Chapter 12 | The Party

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"Dude calm down! It's just a dumb party

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"Dude calm down! It's just a dumb party. Half of them are going to be drunk so no one is really going to talk. It's just going to be a whole lot of dancing and getting plastered " Jacob says as I try my best to calm myself down.

We still have about an hour for the party and the girls had excused themselves to get ready ten minutes back.

The idea of attending a party makes me feel jittery because I suck at socializing or making a proper conversation with anyone.

How I spoke to a beautiful girl like Sasha without stuttering my way through a disaster is still puzzling to me.

Jacob and Nathan were surprisingly very considerate about my "party phobia" and joked around about the times when they went to their first parties and how much they sucked to try to ease my anxiety. They didn't make fun of my nervousness, unlike my dorm mate back in New Hampshire and I'm incredibly grateful for that.

Nathan started to get a whole lot more comfortable after lunch and I like his company. He is very friendly , much more than Jacob, and has an odd sense of self-deprecation which helped a lot of awkward moments between us fizzle.

My doubts remain but I feel like I can trust him a little more than I did earlier today.

"You don't have to worry much. I'm not a big partier anyways and I'm extremely introverted so I'm pretty sure if I can manage it, you can too... but if you still feel uncomfortable you can always exit from the room and probably call one of us" Nathan says and shrugs.

I send him a tight-lipped smile and nod my head.

I'm not going to be an idiot. I'm seventeen for god's sake, I've seen things worse than going to a dumb high school party.

I've got this.

I hope.

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