"Trev!" I shout, trying to get his attention back to me and he looks at me wide eyed and then laughs loudly, tossing me the orange. I catch it successfully and throw him a proud smirk.

I throw it as hard as I can at him and he easily catches it, chuckling at how I keep trying to make him drop it.

People were here, my friends were mingling and I was just- Trev and I have been playing catch for the last twenty minutes.

I don't even know why or care why.

He throws it back as hard as he can and I cry out loud and dodge it. It hits the kitchen cupboard with a bang and I just skip over and grab the some how still intact orange and pick it back up, swivelling around on the admittedly unsteady kitchen floor and I toss it back over the counter to him.

In his general direction anyway.

I grab my drink and take a sip, before slamming it back down and jumping on the spot when I see him watching me with a smirk.

I will catch this shit.

He throws it so fucking hard man that this time when I dodge it, it goes straight into the glasses behind me and the other people in the kitchen gasp at the sound of shattering glass and look at me accusingly.

I glare at T.

Luella looks up from her place with Claire and Britney in the living room and she looks at me like 'what the hell did you do'.

I just shrug and turn around, going to pick up the shit that fell.

"Nuh uh." Comes a voice from behind me and I pause.

I spin around, looking at him momentarily and then to T who had lost interest by now and was somewhere else.

Damn.

"Don't even try." Elijah says and steps forwards, moving around me and I just lean against the counter and I watch at my ADHD specialist clears up the mess that I admittedly didn't prevent from being made.

Like I didn't make it but It was my fault sort of.

He looks up at me. "You good?"

I nod. "You recon it's inappropriate?"

He frowns.

It feels inappropriate to be drinking with- like imagine if Freya was here. Ha.

"I dunno, I didn't know you'd be here." Elijah says. "Probably might be best though if you see someone else, we seem to be running in the same circles."

I frown at him and nurse my glass as he uses a dirty dish towel to gather up all the shattered glass. He moves it to the bin.

"Did you know that my granddad is called Elijah?"

He frowns a little at me. "No Emersyn I didn't."

"I didn't see you come in." I say. "How long have you been here?"

"I came with my friend an hour or so ago."

I nod. "Whose ya friend?"

He nods over my shoulder and another guy is watching us, which is sort of peevy. I frown and look at him. "Right well as beautiful as you are Eli, it is time for me to disappear."

He laughs at little. "Disappear?"

I nod numbly. I was already like- over the limit of driving- let's say.

Not that I have a car. But well if I did, I definitely couldn't drink it.

Drive.

Drive.

I can drink.

I drink another sip and watch him walk back to me.

"Don't think I've ever been called beautiful before-"

"I wouldn't be too flattered mate, she calls everyone beautiful."

August.

I turn my heard round to him and scrunch my nose up at the fact he's besides me, he leans over and grabs himself a bottle of vodka and pours it straight into his cup, I peer into it.

"Remember there's a thing called mixers Leo."

He smirks down at me. "My mixer is at the coffee table, don't be worrying."

I just pull a face at him and then look back at Elijah who was watching us.

"Eli, because my grandad is called Elijah and also there's a guy in the vampire diaries called Elijah and I like him but I don't wanna be-"

"What bullshit at you spewing." August chuckles and I huff and turn around.

"August you are excused."

He snorts. "My kitchen."

I glare and turn back around to the other guy. "Go now Eli, it's inappropriate for you to be near me."

He blinks at me and then laughs, lifting his hands up in surrender and he goes to go back to his friends.

"Wait." I call.

He turns and lifts an eyebrow at me.

"Thanks for helping me-"

He nods and turns around and I just turn back around to August.

"You know it's very rude to interrupt conversations."

He takes a sip of his drink and I frown and look for some coca cola. I pick it up and he watches me in amusement as I unscrew the lid and admittedly a little messily pour it into his cup.

He needs not to drink straight spirits.

Gawd.

"You broke shit, I was coming to check if you were okay."

"Oh the gentleman." I mutter.

"Attitude."

I pout, turning around to face him properly. "It was T, not me."

