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The party before nationals.
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“Misty..?” The view of the short curly head was a little blurry. I turned my so-called “friends”.
“Do you fucking see her! WHO INVITED HER?” The tall black headed boy tapped Natalie’s shoulder and started talking “w-who.?” Kevyn said, stuttering out the sentence “you know, my stupid soccer team, equipment manager.
“Natalie there is no one there, and plus we’re also fucking weirdos? I don’t even know a molly.” Taking sips of alcohol, every time he was talking that you could barely
understand what he was saying. Natalie just rolls her eyes and leaves him and cash alone and she starts walking closer to the bright blonde her vision was getting worse WHAT. THE. FUCK.
“What’s happening” she mumbles out no one hears her, her vision got worse every step she took. It went fully black, her last sentence was “
Misty.”
MISTY.
MISTY?
MISTY!
minutes before fainting
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Natalie took the pill cash gave her, she stared at their faces, and the faces started to warp, then she started slightly turning her head around, then she saw their team's equipment manager, she started to speak “
Misty...?” Misty looked like she was getting blurrier the more Natalie started to squint, then she turned her head to Kevyn and cash again.
“Do you guys fucking see her! WHO INVITED HER?” she started to choke on her own words then realizing that came off harsher than she wanted to,
Natalie started to feel someone's hand hovering over her shoulder then someone placed it down on her shoulder, she turned around, and it was Kevyn it started to calmed her down, but still feeling a bit off about his hand on her shoulder, she let out a deep sigh, then looking down and grabbed a red solo cup and poured some 'fruit punch' in the cup
”w-who?-” Kevyn started to talk, he was stuttering on the
'who' but Natalie didn’t want to mention it to him, but cut him off before he could continue his sentence and she started to speak and said
“you know, my stupid soccer's team, equipment manager.“ she groaned at what she said, instantly regretting what she just said. Kevyn was about to speak back at Natalie, but Natalie was already facing Misty's way.
“Natalie there's no one there, and I don't know your equipment manager, we never go to any of your games, or practices, so no I don’t know a molly.” She wanted to speak up and say her name is MISTY, but she couldn’t be bothered to face the embarrassment of correcting him and he most likely misheard her name,
and she was already wasted as fuck, so she did a quick response of rolling her own eyes, but her eyes started to water so she immediately stopped, then she started walking to the short curly blonde, she started to hear muffled whispers every step she started to take, her vision started to get horrible, the worse her vision started to get the less she could walk, then she was stumbling on every steps she did, her eyes started to harden then finally her eyes started to get black with every blink were, she couldn't feel her own body weight, then she spoke
"What's happening? What the hell are you doing." She started to mumble her voice was getting softer than it usually is, she turned around and then she saw misty smiling right at her, the smile was creepy it felt off, it didn't feel real, a million of thoughts started to come to her mind, but the only one thought was loud and clear. MISTY YOU’RE A FUCKING CRAZY BITCH. Her mouth started to open, and a slight and quiet
“Misty." came out of her mouth.
Then a strong thud hit the floor.
1:30 am
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Van started looking around the park, on the corner of her eye, she started to see Natalie walking to a bunch of trees, she didn't think anything of it, most likely throwing up something she took, or the mixture of a drug and some alcohol she brought, or maybe the mixture of fruit punch, and some old vodka from someone's shitty alcohol cabinet that their parents own, she looked back at her empty cup, then looking at Taissa for a long second, then looking back at the corner of her eye, she saw Natalie's body on the floor, she started to think
'Holy Shit!', she thought to herself, she dropped the cup on the table, or maybe the floor, and then started to walk to Natalie's unresponsive body, because her pieces of shit friends couldn't care to help her. She finally made the long ass walk to Natalie's body and started at her for a bit, then bend down and started to poke her to see if she's okay, she clearly wasn't she lifted up Natalie, Natalie is way lighter than how she looks, she whispered in her ear and said
"What the fuck Nat, what did you take.". Natalie's friends stopped their what seems like a conversation to look at Van carrying Natalie's body (or trying too) but then going back to their talk.
She brought Nat's lifeless body back where, her and Taissa, and the rest of the team, all the girls looked shocked on what happened on her passed out body everyone except Jackie and Taissa, everyone knew Jackie hated Natalie, and Natalie kind of hates her too, and Taissa just looked pissed at Natalie. Van started to bend down to place Natalie, on the hard floor, and not trying to hurt her.
"Hi, I saw Natalie, over there and her stupid friends didn't notice or care what happened to her, so I just brought her here.
jackie started to say "Are we surprised? I mean she goes full on druggie whenever she comes to these parties, it's about time she passed out, AND IT DOESN'T MAKE IT BETTER THAT WE HAVE TO GO TO NATIONALS TOMORROW!" Jackie's voice started to raise at the end, and everyone started looked at Jackie, it looked like they wanted to agree but she was way too harsh on her, Jackie is usually nice to everyone, everyone except Natalie,
Lottie spoke up "Give her some slack, Jackie. You don't need to go full on captain on her, she probably mixed something that affected her immune system or something I don't fucking know."
