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this story contains underage drinking and panic attacks and emetophobia! please be safe!!
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Lani is practically bouncing with excitement as she and Sue make their way into the house party. It was fairly big, what with the owner apparently having moved into a much larger place recently. There was plenty of room for plenty of people, which was good because plenty of people showed up!
Sue had offered Lani to come with them and their friends. She didn't know their friends very well, but there was no way Lani was ever gonna give up a chance to spend time with her Susie!
So here the two of them are, squeezing in with a couple others through the doors. Inside the place music is booming, about two or three notches higher than Lani could normally tolerate, but it would alllll be worth it.
After all, Sue would be here with her this entire time. There was nothing she wouldn't put up with for them!
"The others should be here soon," Sue informs, looking up from their phone. "We all agreed to be here by at most 7."
"What time is it?"
"6:34."
Lani grins wide. "Great! That means we have some time!"
"Time?" Sue asks, pushing up their cute little fake glasses. "For?"
"Us to dance!" Lani laughs. She grabs Sue's hand and pulls them forward into the house and towards any place that wasn't crowded with people. Eventually they end up in what must be some sort of TV room. There's a long sofa lining three of the four walls and an obscenely large TV on the fourth, nothing but a pushed aside table in the middle of the space.
The room is also conveniently devoid of others.
"Perfect!" Lani beams, flicking on the lights. A fan turns on as well, and Lani huffs proudly, ribbing Sue a bit. "Lookat that, I even managed to get us air conditioning. Everybody say, 'thank you Lani!'" She puts a cupped hand to her cheek and then mumbles in a higher voice, "Thank you Lani!"
Sue laughs so hard that when Lani looks over, their face is red. Which in turn makes Lani's face a little red. They were so pretty when they laughed...
"Okay, okay, I'm the funniest prince in the world," Lani jokes after getting their fill of a laughing Susie. "But c'mon! We're gonna run out of time!" Lani tugs at Sue and spins the two of them in a moving circle until they're in the middle of the room. She stops and lets Sue keep spinning out, keeping a hold of their hand before they can fall. "And may I have this dance?"
Sue is laughing so hard. "You do know Ed Sheeran is on right now?"
"And?" Lani asks, raising a sly eyebrow.
Sue doesn't stop laughing.
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As it turns out, time flies when you're having fun.
Sue's phone pings as the two of them are in the middle of shimmying to the music together, informing the duo that the others had finally arrived.
"Aww, phooey," Lani pouts. "Right when we were just really starting to have fun, too!"
"There's plenty of time left in the night for us to dance more, Lani," Sue chuckles, going to the side of the room where the two of them had left their bags.
What Sue doesn't know though, is that they've just sealed their fate.
"Tell them we're busyyyy!" Lani whines, diving for Sue's phone on the couch. "In fact, I'll do it!" she laughs, tapping blindly at the phone.
