Riley went home that evening and took a nap from her long exhausting day. She knew that Brittany would be arriving soon for what she thought was their usual drink wine and gossip, girls night, but Riley had forgotten to mention to her that they had to make a pit stop before they could come back to her place.

The doorbell rang as if on cue, she didn’t bother going to answer it, knowing that within seconds Brittany was going to let herself in. She knew she should probably get better at locking the door.

“I brought the booze and sappy chick flicks. My fucking god did I miss you!” Riley heard through her apartment she couldn’t help but let a chuckle escape her lips.

Brittany stopped short in the apartment hallway, noticing that Riley wasn’t dressed in her normal sweats and baggy t-shirt.

“So how do you feel about getting a drink with one of my co-workers?” Riley smiled her famous innocent smile that helped her get out of almost anything, even as a child never had she been in serious trouble because of that smirk that lit up her eyes.

“Riles, why didn’t you tell me! I’m not even dressed!”

Riley sighed, “It was last minute, I swear!”

Brittany had given that look that said she was ready to kill her, and Riley knew that she was in deep shit if she didn’t help with some kind of compromise.

“What if I told you there’s a hot guy waiting for you if you come?”

Again with the smile, she knew that Brittany wouldn’t be able to say no to her.

“I’ll go get dressed.”


XXX

He didn’t know why but he was nervous. He knew that they weren’t anything serious, just casual friends. But there was something about bringing her back to his place, and meeting his friends that had him drowning himself in cologne, and double checking his appearance before the doorbell were to ring.

“God damnit, dump a enough cologne on yah buddy?” Freddy, his roommate, coughed leaning against the frame of his doorway.

Tyler gave him a glare through the reflection in his mirror. And before they knew it the doorbell was buzzing, and Marshall was barking furiously padding his heavy feet toward the front door.

“I’ll get it,” Freddy mentioned before turning on his feet and following the chocolate lab toward the front door.

This gave Tyler enough time to compose himself. It was just a girl, who he liked… a lot.

He gave his hair one last run through, and exited his room, shutting the light on his way out.

She gave him a quick wave as he entered the room, and as soon as her coat was shed from her small figure and in Freddy’s arms, did she wrap her own arms around his neck.

“Hi,” he mumbled into the crook of her neck, taking note that she smelt of peaches as he breathed her in.

Riley took a step back from him, and closer to her friend. “This is Brittany,” She motioned toward the blonde standing beside her.

Brittany had been pissed that Riley had forgotten to mention that they weren’t going to be spending a quiet evening at home like they had planned, she was even more pissed that she had also forgotten to mention that Riley was taking her Tyler Seguin’s apartment without warning. When the door opened reveling Tyler’s roommate, Brittany sent her friend a glare that said she was ready to kill her, but secretly she wanted to thank her for her hot date for the night.

“So I was thinking instead of the four of us sitting here, why don’t we just go to a bar or something?” Tyler suggested.

Riley looked up at him from her small five foot three height, she was sending him daggers, knowing that she had told them in their exchanged texts that she said one drink and one drink only. Knowing him, he was going to have them out for the rest of the night.

Both Freddy and Brittany had agreed that going to bar sounded like a better idea than sitting at home, now it was Riley’s turn.

“Fine,” she sighed, taking her coat back and buttoning herself up.

XXX

It wasn’t even midnight yet, and Brittany was already drunk, much like Riley had been when she went to dinner with Tyler a couple weeks prior.

“Your friend seems… fun,” Tyler smirked taking a sip from his bottle.

Riley pressed hers to her lips, and watched him from the corner of her eye. “I should kill you,” she laughed. “I told you one drink and here you are getting my friend shitfaced, you know I have to deal with her tonight.”

Both Tyler and Riley looked over to Brittany and Freddy who had been hitting it off since they met.

“Well if you’re lucky and Fred’s on his game, maybe you won’t have too.”

She sent a little shove his way nearly knocking him off the barstool, and sending Tyler into a fit of laughter. He grabbed his drink and stood next to her, his lips touching her ear.

“I’m going to check on them, are you going to be okay?”

She took in her surroundings, and knowing that he was only going to be a few feet over from her nodded her head and took another sip of her drink.

She swore it couldn’t have been more than thirty seconds after Tyler had left her before a sea of drunken guys were sauntering up to the empty barstool that he had previously occupied.

“Hello there pretty lady,” one slurred his fingers grazing the fabric of her dress.

“I’m sure pretty boy over there couldn’t do what we could,” another smirked.

She tried to ignore it as best as possible, but her body began to shake as the memories came flashing back to her.

“Baby, c’mon I promise I’ll be gentle,” he slurred. His finger grazed the hemline of her skirt, slowly inching their way up her leg.

Never in her life had she felt more unsafe than she did right now. She knew that if she didn’t give into him, she’d be paying for it later.

“Babe,” she cooed running her soft hands across his gruff face. She couldn’t think of another excuse to get herself out of it. Sure in the past she didn’t mind having sex with her boyfriend of a year, she enjoyed it actually, it was when he was in the state that he was in now that had her whole body tremble.

“Who is he?!” he growled, taking her hand away from his face and squeezing it tight in his large fist.

“What are you talking about,” she whispered nearly crying.

“I swear to fucking god Riley, if you’re doing someone else behind my back, I’l- I’ll…” he didn’t even finish his sentence before his fist collided with her jaw.

She was crying now, hysterically. It seemed like there was so many of them when in reality there was only two.

From across the bar Tyler noticed her, her whole body hunched over as a couple guys crowded around her, poking and prodding at her body. In one swift move, he pushed through the crowd of the packed bar, and let his fist collide with the jaw of the man touching her.