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"FAYE, YOU MADE IT!" SUSAN SHOUTS OVER THE LOUD MUSIC, "look how good you look! Ali and Barb showed up twenty minutes ago while none of the boys are here yet." She says with furrowed eyebrows as she grabbed the girls wrist leading her over to the other two who both held red plastic cups.

Faye smiles anxiously as she glances around the busy house, and suddenly meets eyes with two of their friends who shout out her name with a laugh. "You made it!" Ali says while Barbra called out, "didn't think you'd show!"

"Yeah, I'm here." She says with jazz hands before looking at the cups, "I'll take some of whatever that is." She says, Barb ends up handing her one.

"It's pink juice," the girl said plainly, Faye was dumbfounded. She looked at Ali who shrugged nonchalantly, she glanced at Susan who took shots of whatever it was with other people.

"Alright," she says nervously before bringing it up to her lips. Whatever it was tasted good, but gave her a sore throat. She coughed a little before getting the hang of it, drinking alcohol didn't seem as bad as she thought. "It's pretty good."

"Try this," Susan handed her another cup. "We call it green juice." Faye could tell her friends were already a little tipsy, though Ali was still herself.

"I don't have a clue what these are." But Faye shrugs and finishes the 'pink juice' before moving onto the 'green juice.' The juice tasted like lemon and lime lemonade, but the achy throat feeling was still there. She gave Ali a questioning look.

"The first one was pink gin and lemonade while the other is lemon and lime gin with lemonade. Good, right?" She asks sending a small smirk to the girl who nods her head.

"Alright, it isn't as bad as I thought, I was wrong and you guys were right, again." Rolling her eyes, Faye grabs another pink gin, "I like this stuff better."

"Try the vodka and lemonade." Ali says handing her the cup she was drinking from, "if you don't like it hand it back." The girl chuckles.

Faye groans as she took a sip, she made a face to her friend who burst out laughing. "No, no thanks, here have it back." She thrust it back into the blonde's hands before a random girl joined in on letting her try drinks.

"It's beer," the girl with green highlights said as she sauntered up to Susan who watched, both of the girls seemed close.

Faye took a sniff and made another face, but once she took a sip of it, it was alright. But she mostly preferred the pink gin, she grins at the girls before grabbing two more 'pink juices.' As she drank she noticed Susan and the girl closing in on each other, she watched them give each other a quick peck on the lips, she looked a little shocked but she wasn't disgusted by it. She made eye contact with Susan who gazed at her stunned, she quickly looked away from the girl and grabbed the green highlighted haired girl before disappearing quickly into the crowd. Faye frowns, did Susan think she was disgusted?

She glanced at Ali who avoided eye contact with the girl looking worried, but she distracted Barbra anyways. "Okay..." she trails quietly chugging down the gins. "Barb, stop handing me more drink, I like the ones I have."

"But you'll like this. It's a cocktail." She says pushing it into Faye's hands. "Nice, right?" As the girl tries it.

Faye felt sick after trying so many, she put it down. "I dunno, it's my first time drinking girl, I'm gonna stick with the gin, alright?" Trying to set some boundaries, Barbra nods and talks to Ali with a slightly lisp.

The smaller girl had drank about eight pink gins for the past hour she'd been here. The whole Susan kissing a girl slipped her mind, she felt a little dizzy, she looked around lazily and met eyes with a boy who was on the soccer team. He had came up to her and stood on the opposite side, "hey, may have this dance?" He asks lending her hand. Faye nods but winces as it made her head feel heavy, she tripped on her feet as he led her away from the table. A drink in his hand as she held hers tightly.

Everything seemed innocent to the tipsy Faye, she hadn't even noticed the boy was grinding into her. She had a huge smile on her face, she gave Ali a big smile, but earned a worried look before trying to motion over to the other side of the room with her eyes. But Faye was too out of it, yes, she was still there, but the more she drank from her cup and danced around, the more the tonics started to take effect.

She laughed with the tall boy before she was grabbed by her arm and pulled into another embrace. "Hey!" She says loudly, but gasps when she sees Tommy. He looked mad, he was glaring down the boy she was dancing with and when she looked over his shoulder, he wasn't alone, the other Cobra's were behind him looking pissed off. "Oh, Gale!" She says to the boy, "this is my best friend, Tommy!" She says with such excitement and a giggle.

