Typical of Aaron to have a crowd form around him everywhere he went. He had randomly approached me and I was flabbergasted. He had fallen dramatically in front of me and that was how the party, that I didn't even want attend, ended.

The music immediately shut off and a crowd of people were very convinced that it was more important for them to watch Aaron fall than dance and get drunk and do that party stuff. Maybe they'd thought he had gotten in a fight, but it didn't matter. I didn't understand people's intrigue with Aaron Paul, he was just an attractive boy. So what? There are plenty of those!

I wished Stacy hadn't dragged me into this mess. For once I regretted going somewhere I didn't want to go. Normally I would be fine with it, but today, I was dumbstruck and wishing I hadn't agreed.

"Help me up," he said and I just stared at him. His gray eyes bare and staring into mine. I felt my cheeks flush and the temperature of the world rose with every second. It was already hot and sweaty but now, it was hotter and far more awkward than I could have ever imagined. I wished I could be back home in my warm bed reading my English textbook than here in the hot room smelling alcohol.

I bent down to sit beside him but changed my mind. Instead, I reached out a hand to help him up.

A surge of adrenaline rushed through out my body as I stared into the pools of his gray eyes. My heart was accelerating and I looked at him with a strange feeling in my soul. I felt empowered. I was stuck in the trance that was his eyes and I couldn't find my way out. It was as though the earth had swallowed us up and everyone disappeared. I felt connected to him somehow.

As soon as I pulled my hand away from his, it was like I had been tossed into a waterfall as people were chatting loudly, no longer paying attention to our ordeal as the music blasted louder than before.

I have to find Stacy. I thought, walking past Aaron's tall build and searching the crowd. She was nowhere in sight.

Maybe she can just go home with whoever she's with now, I hope she isn't mad at me tomorrow. I quietly headed back to the door where Aaron now stood frozen in place. I wanted to hold my hands over his eyes and make sure he was alive, but I decided against it. I silently slithered past everyone in the dark room and found myself in the cold midnight breeze. At that moment, I realized I hated parties and would never willingly or unwillingly attend one again.

I made my way to my car and took a deep sigh of relief. I hated crowded places.

As soon as I started the engine, I heard a tapping on my window. Nobody was there. I looked again. Nothing.

The tapping began again and I began to freak out. When I turned my head, there he stood.

I screamed loudly, pressing the gas pedal and driving quickly until I stopped a few feet away. He lay on the ground hunched over grabbing his foot.

I quickly rushed out.

"Oh my god! Did I just drive over your foot?!" I screamed as he lay hunched over in pain. Nothing was going right today and all it took was an accident. Would he sue me?!

"Help me up." He whimpered. Those words he had said earlier, I didn't want to touch him, I was afraid of what would happen this time.

"Somebody help!" I shouted, watching his attempt to take his shoe off and cry in pain.

"You drove over my foot!" He shouted and I suddenly felt guilty.

"You scared me to death!" I shouted back, "Why were you even at my car?!"

"Violet I swear I will sue you if you don't help me up." I glared at him.

"I'll sue you right back!" I sassed with empty threats, I was never one to reply, but he made me angry.

I sat on the ground beside him while he lay in the fetal position grasping his leg and biting the insides of his cheeks.

"Please," he cried.

"What do you want me to do? Carry you?" I crossed my arms, amused as I sat beside him. For some reason, I really wasn't worried if he was hurt and nor did I care.

"Touch me." He glared at me as a disgusted look filled my features. I was never one to think Aaron could pass as a creep, he was always so cool, but today, Aaron was a creep.

"No, you're disgusting, go get one of your girlfriends to do that." I stood up, getting ready to walk away as he immediately stood up and hobbled behind me.

"The least you can do is drive me home after basically mauling me!" He said as I laughed to myself, keeping my face away from him. I stopped quickly and turned around, he was walking perfectly fine.

"I did not hit you." I announced as a sly smirk appeared on his face.

"Wanna bet? I've just got a very high pain tolerance." He walked over to me, "how about that ride home?" I gave him a skeptical look as he stared at me with a mixture of admiration and mischief on his face. His silver eyes bore into mine and it was like we were back in our own world. This feeling made me uncomfortable, but not in a bad sense. I wanted more but I didn't want it. It was weird of me to feel this way- confusing even.