Jackie said, "Whatever, I'm not a part of this." She started to walk away, and Shauna followed her quickly behind her.
Everyone stared at each other for a while until Taissa spoke up from the silence
"I can take her, back to my house, my parents won't be home until 8 in morning, hopefully she up before that."
voice sounded cold, but sincere, everyone nodded and left it at that. The rest of the team started to walk away from Taissa, Van, and Natalie's body on the ground, Van went down to lift up Natalie's body, but with the help of Taissa bringing her to Taissa's car. They slowly entered Taissa's house, and then placed Natalie on a couch near the entrance of the house,
"Okaayy, so what are we going to do? I mean we can't just leave her on your couch, what if your parents see her? " Van stretched out the 'okay' making her sound nervous, Taissa disagreed and started to talk
"She'll be fine, like I said my parents won't be here for a while." Van looked at Natalie's pass out-self, looking a bit worried, but nodded. Van opened her mouth, and said
"well, I have to go, I got to do stuff at home, before my mom wakes up." Taissa looked at her, and she didn't want to make her walk alone in the dark, so she gave her a look, that only Van would understand from. So, Taissa just drove her home.
Taissa made it home, late, but she was home, and Natalie's body was still unconscious, Taissa was watching her, but eventually falling asleep, the clock hits 6:30 and Natalie finally wakes up, she started moving, she got up slowly, and start to sit on the couch, she looked at the floor and Taissa was sleeping on the floor, Natalie was confused on why she was at Taissa's house,
"What the hell? Taissa, why am I at your house?" Natalie's head was pounding she usually doesn't get hungover, but her head hurts as hell, she couldn't focus and she feels gross. Taissa finally wakes up, but she looks tired but she tries to wake up, her eyes flutter every-time she rubs her eyes while trying to get up, Taissa's mouth opens and said
"Hey, Natalie, Your finally up, you passed out at the party yesterday and me and van brought you here so you don't die." Taissa fake laughs at what she says, then continues what she was saying
"Sorry, but you can't stay any longer, my parents will be here in 2 hours they can't see you." Natalie straightens her back before getting up to leave Taissa's house, Taissa waved at her goodbye, and Natalie gave her a small head nod, she left her teammates house, the sun was barley rising, but it was bright enough to find her way home, It was a long way home Taissa lived in a more fancier neighborhood then where Natalie lives.
She finally made it home, it was pretty late, they have to be at the school at 9, and its 7:45, her mom was asleep on the dining rooms table with an open bottle of pills right next to her, she ignored her and went inside of the bathroom to take a shower, She was covered in cold sweat since she woke up, and
her eyeliner is fully smudged all around her face, she removed her makeup and stepped inside of the shower. She got out, water was dripping all over her body, she dried herself up and re did her makeup, and packed her makeup in her packed up bag for nationals, she grabbed her bag and, started walking to the school, she barley arrived on time, she got on the bus and she could feel all eyes on her, and they followed her until she finally sat, everyone stared at her except Misty.
on the plane
Natalie got on the plane Lottie's dad rented out for the soccer team, she got in slowly, she has never been on a plane, her family could never afford to go on vacations, and it made it worse when her dad died, All the seats looked empty, She was walking to back to sit, because Lottie was already sitting with Laura Lee, Then Natalie saw Misty while walking to the back, she walked up to her and said in a harsh tone "
I have shit to deal with you Misty." Natalie quickly regretted what she said when she saw Misty's confused look, but Natalie thinks Misty is bullshitting her cause she swore she saw her at the party looking all creepy, then Natalie started walking away way to quick, cause she could feel her cheeks warm up to a shade red.
Misty replied back at Natalie but in a sweeter tone than she was and also being way too confused, and nervous then a quiet
"What? Nat-Natalie What did I do?" Came out of her mouth and not being sure if she could call her 'Nat', but Natalie wouldn't be able to hear what Misty was saying anyways because she was already gone, when Misty was about to finish her sentence.
Misty sighed thinking it could be some stupid joke one of the girls on the team made Natalie do, even though it was unexpected for her to do, Natalie is usually one of the nicest girls on the team, well her and Jackie they never gave Misty shit for just being herself. She let it cool off and ignored what just happened. She groaned and thought to herself that this would be the longest 8-hour flight, even though misty is trying to play it off, she could feel like someone was watching her, but she didn't want to look behind her.
Everybody was still getting on the plane, Coach Martinez brought both of his sons to this flight Which was none of Misty's concern but she thought it was weird, but Coach Scott has been saying he’s been going through family problems,
Then she placed her eyes on Travis, she thought to herself thinking they are very alike, Travis wasn't very liked at school and neither was her, she was always the freak never invited to any of the group meetings, group hangouts, parties, basically anything you could name it, Misty stops letting her thoughts control her and stops thinking about Travis eventually, She's never liked plane rides, In-fact she hated them, She rather choose car rides over then plane rides.
