Chapter 2

COLBY'S POVGoing inside I couldn't stop thinking about Alyana and I don't know why, I felt some type of a connection with her. Maybe it was from helping her with the scratches, or maybe staying up with her all night. I just can't get her off my mind.

"Hey Colby," I heard from the other side of the kitchen.

"Yeah?" I say back to Sam.

"So like what's up with you and Alyana?" He asked sitting down at the kitchen table with his laptop. 

"What, nothing," I say starting to blush just thinking of her.

"I don't know man, you took care of her all night. I sense a connection." he raises his eyebrows at me.

"She was hurt, of course I was gonna take care of her," I shut down his accusations.

"It kinda seemed more than just taking care of her demon cuts."

"Whatever, I'm going to bed," I laugh and head upstairs.

When I get to my room I pull my phone out of my pocket and see a text from her.

Alyana: Hey, I made it home. Thanks for everything again.

Colby: No need to thank me :) Thank you for coming with us. The video should be out sometime tomorrow if you wanna check it out.

Alyana: I definitely will, goodnight Colby.

Colby: Goodnight Alyana.

As I fall asleep I can't help but to think about what Sam said. Is there a connection?

I wake up around 10am and roll over to grab my phone. I go on Instagram where Sam has already made promotion posts for our new video. It's a picture of the four of us outside of The Queen Mary ship with the caption, "We went back." I go straight to the comments and start seeing most of our fans calling us crazy for going back. It made me giggle. I roll out of bed and head downstairs to see Sam and Kat sitting in the kitchen.

"Hey Colby, we're having a small party tonight to celebrate our new video coming out. Just us in the house."

Sam, Kat, Jake, Corey and I all share a big house.

"Is it okay if I invite Alyana, since she was apart of the video," I say trying to make up an excuse to see her again. Why am I making excuses to see her again?

"Yeah, that'd be great!" Katrina got excited, I think they're going to become good friends.

"Okay cool,"

I pull out my phone and text her.

Colby: Hey, we're throwing a small party tonight to celebrate the release of the video. You should come, you were a huge part of it. It starts at 8

Alyana: I'll be there :)

"She said she's coming guys," I say with a huge smile on my face.

"Aweee Colby gets to see his girl," Sam teased.

"Shut up Sam, she's not my girl. We just met yesterday," I say back getting defensive.

"Okay, whatever you say, but we all think someone has a little crush."

As the time for the party gets closer I take a shower and get dressed in my regular. Black jeans and one of XPLR tee shirts. I go downstairs to see Sam, Kat and Jake getting the drinks and cups out and ready. It's already 7:30, so I decide to grab a small drink to start out the night. I sit in the kitchen and watch the clock waiting for Alyana to get here. Why am I watching the clock waiting for her to get here? Is Sam right? No he's not right, I just don't want her standing at the door waiting for a long time. As I sit there thinking about her I hear the doorbell ring. I instantly spring up out of my seat to get the door, but Katrina is already running to get it.

"Alyana, I'm so glad you could make it!" Kat says as she opens the door to hug her.

I look through the hallway to the door to see Alyana standing in the doorway. She's wearing a cute little black skirt with fishnets underneath and a pink fitted crop top.

"Wow, you look great," I accidentally blurt out as I walked up to her.

She blushes and tucks a strand of her light brown hair behind her ear.

"Um, here have a drink," I manage to get out.

"Oh no, I shouldn't drink. I have to drive home," She denies.

"We have a guest room, you can just stay here tonight," Kat says.

"Okay well in that case, give me one," She laughs accepting my offer.

I lead her into the kitchen to grab her a drink. She sits down at the bar and waits patiently. After I gave it to her I sit down next to her as we both sip our fresh drinks. Just then, Jake and Corey walk in.

"Oh, Alyana, this is Jake and Corey." I introduce them.

She shakes their hands, "Nice to meet you both," she smiles.

Soon later, Sam walks into the kitchen, "Hey the video is up, let's watch it on the TV."

We all walk into the living room and sit on the couch in front of the big flat screen hanging on the wall. I take a seat between Alyana and Jake.

While watching the video, I notice something that I didn't before, "Woah, Alyana. You have a tattoo on your back?"

She laughs, "Yeah, you didn't see it when my shirt was off?"

"Oh sorry, I was too focused on the fact that you were scratched by a demon," I say sarcastically.

She begins to pull down the collar of her shirt to reveal a beautiful sun and moon tattoo on her right shoulder.

"Wow that's beautiful," I say.

"Thanks I got it a couple years ago back in Michigan."