That snapped Tommy out of his threatening stance, he looked down at the girl he was holding and suddenly saw her state. She was giggling madly and smelt like alcohol, he looked at the pink coloured liquid in her cup and sighed before taking her away from the other boy. "Wait, I-I wasn't finished dancing with him." She whines loudly with a big pout on her face, the other Cobra's look at each other.

"She's completely plastered." Dutch says as he watched Tommy easily wrestle her into walking in their direction.

"Mmm, maybe not completely." Bobby says as he ran a hand through his hair, "she's looks like she knows what's going on, but the drink has slightly taken effect."

Jimmy smiles into his cup of beer, "I thought she didn't drink."

"Barb." Was all Johnny said, the rest of the guys nodded their heads in realisation.

Tommy manages to drag Faye to the four of them, her protests were still heard about him being rude to cut her dance short. She gave him a glare, "fricken party pooper." The boy gasps so loud.

"You did not just call me a party pooper, Faye O'Riley." He says offendedly, "because that's not true!"

"Mmhmm, sure." She says basically ignoring him now as she still held her big pout on her lips, she tries not to laugh at his expression that was sprawled out on his face.

Dutch starts to laugh, "aha! Tommy's a party pooper!" He exclaims loudly over the loud music, the girl turns to him with a happy grin.

"At least someone agrees," she says happily while bouncing over to them completely forgetting about the boy she was dancing with. "Didn't think you boys would show," she replies.

"We weren't going to come but Susan said you were going to be here, so we came." Bobby says, "couldn't let you be alone."

"Yeah, we came right on time, that guy was practically jumping you." Johnny says with a small glare upon his face, "and besides we need to take care of you."

"Awh," she cooes. "You guys are so nice to me," she says grinning ear-to-ear. For once she noticed their longing gazes, she squinted for a moment before shrugging and taking a sip of the continents in the cup. "C'mon, the girls are over here!" She says suddenly dragging Jimmy over with her, the boy looks at the others who are just following along with everything.

"Oh, look who's here!" Barbra says mixing up another cup, she looks at Faye, "want to try this? It's just a mixer."

Ali being the responsible one decides to intervene, "I think Faye's had enough." While at the same time the said girl shouted, "oh, absolutely!" Ali deadpans and looks towards Susan who was nervously looking at Faye who forgot what she'd seen.

As Faye grabbed the cup from Barbra, she was about to take a sip of the liquid she'd never tried before until it was taken away by Bobby, "hey!"

"You've still got a cup to finish, see." He hints towards the one that was half full in her left hand. "Besides, you don't want to be sick, do you?"

"No, I guess not." She frowns, "but I want whatever that is." She said motioning to the cup Bobby stole.

"No you don't." Johnny interjected, "what you've got is much better." Barbra was honestly just mixing random things together, she wasn't even herself anymore. Ali looked at the girl before looking at everyone else.

"I should probably get her home." She states before looking at Faye, she couldn't leave the half drunk girl here, she looked at Susan who was standing with the girl she'd kissed.

"Yeah, you probably should." Susan mutters, "don't worry, Ali. Faye's in good hands, you can come back after you get Barb home safely." The blonde decided that's what she was going to do, she will come back for Faye once she's dealt with Barb.

"Okay, see you in about half an hour?" She says earning a nod from Susan, she smiles kindly before dragging a protesting Barbra.

Tommy watched and decided to ask the brunette, "why is she so drunk?" The girl gave him a look and sighed.

"I think her date is now an ex," she says grabbing another beer before handing it to the girl with highlighted hair. "She hated how flirty he was to other girls."

"Oh," the boys now felt awkward before looking back to Faye who was now watching everything else. The girl sat back lazily with a tired look on her face, she was in deep thought about how she realised she really hated this feeling that has washed over her because of the alcohol.

She pushed away her cup and turned to everyone, "I'll be back in a second, I need to use the bathroom." She says before letting herself disappear into the crowd and up the stairs to the main bathroom, there were only a few people hanging around, but it was much quieter than downstairs. She ends ip being in Susan's bedroom and shutting the door, she knew the girl wouldn't mind, she just needed a little time on her own.

