As it turns out...

Barry returned to the party, trying to find Sheila and Tes. At this point, his plan was just to get them dead drunk and subsequently knocked out.

As it turns out, he found Tessa first. Tessa wasn’t awake to see him though. She seemed to have kept drinking, and already knocked herself out with the ****. She was being carried by Thomas, his pal from college.

“Yo, Thomas. Going home?”

“Yup. Got quite the catch tonight!” he said while flashing a grin at the **** Tessa on his back.

Inwardly, Barry chuckled. Thomas was going to have Barry’s sloppy seconds, but he didn’t know that. Well, whatever. This takes Tessa out of the equation.