Chapter 8

We all walk in to the kitchen.

Pointing again I say "My sister Roxanne, and brothers Levi, and Tim, meet my coworkers Paul, Linda, George, and Kathy. And you guys remember my friends Melissa, Jack, and Lily."

My siblings nod and says hello while everyone else follows suit.

"Ok, since you guys just came in, it's your turns to take shots!"

They groan, but take the shots that are passed to them, the rest of us refill our glasses, and we all knock back the shots.

I grimace because I'm starting to feel it. The warm fuzzies. I go take a bottle of water from the fridge and guzzle it down while everyone looks at me.

"What?"

"Can't have the party ending as early as it started, can we?"

"Now who's ready for the tour?!" I yell.

Everyone gets up and we all file out of the kitchen. I take them thru the first floor and end with the backyard. Then I show them the downstairs before we all go to the second floor. After I've shown my bathroom we head downstairs with everyone going on about how beautiful my house is.

I go to the living room and put on some music, we all start moving to the beat in our own ways. It's time to get the party started. I set up the table in the dining room for beer pong, and yell,

"Time to play guys! 10 people, 2 teams of five, lets get it formed!"

Everyone comes in to the dining room bringing alcohol and beer. We go thru the motions of choosing teams, everyone trying to get the strongest players on their teams.

I'm on a team with Melissa, Lily, Levi, and Paul.

I've swapped out some of the beer cups for alcohol, but they won't know until they have to drink it.

"Are y'all ready?!" I yell.

"Lets goooo!"

The first ones up are Roxanne and Paul, who's eyeing Roxanne with interest.

We yell "Pay attention, Paul!"

He jumps, and grabs a ping pong ball saying

"Ladies first."

Roxanne smiles at him, grabs a ball, and tosses it right into a cup of beer. Paul laughs, grabs the cups, and downs it. On Paul's turn, he tosses the ball, but it bounces off the side of a cup.

Someone yells "Next!"

Then it's between Melissa and George.

George laughs, "I'm going first!"

After which he tosses his ball right over all of the cups, it even went over Melissa! We all laugh and Melissa says "You should've let me go first."

She throws her ball and it lands right into a cup of tequila. George doesn't know what it is until he tosses it back, and starts to cough.

"Wasn't expecting that!" he gasps out.

Everyone looks around at each other quizzically. Roxanne asks "Expecting what?"

George replies with "That tequila burn!"

Everyone turns to look at me, I shrug, "What? I wanted to make the game interesting."

Everyone chuckles and Tim yells "Next!"

Levi and Linda step up to the table. Linda smiles shyly at Levi and says "Take it easy on me."

Levi smirks, "Sure will!"

I shake my head because Levi is hella competitive, but he's also a Casanova so he might pull his throw just to get her attention.

He says "Ladies?" Linda grabs a ball a throws it right to the side of the table. Levi laughs and chucks his ball into a shot of tequila, Linda looks at the cup, frowns, picks it up and downs it. She starts coughing as well,

"Yea, definitely wasn't expecting that!"

We all laugh, and again Tim yells "Next!"

I pull Jack over to our side, and whisper "You have to take my place, I have to go make sure everything is good in the backyard."

He nods and steps up to the table, Kathy joins him on the other side. They smile at each other while Jack nods at Kathy to go first. I miss Kathy throwing the ball as I walk out of the dining room, into the kitchen, and out to the backyard.

I look around and notice that the grill is empty and the chef is no where to be seen. I walk into the kitchen and notice the trays on the counter that I didn't see before. Next to one tray, is a note saying "All done, you looked like you were having fun, so I didn't want to interrupt. I've received the full payment, so we're all good. Hope you guys enjoy the food."

I wasn't sure how I felt about someone moving in and out of my house like a ninja without a word. I shrugged it off though because I felt the alcohol warming through my system. I arrange the food on the island, so it'll be easier for us to dish when we eat. I walk back into the dining room after making myself a mixed drink, to see that it was back on Melissa and George. I chuckled and wandered over counting cups, looks like 'my' team was winning. We only had 2 cups left to the other teams 6. Melissa and George both make it in and take their drinks, it's Melissa who's coughing this time.

Linda and Levi step up to the table for what could be my teams final turn if Levi makes it in. Linda again goes first, and chucks it right over Levi's shoulder. Levi laughs and tosses his ball which land precisely in the last cup. My team whoops and cheers as Linda drinks the last cup marking us the winners. I yell out "Alright everyone! Lets go get some food in our bellies to so we can drink even more!"

We all walk into the kitchen grabbing paper plates on the way. All of the food has been laid out on the island so we file around it fixing our plates. Once everyone has their plates we walk in to the dining room, everyone takes a seat at the table except me(its only a 10 seat table) I sit at the sidebar and eat while looking at everyone as they sit around the table chatting with one another. Looks like Roxanne and Paul are hitting it off(I wonder if he's an omega?)

Levi and Linda are chatting it up, whatever he's saying to her is making her blush. (real Casanova)

Melissa and George are chatting animatedly, while Lily and Tim seem to be having a serious debate.

Jack and Kathy look like they're just talking about nonsense.

I smile while I watch my friends and family socializing. I catch Levi's eye, he smirks and winks at me. I laugh and shake my head. I get up after I'm done, and take my plate to the kitchen to put in the trash. One by one, everyone else follows.

After the last person walks in to the kitchen I yell "Who's ready for charades?!"

They all let out whoops and hollers, I instruct them to follow me to the living room. I grab a few bottles of tequila on the way. I grab the hat that I already made up of the things we'll have to charade.