Maya’s POV

I pushed my way through the crowd of people and felt Ian grabbing my hand. I pulled away not feeling comfortable with him being so close.
Ave and I had some drinks already and it felt harder and harder to concentrate, especially when the cold night air hit me from the open doors.

I couldn’t push my way through; a whole group of people were standing in front of the doorway.
But where else could Ave and Collin have gone? They must be outside, right?!
“Maya, what’s the matter… I bet we will find them later again. Come on, let’s get us a new drink and talk a little about what happened in our life’s?!” Ian’s voice sounded close to my ear, the music was still so loud it was a wonder I could understand a word from him at all.

I turned my head and found Ian leaning over my shoulder, his longish blonde hair tickling my shoulder and his blue eyes twinkling with joy.
“No, I want to find Ave now!” I said and saw Ian roll his eyes “You didn’t give so much about where Ave was in past if I remember correctly” Ian smirked and I felt his fingers on my shoulder blade.

I turned around facing him and grabbed his hand, I opened my mouth to tell him off but he seemed to get a whole different idea from that, he pulled me closer and grinned “That’s the Maya I know”
Thing is, this guy didn’t knew any Maya at all. I had never shared much with him, besides physical pleasure that is.

I mean he was a nice guy, good looking, you definitely could have fun with him around, but deeper feelings or emotions attached from my side?
Nope… Nothing… Never

Which brought my thoughts to the one man holding my heart, Matt…
God, I missed him bad and didn’t get any reply to my messages or the pictures.
But they were probably busy in the middle of a writing session… too busy to even spare a thought about me, alright that was a mean thought and probably not true… hopefully.

“IAN? Either you help me now finding Ave or you will leave me alone! Your choice” I yelled and pulled my arm away from him.
Ian gave me a slight bow, took my hand in his and began to yell “TO THE SIDE! HOT GIRL COMING! MAKE SOME SPACE!” Oh god, that goofy guy. The people heard his voice and maybe not even getting what he said but they made place for a small path where we could squeeze past them out onto the patio.

When the cold air hit me I felt a little dizzy but quickly steadied myself and let my eyes wander around the people outside.
Damn, we were here between all these couples making out, why did Ave let Collin drag her out here?!

“AVE” I yelled but just earned some weird looks from the couples who wanted their privacy.
“God Maya, you never were one with patience, were you?” Ian chuckled beside me and I shot him an annoyed look.

“I just want to find Ave” I told him and let my eyes wander again, was that her? Oh no…
“You could also enjoy the time you spend with me, don’t you think it feels like old times?” Ian asked a charming smile on his lips, that maybe years ago would have done the trick in wanting him, but right now it just didn’t do anything for me anymore.

All I wanted was Matt, and it would only be two more days and he would be mine again, a small smile spread on my lips and Ian nodded as if it was meant for him “See that’s what I am talking about you remember” He laid his arm around my waist and I took it away and that’s when I saw Ave and Collin sitting on a bench, YES!

“Ave? Collin? There you are! We’ve been looking everywhere!” I said loudly and saw Ave’s relieved face.

What was going on? Was Collin putting the moves on her?
Poor Ave, maybe the guy still had feelings, because the end never had been right between them, thanks to Larry…

I don’t know why and how, but Ave and I agreed to play one of our favorites drinking games from the past with the boys.
I mean we didn’t know any of the other people on this party and we wanted to have some fun.
This didn’t mean that Matt wasn’t very present in my thoughts, I had to keep myself from thinking just how much fun it would be if he was here, with me…

Would he still enjoy these college parties? After all the luxury and VIP parties we have been to?
Maybe he would just go along because I wanted to, because he loved me that much?
And hey drinks and dancing, as long as Matt and I were together we would have fun, right?!

It was an even game, both teams were up to something and we were close to winning, the last flip would make the decision about the bad really bad task for the loser… Absinth… I shruddered.
If I remembered correctly, my last total melt down with Absinth had been on a party with Collin and Ian… had they chosen that alcohol on purpose or was it by accident.

