45

Amora

The sound of the phone ringing made me throw my head back with a huff, lazily pushing myself off of the bed and towards the desk.

I snatched the phone up, rolling my eyes as I quickly cleared my throat.

"Hello?" I questioned, putting on a sweet soft tone.

"Amora! Oh my god Madeline wants us too go to a party tonight!" Carrie shrieked through the phone.

"What! Why? It'll be filled with highly gross drunk people. No, I don't want it" I furrowed my eyebrows in disgust, crossing my arms.

"I know that's what I said. But she got all the boys on board so.. I guess-

"What! You can't be serious right now!" I groaned, covering my eyes as I shook my head.

"Yes, I certainly wish I wasn't. Whatever I'll see you at 7" she sighed, before cutting off the line.

I pulled the phone away from my ear, groaning frustratedly as I slammed the phone back down.

——

"Oh you guys look way hot!" I gasped, turning around too see the stunning two Madeline and Carrie who stood in front of me.

I think I certainly did a mighty good job at dressing the two. Carrie has gorgeous dark tanned skin and bright blue eyes. I think maroon really goes well with her so I decided to dress her in a maroon colored square cut, classic alaia dress. With a similar colored feathered at the hems jacket.

Oh and for my dear Madeline who has quite the pale skin and ginger red hair and isn't to fond of dresses. I think I like pink on her so I dressed her in a pale pink shirt and matching plaid jacket with a darker colored pink leather skirt.

"Oh please you my dear, you look hotter than Mike Clifford on his album cover!" She smirked, nudging my arm.

I glanced down and shrugged. I wore a plain white mini slip up dress. The outfit was extremely simple and you could definitely tell I didn't put to much effort. I mean, why would I. Who possibly wants to be around sticky, alcohol reeking, cooky drunk people?

I shook my head with a smile before walking off down the steps, and walking straight into the kitchen to meet dad and Benny.

Benny looked over immediately widening his eyes and choking on the sip of water of he just took.

He shook his head coughing, looking at me with pure shock. "Oh shit- wow..you look-

He immediately paused, quickly looking over towards dad who sat at the table and slipped off his glasses, shooting him a stern look.

"Sorry- I mean..what is that?" He quickly questioned, motioning down towards the dress.

"Oh my god..I'm am not trying to hear it, are we going or what?" I rolled my eyes, crossing my arms.

"You're not letting her go out like that are you?" He questioned, looking over towards dad.

Dad looked up from his folder placing back on his glasses as he looked at me."Amora! What the hell is that?" He questioned, glancing down at the dress briefly.

"A dress?" I answered, shrugging as I wasn't seeing the problem here.

"Says who?" He shouted in a firm tone. Flailing the folder in his hand around.

"Mary Quant?" I frowned, motioning down towards the dress.

"It looks like underwear! Go upstairs and put something over it!" He ordered sternly, pushing his glasses back up.

"Duh I was just going too!" I laughed, waving my hand at him.

I shook my head waving Carrie and Madeline too follow as I walked out of the kitchen, grabbing onto the thin beige sheer shirt that laid on a chair.

I slipped it on, pulling it down and fixing the hem of the shirt before looking over too see an unsatisfied Benny.

"Yeah no, that's not enough" he shook his head disapprovingly, walking over towards me.

"Yes it is. It's sheer? Besides we have no time so hurry up!" I rolled my eyes, turning back around.

——

I slowly rolled the car over, pulling up too the house. I sighed, taking out the key before looking up, curling my lips up into a cringe.

"I don't know about this?" Benny crossed his arms, eyeing the house.

"Yeah..me too. But we're here already here so, too late" I sighed, turning over and stepping out onto the ground.

Carrie, Benny, Madeline and I all walked down the trail leading up too the house, as I eyed the two boys who stood out on the yard staring at us.

I shook my head averting my attention away seeing us approach the house.We slowly walked in immediately noticing the crowded up room filled with teenagers.

We paused, scanning the room and spotting the group who stood around in the corner of the room, making us look to each other before rushing over.

"Finally! We've been waiting for hours!" William exclaimed, walking over impatiently and meeting up with me.

"Hey I was dressing three people, relax will you?" I explained briefly, waving it off.

I gazed over, smiling at the boys before looking over to see Theo who began to approach me.

He smiled, briefly glancing me up and down. "Wow, you look good!" He widened his eyes, looking down at me with awe.

"Oh thanks! I'm glad someone likes it" I nudged Benny's arm, shooting him a look.

He let out a small scoff as he rolled his eyes, making me shake my head and look back towards Theo.

