HAZEL ARORA

It had been one month since we joined GrewZong. However wrecked it was, everyone cheered up when Delilah Abshore suggested alcohol. I didn't wear anything fancy for the night, just a black cami crop with denim shorts and heels.

We turned a girl named Priza Ashlec's room into a booze room, as she was the only one without a roommate. Her room was more like a big attic but was occupied by one person. It was big enough to set thirty-ish people congested into the room.

I had no clue how these people managed to smuggle in drugs to get high. But then, our missions weren't exactly clean, nor were the people decent in here.

Kaia and I ended up crying together in front of everyone because we both missed Zoya, terribly. We had our personal phones confiscated but were provided a burner phone which was tracked by Waldon all the time. I hadn't talked to Zoya since the day I came here.

Ayushmann was sitting in the corner observing people intently, while having occasional conversations with Malcolm Torrs, who was a convict released from jail after seven years.

Even though, I had done loads of bad work, I never went to jail. It scared me a little how easily Ayushmann was talking to him. But again, everyone was high and stupid, so it was easy to mix with people.

I was tired so I went back to my room, but Kaia came running in, her face glowing in red. I asked her, "Woah, who and when did you fuck today?"

She turned redder, said, "Ah I wish! But I kissed him, finally."

"Who?"

She hid her face and pretended nothing happened and went to the attached toilet inside the room. "Girl, what the fuck?" I shouted, but before she could respond, Peter, her Mission partner, came inside the room, looking like a nervous wrecked chicken, in his drunk state.

Oh. It was him.

They had been going for missions together and anyone, even without a good eyesight could tell they were falling in love. It was dangerous to fall in love at GrewZong.  People came here for anything but love. There was no place for love here, only for money. Selfishly, money was the ultimate goal. That was what I reminded myself every time. But I had to admit Pete and Kaia looked cute together.

Kaia came back and just as I blinked my drunken eyes, he was all over her. I screamed, "I came here to sleep, not watch live porn, you horny idiots."

I left the room before I could witness Peter's dick.

I went out to the small corridor of my floor which was covered in grills, like a cell. A constant reminder that we are trapped here, with barely any contact with real world, except for mobs. As if they were mocking us. I was too tired to even turn my head back where two guys were fighting. I was staring into the void of nothingness when something heavy fell on me.

"FUCKING HELL!" I screamed in agony.

Both the guys looked at me, Ayushmann and Danziel. Yes, both the guys I least wanted to see in my drunk state. Danziel was running away with a hand on his head. What a pussy.

Ayushmann came to me, saying, "Oh fuck, Arora, this prick was trynna touch you when you were staring at, I don't know what. You didn't even realize him speaking shit to you. So, I had to kick him, and a fight broke out. Sorry for throwing Priwoods accidentally in your direction."

"Fuck you mean by 'accidentally'?" I asked him, bewildered.

"Uh yeah, it kinda just happened, I thrashed him down, I think." He said in an awkward manner, outstretching his hand to me.

Boy, who the fuck does that?

"Why is it always me who has to suffer for your stupid shenanigans?" I said, picking myself up with the help of Ayushmann's hand. Even in my drunk state, I could feel a little tingle in my stomach at his touch.

Before he could say anything, I ran to my room only to realize Peter is still in there with Kaia.

I had nowhere to go to. So, I turned back to the last person I ever wanted to converse with.

"Look I was only trying to protec-"

"And who the fuck told you to do that?" I snapped at him.

"And let him take advantage of you when you weren't even aware of your surrounding?" He snapped back at me.

Awkward silence.

OK, even though I hated to admit but what he did wasn't something any guy would do.

"OK I am sorry!" I said out loud. He was quite taken aback from this gesture. "Oh, I didn't expect you to be the one for apologizing." He said, with a little smile perking up his lips.

I felt drowsy; after all I was tired from the party, as well as due to the dick, Danziel.

"Why don't you go back to your room?" Ayushmann suggested, as if reading my mind.

"Someone's squirting in there." I mumbled. Ayushmann roared with laughter. I joined him too. That was the last thing I remembered before waking up on his bed, the next morning.