House Party by Eric Walters

Author:Eric Walters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUV000000
ISBN: 9781554696390
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2007-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

I dipped my cup into the punch bowl and filled it up. I took a sip. It tasted a little bitter. Maybe the juice was starting to turn. It didn’t matter. I was thirsty. I chugged back the whole glass.

There were people everywhere, in every room. There were even some out front on the grass and in the backyard.

“Hey, nobody is allowed up there!” I yelled at a girl and guy on the stairs. They couldn’t hear me over the music and kept going. I ran over to the bottom of the stairs and yelled at them again.

They stopped and looked at me.

“There’s nothing up there but bedrooms,” I said.

“That’s what we’re looking for,” the girl said. The boy laughed. They started back up the stairs.

“No!” I yelled. “You can’t go up there!”

“You can’t tell us what to do,” the girl said.

“It’s my party and my house,” I said, trying to sound firm.

“Well, unless you’re my mother, you can’t tell me and my boyfriend what to do, so just butt out!”

They turned and walked up the stairs. I stood there, stunned. This wasn’t right. They couldn’t use my parents’ room. They couldn’t use my room.

I started up after them. Somebody grabbed my arm. It was a guy I didn’t know.

“This is your house, right?”

I nodded.

“Good. What’s the address here?”

“Um…Forty Calico Court.”

“Thanks.”

He turned around and put a phone to his ear. Over the music I heard him yell out my address.

“What are you doing?” I asked.

“Just telling a few friends where the party is. Giving them the address.”

“But there are too many people here already!” I yelled.

“There can never be too many people! You know how to throw one great party!”

He darted off through the crowd before I could say another word.

Just then the front door opened and more people came in. There were four, five—no, six of them. I didn’t recognize any of them.

This was getting really crazy. There was a couple upstairs in one of the bedrooms, and some kid I didn’t know was inviting other kids I didn’t know to come over, and more and more strangers were just walking into my house. I had to do something. I had to find Jen, and together we had to do something.

I pushed my way into the kitchen, looking for Jen. My eyes widened in shock. There was a girl standing over the punch bowl. She had a bottle of vodka in her hand, and she was pouring it into the punch!

I ran across the room. “What are you doing?” I screamed as I grabbed her arm.

She glared at me. “Careful!” she yelled. “You almost made me spill it!”

“You can’t do that!”

“I’m just adding some punch to the punch,” she said. “It was pretty weak until we started adding some muscle.”

“We? Have other people added things before?” I questioned.

“All night. I noticed you’ve been enjoying it.”

All night. That explained why Jen was acting the way she was. She was drunk.

But I’d had five or six glasses myself…My stomach didn’t feel the best.

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