Always Second

Chapter 2

There was several people in the front and she could already imagined how crowded it would be inside. Delilah could already hear the music from outside and scowled as she tried to prepare for the noisiness that would soon embrace her.

Scarlett squeaked super exited. Her best friend was finally going to a party with her for the first time and she was going to meet her amazing boyfriend. She grabbed Delilah's arms and connected it with hers. 

"Come on, let's go in."

As Scarlett dragged her along, Delilah looked around at all the people around her. She wondered if all these students partied every weekend. Did they not have something else to be doing? She wondered why people liked partying and drinking so much. 

As they made their way inside, Delilah was shocked to see so it so crowded and cramped. People were constantly bumping into her shoulder as she and Scarlett made their way through. 

"Ahhh!!!" Scarlett started walking faster when she saw a group sitting on couches. When they got closer, she let go of Delilah's arm and went to hug her boyfriend. 

"Hey babe. You look amazing."

"Hey yourself." Scarlett looked up at him, kissed him, and smiled, before turning to Delilah to finally introduce the two of them. "Delilah, this is Mason, and Mason, this is my best friend, the one and only, Delilah."

Mason smiled and reached his arm out to shake Delilah's hand and she followed shaking his hand. "Nice to finally put a face to the famous name I've been hearing all about." 

Delilah politely smiled back. "I could say the same thing." 

He chuckled while putting his arms around Scarlett. "No, really. It's a pleasure to finally meet you. She talks about you a lot." Mason looked down at Scarlett and Delilah could see the love in his eyes. 

She smiled at the sight of her best friend in love. She was so happy for Scarlett. The two of them seemed to fit very well together. 

"If she talks about me a lot, I wish you could hear how much she talks about you."

Mason threw his head back and laughed aloud. "I wish I could. What does she say?"

Scarlett smirked at him, "can't tell, it's a secret."

He shook his head at her and kissed her on the lips. We were still standing when Mason realized the introductions weren't done and his friends were sitting on the couch in front of them.

"Oh yeah. Guys you already know Scarlett and this is her best friend Delilah. Delilah, these are my friends, the one with the blonde hair is Ashton and the red heads his girlfriend Savannah, and the ugly one with the moppy brown hair is Tyler."

After hearing his comment, everyone laughed as Tyler frowned and threw his middle finger up at Mason. "Shut up, Mase."

Mason looked around trying to look for someone before looking back at Delilah, "Jace is probably with some tramp right now, but I'll introduce you later, if you he shows up."

Delilah nodded her head, "That's fine."

"Well anyways, go ahead and sit down." The three of them sat on the three sitter couch in front of the other's. Mason on the edge, Scarlett in the middle and Delilah beside her on the other edge. 

As they sat down, Savannah sat up straighter and smiled at Delilah and Scarlett.

"Nice to meet you two. You both go to Harvard, right?"

"We do, and it's nice to finally meet you too. I heard you go to Brown, is that correct?" Scarlett said.

"I do! By the way Delilah, I absolutely love your hair. I so wish I had dark hair."

Delilah smiled and scoffed, "Are you kidding me. Your hair is absolutely gorgeous. I'd kill to be a red head." Although Delilah loved her hair, she wouldn't mind having some other color. 

The three of them laughed and hit off. They even exchanged each other's numbers. Delilah could tell Scarlett liked Savannah very much and she did too. She was easy to talk to and very down to earth. She was also very pretty. If Scarlett hadn't mentioned that she was a student, she would have thought she was a model. 

"So do you have a boyfriend Delilah?" Savannah asked curiously.

Delilah raised her brows, "Me? Oh no."

Tyler took his chance at the comment, and butted in. "Would you look at that. You're single, I'm single. Seem's to me, you've just met your Prince Charming." He took a sip of his drink and winked at Delilah who just scoffed and shook her head.

Savannah scrunched her face up, "Trust me, you don't want that Delilah. He's a player." 

Tyler backfired at her, "Hey, so was your little boyfriend." 

Savannah frowned and narrowed her eyes at Tyler, as Ashton raised his brows up and took a gulp of his drink. Mason shook his head and sighed. "Not this again."

Delilah and Scarlett didn't know what was going on so they just looked amused by the show in front of them.

"Shut up Tyler! Who was it that got caught having sex at school and got pulled out of the office by the ear from his mom!!!"

"Oh, please, he might not have ever gotten caught, but Ashton's done way worse things then I have."

Savannah's faces flushed as she inwardly fumed. After elbowing her boyfriend in the side she looked everywhere else but at him.

Tyler smirked at his victory as Ashton sent a scowl to Tyler. "Why can't you ever keep your mouth shut, Ty?" He just shrugged and enjoyed the view.

As Ashton tried coaxing his girlfriend, Mason looked over at the two girls amused at the sight before them. "This happens all the time. Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you guys, Tyler and Savannah are twins."

Delilah and Scarlett jaw's dropped in surprise but understanding at the same time. "Ohhh. That makes a lot of sense."

"Yeah, it gets super annoying when the two are together." Mason suddenly looked up as he saw his other friend approaching them.

Delilah looked up at the guy who stood in front of the group. He was tall, muscularly built, but not body builder bulky, had a nice golden sport tan, and thick dark hair that fell across his forehead in a messy fashion, but although dark, it was not as dark as her own. He was extremely attractive, but so was everyone in this group. It seemed that they were all from the same circles as well, that being wealthy and extremely well off. 

"Hey guys, what's up." And his voice was extremely deep, Delilah noted. Ashton looked at him for help and knowing Tyler and Savanah, Jace knew what had probably happened. "Ahh come on Savv, his past is his past. Let it go. I know you had a past too. He's dating you for a reason, if he didn't care for you, he'd leave you in the dumps."

Savannah sighed coaxing up to Jace's words and leaned back into Ashton's arms. It seemed to Delilah that he was a charmer and could tame the fiery women in front of her. 

Jace smiled widely looking around when he made eye contact with Delilah. As his grey eyes met her dark blue eyes, Delilah's heart skipped a beat as she felt her stomach flutter. She saw the way he looked her up and down settling on her chest before looking back into her eyes. His gaze was so intense, it burned her skin and the hair on her neck stood up as she shivered a little.

What in the world is this she thought.