Me and Dani walked through the crowded corridor of this shitty college before finally having enough space.
Then Jess and Aimes caught up with us. Dani told them the "great" news about my new job.
Jess and Aimes jumped in excitement and hugged me. Jess said, "Wow, perfect timing with Harry and Billy coming around."
Just then Becky caught up with us, and then Aimes told her the news. Becky beamed at me, then fiddled with her bag. "Congratulations babes, Here's my last milkshake, the only thing I've got as a gift. I can't have a shot with you to celebrate tonight. Sorry, I can't make it. I told Dani before."
Jess didn't seem to mind. "Don't worry girl, there's plenty of other nights", Jess then turned to me and said, "Hey Lozza, drink some on the way to mine, and then you can add some vodka to it once we're at my place."
I took the milkshake from Becky with a smile. "Thanks Becky," I said. I instantly took a mouthful. She really does make great milkshakes. I suppose I should be thankful she gave me all these milkshakes for nothing, and all she asked for was for me to return her the empty bottles. But I just think of how vulgar she is whenever I think of being thankful to her, vulgar, bossy, and skanky, probably the first words I think of with her. It will be a relief to be away from her tonight because she tries to boss me about like she does with the others.
The worst thing is that she's succeeding, I keep letting her; I'm acting all docile. When she tells me to jump, I do just that. Like this morning, I dropped my towel and let her see me naked!. I should have demanded that she leave. In fact, I should have taken my change of clothes into the bathroom like I always do.
Becky then asks if Aimes is heading home to get changed because of the "stupid pen" (the pen had leaked all over her in her last class and she hadn't noticed, so it covered her shirt quite badly).
Aimes nods and looks slightly annoyed. "Yeah, the absolute state of me, stupid fucking pen."
Becky jokes to Aimes that she better not come out wearing her whole wardrobe, and they all start laughing. I didn't understand the joke at all; it made no sense. It doesn't surprise me that they all laughed though, as Becky was their little leader, so they were just happy to laugh along like idiots.
Becky said her goodbyes as we headed the other way. I expected her to say what she was doing tonight, but she didn't. At least she wasn't around anyway. Aimes walked with us for a bit, but then she was ready to turn off to her home to change. Jess asked if she wanted anything particular from the shop. As they discussed what drinks to get, Jess asked me the same question, and with the amount I knew they were going to buy, which was practically every drink possible already, I didn't need any extra, I knew I was going to be starting with vodka after what Jess said earlier, so I just said no, not really.
Aimes jumped in with, "Try and stay with us tonight, Lozza; no passing out and snoring your head off again," she added with a laugh.
Only Becky had mentioned snoring earlier; it was the first time someone else had brought it up today. I thought Becky had just been teasing me. "I don't...I don't actually snore," I tried to claim, feeling a flush of embarrassment creep up my cheeks.
Jess laughed. "Yeah, guessing your ex never slept over or didn't mention it to you, your snoring sounded like a bear with a cold!"
Aimes grinned, nodding in agreement. "You snore worse than my dad."
Dani looked puzzled. "You don't know your dad."
Aimes then delivered the punchline, "Exactly if he snored as loud as Lozza, I would have found him." They all burst out laughing, and even I had to bear a gritted grin. I was now getting mocked by a girl whose dad didn't think she was worth sticking around for.
My anger settled when Jess tried to be reassuring. "Don't worry about it, Lozza. Maybe it's only when you've been drinking, who knows."
We went to the store and brought back so many drinks. This time we brought a lot of red bull to keep me awake, which was Jess's idea.
Dani asked me my sizes so Harry knew what uniform to bring around, which made me cringe again at the image of me wearing it. Dani sent the details to Harry, and we made it back to Jess's flat, which was very cluttered and small--just a little living room with two couches squeezed in, a tiny kitchen that was in an open plan, which was part of the living room. It featured a table with six chairs, it looked oversized for this place; Jess said it was a gift from her mum, a small dingy bathroom that looked like it needed a good clean, and a very messy bedroom. Jess had given me a tour, like she was proud, and I pretended to be impressed.
Me and Dani went in the living room, and Jess poured some vodka into my milkshake--a large amount, as I had already drunk quite a bit of the milkshake on the walk and Jess had filled it right up. She passed a cider to Dani and then poured three tequila shots and said, "Right, we've got to have a shot for Lozza's new job."
We clinked the glasses and necked them, my throat burning. Jess walked off towards her bedroom, announcing, "Just going to throw on shorts and a top."
Aimes rang the bell to be buzzed up and she walked in with two guys who turned out to be Billy who was skinny, ugly looking and ginger, wearing a tracksuit and turns out he was also in our college but I hadn't seen him yet, he was behind a year so I'm guessing an idiot aswell, with him was Harry he was better looking than Billy but that's not saying much, he had a little bit of a gut on him which you would think with a bit of working out or right diet, he could lose it, he was clad in his manager McDonald's uniform, he had my uniform with him, he placed it by the door, I thanked him for the job and uniform through gritted teeth, Harry was 21 and was friends with Billy from playing sports together as kids, Billy knew Becky's group from school days and Harry had met the girls after working with Dani.