Two, please!

Liliana's pov :

Taking a chilled beer in my hand, I moved away from the crowd that was swaying their asses with the music on the dance floor. The place was cool enough to chill and forget about the mess of our lives but I was Liliana Watson, a nerd.

How was I supposed to get some peace when my mind was wandering around Jay's behaviour?

If Jay wouldn't have made my brain a mess, maybe I would be enjoying the party with my friends.

I wasn't like that, I was a different person but I changed a lot. I won't give full credit to Jay or Fee because somewhere, I wanted to change myself, too. Changing myself a bit wasn't awful, I needed someone's company to enjoy my life and have fun in life.

It wasn't like what it seemed to everyone else. Perhaps everyone thought that I wanted to change myself completely because being a nerd and a tomboy was damnable for me.

Fuck! Whatever they thought wasn't any nearer to what it in reality was!

I have made a joke of myself in front of everyone, at least it's what I felt when Fee and Jay questioned the choice of my clothes. I was doing experiments with my lifestyle and dressing style, it wasn't like changing it.

Hmm…! Change is a big word, I was taking it wrongly. Changing meant I couldn't go back to the lifestyle that I used to have, if you would add new people in your life that won't give justice to the old people who were in your life and you are leaving them.

For me, it was just like that. Maybe I was taking the clothes issue too far but it was hurting me to think that my attire was affecting Jay that much.

"Hey!" Theo approached me by occupying the seat beside me.

"Hi!" From the deepest thoughts about my life and me, Theo made me out of it so I smiled to show that I wasn't lost anywhere else.

"Why aren't you drinking or dancing?" He threw a very expected answer in a casual tone.

I snapped my head to look at him. "I'm!" I raised the can of beer that I was holding for the last ten minutes but haven't relished the beer yet. "Cheers?"

"Cheers!" He shook his glass of mocktail with my beer. Theo still had the next round of competition the next day so he avoided drinking alcohol.

I took a big gulp of my beer and savoured the bitter taste of it finally for the very first time. "Do you wanna know a secret?" I leaned forward a little to whisper in his ear.

"So now you are gonna keep secrets from me, huh?" I knew the owner of that voice very well.

My possessive and strange boyfriend!

Yes, strange!

Stranger!

That's what I was feeling since the afternoon, everything was so perfect till the last day but suddenly after Barbie's appearance, he was acting so strange that he got me thinking if I knew him or not!

Plastering a smile on my face, I turned to see him. "Not from you, baby!" I pecked his lips with my alcoholic lips.

"I'm tasting beer for the first time and also at a party, too. That's what I was gonna tell Theo." I shrugged and took another sip from my can.

"You're not drinking anything?" I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion at Jay.

He made me stand from my seat by lifting me from my seat and rested his ass on my seat. My jaw dropped at his weird act again but it quickly closed when he made me sit on his lap.

Romantic! Utterly romantic! I wished he wouldn't have acted that way because my mind was still stuck on that thing and all of his sweet gestures and romantic acts were seemingly meaningless to me.

I could see everyone else was walking towards us from the dance floor so they were going to get drunk now. Well, it was the plan to get drunk and forget everything else tonight.

Nevertheless, it was a part of our wishlist so Fee and I were excited because we were on the same boat.

"The girls are gonna get drunk today but boys need to be sober to carry their drunk girlfriends, right? Since I don't have a girlfriend, I'll join the girl's team and drink like a fish." Alex shouted in amusement and formulated his arms on George and Fiona's shoulders.

Fee was so happy with George. I doubted him a lot in the starting, I was worried for Fiona but in the end, he was the most understanding, caring, and mature boyfriend. I was glad that he proved me wrong.

She was still scared of having sex with him but he didn't even get upset with her or didn't change his behaviour at all. Fiona told me everything about her relationship with George last night, how happy she was, and how smoothly everything was going in her relationship!

It wasn't getting under my skin, I was happy for my best friend. She deserved her happy fairy tale, I was just sagging myself again to the place where I belonged.

"Right!" Barbie chimed in and gulped down the shot of vodka. She was more than excited to get drunk tonight, she sat on Theo's thighs and caught the hem of the collars of his shirt and kissed his lips.

Jay's grasp on my waist was tightening by seeing the scene his sister was offering. "You are hurting me, Jay." I removed his hold on my body and got off from his lap.

Before I could move to the bartender and take a drink, his huge palm was holding my wrist and I was turned by his force.

"I'm sorry!" He palmed my cheeks and started cupping them slowly with so much concern in his eyes.

And there, I melted in his hypnotizing dark blue eyes again. That boy was my destruction, he could treat me any way he wanted and I would still choose him, I would still love him even if he would not like my real version.

"Let's go dancing!" I beamed and placed my hands on his face.

He nodded and we shuffled to the dance floor. Jay intertwined our fingers and brought me closer to him by holding my waist. He was smiling and his gaze was locked on our intertwined fingers as if it was becoming his favourite view to see.

I laid my hand on his back and our eyes locked with each other. He forced me to lean closer to him so our noses were touching each other. I could feel his hot breathing falling on my face.

We started dancing slowly, swaying our bodies with the rhythm of the music. I glanced at the table where everyone else was sitting and drinking. Barbie was handing a bottle of vodka, she was already getting drunk and kissing Theo.

The way she was kissing Theo was really funny, her pouty lips were making their way to Theo's lips after taking a sip from the bottle. She was repeating that act, again and again, she would take a sip, then kiss, again a sip, then again a kiss. And Theo was staring at his cute girlfriend with a blush on his face.

"Why are you giggling, baby?" Jay brought my attention to him by his dumb question. He didn't know that his sister was already drunk and behaving so cute with her boyfriend.

And at that point, I wasn't ready to take risk of his mood swings by talking to him about his sister so I avoided it. "I want to have some drinks so I'm going to the bar, okay?"

Before the bartender could ask me I ordered one shot of vodka.

"Two, please!" Alex made me dumbfounded, I didn't expect him to have drinks and that too, with me. "Don't give me that look! I'm heartbroken, I need to forget the pain that my ex gave me."

Oh! So he had a reason for drinking. "I thought we came here to celebrate Theo's victory and new relationship status."

And we both started laughing. Of course, we came to celebrate for Theo and Barbie but we had our reasons for drinking!

Some were drinking in sorrow, some in joy!

"So cheers to my breakup?"

"Cheers!"

I could feel the pain of Alex, neglected by everyone!

His friends were so busy with their stuff that they completely forgot about Alex. Even though his girlfriend wasn't a good person, she didn't love him but he loved her and he got deceived by that bitch.

"You know, I loved her with every bit of my heart and she," Alex murmured and chuckled sarcastically. "She broke that heart by her lies and fake loving facade."

So Alex was finally opening up to me, but why me? He had three friends whom he knew for a very long time, we were also friends but not so close friends.

"Sir, do you want round two?" A tattooed guy who was serving us drinks asked Alex.

"Round two? I want fucking ten rounds, dude!" Alex yelled at that guy. "If you have something special that can take away my pain, please, give me that!"

"Oops! Heartbreak?" The guy seemed to handle it a lot, he quickly got it. "Well, I invented this drink when I got my first heartbreak." He placed two drinks in front of us.

One vodka and another was his special creation for the heartbroken people!