"Lillian!" My friend screamed as she burst through my apartment door.

"Yes Kiera, come in!" I rolled my eyes sarcastically as I shouted to her from the bathroom where I curled my eyelashes.

"You're coming with us tonight, right?" She stuck her bottom lip out and hopped onto the counter beside me.

"Of course! It is your birthday after all!" I giggled and ran my fingers through my curly hair, trying to unwrap each curl.

"So Hanley is picking us up then dropping us off at the club. Her boyfriend or whatever is staying the night and she wants to have a cute night or whatever the fuck that is."

"Hey, let's not pick on the one of us that actually has normal relationships, huh?" I laughed and walked across the hall to my room with Kiera in tow.

"You're right. We suck." She laughed as I changed into my clothes for tonight.

"I don't know about you, but I'm ready to go." I smiled at my reflection and twirled around.

"Well good because Hanley's here! Let's go!" She giggled and pulled me out of my bedroom.

"Wait! I forgot something!" I ran back to my room and over to my dresser, slipping the silver band made out of hearts over my right ring finger. The ring that Austin bought for me. "Now I'm ready..." I whispered to myself.

~

"Kiera who was that!" I shouted over the loud club music. The small brunette shrugged and giggled. She had just returned from a back hallway with two dark marks on her neck. It was clear I would have to be the sober one tonight.

"He invited me to the VIP section. You coming?" She yelled.

"No, I'm good here. Go have fun!"

"Lillian come onnn!" she groaned.

"Kiera I'm staying here." I laughed downing the shot that sat before me.

"Party pooper!" Kiera stuck out her tongue and ran off toward a roped off area.

I turned back towards the bar, ordering myself another shot of Jack. My fingertips danced around the rim of the small glass before I poured the burning liquid down my throat.

"Hey! Long time no see!" a familiar voice said to my right. I faced their direction and smiled at the person I saw.

"Shayley!" I laughed and kissed his cheek.

"So whiskey huh? You don't look like a hard liquor type." he nodded towards the empty shot glass in front of me.

"You don't look like the club type." I smirked up at him.

"I'm not. I was dragged here by my friends." he returned with a laugh. "You wanna get out of here? I can barely hear myself think."

"Uh, yeah. Sure." I answered. I sent a quick text to Kiera to tell her I was leaving and to call me if she needed me before following Shay to the front doors.

Shayley and I ended up walking around San Francisco until we came across a small park. We were walking along a pavement path that ran next to a small pond.

"Let's go try and catch a duck!" he said, pointing to the group of ducks excitedly and running off.

"Shay! Shayley leave the ducks alone!" I laughed at him. My black Lita's clicked on the pavement as I made my way to a nearby bench and waited for him.

"Lily! Lily look I got a baby!" he ran up to my bench with a baby duck quacking in his hands.

"Shay go put him back! Are you crazy!?"

"No let's keep him." he pouted.

"We can't keep a duck! We both have no where to put a duck!"

"I'll keep him under my bed!"

"Shayley Bourge-" I was interrupted by what sounded like a very angry duck coming towards us. "Shay you big idiot put the duck down!" I screamed running from him. He did what I said but the duck still followed.

"We're being attacked by a duck you can't run any faster!" he yelled pushing me lightly.

"I am not capable of running in these shoes! I didn't plan on being chased by a god damn duck tonight!" I giggled. "Come here!" my hand grabbed his arm and I pulled him onto the jungle gym with me. The duck gave a few more angry quacks from the ground before returning back to the pond.

"You are absolutely insane." I laughed breathlessly.

"Tell me that wasn't fun."

"It wasn't fun." I said sternly.

"Oooh you're a liar Lillian." he smirked.

"Yeah? What are you gonna do about it?" I giggled.

"Don't get all tough on me!" Shayley's arms found their way around my waist, pulling my body against his.

"Don't tell me what to do, Bourget."

"Oh hush Briello." with every words we spoke, his face got closer to mine until finally, after he said Briello, his lips were pressed against my own. I snaked my arms up and around his neck, pulling him closer to me. After a few seconds, we pulled apart and leaned our foreheads together.

"Let's get you home Lilly. " He smiled and wove his fingers through my own. We started to walk down the the jungle gym stairs we came up, but then he
stopped. "Maybe we should go the other way..."

"Yeah good idea." I laughed as we started to walk back to my
apartment, hand in hand.