Never ever

9. The party

Noah had given me the address and it was across town near the industrial area. The party was in an old wearhouse and they had put up all kind of halloween decoration. Inside walls had been put up to divide the big open space in four different rooms. The first one, that you had to go through before entering, was a haunted maze. Then there were three hangout options, first was the dance floor. A mass of people where jumping up and down to the beat of a ghoulish dj. Next was a spooky cafe where the bar was located and the third looked like a graveyard but when I looked closer I saw it was a lounge area with couches and chairs sitting in between the gravestones. 

I didn’t find Noah there nor in the cafe so I went back to the dancefloor looking for him. Standing at the side, scanning the moving masses for a joke outfit. There he was, moving to the beat with a doctor and a devil by his side. I recognized Jesse as the doctor but haven't seen the devil before. He was huge and very muscular, many girls where drooling over his ripped body showing through an open gilet. Just as I was about to move towards them a slutty cheerleader moved closer to Noah. She flipped her blond hair back and she had a kind of arrogance about her. The threetal kept moving away from her but she was like an annoying bug that kept buzzing around them. I could see Noah was getting irritated by her and I wondered of this was Hillary. 

“Yes, that's Hillary” I hear someone calling behind me and I see tyler caring three beers coming for me, a cute girl with short black hair in his tow. 

“Hay” I said smiling at him as he stopped at my site. She was dressed as a pirate and now that I looked closer I had to laugh at Tyler’s custom seeing he was dress like a mermaid.

“Damn you look hot, Noah is one lucky man” He said looking over me and I noticed he got an interesting glare from the girl behind him. 

“Really it’s not too much?” I asked knowing very well how I looked.

“No sexy but not ordanary, like some people” The girl said hinting at a certain person who was getting a little too close to Noah for my comfort. 

“Thanks” I said to her smiling and then looked back at the dance floor, “what shoot I do?”

“Just go to them, he’s been waiting and talking about you all day” She said and I couldn’t help but smile at that. I nodded towards them and left them headed straight for Noah. 

“Wait I don’t have my camera ready” I hear Tyler yell after me but he just had to remember it. 

Noah had his back towards me but she saw me coming. Like she knew trouble was coming for her she jumped noah, attaching herself on his neck. Even before Noah could react I was standing next to them. She was glaring daggers at me.

“Could you let go of him” I said hard enough to get the attention of the people standing close. 

“Get your own man” she hissed at me as Noah turned still trying to pry her hand off of him. His eyes lit up as he saw me, his smile returning on his face and turning in a grin as his eyes looked over me, taking in every inch of my body.

“You might want to follow your own advice” I said as Noah managed to get away from her and was by my side in an instant. I put my hand in his neck pulling him closer to me and he eagerly submitted as our lips found each other. You could hear the people around us gasp and started laughing when a tomato red Hillary turns around and walked away screaming what a b***h.

“Hi” I said to Noah as our lips parted from each other. He gave me a goofy smile but before he could answer me Jesse and the devil where jumping around us.

“O my god, that was brilliant” the devil said slapping Noah on the back so he had to let me go.

“I asked for something sexy and you delivered” Jesse said to me looking approving at my costume,” Wauw, you took it to the next level.” I could only laugh at his comment.

“He right, you made it very hard for me to keep my hands to myself” Noah whispered in my ear.

“Who said I want you to” I whispered back teasingly and gave him a quick kiss as Tyler and the pirate girl made his way towards us. 

“Did you see that?” Jesse said to them, “I told you maya could put hillary in her place.” 

“And I kept agreeing with you” Tyler said.

“Would you two shut up so I can introduce maya” Noah said as he had taken a stance behind me holding me as my waist. They listened immediately and it occurred to me that Noah was the so called leader of the group, the one everyone listened to, the Alpha male.

“Maya, this is Allison” he said pointing to the pirate girl, ”She is Tyler’s girl or should I say high school sweetheart.” Allison smiled at me saying it was nice to officially meet me.

“And this is Clifford” Noah continued as he pointed at the handsome devil who couldn’t stop grinning at me. 

“You can call me Cliff. It’s my absolute pleasure meeting they slayer of the she dragon. I’m Samara’s guy If we are going by couples.” He said and started looking around.

“I think she and Lana went to the graveyard” Jesse said as he saw his friend searching.

