Chapter Eighteen

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Yup.

This party was definitely bigger and crazier than Angela's. It was at a much bigger location, at a much bigger house, meaning there was way more people here than there was at Isaac's party.

"You okay? How you holding up?" Isaac tugs on my hand, whispering into my ear as we walk into the huge crowd in the back yard.

I nod my head and mouth the words 'I'm fine'. Isaac brings my hand up to his lips placing a soft kiss on the back of my hand. We continue moving through the wave of people until Isaac finds some people he actually knows. Its the same guy from the parking garage, Fonzy. He's standing near the keggers with his arm wrapped around a beautiful brunette, holding her close to him. I believe it's his girlfriend, what was her name again? It was something with a C I believe. Casandra? No.. Carolina? Oh, Camilla!

Camilla was a gem to look at, she was model type beautiful. She wasn't from the Italian decent though, she looked more Hispanic than Italian. She was in a short, tight, red dress, with some killer black heals that made her long legs look absolutely amazing! Isaac and I walk up to his long time friend and he immediately beams with excitement that we actually showed up to the party. He pours Isaac some beer into a red solo cup from the keg on the floor and offers to serve me a cup as well, but I politely decline and he informs me that there's some soda in the ice chest behind us.

I tug on Isaac's arm gaining his full attention. I stand on my tippy toes as he leans down a bit, "Ima go grab a coke," I tell him.

"I'll go with you."

I shake my head, "I'll only be gone a second. Stay. Continue talking."

"I don't care, I don't want you wondering off by yourself." He says, using his authoritative voice.

"I'll go with her, Isaac. Geez, breathe."

Isaac immediately turns to scowl Fonzy's girlfriend. She gives her boyfriend a quick kiss and walks over to me, hooking her arm into mine. "She just wants a soda, Isaac, stop being so fucking possessive," she says crossly.

"Camil," Fonzy grumbles behind us.

Isaac's frown only deepens and I can tell that he's getting irritated. This is actually a first that I've seen or heard anyone talk to him in such a manner. Everyone's usually quick to respect Isaac, or even fear him. I politely smile at Camilla, kindly removing her arm from mine and walk up to my short tempered boyfriend. I stand on my tippy toes and kiss his cheek while my hand cups the other side of his face. "I'll be fine," I mutter into his ear. "I'll be back in a minute."

"30 seconds," he growls.

I smile shaking my head and give him a quick kiss before leaving his side.

"How do you do it?" Camilla asked as we walked over to the small ice chest.

"Do what?"

"Deal with all of his controllingness?"

I smile up at her as I bend down to grab a Diet Coke, I offer her one and she shakes her head no. I close the chest back up and stand up. "It's not that he's being controlling," I begin to tell her. "It's more of an over protective thing. He's just being cautious, he's a cautious guy."

"Then help him not be," she says as we begin to walk back to the guys. "Yeah it's good to have someone always there to protect you, but you need to show him that you're not totally helpless. You can't be weak if you're gonna be with someone like Isaac, but you also can't over power him either." What the hell is this girl talking about?!? "Show him that you're strong, that you can take care of yourself when he's not around! If not he's gonna walk all over you and try to control your every movement, girl."

Says the girl who's boyfriend just called her crazy a few hours ago.. I simply smile and nod. I'm relieved to see that Isaac and Fonzy are no longer alone when we get back, they're now accompanied by some of Isaac best buds. Dion, Ric, and of course Angela. This actually makes me happy, only because I'll no longer have to hang around Camilla.

Angela's quick to spot me out. "Oh my god, Hailey!" She squeals running over to me. She throws her arms around me, hugging me so tight that I can barely breathe. "I didn't think Isaac was being serious! He said you were here but I didn't believe him!"

I giggle and engage her back, "yeah, I'm here. It was kind of my idea."

She takes a step back but her hands remain on the side of my arms. "Hailey Summers, I am so proud of you! Look at you, going out two weekends in a row!"

"Did you get what you needed?" Isaac walks up behind Angela.

I nod, "yup," and show him my open can of Diet Coke.

He walks around Angela and leans down to whisper in my ear while holding onto my arm. "I'll be right back, Ima go with the guys real quick." He kisses my cheek. "Please stay with Angela."

"Where are you going?" I ask him a bit sad that he's trying to leave me.