And then… it really happened, we lost!

Which meant not much time for thinking was left, we jumped into the pool, it was freezing cold and I hurried to get out, helping Ave with the process, my teeth were shattering but I couldn’t miss the yells and whistles that accompanied me and Ave now…

We took the shots from Ian and Collin and I downed the hellish dark drink, knowing it wouldn’t do me good this or the other way!

I frowned, looking at my now empty glass and feeling its warm path all the way down to my belly. And I had to admit, god that shit hit fast… and a double would hit even faster probably.
The shivering subsided but only lightly, I really needed something to wear over my wet dress, I couldn’t run around here like this!

“What’s the matter, this stuff is awesome!” Ian slurred. He threw an arm around me and I frowned while I tried to get him off me. “Gives you the best buzz…and high.”

I shot Ian a pointed look and stepped towards Ave, better keep a distance to Ian now, so I wrapped my arms around Ave’s waist. “We need to find something dry to wear,” I slurred out. “I think I’ll go check out the pool house to see if there are at least some towels floating around.” At least my brain was working still… for now.

“Good idea…. I’m freezing and need to use the restroom,” Ave said, her teeth chattering “I-Ill be back in a few,” and with that she was gone leaving me dripping wet alone with Collin and Ian and the rest of the people outside.

I took a step forward to follow her and felt a warm hand on my arm, god everything must feel warm compared to me, didn’t it?!

“Come here” Ian pulled me closer, he took off the shirt he was wearing over his muscle shirt and hung it around my shoulder, it smelled like his cologne, and I noticed it was still the same that he used when we were younger, but it wasn’t at all the smell I was so used to, the smell of Matt…

Hmm… Matt, even thinking about him made my insides flutter, his strong hands on my hips when we danced, pulling me into him, guiding me, rubbing against me… Feeling his pressure from behind, his lips on my neck, sucking, licking… his deep voice in my ear…

Oh fuck… I really needed Matt! I felt suddenly hot even though I was still freezing, the patio was spinning, my eyes unfocused, the cold night air, my freezing body and the alcohol was playing tricks on me and finally the Absinth was pushing through.

“Maya? You still remember don’t you?” Ian’s face appeared before me and I frowned.
“Remember, what?” I asked and I couldn’t recall what he said or what he meant but he didn’t give me time to comprehend anyway, he just grabbed my hips and pulled me close to his body “That you owed me a dance, Maya” He whispered near my ear and I sighed.

“One dance, that’s it… and no funny business” I slurred at him with a narrowed look and Ian held his hands up in surrender but then pulled me way too close to him again.
“I recall you liking my hands going deeper and deeper…” Ian said and I rolled my eyes.
“I was young and dumb” I smirked back and felt Ian’s hips moving into mine, his hand going up and down my back.

“I liked you then” Ian said and grinned, showing me his perfect pantie dropping smile, which still didn’t do anything for me, but when I thought about Matt’s dimpled smile, I would drop my panties right away, and speaking of that… god I wished he was here… I wished his hands were on me. I felt the need building inside of me…

Ian let go of me and spun me around, only to catch me against his chest again and I stumbled a little, the music got louder outside the doors were left open and more people pushed out on the patio, when Collin had been standing close to us waiting for Ave, he now was out of my sight.

“You know, M…” Ian asked when he stopped suddenly and turned his head to the side, “Dude, get lost” He said to someone but I couldn’t look past him at the person.
I heard some giggling and Ian looked back down on me, the music was getting slower and he pressed me against him but I tried to pull away.

“Dance is over” I said as my drunken mind at least got that straight and my cheeks felt flushed, I had to get out of here, soon…
“One more, come on… old times sake” Ian pulled me against him and I sighed, but just this one and I would be out of here, shouldn’t Ave be back by now? Where was she?!
Ian’s hand roamed over my back and I frowned, alright this was getting a little too much for my taste.

I was about to open my mouth when Ian stiffened, he turned his head and I heard him hiss something aggressively. “Dude, fuck off… She is with me… Go find you own girl”
I heard some coughing and rough bark but couldn’t make out anything and still didn’t see who Ian was talking to.
Ian shrugged and turned back to me, he swayed to the music away from the place we had been dancing before and his hand landed on my ass squeezing and I pulled away staring at him angry.

“Don’t fucking touch me like that!” I yelled over the music so he could hear me and when my eyes wandered over Ian’s shoulder my heart stopped for a second and I was thinking if the alcohol was really playing a trick on me or if it was for real?!

“Matt” I whispered and Ian was roughly shoved out of the way, behind Matt I could see a happily jumping Avery, so the alcohol had hit her full force, too but on a whole different level.

Matt opened his mouth but nothing came out and I frowned, wasn’t he happy to see me? When all I could think about was dragging him out of here and having my wicked way with him as soon as possible?!

I bridged the distance between us and jumped into his arms, Matt seemed surprised but caught me nevertheless…

“God… big guy… it’s really you! Fuck, I missed you… I love you!” Everything bubbled up inside of me and broke free… and from Matt… only silence.

He did hug me and hold me, which made me even more aware of his strength of his muscles, his scent wavered in my nose, watering my mouth and my brain was slowly shutting down, I just wanted a taste of him and nothing else… but why wasn’t he talking… why didn’t he give me any reply?!

Brian’s POV

So after losing Matt the first time, I searched the whole party again… and now I didn’t find Ave and I didn’t find Matt anymore…
Where the hell are they?
It’s not like this house is that huge! But the people that saw me made it harder and harder for me to pass the crowd.

“MATT!” I finally saw Matt in a corner talking to a small group of people.
I pushed my way through and settled next to Matt “You found them?” Matt’s voice was barely audible and I sighed, god… how would he make himself noticed… like at all?!

Matt motioned with his hands towards a couple and the girl nodded “We saw Maya and Ave” She yelled and my heart sped up only at the mentioning of Ave’s name.

“WHERE?!” I yelled back and the girl pointed towards the kitchen, and my heart sank again… Well, I think I had been in the kitchen now a couple of times, and mostly left with a freaking drink which in return meant I wouldn’t be driving home tonight anymore, so either Matt was still sober or we had to organize a cab for us.

“WHEN?!” I yelled and the girl shrugged “Could have been an hour ago or something… They were going in alone… but didn’t see them coming out” She said and I frowned, well probably two way kitchen, or the girl was too occupied making out with the guy who had a death grip on her.
Probably afraid Matt and I had a plan of stealing his girl… when all we wanted was our girls and head home.

“And you two are here for what?” She asked and Matt rolled his eyes, probably had he tried to tell her that before but she didn’t understand him.
“We want to pick up Ave and Maya” I yelled and she nodded “That’s nice… after everything… being friends and all” She nodded with a smile and I frowned, what does she mean… after everything and being friends?!

Matt looked at me with a frown and I shrugged, whatever… I pulled on his arm and we nodded as a goodbye and moved further into the party crowd, god I wasn’t used to these college parties anymore…

What the hell were Maya and Ave thinking to go to something like this… without us!
You heard the wildest shit about these parties going out of hand… and I didn’t want to be in the middle of that, a few years back, fine with me… but now… not so much and especially not with Ave being in it as well!

“Fucking hell, I can’t believe we haven’t found them… This surprise is going down as the worst in history if we keep this up!” I yelled over the music and Matt nodded, he coughed a little when we walked past a group of smoking guys and I inhaled deeply, shit I needed a cigarette and soon…

“Let’s go outside? Maybe they also needed some air or a smoke in Ave’s case?” I asked while already pulling a cigarette our and lightning up. Matt nodded, we opened the doors and walked outside, well… we are probably wrong here, look at all these couples making out… and the one woman I wanted was nowhere to be found, what if they were gone again already?!

I inhaled deeply and enjoyed the smoke, while both Matt and I looked around, but it was dark outside only the light coming from the house illuminating little spots.

I finished off my smoke and threw the butt on the ground, when I heard a loud splash from the pool, wow someone decided to take a swim, it was freaking cold!
I heard some whistling and yelling indicating that one of the jumpers or more were girls and probably showing off some skin and maybe bikini’s?!
God, these college chicks, crazy as fuck!

“They are not here, I’ll check inside again, you coming?” I elbowed Matt but he shook his head.
“You wanna split?” I asked because I couldn’t hear whatever he said anyway and he nodded this time.

“Dude, if you find them… and you didn’t drink… take my car… bring them home and call me. I’ll have to take a cab anyway… okay? Don’t wait then” I said and Matt nodded and was already walking off and I sighed.

Ave, where the hell are you?!

I walked back into the house and moved upstairs, I startled a few couples who were heavily making out and had to smirk… good times, man… good times.

“Sorry… I saw you passing by a couple of times… but you are Syn Gates, right?” A girl asked and I was tempted to say, I just looked like him, but… in the end I didn’t.
“Yeah… I’m searching for Avery, have you seen her… little blonde…” I asked and she shook her head before I could continue.

“No, but would you sign something for me and is M. Shadows still here as well?” She asked and I sighed, “Sure, what should I sign?! And yeah he is, outside” I grinned, suck that Shads for leaving me alone here.

She held a pen out and stretched her shirt for me to sign, I quickly did the deed and hoped not too many people had seen me or more would get the idea of me signing stuff or worse making pictures and I would never find Ave or get out of here anymore.

“Thanks… I’ll try and find Shads” She said and I nodded “Yeah.. no problem, do that” I grinned to myself while making my way downstairs again, I landed back in the kitchen, grabbed a beer bottle downed it, while letting my eyes scan the crowd again, that beer was empty way too soon, so I took another one and began a new round around the party.

I passed the living room and felt a hand on my arm that stopped me “I know you are searching for Ave, but I mean… since she is occupied with the history, why don’t you occupy yourself with something new?” The girls slurred and I was really getting irritated, what were all these people talking about.

She leaned into me and I smelled her alcoholic breath, damn girl you shouldn’t overdo it.
I gently set her back on her feet when another girl stood beside me leaning into me. “Hey Syn… out hunting again?” She asked, licking her lips and I frowned.

“No, I-” I started when another girl approached “Leave him alone, he is already taken” I sighed, thank god, at least one of them knew about Ave and me, she pulled me roughly away from the other girls and gave me a wink.

“I’m Debbie” She said and guided me towards another corner, shit this wasn’t how I hoped it would go. “Nice to meet you, see Debbie… I am searching for my girl-” I tried to explain when she held her finger in front of my lips silencing me.
“I know… you found her… right here” She motioned to herself and I wanted to bang my head against the wall, why did I leave Shads, side… this was so much worse!

Soon a group of women had built around me and they wanted me to sign things and I felt at least four hands on my butt squeezing, what the actual fuck?!

I tried to stay calm and gave autographs when a blond mop of hair walked past me, and I could have sworn that was Ave, even though she had a towel around her shoulders and was loudly singing along to the music… wait… a towel… what?!

“AVE!” I yelled and tried to pull away from the swarm of college girls but they wouldn’t let me.
“AVE!” I tried again and that’s when Ave turned around but instead of looking at me she looked at a guy running up to her side, he must have called her name as well.

Dark curly hair, green eyes… never saw that guy before, what does he want from my girl?!
He laid his arm around her shoulders and she shook her head smiling and I felt jealousy bubbling up in me, who was that and what the fuck did he think he was doing there?!

But damn these girl’s wouldn’t let me go… So I tried to be nice and gentle but, it didn’t seem to work, so I would try it with rough and mean “Get off me… Damn it!” I held the women away from me, and just when I managed to get out of the group, Ave was gone… and the guy too.