"Well now that we're all here, let's party!" Ham called out, throwing his hands into the air.

"Hey-hey hold it. No alcohol for you adolescents, at all ok?" I ordered, pointing towards the sandlot group.

Immediately they all groaned, throwing their heads back with huffs like little upset children not allowed a toy.

"Yeah mom we know!" Squints mocked, shaking his head as they all turned and walked away.

Many long, boring, torturous minutes later.

Benny, Penelope, and I all sat at a table chatting about whatever we could come up, being too bored to even care about any subject.

That was, until Benny and Penelope started to talk about sports. Well mainly baseball, but it was enough too completely disinterest me in the conversation.

I rested my head against my hand looking back and forth as they talked enthusiastically leaving me confused, I mean it's just baseball.But, that could just be because I'm certainly not the hugest fan of the game like they are.

"Oh my god you've busted the guts of a baseball?" Penelope exclaimed, looking at him with widened eyes.

"Yeah, it's not really that big of a deal though-

"Not that big of a deal? Oh you're crazy, that's like super cool I wish I could do that!" She cut him off, shaking her head.

"Thanks well, maybe you could play with us at the sandlot?" He offered, cracking a small smile.

"Really? Sure, I'd love that!" She smiled, nodding her head.

She smiled at him with her cheeks slowly blushing, making me sit up and furrow my eyebrows in confusion at the scene.

I stared at them when my hand was suddenly tugged at, making me look away too see Theo.

"Come on don't you want too dance or something?" He laughed, continuing to tug at my hand.

"No thanks Theo, I'm ok- are you drunk?" I questioned, widening my eyes once hearing his slur.

"C'mon I like this song! Let's go!" He ignored my question, pulling me up from my chair.

I opened my mouth to protest before sighing, letting him tug me over towards the crowd of people.

I frowned watching as he continued to do some silly dances, making me slowly crack a smile and laugh.

He grabbed onto my hand spinning me around making me smile even bigger, before he whipped me back around towards him.

He continued to dance with me slowly beginning to follow, laughing at the dances he was doing.

He was a hideous dancer, certainly couldn't take him anywhere. But I'll blame that on the alcohol. We continued to dance. Me completely dying over his weird, awful, cooky dances before the song ended.

I shook my head with a laugh, catching my breathe as I ran a hand through my hair.

"I'm going too go get some water" I called, smoothing out the skirt of my dress as I pointed over towards a table with beverages.

"I'll come with" he breathed, shooting me a smile as he slowly stopped his dance.

We walked over towards a table with me picking up a water bottle, and quickly taking a few sips from it. As I'm sure it's quite easy to tell I'm not the biggest lover for physical endurance.

"You should have some you're going to get a major headache tomorrow" I suggested, offering the water bottle too him.

"No no! I'm good, I feel super pumped right now!" He shook his head, practically fiddling around.

"Yeah it's called alcohol" I laughed, shaking my head at him.

I smiled turning around and placing the water bottle onto the table, looking back too see Theo who was already looking at me.

"What?" I laughed, crossing my arms as I leaned my hip against the table.

He continued to stare at me trailing his eyes up and down slowly. "You're really... beautiful" he whispered softly.

My smile dropped as I looked down, running a hand through my hair, feeling my stomach suddenly turn uneasily at his comment.

"Uh..thanks?" I cracked a tiny smile, letting out a small unsure laugh.

"No like really. Why are you even with that guy?" He questioned, pointing back.

"Huh? Pfft what- what do you mean?" I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion.

"I'm just saying. I think you would be a lot happier with someone else" He slurred, pushing himself off from the table.

I scoffed a small laugh knitting my eyebrows together in confusion. I carefully examined his face for any sort of smile or indication to show he was joking.

"You're drunk, shut up" I laughed, shaking my head as I pushed his shoulder.

"Im not. Im being serious" he insisted, walking towards me.

I stepped back seeing him walk closer, stopping right in front of me. I let out another unsure laugh, titling my head slightly as I looked at him with complete confusion. Slowly growing panicked once still not seeing a smile or hearing a laugh.

"Theo you're way hammered right now. Drink some-

I was cut off when he grabbed onto my head, roughly pushing his lips onto mine.

I widened my eyes attempting to push him off as he gripped onto my arms tightly, pulling me even closer towards him. If that was even possible, he was already extremely, uncomfortably close.

Suddenly he was pushed off of me with me widening my eyes even more once seeing him now on the ground.

"Hey-hey ok ok" I shouted, holding my hands to stop Kenny.

