Re: Upper East Side

[Tiger-Lily]

Seth groaned and scrubbed at his ear, and then glanced over at Connor. "Yeah? Well that grape skin facial ain't working wonders for you, Barney."

The lift hummed under their feet.

[JulietsCurse]

"You were the dinosaur if I remember correctly!" Connor retorted as he grinned at Seth and flicked at his ear.

[Tiger-Lily]

Seth grinned back. "Oh, right, you were the flirtatious Fred. Tell me, exactly how many seconds of attention did Daph grant you again?"

[JulietsCurse]

"Ouch man, ouch." Connor smirked and leaned against the wall. "At least I got laid last night."

[Tiger-Lily]

"By your baby mama, yeah," Seth shot back.

"Ground floor," the Sexy Voice chirped. Seth sighed lustfully.

"Farewell, my sweet," he said, patting the wall of the elevator lovingly as he strode out.

[JulietsCurse]

Connor laughed, following him out of the elevator. "Seriously, dude, if you want some alone time with the elevator.."He smirked, trailing offf.

[Tiger-Lily]

Seth smirked back at him. "She's not there," he sighed.

The boys exited onto he street, Seth waving at the doorman. They headed for the subway stop. Seth shoved his hands into his pockets, whistling. "So, now you hit Ashlee's."

[JulietsCurse]

"I gotta change and clean up first, dude." Connor said, looking down at his new "make over."

[Tiger-Lily]

"Are you kidding?" Seth demanded. He stopped walking and rounded in front of Connor, grabbing his shoulders and looking him in the eye firmly. "You're pasta. You get cooked. You smell good. Be pasta, Connor!"

[JulietsCurse]

"...You stole my thing, man!" Connor whined, stomping his foot like a child.

[Tiger-Lily]

Seth shrugged, letting go of him. He started walking again. "So bizarreness aside," he said, like he hadn't just told Connor to be a carb, "We should hurry."

[[Seth and Connor to Dorms]]

[Tiger-Lily]

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"Damn," Evelyn muttered, as they exited the subway and gained the pavement.
The place was impeccably clean, shocking in New York. Hedges trimmed and lights glinting. "Ash, is this a good idea? I don't know anyone here. What do we do?"

[Guest]

"Its very simple." Ashlee said, her heels clicking on the smooth pavement as they walked, "Look for a swanky place where a party is taking place and crash. We're dressed awesome, so in all honesty we don't really look out of place." Ashlee looked around the streets, as the passed nice restaraunts, and bars.

They approached this large apartment people and Ashlee spotted a large group of people their age standing outside chatting, all of them in designer clothes no doubt.

Ashlee scooped the crowd and they seemed like a fun group she turned to Evelyn, "Alrigh all we gotta do is blend."

[Tiger-Lily]

Evelyn snorted. THis was easier for ashlee than her. But she figured she'd try not to insult too many people.

This became impossible the moment the girls reached the group.

"He's gorgeous, isn't he?" a girl was chirping to her black-haired friend. They were looking over at some dark-haired guy standing a little ways away.

Evelyn rolled her eyes when the girls began nonverbally flirting with the guy when he glanced over. He looked familiar somehow.

Evelyn's eyes widened when she recognized the guy standing next to him. She grabbed Ashlee's arm just as the guy looked up and spotted them.

"It's Izak!" she hissed. "That means his cousin must be he--"

"Ashlee?" Izak's bewildered voice interrupted. He pushed through the crowd and over to them, mercifully leaving his cousin behind. His eyes widened. "What are you guys doing here?"

Before Ashlee insulted him, Evelyn jumped in. "Checking out the area. We have a friend who lives here but he wa too busy to show us around?"

"Yeah?" Izak said, curious. A busty brunette appeared at his elbow.

"Who're these?" she asked, like Ashlee and Evelyn were particularly hairy rats.

Izak hesitated. "Uh, acquaintances of mine, Eliza. Who's your friend?" he asked Evelyn.

