Girl I Know

Zacky's POV:
Stella stumbles into the bathroom and I walk in before closing the door behind us. I can faintly hear the music downstairs, no one is upstairs so I’m hoping no one saw us and will come up to see what we’re doing. I turn to face Stella who has her hands behind her back and a wicked grin on her face. “What?” I ask slowly. She shows me what’s in her hands, “Is that-” she cuts me off “The wine imported from Italy? Yes” she answers joyfully. “Where’d you get it?” I ask, she wasn’t holding it a minute ago. “Right before we went upstairs I grabbed the two bottles off the counter. One is like half empty, but this one” she holds up the bottle in her right hand “Is full! There’s only two bottles at the party, I guess people aren’t into wine tonight” she laughs to herself. “Stella, we should put that back. It’s really expensive” I say but she shakes her head. “No way! I’m thirsty!” she says loudly “No Stella seriously, I don’t want to get into trouble. Let’s go, you can have some, you don’t need to take both bottles” I try to reason with her which is pointless because she’s stubborn, even more so when she’s hammered. “Maybe I want both bottles!” she points out before placing one on the counter and taking the cap off the half empty one and taking a huge sip. I walk over and snatch it out of her hand, she frowns at me “You’re no fun” she pouts before reaching for the bottle but I move my hand out of the way. “Gimme!” she says louder “Shh, people might hear us” I say and she shrugs “So?” she asks before reaching for the bottle again, but I move it out of the way again. “Fine! I’ll just drink from this one” she says before grabbing the full bottle on the counter. “No Stella seriously, Atreyu and Avenged are good friends and I don’t want to ruin that by stealing their alcohol” I say before taking the other bottle out of her hand and walking out of the bathroom. “Hey!” she shouts before stumbling after me, “Wait” she says and I spin around to face her. “What?” I ask slowly, I want to put these bottles back before getting caught, “Didn’t we come to the bathroom for a reason?” she asks while raising an eyebrow and I smirk “Yeah we did, but I need to put these back and then we can go home” I say and she sighs “Fine” she agrees before following me downstairs. Just as I’m about to put the bottles back discreetly, Stella takes both from my hands. “What are you doing?” I ask and she smiles evilly before turning around and jogging away and out the front door. “Stella!” I call after her before following her. She’s pretty fast considering how drunk she is. She comes to a stop on the curb and sits down, no one is around, even the security guard isn’t standing outside the house anymore. I sit next to her as I try to catch my breath. “What the hell are you doing?” I ask and she smiles before finishing off the almost empty bottle. I watch her carefully, I feel really bad just taking the bottles but at this point, there’s nothing I can do “Hand me one” I say and she smiles proudly before handing me the full bottle. I manage to pull out the cork and I take a huge sip. “That’s my Zacky” she says happily before kissing my cheek and taking the bottle back. We sit for a few minutes, finishing the bottle, I do feel guilty but I tried to put them back. I guess if we get caught Stella will take the blame. My thoughts were interrupted by someone yelling from the front door. “Hey!” I hear a man shout. Both Stella and I stand up and turn around quickly. It’s Alex and the security guard; they walk over. “Hey Alex" I say slightly confused as to why they’re here. “Mhm” he mumbles before looking at our feet, I follow his glare and my eyes land on the two empty bottles of, very expensive, wine. “You're the one who stole the wine?” he asks slightly shocked. I glance over at Stella who looks at me as well. “Uh” I don’t know what to say, I don’t want to blame Stella but I don’t want to take the blame. “Really Zack? I even told you that it was hard to get and expensive” he says while glaring at me. Shit. I don’t want there to be tension between our bands because of me. Stella suddenly butts in “I’m sorry Alex, Zacky has had a lot to drink and he didn’t know what he was doing. I tried to stop him but gave up and followed him out here, I’ll admit that I drank some of the wine too” she explains and I stare at her in utter shock, is she really blaming me. She notices my staring and quickly averts her eyes back to Alex, who sighs “Alright, I guess we can’t do anything about it now…” he trails off, I don’t even know what to say so I just nod. The security guard grabs the empty bottles and walks off. Alex doesn’t say anything else; the disappointed and angry look he gives me is enough.

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