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waved frantically, nearly popping me in the face with her hands. “Sorry,
I have to say hi to somebody.”
    “It's... not a problem.”
    She ran over to the grass and
hugged three different guys. One passed around shots of tequila. I put my hands
against my hips and watched as Melanie downed one of the shots like it was
water, then grabbed another, and downed that, too.
    “Woo hoo!” she shouted.
“Yeah! All right !”
    I shook my head. “Oh,
Melanie. What the hell are you doing?”
    I didn’t want to see her take
a fourth shot, or a tenth. I turned around, looked for Evan. He was chatting up
some frat guys, near music speakers that were blasting a loud rap song. I
turned the other way, and saw Todd and Zach standing over Robert as they made
him guzzle a gallon of beer. “Chug, chug, chug!” they shouted. Robert downed as
much of the alcohol as his slim body could take, then landed on his knees and
started throwing up in the bushes.
    Zach immediately waved me
over. “Sydney, hey! You wanna go next?”     
    “Yeah!” Todd added. “It'll be
fun!”
    Their obnoxious voices mixed
in with the defeaning music. I blinked a few times, as my head started to hurt.
I focused on Robert. Focused on helping him.
    “Get away from me, you jerks !” I said, and pushed past Todd and
Zach. I helped Robert up to his feet. “Come on, I’m walking you home.”  
    “I’m not… I’m not feeling too
good…” Robert leaned forward, and blew chunks again, this time at my feet.
    I stepped back, tried to
avoid the stench. But it got to me right away, and a nauseating dizziness took
hold of me.
    “Oh no…” I said.
    Zach and Todd walked toward
me. Reached their arms for my neck, like hungry zombies, or vampires, or both.
The music intensified. The stench worsened. Todd and Zach stopped right in
front of me.  
    The whole world started
spinning.
    “No,” I said, too quiet,
under my breath. “Stay back... please... oh God...”
    My knees hit the grass.
    And everything went black.
     
     
    Chapter 7
     
    I came to. My head pounded. I
looked up at a dozen faces.
    “Sydney, you okay?"
Melanie asked. “Evan, help her up.”
    Evan pulled me to my feet,
his arms wrapped around my waist. He guided me through the house, out the front
door, his hands right above my ass. Under different circumstances, this might
have been more exciting.
    “Kendra, give me your keys,” Melanie
said from inside the house.
    I leaned up against the blue
Prius in the driveway. Brought my hand to my forehead, and breathed through my
nose. I tried to relax, but nothing worked.
    “What happened?” Evan asked.
    “I don’t know. I just… I
panicked.”
    Robert appeared beside me. He
was deathly pale, but walking by himself. “I shouldn’t have had all those
shots...”
    “Shots?” I said. “You mean, you
had more than the beer?”
    He didn’t answer me. He sat in
the back seat, and rested his head against a pile of dirty clothes.  
    Evan pulled me away from the
car, opened the passenger door, and said, “Here, get in.”
    I didn't budge. “Wait. You
haven’t had anything to drink, right?”
    “I've had one beer. Why?”
    I trusted him. More than
anyone. But I trusted James, too. And it almost killed me.
    “You know what? I'll just
walk.”
    “No, no, no,” Evan said. I stepped
toward the sidewalk, but he raced past me and blocked me with his chest. “I
don't think that's a good idea.”
    “I’ll be fine.”
    “Get in the car, Syd,” he
said, firmly. “I'll talk to you later, okay?”
    “All right. But please... drive
carefully.”
    I walked around the back of
the car, and opened the passenger side door. A few people stared at me from the
porch of the house, but I ignored them, and took a seat.
    I shut the door, rested my
head against the window. When I closed my eyes, I was finally able to relax. I wanted
to get home. I just wanted this night to be over.
    The car pulled out of the
driveway.  
    “You doing okay back