"Hey man what the hell are you doing!" Kenny exclaimed, looking down at him in confusion.

"Yeah shes got a boyfriend you know!" Bertram added, shaking his head at him.

I continued to watch as they both shouted at him, suddenly feeling my hand was pulled and whipped around to face me with a confused Benny.

"What the hell happened?" He questioned, knitting his eyebrows together as he looked at Theo on the floor.

"This sicko was kissing up on Amora!" Kenny exclaimed, pointing down at Theo.

He glanced over at me knitting his eyebrows together, clenching his jaw slightly as he looked back down.

"What?" He spat, angrily whipping his head back down to Theo.

"What in the fuck is happening over here?" Carrie suddenly asked, walking up to us with the rest of the group behind.

"Oh my god Theo are you alright?" Penelope gasped, rushing over and helping him up.

I watched as she helped pull him up from the ground before averting my gaze over towards Benny, who looked like he was about to snap at any moment.

It was quite the scary sight I'll admit. I mean I've never seen him look so furious.

Luckily Penelope stopped him from even attempting to do anything further when she began to walk away with Theo.

"God we got to get you to a bathroom" Penelope placed his arm over her shoulder, pulling him away.

We all moved out of the way letting them pass, before they all immediately looked to me in confusion.

——

I crossed my arms, letting out a small shudder as I rubbed my arms to remove the sudden goosebumps.

Should've listened too Benny and brought another sweater.

I stared down at the floor continuing too think to myself before getting a sweater placed over my shoulders.

I looked up, cracking a small smile once seeing Benny who sat down on the steps next to me.

"Thanks" I whispered softly, feeling my voice was very weak from how cold it was outside.

He nodded looking down, leaving a silence too grow between us.

"What.. what was he doing?" He suddenly questioned, looking up from the floor.

"I dont know... he was very drunk" I replied softly, shrugging as I glanced down.

"Is that your excuse for him? He couldn't be that drunk" He suddenly snapped, throwing me off guard.

I looked up, being taken back by his sudden change of tone. "Well..I don't know. He was dancing like a complete blindfolded chimp?" I laughed, attempting to lighten the mood.

Immediately I dropped my smile and cleared my throat once seeing his still, unamused face.

"Yeah..alright Amora" he muttered, shaking his head as he looked away.

"No ok ok. I don't know why he did that Benny" I sighed, looking down with a shrug.

"It's kind of obvious. He likes you or something" He answered sharply after.

"I don't know Benny.. I'll-I'll talk too him ok?" I offered, letting out a sigh as I hoped he would calm down.

"No. I don't want him anywhere near you, are you kidding. Not after that" he immediately protested, shaking his head at the thought.

Slowly I nodded, looking down to floor, suddenly feeling very small as I realized I couldn't protest or argue further. Which I really, really hate.

"Ok. Can you please calm down?" I requested, looking up with a hopeful expression.

He whipped his head towards me, immediately softening his face as he slowly nodded."Sorry" he sighed, quickly lowering his voice.

I nodded in approval, letting out a small breathe as I looked back down.

I slowly looked up from the ground, glancing over to see him staring down with his eyebrows knit together in deep thought.

"Benny?" I chirped, getting the feel that he was still upset about something else.

Slowly he looked up, nodding his head slightly, motioning me to continue.

"You know I didn't kiss him right?" I questioned, getting the feeling that that's what he was thinking about.

He licked his lips, looking back down with a slight nod.

"And you know.. I would never cheat on you, right?" I questioned slowly, continuing to stare at him.

This time he looked up from the ground towards me, staring at me for a moment before nodding.

"I know" his voice came out soft, but firm and sure as he nodded his head.

I nodded my head, scooting closer and slowly wrapped an arm over his shoulder, before resting the side of my head against his.

"I'm sorry" I whispered, curling my lips down into a frown.

"Why are you sorry? That prickhead kissed you" he questioned, pulling my arm over and grabbing onto my hand.

"I don't know... I feel gross. Horrified, nauseous, wrong, unclean and oh I can go on! Like I just let you down or something" I explained, letting out a small sigh.

"No- baby, you didn't let me down. I know you didn't do anything" he immediately assured, giving my hand a soft squeeze.

"I promise.. I'm not mad. Well yeah-I'm mad at him, but not you. Not at all. Don't feel bad" He continued, bringing up my hand and placing a small kiss onto the top.

I nodded cracking a small smile, lifting my head up to place a kiss onto his temple before resting my chin back down onto his shoulder.