He kisses my cheek one last time, "I'll be back in ten minutes." He pecks my lips, "I promise."

Isaac walks over to Angela and mutters something into her ear. She nods and he walks away. Thankfully Camilla decides to leave with the guys and doesn't stay hanging around with us. I can't help but put a long face on as I continue to watch Isaac walk further and further away until I can't see him anymore.

"No sad faces," Angela smiles. "They're just gonna go smoke."

"Smoke?"

She takes a step closer towards me, "well Dion's gonna smoke, KP's most likely just tagging along." She clarified.

"What did he tell you before he left?" I wondered out loud.

"Oh," she breaks out into a huge smile. She hooks her arm into mine, "he told me not to let you drink anything other than that can of soda." She points at the coke in my hand. She takes it from my hand tossing it onto the grass, "but when do I ever listening to Isaac. Come on," she tugs me forward. "Let's get you a real drink."

We head back in the same direction that I had just came back from a few minutes ago. Angela hangs onto my arm tightly, dragging me along with her every move. She grabs a can of sprite from one of the many ice buckets that are filled with what seems like hundreds of cans. She tugs on my arm walking over to a table that's covered with liquor bottles. She grabs two red solo cups filling them up about half way with ice. She finally lets go of my arm as she starts to make two drinks in front of us.

"What were you doing with Camilla?" Angela glances over at me, pouring what's seems to be like cranberry juice into the two red cups.

"Oh, she walked with me to grab my coke, that you just so happened to toss out."

"Ew. No." She sputtered. "Camilla is not the person you want to be hanging around with. She's bad news all around! I'm surprised KP even let you be alone with her."

Now that you mentioned it, "I don't think he was okay with it actually. He was giving her some pretty dirty looks as we walked away." I tell her.

"I don't blame him," she scoffs stirring our drinks. "Camilla has no respect for anyone, but KP respects Fonzo too much to actually tell her anything."

"So he's that important?"

"Oh yeah, well.. at least he use to be. Fonzo was like an older brother to Isaac and Dion, but then something's happened and he moved away for a little while. He's fucking stupid too," she grumbles under her breath, handing me one of the red drinks she has creative. "I didn't go crazy with the vodka, you'll be fine.. but I don't get why he's with her still." Well according to him the sex is great. "He's always going out on her," she continues to rant.

"He cheats on her?" I ask, taking a small sip of my drink. To my surprise it's tastes pretty good, I can barely taste the liquor so I take a bigger drink this time.

"Just because you can't taste the vodka, Hailey, doesn't mean it's not there.. but yeah, constantly. Just last week he.. erm," she pauses, looking up at me. "Nothing, never mind." She shakes her head drinking out of her cup.

"No.. don't you dare do that! Now you need to tell me!" She takes another drink from her beverage, pointing at the cup, indicating that she's too busy drinking to talk. "Angela!"

She sighs deeply, "okay, fine! But you can not tell Isaac."

I quickly shake my head, "I won't." I say with a smile.

Only Angela doesn't smile back. "I'm serious, Hailey. You have to promise me that you won't tell him. If he finds out.. he'll kill him." I stare blankly at her. Kill him? "Well not literally," she continues. "Or-" she shakes her head. "You just can't tell him, okay?"

"I won't, I pinky promise," I hold out my pinky in front of her.

She giggles and we interlock our pinkys together, "Fonzo and I hooked up last week," she gets straight to the chase, no beating around the bush, no nothing. But she sounds a bit ashamed, maybe even nervous?

I nearly choke on my drink and begin to cough, "you did what?" I furrow my eyebrows.

"I know, I know.." she groans. "I don't know what happened. We ran into each other down town, and he kept saying how good I looked, and how much I had grown up. It had been years since the last time we've seen each other, and he looked so good." She smiles, her eyes twinkling in the moonlight. "We went to dinner, one thing led to another, and yeah.." she shrugs her shoulders.

"D- do you like him?"

"Fonzo?" She raises her left eyebrow. "God, no!" She laughs softly. "It was just a one time thing. If anything, I think he regrets it more than I do."

I'm in shock over here, I would've never thought that Angela would be the one night stand type of girl. I don't really know what to say. Do I comfort her? Should I be happy for her, scared?

"Was it that bad that you guys regret it?"

