spiral staircase on the left side of the living room and wandered the halls. The party was looking to be a typical unchaperoned teenage party. There were drugs, alcohol and rated PG-13 nudity everywhere.
I was halfway down the hallway when I was suddenly grabbed by some drunk guy coming out of one of the bedrooms. Before I could make out who the boy was, he had cradled my face in his hands and started kissing me.
I let out a shocked gasp, and he used that opportunity to slip his tongue inside my mouth.
Holy lips and tongue, Batman! This was my first kiss ever!
I was kissing a boy! Could you believe it? Me! Short, plump, brown-haired, brown-eyed Fiona Eldstead was being kissed. Finally!
I was enjoying the kiss so much that I didn’t take notice, at first, of his hand moving down over my hip. I reached down to bring his hand back up, but he wasn’t having it. This boy-whose name I didn’t even know-suddenly grabbed my hips and yanked me towards him and, while I may have never been kissed before, I knew exactly what it was that was rubbing up against my body.
I turned my head away from his kiss and began pushing at his shoulders. “Stop it.”
I don’t think he heard me because he started kissing my neck and rubbing himself faster on my hip. “I said, stop it! Please, let me go.”
He heard me that time. “Awe, come on, sweetheart. You don’t really want me to stop.”
I did.
I really, really did want him to stop. I pushed at his shoulders as hard as I could, but he wouldn’t budge. I started to panic. “Stop it! Now! Get off me!”
“Listen-” He didn’t get to finish what he was going to say.
One second he was on me, then the next thing I knew, he was being thrown to the floor and Damien Greystone was over him, punching the boy…well…everywhere. The sight was enough to paralyze me. I wondered what this kid had done to piss off Damien like that.
I stood there in shock because, let’s be honest, I didn’t know what people were supposed to do when something like this happened at these parties. It wasn’t until Damien’s sidekicks, William Creston and Jake Everol, stepped in that Damien was pulled off of the guy.
“Dame, dude…” William began, but Damien ignored him.
Damien turned towards me and I don’t think I had ever seen anything so magnificent in all my sixteen years of living. His chest was heaving, his balled-up fists were bloody and his eyes were blazing in green flames. He was so beautiful that, in this moment, it actually hurt my heart that he hated me so much.
There were all kinds of chaos around us, but all I could focus on was him. I guess he felt the same because, the next thing I knew, he was pulling me into the room closest to us. He literally threw me inside and slammed the door shut behind him.
The room was dark, but there was enough light coming in through the window from the streetlight outside to make each other out. I stayed quiet, waiting for him to say something. I had never seen him like this, and while I didn’t think he’d ever hit me, I honestly wasn’t sure. So, I waited silently like a coward.
It didn’t take long before he let out a roar and started punching the wall. I stood there stunned at his violence. It wasn’t until I could actually see holes covered in blood decorating the wall that I moved.
I rushed towards him and grabbed his arm in the middle of another throw. “Damien, stop it!”
He rounded on me and the look on his face had me running for the door. Unfortunately for me, he got there before I could turn the knob. He swung me around and his grip on my shoulders was so tight I whimpered. He was going to leave bruises. I looked up as he towered over me, and I was truly afraid. “Please don’t hurt me…”
His brows drew inward. “Hurt you? You think I’m going to hurt you?”
I shook my head because frankly I didn’t know what to think. “I don’t know,” I whispered.
“How could you let him kiss you?” he snarled.
What?
“I...I...didn’t. It…it wasn’t like that.”
He leaned in closer if that was even possible. “Then explain to me how it was, Halloween?”
“I…I was looking for the bathroom. H…he came out of one of the rooms, grabbed me and then just started