Beneath Our Faults



"WHY AM I so freaking stupid?" Gabby groaned, grabbing a slice of pizza and tossing it down on her plate. "Call me the queen of stupidity right here," she added, pointing to herself. We were all having a girl's day before our winter break ended and we had to return back to hell. The day was going to be full of Vampire Diaries in Cora's huge basement, which was pretty much an entire house in itself, pizza, and gossiping about what happened during our eventful break.

"You're not the only one," I groaned, taking a bite of my slice. “Call us the trio of idiots right here." My index finger created an imaginary circle around the three of us on the sectional we were lounging on.

A grunt from Cora came from the other side of the couch. "Uh, speak for yourselves."

"Don't even try it," I said. "If I recall correctly, you asked Lane if he had ever had a threesome."

"Cora," Gabby yelled at her mid-bite. "How could Lane even have a threesome if you're the only girl he's ever had sex with? You seriously need to quit listening to Piper's bullshit before you end up single and he does have a threesome!"

"God, I know!" Cora moaned, picking up the touch screen remote control and pausing our favorite vampire brothers to explain herself. She grabbed the plate sitting on her lap and set it on the endtable next to her. "I didn't exactly ask him if he had a threesome, per se. All of us were playing the stupid game, Never Have I Ever," she rolled her eyes, "and my stupid, drunken mouth blurted out stuff without thinking. You know how I get when I drink," she looked at Gabby. "I had a bad lapse of judgment. It was like this tiny little demon that worked for Piper hopped inside my ear telling me to believe all the stupid shit she says." Her head shook and she grabbed a blonde strand of hair twisting it around her forefinger.

"For future reference, I would recommend never playing that ridiculous game with your boyfriend. Or anyone. Ever. All it does it start stupid arguments." She let out a deep breath. "We are fine now. So on to better and juicer things than my stupid drama. Who’s up next?" She clapped her hands together and leaned forward.

"Daisy!" Gabby called out, picking all of the mushrooms off her pizza and tossing them to the side of her plate.

"No, not Daisy first," I argued back. I still needed some time to prepare my story before I put it all out there for them. "You need to go first because yours sounds way better than mine," I insisted.

"You're right. My story probably is juicer, which is why you have to go first. We are officially saving the dumbest decision anyone could ever make," she pointed to herself again, "for last."

I gulped, grabbed my drink and shoved it up to my lips for a drink to bide some time. "Okay," I exhaled. "I kinda sorta hooked up with Keegan at the cabin," I blurted it all out, making it sounding like one word.

Their eyes went wide and Gabby spit out the pizza she was chewing out on her plate.

"Ew Gabs," Cora said, disgusted. "That's just sick." She leaned over, grabbing a napkin and throwing it at her.

Ignoring Cora, Gabby grabbed the napkin and looked directly at me. "Daisy, you have to warn a girl before you start using the words ‘hooked up’ and ‘Keegan’ in the same sentence." She winked and covered her regurgitated food on her plate. "First, how do you kinda sort hook up with someone. Was it your first? You know, I don't even know if you are a virgin or not?" She was rambling.

Shit, rewind.

"Not hooked up like we had sex hooked up," I clarified. What exactly was the real definition of hooking up anyways? I reminded myself to Google it later. "It was more like, um," I paused, searching for the best words to describe what we had done, "second base?"

Oh god, second base? I had reverted back to my middle school days.

"Ohhh," Gabby said, stretching out the word with bright eyes. "Second base for you or second base for him?"

"Or both?" Cora cut in.

I looked at one girl then the other taking in that I had both of their full attention. They reminded me of two kids waiting in line at the candy store. "Well," I looked over at Cora with confusion, "he did it to me so second base for me," I guessed, giving her a questioning look.

"You go girl!" Gabby whooped, holding her hand out for a high five. "Who called it?" She yelled throughout the room looking around. "That's right, I called it!"

"Wrong!" Cora shouted over her cheers, holding her arm up. "I am definitely the one who called it. I knew I should have taken that damn bet!"

"I thought you didn't like Keegan and he was a manwhore?" I asked. I had been expecting Cora to warn me away from Keegan, not make bets about us hooking up.

She shook her head. "It's not that I don't like Keegan. I've known him since we were little. He just pisses me off sometimes but he is different with you." Gabby shook her head beside me in agreement. "Even Lane thinks so.”

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