“Well let’s go find them, I want Maya to meet my cousin” Noah said already pulling me with him through the crowd. They all followed us, was there something special about this cousin?

We found them in the corner of the graveyard sipping some bloody cocktails. Cliff went towards the charismatic blond girl dressed like a dark angel. She had these hypnotizing blue eyes that were just as light as Noah’s where. That had to be Samara. Next to her sat a shy asian girl with glossy long dark hair. She was quite a beauty I thought but it also seemed like she wasn’t that comfortable with her appearance. 

“The cute ninja over there is Lana” Noah said making the girl cringe at the word cute, “And this is my cousin Samara, don’t be fooled by her costume.” He laughed at his own remark while Samara shot him a icy cold glare. Yet I could see she didn’t mean it.

“Nice to meet you both” I said as she kept glaring at him.

“Where is the leach?” she wanted to know ignoring me for some reason. 

“You should have been there Sam, It was amazing” Cliff started to tell her what happened excitedly reacting it with a little help from Jesse. His eyes and grin growing bigger every second and by the end she was laughing hard, almost rolling of the couch she was sitting on. 

“You really said that to her” she said after catching her breach again, admiration for me flashed through her eyes. Like that she had accepted me and so did the group. I guess she was the Alpha female. She wanted me to repeat the story again and as I did Noah sat down in one of the chairs pulling me on his lap. 

“So you really calling her the leach?” I asked remembering Samara’s name for Hillary, even dough I didn’t like the girl, it did seem a little harsh.

“Not to her face,” Samara answers with a devilish smile, “Noah doesn’t permit it” 

I turn around on his lap looking at him questionly, this I want to hear.

“Well it’s not nice, even though the girl is a mayor pain in the ass, no one should be bullied” he just says and his big heart is shown throughout his words. I bent down to give him a kiss.

“I told you they were so cute together” I hear jesse say as he slaps Cliff on the arm. My head shoot up glaring at him.

“Do we need to go over this again” I tell him smirking and he gulps back his laughter.

“No madam,” he says winking at me and the rest of them start laughing.

“Good” I say smiling again as I notice Lana isn’t laughing with the rest but looks at me in awe.

I realize she hadn’t said a word since I got there and I wonder if it’s my fault. But before I can ask Noah If I did something to make her act like this, Cliff got my attention by asking me what I wanted to drink. 

“Uhm, just a water” I say and everyone is looking me yaw dropped, “What? I’m still driving tonight so I can’t drink” 

“Responsible, but why don’t you just share our cap” Tyler says like the problem is solved.

“Do you know how much it will cost me to get back to my place” I ask him.

“Crash at Noah’s then, I don’t think he would mind” Samara joins in. I can feel Noah’s muscles tighten with the anticipation of my answer so I deliberate play hard to get. 

“I don’t know” I say my tone playful and all the girls recognize what i’m doing seeing them smile. Noah on the other hand had no clue, my tone had cleary gone over his head. 

“I can sleep on the couch, if it’s to fast. Or maybe you can sleep at Rachel’s? he suggest.

“Why mister are you trying to get me drunk?” I say my voice even more teasing.

“No, No, of course not,” He started to say when he gets it, “You are teasing me again aren’t you.” 

I’m trying to hold in my laugh when I nod and he sighed. 

“How do you keep finding those button to push” he says grinning as well now. 

“Don’t know, i’m not even trying.” I say happily and he groans softly something about being in trouble. I lean into him again, kissing him on his cheek. 

“I would love to sleep at your place if you will have me” I softly say so the rest doesn't overhear. There is a twinkle in his eyes as he looks at me. 

“just my place or in my bed?” he asks carefully, my heart fluttering at his adorable cuteness.

“Right next to you” I answer and move in to kiss him again and just as our lips meet I whisper just so softly, “or even on top of you.” I know he heard me as his breath shocks just a moment in our kiss and he pulls me even closer. I pull back painfully aware that we are in public and eyes are staring at us. And not just from the group, as I look around I see a flash of cheerleader looking at us. She disappeard right after she saw me looking off course. 

“So I guess it’s a cocktail then, those seem delicious” I say getting mine and Noah’s hormones in check. Jesse and Cliff went off to get the drinks as we talked getting to know each other. 