"I don't believe you."

We had all drank for like an hour before people turned up. They literally spent this time ripping me to pieces over the fact I was fully about to fight Leo over the idea that he didn't invite me.

He swears he just forgot.

I am still suspicious.

"I didn't interrupt you when you were talking to people."

"No you just threw an orange at my head."

"It was an accident!"

He laughs and then raises his cup and leaves, which is even more frustrating because now I am alone in the kitchen and I look around for people I know.

They're all over there.

I really don't talk to many people when I come to these things.

I decide that I will make a new friend and I refill my drink and I scan the room.

Luella and T were playing beer pong. But I don't think there was beer. I haven't seen any.

They were on a team, I can hear Luella shouting so I assume either they're loosing or they're winning.

Ha. They are the only two options.

I find August and he's stood with Phoenix and Callum, a small smirk on his face as they three listen to whatever the two girls were saying to them.

Nodding along.

But I knew that look, he was bored, not bored, amused.

He was probably judging them somehow. I look through and I see people I recignise a little, people playing a game in the middle of the carpet, sat around in a circle and I wonder what they're playing.

I take another sip, my eyes scanning more. There were people nodding along to the music, Jude and Rayne were leaning against the table, a few people dotted around them. Jude between Rayne's legs, leaning his back on Rayne's chest as they talked to more people I don't recognise.

"Who ya watching?" A voice says and I look to the right and see just some guy watching me amused.

I admit, he's pretty hot, I just shrug. "I was looking for someone to talk to."

He gives me a smile. "How will I do?"

"You'll do." I say, smiling back a little and he smiles at me wider.

He's blonde, like bright ice blond and it's sort of interesting. His eyes blue, piercing.

"You look familiar." He says.

I raise an eye. "Do I?"

"Mhm." He hums, he pushes off the kitchen side and comes to my side, looking down at my drink. He observes it's almost empty.

"Would you like a drink?"

I laugh. "I would. But I'll make it."

He cringes a little. "Not a predator."

"Mm." I hum, watching him curiously.

"You know, guys only ask that to see if you're interested. If a girl says sure, then it's an like sign to carry on talking. If they say no, it's a okay I'll be on my way." He tells me.

"Or it's a- hi, let me drug you sort of thing."

He lets out a shocked breath. "You are blunt."

I sigh, looking for some thing to refill my drink. "Yep."

"I recognise you from the summer I think."

I look over my shoulder at him and nod, pouring myself another way too large drink.

He lifts his cup up and I laugh, pouring some in his cup too.

"But I believe you were attached to someone's hip this summer."

I just raise my cup to my lips and look up at the stranger.

"You seem to know more about me than I do about you."

"Not really. I just saw you. Thought you were fit. But gathered you were unavailable."

I search his eyes for genuineness.

I sort of give up with I can't really tell.

"Consider me unattached."

A small smirk raises onto his lips and he raises his own cup to his mouth.

"What's your name, how do you know-?"

I chuckle a little. "You want my social security number as well?"

His eyes dance with amusement and we moves a little closer. "I mean I will take what I can get."

Should I become someone else tonight?

That would be fun.

"What's your name?" I ask him slowly.

The boy with pretty blue eyes smirks, leaning down to say something to me in the loud environment.

"Whatever you want my name to be."

I feel myself smirk at that and I pull back, looking at him again.

Should I just name the stranger?

"How about-"

"Emersyn." Luella says loudly and we both startle a little and I pout at her because she revealed my name. "Oh hey Asa." She says, leaning into my side and I link my arm with hers, we both look up at the boy.

"Hello Luella, I am not as happy to see you right now as I usually would be."

She smiles. "I aint letting you near my baby."

My jaw drops slightly, and I look at her.

He smirks. "Your baby?"

"She's my little jewel."

He takes a step forward to both of us and I don't care, I stay where I am but Luella pulls us back a little.

"You know, you two look awfully stunning together."

She laughs and I just meet his eyes when he leaves Lue's and stares into mine.

"No. No Asa. Go now."

