  Christmas Day
      &quot;I'll get it!&quot; I yell down to my parents when the doorbell rung. I ran down the stairs and opened the door to greet Orion, as expected.
      &quot;Hey, Liz!&quot; Orion chuckled as I wrapped my arms around his neck and greeted him with a big hug.
      &quot;Merry Christmas, Rio,&quot; I smiled as I pulled away from him.
      &quot;Merry Christmas.&quot; He returned the smile, staring me in my eyes as he spoke. &quot;I missed you.&quot;
      &quot;You saw me two days ago,&quot; I chuckled as I let him into my house.
      &quot;Long enough.&quot; He shrugged, taking his coat off and placing it on the coat hook.
      &quot;You're early,&quot; I stated as we made our way into the kitchen where my parents were. &quot;I'm still in my pyjamas.&quot; I looked down at my pyjamas that had red nosed reindeers all over them.
      &quot;Yes, and they're very cut

  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 d

  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.
      &quot;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

Christmas Day
      &quot;I'll get it!&quot; I yell down to my parents when the doorbell rung. I ran down the stairs and opened the door to greet Orion, as expected.
      &quot;Hey, Liz!&quot; Orion chuckled as I wrapped my arms around his neck and greeted him with a big hug.
      &quot;Merry Christmas, Rio,&quot; I smiled as I pulled away from him.
      &quot;Merry Christmas.&quot; He returned the smile, staring me in my eyes as he spoke. &quot;I missed you.&quot;
      &quot;You saw me two days ago,&quot; I chuckled as I let him into my house.
      &quot;Long enough.&quot; He shrugged, taking his coat off and placing it on the coat hook.
      &quot;You're early,&quot; I stated as we made our way into the kitchen where my parents were. &quot;I'm still in my pyjamas.&quot; I looked down at my pyjamas that had red nosed reindeers all over them.
      &quot;Yes, and they're very cute.&quot; Orion nudged me.
      &quot;Good morning, Orion. Merry Christmas.&quot; My mom smil

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