"Well, I guess this is what I'm doing tonight." I look at the pile of clothes stacked and scattered all over my room I roll my eyes and just let my self fall on the bed with exhaustion.

It's Christmas break and everyone is out well except for my parents and I. Even my little brother is out how unbelievable. I stare at the ceiling and just think about how much of a lame teen I am.

Everyone is out doing something and here I am trying To fix my clothes on a Friday night.

After laying there for a couple of minutes I hear my phone go off and I reach for it.

"It's from Stephanie." I say in confusion. She hardly ever texts me, I mean we're friends but not too close.

I open the message up and all it said was
'Hey' I roll my eyes as I look at the message. I hate when people text me and start the conversation off slow, like just tell me what you need.

I reply back and after some small talk she finally tells me...

'So I'm having a bonfire at my house tonight if you wanna come.' I look at the message and then the time

6:45

"Ughhh" to be honest I don't know if I want to go like I have to get ready and then drive all the way up there and she lives thirty minutes away, I don't know if I want to go through all the trouble of also having to socialize.

'Okay I'll be there, thanks!' I reply.

"Wow Danielle just wow, you gave in quicker than what you thought." I say to myself.

I start thinking about what to wear. I really don't know. I shouldn't go too over the top its only a bonfire.

But what do you wear at a bonfire? I think to myself.

Alright maybe just a hoodie, leggings, and a T-shirt. Yeah that should do it. It's really casual, lazy even but my hair and makeup will make up for it I guess.

After a quick hour of getting ready it was finally time for me to leave.

"Bye mom I'll be back in a couple of hours." I say to my mom as I peek in her door. Not really going all the way in cause I know she'll hold me up for at least fifteen minutes and I already wasted too much time.

"Alright be safe." She says as she looks up from her phone.

I finally make my way to Stephanie's house and see lots of cars in her drive way as I pull up.

I was getting a little anxious but whatever I didn't know these people and it was probably the first and last time I'd meet them.

Or so I thought.

I get out of my car and gather my things and make my way to the front door which was wide open for anyone to come in or go out.

I walked through and there was a couple of guys playing video games. So I made my way to the kitchen.

I thought she said a bonfire this is a freaking house party. I think to myself.

I look out the window and see the bonfire going on. It was huge and there were a lot more people around it.

I looked around and tried to lean closer to the window to be able to see better when I finally spotted Stephanie.

"There she is." I whisper to myself as I make my way out the back door.

I finally reach her and see that she's talking to this guy who is actually cute. Well to be honest all of the ones I've seen so far have been cute.

"Hey Steph." I say as I reach to her.

She sees me and smiles "hey Danielle for a second I thought you would change your mind."

"Nope I almost did but here I am." I say laughing.

"Well I hope you have fun then. Half of these people I don't even know myself." She leans In whispering the last part to me.

I nod my head in understanding.

"Well why don't you make yourself at home, there's food in the kitchen and drinks, blankets in the living room if you're too cold and well the huge bonfire in the middle of my backyard." She says looking at it.

"Okay well thanks, I think I'm gonna make my way to the bonfire and warm up a little." I say as I start waking off.

"Go for it!" She says smiling.

I walk off and make my way to the bonfire. They had little benches around it to where we could sit and my antisocial skills direct me to the empty bench.

I sat down and watched the fire. Obviously half of the time I was wiping tears from my eyes cause they always seem to water every time I get this close to a fire.

After sometime of sitting here on my own three people come up and sat beside me they didn't really say anything to me they where having they're own conversation.

I over heard there names after a while of them sitting here joking around. One of the guys was named Danny, the girl was Loren and the other guy was Zack.

Danny was full time flirting with Loren and Zack well I could tell he was Into her also but really Loren seemed more interested in Zack.

"So what's your name?" I look beside me and Danny was talking to me.

"Umm Danielle." I say a little awkwardly wondering why he decided to talk to me and stop flirting with Loren.

"Ohh well hey I'm Danny." He said and he leaned on me a little bumping our shoulders together and then just smiled at me.

I looked over him and saw that Loren was engrossed in whatever Zack was talking about.

I rolled my eyes at the obvious reason as to why Danny all of a sudden started talking to me.

Right after I got my phone out and scrolled through Instagram tryna distract myself from this cringy situation I was in.

I was to the point that my face felt like it was about to melt off from being infront of the bonfire  for so long and also I was getting hungry.

I got up and made my way over to the house and Into the kitchen.

I walked around the island trying to see my choices.

Hmm what should I get? I asked myself.

I finally decided on the hotdog and chips and a soda. The most basic food at parties.

"Or maybe I'm just going to the wrong parties" I whispered to myself.

I stop by the island and ate my food given that I didn't really have anywhere else to go.

After I ate my food I stood by the wall between the dining room and living room watching the same guys that were playing earlier play COD.

I heard some guys also laughing behind me but I was too anxious and annoyed at this point and didn't bother turning around.

Until I felt someone approach behind me and whisper in my ear. "I would love to see your beautiful face as I fuck you right against this wall."

I nearly chocked on my drink.

My eyes got so wide and I look at the guy that was right behind me. I felt my face get red with embarrassment and I hear one of his friends laugh and say "good one Nick."

He smirked at me and walked back to his friends that looked at him as if he was their hero or some shit.

As they walked by me to go into the living room Nick looked at me and winked and once again I felt my face get hot.

He really wasn't bad looking. He has curly black hair and super tan skin that was obviously natural. He was tall also and very lean. He was cute. But it didn't make up for his asshole personality.

I watched as they sat down on the couch and Nicks friends took the controllers away from the other guys that were already playing. Nick just sat down and made eye contact with me for a while and smirked.

I rolled my eyes and decided to grab one of the blankets on my way out the door.

I walked by to the bonfire this time choosing a bench that wasn't so close to the fire I really didn't want my eyes watering again or my face melting.

After sometime of sipping on my drink and watching how others interact with each other someone came and sat beside me.

I look up and who do I see?

Nick.

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I hope you enjoyed!

Sorry if there are any grammar errors I tried to revise but I was so excited to post it so here it is!

I'll make sure to fix any errors soon.

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