If it was one thing that shouldn't be allowed when it came to this group of girls... it was getting white girl wasted.

The music in the club blasted. It was hot, my skin was sweaty but I was having the best time of my fucking life.

Carson was dancing with me, surprisingly able to hand everything that I threw at him. He was practically fucking me on the dance floor with the way he was grinding into me.

The girls and I lost count of how many drinks we'd had after six , all except for Audrey who was enjoying her virgin mojito. She didn't need the alcohol to have fun, Haze kept her plenty of company.

She was having a blast laughing at whatever he was telling her, a genuine twinkling in her eyes as he dipped his head down hiding his flushed cheeks.

Out of all of us I think that Rhegan was the most drunk, she was all smiles and giggles, a true happy drunk.

Elizabeth was a horny drunk. She and Abel would be having a blast tonight.

Skylar, of course, was a crazy drunk.

Jojo was a fun drunk as well but occasionally she was a sad drunk. Tonight the sad drunk came out of her.

" You know, Kyler." She slapped his shoulder as he gripped her waist, holding her stable." You may have broken my heart but at least you didn't break it as bad as my ex did. Now she, she had me fucked up." She giggled as her knees buckled slightly.

"Whoa, Jojo.." Kyler chuckles, holding her against his body. " Let's get you some water."

"You're like a walk in the park compared to her betrayal." She slurs slightly as they walk towards our empty booth.

Why she was taking a walk down nightmare lane tonight, I had no idea.

Sade and I were the same when it came to drinking, all the effects would hit us in the morning but for now we would be in the moment.

And the boys were either high or drunk off of their asses.

All except Kyler and Haze at least.

Xander was off on the dance floor surrounded by a bunch of women— he was living his best life it seemed.

Dominic was high as all outdoors.

Abel was high as fuck.

Marcus and Derrick weren't drunk but they were halfway there.

Carson was slightly drunk as well but he was coherent and extra touchy feely.

I palmed his cheek as pressed continuous kisses to my cheek while we danced. His hands were resting on my stomach, drifting to my waist to hold on to them.

" Are you having fun, angel?" He questions, kissing my skin again as I nod.

" I'm having the best time. But come morning I'm going to regret drinking so much." I giggled due to him now nibbling on my skin, his lips sucked on my jawbone." Will you hold my hair back when I throw up in the middle of the night?"

" I'll hold your hair at any point throughout the night, angel." Carson brushes his nose against my ears shell as he pulls away.

He takes my hand and spins me around to face him. His hands wrap around my waist as I wrap my arms around his neck, my hands resting lazily as we stare at each other.

I hum to the song as we dance together. His hands drifted down to my ass, gripping it softly as he stared down at me in adoration.

" I'm the luckiest fuckin' man alive." He dips his head to my forehead. "You want to know a secret?"

I nodded, intrigued as his firm arms wrapped around my waist, tugging me closer to his body. " Tell me all of your secrets, Carson Addams."

" Remember when you lost your pen that one day in clas and needed to borrow one?"

I racked my brain for the memory, remembering that it was the first encounter that I had with him other than eye fucking him at the first party I'd ever gone to in freshman year.

" Yeah, that was the first time we'd ever spoken to each other." A sneaky little grin formed in his face as I eyed him suspiciously." Carson Addams did you steal my fucking pen!"

He shrugged." Guilty as charged."

I hit his chest." Are you serious?"

" Yes." He admits."I always wanted to talk to you but I didn't know how to approach you so I stole your pen when you weren't looking and hoped that my plan would work."

And it did.

" So what happened to my pen?" I asked bringing his head closer to mine.

" It's my lucky pen. I need it during my test like I need your kisses before a game." He admits.

This kid managed to make my heart melt everyday with each passing second. He managed to make me fall deeper and deeper with each word he spoke.

" So I really am your lucky charm."

Carson grinned in response."You really are my lucky charm, angel."

He inches further, slowly closing the gap between us. His hands held my back as I melted into his touch. His grey eyes bore into mine, slowly turning darker by the second.

" Are you gonna kiss me wonderbread or are you just going to stare?" I teased, licking my bottom lip in anticipation for his lips to touch mine.

Carson's shoulders shake as he chuckles." Can't I just build up some suspense here?"

" No. No you cannot." I smash my lips against his.

Carson smiles into the kiss, pulling me closer to him than I thought possible. My stomach came in contact with his as a hand gripped the back of my head, keeping me at his mercy.

My lips part as his tongue sweeps into my mouth and he kisses me softly as if we have all the time in the world. He kisses me like this club wasn't filled with hundreds of people and it was just me and him.

He kisses me like no one is watching while everyone watches.

He kisses me like he isn't afraid to show off his love for me because what we have is real and it will last. We will last.

He kisses me like he would rather do it for the entirety of his life.

And I let him.

And I matched his energy.

I'll always match his energy at the end of the day.

He was mine and I was his and we were each other's.

We were disgustingly in love and I was not ashamed of that.

