All Chapters of Winter's Idolatry: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

I woke up the next morning with a headache starting to form as soon as I became conscious. I licked my chapped lips as I slowly opened my eyes, taking my time to let them adjust to the sunlight."Hell," I muttered, loudly groaning. "Dallas! Get off me!" I screeched as I threw his arm off of my body. I sat up and realized that I must've fallen asleep in Dallas's room last night.Dallas stirred a bit, a faint incomprehensible mumble coming from him but he didn't wake up.I groaned extra loudly once again and then started annoyingly pushing Dallas's shoulder."Stop," he mumbled, turning so his face was no longer shoved in his pillow. He unconsciously licked his lips. His features were soft, his lips agape the slightest bit, his chest was heaving up and down and his hair was a mess."Are you done checking me out?" Dallas murmured softly, his voice hoarse.I pushed him once again, this time harder, my eyebrows furrowing in embarrassment, "I was not!"Dallas slowly opened his eyes, blinking

Preslie was going on all morning about the ball since it was just in a week. I wasn't surprised to hear her yapping off about it but eventually I was tired and irritated of talking about how she wanted to curl her hair so I left.In our school, on the third floor there was a room at the end of the hall that had these massive windows that went up to the roof and overlooked the whole entire football field, parking lot and even further. No students were allowed in there unless it was for a necessary reason but me being me, I somehow had a key. Not that I needed one because picking locks was a talent I had.I was having a weird few days ever since that harsh conversation I had with River so I was never really in the mood to talk to people lately. I was constantly finding myself going back and thinking through River's words over and over again.I was leaning against the banister and staring out at the empty, snow covered field when a presence came behind me."What are you doing here?"I tu

I should probably explain what is going on.River embarrassed me in front of my whole school, then I ran out crying, then I kissed Dallas, then I ran away from him.After running away from Dallas like a fool, I found Dom and had him give me a ride home which he was perfectly fine with. He wanted to stay over and make sure I'm fine but I needed to be alone. Ocean, Preslie, and Orion all tried calling me all night to see if I was fine but I ended up turning my phone off and crying myself to sleep.When I woke up the next morning and checked my phone I had dozens on dozens of missed calls and texts from my friends - including Dallas."Hey Eliza... um I'm just calling to see if you're okay. It's Dallas... by the way. You probably figured that so never mind. I don't really know how to leave voicemails, wow..... But anyways, I'm not sure why you ran off like that but I need to know if you made it home safely. Um, yeah, call me back please.""Hey Eliza, It's Dallas again. Dom told me he drov

Jago was throwing a massive New Years Eve party that everyone was excited for. I, of course refused to attend but Preslie and Ocean said they wouldn't let me live if I didn't come. Since it was New Years, it was too big of a deal for even Ocean to agree to let me sit out.I got there with Ocean and we got drunk almost right away. The whole night was pretty uneventful. It was just drinking, dancing, beer pong, and more dancing.It was pretty fun because the whole time Ocean and I just bounced around like sugar-high kids and made a blast of the time we had.Then came time for the clock to strike 12 and considering it was New Years, we all knew what that meant.Everybody knows the whole New Year's 12am kiss tradition. We don't even have to talk about it because it's the one thing that we all know we're thinking.Honestly, at this point nobody knows the real deep traditional reason why the New Year's kiss is so important but yet that's what everyone is ready to pucker up for. Adding in th

It had now been three weeks since school had started after the winter break. Things were changing.Orion and I were together, I guess. We weren't officially dating but a kiss here and there, a few dates... basically dating but not officially so for now, we're a thing.On the other note, Dallas and I had not talked. Aside from his usual unnecessary comment while Ocean and I were talking on the first day back, nothing.It was a bit weird not having Dallas's comments and annoying presence follow me around but it also made sense. Like it was established, our friendship was solely while we needed each other as dates for the ball. The ball has now past and along with it went our "friendship".It bothered me which was annoying because I didn't want to be affected by it but I was. I wasn't sure how to feel. I figured I would just build a bridge and get over it.I could tell that Dallas occasionally made an effort to come and talk to me but I simply ignored him and went the other way. I don't