He groans and pulls away and I ignore his leaving presence and turn to Luella, smiling a little lazily and taking a sip.

"Okay so he's fine but he's like- a regular here. You need someone unattached to our friendship group."

I just ignore her. I wasn't trying to hook up with anyone. Like I was just- talking.

I grab her hand and I pull her with me back to Trev.

"We just got hit on, together." She tells him and T pulls a face.

"Who-?"

"No jealously." She says sternly and he rolls his eyes, he looks at me and I smile brightly.

I love Trev.

"I mean, I wouldn't say no." He says, smirking as Luella huffs.

I just stare at him wide eyed. I didn't mean it like that.

I pull a face. I look at Luella. "Boys are gross."

She looks at me, searching my face. "I mean, I guess we can find you a girl instead."

I laugh, then shrug. I don't care.

"I am not-"

She shushed me and then gives a grin up to whoever is behind me.

"Auggie, your presence is unwelcome right now." She says.

He makes an offended noise and places his hand on my back, leaning over me to reach for his phone which was on the shelf next to T's head. We were stood by T's room, by the speakers which was admittedly annoying and loud and also crowded because people were drunk and now flinging themselves around.

"I will disappear into the shadows again then."

I laugh and turn and admittedly I was a little overcome with a lack of air when I realised how close he was. "You are not batman August."

He tilts his head down and just gives me a small smug smile which the only way I can interpret that is that he is.

But... he's not.

I close my eyes confused and he pulls away, going back over to where he was.

"Why do I think he's batman now?"

Luella laughs and shakes her head at me. "Cos you are drunkie."

"Nah." I smile but I admit, the room is moving a lot.

"We are getting Emersyn laid tonight." Luella announces to Trev and he blinks at her. Then he shrugs.

"Right okay, who do you wanna-"

I just pull a face at them both and turn around, walking away and I just hear them laughing at me.

Oh whatever. I catch the eye of Callum and he gives me a wave. He was still stood with Phonic and August and the two girls and I just shrug, walking over there.

He lifts his arm for me and I just stumble under it, smiling at the two girls who look surprised at my entrance.

"Bonjour." I say, smiling at them.

They blink at me. "Bonjour?"

I laugh, thoroughly amused at myself for saying hello in french and I go to say something else in french and Callum pokes my side.

"Em, English please."

Boring.

"Hiya." I say and both the girls smile at me, one of them looks up from the phone she was typing into and then she gives me a smile, and hands August his phone back, I watch the action then my eyes flick up to his, his were already on mine.

I just widen my eyes at him, then smirk a little and look at the girl.

She was pretty.

His type.

"Callum why did you request my presence?" I ask, lifting my head to meet his eyes.

"Abbie here, goes to dance soc, you told me earlier you were joining and I thought I'd introduce you."

Abbie gives me a small smile, not the girl August was exchanging numbers with, the shorter one, red haired. Also, upsettingly pretty.

Not upsettingly, just intimidatingly. She was smiling at me. I grin back. Then look up to Cal. "Wow I was talking loadsa crap to you earlier, I am surprised you heard."

"I am high not deaf."

I just smile and then look back at her. "I went last week, it was really good but-"

"Intense?" She offers and I nod furiously.

"I haven't danced or like gone for a class in so long. Especially temp- so I was like dying."

Callum slides away from me and Phoenix says something in his ear. Then phoenix turns to Abbie. "Would you like a drink babe?"

She nods distracted and then turns to me. "I didn't go last week because I-" She lifts her arm to show me a sprained wrist. "But I will go next week if you wanna meet before? I know a few other girls there as well but-"

I try to concentrate but with Callum and Phoenix gone to get another drink, I can merely focus on August who is stood next to me, engaging in slight conversation with the girl besides Abbie.

She's talking. He's nodding, observing.

"Oh." Abbie exclaims and then calls someone over to us. "Ollie."

'Ollie' looks over to us and raises an eyebrow and she rolls her eyes and beckons him over here.

"This is Emersyn, right?" She says and I nod.

"Ollie does like- he leads the classes." She says.