She shakes her head no and looks down at her drink. "Not only is Isaac gonna lose his shit if he finds out, but so will Dion.. One of them being upset is bad enough as it is, especially KP, but can you imagine both of them?" She looks up from her drink and I'm immediately sadden. There's tears glistering in her eyes. "They're lethal together, and Fonzo knows that, every guy in this damn town knows that.."

"Oh, Ang." I set my cup down on the table next to us and pull her in for a hug.

"Just once, ONCE, I would like to go out without my date having to worry about if he's gonna get the living shit beat out of him." She cries. "I love them to death, and I wish that I could go to them with my guy problems, but unfortunately I can't. I hate having to keep secrets from them, especially from Isaac.. but he can be so stubborn sometimes."

I snort softly, "oh believe me, i know."

Angela giggles softly, wiping the tears from under her eyes, "ew I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be a Debbie downer."

"No no no, you're fine, babe."

Angela smiles quickly pulling me in for a hug, "thank you."

"Um, for what exactly?" I hug her back.

"Everything," she says pulling apart from me. "I've never exactly had a girl friend before.. someone I can actually turn to... It's nice," she smilies.

"What about Sofia?"

Angela shrugs her shoulders bringing her drink up to her lips, "meh. We're not as close as we use to be."

"Oh, I'm sorry.."

"Don't be," she smiles. "I can care less.. Drink your drink, don't babysit that shit."

"Babysit?" I arch an eyebrow.

She laughs, "meaning you're taking forever to drink it!"

"Oh," I giggle and pick up my cup, taking a drink from it. I can't help but laugh as Angela watches me closely, instructing me to take bigger drinks.

"Atta girl! You'll be a pro in no time!" She laughs but then groans softly, rolling her eyes. "Speaking of the devil," she inclines her cup forward, "here she comes."

I turn to look behind me to see none other than Sofia coming our way, a not so happy look on her face. I hear Angela sigh deeply beside me as she takes another sip of her drink. Sofi's not accompanied by anyone other than her self. I couldn't understand why these two weren't closer, I would've thought they were the bestest of friends, I mean at least I thought they were, up until a few minutes ago. They were the only two girls in their group, wouldn't that give them some type of special girl bond together?

"Hey, Sof's." Angela greets her friend. "When did you get here?"

The color on Angela's face immediately drains when Sofia says two small little words, "Mario's here."

"What?!?" She gulped.

I swear I've never seen Angela look so pale.

"Wait, Mario Mario? As in your ex Mario?" I ask looking up at both girls. Angela nods her head.

No. No. No. This can't possibly be good.

"Please tell me that Isaac isn't here." Sofia says looking over at me, as if she were in my head thinking the same thing I was.

"I-uh, he's-"

"He's with the guys smoking," Angela answers. "Where is he?"

"Near the entrance," Sofi states. "He's with Cris and the Libonati brothers."

Angela swears under her breath, "great. Not only do I have to worry about Bianchi, but fucking Roxwell is here too, and they're together!"

"We'll leave," I tell both of the girls. "I'll tell Isaac that I want to go home and we'll leave."

"You would still have to walk by them, genius." Sofia remarks sarcastically. "Ow!" She yelps as Angela hits her on her arm.

"Don't be a bitch," Angela scowls her. "You're not going any where, Hailey. There's a lot of people here, maybe they won't run into each other. Plus he's here with you, I highly doubt KP will do anything." She begins to smile a bit wickedly, "I'm willing to bet all my daddy's money that you've never taken a shot before."

I shake my head and smile, "I haven't."

"Haven't what?" Isaac walks up behind me, hugging me from behind. He buries his face deep into the crook of my neck, and the feel of his warm breath against the base of my skin feels amazing. He kisses my neck softly, murmuring something against it. "Miss me?"

I unwrap his strong arms from around me and turn to face him, but his hands quickly find my waist all over again. I smile up at him, "little bit."

He pulls me in closer so that our bodies are now touching, "oh yeah?" He smirks. "Only a little bit?"

I scrunch up my nose and place my hands on his chest, pushing him away from me. "You smell," I tell him.

"Do I? I'm sorry." He apologizes.

"Did you smoke too?"

He doesn't say anything, but his guilty smile clearly gives him away. I frown for a second but easily get over it when I see just how relaxed Issac actually is. Even when he wasn't tensed he was still tensed, he was never fully relaxed, up until now at least.

