightly at the thought.

After school, I asked my mum if I could stay. She knew I was going to a party and drinking, she just didn't want me to be dangerous and consume too much. But instead of going back home, Olivia and I decided we would go shopping to get clothes for it.

When we got there it wasn't too crowded, so we stopped in a few shops. I first got new underwear from Victoria secret, I can't lie I didn't know the hype about getting expensive underwear but when I saw this laced matching set, sitting on display in the corner, I instantly fell in love and couldn't resist not buying it.

Olivia also picked out a cute matching set.

We then went into many, many shops before we could find perfect dresses, we wanted to buy a dress we loved not just liked. After an hour or so of shopping, getting a few accessories in between, we finished up and headed back to Olvia's house.

I had bought a tight silky black dress that landed a little below my knee's with a slit going through the up thigh. It showed a bit of cleavage but it was cute enough to get away with not being too frisky, for our school at least. It also had spaghetti straps which were one of the main things I enjoyed about it, as you can tell many of my tops had them. I had black stiletto sandals to match as well as the necklace I always wore along with a diamond choker.

When I finished getting changed I looked over to Olivia who looked amazing. She went for a dark red velvet bandeau dress that landed halfway through her thigh, one that also had a slit. She had a few silver necklaces on as well as cute dangly earrings.

"Come on, sit down" She orders while she pats to the chair that goes into the white makeup vanity. I followed her instructions and sat down, wiping my mascara off from earlier.

She puts concealer under my eyes and slightly bronzes up my face even though I'm tanned already? I don't even know. she does a lot more than me and hers always looks great. She ever so slightly goes over the ends of my eyebrows and finishes with curling my lashes and applying mascara.

She does my hair next and instead of my hair being wavy she straightens it. After she is all done she tells me to get up and close my eyes, I hadn't yet seen myself as she faced me away from the vanity. She guides me a few feet over and then orders me to open them.

And when I do I get shocked. I didn't know what she was doing but she was doing something right. She smiles at my open jaw. "You look amazing! I did well if I don't say so myself" She pats her own back before being taken aback by my embrace. "Thank you, Olivia!" I thank her and she hugs back and she starts her own makeup and does her hair. She looked amazing as always.

I wasn't 100% sure what makeup she was wearing but I'm pretty sure it was a full face. Olivia was a makeup genius. Charlotte showed me a picture earlier of her, Olivia and Evie at what was a Halloween party and the gushes on their bodies that looked too realistic. Olivia had done them last year and I had known she was good at makeup but not to that extent.

We looked at the time and it says 8:30 Olvia quickly went over my hair again before we left and by the time we got there it was 9:00. we took her car since she can drive, unlike me. She parked a road down and we walked to his house within a few minutes. I stopped in front of the house and take a breath.

I look over to Olivia and nod and we step into the door. There at the front was Dante and he had a red cup in his hand with what must have been alcohol. He walks over to the two of us and instantly looks at me. "So you decided to come Athena" He questions and I nod. "Only because the person next to me begged" I look over at Olivia giving me an innocent sheepish smile.

"Come with me and I'll get you a drink" He begins walking away and I look at Olivia and she motions a go on before walking away. Shit, I wanted to stay with her.

I walk closely behind Dante, looking down at the floor. I was a little scared to accidentally make eye contact with one of the many couples deeply tangled with one another. He stopped suddenly. Making me bump into him ever so slightly and I felt him tense. He turns to me and then puts his arm around me and the feeling wasn't nice but I let it slide as it wasn't a big deal.

He gives me a drink and we sit down next to a big group of people who turned out to be playing truth or dare. After a few drinks, I decided to join in and straight away I get picked on by a guy called Jay "Truth or Dare Athena?" Jay asks and for a second I think then answer "Truth". "Are you a virgin?" He asks and even after drinking, I answer calmly "Yes, I'm a virgin." "Have you ever kissed a boy?" He asks and I nod "Anything more?" I nod again until a girl tells him to stop with the questions so she can have a go.

"Truth or dare Dante?" She asks "Truth. " do you like anyone here?" She carries on. "Yea, I do actually" he claims. After the whole group started "oooooh" ing. It was a little weird.

After truth or dare was finished Dante offered me to dance and I took the opportunity. For 15 minutes we were grinding against each other but it felt odd like the person wasn't right. I wasn't used to grinding on someone I barely knew. But since everyone else was doing it, I decided why shouldn't I. 

