Chapter 4: Fucking Insane

Aiden looked taken aback by Kim’s action and if he was offended, he did a really good job at hiding it. Instead, he flashed her another of his famous grins, “Right.” And whispered something into Ruby’s ears before turning away.

“What was that?” Ruby turned to the girls before noticing not just Kim but Donna giving her a cross look. She instantly thought she’d done something wrong and became genuinely worried. “Guys what?”

Donna huffed and reached for a plastic cup to pour herself a drink. “The fact that you’re asking that question tells a lot, sweetheart. Makes me question your choice in men, really. But then again, I’ve only ever seen you with one man!”

“I thought you guys said you liked him?!”

“I have never said anything like that.” Kim interjected in a bored tone.

“He is a pretty boy. But a pretty boy with no manners is just that. A boy.” Donna paused for bit, seeming to be in thought. “Or I just have high standards?”

“He can be such an asshole.” Kim took over again. “Every guy has literally eye fucked you from the moment we walked in here and he couldn’t even give you one compliment when he saw you!”

“He acts that way because he comes from a hotshot family. I just know it.” Donna fumed.

Ruby watched her friends go on and on about Aiden and the scenario that played out only minutes ago. What was wrong with what she’d done? She’d only been trying to help him out. But as she listened to her friends go berserk about Aiden’s behavior, their words—even though they weren’t being thrown at her—didn’t make the jabs hit any less.

She totally understood why they were upset. She did. Looking at it from her friend’s perspective, she could see how it might have appeared that Aiden was taking advantage of her. But that wasn’t quite what had happened, was it?

She had reached for the bag herself. Aiden hadn’t shoved it into her hand or demanded that she carried it for him. If anything, she’d insisted on helping before he’d even had the chance to ask. And Donna had been the one to redirect her towards the keg.

Still, she couldn’t entirely dismiss the girls’ reaction. Especially Kim’s. There had been something about the way she had snatched the keg from her and given it back to Aiden that said this wasn’t really about the weight of the bag or an empty keg. Kim had seen something Ruby hadn’t, or perhaps something Ruby had seen but hadn’t thought much of.

At least she was much self-aware of this, she’d give herself that. And with self-awareness came a different kind of reasoning; did Aiden expect her to do things for him simply because he knew she would? Had he grown so accusAidened to her willingness to help that it no longer occurred to him to question whether he should let her?

The thought left an unpleasant feeling in Ruby’s chest.

Despite it all, she didn’t want to believe that about him. Not because Aiden could do no wrong, but because she had never thought of their interactions that way. She often helped him because she wanted to. Because, to her, it never really seemed like a big deal.

But maybe that was precisely the problem?

What she had considered a small gesture might’ve become something he’d simply come to expect from her. And if that were true, how long had it been happening without her noticing?

Ruby glanced at her friends, wondering if they had noticed the uncertainty in her face yet. She wasn’t ready to agree with them, but she wasn’t entirely sure she could disagree, either.

She’d come here tonight, happy and high with expectations about how tonight would end. Would she finally be able to let Aiden have his way with her or would tonight end with him being even more upset than he’d been earlier today?

This was unusual on her end, but Ruby found herself not really caring about all of that anymore. Aiden’s feelings wasn’t at the top of her mind in this moment. Her own feelings were, and she was upset.

Her upset mood wasn’t visible, though. She had been the one to hype tonight’s party and stating it was an awesome idea that they attend it considering it was one of the last before ‘real life’ came knocking on their doors.

Donna and Kim’s moods had brightened once more now that Aiden wasn’t in sight. They’d even begun pulling her to the center of the room where the party seemed to be in full swing with the high folks grinding into each other as they danced.

Ruby wasn’t sure she wanted to get entangled with any of the sweaty bodies in the room, but she couldn’t exactly say that to her friends so she went along with it.

As soon as Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes’ Senorita came on the speakers, there were a bunch of squeals in the air.

“Remember Cordell?” Ruby heard Donna’s voice behind her.

“Who?”

