Lucas and The Time-Traveling Fog The Party Animals!

Chapter 16 The Party Animal

Don't act like an animal at the party, she said. Well, I'm planning on being one big party animal because it's been way too long since I've been to any kind of party that has some good booze. I wonder what kinda drinks my dad will bring. Will he bring something strong like a Fireball Fury or something small like a Coors or a Miller Lite? Whatever he brings better be good. I can't wait till Saturday!

When Saturday finally arrived, I drove to John's house, which is apparently in Downers Grove, even though I thought he lived in Dekalb, but I could be wrong, while Margaret, of course, went with John to help get the party started earlier. But before she could leave, I was told that guests should arrive at around 5:30-ish. So, when the time came, I drove to this Downers Grove town, no problem, but then I parked the car at this house on 723 90th St, which didn't sound like the street my dad grew up on.

First look at the house, and this doesn't look like the house my dad grew up in at all. It almost looks as though it was someone else's because I don't remember my dad's childhood home being Dark Brown, but I could be wrong. After all, the sun was going down. Hopefully, I was not the last one to arrive because a couple of cars were already parked on the driveway when I parked my car. So, I got out, locked my car, walked up these concrete steps, and rang the doorbell. John opened the door and said, "Hey Liz, you made it. Come on in, let me show you around."

I walked inside and took off my shoes where John gave me this grand tour of the place. He first pointed out where the bathrooms are to me, and as we walked towards the kitchen, I had no idea there would be a special guest at this party. The special guest was Robert freaking Shelton. The nerd who, for whatever reason, I got really angry with when all I did was try to help him pick out some clothes for his little sister.

As soon as we made eye contact, Robbie, who was leaning on a counter drinking something from a red solo cup, looked like he had seen a ghost. As John was busy giving me a tour, I walked towards Robbie, who I hadn't spoken to in a while but still tried to, but he keeps on ignoring me. Well, he can't ignore me this time, so I said with a calm but serious tone, "Hey Robbie, how are you doing?"

He replied back but sounded rude, "I'm doing good, you?"

I said with the same snarky-sounding voice as Robbie, "Great. Thanks for asking."

We then gave each other death glares, but John quickly got in front of our lovely conversation that we had and said, "Woahhh, sounds like you two know each other pretty well, huh?".

"Yeah, I guess you can say that," Robbie replied. John said, "Liz, if you can, please follow me. I'll introduce you to the rest of the group that are somewhere downstairs."

I replied, "Gladly...hmph" as I tilted my head away from Rob. As I'm walking down these wooden steps, I thought I overheard John say something about "Fix this" to Robbie, but I ignored it and thought it was nothing.

Downstairs, I saw Margaret, two other girls, and a group of guys all chilling by some fireplace talking. John shouted, "Hey Markster, where are you? We got company, so you better start gathering the crowd."

Markster, who was somewhere nearby but I couldn't yet see, replied, "Oh, we do...is it finally the pizza guy? I've been waiting for him to show for like forever."

John replied, "Wha...n-no, not the pizza guy and dude, you've been waiting on him for like two minutes. That's not forever. But anyway, that's not why I hollered for ya because Lizzie's here...you know Margie's friend, I want to introduce her to the crew."

Markster said while chewing something, "Her? Ahh, Johnny. You're making me starve over here. I wanted the pizza guy, not some girl. Don't do me like that again, man ... but, hey everyone, Liz is here. Let's go say Hi."