The games begin

Ethan walking into over to the pantry and opening it, the same place where the mixing bowl was found, he looks up to see the top shelf is lined with bottles of various alcohols, from vodka to whiskey and gin, "Hey can we use some of these? Also where's all the beer?"

"Bro, there's a room full of ****. And why would i keep beer in the pantry?" Nick laughs pointing towards the hallway which leads to the living room, while pushing off the counter to walk away with the goal of getting his car warmed up, "I'm out so you can figure this out."

"Okay whatever," Ethan laughs closing the pantry, "ready to have some fun Chloe?"

"Um... I'm not sure about this..." Chloe says meekly with a face of unsure fear for what's to come, "I really don't drink much this might be a bad idea. Like we can just skip all this if you want."

"Oh come on, it's not gonna be that bad, i'll take care of you, it'll be a fun time." Ethan says walking towards and down the hallway towards the living room where he sees Audrey and Jake have already left for. Chloe reluctantly follows, leaving her cup in the kitchen on the island top.

Once in the room full of blaring sounds and lights, with drunk high school kids all over the place, Chloe looks around to try to find Ethan. While scanning she sees Jake helping Audrey into his jacket, unable to hear their dialogue over the noise. It brings a smile to her face to see Audrey get some attention, Chloe is wary of Jake although Audrey has been needing something like this for a while. Although continuing in her search for her partner, she spots Ethan in the opposite side of the room from Audrey and Jake through the crowd of people. Slowly making her way over to where Ethan is by a coffee table and couch, she has to push her way through the crowd. Well for her it is more of her walking around dancing kids and saying "excuse me" over and over in her shy, quiet voice.

Once over, Ethan looks up to see Chloe standing before him, looking almost like a lost child, still with her painted reindeer nose and fake antlers. He has two red, plastic cups on the table with various types of **** bottles spread across the table. He is sitting on the sofa, leaning over to move around the bottles, "I had to fight for this spot so let's enjoy it while we can."

"Wow you are cute." Ethan says without thinking as his eyes adjust to truly see Chloe in the colored lights. He catches himself after he finishes the sentence and quickly looks down to avoid eye contact with Chloe, who sits down on the sofa next to him, blushing just as much.

"Thanks." She says with a slight smile, "So what's the deal here?"

"Okay so we are just going to drink until someone blacks out or something." Ethan says, pouring himself a cup of vodka and orange soda to create a carbonated screwdriver (if that's even a thing), he looks up to the side at Chloe with a genuine smile.

"Um... I don't drink much, i'm really not sure about this." Chloe says still with that concerned expression of hers.

"Don't worry, we can start off slow and you can work your way into it." Ethan says as he pours about a shots worth of vodka into Chloe's cup and then looks around at the non-alcoholic drinks set up on the table, "What's a drink that you could just chug forever and still love it? Everyone has one i swear."

"For me that would be coffee." Chloe says looking at Ethan with a smile, for a moment thinking about her coffee grounds collections.

"Well sadly we don't have coffee... um... orange soda?" Ethan says looking around for the two liter of orange soda.

"Oh sure! That's actually my favorite soda." Chloe says as her expression lights up at the thought of orange soda. Ethan finds it in the group of other half empty soda bottles and pours it into Chloe's cup until it's almost full. Handing the drink to Chloe, Ethan picks up his own.

"Cheers." Ethan says hitting his cup against Chloe's and tilting his head back as he starts to chug his own drink.