I had grabbed my notebook and held it to my chest. When we finally got to the gym where the party was taking place, the voices kind of died down. The eyes turned their attention towards us and then their laughter rang in our ears. Sarah smiled and looked at us.

"Ready to have fun?" Ash smiled and I nodded. We walked deeper into the belly of the beast, smiling at the judging faces. Their normal tuxes and elegant almost slutty dresses on. The tops letting everything spill over and the some that had their dress cut up short. People looked at Sarah, she wasn't dressed like the girls here. They had their bright pink or their silver dresses on and Sarah was the most beautiful of the whole room. I could see it in the other girl's dates. She was the only modest one as well. Although the low cut into the top of her stomach. She walked past and circled around the stage and up the stairs. I admired how brave and care free she was, something I could never be. She hooked up her guitar to some amps and things I didn't know the name of. She smiled and ushered Ash over. He ran up after her and did the same. The people stared open mouthed and didn't talk. They played a song Sarah wrote called Rockstar Baby and then a couple other songs. I sat at one of the tables with my notebook and pencil. I sat their making my hand black from the lead and messing up the table with eraser shavings. I didn't pay much attention to the dance floor or the songs, which were good, I just stayed there writing and occasionally grabbing a finger sandwich from a plate he had gotten earlier.

"Is this all you're going to do tonight.Will you dance with me?" A small but elegant voice that didn't match Sarah's deep but feminine voice. I looked up. A tiny girl with a short pixie haircut that spiked on the sides and was smooth down the middle in an arrow that pointed to her forehead. She smiled at me and I smiled back.  I shrugged.

"Is that a shrug towards the notebook or a shrug towards dancing?" She asked. I smiled. Her eyes were a beautiful shade of midnight blue and her smile was very pretty. She was wearing a black one strap dress with a black rose on the hip. She looked pretty but I thought she would look better in a pair of jeans in a t-shirt. "C'mon, act like you've seen a girl before." She laughed and tugged me into the dance floor.  "Is his your first time?" She asked.

"By that do you mean dancing..uhh yeah." I laughed. She smiled another great smile.

""Me too, never been a good dancer." I looked up Sarah who did two big thumbs up to me and started singing Kind of Darkness. I smiled at her song choice. It was a more upbeat type song so I had to stand back and watch the girl I was dancing with rock out. People stared at her but she she smiled and laughed and then grabbed my hand to come dance with her. I did.

"My name's Heath, people call me Heathy or just Heath. I don't usually like being called Heath Bar but I wouldn't mind being called it by you." She smiled.

"Heathy is fine. My name's Emily." Emily smoothed her arrow hair parting. I smiled and she did too. I grabbed her hand and lead her back to the table. She followed me hesitantly and whined kiddingly,

"I'm not that boring am I, I thought we were having fun."

"I don't think you're boring, I want to show you something." I handed her my notebook that no one, not even Sarah had flipped through. I don't know why I had given her the book but I knew something.. I liked Emily. She looked through it and smiled at the short stories and the drawings and the songs.

"You're very good." She said finally and handed me back the notebook. I rubbed the back of my neck and smiled awkwardly.

"Thanks. " We decided to walk around the school awhile. The cool air blowing my long-ish black hair. She held my hand as we walked on the grass. Finally we retired to sitting on the roof of my car and staring up at the stars. My hands were folded under my head and her hands laid by her sides. She smiled up at the stars and I watched her.  "Tell me about yourself." I said to her.

"I am 16 and I live with my mom and dad. My dad taught me about rock and roll at an early age and I love to sing. What about you?"

"I'm 17 and live with my dad. I love to surf and I live with my best friends Ashton and Sarah, the ones performing. And I've never told anyone this but I sort of play the guitar."

"What about your money?" She asked then saw my sad expression. She sat up and leaned her elbow against the hood. "I'm sorry..."

"It's okay, my mom died. She and my dad took me into the ocean when I was just a baby and my dad said that she had handed me to my dad and then walked out deeper into the  just walked, that's what my dad said, like she was pulled. He said that she drowned."

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to stir anything up." I shook off her apology and smiled.

"It's fine, I actually feel better telling someone that I lo-"

"what?" She giggled. I bit my lip and smiled. "We're you going to say you love me?" She turned her head and giggled. I smiled.

