"You alright Charlie," he sighed an exhale before quietly replying "yep."
"Uhhhh you wanna drink cass?" Declan asked, appearing in the door.
"Yeah sure," i said following him to the kitchen. He opened the fridge to reveal a large amount of dark fruits, Smirnoff ice and San Miguel along with a couple other bits. "I'll just start with a dark fruits," he passed me the cold can aswell as grabbing one for himself.
"To being sesh hooligans," he held up his can and waited for me to cheers the cans together. The cans clashed and we both took a large mouthful of the acidic drink.
"So let me just check, if I get absolutely wasted tonight, your parents or any of your siblings aren't gonna suddenly come home and get mad and kick me out," I asked curiously.
"Nope. We're fine. My siblings are either at a friends or some type of party festival and my mum and dad have gone on a caravan holiday for two days,"
"Do they know we're here? With lots of alcohol? And speakers?"
"Of course not dumb ass! Now come on, Mol, Ben and Katie will be here soon so we should just chill for a little while,"
And so the four of us sat tucked up in Declan's living room with the curtains closed watching re runs of the chase, laughing when the contestants said dumb answers and catching up with each other.
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8:10 pm. A doorbell rings and Declan runs up to answer it. He returns with Molly, katie and Ben (mollys boyfriend). The atmosphere is slightly tense as the lads have never met Ben before and my and Katie haven't seen him in months. They all find their own places to sit on the remaining chairs dotted around the room. They all try to dodge the awkward tension by pretending to be vastly entertained by the tv but it doesn't seem to be working.
Molly sighs, muttering under her breath before sipping undone her bag and pulling out two bottles of vodka. Joe swipes one of the bottles into his hands and shouts 'CLAIMED'.
"Give it BACK JOSEPH!" Katie said springing up from the bean bag and making several attempts at grabbing back the bottle. Ben stands up behind her and looks at joe, clenching his fists as if he can't see.
"Christ alright mate calm down, just a joke." Joe said with his eyebrows scrunched, handing the bottle back over to Molly. They both sat back down in their seats and me and Declan glanced at each other and tried not to laugh. I don't think either of us had ever seen joe scared of someone before. "Put your bangers on then Dec, let's get this gaff going" Joe said immediately after, trying to shift the tension from his encounter.
Declan shuffled from his seat up to the hi fi in the corner of the room, before Bluetooth connecting it to his phone and 'take me out' by Franz Ferdinand beginning to play. "Oh this is a BOP!" I shouted, dragging Katie up to dance in the middle of the room with me. At first I got funny looks, but during the chorus of the song Declan shot up from his seat and began to bop along with me. My thinking was, if I acted confident I might be able to get other people not being miserable sods as well. And after a bit of alcohol and a couple more banging tunes it had worked. We were all stood up in the living room, dancing and swaying, screaming the lyrics to oasis and blur.
We all just drank, danced and sang as if nothing could stop us.
11:34 pm, the night is coming to an end. The group are having too much fun to really notice and comment on the time. Until Katie got a text to say her mum is five minutes away. The music is turned right down, everyone suddenly feels a sense of sobriety and loneliness. Everyone piles out to the landing and katie Molly and Ben put on their shoes. We all say our goodbyes to them and watch as they slowly left the house.
Eleven- san miguel kisses
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