In his grasp

Party time!

I got out of the shower and found Molly sitting on my bed looking at me. 

“Your early!” I jumped. She let out a little giggle and replied

“Yep, I thought we could do these”. She held up two face masks. I smiled at her and sat on the bed next to her. We were silent for a while. I thought about Joe and what he did to me in his office. I didn’t think I could feel like that. He was completely in control and it really made me feel... sexy. He rang me later that evening and reminded me to behave at this party. He also said some other dirty things to me. A few minutes later the face mask had done its work and took it off throwing it in the bin. 

“So... when are you going to talk to Ryan?” She placed her mask off of her face And folded it up placing it on the packaging. She then laid back on the bed. 

“We talk all the time” I was trying to avoid this question as I still had Joe on my mind. She frowned at me and shook her head. I smiled at her and painted a line of eyeliner on my upper lid and noticed Molly staring at me, squinting deep in thought. 

“What?” I said using the mirror to look behind me. 

“You never take this much care with getting ready?” She placed her finger to her lips as she waited for my reply. I just looked at her and shrugged. 

“We are celebrating aren’t we?” I then smirked. After I had sorted out my make up while I was still in a towel. She said nothing, suspicion still wiped across her face. 

In stood up and grabbed my outfit to get changed in the bathroom then turned around. 

“You can use my make up with you want” I smiled changing the subject and then left. 

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The music was thumping as we pulled up to Ryan’s house. Everyone was holding drinks and laughing with each other. We stepped out the taxi and walked around to the back gate. I wore my slim dress that came down to my thighs. It had a v-neck line and straps with a small slit up the side of my thigh.

“There you are, you know it started like an hour ago don’t you” one of our friends jumped over to us. We smiled and Molly replied “we had to have a bit of pampering you know”. We walked over to the drinks table and I grabbed one of the cups and filled it with punch. 

“Lauren?” A familiar voice said from behind me. I froze, not again. 

“Can we start again?” Grey was standing there, full of apology in his eyes. I saw someone behind him staring at us, it was Ryan. I smirked as I thought about what he had said to Grey to get him to apologise. It had been years and yet I hadn’t spoken to Grey at all  if I’m honest, I had completely avoided him.

“Sure” I finally replied to him and he wrapped his arms around my neck to give me a hug. I placed one hand on his back and then pulled away. 

The drinks were flowing, everyone was having a laugh and Molly was her usual funny self, stumbling everywhere. I soon ended up in a state and was dancing away trying to get everyone involved. After a while I walked out to go to the toilet when someone grabbed my hand. What does he want now? 

“Hey, you look really good tonight” Grey’s eyes were close together and his words were trembling. He held my hand and repeated. “I am sorry about before” I shook my head. 

“Grey, that was years ago” I reassured him trying to take my hand back. I was going to wet myself. He stepped closer to me until I was leaning against the wall, I had a flash back from before. I placed my hand on his chest to stop him. 

“Grey, stop it, your drunk”. To my surprise, he backed away and looked down to the ground. I went to walk away when he said. 

“I just want to kiss you, Lauren”. The words rung in my ears and I stopped. “Why?”

“Your just so sexy” I smiled at him. 

“Not today” I thought about what Joe said. No s*x. No drugs. No... hmm what was the last one? I chuckled to myself and rushed off to the toilet. I returned to the group and they were all in a huddle at the back of the garden. 

“What’s going on?” I asked. They all looked at me and laughed. They were on something, I could smell a weird stench. 

“Want some” one of them said holding what looked like a cigarette but didn’t smell like one. They waited for my reply. I shook my head. Another one pipped up.

“Course she doesn’t, she won’t do anything like that” I felt humiliated. Grey walked closer to me and put his mouth to my ear. “It doesn’t last long” he encouraged. His breath on my ear was strangely arousing. 

“Um... okay... give it here then” I took it off of one of my friends and went to suck in a puff. Grey grabbed my hand to stop me. 

“Don’t inhale, suck it into your mouth and gently inhale a little...” he tucked my hair behind my ear. 

“Then blow” he continued. For some reason his words seduced me and I felt very tingly. For a split second I forgot all about Joe and his rules. Although it it is probably because I was drunk. I did exactly what he said and started coughing, giving it back to my friend. Within seconds my head felt really light and I felt like I was floating. I then started giggling at the feeling. Ryan grabbed my hand and said “okay that’s enough” and guided me to the kitchen. 

He poured me a glass of water and handed it to me. How did he know my mouth was really dry? Could he tell? I gulped the whole glass down. As I was about to completely embarrass myself by pushing myself on his lips, my phone started buzzing in my pocket. I held my finger up to ask him to wait and ran to the bathroom. It was an unsaved local number. 

“Hello?” I said. 

“Lauren?” f**k! It was Joe. 

“Are you okay, I was just checking to see if you were safe?” I couldn’t stop my laughter from blurting out as the feeling of the drugs set in deeper. I think he could tell I had been misbehaving. 

“Are you drunk?” He was angry. 

“Umm... might be... might be a little something else” I giggled. The conversation went silent and he hung up.  

Whatever

I wasn’t going to let him ruin my night. I walked out the bathroom and Ryan was still there, waiting for me, leaning against the counter. I felt really dizzy and sick and think I had just about had enough. After all it was like 2am. I gave him a hug and said “great party, tell Molly that I’ve got a taxi home please” he smiled at me and nodded. 

I walked outside and down the street a little so I could call a taxi and they can hear me. As I dialled the number a car pulled up in front of me. Oh s**t. It was the same driver that took me to Joe’s office. I rolled my eyes and without saying a word I entered the vehicle.