“Cordell. From class. He’s headed this way, looking at you, Ruby.” Donna giggled. Was she drunk already? “Do yourself a favor and see where his head’s at.”

“What?” Ruby laughed and followed her friends gaze to spot that Cordell was indeed approaching them… or her, specifically, and his eyes were solely focused on Ruby’s. He was hot, she had to admit, but… “I don’t fancy him.”

“Talk to him first and see. I fear Aiden’s been clouding your judgment.” With that, Ruby felt the pressure of Donna’s fingers firmly push her from behind towards their course mate who smartly seized the opportunity as he caught Ruby in his arms.

“Easy, there,” Even after steadying her, Cordell’s hands never left Ruby’s waist. In fact, it didn’t look like he was going to be letting go any time soon. His eyes showed that unlike Ruby, he did fancy her.

This wasn’t her first time speaking with him. They’d had a few conversations over the past few years and even though Ruby had met guys like him who seemed to like her. They hardly approached her to make any intents known to her. She figured it was because she was with Aiden? They probably didn’t want to piss someone of his status off.

What was different now?

Ruby soon found her answer when she caught Cordell staring right at her cleavage. She couldn’t blame him. Her breasts weren’t little and they were open for all to see. Fortunately, she wouldn’t have to engage Cordell in conversation tonight seeing as their goals weren’t exactly aligned, anyway.

“I have to go—”

“Wait.” He grabbed her wrist before she could take a step. “We should get a drink sometime. Next weekend at my place.”

She let out a fake smile. “Sure. Maybe.” She carried on before he could hold her any further.

Ruby didn’t find Donna at the spot where she’d left her and Kim wasn’t dancing anymore, either. Ruby could see Kim’s butt being firmly gripped by some guy she made out with.

At least one of them was having fun.

With nothing to do and her friends being pre-occupied at the moment, Ruby went to go find Aiden. Not to give him the blowjob she’d initially had in mind, but to talk, maybe.

She remembered what he had whispered in her ears. She checked the time on her phone and saw it was 11:20 p.m., almost ten minutes past the time he’d told her to come find him at his game room –because, yes, Aiden had enough money as it was to be able to afford a premium apartment on campus that had not just a game room, but a boys den, a big open plan kitchen and about 5 bedrooms.

Or it was his family who made it possible for him to afford all of these. Ruby wasn’t sure since Aiden wasn’t exactly doing any work she was aware of.

But what did she know when she only lived off the salary from tutoring and waitressing over the past two years. She also had the savings she kept in a fixed savings account that was given to her by the only relative she seemed to be close with.

Ruby grabbed a second drink and poured it into her mouth in one swift motion. She told herself she was going to be the needing the euphoria of the alcohol tonight because she wasn’t sure how things would go down with Aiden.

It took a while for her to figure out which of the rooms was the game room. The door was firmly shut as if telling her she was standing in front of the wrong room and should get lost.

Jokes’ on you, door, Ruby thought.

She didn’t know why, but she quietly turned the door handle to let herself in and found that the room was dark. Well, damn. He probably already left after she’d taken forever to find him.

She took a step back, ready to shut the door behind her, when she heard it.

It started as a faint wet gobbled sound that Ruby would’ve never heard if the music playing downstairs hadn’t taken a bit of time to transition into another song. ‘Havana’ filled the speakers, the opening beat momentarily blocking out the tone of her voice as she called out to Aiden.

There was no shuffling, only the sound of a female giggling.

“Aiden?” She called out again.

“Here,”

Ruby didn’t know if she felt relieved that Aiden had waited for her after all, or whether she should be worried that he was somewhere in the large space with someone. A female.

She walked back into the room, more warily, this time, leaving the door open in her wake.

It took a second for her eyes to adjust with the lights flowing into the room from the hallway, but when it did, Ruby’s jaw almost hit the floor.

Along with her heart and every fragile thing within her.

“We waited a while for you, babe.” Aiden all but groaned in pleasure as the woman who was currently stealing her spot, sucked the tip of Aiden’s dick, eliciting another moan out of her boyfriend’s lips. “Come. Come join us.”

