An Honest Mistake

Tobin looked over at Kelley and Alex and saw that her best friend was actually smiling. It made her feel less guilty for unintentionally ditching her tonight. She felt a small tap on her arm and she looked over and smiled at Christen, who was staring at the same site. “Looks like our friends are getting along.” Tobin trailed off with a chuckle. “You know it’s kind of funny how you and Alex decided to wear the same hat to the same concert and I just so happened to find you.”  

Christen giggled nodding to herself as she thought about how tonight had played out. “I’m glad I wore the same hat, if I’m being completely honest. If I hadn’t worn it, I wouldn’t have met you.” She replied giving a small squeeze to Tobin’s bicep. Christen opened her mouth to say something else but Sydney came running over with Alex and Kelley in tow, almost mowing them over.

“Guys! The soccer house is having a rager right now. We need to go! The concert is almost over now anyways. Please! Dom is there, Ali said he’s looking for me. We have to go.” Sydney begged looking between Tobin and Alex. Noticing Tobin side eyeing Christen, she knew the girl wouldn’t want to leave because that meant leaving her new friend, crush, who knew really.  “You guys can totally come too, if you want.” She said looking at Kelley and Christen with an inviting smile.

“Yeah, I don’t mind going, what do you guys think?” Tobin asked, trying not to look too hopeful. Tobin enjoyed going to the soccer parties, when Alex and Sydney could actually convince her to.

Christen and Kelley shared a look before turning to Tobin, “We’ve got nothing planned. So yeah, we’ll come. I don’t take parties lightly, there is a reason they call me KO. Right, Chris?” Kelley said elbowing Christen with a grin.

“Yeah, because you knock out after five beers.” She said rolling her eyes as she chuckled quietly to herself.

“What!? No, that’s not true.” Kelley said looking between Alex and Tobin. “Tell them that’s not true!” Kelley whispered to Christen between gritted teeth.

“That is absolutely true and you know it!”

“Listen, that was one time!” Kelley tried to cover since Christen was not helping in the least.

“Don’t worry Kelley, I have a story like that too.” Alex took a step closer to Kelley, who had crossed her arms over her chest, trying to comfort her.

“If you four are done, can we please go to the party now?” Sydney was clearly growing impatient.

“Yeah, yeah, Syd. We’re going.” Tobin said leading the way through the crowd.

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“Damn, they weren’t kidding about it being packed.” Sydney observed. “I didn’t know this many people could even fit here.”

“Well, rager usually means there’s going to be a lot of people.” Tobin replied smartly as she pushed through the front door with the other four in tow.

“I’m going to go find some drinks, you guys want anything?” Alex asked.

“Nope! I’m going to find Dom! Have fun love birds!” Syd yelled over her shoulder.

“Do you guys want anything?” Alex repeated. All three nodded and she made her way through the crowd. She spotted Servando hovering near the drinks. Damn it! She thought. This is exactly why I was hesitant to come. Alex continued making her way to the drinks despite Servando.

“Alex? Hey, I didn’t know you’d be here.” Servando said pulling his cup away from the hose of the keg before moving towards the girl. She could tell the second he got closer to her that he was wasted. She could practically smell the liquor oozing off of him.

“Yeah, I don’t necessarily want to be here. I’m here with my friends, so please, just leave me alone.” Alex said trying to be somewhat civil with the boy who had broken her heart.

“I just want to talk, Alex, I miss you.” He said moving to put his hands on Alex’s waist. “I love you, you know that.”

“No, because if you loved me, I wouldn’t have found a girl in your bed after we were fighting for maybe half a day.” She replied back harshly shoving his hands off of her body. She moved to grab something to bring back to the girls, but a strong hand grabbed her wrist tightly.

“Listen, you were bitching all day and you said you didn’t care what I did anymore.” Servando stated as he gripped Alex’s wrist tighter, not planning on letting go anytime soon. “She was a quick fuck, but I want to be with you.”

