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to herself that she had better not seem too eager but it wasn't working.
    "Cool I'll see you there, it's at my house." Grey had to hide the devilish grin that was developing under his innocent smile.

    Grey walked away feeling almost bad about all this but he decided it was for the best. All he was doing was using some random girls' feelings to get his best friend a new life. He didn't see what the harm was. It was all for Mike anyway.

    When Charlotte walked away she was so exhilarated that she almost screamed out she even made little yelps on her way to the locker room. She was nearly running. She had to tell Jill the news and was overly excited.

    Grey got home he called Mike and told him the news and Mike was more than excited to hear that they were going to throw a party. It was all that Grey told him for now. