Jesse owns Broken Hill, but tonight Nate is here and it’s going to be fun watching the boys fight for control. You see, while Jesse owns Broken Hill, Nate is their King. Just as Noah is for Haven Falls.
I walk through the big foyer, still gawking and feeling like a bit of a loser too. The place is absolutely packed. This many people wouldn’t even fit inside my school, yet this is just a regular Friday night party for these guys.
I seriously underestimated them.
Usually, walking into things like this, I wouldn’t be alone, yet here I find myself as the loner I used to be. I haven’t spoken much to Noah all week. Hell, I don’t even think I told him I was coming here tonight, but he’d have to be stupid to not figure it out. Sometimes I think he knows me better than I know myself.
As for Tully, I don’t really know what happened to her tonight, but I’m sure she’ll turn up here at some point. If I had to take a wild guess, I’d say she’s in the middle of cursing out Rivers for the millionth time this week.
Those two have been a little unbearable and I feel like things are quickly falling apart. Noah and I are on the rocks. I’ve seen him a bit, but things feel different…strained. While Tully and Rivers are so close to saying or doing something they’ll regret.
I think maybe a few drinks and a good time tonight will do wonders for my soul and hurting heart. Hell, it might even help me to feel something good, even if it’s just helping me forget.
I follow the sound of the music through the house and end up walking down a massive open hallway into yet another huge room. A smile rips across my face. Kaylah wasn’t exaggerating. Jesse had wanted to make a massive indoor Slip ‘N Slide that goes from the top of the stairs, right down to the bottom that shoots out the backdoor, and that’s exactly what he’s done.
My smile only widens when Jesse stands at the top with a few of the other guys from Broken Hill, each of them half naked and looking like any girls’ version of a wet dream.
Jesse yells out a battle cry and before I know it, jumps and slides the whole way down the staircase on a surfboard.
“What the fuck?” I laugh as I watch this moron fly down the stairs on a Slip ‘N Slide like a damn pro. I mean, is he trying to break his neck?
“Tell me about it,” a familiar voice says from behind me.
I turn around and throw my arms around Kaylah. “Happy Birthday,” I squeal. “Sorry, I’m a bit late.”
“There’s no such thing as ‘late’ tonight,” she tells me, looking back at Jesse as he flies out the backdoor and falls off the end of the Slip ‘N Slide, tumbling into a roll and knocking the people watching at the end over like bowling pins. “Can you believe these guys?” she laughs. “I swear, this is just asking for trouble, but do you think I could convince them it was a bad idea? Hell to the freaking no.”
“Don’t stress,” I laugh. “They’ll realize it’s a bad idea when someone shoots through the window.”
She groans and rolls her eyes, watching as Jesse’s best friend follows him down the stairs. “Puck already did go through the window,” she tells me “That just made them laugh and see if they could do it again.”
“Geez, I’m so happy my boys seem to have a little more brains than yours.” The second the words are out of my mouth, I realize they’re a lie. My boys don’t have brains, far from it.
“Yeah, I wish,” she says over the loud, pulsing music. “Where are your boys and Tully? I thought they were coming.”
I shrug my shoulders. “Beats me,” I tell her.
“You still not talking to Noah?”
“Kinda,” I grunt, dropping my eyes. “We talk, but it’s not the same. I haven’t been over there as much as I usually would.”
“Sounds like we need to get you wasted.”
“Sounds like a damn great idea.”
Kaylah grins proudly and drags me across to the biggest bar I’ve ever seen, and I mean, it’s not just a drinks table like you see at all the movies, this is a legitimate bar, with little chairs and everything. Jesse really went all out for his girl on her birthday. It’s actually kind of sweet and makes me want to hate her at the same time.
I wish me and Noah had something like this. Well, I guess that’s not fair, up until last week, we did have something like this. He’s my world but now when I look at him all I can see is Anton Mathers and picture all the shit he would have done for him.