&Like a Ghost You'll Be Haunting My Dreams Tonight

[lukesummitt]

Luke acted shocked when she said that she didn't think she looked that good. His mouth dropped out as if somebody had told him the secret to everlasting life or something. "What?! Are you kidding me? You look amazing" he laughed at the seemingly long word, "ah-maze-inggg" Boy, Luke was enjoying the cocaine and heroin a little too much. So far, if he had a chance to do it again, he would. And that was extremely bad for his sports career. No matter how good of a player he was, one failed drug test would mean he was off the team, and off the team meant his future was down the drain. That's why he had left the scene earlier, one fun night could mean a horrible future.

"No, no, no, no" he loved the way his voice sounded, the way the words rolled off his tounge. "Stay here with me" he brushed a peice of hair behind her ear, "you look fine" he said somewhat sweetly. Looking up he saw that Anthony was visible from where they were. Uhh. Usually he had nothing against the kid, he was one of his best friend's boyfriends. Whatever. Now, he was what was standing between him making out with the girl that was under him arm. But, being in the condition that he was, he wasn't going to let anything get in between what he wanted because as of 5 minutes ago when he stuck the needle into him, he was invincible.

He wrapped his arm around her waist, a place he had never dared to go before. Friends=Shoulder, Hookup(any other girl)=Waist. That was the rule he had always abided by, but now was a time for rule breaking. Pulling her closer to him, he mindlessly went in for the kiss, connecting his lips with hers, obviously not thinking of the consequences. But who could blame him? I mean, what girl could ever reject Luke Summitt?
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[kylieanderson]

Oh no. No. No. NO! Apparently the two weren’t seeing eye to eye on just how Kylie looked the night. He must have been seeing something completely different than the image that Ky had in her mind. That’s exactly why she wanted to go to the bathroom. If she would have had the chance to look in a mirror for just a minute. Not even a minute. More like twenty seconds. Well, if she would have gotten that chance to look in a mirror, Kylie would have known that she didn’t look bad like she though she did. Slowly, she started shaking her head in a negative way. “Oh, no, Luke, you’re wrong. God. Look at all of the other girls around. They all look great and sexy. I don’t.” The self-confidence that Kylie had come to the party with was now almost completely gone for some reason.

“Okay, I’ll stay.” The way that Luke’s slurring of words made the girl smile, so she easily let him pull her back to him, even though she knew that she probably needed to hurry and get back to Antony. Luke wasn’t the only one who liked the way his voice sounded. Ky seemed to fall for any guy who would get drunk and slur his words. A weird turn-on, I know. She also feel for the bad ass type of boys who treated her sweetly. Hah. A bit oxymoronic. She gently reached up to fluff up the curls, hoping that her male friend hadn’t messed them up.

She would be the first one to admit that it was odd for him to be wrapping his arms around her waist, but for some reason Kylie just didn’t care at that moment. Right before their lips touched, and she realized what was going on Ky whispered, “I just need to get back to Antony sometime soon…” Of course her words had been cut off by the sweet kiss that Luke had started. What the hell was she supposed to do now? She was stuck in a lip lock with one of her very best friends? Kylie couldn’t resist him. She was like all of the other girls. There was just something about a sporty guy who was dressed up like a gangster and on drugs that made her heart sink and beat faster. However, she didn’t know he was on drugs, so that didn’t really affect what she tough about him, but she did know that he had been drinking.

There was nothing she could do other than let her tongue slip into his mouth. What!? Ky slipped her tongue into Luke’s mouth!? This wasn’t happening. In the middle of all of this her eyes had slowly shut, but now they popped open. The kiss still didn’t end though. Kylie wasn’t sure what to do or think.

[amanda]

Amanda couldn't deny that they had chemistry, but she gasped when he said that she was going to let one night throw it away. "Are you kidding me? I'm going to throw it all away? You wouldn't have said two fucking words to me had you not seen that I was with Lance" Once again they were fighting, and one again she felt tears coming on, but surpressed them as much as she could. "And ohhh, don't you worry because I am pissed you. I'm pissed that you came here with another girl, the one girl that I told you that I really didn't like you with, but what I say obviously doesn't matter to you does it?" she cleared her throat trying not to break down infront of everybody.