He asked if I wanted to drink and I nodded and I danced by myself as I waited for him to come back but then I felt some arms go around me "Midget" He says and I turn around frowning.

"Get off and what are you doing here?" I ask. "Sorry am I disturbing the happy mood you was in?" He asks and I roll my eyes "Your so annoying" I sigh and he smirks. "Just how you like it." He jokes and I look away. "Dance with me" He orders and I scoff while turning back to him.

"Do I even get a say in this?" I ask knowing the answer. "Off course not" but somehow We ended up dancing with one another. We synchronized our hips and It was more enjoyable than Dante's. Ryder knew what he was doing. He knew that he was good at it too. And his confidence just made it better.

Dante comes back and I instantly part away from Ryder, this felt more awkward than it should have. I went to turn back to Ryder but he had already gone off somewhere. So I decided to stay with Dante.

3rd person

At this point, Athena had too much to drink and was swirling around. Dante kept offering her drinks. One after another. And she was completely drunk. Barely able to walk properly

"Hey wanna go upstairs? Away from the loud music" Dante yells over the loud music. The party was more loud than normal and Olivia had told Athena she would be dancing and Athena smiled over the fact she was having a good time.

Athena nods, she was greatfull he was going out of his way to help her despite there being a fun party going on. He takes her to an empty room and sits down on the bed. At first, she just stands there awkwardly.

"You won't feel any better standing just sit down here," He says, tapping next to him. Athena looks down at it and stumbles towards the bed. Falling ever so slightly onto it.

After a few seconds go by with an extremely awkward silence Dante places his hand on her thigh making her flinch. "W-what are you doing?" She stutters looking up to him with unknowingly innocent eyes. Her words were slightly slurred and as she spoke her eyelashes fluttered in a way that Dante couldn't help but resist, yet he should've.

He leans in but she leans backwards. "Why are you moving backwards?" He questions with cruelty in his voice. Athena started getting a little scared because despite her efforts of trying to push him back he would lean in. He manages to kiss her neck making her freeze.

"Please stop," She says in fear but he carries on. She was usually much stronger than this but the alcohol running through her blood made her feel more in touch with her emotions, fear. She could barely even walk, let alone defend herself from a man who was determined to get what he wanted.

Meanwhile

Michael carries on kissing the girl who he's been with for the whole time he's been here. "Let's go alone and you know," She says seductively in his ear and he laughs and brings her upstairs. She follows behind him. He sees a bedroom that was ever so slightly open and he hears familiar voices from inside.

"Michael?" The girl says behind him. "Go into the room next door, I'll be back in a minute" He winks at her and she smiles and walks past him.

"Please stop," Athens's voice says. He takes a look to see Dante over her in the bed. She looks scared but she was drunk from her stance. "We've both had a bit too much tonight. C'mon just let me" He tries kissing her and she puts her head to the side and makes eye contact with Michael for a second and mouths "Help me".

He felt his heartbeat slightly at the thought of not knowing how to react in this type of situation so he went downstairs quickly and went over to Ryder who was with Mason. "Ryder, quick" Michael says and Ryder turns his head in confusion.

"Dante is forcing himself onto Athena in the bedroom upstairs," He says. "That idiot" He barks and quickly goes upstairs.

He pushes open a door and see's Athena on the verge of tears telling Dante to stop while he continuously tried it. They turn to him at the same time and he yanks Dante off him by the back of his shirt and instantly punches him straight in the face, releasing a loud crack that indicated Dante probably had some broken bones.

He turns to Athena "Don't you know going into a room alone with a guy, it isn't safe" He yells and her eyes started to get tearier, "How about you quit yelling at me! It isn't my fault he was putting himself onto me!" His expression softens. "I'm sorry, Athena. Let's just leave" And before she can say anything he grabs her by the wrists and yanks her downstairs. "What about Olivia?" She questions him and he gives Mason who was about to follow them a look.

Mason nods. Making his way over to Olivia and telling her she had to leave because something happened with Athena. Olivia just nodded but was concerned. She followed behind mason and they saw Ryder putting Athena into the car. They both smiled and walked into the backseats of the car as Athena was in the passenger side and Ryder was driving since he hasn't had any drinks.

"Athena are you ok?" Olivia asks her gently after Ryder begins to drive. She doesn't get a reply. "She's asleep," Ryder says while concentrating on the road. "Oh. Ok. Where are we going?" Olivia asks. "My house, it's easier and quicker," Mason answers smiling at her. She just nods.

