[Like...People] It's My Birthday?

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“See ya.” Olivia said as she let go of Amber’s hand and headed into the kitchen. Olivia had already taken a few shots of her dad’s whiskey before Amber picked her up, so she was feeling a pretty good buzz. What to make? Olivia tried to squeeze her way through the people that were already swarming the counters in the kitchen. It was funny how many “friends” these people had. Most of them were probably just here for the free booze. Olivia was here to support her sister’s friend, and Patrick was going to be here. At least that’s what Amber had said. When Olivia finally made her way into the kitchen, she saw Patrick. What should she do? Talk to him.. Right? Yes, that’s what she’d do. She had a little bit of liquid courage in her, so what could go wrong? As she tried to make her way over to him, he was getting pushed and bumped into. Olivia pushed through and once again bumped into Patrick’s back. “God this is embarrassing.” she looked up at him. “I have got to stop running into you like this.” she smiled up at him almost for too long. Olivia cleared her throat and then looked away. “I’m sorry about that.”

[MELANIE ELIZABETH THOMPSON]

Melanie stood in the corner of the living room, quite distracted. All she could think about was her day with Rylan. It’s not like she was obsessed, but she was crushing on him, BADLY. He had it all and she wanted it all. Rylan made her feel like a different person when they were together. She was worry free and care free. It’s like the rules didn’t exist to him and Melanie really liked that about him. Rylan was such a bad boy and a sexy one at that. Melanie bit her lip when she saw him. Now or never. She followed him as best she could. She should’ve figured he’d be getting away from the rest of the party. Rylan did seem like a loner. “Hey,” she said when she finally caught up to him. “I brought you something..” Melanie reached into her bag and pulled out a photograph as well as a small bottle of Jack. “I’m no professional, but I think it’s a great picture.” Melanie got up on her tip toes so she could whisper in Rylan’s ear, “and no worries, no one knows you were actually doing schoolwork.” she stood normally and put her finger over her lips and made the shhh noise. “It’s our little secret.” Melanie just laughed and then handed him the bottle of Jack as well, “Here.”

[DYLAN DAVID PARKER]

Dylan smiled when he walked in, leaving Derek and Bobbie to themselves as he was pulled away by Rosie, “Well hey you,” leaning down to kiss her, “Meet someone? Sure.” He shrugged, taking her hand while she led him to a couple of people. He stood while she talked to the guy, watching the younger girl’s reaction, and nodded, “Mammoth… what a life, huh?” he chuckled. Dylan shook his hand, “Hey, how ya doin,” he said, nodding with a smile, “Oh yeah, very worth it,” he winked at Rosie. Dylan nodded once more, “Sure man, nice to meet you.” After they had walked away, Dylan grinned, “Well then, I see you’re introducing me to your friends. They seem like some pretty nice people.” Dylan looked around to see where he could get a drink from, spotting Joel over the crowd, giving him a wave and a nod. It was still pretty cool he’d come out to the show the other night. As far as Dylan was concerned, these kids were all just people like him. Dylan didn’t look at them like celebrities, they all had music in common. He saw Derek and Bobbie over by the film crew, shaking his head, “That surprises no one,” he laughed. Dylan leaned down to kiss her again, “Let’s get something to drink.” He stopped to look at her, a smile creeping onto his face, as he had taken her hand, “… did you take something?” he asked as he led her over to the drink table, looking for rum.

[MARGARITA JOSEPHINE RIVERA]

Georgia put her hands in the air while she danced. It was pretty awesome that everyone she cared about had come out tonight. Even Rylan. He was being a stinkhead – but eventually he would get over it and they could be friends again. I mean, damn, she had dated Joel in the meantime. And that should have been plenty of time to get over her now that she was legitimately dating Cole. She probably should’ve gotten more dressed up for tonight, but screw it. The drinks were already being poured, and she was up for having a good time. “ BLAKE!!!” she screamed out loudly as the out of place girl came in. “ Awww..you’re like a little bitty lamb in a lions den,” she said, hooking her arm through Blake. “ Now, I don’t personally do the whole sucker thing,” she said with a wink, “ Buuutt…I have these, here,” she said, offering her some of the suckers. “ Shh. I have to go. My boyfriend is probably fighting with someone over the revolution or something,” she said, giving a nod before she made a face. “ Hey where is Dylan?” she said as she started to look through the crowd of people.