Before I could shake my head and tell him to go away, he immediately fell back on the ground. Several people had begun to walk out of the party now and I wasn't one for a big scene.

"Ow! My leg! My beautiful beautiful leg got run over!" His face flinched in pain and I couldn't tell if he was joking or being serious as a couple people turned to look at us.

"Okay. Okay shush, get up. I'll take you home." I hurriedly walked over to him as he stood up as though nothing had just happened.

"Great. Let's go." I glared at him, how was he so sober when he had been drunk moments ago? I shook it off, it was unnecessary to think about.

Never in a billion, trillion, no- bajillion years would I have ever have pictured myself anywhere near Aaron Paul. The calming vibes he gave off were obnoxiously irritating. They were like sharks waiting for a meal or the calm before a very harsh storm or an alligator waiting for its prey to come too close.

"Which way?" I suddenly asked, not having realized that he had never told me where he lived.

"Just keep driving Violet." And as always, the pretty people of the world were the most invigorating- the most obnoxious jerks alive. I glared at him.

"My gas tank doesn't have enough gas to just keep driving!" I mimicked his words as I glared ahead angrily. His light laughter filled the car as I turned to mock his contagious smile. Could someone be any more annoying at this moment than Aaron Paul.

His name sounded like he was supposed to be some sort artist. It was barely the first day of our junior year of high school and I desperately hoped that nobody knew we left together. It would be the talk of the town especially after his girl Amy left him for Tyler. That news happened merely hours ago but somehow word got to everyone's ears.

I couldn't tell if he had randomly chosen me as his rebound.

"No you aren't my rebound, don't flatter yourself." He suddenly said as I turned to look at him.

"What?" I asked confused, wondering if I had spoken that out loud.

"You're not my rebound." He repeated, glancing at me and readjusting himself in the seat. My heart rate began to rise as I opened a window to let in some cold air in this hot car. "Amy and I were just hooking up."

"I didn't say that." I suddenly said, realizing I had never mentioned it at all except for the two seconds I had thought was a possibility. The last thing I had spoken to him was my annoyed complaint about his desire to waste my gas tank's precious- and expensive resource.

"You did." He said calmly, but I knew myself well enough to know I would never talk to a guy about his past relationships, "turn right here."

I turned right at the stop sign and the world was dark and eerily shameful. The sun had gone down long ago and when Jim, my boss, let me off work early, Stacy took that opportunity to turn me into a free cab to one of the many parties of the year. I didn't feel comfortable going, but usually when things like this happened I would typically not regret it.

Earlier I had been stocking the shelves at the store where I worked under the greatest boss ever- Jim Leyland- and a certain Tyler had walked in.

I wasn't shocked because he typically came in once a month to grab some vitamin pills and left. He usually had tunnel vision, but today he had stopped to look through the nail polish.

He seemed shocked to find so many and I stayed in the opposite lane laughing silently. He had mumbled so many words to himself that it became hilarious when he finally asked for help.

I silently glanced at Aaron who looked like he was about to fall asleep.

"No!" I shouted as his eyes snapped open and his neck turned to me quickly.

"What?" He yawned, everything about him was contagious and I was annoyed.

"Where do you live Aaron? I need to take you home."

"My parents aren't home. Drop me off wherever." He yawned again stretching as the clever idea sunk into my mind.

I stopped randomly, parking on the street and turning toward him.

"Okay we're here. You can leave now." I said as he unlocked the door and got out. I felt intoxicated as the air seemed to thicken. I was basically dropping him off on the street corner of a random house and hoping he found his way home.

"Stupid jerk," I muttered under my breath and casually leaned back as he shut the door behind him and walked away. I had driven toward the next stop sign as he finally realized I had ditched him in the middle of nowhere.

I realize that I am the one being a stupid jerk. I'm merely hating on this guy because he's hot and I have no chance with him. I'm hating on him because of all the opportunities and special things he gets just because of his looks. It's completely unfair, but I shouldn't have left him somewhere randomly.

For someone who hated scenes, this whole night was pretty much just that. I watched him look around in confusion before he looked at me and my smiling face through the reflection in the mirror and in the middle of the night when the rest of the world was silent he shouted.

"How did you know where I live?"

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