Althena Book 2

20. Parallel Destruction

I wake up in the morning with Drogon. I see how deep I can keep him in me for an hour. Then I cuddle with him until lunch.

After lunch, I fall asleep on Mike. So we take a nap in his bed. Then I wake up and ride him for an hour. I can't get enough today.

Lila shows up just before dinner.

We sit down to eat and Mike smiles. "So, what are you doing tonight?"

Lila half yells, "WE'RE GOING TO GET MATCHING WATER BOTTLES." Then she shoves bread in her mouth.

I jump a little. "Then we're going to a 'not party.' It's at Akmae's house. You met him at the game last night."

"I didn't hear about a party." Conner smirks.

"It's not a party and we can't tell anybody. He doesn't want the school showing up."

"How many people will be there?"

"I'll have to tell you when we get there. He said Amber will be there and some of the basketball team."

Mike nods. "The guards stay with you. Take the helicopter. If the guards think either of you is drunk, they are pulling you out. Do not attempt to drive, even after 1 drink. I don't care which of you does it, I will smash your car."

I jump on him and hug him. He catches us from falling backwards in the chair. "I love you."

"I love you too. I mean everything I said."

I nod and hold him. "Thank you."

"You're welcome, baby. Have fun but pay attention to what's going on around you."

"I will."

"Finish eating."

Lila and I shop for 2 hours after dinner. Apparently, we can't go to the party early.

We finally get there at 8 and 40 people are drinking. "This is a party."

"Yes, it is. Not as big as Amber's though."

We find Akmae in the kitchen. He's visibly annoyed. He doesn't like this.

I go up to him and smile. "What happened?"

"Amber told Jenna."

Josh nods. "She's still pissed at me for not seeing her flip yesterday. Of all the stupid shit."

"It's not stupid." I give him a dirty look. "And honestly, she watches you every chance she gets. She even goes to your practices."

Lila nods. "She spent our breaks last night watching your game. Then you show up and can't even watch her for 3 minutes."

I hear glass break and a shiver goes through me. Someone broke a cup. Then I jump up and down. "I didn't panic."

"Why would you?"

I shake my head at Akmae. "Do you want my guards to get rid of everyone?"

"Can they?"

"Yea." I'm not sure what else to say. I stare at him.

"Yes. s**t is getting broken. I don't want to deal with this."

I side eye one of them and then smile sweetly.

He comes over rubbing his face. "Yes, ma'am."

"Make people go away please."

"Of course." He grabs my waist and pulls me against him. Then puts his gun in the air. "POLICE. EVERYBODY FREEZE."

Everyone scatters. Then run out of every door. I think one jumps out a window.

Another guard comes up to us, putting his gun away. "That always works for teenagers."

Lila smiles. "I guess we're the party now."

"That was fast. Thank you." Akmae looks around. Then he relaxes. "This is better."

"My pleasure." The guard lets go of me. "I haven't got to do that in a while."

The 2nd guard nods. "I kind of missed it." Then they roam away.

I smile at Akmae. "They're like big kids. They just need permission to do some things."

"Typical men." Lila hands me a drink. "Drink that."

"Then we can't drive." Then my phone rings. "Hello."

Drogon sounds pissed. "Why were guns drawn?"

"Akmae was having a party and didn't mean to. Everybody is gone now. They pretended to be police."

"You're alone with him?"

"No. Lila, Josh, and 5 guards are here."

"That's fine. Have fun." He hangs up.

Lila stares at me. "Wow, he was pissed. I heard him from over here."

I nod. "It must have scared him. Let's go find something to do."

"But we're the party."

"He doesn't want a party."

"Yea, we should find something to do." She gets her phone out.

Then someone knocks on the door. The guard closest goes to open it.

Akmae rubs his face. "I didn't want a party. This is fine."

Clayton comes in laughing his ass off with 5 guards following him. "That's one way to get rid of people." He shakes Akmae's hand.

I shake my head. "Why are you here?"

"He invited me."

"Drink this. Before you kill your brother." Lila shoves another drink in my hand.

"Are you trying to get me drunk?"

"A little bit. You're stressing everybody out."

"Why?"

"I don't know. You're so tense."

Clayton grabs my arm and shakes me. "You are tense. What happened?"

"A glass broke. But I'm fine. I didn't panic."

"That's a hell of an improvement. But it still messes with you. Sit and breathe for a minute. Try to relax."

Josh refills his cup. "What is it about glass breaking?"

"Darmon broke the window at her house to get to her. When she hears glass break, her body reacts like someone is trying to kill her." Clayton takes a drink and checks his phone.

Akmae smiles at me. "You're safe here. You even have extra guards now. You're extra safe."

I glance around and relax. The guards are happy and relaxed. "Extra safe."