Natalie kept looking at the back of Misty head, waiting to see if she would turn around but that time waiting never came, Natalie doesn't hate Misty, but she finds her very oddly pleasing, too look at, she always wears a horrible looking cat sweater and light washed up jeans, it makes her laugh at the thought of, knowing,
she saw her wear that not too long ago entering the plane, Natalie stops the thought soon after, remembering on what she said to Misty, and her looking very confused, she knows she wasn't at the party, she doesn't know why she said that to her, she felt the guilt eating her up already and she feels like she would die before the plane even landed in Seattle, she puts both of her hands in her leather jacket, to feel comfort, and calm her down but she found something else, there was a box shaped feel,
she knew a box of cigarettes would be in one of her many fake leather jackets, she didn't pull out the box knowing she could get in trouble by anyone who sees her, so instead she pulled out her hand and putting both of her hands back onto her lap, Natalie was thankful she at least had a box of cigarettes to keep her company for at least the entire trip. She laid back her head onto the top of her seat and tried to fall asleep knowing she was passed out the entire early day.
They finally landed in an airport near Seattle, the drive to Seattle felt very long but they finally made it to the fancy hotel Lottie’s dad payed for the team.
The girls started talking and huddling around who they wanted to roommate with for the away game but before anyone could say anything, Coach Scott opened his mouth and said that he made a list on which girl will roommate with who.
It felt unfair to Natalie, she knows most of the team doesn't like her, so she usually chooses Van or Lottie picked their roommates, he opened his mouth again and started going off a list, he dropped girls names left and right, some girls were excited some weren't, Like Taissa got Laura lee Which was horrible choice then it finally came her turn and his mouth opened and said
"Natalie Scatorccio and..... Misty Quigley!!"
Coach handed both of the girls a small key card, then shortly after a few of the girls started to laugh; Natalie wasn't sure if they were laughing at the grouping choices or laughing at something funny. She turned her head to the laughing girls and they stopped. She would usually defend Misty Quigley, but she kind of feels embarrassed on what happened on the plane then she spoke up in a harsh tone which was intentional
“Are you serious? I don't want to share a room with her!” Fuck that was all she was thinking about that came out meaner than she intended it to be then before she could clear up what just happened, Misty ran out crying. Then only one word was in her head right again it was
.Fuck. Natalie wished that didn't just happen, and hoping it was a dream so she could forget about it, but it wasn't she messed up on her words, and this was real. Misty was out of the hallway, she wasn't nowhere near in sight
Misty had an adrenaline rush pop out of her went through her bones and veins when she heard coach Scott said that, a roommate would be chosen instead of picking their own roommate, she never got to choose, a roommate no one would really want to share their space with misty, while she was waiting for her roommate to be called out, she looked at Natalie, Misty observed her and started to read her,
she looked nervous as well. Then Coach Scott spoke out Misty’s roommate and it was Natalie Scatorccio, before she could walk up to her, Natalie started speaking, Misty heard every word, she was used to girls on the team disliking her,
but when Natalie said that out loud, she felt like she should change herself and her ways and she felt gross, her face started to feel hot like it was starting to burn up slowly, then her face turned wet, tears started to fall slowly, and she ran out before anyone could see her face, Sometimes she wishes she could be a different person than who she is right now.
Natalie, always had a habit on saying wrong things it wasn't new, she’d always push it aside and ignore what she said, but right now she felt horrible and wanted to make up on what she said, everyone was already gone before Misty left the hallway crying, they were the second to last name to be called, She started walking around the first floor of the hotel, the hotel was nice but very small, smaller than other hotels they usually stayed in, when they had away games but she couldn't complain, Natalie is very grateful to be able to experience and nice hotel when she usually couldn't leave the state due financial struggles.
She went almost around the entire first floor being confused on how she was able to get so far in a short time, but she opened her room door, And found misty in one of the many bathrooms in the first floor, Misty was crying over a sink, then turned her head of Natalie's footsteps and started to quickly wipe away her tears. Misty opened her mouth then closing it, leaving both of the girls in silence for a while until, Natalie got the courage to apologize to Misty, and saying how shitty she's been acting to misty, on the plane and what she said about not rooming with her.
“Hey, Misty. I’m sorry on what I said right before you stormed off, and what I also said while boarding on the plane ride here.” Natalie realizes how bad of an apology that was, after she said it, but before Natalie could keep on talking Misty smiles at Natalie, and opened her mouth
“Thank you, I appreciate it, I really never get apologies from anyone, but I have a question. Why’d you say you have shit to deal with me when we’ve never had a conversation longer than 2 seconds.”
Natalie reddens when she hears the end of Misty’s sentence, then she laughs awkwardly. “it's stupid, like really stupid I should've never have said that, but I said that because I took, a strong pill that made me hallucinate you at the party, and I fainted thinking it was your fault.”
Misty laughs at the thing Natalie said. “Well, it's good we made up, we should head out and start heading to our room and grab our things from the hallway, it's most likely still there.” Natalie smiled and nodded, and they started to walk to the hallway.