Avery's POV
My bright blue eyes widen as Callum's lips hit mine. What the fuck was he doing?
I'd barely talked to the boy a few times, he couldn't possibly have an interest in me. Could he? And even if he did what gave him the right to surprise me with a kiss like that?
I shove his chest back and gape at him.
"What..what the hell was that?!" I shout at him.
Even he looks surprised and regretful right away.
"I am so so sorry." He says seemingly mortified. "Yeah...I won't do that again." Callum seems like he's talking more to himself than me though.
He walks off leaving me to stare at the now empty hall in confusion.
"What's with the face?" Mona asks appearing out of no where. Maybe I was just too zoned out to notice everything around me.
"Harvey's?" I ask with wide eyes.
"Oh shit." Mona mutters before shaking her head and grabbing my elbow since I most likely would've never left on my own.
***
Mona and I sit on our bar stools at Harvey's. It was the bar we went to when one of us had to drink our drama away.
She slams her shot glass down and scrunches her eyes closed while processing the taste. Mona hated vodka. Not sure why shots were her go to.
"So he just like...walked away?" She says much too dramatically while using wild hand motions.
Random people stared at us but the regulars didn't waste a second glance. It happened pretty often.
"I mean basically. He apologized and seemed all shocked and shit and THEN he left."
"Well this is a mess." She snorts.
"Not helping, Mona." I say tipping back another shot.
"Isn't it a bit early for you girls to be here?" Jake questions. Jake was our usual bartender. I think he knew we were underage but we had our fake IDs and there wasn't much he could do about it. Plus we were friends now so he gave it to us anyways.
"Jake, we've got drama so shut the trap, yeah?" Mona tells him grabbing another shot from our tray.
"Noon is a bit early to be hammered." He says grabbing the shots from us.
Mona whimpers and reaches out to grab that but Jake smacks her with that cliche rag he had over his shoulder.
"Dream crusher." I call him.
"You'll thank me tomorrow Mickey." He says with a wink.
I can't remember a time Jake called me by my actual name. Once he found out my middle name was Michelle it's been Mickey.
"Hows the flat?" I questions a very tipsy Mona.
She groans and bangs her head against the counter.
"Grace is such a bitch!" She yells gaining distasteful stares from on lookers.
"Why?" I laugh. Not bothering to bring up how she saved our asses the other day and just letting her get it out.
She glares and spins in a circle on her stool which was definitely a bad idea.
"She's like totally emo and ya know, wears all black and leather and shit so I thought 'hey, she'll be pretty cool' "she does one of her epic eye rolls "oh how wrong I was."
"This hoe woke me up an HOUR before my alarm." She glares at everything in sight at the thought of losing her sleep.
"You set it half an hour before school." I point out
"I did that for a reason stupid." She says throwing her hands up almost falling off her seat. I grab Mona's shoulders and set her back on properly.
She nods as if saying 'thank you'and fixes her shorts.
"And I'm still mad she hangs around Evelyn." She gives me a look. "And I am not gonna hang around with her." She gags and spins on the stool again.
"Why not? She lives with you. Don't you think it's time you get to know her since I'm not around as much anymore?" I ask. I never meant to hold Mona back from making friends with the girls. She did it on her own and ignored my requests to talk to the other girls.
"I don't care. You're still my best friend and she still hates you and you hate her so that instantly makes me not like her and Evelyn is still a bitch anyways. And she ate my last piece of cheesecake last week. It even had my name on it! You just don't steal a girls cake Aves." She tells me seriously. So that's why we stole her gummy bears.
The door to the kitchen swings open and Jake walks out. "Your Uber's here girlies."
"Thank you." I shout to him before starting the tedious task of dragging my drunk best friend out with me.
***
I push my key into the door and twist it open while making sure Mona doesn't fall over. She was practically passed out at this point but her humming of the Barney song told me she was awake.
I grab the door handle and push the door open only to see seven boys sitting on the couch staring at me.
"Where were you? We've been worried sick!" Bentley yells over dramatically in a high pitched voice.
"Your moms loud." Mona mumbles to herself that it almost isn't loud enough for me to hear but all the boys seemed to have.
They all burst out laughing. Except Keegan but he cracks a smile.
Axel stands up after recovering from his laughing fit and walks over to Mona and I.
He goes to pick her up but I stand in front of the chair she was sitting in.
"What are you doing?" I ask him while crossing my arms and eyeing him warily.
"Taking her to bed." he says as if it was obvious.
"You asshole!" I yell and punch his shoulder. He couldn't seriously be thinking about having sex right now.
"Ow woman calm your tits. I meant actual bed. Like sleep." Axel tells me rubbing the spot I punched him.
I glare at him. "What makes you think I'll let you actually do that?" I ask taking a step closer to him.
"You realize she can't give consent while drunk, right?" He tells me shaking his head like he couldn't imagine doing such a thing.
I don't answer him but turn back to my best friend and see her shifting around in the chair with her eyes closed. At least she stopped humming the Barney song.
I turn back to Axel. "If you do anything I will chop your dick off and shove it down your throat until you suffocate and die." I tell him being 100% honest.
"Is that you implying I have a big dic-"
"Just take her already smartass." I roll my eyes and move away from the chair watching Axel carefully as he picks her up and carries her to his and Keegan's room.
I notice he left the door open half way. Good boy.
"You gonna sit?" Dawson asks bringing my attention back to the boys around me.
"Ye-" the only spot left was between Callum and Victor. Victor scoots over a bit to make room for me which causes both Callum and I to make slightly panicked faces. "Uh yeah." I say and make my way over to the couch and awkwardly sit down.
My entire body was squished between the two boys. Maybe I was just imagining it but I swear I was closer to Callum. He tried to scoot over but the armrest was already pressed tightly against his side.
I shift a bit but it's to no avail.
Well fuck.
"Where'd you and Axels chick go anyways?" Bentley asks but I focus more on the 'Axels chick' rather than the actual question.
"A bar to- wait, what do you mean Axels chick?" I ask him.
"The dude didn't fuck any girls at the party over the weekend so I figured they were together." he says shrugging.
"And he hasn't talked about any other girls this week." Victor pipes in.
"The guys whipped." Elliot adds.
"Like you." Keegan says with a stupid smirk.
Elliot tosses the remote at him, it hits his head since Keegan had turned back to the TV.
"So, why'd you go to the bar?" Elliot asks casually as if he didn't just possibly give his friend a concussion.
"Ya know...schools a bitch." I say with a forced laugh which sounded way too fake. Even to my own ears.
"No specific reason?" Dawson asks staring at the tv and not me which kinda gave me mixed signals on if he knew or not.
"Nope." I say looking at the video game cases on the coffee table.
"So Callum how'd- " Victor starts but gets cut off by Callum himself.
"I kissed her alright!" He yells
The room falls silent.
"...I was just gonna ask about the math test." Victor says shrugging awkwardly.
"God dammit." Callum mumbles.
***