To lose control

by: inspiredisia

5

“Hey, gorgeous” Warren called to a brunette wearing a worn down jeans and a “Your boyfriend says it’s over” t-shirt. She smiled at him and as soon as she was close enough jumped on him. The legend “because of me” stood out in the back of the shirt. But it was soon lost as he covered it with his arms as he kissed her.

“Hey” she finally said back after their kissing tradition. She got down on the floor again and he turned to address the other guys he was with. They had for a small while gaped at the girl and later stopped staring. She settled the hair that he had mysteriously messed up and smiled radiantly at the group, trying to recognize someone. Some looked away, some stared at her breasts, a few were blushing and one was whistling.

“So this is the famous Alice” he said. “Walt” he introduced himself.

“Walt here has been my friend since we were babies,” Warren filled in. “He just broke up with his girl.”

“Sucks” Alice commented, he shrugged.

“Better off without her, the way Courtney was getting round” he said. Alice made an odd expression and that decided it was better to say nothing else. She decided on the other hand to smile at her boyfriend.

“Oh, yeah” he said suddenly. “Phillip, Ogie, Dan, Sven and Lip” he said as each of them gave a small wave from a distance. “The regular crew bailed” he told her, she had pulled a chair from the table behind and sat herself besides Warren, seeing that everybody was still busy to do so.

“Lip?” she asked. A blonde guy sitting on the left of Walt nodded. “Just lip?” she was still not following.

“Yeah, after I got my slight hare lip fixed” he said. “My real name’s Samuel” he said.

“Awesome, and was the operation very complicated? Was the recovery extensive?” she asked, realizing the first question was a bit inadequate.

“Um, I don’t know” he said.

“Hell yeah the recovery was long! You were gone for almost two months!” Sven said.

“Actually, if I remember correctly, it was the preparations that were longer” he told her. She paid attention at his answer. However, the glittering curiosity in her eyes faded, realizing that she had probably interrupted their prior conversation so she settled for staying quiet.

“So,” Ogie started again. Some people looked a bit uncomfortable.

“Don’t mind me” Alice said, ignoring what they were talking about.

“Where do we meet afterwards?” Sven asked with a cryptic tone.

“DownTurf?” Lip suggested.

“Too close” Ogie responded.

“Pussy Haven?” Dan asked. Two eyes immediately gestured towards Alice.

“I love that place!” Alice said, “Are we going there?” she asked them, in an attempt to break the ice with the other guys, Warren pulled her hand towards his leg when she said that. She pretended nothing had changed, but squeezed his thigh just a bit.

“Still close, we have to go very far out” Warren asked. “No, where can you think of that’s pretty far away?” he asked her.

“Well, if you’re up for a long drive, how about Paet Hills? There’s a couple of bars in that small town to go to” she told them. Some of them nodded, others didn’t sound so convinced.

“Excellent!” Walt said, “That’s impossible to locate” he told them.

“Yeah” Sven agreed, Ogie and Phillip didn’t seem to convinced, not up for the drive actually.

“Is it final then?” Warren asked. A fire glistened in his deep dark eyes, Alice suspected that this prank was gonna be pretty serious.

“May I ask what you guys are doing?” again awkward. They avoided looking at each other in the eye, except Sven, Lip and Warren that were trying to agree on something. Alice pretended to be interested in something in her purse as she saw them try to understand each other.

“Can I tell her? She’s cool, she’s not gonna blow it or anything of the sort” Warren asked. Sven and Lip were both about to agree, but Phillip beat them.

“Sure, but if she gets cold feet we’re leaving her behind” he said. Alice watched his lanky figure for a few seconds, taking in his cold gaze from his grey eyes. She immediately distrusted him, feeling something about the way he said it say even more about his dislike towards her. Instinctively, Alice knew that something was going to go wrong.

“She won’t” Warren assured him. He grabbed her hand protectively, secretly telling her that he wouldn’t leave her behind.

“You’re all being so mysterious, it’s getting on my nerves!” she exclaimed. “I’m sorry, but I am too damn curious for my own good” she said a bit less loudly.

“We’re gonna plant a prank bomb, it’s not a real bomb, it’ll sounds and looks like one but it won’t actually damage the place or anything. The stuff will just go up in smoke” Warren told her.

