Tyler wakes me up. It has been a couple hours and Patrick and Brad aren't back yet. I feel refreshed and ready to take on tonight with everyone that went to school with me. I start to get dressed, and Tyler is yelling to me from across the house. "Ya know. We don't have to pretend to be dating." I think about it for a minute. "Well, what do you mean?" I hear his foot steps getting closer to my room. "I'm saying, you can be my real girlfriend and we don't have to lie to these people." He walks in just as he's finished talking. He's shirtless when I turn around. He slowly comes closer and grabs my waist and pulls me in close. "Well. What do you say?" I look up to his eyes. I didn't realize how much taller he is from me, at least half a foot. "Yeah. Yes. I will. I will be your girlfriend." He smiles and brings me in closer. I feel his heart beating and I want it to stay like this forever. I hear the door slam and people walking. "Hello? Tyler? Casey? Anyone here?" Patrick and Brad are back. They see us and walk towards my room. Tyler let's go of my and turns to face them. "What the fuck are you two doing that Tyler is shirtless and you only half have pants on!?" Patrick screams this. I look down and realize he is right. I only half put on my pants when Tyler walked in. "Well, were going out to the bar to fuck with some of the people that went to school with Casey. That's what we were talking about. And well something else," Tyler turns and smiles at me, " did you guys want to come with?" This time Brad speaks up, "well it didn't look like you two were just talking." I feel myself start to get red. "Anyway, can you all get out so I can get ready? I can probably be ready faster than any of you anyway." I just want them to leave my room when I say that. Patrick looks at me like I yelled at him again. He turns around and says something to Brad. Just before Tyler leaves he turns around and looks at me. He looks like he wants to run over and kiss me. I get dressed and walk of my room and yell, "Are you ladies ready yet? I could be gone by now." I walk to where Patrick, Tyler and Brad are staying. "Almost. You can't rush perfection!" Patrick yells at me. They are taking forever. Tyler gets dressed first and looks at me. He actually does come up and kiss me. It feels like my blood started rushing faster. His lips press against mine and makes me feel like I am out of this world. He stops kissing me but I don't want it to. I hear Brad say, "get a room." I look at him straight in the face and say, "I do have one. Actually this is my room, so get the fuck out." Brad looks like I just shot him. He backs away and goes back to getting ready. "I'll be in the truck. Hurry up. I want to be drunk before they even get there. Someone has to be a DD so choose and bring their license too." I say almost to Tyler, but I'm talking to everyone. I walk out to the truck and jump in and start the music. Only Way I Know by Jason Aldean with Luke Bryan and Eric Church plays. I crank it up and half way through the song they walk out. "Well looky how pretty y'alls look." Patrick makes a face at me. I rev my engine as he walks past to scare him. He gets in the seat behind me with Brad, Tyler is next to me. That's how it has been since they got here. "Soooo... Tyler? Are you and Casey... A thing now? Or still single? Or what?" Brad seems really confused. "Well," Tyler starts talking and grabs my hand, "we are dating." Tyler smiles at me and I smile back. Brad says something to Patrick but I brush it off because nothing can hurt me now. We get to the bar and I walk in with them behind me. We get a booth and order shots to start off with. Patrick is right across from me, Tyler next to me. We all get jagerbombs. By the third round, Patrick has already giving me kudos for not making a face every time we take a shot. Chase, Jenna, and everyone else walks in 20 minutes after us. They see us and pull up a chair. Jenna walks up to us in the shortest skirt and lowest tank top in the world. She tries to make a joke about me, but to my surprise Patrick defends me before Tyler can. I look at her and wave as she flicks me off and walks away. Another girl tries to come up to get Tyler. He declines and she goes for Brad and Patrick. Brad goes with her. He looks back and I smile at him to say no hard feelings. Patrick just seems happy to have a