[RYLAN NOAH LION]

Rylan was taking a long drink from his cup when he heard Melanie talking to him. “ Hey,” he said back, sitting down on the table as she came closer. “ A gift?” he questioned, setting his drink down before he turned to face her again, “ Usually I only take payment after we actually sleep together,” he said, reaching up to take the picture from her. He scrunched his nose,simultaneously smiling as he looked down at the picture and looked back at her. “ You were photographing me?” He smiled as she continued, saying that no one had to know that he was doing homework, He cleared his throat, placing on a serious face as he narrowed his eyebrows, “ Actually, I was trying to jot down some things that might be reminiscent of how beautiful you are. Every line of Shakespeare I could rummage through my memories, every delicate rose I’d seen clipped from the bush, every sun that has risen over a newly misted meadow.. it all hailed,” he said, before smiling slowly. “Be an ass and a half if I was a bloke that actually spoke like that yeah? It was astronomy. ” he said before laughing and standing up. “ Now we’re talking,” he said, taking the jack daniels from her and twisting it open. “ You look nice though,” he said with a tilt of his head, taking a drink from the bottle before offering it to her.

[JOEL CARTER BROOKS]

Joel gave Dylan a wave as he saw him come in the door. If Dylan was here, that meant that Derek wouldn’t be too far behind and that kid was pretty cool in his book. He’d probably be down for an after party. But not the kind of after party it looked like he would be having with Bobbie. Joel turned his head towards her voice as he turned to see Maddie. “ You know I haven’t seen her” he said before wrapping his arm around her lower back and pulling her towards his body. Joel brought his hand up to the side of her hair as he leaned down to kiss her. Maybe he hadn’t told his sister about her ; but would she really honestly be that mad? She’d been the one that wanted them to date. Though, they weren’t exactly dating. Joel wasn’t down for the whole ‘relationship’ thing right now, and that surely didn’t seem like that’s what Maddie was looking for either.

[CHARLOTTE JADE HODGINS]

Charlie brought her hand up to Blaze’s that was dropped over her shoulders and walked towards the kitchen to get a drink. “ I don’t think I’ll get used to Rosie. She’s………Rosie,” she said, making a confused face as she walked towards the kitchen. Once she got inside she waited for some space to clear on the counter before she hopped up, swinging her legs as she sat on the counter and watched Blaze make them drinks. “ So….” she said, biting the inside of her cheek. Rosie had been pretty quick to turn down the idea of being his wingwoman once she had brought it up – yet it was her idea. Which had Charlie wondering exactly how many girls Blaze was still hooking up with. “ It really doesn’t matter, cause we both agreed to just be chill about this, but out of curiosity… on whether or not I need to …get tested or something, how many other girls are you hooking up with?”

[ASHER SCOTT KINGSTON]

Asher lit up into a bright smile as Amber came and hugged him. He held onto her tightly, giving her a kiss before he sighed tiredly. “ No, not it’s not that. I’m.. fine. It’s just we have a really early morning tomorrow, and I know I’m all packed up, but Joel and I have to leave for the airport at like 3:30 and I can’t understand why we are here doing this,” he said tiredly, dropping his arms so that they were hanging lazily over her waist. Asher kept his hand on her lower back when one of the kids came over to talk to him, asking him about the equipment. “ Oh man, I really wish I was talented enough to run that end of things. I work with Joel Brooks. But if you’re interested in knowing a lot about this stuff I can definitely point you in the right direction. I can only handle a few mild questions.” he said, biting the side of his lip. “ You into film?” he asked the kid, lifting his eyebrow in the process. “ Here, why don’t you take one of the handhelds and help out when you aren’t busy partying,” he said, gesturing to one of the handheld cameras. “ I’m Asher. This is Amber… nice to meet you guys” he said as he held his free hand out.

[PATRICK JARROD BROWN]

Trick coughed on his drink slightly when someone bumped into him. When he turned around he smiled as he realized who it was. “ Hey,” he said , pointing at her, “ …..Libby…Livvie..Olivia!” he said finally, snapping his fingers as he pointed at her. “ Olivia,” he said taking in a deep breath. ‘ I didn’t think you would be here,’ he said, running his hand through his hair. “ Don’t be sorry. I’m certainly not sorry about it… Can I get you a drink?” he asked, gesturing to the plethora of alcohol behind him. “ I’ll make you something,” he said, finishing his own drink off as he looked over at all of the alcohol. Trick reached back, scratching the back of his neck before he started to make a panty dropper and held it to her proudly. “ Any other surprises in store for the evening?” he said as he gave a lopsided smile.

[DECLAN JAMES HODGINS]

“ Yeah I think this one is more likely for Blaze to end up on life support,” he said, clenching his jaws as he watched them walking away. Declan took in a deep breath. If he broke his sisters heart; he had a right to break his body. Guy code. “ Why the hell do you think they were hooking up that long ago….” he asked. Had he really not been paying that much attention? But it seemed like Parker had questions of her own. He watched her as she held the pineapple juice in her hands, questioning him about where he had been. Charlie had been a little more forgiving about him being back so suddenly. And to be fair, Parker didn’t seem angry- just curious. It must have seemed like he had just up and decided to quit talking to her. “ Oh I just had to get some more training in for cage fighting, learn a few more things. It kept me pretty occupied. Charlie’s given me the ‘if it ever happens again’ speech already. Why….. did you miss me?” he said with a slightly cocky smile as he looked down at her.

