House Party

House Party by Eric Walter


Casey’s parents are going out of town to close on their old home. Casey is suppose to be spending the night with her best friend, Jennifer. Instead Jennifer lies to her mother and encourages Casey to have a few friends over to her house for a party on the night her parents are gone. Casey is hesitant but goes ahead with the plan.

The girls plan is to invite 15 people to the party. But as the day progresses, they are worried that not all invited guests will attend, so they bump the guest list up to 25. What difference is ten people? The night before the party, the girls aren’t hearing the buzz from the internet about the party that they think they should. So to not be embarrassed with having no one show up, the girls invite more people. Do you see where this is going?

Jennifer gets the idea that a party isn’t a party without spiked punch. She decides to pour a little gin, a little vodka and a little whiskey in the punchbowl. “No one will get drunk, we didn’t put that much in the punchbowl.”

As all teenage parties go, there were more teenagers than there was room and more booze than there was punch. It was a disaster waiting to happen.