Faye looks into the mirror, she couldn't help but think she looked like a mess. She looked more confident, acted more confident and felt a little free, but she hated having no control over her actions. She ran her hands through her hair and ruffled it out, she put her fingers under her eyes and wiped away the melted mascara. She moved to sit over on the little couch next to the window, she glanced out there for a moment forgetting that she'd been in the "bathroom" for some time.

The slightly drunk girl heard the door squeak open and just sighed ready to tel Susan she was sorry, but when she looked it wasn't the girl it was Bobby who had a slightly concerned expression upon his usually happy face. "Are you okay?" He asks as he shuts the room door closed, he wasn't having a nosy around the room, he was only focused on the girl sitting bent over the chair.

"I'm fine," she says quietly. "Just a little overwhelmed, I got carried away. I have a lot going on right now, and this is my first party, I guess I was just trying to have a good time." She states honestly twirling around with a piece of thread she had dangling from her t-shirt.

"That's okay," Bobby says bending down on one knee in front of her. "We all get a little carried away at a party even when we have our first taste in alcohol." He mutters chuckling slightly.

Faye notices how close both of them are, and she knew if she didn't ask him or talk to him now, she would never do it. She looks into his blue eyes, "Bobby, I lied to you in school when we were at the lockers together." She says, there was no going back now, but she notices she caught his attention. "I wasn't thinking about what happened at the arcade, I was thinking about, well...I know." She stumbles on what to say.

Bobby looks at her confused, "I know why you all ignored me and started to treat me like shit." The boy in front of her was tense and looked like a deer in headlights, he looked at her right in the eye, his eyes wide. "Why Johnny started dating Ali, and why they broke up," she licks her now dry lips. "The whole relationship was to get information on me, but once I grew distant....the dating suddenly stopped."

They were both silent until she started to speak once more, "after feeling all this hurt and neglect, feeling like our friendship didn't matter. I can only find comfort in that maybe I didn't do something for you all to abandon me like you did and making me feel like a shell of a person." She pauses feeling tears come through her eyes, "I-I want to forgive you and move on, I do, but I don't want to be hurt again, I don't want it to all blow up in my face." She looks back to Bobby who had a pained expression on his face as he listened to his words and watched her tears fall down her cheeks, "I know...but I want to know why you did it."

Bobby was silent, he debated if he wanted to tell her with or without the boys. But her words kept echoing through his head, he wanted her to feel some sort of peace, "Kreese." He mumbles, "our Sensei told us that all love would do is weight us down. He kept insisting that we should ignore our feelings for you and let you go, that we couldn't be seen as weak. We did try and plead with him that you were what made us stronger, but we ended up loosing. He kept manipulating us that this was for your protection, that you would get hurt if you were ever with us, he said if we didn't listen to him, you would be hurt and it would be our faults. So, we left you to protect you."

"Oh, Bobby." She says quietly, her frown turned into a watery smile. She watched as he looked down, he himself suddenly felt very sick about all of this. "Why?" He looks up, "why now? To be honest, I thought it was because of Daniel when he suddenly came here."

"Well, he was part of the reason." Faye sucked in a breath, "we have been deciding if we should or not try and get you back and talk with you, but we chickened out. But that night at the beach reminded us, that if we didn't make our moves then you would be gone and only a memory. We weren't so naive to think you would hate us and believe us after all we've done to you." Both of them stare at each other, both could see hesitation within each other on what to do next.

Bobby stands and heads to the door, but Faye pulls him back, tripping slightly as she jumped towards him. "I forgive you," she says, he turns around and stares down at her. "But I need to think on it, but I'm glad that you told me...I hated keeping it to myself." Bobby took Faye's hands into his.

They both made eye contact, Bobby lifted one of his hands to Faye's cheek and wiped away her tears, the girl subconsciously leaned into his hand. Faye gave him a smile, a real smile one that he honestly missed, he gave her one back. Both of them leaned close to each other, both of their breaths on each other's faces, "this okay?" He mumbles earning a nod from her.

Both of them close their eyes as their lips touch each other's, the kiss was soft and slow, Faye's hand had found it's way to Bobby's shoulder as they both melted into each other's embraces.

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im sitting in my room giggling like a little girl.

SHE TALKED! HE TALKED! THEY KISSED!

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