“Interesting, and who created this device?” she asked.

“Sven’s the brains behind all this” Warren told her. “He did the schematics and designed it too look exactly like dynamite. He’s majoring in electrical engineering and this thing simply does a short circuit after a few minutes after shaking it and releases this odorless, nontoxic gas that Phillip manufactured in his chemistry lab and stashed. As for the coming together, that’s all Walt” he informed, each of them nodding when they said what they did.

“And everybody else?” she asked.

“I disguised the device” Phillip said,

“It doesn’t look like a bomb, the cylindrical thing that I madeI fitted perfectly into a slurpie look like plastic, transparent and filled with a mixture of hair gel, colorant and something for the necessary consistency needed.” Sven carried on. Alice felt a good vibe from him, for some reason she liked that he was at least talking to her. Most of them were still ogling her, like Phillip, but that guy was simply creepy. She was intrigued by this plan.

“Am I looking at it?” she suddenly realized a half drunk slurpie was in front of her.

“Nope,” Walt said. “That’s my decoy” he said proudly, Alice smiled.

“Interesting.” She said. “Why hadn’t you told me before?” she nudged Warren.

“Hey, they called me today, I just found out as well” he said truthfully. “I’m lucky I ran into Walt coming back from my physical test.” They really had done everything together: they lived together in Portland for all their lives until they both moved to this small city for college, one to be a sports trainer and another one to be forensic scientist.

“Sweet!” she exclaimed. “And about how much smoke will go up?” she wondered.

“Oh, that’s the amazing thing” Sven said. “You see, this special gas not only turns from liquid but from solid so the expansion is much more, but the thermal ambience inside the slurpie will also spread allowing for it to keep growing even more.” Her eyes were glittering with curiosity all over again. “It will get very hot in the mall, if you get what I mean” he concluded. She laughed.

“This sounds so cool! Thanks for the invite, hey, this really is amazing” she said coolly.

“We didn’t actually invite you” Phillip stated crossly.

“Maybe you could chill, dude” Ogie told him. Alice noticed something more than those words cross between them with the look that he was giving Phillip. She watched Ogie, he seemed quite all right, nothing too weird. Though, she would have preferred that Warren had said it.

“Oh,” Alice suddenly said. “I’m outta gum, I’m gonna go buy some more a sec at the pharmacy I just passed.” She said looking a bit disappointed.

“I’ll come with you, Allie” Warren offered, she smiled as he placed his hand on her hip when he stood up with her. “We’ll be right back” he told them. After four steps she leaned on his shoulder again.

“Look at that ass…” Walt said to no one specific, but they all nodded in agreement. Alice turned her head. She winked at them and then stood up straight again. Warren tried to pull her back in, but she was strong enough to not fall into him whenever he wanted to. She then giggled to him.

“Not strong enough, sugah” she told him. She then placed her off the shoulder bag behind herself, hoping everyone else had stopped staring.

“That’s what I want you to think” he answered and kissed her briefly again, hoping that the guys hadn´t been watching the two.

“Right” she said, she knew she had strong arms. They walked into the pharmacy and she went right to the clerk, a girl about her age with black and lilac hair. She had strong brown eyes curiously glancing between her boyfriend and her.

“Hello” she started off kindly. “Um, may I please have a bottle of water and some gum?” she asked. Warren had laid at the front and was viewing some items that Alice didn’t recognize from where she stood.

“What kinda gum?”She cashier said boringly as she placed the bottle of water on the counter.

“Trident, please” she said again. “Mint flavored” she added as she saw her options. She looked at Warren again, biting her bottom lip without noticing doing so. She looked him up once more, she loved his broad back.

“Six forty” she told her. Alice rummaged through her bag and produced a ten bill. “Hurry please” she murmured to her. The cashier lifted her eyes to Alice’s puzzled face and then to Warren at the end when Alice moved her eyes towards him. “Right”

“Three seventy is your change” she pushed the money on her hand “Thank you for your purchase” she told her mechanically. Just then Warren came from behind and encircled Alice. She fussed a bit, but let him hold her. She smiled at the cashier before turning to him with a piece of gum in her mouth.

“Want some?” she asked producing the pack in front of him.

“No…” he said, she smiled and continued with him.

So... this is still on introductions, but next chapter will be longer and more interesting. Review please!