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Lara had never spent much time at parties. 17 years old and just starting her senior year, her friends had convinced her that she needed to start living up her life and having some fun. Reluctantly, she had agreed to let them take her to the football party after the Homecoming game. It was held at a cabin, and there were at least two hundred students milling around, drinking, dancing, and cutting loose.
A wall-flower all her life, Lara stood against a wall, drinking her third beer and watching the other people moving past. It seemed like everyone from the school was here.. cheerleaders and football players, nerds and geeks, freaks and goths. She had no idea these parties were so popular! Sometimes, a friend or another student would walk past and try to hit on her, but she didn't really know how to respond to it. It wasn't that she wasn't pretty - she absolutely was - but she didn't know it. Her brown hair hung down past her shoulders, and her smokey gray eyes felt like they could pierce right through someone, but could also hold great passion.
She bopped her head in time to the music and people-watched for a while, before the fourth beer made her head swim and her bladder ache. She needed to find a bathroom! Moving unsteadily through the large cabin, she saw a huge line in front of the bathroom. Groaning, not wanting to wait, she made her way upstairs and checked the doors, not finding a bathroom. Darn! she thought as she made her way back to the stairs. She saw one of the students, a jock she had seen in the hall many times, and asked him if there was another bathroom around. Laughing, he nodded and pointed to a room on the first floor that seemed to have a large group of people around it, but they didn't seem like they were standing in line.
Confused but hopeful, Lara followed him, accepting a drink that he offered her and drinking it down, not knowing what it was but liking the sweet taste of it. In a moment, it was gone as they approached the room.
A wall-flower all her life, Lara stood against a wall, drinking her third beer and watching the other people moving past. It seemed like everyone from the school was here.. cheerleaders and football players, nerds and geeks, freaks and goths. She had no idea these parties were so popular! Sometimes, a friend or another student would walk past and try to hit on her, but she didn't really know how to respond to it. It wasn't that she wasn't pretty - she absolutely was - but she didn't know it. Her brown hair hung down past her shoulders, and her smokey gray eyes felt like they could pierce right through someone, but could also hold great passion.
She bopped her head in time to the music and people-watched for a while, before the fourth beer made her head swim and her bladder ache. She needed to find a bathroom! Moving unsteadily through the large cabin, she saw a huge line in front of the bathroom. Groaning, not wanting to wait, she made her way upstairs and checked the doors, not finding a bathroom. Darn! she thought as she made her way back to the stairs. She saw one of the students, a jock she had seen in the hall many times, and asked him if there was another bathroom around. Laughing, he nodded and pointed to a room on the first floor that seemed to have a large group of people around it, but they didn't seem like they were standing in line.
Confused but hopeful, Lara followed him, accepting a drink that he offered her and drinking it down, not knowing what it was but liking the sweet taste of it. In a moment, it was gone as they approached the room.