"You wanna know what else I'm mad about? I'm mad that when I looked over you pulled her closer becasue if you were really just "friends" than you never woulda done that unless you were trying to make me jealous and I don't understand why would ever do that. Why would you try to anger me instead of just coming over and fucking talking to me like a civil person, but noo you try to use my best friend" she stopped, "no, let me correct myself, Nikki," signaling that Nikki was no longer her best friend, "to get to me feel bad and to hurt me so...what? I wouldn't be with Lance? The only reason I was with Lance in the first place was so that I didn't have to go and get so piss drunk and slit my wrists or do something stupid like that to forget the sight of you being with my best friend!"

She had to stop and wipe the tears which were streaming down her face away. Taking a deep breathe she continued, he voice much more quiet and controlled this time. "I've already gone through that before" she thought back to her last relationship which was practically the exact same senario. It had been the first, last, and only time that she had ever seriously considered cutting herself. She almost went through with it too, but Luke had walked in and stopped her from making a huge mistake. No, she had never wanted to kill herself, oh god no. She had needed an outlet for the pain, and decided that turning the emotional pain into physical pain was the best route to go. Instead she focused her hate and pain through athletics, making her the great athlete she was.

Connecting her eyes with his, she turned to lie after lie, just to win the supid fight. "Your right. I can't say that you're the only one because you're not, and you've never been. Ever. And maybe it would be best for you to go back to Texas" her voice was strained, she could barely stand to even hear herself say those things knowing that she felt the opposite on the inside, "becuase ever since I met you all I've felt is pain" she took a deep breathe "and it's not worth it"

[faith4]

"I was looking for you once I stepped foot in this house" he said know that she wouldnt believe him, knowing that she wouldnt believe the truth of his words. "And if you want some proof of that you could go ask my sister" he hollared. Joey looked down at the floor, his life was crumbling right in front of him because he made a horrid move and danced with the best friend of the only person her ever loved. As Joey looked up, he decided not to look at Amanda, it would cause him too much pain to do that. So, instead, he looked to his left, and about 5 feet away from him was his siter. She must have heard him hollaring and came to see what was going, he didnt have the heart to face her either.

"Well you know what Amanda, if it really upset you soo much that I was dancing with Nikki, then you would have came over and said something" he said, his voice cracking.

Then Amanda started to cry and talk about almost cutting herself, This was like a stab in the heart to him. He didnt want to hurt her anymore. Even though they were arguing, even though he was upset at the moment, he still loved her, and hurting her was the last thing he wanted to do, making her cry was the last thing that he wanted to do. He deided to be the one to raise the white flag and surrender, surrender from hurting her. He was about to say sorry and wish her a good time, but then she told him that all he caused her was pain and that she wanted him to move back to Texas. He couldnt just walk away now.

"Amanda, remember a few days ago, we were here in your house, arguing over the same exact thing, and I told you that I didnt deserve you and then you told me that I was wrong?" he asked, then took a deep breath. Tears were streaming out of his eyes, but he was looking down, preventing the world from seeing him. "Throughout this whole thing, that was the one time where I was right and you were wrong, because I dont deserve you" he whispered. Now he didnt worry about looking down, it was now easy to tell that tears were comming though his eyes by the sound of his voice. "You deserve a rich guy, a guy that cant breathe without you" he whispered. Though the last part was true with him, he really couldnt breathe without her, he couldnt think about anything but her, he wouldnt admit that. "You deserve way more than a trailor trash Shak because guess what Amanda, thats exactly what I am" he whispered. Then looked at Ashley, he was sorry becaus ehe was now basically saying that his siter was too.

"And if all I truely do is cause you pain, then I think it is best for me to go back to Texas" he whispered. And on that note he turned to leave. He was praying for her to stop him, but in his heart, he knew that the chances were that she would.

Once he got to his sister he stopped, "I'll miss you Ashley, you know that. But I love that girl and it kills me inside to know that I hurt her" he whispered. Then looked back at Amanda. After giving Amanda one last look her turned back to his sister. "Promis me youll write"

[lukesummitt]

Luke just stood their with a sympathetic smile as she complained about how she looked compared to all of the other girls. Sure, there were tons of other goodlooking girls there, but Luke could be with them later, right now he was occupied. He liked the way that she didn't even know how beautiful she actually was, and how she gave into him in stayed. No wonder he couldn't control himself and absolutely had to kiss her.

It wasn't long after their lips first met that she slipped her tounge into his mouth, which was obviously what he was hoping for.He stepped in a little, making it so their bodies were pressed together. Placing his hands on her hips, and they slowly moved up her sides, feeling her soft skin as they moved. It was almost a wonder to him that it was lasting as long as it did. Some small tiny part of him had expected rejection, despite his belief that he could get any girl wanted which so far still reigned true.