“Let me go!” Alex yelled as she tried to push the boy off of her. “Just because we were fighting, doesn’t mean you have the right to go off and fuck some girl because ‘I wasn’t putting out enough.’ ”

Kelley looked over as she heard yelling over the loud music. She saw some guy talking to Alex, and the girl didn’t look like she wanted anything to do with him. “Hey guys, I’m going to go see what’s taking Alex so long with the drinks.” She said to the other two, who were too busy smiling at each other and dancing to the music to even notice that she was talking to them.

Kelley made her way over to the kitchen and moved to stand beside Alex. She looked the boy up and down, taking note of the grip he had on Alex’s wrist. “I don’t think she wants to talk to you, buddy.” She said narrowing her eyes as she heard the cup cracking in his hand.

“Yeah? Well, I don’t think I asked for your opinion. This is between me and my girlfriend.”

“That’s funny, she didn’t mention anything about a boyfriend. I’m pretty sure you’re just a douchebag trying to manipulate Alex into coming back to him.” She said as she pulled Servando’s hand off of Alex’s wrist. “So, what I would do, is take your drink, swallow your pride, and walk away.”

“Excuse me? What did you just say to me? Who the hell are you to talk to me like that?”

“Kelley, it’s okay. I can deal with it.” Alex replied quietly.

“It doesn’t matter who I am. What matters is that Alex clearly doesn’t want anything to do with you. Like I said before. Take your drink and walk away.”

“What did you go out and find yourself a little girlfriend, Alex? Is that it? It’s okay, you’ll never find a girl who can fuck you like I can.” He spat out.

“No, I’m not her girlfriend but if I was I would treat her ten times better than you did, and I sure as hell would make love to her better than you ever could.”

“If you keep running your mouth, it’s gonna get ugly real fucking quick for you.” Servando yelled catching everyone’s attention at the party as he felt his face get red with rage. He looked around and noticed everyone was watching him get talked down to by a girl who was about ten inches shorter than him. He took his drink and threw it on Kelley without a second thought.

“Oh, my god! Kelley!” Alex gasped as she glared at Servando who looked like he would charge the girl at any second. “What the fuck is wrong with you?!” She demanded. She grabbed Kelley’s hand as she pushed past the sea of people and towards the bathroom. Once they made it upstairs and into a bathroom that didn’t have two people hooking up in it, she shut and locked the door before turning to look for a towel to help try to clean Kelley up. “I’m so sorry he did this to you.” She muttered wetting the end of the towel and started to wipe the cheap beer off of Kelley’s face. “I’m so sorry.” Alex said as a sob escaped and her body began to shake.  

“Hey…” Kelley said grabbing Alex’s wrist gently, stopping her movement. “It’s not your fault, he is an asshole and he shouldn’t have been talking to you, or touching you like that. And if I have to get beer thrown at me in order for him to stop then I’d do it again.” She said truthfully as she gave the girl a small smile. “I’d hug you but I’m all sticky.” She giggled.

Alex smiled despite her tears as she leaned against the bathroom sink. “I’m sorry I was so rude to you all night, actually. You didn’t deserve it. I was just so happy to be finally be able to hang out with Tobin and Syd all night. When that mix up happened, I was just upset that Tobin didn’t seem to care that our best friends’ night out was ruined. Okay, not ruined, but just different. I haven’t seen Tobin that happy in a while and it’s off putting when someone else can get your best friend to be that happy so fast. And now I’m rambling and sound so stupid probably.” Alex finished looking down.

“I don’t think you’re stupid.” Kelley said genuinely. “It was suppose to be a best friends’ night for us too. But things happen, and honestly, Christen looks really happy. That’s all I could ask for. On top of that, I met you. At the end of the day, I’m happy too.” She added with a smile.

“Thank you, for everything you did today.” Alex replied as she moved the towel to wipe the beer off her jaw again. “If you want, we can go back to my apartment. It’s only a few blocks away and we can get you new clothes.” Alex said setting the towel down and put her hand out for Kelley to hold onto as she jumped from the bathroom counter.

“Deal, I’ll go steal a few bottles of something nice for us to drink. I think they owe it to me since I’m covered in cheap beer.” Kelley replied with a chuckle as she and Alex made their way back downstairs. True to her word, she grabbed a bottle of Grey Goose and a bottle of patron that were just sitting on the counter before they ran out of the party laughing.