Be jealous hoes.

I, Ayanna Simone Heart, was going to get the happy ending that I deserved and no one could take that away from me.

Not any ex. Not any online keyboard gangster. Not any blog.

No one was going to ruin our good thing.

We pulled away out of breath and with swollen lips. I laid my head on his chest, listening to his heartbeat as we swayed to the music. He held me protectively against his body as if he were afraid that someone would snatch me from him.

I was content.

That was until a throwback came on that had me pulling out of his hold. 'Get it shawty' blasted through the speakers of the club as I turned my back to him.

Elizabeth came over and snatched me from Carson. I couldn't help but laugh as she pulled me out further into the dance floor.

The girls joined us. All of us dancing and grinding on us as we let loose, truly let loose for the longest time in forever.

At some point the guys broke up our dance circle, snatching us up for themselves once more.

I was genuinely having the greatest time of my life.

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I was genuinely having the worst morning ever.

" We should nev-" As soon as I opened my mouth I was leaning over the toilet again, puking up every bad decision that I had made last night.

"Never let you guys get white girl wasted again." He says holding my hair back as I lift up my thumb as a sign of appreciation for him being such a good sport.

I could only mumble back a quick thank you in fear of barfing again.

I heard footsteps approach and stop at the bathroom door.

"She throwing up too?" Kyler stated the obvious.

He was lucky that luke was coming out of my mouth otherwise I'd rip him a new asshole.

" Yeah. Is Jora okay?" Carson questioned since Kyler's room was right across from Jora's.

" Yes. She was being a bit stubborn when I offered help but she's in the kitchen getting some fluids in her system."

Carson rubs my back in soothing motions as I make a noise of distress. " Ayanna does too. Hopefully this will be the end of the throwing up so we can get something in her stomach too."

I hated puking, absolutely hated it.

"I'll never drink again." I cried, wiping my eyes as I pulled away from the toilet and stood up with the help of Carson.

Kyler made himself scarce while Carson stood close by and waited just in case I needed him yet again.

" Are you good?" Carson questions as we walk down the hallway.

"Yes. Just don't talk too loud and make fast movements and I'll be fine." I winced, rubbing my forehead as we entered the kitchen.

We all looked like shit.

Elizabeth looked wrecked. Jora looked wrecked. Skylar was the only one that looked fine on the outside but on the inside she was wrecked. Rhegan was wrecked. Sade was wrecked.

And Audrey— the lucky bitch was the only one that wasn't hungover.

" I don't ever want to drink again." Rhegan hiccuped, covering her mouth just in case she needed to make a run for it.

" There's a reason why we stopped getting white wasted, now I remember." Sade groaned into Derrick's chest.

A bottle of water and some tylenol was placed in front of me." Drink up, angel." Carson demands, opening up the bottle for me.

I took the bottle of water and popped the pills into my mouth, chugging them down.

Food was placed in front of me. I decided to go

for the grapefruit and picked at it cautiously, testing the waters before I moved on to actual food.

" Feel better?" Carson asked, squeezing my thigh as I nodded.

I felt a lot better now that my stomach was full. The chef informed us that there was ginger beer in the fridge in case we were in need of it.

" So much better. I have a bangin' headache but I don't feel like I need to puke my brains out anymore." I giggle, letting him lead me to the couch where everyone else sat.

"Maybe we should stay in for the day." Elizabeth suggested.

No one made any objections to the idea.

We still had one more full day in Jamaica and we could use a day to just stay in. Whatever plans we had today could be pushed to tomorrow.

Staying in and nursing our wounds sounded like a great idea.

" Sounds good to me." I mumbled, snuggling further into Carson's hold. " I don't think I could handle a full day of activities while hung over."

" Neither can I." Skylar agrees."You'd think that I would build up a tolerance to drinking by now." She turns, flinging a light blanket over her as Marcus surfs through the netflix in search of a movie.

He ended up picking Texas Chainsaw.

I planned on falling asleep anyways so I didn't object to his movie pick.

Within minutes I was knocked out and blocking out the sounds of the gore and screams as I fell into a deep slumber.

I didn't want to leave Jamaica.

I don't want to leave our paradise and go back to the real world where I would have to be harassed and hounded by the upcoming trail.

I just wanted to stay in my love cocoon with Carson forever.

" I don't want to leave." Ayanna sighs as we settle

into one of the back rooms on the plane.

" I know angel but the wedding is on Saturday, testing is next week, and the boys and I have practice for graduation. We have to leave." I explained, pulling off her uggs as she turned on her stomach.

" I know but I don't wanna." She wines into the pillow.

She was so damn cute.

I kicked off my sneakers and crawled into the bed next to her. She turned in my hold, pressing her ass against my crotch as she opened her phone and began to scroll through our pictures from the trip.

"Oh that one's my favorite." I grinned as she scrolled past the picture of her sitting in my lap while I was inside of her but no one could tell because of the skirt she was wearing.