Clayton looks up from his phone. "Parallel Destruction is at the teen club in Riverside."

Lila falls off her chair. "Can we go?"

Josh crosses his arms. "That's a long way even in a helicopter."

"The royal plane left to take some s**t to Voss. Is your plane free?"

"I don't know. Conner or Drogon will make it happen." I get my phone out and text them. -Parallel Destruction is in Riverside. Either of you want to go? Or know if we have a plane open?-

Conner: -GET IN THE HELICOPTER.-

Drogon: -I'll tell it where to go.-

-It's me, Lila, Clayton, Akmae, and Josh.-

Drogon: -How the hell did you get Clayton?-

Conner: -ASK LATER.-

Drogon: -See if Cyrus or Mike want to go.-

I rub my face. "If you want to go. Grab alcohol and get in the helicopter."

Lila takes off running out the front door. "WHERE'S THE HELICOPTER?"

"I got the alcohol." Josh grabs something and we follow her out. The helicopter lands right in front of us. We jump in and lift off so fast.

I check my phone and Cyrus is in the group chat now. -Can Atlas go? He loves that band. Mike said no way he's going.-

-Yes. Of course. Dacious can come too.-

I put Akmae, Lila, and Clayton in the group chat. One of them adds Josh.

-Is anyone close enough to get the VIP box?-

Clayton: -I'm working on it. Give me a minute.-

Cyrus: -My brothers are going straight there by helicopter, but I don't think they can get in?-

Drogon: -It's members only. I'll get them in, but they have to wait. We're almost on the plane. Tell them to land on the roof.-

Clayton: -A guy from my school grabbed the VIP box for us. We're landing at the airport now.-

Conner: -Be there in 3 minutes. The plane is ready. Get on it.-

Clayton: -K-

We land right beside the plane and switch as fast as we can.

Mike: I didn't even know he was in the group chat. -You're clear to enter the club with guests, Drogon. And enter through the roof.-

Drogon: -Thank you.-

Drogon, Conner, and Cyrus jump on the plane. We are in the air before they even sit down.

Conner falls into the seat beside me and cracks up laughing. "You brought your drink?"

"They rushed me."

He kisses my head. "How long is this flight?"

The guard answers. "35 minutes."

Clayton smiles. "Nice. We'll be there before it starts. They're playing at 9. I might be able to rage room first."

"The place is going to be packed, Clayton."

"Yea, but they should be at the stage. The rest should be empty."

"I guess you might get lucky." Drogon takes off his suit jacket. "I need a damn t-shirt or something."

I wink at him. "Yea. I miss our shopping spree before the concert."

"Me too."

Mike: -Dacious and Atlas are there. They got in as your guests. What is the VIP room number?-

Clayton: -205.-

Lila and I have another drink and talk until we land. Then we run to the next helicopter. We're only in it for a few minutes, and we land on the roof. Their security is fast. They give us badges. I guess they printed new ones for us. The extra people get guest passes. Then we're running down the balcony hallway. We find 205 and flood into it.

Atlas smiles at us. "Took you long enough."

I plop down on the couch. "That was a long way to go in a very short amount of time."

Conner loses it. "They're still carrying drinks too."

Josh lifts the bottle. "I brought the whole bottle in."

Drogon smirks. "They don't check for it at the roof access. I'm going to buy a t-shirt."

Clayton nods. "Grab me one please. I want to see if the rage rooms are empty." Conner and Akmae go with him.

Lila sits at the bar in front of the box. "This is amazing. I can't believe we're going to see them live."

Cyrus sits by me and I lean on him. "That was exhausting."

"You better slow down with the alcohol, or you'll go to sleep."

I hand him my cup. "I want to see the show."

He drinks it and gets me some juice.

Josh and Lila take pictures of themselves with the stage and crowd in the background. "Come take a picture with us. I want to post it on Evotech."

"What's that?"

Everyone stops and stares at me. Dacious finally answers. "It's a social thing on the internet. Everyone gets a web page. You can post pictures or whatever you want on it. You follow or add your friends. People can follow you and watch what you post."

"I'll show you." Lila drags me to the rail and puts my back on it. Then we take a picture with the stage behind us. "That's a good picture. We can see the stage and crowd. Now, I upload it to Evo and caption it -Ready for the Parallel Destruction concert.- It's on my page and everyone who follows me can see it. We already have 1 like. It's Lexi, but it counts."

I get my phone out. "I want it."

Cyrus puts his arm around me. "Let's see if we can get an account set up for you."

He spends 10 minutes trying to sort it out for me. In the end, they give me the account but have to talk to me Monday to verify it.

"It's because you're royalty. They want to make sure you're not someone pretending to be you. You can add friends and follow people now though."

"What's the difference?"

"Everyone can see who your friends are. Whenever you post anything, you can make it, so only your friends can see it. You can tag your friends in the pictures."

