"Casey, who exactly are we meeting here?" Tay asked her as they arrived at the mall.
"Some of my friends." she told him.
"Why couldn't you just tell your mom?" he asked her.
"You'll see." she said. "Oh, they're over there." Casey pointed to a group of older looking kids standing in a corner outside of the mall.
"Casey, they look kinda old." Tay said to her.
"So?" she told him. "Come on, they're only like, 18 and 19."
"And you're only 15. No wonder you don't want your mom to know."
"Tay, she just doesn't know them, so she won't like them, that's it." Casey sighed. The two walked over to the kids.
"Hey Casey!" one of them told her.
"Hey, she said, "You guys, this is my friend Taylor. Tay, this is Kristen, Amy, Krystof, and Brian."
"Hi." he said to them.
"Yo Casey, you coming to the party tonight?" Krystof asked.
"Hell yeah," Casey said. "Tay, I hope you don't mind coming."
"Um, no..." he said.
"You guys gonna drive us?" Casey asked.
"Yeah, I guess we'll stay here till then, cuz the party starts at 8:00" The current time was 4:30.
"Cool." she said. "I just gotta call my mom and tell her I'm going to a party before we go."
"Good, now let's go inside cuz it's hot out here." Amy said, finishing her cigarette.
"Ok mom...no, I'm getting a ride home...yes, Kristi's going too, her mom's driving me...no...don't wait for us, we'll be home late...yeah...bye mom!" Casey finally said, exasperated.
"Ok, now I'm ready." she told Tay and her friends.
"Cool." Krytsof said to her as they walked to his Jeep Wrangler. "I guess I'm taking you, your little friend, and Brian. Kristin, Amy, see you when we get there. This party is going to kick ass!"
It was a 15 minute drive from the mall to the party. "Whose house is this anyway?" Casey asked Krystof as they pulled up into the driveway.
"Um, Kyle, you met him once. His parents are on a cruise in the Bahamas then they're going somewhere else so they won't be back for a few weeks."
"Cool." Casey said, as they all walked up to the door of the house and greeted everyone.
"Casey!" Tay hissed at her as soon as they got inside, "Why did you bring me to a keg party! You know that I don't like these things."
"Yeah, that's why I didn't tell you!" Casey shot at him. "Look, these are my friends, they invited me to this, and I really want to be here. Just try and have fun, Tay."
"Casey," Amy told her, handing her a tequila. "I figured I would get ya one while I was over there."
"Thanks." Casey said to her. "Tay, just have fun, get yourself a beer, and chill."
"Casey..." Tay warned her.
"Tay, you're not perfect, just go have a freakin' drink, that's the whole reason to be at keg parties...you drink beer from a keg! I just don't like beer, so I'll stick with tequila and anything else good there is." Casey walked away with Amy. "I'll be back in a sec." she said to him.
20 minutes later, Tay found Casey again. She was making out on a couch with some guy. He figured he might as well try to have fun. He went over and got himself a beer, and hoped he would actually have fun.
"Hey, Casey's friend!" Brian came up to him. "Where's Casey? Krystof wants to leave now." Surprisingly, Brian didn't seem very drunk.
"I dunno, I haven't seen her for a while." he said.
"Bri, if you're looking for Casey, she's in that room with Kyle." Amy came over to them.
"Oh, thanks, I'll tell Krystof." he said, walking over to Krystof with Tay following close behind.
"Casey!" Krystof yelled into the room. "We're leaving!"
"Just ruin my fun." Casey told him sarcastically.
"Come on, it's 3am already."
"I'm coming, calm down." she said, walking out of the room after a few minutes. "Tay, did you have fun?" she asked.
"Yeah, I guess." he said. "How much did you have to drink!?" he could smell the alcohol on her breath."
"You tell me first." she said to him.
"I had a few beers, probably 3 or 4." he told her.
"Not bad, Tay." she said to him. "I had about 20 drinks." (Author's note...never drink 20 drinks unless you want to wake up with the worst hangover you've ever had in your life...)
"Are you crazy!" he said to her.
"Nah." she said. "I've had this much to drink before, I'll be fine by this afternoon."