I recognise him a bit..

I nod.

"Hey it's nice to meet you, I like joined last week." I say.

"Are you new?" The girl next to Abbie says suddenly, looking at me. "Like did you start uni late?"

I smile and nod. "Yeah and I just started joining societies and things."

August, who is totally unimpressed by this conversation I am sure, steps a little closer to me.

I ignore that and look at Ollie. "You were so good."

He smiles. "Thank you, yeah I recognise you. You kept up well."

"I was dying." I admit.

He chuckles and I watch as his eyes dart down me a little.

"You were good. Moved really smoothly."

I beam because well I dunno, it's nice. "I-"

August's hand raises and he presses his hand on my back again, we were stood in a circle, I shake my head and ignore. "I enjoyed it a lot. It was just intense."

"Yeah I like intensity." He chuckles. "Abs will know, we do an exercise class on Saturday mornings if you're ever free to join." He looks up at the girl next to Abbie. "You two Jade, we miss you."

Jade, just smiles and looks up at August. "Would you like to dance?" She asks.

I applaud the girls for the boldness. August hand presses against my back firmer and I laugh a little, they all look at me and August's hand drops. I laughed because most of the time I can tell what August is thinking, well sometimes anyway, like I know what his touches mean. I dunno why he was just touching me then.

Stood talking to another girl.

"Sure." He says and she offers her his hand and he takes it and she starts to pull him away and to my surprise just before he follows his lips are by my ear and I squirm away from them a little.

"Watch."

I push him away from me and both Ollie and Abbie give me a funny look as August and Jade walk away from us and into the crowd of dancing people.

I just give them a small grin, waving it off.

What the hell did he even mean?

No. I was not going to watch him. Anyway, I turn back to Ollie and Abbie and it wasn't long before Cal and Phoenix come back too.

We talk, they talk, my eyes drift.

He was there, close to the girl, to Jade, his hands on her hips and I try not to pull a face.

He deserved some relief, like- I don't disagree. So I go to look away but then he turns the girl around so they weren't looking at each other, his hands pulling the girl against him and then his eyes flick up to mine.

He wanted me to be looking.

He raises an eyebrow at me and he slowly moves his hips with hers, his eyes directly locked with mine and I don't know what the fuck I am supposed to be feeling but I don't know whether I want to cry or melt right now.

He's so annoyingly hot and he's literally showing me that through demonstrating how he'd get this girl into bed with him.

He whispers something in her ear and I wonder what it is.

But she pauses and then she turns around, and she catches him looking directly at me and she looks over too. I am leant against the wall, watching them.

She pulls a face. Then she pushes away from him and walks away. I am not even really with Cal and that anymore, I was too distracted by his annoying display that I didn't realise when they had all gone and sat on the floor, making the circle bigger to play whatever they had been playing.

August heads directly back towards me.

He towers over me. "See I don't even have to ask them, they ask me for my number, to dance, my name... and then I just- touch them a little and they're putty in my hands."

I was breathing a little heavily, August's hands lifting to plant themselves either side of my head.

I want to say something spiteful.

But instead. I feel like I should play this nonchalantly.

I pat his chest.

"Good job then buddy."

His jaw clenches as if I was annoying and I duck under his arm and head back towards Luella and T, who were now stood with Rayne and Jude. I walk away from August with a smirk on my face.

A smirk because he's following me.

"And why was Asa a no again?" I ask, ignoring August's presence behind me or well I try to. I can feel it.

Annoying bitch.

Asa was the guy from the kitchen, the blue eyed one. Luella rolls her eyes at me.

"Drugs." She says.

I just shrug and I take a step back, literally pressing my back to August's chest and I turn around to him.

"Leo, personal space please."

He lowers his head, looking into my eyes and then lets me go a little.

I decide to go back to Ollie, he's fit-

I press past him and he catches my wrist, spinning me around to face him.

"And where do you think you're going?"

I look at him, then to Lue and T briefly. I didn't even talk to Rayne or-

I look back to August. "Ima find someone to talk to, Ollie and Abbie probably."