Athena is in the front, snuggled up into a ball. She breathes slightly heavy.

The car stops and Olivia and Mason both walk ahead to the front door. leaving behind a sleeping Athena and a confused Ryder. He gets up and goes to her side. Takes off her seat belt and starts shaking her. "Hey, Athena wake up" He repeats the same thing several times.

She reaches her arm out and hits him in the face. "Hey, what the hell?" He rubs the place she hit, his cheek and glares at her. "Oi wake up" He yells and her still drunk self starts moaning "Leave me alone".

"Get up," He says and she opens her eyes and pouts "Why do I have to!"

"Because you're in my car and you need to get out" He half shouts. "Because you're in my car and you need to get out" She mocks and he gets pissed off.

"You are the most annoying drunk"

For the next few minutes, Ryder tried to get her out of the car and she moaned and complained. Midway through his explanation to her about her being drunk and needing to get inside, she brought up the topic of her pet hamster that jumped out of her window 4 years ago.

He didn't even know how to react.

After he had enough he grabbed her wrist and started dragging her to the house. "So damn violent. you could have just asked me" Athena complained. And Ryder growled, "Is she being serious right now?" He says to himself.

Drunk Athena was a handful. Just as they got to the door he lets go of her wrists and She starts running away giggling. He faces palmed himself "Oh my god Athena!" He chases after her and when he catches her he picks her up and throws her over his shoulder.

"Get me down" she yells as she slaps his back but he just walks through the door, closes the door and walked into the living room where he heard Mason and Oliva. "What took you so long-" Mason started to ask but couldn't finish after he turned to see the two of them.

"What bedroom should she stay in?" Ryder asks, not even bothering to deal with anything other than getting her to bed. "I guess the guest room next to the one you normally stay in is alright." Mason answers

But before they go Athena starts talking. "Did you know about my pet hamster? It jumped out of my window 4 years ago. Like what the hell." She starts rambling. Mason and Olivia just stared at her in confusion.

"Not this again. Oh and thanks Mason" Ryder was exhausted at this point. He finally goes upstairs and into the room with her still over his shoulder.

He throws her onto the bed and she grunts slightly. "Hey. Ryder" She says calmy for the first time tonight. "Yea?" He answers. "She grabs his arm and refuses to let go. "Don't leave me?" She says and he sighs. She moves to the other side of the bed still gripping tightly onto his arm.

He rolls his eyes but before he can say anything she had already fallen asleep. Not wanting to wake her up he sits down on the bed next to her and ends up falling asleep himself.

Meanwhile

Olivia was sitting down next to Mason as they watched a random movie on his huge flat-screen TV. "What even happened?" Olivia asks "When?" Mason asks back. "Well the reason we had to get into the car and go obviously," She says. "Ah that, Dante was trying to make a move on Athena and she kept saying no but he wouldn't stop." He states and she sighs "I should've stayed with her and realised she was obviously too drunk"

"Don't go blaming yourself, It's not your fault and you aren't sober either. It's hard to have the best judgement after a few drinks" Mason says already knowing what she was thinking. Who wouldn't? "I won't."

"So..." Mason says trying to make it less awkward but it didn't exactly work and she laughs. "Your house is nice" She smiles at him and he goofily smiles back. "Yea, not to show off but I've got my own cave," He says and she looks at him confusedly "Cave?" Olivia questions. "Um, yea. ya'know man cave. My own hangout sorta thing" He states as if it was the most obvious thing. "Ohh. Right," He nods "I would show you but" he acts like an old man struggling to get up "I can't be bothered to even get up" She laughs.

"How comes there's all of those rumours of you and your friends being 'bad' you guys don't seem like you beat up 20 guys," she says, bringing up one of their many rumours. "Actually there was more, and that was only because they all tried hitting us first, We don't hit people for no reason, Just self-defence." He states and she gets taken back.

"Hmn what about that time when Michael apparently beat up a guy 2 years younger for no reason?" She asks and this time Mason seemed a little angry at the rumour. "Well, Michael's younger sister is a sophomore and she was involved in a bullying incident. Some guy would push her and no one knew about it. It went on for months before she told Michael and he flipped. He went straight over to him. Beat him up and warned if he did anything like that again he would die."

"I probably would have reacted the same" Olivia nods.

"How about Zane?" She asks

"Well..." The rest of the night was of them talking about the rumours, including the meth factory one. Olivia would ask about one and Mason would tell her if it was 100% true or not until they fell asleep on the couch after getting too tired.