It’s about an hour later when we all, even Samara and Lana, get up to go over to the dance floor. I’m not really a great dancer, mostly small movements and my hips do most of the work, but I love it. Out of the guys Tyler is the worst, he doesn’t move much while Alison dances around him. He can’t keep his eyes of her moving body, I wonder if we look just like that when occupied in our own bubble. Cliff and noah both have some moves but Jesse outshines them all. We all coax him on as we form a circle around him, giving him room to move. He even takes a bow when the song is over making me laugh at him. As the next song starts Samara pushes Lana in the middle and Jesse chivalrous gives her the space. For a moment she just stand there quit and I think she is going to bold but then there is a change in her demeanor. She changes in this little spitfire and starts dancing her heart out. She surprises me but then I started screaming her name, she is amazing. Samara knew this site of here that is for sure, Jesse however isn't over his surprise as he is still gawking at her. She doesn’t bow as the music turns over to another rhythm but she looks up at us her cheeks flaring. We cheer for her shanting her name and jumping up and down. This makes her laugh and Samara hugs her as they start jumping with us.

We dance what seems like hours, Noah never leaves my side. We even got to grind against each other getting a bit steamy. 

“I need to go to the bathroom” I yell at him over the music after awhile. He wants to go with me but gets hold back by the boys as the girls accompany me. Samara is just telling me how much her cousin is into me when a poisonous voice behind us starts talking.

“You think you can take my place? You can never give him what I can give him” Hillary snarls at me getting right in my face.

“Girl back up” I yell at her for getting into my personal space, ”He doesn’t want you, get over it.”

She is gorgeous, I have to admit that, too bad her personality doesn’t match her exterior. She acts all confident but I see right through her faset, deep down she is just a lonely little girl. 

“If you hadn’t stolen him he would still want me” she says fuming. I roll my eyes at her delusion but this only makes her mader and she strikes at me. I see it coming and duck just in time sending her to the floor by the lack of impact. That would have hurt, she put her whole body into it. She jumps up and comes at me again, screaming i’m a b***h. This time she doesn’t try to slap me, she is clawing towards me but just as easily I step away making her crash against the wall. 

Only the liquor makes me a little less steady than I would have liked for that move sending me towards the floor. She jumps on top of me trying to hit me again but I grab her by her wrist and turn her over onto her back. Now i’m on top pinning her down on the floor, her arms above her head. She screams at me, squirming between my legs.

“Will you calm down, I’m not fighting with you” I yell at her demanding. After screaming for another couple of seconds she calms down enough for me to let her go and get up. We had drawn a crowd, Noah included. He looks mad but I’m relieved when I realize he is not mad at me but at hillary. She is still lying on the floor and started crying when she noticed everyone it staring at her. 

“She just attacked me, the b***h just attacked me” she says through her sobs. My jaw drops, that was something I hadn’t expected. Quickly I looked at Noah wanting to make sure he knows they are lies but he is already standing over her, his hand reached out to help her up. She smiles triumply her tears suddenly disappeared. 

“Did you see what she did to me, baby” she said with a tone that makes my skin crawl and my heart sinks. Did he really just pick her over me. 

“Ow shut up Hillary,” his voice commanding and resonant, “When does it finally sink in that we are not together any more and never will be for a matter of fact. I’m with maya now, deal with it”

“But she’s just a man stealing b***h, you can do so much better than her.” she says rather high pitched.

“If I can do better than her than you are certainly out of the running” he says looking at me with a soft smile, almost apologetic. Real tears start to form in her eyes as she realized it is finally over, she just had to accept it. Before the tears start rolling over her cheeks she turns and runs away. 

“Are you okay?” Noah asks cupping my face in his hands. 

“Yeah i’m fine, she didn’t even touch me” I tell him laying my hand on his, pulling them away.

“That was crazy” Allison says standing next to us, as do the rest of the gang. 

“Why didn’t you hit her?” Lana wants to now, talking to me for the first time. I like her voice.

“It didn’t matter, I had already won,” I say looking up into Noah’s eyes, “If I had humiliated her by knocking her out, the situation would only have spiraled out of control.”

They seem to consider what I had just said, guess i’m the wise woman of the group now. 

“I would have hit her” Samara bluntly says making us all laugh at her seriousness. 

“What? I would have” she says smirking at the thought.