If I Ever Escape!

Story

If I Ever Escape!

It was almost 7 pm as Tamara Ueland hurriedly put lipstick on her lips as she looked into her bathroom mirror. It wasn't often that the 26 year old college student took a break from her nursing studies to party with her girlfriends on a Friday night. But Becky, Samantha and Sarah were persuasive and with her three friends to help keep an eye on her, Tamara didn't feel any harm would come from going to a party.

Ten minutes later she heard the sound a cars horn honk three times outside her modest studio apartment. She quickly headed for the front door, grabbing her coat in one hand and purse in the other. As she closed the door behind her and ran excitedly towards the parking lot, all three of her friends were waving to her excitedly. Becky sat in the backseat and pushed the door open as she held four Domino's pizza's on her lap.

The smell of pepperoni filled Tamara's senses as she climbed in and closed her door. Toby Keith's song, 'Prop me up beside the juke box' was playing on the radio as all four women began talking to each other. As Samantha backed her blue Saturn up and headed for the street, she told Tamara where they were headed. "I met a really sweet guy in my computer class last week Tamara.

His name is Cliff and he just moved here from California. Anyways, he told me he and some of his friends were going to have a party tonight and asked me if I wanted to go. He also asked if I could bring some friends," Samantha said with a giggle as she turned her head back and winked at Tamara and Becky. "Sarah and Becky already agreed that if they meet a guy and don't want me to drive them home when we're all ready to leave, they'll tell me.

The same goes for you Tamara," Samantha said as she turned back and winked at her friend. Though Tamara felt a little nervous, the mood in the car at that moment was 'electric' and she pushed her nervousness aside. When Samantha took a right on Oak Street she pulled into The Sheffield Apartments, a very upscale gated community. Samantha turned down the music and rolled down her window and pressed the intercom.

When she heard a man's voice, she smiled at Becky when she heard his voice. After giving her name and who she was there to see, she was asked to wait for the wrought iron gate to open completely before entering. Samantha thanked him and quickly rolled up her window. It was October now and the cold winds of Denver made all four gals shiver for a moment.

Samantha quickly looked down at the slip of paper in her right hand. Everyone looked out their windows for Building E. Once they spotted the building, Samantha parked and all four women huddled next to the car. "We better lock our purses in my trunk. I really don't know anyone at this party other than Cliff," Samantha said. Once all four purses were in the trunk, Samantha led the way.

Building E had three floors and they were headed for Apartment number seven which happened to be on the main floor. As they passed Apartment number one, the girls could hear the sound of loud music ahead of them. By the time they stood beside the door with the 7 on it, everyone looked at each other and smiled as they stared at the three colorful balloons taped to each side of the door.

By the time Samantha had rang the doorbell for the third time, a gal with a chiffon blue dress opened the door and smiled as she waved them inside. There must have been 30 college students in the apartment. To Tamara's relief she saw that there were about the same number of guys as there were girls. On the way over to the party, Samantha, Sarah, Becky and Tamara agreed that they would all leave the party at midnight unless they planned to spend the night with a 'friend.'

Tamara wasn't much of a beer drinker or wine. But she did like pina colada's. The gal who invited them in took their coats and they were added to the stack of coats piled on top of a six foot long folding table. Compared to Tamara's small but cozy studio, the apartment she was in now seemed like a luxurious mansion. She didn't want to ask whoever lived here what their rent was.