His lips continued to kiss her sweetly, but slowly building up aggression and excitement. "Ky" he whispered to her despite their loud surroundings, "you wanna-" his nodded upstairs in the direction of his bedroom, knowing she would understand what meant. He didn't even care of they went into his actual bedroom considering it was pretty far away form where they were. Any room would've been fine, he just wanted to be alone with her. Before she could answer he kissed her again as to not lose the heat of the moment.
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[Oscar Lyon]

Lame, Lame, and Lame... Oscar thought aimlessly as he walked in and out of the over-populated rooms. He was in no hurry to go anywhere or see anything. He hadn't seen Anonty, Kylie, or.... or what? Those were the only two he would be remotely interested in talking to. But, that didn't stop him to look around, looking for the one person he had been eager to see. It was amazing that the one person that treated him the worst, was the one that he wanted the most. He shook his head from his realization of how much sense his logic sounded.

He started to walk by a few jocks dressed as dead football players. Beers in hand and they were seeing just how loud they could howl like a werewolf. Amused, Oscar stood there for a moment and crossed his arms. It seemed as if a few other people turned and started to stare at the jocks making fool of themselves. Nothing like a little humor to the party. After only a few seconds one of them looked and Oscar. 'Oh, shit.' seemed the only phrase that ran through his mind. "What the hell are you looking at?" one of them asked Oscar as all of them turned to face the scrawny, lanky, non-athletic boy. "Your humility level," Oscar started as one of them grunted, "it's a little up here," Oscar said pulling his hand well over his head. The one player slurred a word that Oscar didn't even recognize before he staggered forward. 'Oh, shit.' he thought again as he turned swiftly away and through the crowd of people. He was trying not to cause a scene so he ducked up a staircase.

As if Oscar was from a moive, they ran right by the staircase. Oscar sighed. He wanted to leave. He should just go downstairs and get Antony, they could just ride home together. But, he knew better to just stroll downstairs as if nothing happened. The football players would still be looking for him, or until they passed the bar. But until then, he was left to explore. The halls were quite elegant, kind of what he felt his own home felt like. There were many doors lining the hall, and out of curiousity, Oscar wanted to see what was in them. All of them.

Letting his inner-child loose, he started to open up the doors one bye one. He was nearing the last of the doors, and heard something in one of them. Ah, what the hell? He could always just apologize that he had intruded. What he didn't expect was two figures being behind the door. One he thought was Luke Summit, the other was....Fuck no.

"Kylie? What the hell?" he asked dumbfounded, losing all train of thought, and stood in the doorway, his hands limply at his sides.

[faith4]

"I know that you love 'er but, you know that I need you here!" Ashlkey whinned. Tears running down her face. Joey was the only reason that Ashley wasnt dead by now, if it wasnt for him, that knife wold have cut all the way dow, and she would have been gone.

'Promise me youll write'

"Your gonna leave and you expect me to write you? Fuck you Joesph!" she whispered. And with that she ran off. Ashley had guessed that she was going to cry tonight but she didnt know that her brother was going to be one of the people that was going to make her cry. As she ran she whipped her tears with her hand, making sure that they didnt reach the slashes of black underneither her eyes. She need to talk to someone. Reed.

Why couldnt she get him out of her head. Her cousin was right, she needed to stop centering her life around a boy. It would ruin her in the long run. But then again, he cousin never knew what it wa slike to love somebdy. Then Ashley relised something. She was wrong for treating her brother the way that she just had, because she too knew what lenghts she would go to for a guy, Reed. She knew that if she hurt him enough, she too would end up leaving and going back to Texas. Either that, or she would end up cutting herself like she had just a year ago when he father died. Dammit. Now she regreted her words.

Ashley slowed down, luckly she was at a screen door leading her to a balkeny. She opened the door and stepped outdie. The cold air whipped her. It stung, but she decided to stay, she was telling herself that she deserved the pain that the wind was giving her. Gosh she needed someone to talk to.

[lll]

She had needed a break. Sitting down there with bottled water, sure did give her some stares. She had been sober for almost six months now. Was she going to let that get the best of her for one stupid Halloween party? No. But standing down there with beer getting spashed at her heels and the smell filling her nostrils was like sending a drug addict into a room full of drugs. She needed to get some air, some oxygen.