"Yeah. Yeah I guess I was." She smiled and closed her eyes and leaned forward. I leaned forward. Her tiny lips met mine and she kissed me passionately. She held the side of my head and then pulled away. I leaned in again and she followed. I heard someone clear their throat and pulled back. Emil and I looked towards Ashton,

"Go get a room you two. Anyway, Heath there's trouble." I looked at Emily and we dashed behind Ashton into the building. Trouble was an understatement. 5 burly and underdressed, for a party, were pushing around other guys and Sarah was amidst all of it holding off some of them and getting hit. The guy had messed up her hair and had ripped her dress. I noticed that Ashton's guitar was in splinters on the stage. Emily ran towards the guys causing all of the trouble and pushed the leader off Sarah. He fell and all of his buddies stopped moving. She held her fists up and and stared down at the attacker.

"Thanks." Sarah said dusting herself off and stood up. Sarah and Emily were the same size. But Sarah had a bit more muscle added on to her tiny frame but Emily was just tiny.

"Hey bitch. Why don't you hang out with a real man." The guy stood up and looked at Emily. I was about to run over there and punch him but then Emily started sashaying towards him. She bit her lip and smiled.

"What did you call me?" He looked at her smiling and smiled. He grabbed her hip and she socked him in the mouth.

"Get your hand off my waist and get out." The guy touched his bleeding lip and sneered. He called to his buddies who started laughing.

"Hey guys, did you see what is little bitch just did to me?"  The guys sniggered and then the bully grabbed Emily's arm roughly and started to drag her to the door. My instincts kicked in at that moment and I grabbed his collar and he let go of Emily.  The bully stared at me and sneered. "Go ahead, hit me." He said and I did. I punched him hard in the mouth and he fell like a rock. Emily stared shocked at me and then she looked to the guy. She smiled and laughed and covered her mouth. She hugged me and grabbed the side of my face while my hands were done and then she kissed me. She pulled away smiling and me smiling back. I turned when I heard clapping and saw the entire gym room clapping. A whole room of people who on any other day would have pushed me down and laughed were now clapping. Either for the bully or for the kiss, I didn't care. But I decided we  should celebrate so we (Sarah, Ashton, Emily, and I) climbed into my car and drove to the Sonic drive thru. We stopped and ordered 4 chili dogs, tots, and milkshakes. We laughed  and ate and talked and  had a real good time. Emily was the best part 0f the night other than my peanut butter milkshake that was a close second. We started driving away from the drive thru, not knowing where we were going was the best feeling. We just drove, no concept of time or anything, just driving.She sat next to me in the back and she called to Ashton to roll down the window and he laughed and did so. She stuck half of her body out the window and yelled, really loudly, "WOOHOO!!!" I laughed at her and then everyone else just burst out laughing. She was beautiful and I was wonderfully happy. And I knew I would be for a while. But then I remembered something.

"Emily, do you think you can meet us at 5 tomorrow morning at the beach." She looked at me wide eyed.

"It's okay to be late. We always go for a late breakfast. There's a guy who's teaching me to surf..better. And I wanted my girlfriend to-"

"Girlfriend?" She giggled cutely.

"Yeah, I mean if you want to."

"Yes!" She squealed and hugged me. I laughed and hugged her. We were in a car so I couldn't spin her around or anything but I hugged her thigh and we rocked back in forth.

"Ugh. Go get a room you two." Sarah laughed an Emily laughed. Ashton drove and once and awhile would turn his head around and we would yell to him to keep his eyes on the road. Emily agreed to meet us at 6:30 at IHOP then come to surf with us. Emily got along well with Ashton and Sarah and they quickly became best friends. I dropped Emily off at her house at 1:00 am and then we all passed out in our party outfits in the bed. I didn't even care that Sarah kicked me off the bed and that Ashton snored like a freight train. I was happier than I had been In a while.

Here's a picture of Emily, her hair is inspired by Juliet Simms haircut
I wanted to add Emily bc I thought the story needed a person like her. The Sonic story is a true occurance in my real life, except I never bought 4 of the meals. Anyway hope you liked this chapter and I'll tell you when I'll update next. It might be awhile.