"Seth Andreasis," she said promptly without missing a beat. Izak looked confused.

"Ooh, I know him. He's got a nasty rep here," Eliza gasped, eyes widening in dramatic fashion. She placed a dainty hand to her mouth and her short skirt hitched up magically. "He's a scandalous one, that boy. Most parents here would throw a fit if they knew their kids were in his company."

Evelyn could somehow not see why this was a bad idea. Seth and Jake were terrible role models.

She glanced at Ashlee, wondering if it had been a bad idea to mention the silvery-blond boy. God damn it, did Seth have to mess up on this end of the city too?

"Why don't you guys come in? We were about to head up to Radek's penthouse," Izak suggested politely, shooting Ashlee a look that suggested he feared she'd take it the wrong way and tear his head off.

[Guest]

Ashlee looked at Izak and back to Evelyn, she kind of did get off on the wrong foot with Izak insulting him like she had, she really had no idea why she misread a signal like that.

She debated this thought for a moment, they did say they wanted to have fun on the Upper East Side, and knowing Izak instantly got them in, but she did insult his cousin Radek as well by making fun of him and she was kind of hoping that if they got up there he wouldn't thrown her and Evelyn out.

Ashlee smiled politely and nodded, "Yeah sure that would sound like fun...listen Izak, I just want to apologize for how I acted a few days ago I was kind of having a bad day, and I didn't mean to take it out on you or your cousin. So hopefully we can just start over and enjoy ourselves tonight." She figured she might as well clear the air, Evelyn and her were intent on having fun.

[Tiger-Lily]

Izak shrugged but said nothing else as he led them through the crowd.

For some reason, maybe because everyone here had such posh airs, Evelyn felt like people were keeping away from her and Ashlee. Then she realized that stupid ho Eliza was going around muttering about them being friends of "that Andreasis guy". Upon hearing this, most people threw them poorly-hidden glances of dismay and steered away.

"Is Seth, like, a criminal here? Did he maybe kill someone and now we're marked as his henchmen?" Evelyn muttered to Ashlee as Izak led the whole group into the magnificently gleaming lobby where an elevator operator gave them a lift straight to a single penthouse. Half the people entered first and Izak gestured for Evelyn and Ashlee to step in.

Two girls near Evelyn threw her snobby glances and instantly turned to whisper to each other.

[Guest]

Ashlee saw the two girls whisper as Evelyn and her stepped out of the elevators so she just flashed a dazzling smile at them, might as well give the bitches something to talk about.

"I don't know, you know Seth more than I do. I hardly even spoke to the kid then on more then a couple of occasions, but this place is nice. Makes me feel under dressed." Ashlee said looking at some of the girls outfits a lot of them seemed like they just walked off a runway.

[Tiger-Lily]

"I can see why he spends so much time away from here," Evelyn muttered, get ting thoroughly annoyed as the girls giggled away. What was so hilarious? At least she and Ashlee weren't wearing about ten pounds of face batter and trying to look thirty.

They exited the elevator on the top floor - it only had a G and a P button. Private elevators, Evelyn guessed. Damn, these guys are loaded.

The elevator itself opened inside the penthouse foyer. The crowd began to walk up a set of stairs nearby that curved up to the penthouse roof.

The girls followed and emerged onto a terrace with a vast whirlpool set at one end into the floor and a table lined with a buffet at the other end. Seats lined the railings and twinkling lights gleamed at random intervals, setting a cozy spotlighting effect over the terrace. Music was playing from a fancy stereo system. A cocktail waiter walked around with a tray of drinks.

Evelyn blinked, wide-eyed as she took one - instantly discovering with one sip that it was alcoholic. Clearly being rich meant you were eligible to serve alcohol to minors without penalty. "So maybe Seth is a douche. But if he gets us into these places, I don't mind."

[Guest]

Ashlee grabbed a cocktail off the tray and she looked around, she totally wanted to be Seth's friend if this was the kind of parties he got to go she didn't understand why he'd spend his time at the dorms.

