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We walked to the party. It was only a couple blocks. I walk more than that to get to school.


"It's at a house?" I ask as we step in front of it. It's a very big house, though.


'"Yeah," answers Julie. "It's four stories. Six bedrooms, six and one-half bathrooms, a full game room with surround sound, and a pool in the backyard."


"How do you know all of this?" Jace asks.


"It's my house," she replies flatly.


"Half of a bathroom?" I ask this time.


"We're still remodeling one of them. It's half finished. Any more questions?" She asks like a tour guide. Well, I guess she is one to us, anyway. She knows this house the best.


I look from Jace to Paige to Julie. "Nope."


"Then, let's go inside!" She practically jumps onto the steps and goes inside. I'm the last to follow. Jace is holding the door open for me when I hear yelling. Specifically, my name.


"Rose!" yells a familiar voice.


I turn around to see Braydon running up to me. "Hey babe!" he says when he approaches and hugs me.


"What are you doing here? You weren't in the musical." At this point, Jace gives up on holding the door, and lets it shut on its own.


"Jenn let me come as her guest." He says excitedly. Then, as if he just realized something, he shakes his head. "Why are you here?" he adds.


"I'm Paige's guest."


"Cool! Let us now go inside and make out on a couch."


"But, I want food," I whine, jokingly, as he pulls me inside.


"Okay fine. We can get food first."


We go to the food table and there are hundreds of food items to pick from. Pizza, little sandwiches, chicken nuggets, fruit trays, veggie trays, and stuff I don't even know the name of. I see Jace, Paige, and Julie up farther in the line. They are at the end of the table. Jace is last in the group. He grabs some grapes and goes to sit down. I watch where they sit, so I can join them. I grab some cantaloupe and sit with them.


"Hey," they greet me when I sit down.


"Hi."


"Where's lover boy?" Jace asks, bitterly.


"At the fruit tray..." I trail off. I'm getting the feeling that Jace doesn't like him.


Paige takes a bite of her chicken nugget. "I thought we lost you back there," she says, her mouth full of chicken.


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