Chapter 5: Xandria

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As I woke up I winced from the pounding headache I still had. The night before this kid had thrown a party and I ended up getting very drunk, leaving Tony and Maxxie to bring me home.

At the moment Maxxie and Tony were in my living room, probably passed out still. The two had partied less than I did but still got drunk so they stayed over after bringing me home.

Checking the time I saw it was 10 am and groaned as I rolled back to my pillow. Hearing my friends walk up the stairs I groaned once again, their steps seemed to be echoing in my head as the feet of Maxxie and Tony pounded up the steps.

My room door slammed opened making me wince and cover my face with my blanket as I watched Tony open up my window blinds.

"Go away." I whined as I tried to dig myself deeper into the blankets. I heard a chuckle come from the blond boy that was now sitting next to my covered body.

"You gotta wake up, Xee. We gotta sober you up, you got very drunk last night." Maxxie said to me.

"And the night before that." Tony chimed in making me throw the covers off my body to glare at him. Tony just gave me a innocent smile as he walked around my room and picked up some clothes laying on the floor.

"I don't wanna get up." I muttered as my body moved over to Maxxie and I snuggled into his side since he was now lying next to me. The boy let me get comfortable just to stand up and pull me out of bed with him, my legs didn't get time to react as they collapsed as soon as they were out of the sheets.

My body hit the floor with a thud making me groan and shut my eyes in pain.

"Sorry, Xee."

"It's okay. Just please don't do that again."

"Perfect. She's out of bed, now get Chris to sober her up, I gotta meet Michelle." Tony said as he tossed a band tee and trousers at Maxxie to give to me.

"Aren't you gonna help?" Maxxie asked the Stonem as he began to walk out the room.

"I already did. I woke her up." Tony said and walked out.

"Alright, well I actually have to meet Anwar so I'm gonna call Chris and let you get changed then I'm gonna go, okay?" Maxxie said as he turned back to me.

I nodded from my sitting position on the floor, I slowly started to get up only to loose my balance and go forward.

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As Chris had finally gotten me to sober up the two of us stayed on my couch and watched the Telly. Chris didn't bring any alcohol because he didn't want me to get drunk once more. I had been getting drunk a lot more often then I ever did, I was always the sober one at parties but for some reason it's been different.

The front door had slammed open and slammed shut making both mine and Chris' heads to snap to the doorway, or as much of the doorway that we could see from our spot on the couch.

"Xandria. Where's your brother?" My father asked as he walked through the door with a bottle of whiskey in his hand, he must have gone to the store and was already getting drunk because I could hear the slur in his voice.

"He's with his friends at the park or shopping centre, they were going to both places." I told him as me and Chris shared a look.

My dad had finally found me and Chris in the living area and gave us both a glance, I gulped as he carefully examined my outfit and hair. My father had always been protective/controlling of what I wore, it's something him and mum would always fight about when I was finding out my style.

"Where's your braids? You always wear braids." He asked and I looked at him "I-uh- didn't do them today." I said and he looked at me "Well, you should've." Was all he said and walked away.

"You're dad still scares me." Chris muttered as he got up and grabbed his jacket

"Where you going?" I asked as he put the jacket on

"For a walk, you coming with?"

I looked at Chris for a moment then jumped up to my feet and grabbed a jacket hanging over an arm chair

"Of course I'm coming, Christopher." I said to him and we walked out the house.

"Oh, hi, Mrs. Parker." Chris said as my mom walked towards the front porch.

"Hi, Chris. Xandria, how you feeling darling?" My mom asked in her Spanish voice.

"Better, but we're going for a walk so I'll see you later mum." I said as I kissed her cheek and told her I loved her before walking off with Chris.

"Be careful!" My mom yelled as we left the front yard

"We will be!"

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Me and Chris had been walking around the streets of Bristol for a while now, an hour to be exact, and my legs were killing me.

Chris was talking about some other kind of party that the college was gonna throw soon, it's supposedly gonna be fun and like a whole day thing but it's college and I doubt it.

"Chris, could we maybe take a break? My legs are killing me from all this walking." I asked and he looked to me as he pulled the cigarette he was smoking away from his mouth.

"Why don't you just hop on my back? We still a little ways more to walk." He suggested as the smoke came out of his mouth.

I smiled and went to hop onto the boys back, I jumped up a bit, my legs wrapping around his torso and my arms around his neck to keep myself from falling. Chris had dropped his cigarette as his hands went to hold my legs.

He chuckled as he tried to steady himself from the new weight and began walking.

"So where are we headed anyway?" I asked as I looked around the streets for a clue.

"You'll see." Was all Chris said and it was silent for the next two minutes.

Chris had stopped walking once we made it to the back of a pub. My eyebrows furrowed, why wouldn't we just go through the front?

I hopped off Chris' back as he opened the door and let me in first. I gave the boy in a striped shirt a questioning look as he began to lead me to a different room in the pub. I didn't know Pubs had different rooms.

As we walked in I saw the whole gang patiently sitting on a couch, when they saw us enter they all jumped up yelling "Happy Birthday!"

I forgot it was my birthday. I watched as everyone looked at me with smiles and a smile made its way to my own face. I laughed as I went to hug Chris only to be pulled away by Kai and Effy.

"Happy birthday, Xanny." Kai muttered as he wrapped his hands around my torso.

I gave Kai a kiss on the head muttering a "thank you" then said thank you to the rest of the group as they all came in for a hug.

Hugging Cassie she wrapped her arms around me and kinda moved us back and forth as she told me happy birthday once again, Anwar's hug was a bit awkward—we weren't the closest friends but we were still there for each other, Maxxie's hug was definitely the best one—Maxxie had always given the best hugs. Michelle and Jal had given me a hug together, the two wrapping their arms around my neck and pulling me towards them, Sid's hug was awkward because well—it was Sid. And, Tony's hug was a Tony hug— he made it quick.

"Thank you guys, for all of it." I said as I sat down.

The group all said their welcomes and began to talk about what they loved most about me before they brought out the cake and sung happy birthday.

As they finished I closed my eyes and wished my wish, I just wanted everything to stay like this forever. I needed these people in my life forever. That was my wish—for everything to stay like this, just this little group forever.

I smiled and blew out the candles causing everyone to cheer and began to cut the cake after they took out the candles.

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Published February 1,2022