28 Neon Pool Party (2/2)
”Who's Charli XCX?” I curiously asked.
Brad turned to me, surprised. Zayn and Kyle also stopped dancing to gaze shockingly at me.
”What?”
”All gays know the queen of pop that is Charli XCX!” Kyle boomed.
”You need to be educated.” Zayn said. ”I'll go tell the DJ to play Charli all night.”
I confusingly looked at Brad, who was holding back a laugh.
”Don't mind them, Ped. They're all loco Charli stans.” He chuckled.
”Stans?” I asked, half expecting them to be shocked again.
”Stans like from stan twitter?” Kaito chimed in. ”You don't use twitter?”
I shook my head.
”No wonder you can't keep up with our lingo, boy.” Kyle spoke.
There was a lot to the gay community that I apparently need to know about, I thought, remind yourself to search for 'stan twitter' after this.
”Oh yes, Brad.” Zayn mentioned. ”Come with us to Ophrus Pride this November!”
Zayn then looked at me. ”You, Ped. You should come along as well.”
”Sure, I missed last year's anyways.” Brad answered, putting his hand on my shoulder.
”That sounds fun.” I added.
We then started drinking from small ginger beers to Hennessey cocktails to jelly vodka shots, getting both me and Brad quite drunk during the process. Zayn also had to leave our group to entertain some other friends at the party soon after.
We danced along to the pumping music in the pool, eventually trying to sit on one of the unicorn floats.
”Come on!” Brad pulled me up as he sat on the float, and I held on to the neck of the unicorn.
”Shit!” I slipped and fell back into the pool, splashing water onto some people nearby.
”Get on this one instead!” Kyle pulled my hand from the other side, helping me climb onto a metallic rose gold flamingo float. ”I'm stealing your man from you, Brad.”
”Hey! No fair!” Brad cried, thrusting his body to force the unicorn float move towards me and Kyle.
”It's a girl's night out!” Kyle suddenly sang to the loud song playing, putting his arms up in the air. ”Let's have a girls' night out tonight!”
The surrounding people were also bopping to the music, moving their bodies to the rhythm. Everyone was illuminated a shade of light purple from the lights. Some guys were enjoying themselves by the bar while some were on their phones by themselves. But one thing was for sure, everyone there was obviously drunk as fuck, I thought as I watched Brad make his way beside us, calling me to climb over to his unicorn float.
”No, he's mine.” Kyle joked.
”Ped! Don't leave me!” Brad laughed, leaning towards me. I carefully stepped onto the unicorn float, just to fall into the water once again.
”Ah!” I shrieked.
Brad joined and jumped into the water with me.
”You're so clumsy.” He smiled.
Seeing his stubble all wet and his face glistening in the blue neon lights, I pulled him close for a deep kiss.
Brad whispered in my ear.
”Do you want to go to the hot tubs?”