Free The Bad Boy by Evan Kelsey Page A

I asked it more of a
question than a statement this way Craig didn’t get any idea’s in
his head that I wanted to see him.
    Craig frowned at
me. “Not cool Emilie. I thought we were friends.” I blinked
surprised. I never would’ve had a problem being his friend but he
never talked to me before that night and now he was pressuring me
to smoke with him and getting upset with me when I
declined.
    I gave him a
sympathetic look before turning my back and walking to the door.
Why do all the guys I talk too, end up having some sort of problem?
A hand caught my wrist halting me and I looked behind me to see
Craig holding onto me.
    “ You
don’t have to leave. Just hang out with us, we don’t bite.” The
look in his eyes said otherwise.
    I opened my mouth
to say something but was cut off.
    “ Craig
let her go and I’ll smoke with you.” I swung my head around to face
Jared and my mouth dropped open.
    The weight on my
wrist was gone and Craig walked around me to stand in front of
Jared. They did the man hand shake thing and Craig handed him the
joint. I stood, gaping as Jared sent me a ‘you’re-an-idiot’ look
making sure only I saw it.
    “ See
ya Emilie!” Craig said dismissively waving his hand and plopping
back into his seat like he didn’t have a care in the
world.
    “ Yeah,
bye Emilie.” Jared said but his words had meaning like ‘get out of
here before I drag you out of here.’
    Figuring, I would
talk to Jared later about the whole smoking thing, I nodded still
curious about why Jared did that and headed to the door for the
third time that night.
    When I made it
inside without any more interruptions, I made my way for the center
of the party where I knew Conner would be. Waiting. For me. I
spotted him at the beer pong table and thought how typical of him.
That was his favorite game and I shouldn’t have been surprised to
see him winning.  

I stayed to the
side waiting for the game to be over. I didn’t want any rumor’s
going around that we were back together and I know if people saw us
being ‘friendly’ with each other, then things would spread. It is
high school after all.
    The game seemed
to be going on for forever and I started scanning the party and my
eyes stopped at the make shift dance floor. Really it was the huge
living room but all the furniture was moved into a different room
and a DJ was controlling the music.
    What stopped me
though was a couple who were dancing and getting pretty close. I
let a smile form on my lips as Hailey danced with the guy. I
couldn’t make out his face because the lighting for the living-room
wasn’t working with my angle and the boy was wearing a hood. But I
know that was Hailey because she would be the only girl I know to
wear a dress that hot pink.
    I would have to
ask her later who the mystery guy is.
    Bringing my
attention back to Conner, I was relieved and also disappointed that
the game ended. Relived because I was getting bored just
standing around. Disappointed because now I have to face him. I
would have just walked away from the game and found him later but I
know if he had to come and find me, there would be a scene and I
didn’t want that.
    I caught his eye
and he smiled at me. Memories of that smile when we’re dating came
into my mind and for a second I forgot he was sick in the head and
just looked at him as the Conner I thought I knew. The sweet,
non-cheating, loving Conner. Then I snapped back into it because I
needed to be alert. I couldn’t have him start something with me at
a party.
    I sent him a look
that said follow me and headed in the direction of the kitchen.
Where all the alcohol was stored. Shots were the easiest way to get
him drunk and I could do it in less than ten minutes because I knew
his weakness. Jack Daniels.
    I closed the door
behind us making sure nobody saw us come in here. When I felt okay,
that nobody saw I grabbed the Jack and got to work. I wanted to
have fun tonight and Conner wasn’t going to help me