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carefully, slowly and kissed me. He was soft, gentle, and yet I could feel my heart hammering hard against his and his hand snaking up and around my waist.
    â€œWhere have you guys been?” It was Julia, with Treena right behind her. “Oh, sorry,” she said, watching us as we broke. “But someone brought a stereo. And they’re playing music. And dancing. And I thought you might want to dance.”
    I shrugged. “Sure,” I said. “Dance?”
    â€œDance,” Mike said, and we got up and followed Julia and Treena back. Folks were dancing in the middle of the floor, Prince’s “Purple Rain” blasting. I stood at the edge and looked at Mike.
    â€œCome on ,” Julia said, dragging me by the arm. I looked over at Mike.
    â€œI don’t really dance,” he said, running his hand through his hair. “But you can if you want to.”
    â€œCome on! Dance with us!” Julia said, pulling me away. I smiled and followed her onto the floor, not that I had much choice. I danced to “Purple Rain” with Julia and Treena. Julia was a good dancer, but Treena just scanned the crowd for boys whenever she danced, which caused her to bump into people. I felt awkward and weird dancing in front of Mike, even though by that time I was starting to feel pretty drunk. I danced for a few songs and then leaned over to Julia and told her that I was going to sit down.
    â€œNo! Keep dancing with us!”
    I shook my head and told her that I would later. I walked back over to where I’d last seen Mike, but he wasn’t there, so I went around and found Jake. It took a while to get to him, as the place was now full to busting with drunk partygoers. When I finally got to him, he was standing with a bunch of guys and they were passing a joint around.
    â€œHey. Did you see where Mike went?”
    â€œI’ve made serious bank tonight,” Jake said.
    â€œAwesome. But, have you seen Mike? I was with him a second ago and then Julia came around and wanted me to dance with her.”
    Jake squinted thoughtfully. “Come to think of it, I thought I saw him running off with some of the other guys from track. They just showed up. I didn’t invite them. They went off somewhere.”
    One of the dudes standing around looked at me. “Yo? You mean that little Mexican dude? The one with the North Face jacket, orange?”
    â€œHe’s not… yeah. That one.”
    â€œOh, yeah, he went off with some guys. Those guys are fucking cokeheads man. I mean, I like coke and shit, but they’re like, rich and shit, and all they ever do is coke. I think that’s how they run so fucking fast,” he said, cracking himself up.
    â€œOh,” I said, looking at Jake, who shrugged.
    I wasn’t going to go running after him like a freak, so I figured I’d just hang out until he reappeared. I felt bad then about abandoning him to go dance with Julia, but she’d been so insistent that I felt like I couldn’t say no. I went to the kitchen to get another drink. It was crowded and I had to fight my way to the counter. There wasn’t much left, and so I pulled my flask out of my pocket and filled it. As I walked back over to Jake, I started to worry about the police coming, but on this side of town, it was kinda wild anyway and I figured the neighbors probably wouldn’t complain. The problem was that the cops drove through this section a lot and if they spotted the lights and heard the noise, they might decide to check it out.
    I stood around with Jake and his pals listening to them talk about heavy metal bands. Dudes killed me. Whenever they got together, they always had to talk about shit they knew about and compete over who knew more.
    â€œJake. You think Mike left?” I asked, turning to him.
    â€œOh! Look at my little cousin! She’s so cute!” He said, pulling me into a headlock. “She’s so cute and all in love. You got