friend to do shots with. That's when he walks up and slides next to Patrick. Chase. I see him and just make a disgusted face. He tells Patrick to move over. Patrick looks at him straight in the face and says, "fuck you." in almost a yelling tone. Tyler puts his arm around me. "Ya know, ya don't have to pretend no more," Chase starts off, "we all know y'alls ain't together. We could tell from a mile away. Now, if y'all city folk would be so kind as too get outta here and go home, that would be just swell." Tyler looks like he could laugh at that. No one moves. Chase seems to be getting annoyed. Patrick is practically chugging down a beer. When Patrick is done, he gets 2 more. One for me, one for him. I guess Tyler is our DD for the night. Chase slides out and looks at us all. "I fuckin hate all y'alls." Chase walks away as he says that. "Can't hate who you don't know!" Patrick and Tyler yell at the same time. I tell Patrick to go dance, to go drink, to have a good time. Finally he leaves. He buys me another round of shots and another beer before he goes. I'm starting to feel tipsy. Tyler still has his arm around me and pulls me closer to him. No one is sitting across from us now. Tyler looks to me, just about to kiss me when 2 girls slide in across from us. He takes his face away from mine and looks. "Hi Tyler! I'm Amy and this is Jackie! We are huge fans of yours!" They are either twins or I'm too drunk to tell them apart. "Whatever you say 'huge fans'. Fuckin liars." I say as I try to get the waiters attention. "Hey, can I get a handle of jack? Like the entire thing. Not a cup, all of it. Thanks." The waiter walks away from me. Tyler turns to the girls, "oh hi. Uh... Nice to have fans all the way out here. Did you see my goal from last week against the Oilers when we were shorthanded and I did a spin-o-rama!?" He's just trying to see if they know anything about hockey. "Oh yeah! That was great!" "Sweet moves!" "I loved that goal!" "I was scared when that happened!" I watched their face when he talked about his goal. I know which one he was talking about, but it wasn't him who did that and scored. I'm shitfaced and I even know who scored that. He looks at them with a straight face and says, "yeah. Awesome goal huh? That wasn't me. You probably don't even know what shorthanded means. Leave now. I'm trying to spend some quality time with my GIRLFRIEND!" He emphasizes 'girlfriend' and everyone looks at us. I don't mind. They leave and Patrick slides back in. Tyler looks at me again, grabs my chin, pulls my head closer to his and kisses me. It is the same feeling as before, only it lasts a lot longer. He doesn't stop kissing after a few seconds, it lasts minutes. I feel his tongue slip into my mouth. I don't fight it. It seems to be tracing the inside of my mouth, going into every curve and contour of my teeth, and finding my tongue. He pulls back after a little while. We sit there with Patrick and a random girl across from us. I don't care anymore. Patrick stopped being a dick to me. Brad is still dancing. Sideways by Dierks Bentley comes on. I make Tyler go out there and dance with me. He loves it, but I fall a few times. I'm too drunk to walk straight so dancing is easy, all I have to do is move around. I tell him I have to use the bathroom really quickly and run to the bathroom. He goes and sits back down until I come out again. I have trouble sitting up straight so I lean against the stall. I come out and find Jenna. I would try to talk to her if I was trying to be boasting but she seemed already jealous of me. I just smile and walk out. Just as I walk out Aw Naw by Chris Young starts to play. Tyler walks up singing the song to me. I'm surprised he knows the song but just before I reach Tyler, Chase cuts in and tries to dance with me. I look him in the eyes, put a hand on his chest and push him to the ground as I sing, "Aw naw somebody just bought a shot of that patron..." And Tyler finishs the rest of the line. We dance to the next 3 songs. We go and sit back down and Patrick is gone. He must have gone home with that girl. I try to find Brad but he isn't here either. I tell Tyler let's go back to my place and kiss him, give him the keys, and jump in the passenger seat. I wake up just when Tyler is carrying me into the house and that's when I knew he is the greatest boyfriend I have ever had.