“No fucking way!” I cursed and looked around and that’s when I saw Ave and the guy walking to the kitchen area, she was moving her hips to the beat while looking around, the guy beside her, lusting after her, at least that was what it looked like to me when I saw how he was looking at her!!

“They are cute aren’t they?!” The girl from earlier stood beside me and I looked down on her, seeing that she looked at Ave and the guy. CUTE?!

“WHAT?!” I snapped and frowned, I already stepped forward without realizing “Ave and her ex, they will probably come back together… looked like it at least… didn’t know why they broke up in the first place…” The girl shrugged and my mouth was hanging open, jealousy not only rising but on full bloom now.

Ave was here with her ex-boyfriend?! Did she know he would be here?! And what why would she hang out with him and why the hell did Ave never mention this fucking prick?!
My eye twitched and I felt my anger boiling over.

I was now only a few feet away, when another girl held me back “Syn, can you please sign-” And another “Hey Brian...” I looked around and saw the same women beside me like the entire evening, god they were getting on my nerves.
“What is going on here, someone famous you only want for yourself?” Ave’s slurred voice sounded suddenly and she pushed past the women surrounding me.

“Brian?!” Ave’s voice was surprised and she looked at me in disbelief. Her blue eyes opened wide scanning the women beside me and her eyebrow lifted like she wanted to say what the fuck is going on?!

“Ave… fucking finally!” I tried to shake of the women on my sides and stepped towards Ave, grabbing her and pulling her into my body. Before she could do or say anything I crashed my lips down on hers, I let my hands roam over her body. I missed her so bad… I wanted her so bad… I couldn’t wait for her and me to leave this place but what made me pull back was that I was coming up with wet hands and also a completely wet shirt where Ave had been pressed to me and I frowned when I looked at Ave.

“Why are you wet?” I asked confused, that explained at least the towel around her shoulders, but why would she be swimming at this party?!
“I lost a game and jumped in the pool with Maya” She giggled like it was a big joke and her voice slurred, her eyes were glazed and she seemed pretty much beside herself.

“I have been fucking searching for you the entire evening! We wanted to surprise you! Damn, Ave I missed you like crazy! Have you seen Matt!?” I asked and looked around “And Maya?” Ave shook her head and then staggered a little.

“Matt and Maya were outside, told me you were here as well, so I wanted to search for you… didn’t know you would be surrounded by women… lipstick all over your face” Ave pointed with an unsteady hand to my head and gesturing in front of my face with her fingers.
I frowned, what lipstick? I had just hugged these women who had nearly thrown their selves at me but that was it…

Ave crossed her arms before her chest looking at me angry and I frowned, if someone could be angry, that would be me!

“Who was that guy with you?” I looked around but he was gone or at least I couldn’t see him anymore.
“What guy?” Ave huffed out looking around like she had no idea what I was talking about, then began to giggle when she got off balance in her circle.

“That guy… you just talked to him… I saw you with him…” I looked around again wanting to point him about but not able to see him.

Now I really thought someone was trying to prank me when all I wanted was to drag Ave out of here ask her some questions and then finally celebrate us being back together…
But first of all I had to find out what was going on here, but Ave seemed to have different plans, because she grabbed my hand and pulled me into the living room.

She began to dance and melted her body to mine and I had to admit - I was weak, too weak to say no, I was just too glad that I had found her and had her back, that I pulled her closer… just for a minute and then I would fucking leave this place and get Ave to answer my questions!

Maybe I should find that guy, her ex!, before and tell him to fuck off, because Ave was mine…
I pulled Ave possessively closer, wanting every guy and girl on this party to know that Ave was mine and I was Ave’s, nothing… fucking nothing would come between us!

But one thought was more present than others in my mind, what the fuck had happened on this party and what was still in store for us, because I had a feeling… this wasn’t over yet!

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