Finding My Way by Megan Keith

home?”
    “Well
duh Ethan!”   I say sarcastically, trying to calm myself from the
near heart attack he just gave me.
    “Catch ya ,” he says with a smirk and starts to walk off.
    “Hey Ethan,” he stops
and turns back to me.   “How’s Jake? 
I heard that Kelly dumped him.”
    “He’s cool.  Already looking for the next one.”   Yep
just as I thought.

 
Seth
     
    The usual amount of
racket is coming from the lounge room when I enter the house.  I head
straight over to Max in the lounge room and hand him a set of headphones. 
I made two stops on the way home.  One to make the purchase for Max to save
my sanity, and the second stop was for some Chinese takeaway dinner.  When
Max doesn’t even turn his head I nudge his shoulder.
    “Please put these
on,” I plead when he looks at me.
    “Oh okay, thanks,” he
mutters and then looks away and back to the screen.  He doesn’t look like
he is going to make a move anytime soon.
    “Now
man!”   I yell in his ear making him jump.
    I grab some cutlery
and a bottle of water from the kitchen and head to my room.  I note that
Max is opening the packaging of the headphones as I pass the lounge which makes
me grin.  Passing Kevin’s room I find that it’s empty, again . 
I put the TV on in my bedroom and breathe a sigh of relief when the lounge
suddenly goes quiet.
    Tucking in to my beef
black bean and rice my thoughts return to Emma and the hopes of maybe asking
her out tomorrow.

 
Nick
     
    When I get there the
club is already pumping.  It’s particularly busy for a Tuesday
night.  I grab a beer and head over to Tony’s corner.  As I suspected
he’s already there, Rachel tucked in his side.
    “Hey mate, you made
it.”  Tony says holding his hand out for me to shake but he remains seated
on the lounge.  I have to lean down to shake hands with him, it’s kind of like a power thing with him.
    “Hi Tony,” I turn to
Rachel and give her nod, “ Rach .”
    “Nick, come sit with
me handsome,” she says motioning to the spot next to her, batting her eyes at
me again.  I take a seat between Rachel and an attractive redhead that
seems vaguely familiar.  There isn’t much room between them both and when
I lean back against the couch not only do our hips and thighs touch but our
shoulders and arms too.  It is a little cramped but with a couple of hotties like these it’s more than comfortable.
    Rachel’s hand rests
on my right thigh but I try to ignore it, reminding myself that she is Tony’s
girl.  When I glance at her she gives me a suggestive look that is rather
hard to ignore though.  I find it a little odd that she would be tucked
under Tony’s arm and still be making a play for me, right under the guy’s
bloody nose.  I turn my attentions to the thighs on my left.  They
are bare and as my eyes trail from the redhead’s knees upwards I notice just
how short her mini-skirt is.  My eyes linger as I can almost see up that
short-short skirt but when the legs move a little I let my eyes drift a little
higher.
    It turns out that the
girl is not wearing a skirt at all, but a very tiny black dress, or more like a
strip of fabric that barely covers her privates.  She is very curvy with
really large, barely contained, breasts.  Her skin is pale and lightly
freckled.  Her skinny little hand touches my chin and pulls my head up to
meet her face.
    “Hey Nicky, long time
no see,” she says to me when I look her in the eye.  I cannot for the
life of me remember where I know her from.  “It’s good to see you again.”
    “Yeah
you too gorgeous.”   I have absolutely no idea what her name is, at
least by calling her gorgeous it doesn’t seem to matter.  I take a long
pull of my beer and polish it off.  When Rachel’s hand starts to move up
my thigh I turn to the redhead, “You wanna dance?”
    “Sure.”  She
smiles at me, so I stand grab her hand and pull her to the dance floor.
    I get an overwhelming
feeling of déjà vu