I park up outside tannyhill, sending Sarah a quick text to let her know I'm here.

Within seconds she's at the front door waiting for me, with an excited look on her face.

I smile instantly at the sight of her. She reminds me of an excited puppy, absolute polar opposite to her brother, which I find a little odd but I just go with it.

I jump out my car and grab my bag from the passenger seat and begin walking up to her. She immediately embraces me in a tight hug, swaying my body back and forth.

I giggle and hug her back, "Sarah you saw me this morning" I giggle as she lets go.

"I knowww but I'm just so excited for tonight, it's like the party of the summer" she says in her playful high pitched voice as we walk into her main hallway.

"Mhm... you sure it isn't because it's at Toppers house?" I tease her.

She rolls her eyes playfully and gently shoves me.

"Shut up or rafe will hear you and he's such a-" she begins but gets cut off by rafe walking towards us.

"I'm such a what?" Rafe asks, making his way down the stairs.

Sarah rolls her eyes and puts her finger up to her lips, making sure I stay quiet about topper.

I giggle and nod, reassuring her that I'm keep my mouth shut.

Rafe walks up to me with a cheeky grin on his face, "you're late" he says, making me furrow my brows slightly. He waves his phone in front of my face and the time is 5:08.

I chuckle at him, "sorry I was... eight minutes late" I say in a sarcastic tone, grinning at him.

"I just hope that dirty pouge wasn't trying to keep you from me" he says, holding my waist.

I know he's slightly messing with me... but his firm grip on my waist makes me believe there's some seriousness to his voice.

I roll my eyes at him, I hate when he says things like this about pogues, even more pogues that are my friends.

"You're so mean" I say to him, making him grin.

"You love me really" he grins, still holding my waist tightly.

"Mhm" i hum, taking notice to rafes eyes glaring over my body, more specifically my outfit.

He begins to play with the hem of my tank top, keeping his other hand gripped on my waist.

"I hope you didn't let that little freak see you in this?" He asks in a hushed tone, his eyes roaming back up to my face.

Before I can reply, and presumably lie to him, Sarah walks over to me and looks at rafe.

"I'm stealing your girlfriend now" she sings out, holding my arm to pull me away from him.

I giggle and look at rafe, giving him a shrug.

"Sorry babe, I'm needed elsewhere" I smile at him. He gives Sarah an annoyed look before dropping his hands from my waist.

I quickly reach up and peck his lips before following Sarah up to her room.

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Me and Sarah are now just about ready for tonight, she's wearing a cute baby pink satin dress, which really suits her blonde hair.

I'm wearing my black spaghetti strap dress with a small slit up the side, ending mid thigh.

it's tight and accentuates my body in a flattering way. I've decided to pair the dress with small black heels and my Tiffany double heart pendant necklace Rafe got me last month.

I've chosen to leave my hair down and natural, it's got a slight wave to the ends from leaving it to dry naturally in the sun earlier.

My makeup choice for tonight is black cat eye winged liner, with some simple lashes. whereas Sarah's went with a softer, more bronze look.

We are really giving off black cat and golden retriever vibes which I think is cute.

"You look hotttt" Sarah exclaims as I apply lipgloss in her mirror.

"so do you" I giggle, giving her a playful wink, making her laugh.

It's now 7:30pm so we have around an hour and a half for some pre drinks before we have to leave.

which I'm not going to lie, is sometimes my favourite part of a night out.

I grab the vodka out of my bag while Sarah gets some mixers from the kitchen downstairs along with some glasses.

I pour a generous amount of vodka in each glass and she fills the rest with cranberry juice.

aka the best drink ever.

She switches some music on her Alexa then takes a sip of her drink, her face instantly scrunching up.

"Jeez how much vodka is in this?" She grimaces.

"Are you really complaining right now?" I
giggle.

She shrugs and continues to sip her drink, I follow along and do the same.

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It's just about to turn 9pm, me and Sarah have very easily made our way through the bottle of vodka i brought with me.

As we are finishing our last drinks we hear ward shout up to us.

"Girls, if you want a ride then I want to leave now"

We quickly down the last of the liquid in each of our glasses and get up.

"Coming dad!" Sarah shouts back.

The last hour and a half we've just sat getting tipsy together, chatting a whole load of nonsense basically, but that's what I love about it.

"Okay okay... we are sober, act sober" Sarah giggles. I can tell by the slight blush to her cheeks that she's a little tipsy, like me.

I laugh and take both her hands in mines.

"Deep breath... we are sober, your dad won't notice" I say playfully, giggling as I do so.

I grab my phone and handbag then we head down stairs, ward standing at the kitchen counter talking to rafe.

I take a quick glance at the boy, noticing he's wearing a white polo shirt and navy blue shorts.

He couldn't look more like a country club snobby rich boy if he tried.

As they notice us come down, I immediately see rafes jaw clench when his gaze falls on me, making me feel a little anxious.

Luckily the alcohol in my system is dulling the feeling of dread in my stomach.

"You look lovely girls, ready to go?" Ward asks me and Sarah. I politely smile at him and nod my head.

"Yep we are super duper ready" Sarah replies, you can immediately tell she's tipsy by the way she's talking to her dad, but he just chuckles and begins walking to the front door.

We make our way to walk to the front door, before feeling hand on my shoulder, turning me around. Being met with rafe scowling down at me.

"What the fuck do you think you're playing at?" He whispers sharply.

i furrow my brows and look up at him.

"what are you talking about?" I whisper back.

He's glaring into my eyes intensely, I can already see them darkening by the second.

"Look at what you're wearing... you look like a little whore" he whispers harshly at me.

I feel my cheeks heat up in embarrassment, his name calling hitting somewhere deep.

"It's a party, did you expect me to wear sweats and a hoodie?" I whisper shout back to him.

I notice his nostrils flaring angrily, but before he can say anything back, Sarah shouts out to me.

"come onnnn!" She whines out.

I let out a sigh before looking up at him again.

"see you at the party" I mumble before turning around from him and following Sarah outside, shutting the front door behind me.

"What was that about? He looked like he was about to shoot you" Sarah asks quietly as we get in the back of her dads car together.

"Take a guess" I reply quietly to her, not wanting their dad to hear.

I can tell by her expression that she catches on and gives me a small sympathetic look.

"He's such an ass" she says quietly to me, making me giggle.

"Yeah you're telling me" I say letting out a sigh, fastening my seat belt.

Ward turns around to face us, "rafe not coming?" He asks.

"Nah he's getting a ride from kelce later, he's got some weird thing about showing up to parties fashionably late" Sarah tells her dad.

He just chuckles and turns back around, beginning to drive us to toppers party.