It wasn't frigid cold, like it probably would have been in Iowa, this time of the year, so her close to nothing costume didn't make her as cold as she thought she was going to be. She had lost Daphne almost right as they entered the house. It was already pretty crowded, so as long as you were able to squeeze in between people to go to the next room, that evidently didn't cross any fire codes. She had seen the blowout of a love triangle. Which consisted of her roommate Nikki, Joey, and Amanda. She had been sitting on a table as she watched it un-fold, and it had been...quite intense, to say the least. She hated seeing couples fight, in life, or on tv. They just didn't know how damn good they had it with another person. For all Amanda knew, Joey could get shot tonight. Even though Binaca naturally disliked Amanda, due to the whole Daphne thing, but Bianca would know exactly who she would feel, and Bianca would feel sorry for her. The lost of a loved one is so difficult, just as her.

A breeze of wind sent goosebumps of Bianca's spine, but not for the reasons one may think. It didn't just feel like the wind. It felt...like a presence. Right across the small of her back and up to her ribs. It felt like a line. Like someone traced it. She brought her arms around her shoulder and sighed. She was imagining it. She had to be. Where was Diem's logic when she needed it?

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"I'm sorry, honey, but he didn't make it."
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She forced her eyes open to see the sky and the city lights. Somethings are better forgotten, she reminded herself. But others should always be remembered. She shook her head and leaned over the balcony's ledge. Then she heard the door open and close and she turned around to see a girl on the verge of tears, if not already crying. "Hi," she said softly. She knew one someone was wasted, but this girl...she look broken.

[Laura Stillings]

Chase laughed as he got pulled over to the table by the gorgeous girl in front of her. He watched her take the shot, "You are correct about the costume, but darling." He added in a joking tone, he slid his arm around her shoulders and looked down at her, "you don't have to get me drunk to have me...I'm cheap." He added with a grin.

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As Chase got pulled over, Laura of course darted away from the table of drinks. She put a hand ontop of the helmet on her head. She took it off for a moment looking around. This had got to be the shortest thing she had ever worn and yet she still felt comfterble. It showed off her great legs and didn't reveal too much. She's feel so naked in the underwear some girls were running around in. She saw Faden and Vanness, Faden as awkward as ever. She smiled as she watched this large dramatic arguement go on. She shook her head as Lance got shoved. She walked over to him as the others continued arguing, "Serves you right you know." Said Laura as the Sexy construcion worker.

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Eric nodded, "She's just...a little..." He said searching for words that might shift the blame for awkwardness off hiself, " Chemically imbalanced." He said quickly. It was the first thing that popped into his head.[/color]

[vanessa]

"Chemically imbalanced?" Vanessa said, though it sounded much like a question. She felt like letting a little laugh come out, but kept it in. "You have to be joking," Vanessa said, while a smile spread on her face. She never heard somebody hat was 'chemically imbalanced', yet it was still possible.

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Nikki looked up as she saw Amanda and Joey fighting. "Maybe I shouldn't have went with him..." She said to herself. Nikki no longer liked Joseph. Not even as a friend. Couldn't he just tell her that he was with Amanda? Couldn't he just ask Amanda out instead? But, no. Instead, he had ruin a friendship that took a long time to built, in thirty seconds.

"It's not worth it..." Nikki said, nearly a whisper. If she had known this was going to happen, she would have never agreed to go to the party. Of course, nobody could see into the future. Nikki's tears had stopped, but they had started to come from her eyes, once more. "This party could not get any worse..." Nikki said, yet the night was not over yet.

[kaydi8]

<sup>Lena grinned at Luke as he took the needle and injected it.

"Now that's a man for you." She stated slyly and took the needle from him. "We'll look forward to it." She spoke in his response. Teddy grinned from his position on the floor and pulled himself up, grabbing his sister's hand.

"I have a feeling he'll be good business." Lena nodded and handed the needle back to Teddy. "What? You don't want to try it? Was it not 'man' enough for you?" He teased, placing it into his bag, zipping it up.

"I'm just good."

"Right."

They began to leave the bathroom, but took a break at the head of the stairs for a hysterical giggling fit, almost collapsing on eachother. "Oh! Dears guests! Free drugs on us!" Teddy yelled happily and dramitically. He was fucked up. And when he was fucked up he was quite charitable.</sup>

[skyehanson]

Lance got up from the ground and noticed Laura. "Deserve it? I wasn't the one who invited her over! She came over of her own free will!" He looked at her in her costume. "And I thought I would never see the day when you, Laura Stillings, would dress like that. That's more of a Skye Hanson costume. Speaking of which, do you know if she is here at the party? She never told me if she was coming or not." Then he looked back at Amanda, standing alone. Joey had ran off. "Excuse me, Laura." He walked over to her. "Amanda, I understand that you probably don't want to hang out anymore here. Even if Joey is kinda... gone. But I'm going to help you find him. You two belong together. No matter how much I..." He cut off what he was going to say and waved it off. "Come on."