Then again seeing how all the girls and everyone huddled around kind of whispering amongst themselves these kind of parties tend to be a lot more cattier as opposed to the classic college kegger, "Cheers to that my friend." Ashlee grinned clinking her glass against Evelyn's.

[Tiger-Lily]

It was a few minutes after this that Evelyn headed over to the snack table to get a munchie, feeling starved. She texted Seth on a sudden whim, feeling strangely uneasy.

Evelyn glanced around, feeling buzzed as she finished her conversation with Seth. What was up with him anyways?

She suddenly realized she had wandered away from Ashlee. This rooftop was big. She couldn't see Ashlee in the crowd of teenagers, all of them foreign to her.

Evelyn walked around a huddle of boys, ignoring their lingering glances. So the girls might have marked her as a social pariah, but it seemed like the boys didn't care.

People were stripping off and diving into the tiny whirlpool tub at the far end. Evelyn glanced around and then leaned against a railing, nibbling on a cocktail shrimp she'd grabbed from a passing server. She tucked her hair over her shoulder to keep it out of her face as she scanned the place, feeling completely at odds with this scene.

Of course, in many ways, once the alcohol started running, the elite crowd was just like everyone else. A girl and guy nearby were in tonsil hockey so severe they almost tipped into the whirlpool tub. In one corner of the roof, she saw a couple of guys doing what she was almost positive was either ecstasy or some similar drug. Crystal meth?

She wasn't versed in drugs, after all. Evelyn turned away, heaving a breath.

Some guy sidled over to her. "You want?" he asked, holding out a cigarette. She stared at it. It was a stick of weed.

"No, I'll pass," she said, edging away. So this was what Seth meant. A few people were going back downstairs, holding hands. She wondered if Ashlee had gone back down to go to the bathroom or something, and edged around the guy and his leering friends, feeling unnerved.

[Guest]

Ashlee had become separated from Evelyn, and felt her flight defenses kick in, as nice as the place looked. Walking back from the bathroom she saw these girls and guys doing lines of cocaine off the coffee table inside the penthouse, and as she climbed back up out onto the terrace near the whirlpool, she noticed that there were people playing severe tonsil hockey and a few girls bathing suit tops or bras lay off to the side.


She knew getting a couple of drugs, and alcohol in anyone and they instantly were like the rest no matter how rich or poor. So this wasn't really exactly how Ashlee imagined a higher end party, but she really didn't feel too comfortable.

"Hey beautiful want a drink?" A guy asked her holding out a drink towards her, his gaze lingering on her made Ashlee shiver, "Um no thanks." She said politely walking away quickly looking for Evelyn.

In this situation she looked for a familiar face anyone, and the only person she found that she knew besides Evelyn was Izak, she walked up to him and figured she could stick around with him for security measures until she at least found Evelyn, "Hey there, having fun?" She asked him.

[Tiger-Lily]

Izak turned around from his conversation with a friend and then, instead of looking at Ashlee, glared at someone over her shoulder. A guy was leering at Ashlee, reaching out to touch her. He paused and appeared to think better of it, turning and skulking away.

Izak glanced down at her, flashing a brief ten-k-watt smile. "Not particularly." He cast a glance around to see if Radek was around but his cousin was no doubt off having a threesome downstairs. Izak checked his watch to see how much longer he had to stay before he could book it politely.

Evelyn headed downstairs at that moment in search of Ashlee. She headed down a lengthy hallway, half the lights off, to a gorgeous guest bathroom.

Ashlee wasn't here. Evelyn exited it and headed back to the foyer with the stairs.

And found her way barred by one of the boys she'd seen watching her earlier. He was leaning against the hallway wall, and she had a sudden conviction he'd followed her.

Normally, she wouldn't be so worried. She'd dealt with handsy creeps. But this guy was rather tall and broad-shouldered. He'd taken off his shirt to reveal a white wifebeater and rather foreboding muscles.

As she'd learned earlier that day, she wasn't much of a match for guys built over six feet.