"What?"

"LILA, TAG HER IN THAT."

She comes over after a minute. "I can't find her to add her. There are a lot of fakes. Add me first."

"To add someone. Search for their name. And she's right here so we can make sure it's her."

"Got you." My phone makes a weird beep.

"That's saying you are in a photo. This is your page. Now, her photo is on your page because it has you in it too. Get it?"

"I think so. Can I take a picture with you? I want to upload one."

"Of course. Let's get the stage in the back." He puts his back to the stage and leans against the rail. I half stand in front of him and jump up and down. "You have to take the picture."

"Sorry. I'll get it." I get a good one of us, and he shows me how to post it. Then we have to be friends, and he tags himself because I'm over all this.

"It's only a pain in the ass because you have to find people to add as friends. It'll be easy once you already have them."

Whoever is warming up for the band starts playing and that's boring. So, I roam around and friend everyone in the room. Clayton and Akmae come back and I get them. Conner comes in with 4 bottles of alcohol. I get him and Drogon. I want to add Mike too, but I'll wait.

Then Akmae takes a picture with me. It's awesome with the lights off the stage behind us. Then Josh gets one with me and Lila. Then Lila makes me and Clayton take one together. He managed to get the band t-shirt on. Then he takes one with her so she's not left out. Then she makes Cyrus and his brothers take one. Then Conner gives her another drink, so she stops.

Everyone screams as the band starts playing. I run to the rail and Drogon puts his arms around me. "I thought you were going over, babygirl."

I snuggle against him. "I'm careful."

He spins me around and pulls me as close as he can. Then he gets a picture of us with the band in the background. "I'll post it later. Let's watch."

A couple of hours later, all of us got in the helicopter. I think everyone is drunk but me. Cyrus fell up the stairs and onto the plane. He took out Clayton and Drogon. Drogon can't figure out how to get up. Atlas laughed so hard, he fell down the stairs and took out Josh. They make it on the plane though. After some confusing directions to the pilot, he takes us to the Beach District. I want to walk on the beach and drunk people are easy to talk into stuff.

I take my shoes off and roll my jeans up. Then I walk in the water. The rest of them follow me around trying to take pictures in the dark.

"Come here, woman." Conner holds his hands out to me. I run and jump. He lifts me up over his head and I keep going. He's falling backwards.

Drogon runs over to catch me and falls backwards somehow. I land on him. At least we weren't in the water. "Are you ok?"

"I'm fine. That didn't work right."

"I WANT TO DO THAT." Lila takes off and jumps at Dacious. He steps out of the way, and she tackles Clayton into the water.

I laugh so damn hard.

"YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO CATCH ME."

Clayton sits up. "Sorry, I wasn't paying attention."

Drogon and I lay there laughing. I have to look the other way. I can't watch them trying to get up. Then I see Mike, Jax, and Monte standing on the beach with their arms crossed. I laugh even harder.

Mike walks by us in a suit. "Clayton, sit up before you drown in 6 inches of water."

Monte takes his shoes and socks off. He's in shorts and a t-shirt. That makes more sense than a suit. Monte gets Clayton out of the water while Jax pulls Conner up.

Cyrus spins in a circle. "Where the hell is Atlas?"

"He's sunbathing in his underwear over there."

Cyrus loses it and Dacious yells, "PUT YOUR f*****g PANTS ON. THE SUNS NOT EVEN OUT."

I can't get up. I am laughing to damn hard.

"I LOST THEM."

Josh yells from somewhere, "THEY'RE OVER HERE WITH 1 SHOE."

"They're more or less collected, Mike." Monte stands me up. I do everything I can to stop laughing.

Mike grabs Conner so he doesn't fall over. "We have burgers, fries, tacos, pajamas, and soda in room 504. Everyone go there."

We sit around the table and I try to collect myself. Lila comes out of the bathroom with pajamas on and misses the chair. I lay my head down and try not to laugh anymore. My face hurts. She pulls herself off the ground. "Where do I sleep?"

Mike points. "Pick a bedroom. You'll be in this room with Thena and I."

"Thank you. Good night."

Mike rubs his face. "There are 3 bedrooms in each room. Cyrus, Dacious, and Atlas. You're in room 502." He hands them each a key. They get up and leave. "Josh, Akmae, and Jax. Room 503. You're right across the hall. 501 is Clayton and Monte. 505 is Drogon and Conner."

Jax smiles at me once everyone leaves. "You weren't even drinking, were you?"

"I did earlier. Cyrus told me to slow down, or I would sleep. Then they told me about that evotech thing. I was more focused on that."

"I'll add you tomorrow. I can't let them be drunk over there for too long."

Mike laughs and picks me up. "Let's get some sleep too, babygirl."