"What?" He chuckles as he peers down at me through his half closed lids.

"Nothing," I smile picking my drink back up, bringing it up to my lips. The liquid hasn't made it passed my lips when Isaac's quickly snatching the cup from my hands.

He brings it up to his own lips and I think that he's about to take a drink from it, when in reality he's smelling it. "Who gave you this?" He frowns.

"I made it," I smile as proudly as I can, hoping he won't know that I'm lying.

He snorts softly pinching the bridge of his nose, "you're the worst liar ever, Hail. Was it Ang or Sofi?"

Im half tempted of blaming it all on Sofia for making that rude ass remark earlier, but I don't.

"Me," I grin, trying my hardest not to laugh.

Isaac continues to chuckle, "oh my God," he groans. "You're giving me such a headache right now, who made you the fücking drink, Hail?" He swears, but he's not necessarily mad, he does it in a joke full manner.

Angela begins laughing behind me, "stop torturing him." She hands me a little shot glass. "I gave it to her," she tells him. "Where's Dee and Ric?"

Just like with my red solo cup Isaac quickly takes the small glass from my hand, "for once in your life can you do something your told, Angela. I specifically asked you not to let her drink!"

"Why bring her to a party if you're not gonna let her have any fun!" Angela shouts back, taking a step closer towards Isaac.

I quickly intervene and stand in between the both of them, facing Isaac. I snatch my shot back from him and pull it back as he try's to take it for a second time."I asked for the drink," I say as sternly as I can, looking deep into his eyes. I point to the little glass in my hand, "shot plus teenager," I point to my chest. "Equals full experience at trying to be normal." I smile and shoot the drink into my mouth.

I swallow it slowly letting the warm liquid slide down my throat, but I still end up coughing and shaking my head side to side while sticking my tongue out, again. It burns worse than the drink Madison made at Isaac's party, it literally feels like some is torching the inside of my throat.

Isaac folds his arms in front of him, "you happy now?" He says sarcastically. "Feel like one of the cool kids yet?"

My smile only grows wider as I shake my head, "not yet." I turn to my side, "excuse me," i grab Angela's shot from her hand and drink that one as well. I reach for Sofia's tiny cup too but Isaac's hand quickly flies out and grip's my wrist.

"Hailey!"

"Oooww," I wince while laughing at the same time.

"Drop it," he sneered. I continue to giggle trying to wiggle my hand out from his strong grip but it's no use, I'm losing this battle. I huff and let go of the small cup letting it fall to the ground, soaking into the grass. He tugs on my arm pulling me into him until our faces our mere inches from each other. "I'm all for having fun, baby, I am. I understand that you want to try new things, but you do not know your limit so don't go and be stupid on your first time drinking."

Crap, he was right. What the hell was i thinking.. Oh that's right, I wasn't!

My smile quickly vanishes from my face and I lean in to kiss him but he turns away. "I'm sorry," I murmur.

Isaac releases my hand and grabs my chin, he tilts my head up meeting his dark, intense, gaze. "Pace yourself, Hail." I nod and he pulls my face forward, crashing his lips onto mine.

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I really shouldn't have finished the drink Ang made for me after taking those two shots. I started feeling.. not so good, about forty five minutes later. Talk about being a light weight, right? I kept my uneasy feeling to myself though, I didn't want to be that party pooper and ruin everyone's fun, ruin my own fun.

Isaac and I eventually split up from his group of friends. Sofia had went off to who knows where, and last I seen Angela she was hanging around Dion and Patrick, who were most likely still with that Fonzy guy. As for Isaac and I, we had migrated over to where they were playing beer pong. Isaac was currently about to start his third game, he was actually pretty good at the damn thing.

He turns over to me and leans down, talking over the loud music. "You wanna join this game?" He smiles.

I immediately shake my head no, "I've never played before.."

"You'll be fine," he grins. "All you gotta do is shoot the ball into a cup, princess... Get a partner, Lanzano, we're playing teams." He tells his opponent and he quickly finds a partner, it's another guy.

"What if we lose cause of me?"

"Then we lose," Isaac kisses my forehead. "Plus I'm getting pretty bored of winning," he adds.

I smile when one of the guys

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