Drunk with a pinch of arrogance

The next couple of hours, I continued going back to the keg to refill, drink after drink until the sun slowly began to go down. During that time, more and more people from school began to arrive at the beach.

I wasn't happy to see guys like Henry Foley and Sam Hanks rock up, coming in with another big keg. But at least it wasn't just them, other girls started to show up too, even the other popular group that my Saturday Night Five girls hated.

It eventually felt like the entire school was here now.

Drunk, i wobbled my way back over to the keg for another drink. I hadn't been drunk that many times to know my limit but I was probably quickly approaching it.

I have never consumed this much before and I was acting like a totally different person. Although, I would only find out most of this the following morning because my memory was quickly affected by the **** running through my veins.

I spilled beer all over the place as I filled up my cup. As I turned around, my blurry vision steadied to see Annie standing in front of me. She had her short shorts back on now but was still topless above the the waist except for her red bikini top.

"Leo?" she spoke softly, despite the heavy bass of the music from the portable speakers that someone had brought down here.

"Yeah?" I said blankly.

I must have been wobbling on the spot because she looked concerned that I was going to fall over in front of her. She hesitantly reached forward with a hand when I leaned towards one side. As I moved back the other way, she pulled back, still unsure on my balance.

"I think you've had enough tonight," I heard her say.

On reflection, of course she was just looking out for me. But I was about to learn that you make big mistakes when you're drunk. Already in a bad mood with Annie, I was about to make matters worse, "I'm not a fucking child Annie."

She had an offended open mouthed look on her face.

The blonde shook her head at me, crossing her arms, "All I'm doing is trying to look out for you."

"Whatever... don't need it," I muttered, burping half way through my sentence.

She spun around 180 degrees, swishing her hair around at me as she did so. I know my attitude now was poor but at the time, I didn't give a single hoot if I had offended her.

But it wasn't long until Annie was getting one back up on me, clearly flirting with Henry Foley who had his abs out on display with his buttoned up shirt compleltey unbuttoned with the sleeves rolled on to his elbows. Seeing this was just going to lead me into making myself an even bigger fool tonight.

I kept on drinking and hit the dance floor (which was just one part of the open beach that was near the speakers). Annie may not have appreciated my drunk behaviour tonight but guys like Declan did, having fun with me now that I was wasted.

"Hawkins you animal! Get over here!"

He was laughing his ass off, Tayla also by his side, giggling at me as I came dancing over. At some point of the night I had stolen somebody's sunglasses and now had a ridiculous looking broad brim hat on the top of my head, loosely.

"You are one loose unit man," Declan said, still laughing at me.

Along with Tayla, he was with a couple of his other friends, Scotty Reid and Ryan Tanner. Scotty was just a skinny shorter version of Declan with similar blonde hair, I didn't know a whole lot about him personally. Tanner I knew a little bit more, he was one of the jocks bragging about what he had done with Katie.

The brown haired boy was also probably a liar considering I now knew that guys had lied about what they had done with Katie before.

"You were getting a bit too close to Bella out there though," Tayla told me.

"Who?"

"Bella. Bella Thornton. We saw you dancing out there with her, god hope Rose didn't see that or she'd have your neck for it."

I was too drunk that I didn't even really consider what I had been doing or who I had been around.

"He couldn't get with Bella if he tried," Ryan Tanner sniggered.

Smugly and maybe stupidly, I wasn't going to take that sort of comment tonight.

I looked him in the eyes, behind these sunnies of course, "At least I've danced with a girl tonight, haven't seen you leave Declan's sight all night… have some news for you, he’s already taken,"

Declan burst out laughing again, "You've been fucking told Tanner!"

The blonde gave his mate a nice big push, that Ryan didn't appreciate. Nor did he like the rest of the group also laughing at him.

"Oh fuck you all," he said, tossing his plastic cup away as he walked off to find others to speak to.

Scotty Reid who was standing on my right, leaned his arm up against the top of my shoulder, "You know she keeps looking this way dude..." he whispered to me, "Isn't that right Walker?"

"Oh she's looking alright," Declan added in, "She's got that hungry look on her face."

Tayla rolled her eyes at the boys, "I need to go pee, you boys better look after him," she then pointed at me, "And you, don't listen to them about Bella, she… is just not a very good person."

As the brunette then skipped off in the direction of the bushes on the edge of the beach, the two guys continued hyping me up and my chances with Bella.

"Don't listen to Tay," Declan told me, "They just hate her, Becca and the rest of the crew because they're actually just as hot as them. Like I said earlier, girls are stupid and petty."

"They're only good for a couple of things," Scotty added, winking at Declan.

I don't know how much of this was sinking in at the time. The night was a hazy memory at best. But I was being sucked in to everything these boys would tell me. I was horny and Annie was off with Henry Foley, I hadn't seen Katie, Milly or Rose in over an hour and they were really starting to make me believe I had a chance with Bella Thornton.

"If there's someone who could rival Rose in giving a fucking elite BJ then it is 100% Bella!" Declan repeated, "You ever had one before?"

I shook my head, that actually being the truth.

"Then it's time you go and get one," Scotty said.

"You really think so..." I mumbled.

The bigger blonde jock grabbed my cup off me and pulled out a flask from his jacket pocket. He emptied the remains of what was inside into my cup, "Here, finish the rest of this and you'll be fine."

They cheered me on as I downed the remains of the straight vodka. But it was a rubbish skull, a lot of it missing my mouth.

"Go on then!" they shooed me off back in the direction of the dance floor.