Evelyn tried to keep her unease off her face as she stepped around him. He blocked her way like she'd expected he would but hoped he wouldn't.

His hand touched her shoulder and she lurched away, suddenly remembering the fear that had passed through her when she'd thought Jake had been about to hit her. This was worse.

"So you and your cute friend," the guy began lazily. "You're middle-class wenches."

"Excuse me?" Evelyn snapped. So he was scary but if he taunted her, she could do severe damage with her footwear.

The guy edged closer and Evelyn took a wary step back when something like drunken lust flitted through his clear green eyes. He smiled a not-so-friendly smile and scanned her from head to toe slowly.

Oh shit. Oh shit. Why did I not learn from Alexis' lesson?

And today of all days, she'd learned she wasn't as tough as she liked to think she was. Jake hadn't even really tried and he could have knocked her head off. Evelyn felt a familiar spasm of fright pass over her. She was already so on edge. And this guy's intentions made Jake look like a saint. She glanced around herself at the empty hallway and drew in a breath, fingers fumbling for the clasp on her bag. It swung open and she hid it behind her back as she wrapped her hand around her can of mace.

Caught off-guard once. Never again.

[Guest]

"Yeah I could say the same thing, no offense to your cousin or anything. This place is beautiful but ..." She figured she'd stop talking, she had already insulted Radek once, and she didn't want to go offending Izak either.

"I'm gonna go look for Evelyn." Ashlee excused herself giving a half smile and scanning the terrace for bronze hair, but in this dim lighting she really couldn't tell plus it was pretty loud so she figured Evelyn wouldn't hear her phone, but she figured she'd try anyway.

Ashlee opened her beige clutch and took out her Blackberry putting it to her ear, as she fit herself between people going downstairs into the penthouse, a few people casting her rude glares, which she ignored but Evelyn's phone kept ringing until it went to voice mail. She sighed as she entered the penthouse where it was relatively a lot quieter.

Probably since everyone was on the terrace, or probably screwing each other in one of the rooms. Ashlee took a turn down the hall she thought where the bathroom was when she went earlier, and saw a large road block of a drunken guy blocking the way.

Undoubtedly he was probably drunk and making out with some hoe, but she didn't care she was going to find Evelyn, as she approached she put a hand over her mouth and gasped when she saw that the creep had Evelyn cornered.

Ashlee grit her teeth, no one was going to take advantage of her friend, she broke out into a light jog and yelled, "Hey get lost scumbag!" She then kicked him in the groin with her heel.

[Tiger-Lily]

At the exact moment Ashlee had yelled, Evelyn had sprayed the guy in the face.

Of course, Ashlee tackling him from behind added to his pain. He ended up toppling forward and howling as he clutched at his stinging eyes. Evelyn gaped at him, stunned. "Oh crap..."

Running steps were heard down the hall and she suddenly didn't want to be found here.

"Ash, I think it's time to bail," she said, stepping over the guy as he rolled around in agony and grabbing Ashlee's arm, Evelyn dragged her back to the foyer, ducking around a corner when a bunch of people ran past toward the howling guy.

Izak was standing near the elevators, clearly about to leave. He glanced over when Evelyn headed toward him.

"Leaving? I thought everyone loved raves like zis," he said sarcastically, looking over their heads as a few girls turned accusatory glances in their direction. Apparently, they must have injured some big shot kid, Evelyn figured.

Izak stepped into the lift when it opened and Evelyn dragged Ashlee in with her. She suddenly realized she was shaking and wrapped her arms around herself, inhaling and exhaling slowly. Izak had the operator take them down to the lobby.

"What'd you girls do?" Izak asked, his accent more pronounced in his curiosity. "I heard something about one of my cousin's friends dying or something."

[Guest]

Ashlee looked at Evelyn who was shaking and wrapped her arms around her and looked up at Izak, "Your cousins friend tried to take advantage of my best friend, so he's lucky he didn't die." Ashlee said icily, she looked up at Evelyn, "Are you okay?" She asked calmly.

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