“You’re insane.” Her voice broke. This wasn’t an easy sight to witness. “Aiden, you’re fucking insane.

Ruby’s choice of a curse word shocked not just herself but Aiden.

Ruby didn’t wait to see if he would realize what he’d just said to was wrong. She turned away and ran for door, let herself out and kept moving until she got to the end of the hall. She opened the restroom to give herself a minute and froze when she saw a very busy couple in a very… abnormal position going at it.

“Shit. I’m so sorry. Please, carry on.” She squealed in embarrassment, mostly because of her last statement, and immediately shut the door.

Ruby really needed a restroom right about now. She knew apart from the ones in the bedrooms, there was only this and the other downstairs that was usually left open to the public. So she change directions as she climbed down the stairs. She could see the door to the restroom right in front of her. All she needed to do was to get her hands on the door but someone beat her to it.

“Sorry,” The ginger haired girl Ruby recognized from one of her electives, said not so apologetically, as she swung the door open. Then she froze upon seeing whatever it was Ruby couldn’t see. She turned away with a grumble. “You know what, you can have it after all.”

Luckily, there were no couples having sex in there.

Unluckily for her, the toilet had vomit all over it.

“Great,” Ruby looked around her. She couldn’t just up and leave without her friends since they had all come together.

She was going to have to find a room upstairs and hope it was open, empty and clean enough for use.

Ruby intentionally skipped Aiden’s room for another. She didn’t want to be around anything that had his scent or reminded her about his cheating self. She really didn’t even want to think about it. Not right now.

The next room she found was locked and so were the two after that. She glanced at the last one warily. What was the possibility that that one would be open? Ruby almost turned to just go find somewhere outside she could relieve herself, but she couldn’t until she was sure she was entirely out of options.

She walked to the last door at the end of the hall, turned the handle, and it gave way.

Ruby gasped from relief. “Oh thank God,”

The room was dimly lit and smelled masculine. It looked like whoever was using the room hadn’t fully settled in yet… or at all.

Ruby’s hand froze on the handle of the bathroom door. This wasn’t Asher’s room, was it?

No, she doubted it was. Asher didn’t seem like the type to want anyone into his personal space, therefore, he wouldn’t leave his room unlocked.

Absolutely.

But Ruby realized she didn’t know Asher or much about him for that matter. For all she knew, the last time she had seen him was in her freshman year, four solid years ago. And he had acutely pissed her off so much that she had mentally blacklisted him.

This wasn’t Asher’s room! She concluded, and went into the bathroom.

It wasn’t any better in there. And she meant it in a good way.

The space, which Ruby was now most certain belonged to a male, had expensive looking toiletries, which were kept at specific angles, in an orderly manner.

The scent of all the products seemed to be adding to the intoxication of the alcohol in her system.

Whoever occupied this room, Ruby wanted to meet them. She bet someone as clean and organized as this would be good looking.

All done, she turned on the faucet to wash her hands and as soon as she did, Ruby could’ve sworn she’d heard the main door open.

That was alright. She would simply apologize to whoever it was and explain the condition of the other restrooms in the house. Hopefully, they would understand and wouldn’t be too offended that she’d intruded into their personal space. Because that was what she had done.

Ruby was ready to let herself out, but she froze when she heard a moan that belonged to a female.

Shit. How many times would she be put in this position tonight?

Their sounds paused for a second and Ruby’s thought was that they had realized that this room looked too organized to stain with their sexual ordeal.

So she opened the door by an inch to check if the coast was clear.

It wasn’t.

The couple were making out on the bed, clothes being pulled apart like they were savages. Ruby gasped out of shock that they hadn’t left.

Another gasp quickly followed out of embarrassment when sharp green eyes, swiveled in her direction. The owner’s eyes darkened more than Ruby thought was possible as they landed on her. Then a smirk followed.

That was when Ruby got a hold of herself and quickly pulled the door, firmly shutting herself in there for the next hour or so.

Ruby’s face flushed a bright shade of red.

This was Asher’s room, and she was stuck in here, listening to him have sex.