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Skye laughed at Chase's comment. Then she took another shot. "Oh, ya? Well I don't come cheap. You need to work for it." She took one last shot and wrapped her arms around his neck. "You want me? Catch me if you can." She whispered these words in his ear, then smiled at him. She was thankful she was wearing high heels. She didn't need to stand on the tips of her toes to kiss him. And so, she kissed him then.

[elliotdavis]

He was standing outside, smoking a cigarette. After drowning a considerable amount of alcohol, he was out there trying to clear his head. Why did he always make himself get to this point? He got so worked up over something that was probably nothing and anyway, shouldn’t he just give up on the whole Nikki thing? It wasn’t working out and Elliot needed to get over it and have a life, talk to some other girls once and a while. Flicking the end of his cigarette, he could feel the alcohol making its way through his body. His head was a little cloudier and mind was telling him not to worry about anything. A big smile came over his face as he watched a couple of jocks stumble across the lawn, fighting over what sounded like some chick. Shaking his head, which only made it spin, Elliot was feeling better now. The alcohol and nicotine seemed to calm him. He was in high school right? Nothing was really that serious. Nikki was just a girl, there would be plenty more to come. Now he just needed someone to replace her with, and stumbled back into the house, that was his mission.

Oh, Elliot.

His mission wasn’t looking like a bad. Girls were everywhere, most of them barely even clothed. Let’s just say the view was getting better and better. Now to find someone he even had a chance with, not necessarily hard as his standards were pretty low and there was bound to be someone drunk enough to not care. His eyes scanned the area, grabbing a Dixie cup and filling it from a keg. Eww, keg beer had to be the worst, but Elliot could care less, he was filled with alcohol and happy, or at least his drunken state was leading him to believe he was happy. Then he saw Nikki and it looked like she was crying.

“Nik?” he called, his voice a little loud and obnoxious, as he walked towards her. “What’s wrong?” His voice was serious, even though it was becoming harder and harder to remain that way. All of sudden he felt like laughing. The guy she was with had left her probably, and now Elliot might have a chance. A big smile came over his face, even though he knew Nikki probably wouldn’t appreciate it. “What’s wrong?” he repeated again, his alcohol-free hand reaching and putting his hand on her shoulder.

[faith4]

Ashley jumped. She wasnt expecting someone to come outside with her. After all, it was freezing cold and just about everyone was wearing basically nothing, she expected, that if the two were to stay out here for more than an hour, they would get frostbite. But to tell the truth, frostbite sounded good right about now.

"Hi" she whispered. Ashley turned around to face the other girl. As she did she gentally whipped her eyes, they were already rather red and erritated. "Thanks" she said, looking down. She knew that the other girl wouldnt know why she was thanking her, so Ashley decided on just comming out and telling her. "I really needed somebody to come out and talk to me..." she said, he words trailing off, "My brother might be leaving, and I really need him here." she told herself. She was pretty sure that Bianca could hear her though.

Ashley waited until Bianca came over to the railing. As soon as she did, Ashlely began to speak again.

"You wanna know somethin" she whispered. "There is only one lonely star out in the sky right now" she said with a little giggle. "I dont know, but ever since I was younger I always found that amazing when that happened, ya know?" Ashley laughed at herself. "I am such a dork" she whispered.

[COmplete Crap! >.<]

[Min-Sook Park]

Nikki tried to stop thinking about Amanda. She didn't want to think about Joseph either. At this moment, Nikki didn't care if he went to Texas. It wouldn't really affect her life. If Joseph stayed her, Nikki decided that she would never talk to him again. She held in her tears. She didn't want anyone to see her like this, but everyone probably did.

A sigh escaped her lips as her tears started to stop. Nikki looked up when she heard a voice. SHe was relieved to see Elliot, but even more confused. "Nothing..." Nikki said, not wanting to tell him. She looked up, once more, to see him smiling. "What's so funny?" Nikki asked, unaware of why he was in such a happy mood. Nikki was a little annoyed, but kept it all inside.