[ROSELYN RAE DAVIS]

Rosie laughed as Blaze walked away with Charlie, that boy was…a fucking idiot. “Ah… what a moron,” she said to herself before looking at Dylan. “ Yeah.. I’m introducing you to my friends,” she said,accompanying it with a smile. Did that make it seem more real? Cause whatever this was, she was fine with it. If she was just in his roster, that was fine. It was more, that could be okay, too. All she knew was she liked spending time with him; and that she was comfortable with just being around him. Whatever it meant. Rosie turned to look at Derek and Bobbie, where Derek was inspecting the cameras. “ They are adorable,” she said quietly before looking back at Dylan who was inspecting the alcohol. “ Oooohh.” she said as he questioned whether or not she had taken anything. She could lie to him, but while she was shaking her head no, she answered, ‘ Yes,’ she said, tapping her finger to her nose. “ But baby, here, listen. It’s only happened like… three times now.” she said, smiling as she wrapped her arms around him. ‘ And you look so handsome.. And you smell so nice,” she said, kissing the side of his jaw before she leaned away, keeping the same impish grin on her face.

[BOBBIE JACQUELINE BRYAN]

Bobbie pushed her hair behind her ear, looking around at some of the equipment as Derek was asking about it. Maybe it wasn’t something that had ever interested her before – but it interested Derek and she figured that meant it was at least worth learning about so that when he was talking about it, it didn’t sound like he was speaking a foreign language. When Asher offered him a camera so that he could be involved, she lift her eyebrows with a smile. She wasn’t sure if he would take advantage of it or not, but it seemed like a fun way for him to incorporate two of the things he liked ; film making and partying. “Dylan’s on the move,” she said, more to narrate the situation for Derek in case he wanted to follow him when she saw Dylan making his way toward Blake. It had been strange, living in Blake’s house for the past week until the forseeable future. She just wasn’t ready to live in her father’s house after everything yet – and she knew that it was good for her and Derek to have some separation. But that nights like this, make her want to just be near him, be more and more intoxicated by his presence.

[SCARLET JASMINE BROOKS]

Scarlet placed her clutch under her arm as she looked around the party. Clearly wearing a bandage dress and heels was overdressing for the party. But when Joel had spoken to her about it, he hadn’t been very clear on what the dress code was. And it was always better to overdress than underdress. Unless you wanted to show up naked, and a lot of laws prevented her from living the nudist lifestyle that she was beyond comfortable with. “ Have you seen Madeline?” she asked someone at the bar, making a disappointed face when they indicated that they had not. “ Alright, thanks,” she said, deciding instead to go and make herself a drink. Scarlet moved on into the kitchen, squeezing her way past the mass amount of people before she started making herself something to drink.

[BLAKE EMMA PARKER]

Blake covered her mouth slightly at the smell that was coming from the party. What was that? But it seemed like everything was going pretty well, lots of faces. “ Oh my,” Blake said as Georgia came rushing towards her. Blake hugged her loosely. “ Is Asher here?” she questioned to no effect since Georgia was rambling and looking for someone in the crowd. “ Revolution?” she questioned quietly, looking down at the suckers that were in her hand. She absolutely could not be recorded drinking tonight – which is why she wasn’t going to. Really, she didn’t want to be filmed at all for anything. Not good for business. “Well I know he is here,” she said,starting to tear at the wrapping on one of the suckers.

[DYLAN DAVID PARKER]

Dylan shook his head when Rosie acknowledged that yes, she had taken something, but it had only happened a few times. Dylan had seen his fair share of drugs, and he got into stuff so he wasn’t one to judge. But these days he was avoiding anything beyond the mary jane. What with all the drugs involved before Drew had passed, Dylan just didn’t want to meddle in it. He smiled when she kissed his jaw, telling him he smelled nice as he poured himself a drink and decided he wasn’t going to make her one. No point in drinking if she was… probably popping molly? Dylan picked up his drink, taking a sip before he said, “Oh there’s Blake. … Let’s go say hi to her, I don’t think she really wants to eat any of those suckers,” he mumbled, his drink in one hand and took Rosie’s hand in his other and approached Blake just as Georgia was heading off, “Hey Georgia! Hey, what’s up,” he nodded and then looked at Blake, taking the sucker she’d just unwrapped out of her hand, “Don’t eat that, it’s got weed in it.” He leaned over to give her a hug, “I didn’t think I’d actually see you here, did you get something to drink? I think they have soda and water over there, I can get you something.” Just then Derek had walked up with Bobbie, holding a camera and Dylan smiled smugly, shaking his head, “Why am I not surprised by you. This is like heaven for you.”