We finish watching the video and everyone goes into the kitchen for more drinks. I linger behind to go on my phone and see the comments left on the video. Most of them were pointing out something crazy in the video that we missed, but there was a lot about me and Alyana."Do you see the way Colby looks at her." One said "Colby taking care of her was the sweetest thing ever." Another said. I just laughed and joined everyone else in the kitchen. While I was gone, Corey turned on some music and everyone was dancing. Alyana was dancing with Kat and singing the song that played over the speaker. She would only pause to take occasional sips of her drink.

"Come on Colby dance!" Alyana yells running and grabbing my arm, pulling me to where she previously was. I start jumping and dancing with her, but I was mostly watching her.

"I need another drink," she says walking toward the kitchen and I follow to get one for myself.

"Are you having a good time?" I ask pouring vodka into both of our cups.

"Yes! Thank you for inviting me," She says smiling so big. She's definitely tipsy and I'm starting to feel the alcohol too.

"Woah!" Alyana yells looking at her phone.

"What?" I laugh.

"I just got a shit ton of followers from your guys video!" She shows me her phone screen and the new followers just keep popping up.

"That's great," I say laughing at her child like happiness.

"It's all because of you," She quickly stands up and runs over to me and hugs me.

I know it was a silly reason for a hug, but it meant so much to me. As I had my arms wrapped around her I could feel this warm feeling in my stomach. It felt so natural, like I was meant to have her in my arms. Maybe it's just the alcohol, and plus I've known her for two days. I can't be feeling like this already.

As the party goes on we both got pretty drunk, but nothing too crazy. I ended up giving her a tour of the house. As we go up the stairs she stumbles a bit, so I hold onto her so she doesn't fall.

"Well that's the famous Trap House," I laugh as we end the tour in a random hallway upstairs away from everyone.

"Thanks for showing me," She laughs back.

We just stand there looking at each other. I can't break eye contact, her brown eyes just draw me more and more in. Before I knew it I was looking at her lips and she was looking at mine. I couldn't help but to lick my lips. I look back into her eyes and they're calling me in. I go back to her lips and they're drawing me in. I couldn't take it anymore. I slowly lift both of my hands up to her face, placing each of my palms on both sides of her face. I slide my thumb under her chin and led her in. Our lips linger with a centimeter in between them before we slowly meet in the middle. Our lips sandwich in between each other as she slides her hand on my back. The kiss was passionate, the opposite of how a drunk kiss would be. It was perfect. We pull away and look at each other once again.

"Colby..I," Alyana stutters touching her lips with two of her fingers. Did she think this was a mistake?

"I'm sorry," I say looking at the ground, "I thought you wanted it too. God I'm so stupid." I stammer turning around.

"No Colby wait," She grabs my arm and slides her hand down to mine, pulling me back to her.

She pulls me back into her lips, kissing me harder and more sloppy than last time. It surprised me and took my a second to match the rhythm of her lips. My hands grab her waist and pull her in closer so our bodies are touching, noting in between. My hands start to wonder and go up her back, but suddenly she pulls away and winces in pain.

"Oh my god, I'm so sorry. I didn't even think of it, here follow me," I grab her hand and lead her to the bathroom down the hall.

I grab a fresh washcloth and the first aid kit out of the closet, "Is it okay if I clean them up again?"

She nods and slowly takes off her shirt, but this time all the way. Of course she has a bra on, but wow, I couldn't help but to look. I clean up her wounds with water and a bit of hydrogen peroxide.

"Good thing you're drunk, because that would have hurt a hell of a lot more if you were sober," I joke handing her shirt back to her.

"Actually, do you have any bigger shirts?" She asked tilting her head to the side. "I don't want to put this tight thing back on.

"Of course," I quickly run to my room and grab one of my sweatshirts.

"Here take this," I say handing the hoodie to the shirtless girl I just made out with.

"Thanks."

"I'm sorry for irritating them," I say looking back into her eyes.

"No don't be, trust me, it's perfectly okay," She smirks a bit.

"Colby!" I heard Sam shout from the other end of the hallway.

"Oh shit," I mutter shutting the door slightly so he couldn't see Alyana.

"What Sam, I'm pissing."

"Where have you been? You've missed everything," Sam slurs his words.

"Sorry I..um..had to shit," I make up an excuse and Alyana let's out small giggle. I turn around and put my finger up to my mouth to tell her to be quite.

"Okay well I don't know where Alyana went either, so you might want to find your little crush," Sam laughed and went back down stairs.

"Oh so Colby Brock has a crush on me, huh?" Alyana says in a cocky tone.

"Oh shut up," I laugh playfully hitting her thigh.

I grab her hand and lead her back downstairs where everyone else is. We all stayed up until about 2am partying and drinking more. After everyone passed out somewhere in the house, I lead Alyana up to the guest room. Both of us stumbling up the stairs.

"Alright here's your room, if you need anything you know where to find me," I say turning the light on.

"Thank you, Goodnight Colby," She winks.

"Goodnight Alyana,"