Jackie arrives at the party

Marie heard Jackie's signature knock on the door and rushed to get it. The two girls shared a gleeful hug as Marie breathed deep, inhaling as much of Jackie as she could. She stepped back and checked out Jackie's outfit - it was a dress that she had just picked out for her.

"Damn girl! I think you look even better than you did when we bought it yesterday!" Marie exclaimed.

"Well, you know, I've been working out." Jackie smiled.

"Come on, let's go get you a drink."

Marie led Jackie to the punch bowl where Lisa and her boyfriend, along with all his jock friends, were. All of the guys stared at her, including Lisa's boyfriend Steve. Jackie was embarrassed by the attention, but more than that, she discovered that she also was flattered by it and enjoyed it. Lisa gave her a quick elbow, "Looking good, girl! Let's catch up later."

As they walked away to a gaggle of boys that Marie had corralled, the jocks all began asking Lisa who this absolute hottie was. They didn't believe that it was her bookworm friend. When Marie rejoined her little circle, it was clear that there was a new alpha at the party, and it wasn't Marie.

When the boys asked what she liked to do, she mentioned mostly playing her MMO, reading, that kind of stuff. Most of the boys pretended to be interested as the conversation quickly ground to a halt. Marie did a little mental facepalm, but some guy named Kevin was overjoyed to meet another player, in real life even. And it was this unbelievably hot girl!

Just before they could get talking, Derek, one of Lisa's boyfriend's friends, came over to chat her up. The three girls had all talked about how absolutely hot this boy was. For a second, Jackie didn't realize that he was approaching her; she assumed he was going somewhere else. But behind him, he surreptitiously saw Lisa waving for her attention.

"Hey, Jackie, right? Lisa's friend," he commented.

"Uh, um... yeah," Jackie stammered.

"I'm Derek."

"I know. I mean! Um, yeah, we met before once," Jackie was making such a mess of this. Marie mentally did a double face palm.

"Oh, yeah? Lisa's told me so much about you. You wanna go chill somewhere?"

"Well, um," Jackie felt Marie's elbow attempt to dig into her side, but her powerful body deflected it. Still, she got the hint. "Yeah, let's go!"