Kiara is going through her wardrobe to find me a perfect party outfit. We have around three hours to get ready and Kiara here is going all mad. After she returned from school we decided to get ready for the party together and I came over her place.

"This one?" Kiara asks me. She is holding a very short sleeveless black dress.

"No way!" Does she expect me to wear that? I will look like a big whore in it. And that's definitely not my style. "Can't I wear some jeans?" I ask her for the hundredth time, with puppy dog gleaming eyes.

"No," she disagrees for the hundredth time. I sigh and walk over to her closet.

"Don't you have something...good to wear," I say examining her clothes.

"What about this white and black flannel and a black cami top? And you can pair it with some denim shorts," she says, showing me the outfit, her eyes shining with anticipation.

"I think...it's fine," I say being unsure.

"Cool, now go and change," she says shoving the clothes towards me. I roll my eyes and eye her to leave the room. Without arguing she leaves the room. I put on the outfit and look at myself in the mirror. I think this outfit would work fine.

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There was still one hour left for the party to start and I was already ready so I decide to go back home, in a hope for my mother to be still at work.

I slowly open the door to my house.

"Mom, are you back?" I say loudly peering my head between the door and the wall. I see no one around from the little space. I sigh with relief when one more minute passes by with no reply, and I enter the house.

Without reconsidering I make a run to my room and close the door behind me. Well, that was easy. But sneaking out of the house, this evening, is going to be quite difficult.

I lie down on my bed at once. Horror overshadows all my other emotions when I remember of Z's last. Would I do whatever Z tell you me to do? But I have to get that video to expose Megan and our principal too, right?

The abrupt knocking on my door brings me out of my trance. Before I say something the door swings open and Kash enters my room.

"Don't you know how to knock?" I say looking up at him. He just shakes his head and walks to the other corner of the room.

"Whatever," He says looking at the the window in my room. So rude!  First of all, he walks into a girl's room without any permission, vandalizing my privacy with his cute, arrogant-self. Second of all, he is being rude to me!

While I am busy in the world of my thoughts, Kash strolls towards the window.

"Why are you here, in my room?" I ask being clueless.

And, as an answer what can you expect but a sigh boarded with annoyance.

"Aren't you going to Jacob's party?" He asks looking up at me, completely ignoring my question.

"Umm...yes," the words escape my mouth before I can think. Kash takes a step forward towards me, making me feel a little nervous.

Okay! A lot nervous.

"Yeah, so, you wouldn't be going to leave the house with you walking up to the front porch of the house wearing a party outfit right?" I narrow my eyes at him. "Briefly, without letting out any words, you'll be telling your mother that you're going to a party. So, to avoid such situations we need to find an alternative source of getting out of the house."

"Do you think escaping through my window is such alternative way?"

"Yes," he says getting back on examining the fall from my window.

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Hey everyone!

Sorry for not updating for such a long time. I was busy with my school work and hardly had time to write.

But now here it is, another chapter of 'Off the Map'.

And please excuse me for a small chapter.

Hope you liked it!