Ch.2(edited)

Carissa's friend was kind of raggedy and butch looking. She was wearing this very over sized dark green plaid jacket , an a pair of dirty jeans and her face looked like she had been up for a couple of days, or she's just really really drunk. Gabe and everyone else met up with her at the end of the bridge. She was with some other girl who was obviously some kind punk or form of alternative group of kids who back comb and dye their hair black, but her hair was blonde and straight and a guy who had to been at least 6'4 in height with an average look about him slim fit jeans, a t-shirt with some indie band name on the front and a tour date on the back a cap tilted up and a back pack. Carissa's friend kind of had the eyes of Cleopatra with very heavy eyeliner around them; she looked at them except for Carissa apprehensively. Gabe and his friends were obviously not her kind of people.

"Who are these guys? You never said you were bringing anybody with you!?"

"Chill Leah! Their friends it's cool all right!?" Gabe immediately thought princess Laya.

"Anyways!" pulling Gabe to her side

"My boy has a 26 of vodka with him! Okay?" Gabe thought ‘oh im your boy? Now! She thought about it for a second nodded ‘okay'

"well the parties over here! Down the path!" she told everyone

"it's at a picnic site with the gutter punks!" gutter punks Gabe thought what the **** are gutter punks?

"Hey!" Carissa said grabbing Leahs arm and pulling her in for a make out session! "What the ****?" Gabe said quietly to himself taken back! I think everyone was shocked except for the two Leah had brought!

"Hey!" Keith nudged" Gabe you should get your phone out and film this?" Gabe looked at his friend and pulled his camera out and started recording the long and engaging kiss between the two. This was odd but interesting he never thought Carissa was bi-sexual since at the parties he never saw her get intimate with anyone but any of the boys there. After the kiss, Carissa noticed Gabe had been circling them with his phone

"Hey!" she said smiling and pushing him away!

Gabe laughed and said" That's a keeper thanks for the memory!"

she laughed and turned to her friend and whispered something to Leah and looked back at Gabe. Leah looked at him but was did not look impressed.

Keith ran up to Gabe "their ******* dyke's man! What a trip!" he laughed.

They continued on towards the party, this time Carissa and Leah linking arms together. It was obvious that her friend was very drunk Carissa had been struggling to keep her friend from falling off the wooded path towards the picnic area. When they arrived there was three other guys there already having drinks near an open bon fire sitting on a picnic table and lawn chairs together

"guys these are the gutter punks!" Leah introduced while waving her hand across from us to them as if showing a prize on the price is right

" guys this is Carissa and her friends!" doing the same motion to them for us

" and you already know ducky my lovely friend and the tall mat!" they all looked up and waved a friendly greeting! Gabe thought they looked like bums like Leah, maybe that was the reason why there were partying down in the river valley!

Then Leahs tall friend went up to Gabe "ay ...ooh... wha... ohh ...haa ...do ...derwink? "

Gabe looked up the tall guy and said "what?"

Gabe thought this guy must be really messed on some kind of drug for his speech to be that slurred but it wasn't incoherent mumbling like when his brother would get pissed drunk. It sounded like he said

"hey you what do have to drink?" Leah noticed Gabe and her friend mat where talking "hey you!" she shouted towards him!

"He's deaf he can't hear you!" Gabe understanding nodding his head and looking at the deaf giant and said

 "oh! " and mouthed "sorry!" in a slow manner and pulled his 26 of vodka out his back pack!

gestured to him to have a drink with him!" Gabe twisted it open and took a straight shot from the bottle then offered it to mat.He grabbed it looking at Gabe raised a brow then gave a devilish smile and took the bottle and took a massive drink, made a sick bitter face and gave the bottle back to him.

"Oh ****! Dads WA I talk'n bo!" Gabe laughed and watched as he walked up to his friend Leah who was sitting with Carissa at the picnic table, and pulled her away.  Carissa motioned for him to come and sit with her.

 "Well what do you think of my friends?" Carissa asked while handing Gabe a vodka lemon cooler

"the tall deaf guy is cool!" Gabe said

" but I don't think your friend Leah isn't comfortable with us!''

"Don't even worry bout her she's drunk! its okay besides she has a crush on me." She said looking at him with a small laugh to herself

" yeah well it sure seemed earlier the way you pulled her in that you had the crush on her!" she laughed then took a drink of her cooler

" so I take it she's gay?"

"Yup I met her a month ago by the train station one night! I was with your brother!"

Gabe looked at her "oh cool!" not really caring that she mentioned his brother

"yeah your brother and his friends were drunk and gonna fight with them because they thought they were faggots or something!"

"Yeah my brother can be a douche when he's drunk!" she nodded in agreement but with a kind of disappointed look on her face

"anyways while the boys were fighting me and Leah started talking and we hit it off I got her number and invited to a show!"

Gabe said "nice! I bet Paul doesn't remember her!"  She shrugged and leaned against him.

They both just watched the fire for a few minutes. Steven, Keith, Paul, and Dan were sitting with the "gutter punks" then Paul shouted

"don't be be bitches and pass the bottle over here!"

Carissa grabbed it and skipped over to them. Leah came and sat next to Gabe. Her breath reeked of all kinds of liquor and cigarettes her hair and makeup was a mess. She looked at him and said in a drunken slur that Gabe definitely recognized as ‘I'm pissed off my ass' tone

"if you hit on Carissa! I will kill you!"

Gabe frowned at her "I'm not hitting on her okay!"

"If you hit on her! I'll kill you!" she said in the same drunken manor.

Gabe thought he'd just agree with the drunken homeless lesbian for less confrontation, she already looked like she was stressed enough! Gabe singled himself out again and was sitting by himself watching the fire flicker in the night. There was a hollow look in his eyes. The song Angie by the rolling stones ran through his head he started thinking about his ex-girlfriend and felt really lonely he missed the rare occasions they had, their quiet nights together. It quickly passed.

Carissa ran up to him "Hey loner have a drink!"

Gabe grabbed the bottle took a swig of the straight vodka and of his vodka cooler! and said

"thanks that should help."

"with the look on your face looks like you need something more?"

Gabe thought for a moment and decided not let her here his sob story   " It's nothing to worry about.'' By now he had figured out that she had a crush on him. He wasn't going to act on it, especially since the crazed lesbian had already threatened with him death! He laughed to himself thinking about it.