Half of the pictures that we'd taken this trip were of us fucking but we posed in discrete positions where you couldn't tell.

" Of course it is." She pinched my thigh as she scrolled through the rest of our pictures.

I had plenty of favorites but the discrete ones topped the rest for the sole purpose of only her and I knowing what was going on.

She scrolled through the rest of the pictures before heading to her settings and picked a photo of us that Sade had taken on the beach. She'd chosen it as her new lock screen and I decided to copy.

"Copy cat." I stick my tongue out at her once she turns around and closes her phone.

Twisting around, I turn off the lights to the cabin as she starts to drift off into sleep. I stayed awake, listening to the sounds of her light snoring and feeling her heartbeat against my palms.

I placed my head against her back, falling asleep to the beat of her heart

By the time we'd woken up, we were an hour away from landing. The two of us stayed confined into our room until we landed on the airstrip.

" That was a much needed vacation." Xander says as we enter the suv, heading towards the basketball house with plans to meet up with the girls for dinner.

" It truly was. The best week of my life." Dominic sighs.

In a month he would be repeating those words when we were first round picks and signing onto the team of our dreams.

" Life of national champions baby." I smiled as we watched the girls SUV turn onto a different street.

" You and Ayanna seemed to get a lot closer on this trip. How are you guys doing?" Creed asked.

" We're doing more than amazing. This trip was exactly what we needed after everything. I needed that time with her and I was grateful for it. She's really special to me." I smiled, covering my mouth with my hand.

I'm going to marry that girl one day. I was sure of it.

" Look at him." Kyler teased." He's got heart eyes and shit."

I sputtered, my cheeks hurting from how hard I was smiling." I- I do not have heart eyes. Fuck off." I flipped him off as we pulled down our street.

" You do! He's so in love. I can't wait until the wedding." Haze cheesed." You and the sadist will have the cutest little family next to me and Audrey of course."

Hold on.

" And I'm the one with the heart eyes, meanwhile he has a family planned out with a girl that he hasn't even asked out on a date yet." The guys and I laughed at a not at all ashamed Haze.

" I don't have anything planned, I just know what I want and I want Audrey Serenity Lake Sinclair wearing my ring and having my children."

Kyler could learn a thing or two.

" Manifestation in the working friends," he winks as the truck comes to a full stop.

The guys and I unloaded the cars and headed for the steps of our house, preparing for the pig stye that we were about to enter.

Opening the door, we were surprised to find the house spotless and the guys chilling on the couch when we walked in.

Unt ugh... something wasn't right.

" What happened?" Kyler immediately questioned, crossing his arms once we entered the living room.

The guys exchanged glances before shaking their heads in answer. "Nothing."

Lies.

" Oh something happened," Dominic grinned, glancing towards Rocky who would sing like a fucking canary.

"We threw a party." The guys groaned in annoyance.

"Things got out of control when a few UCLA players crashed, looking for trouble. Fast forward, a few of us got into it and somebody's head went through the wall."

What the fuck.

"Is the wall alright?" I asked looking around for any signs of damage that could affect our lease

" The wall is fixed. UCLA's player however needs a neck brace." Rocky grinned as I shook my head and joined them on one of the couches.

" Why did they come here?" Kyler asked, taking the seat on the edge.

" Looking for revenge for their team captain apparently." Rocky shrugged." I hope that revenge was worth that ass whooping."

I snorted as my phone went off. It was a message from Ayanna saying that the girls were coming over to cook dinner. " The girls are coming over to cook." I announced it to the boys.

" I'll call Coco. She misses them." Rocky speaks of his longtime girlfriend.

After chatting with the guys, we headed upstairs to unpack our bags and wait for the girls. I was in the middle of storing my clothes into drawers when my door creaked open.

Ayanna walked in wearing my hoodie and some shorts as she plopped herself on my bed. " Are you spending the night?" I asked.

" Depends on how late we stay." She leans on her elbows."You know testing is coming up and I don't need the distractions." She teases as I approach her, caressing her thighs.

" So I'm a distraction now?" I continue my actions of rubbing her legs, squeezing them slightly as they travel up and down.

" My biggest distraction." She smiles as I place a kiss on her stomach.

" A distraction that you're madly in love with." I smirked, pinching her thighs before grabbing her hands and pulling her off of the bed. " A distraction that I am madly in love with." She presses a kiss to my forehead before pulling out of my hold.

The two of us head down into the kitchen. The guys and I crowd around the island while we watch them cool. None of the girls had so much as touched a drink since that night of getting drunk off of our asses.

" So how was Jamaica?" Courtney asked.

The girls went on explaining the details as they cooked enough food to feed an army. They laughed with our friends and told jokes while we watched and admired them.

And when they were done, we sat around the dinner table like one big, dysfunctional, happy family.

Because that's what we're at the end of the day...

Family.

Two more chapters to goooo!!!

I can't believe it...It's really coming to an end.

Thoughts.

Xoxo, alexis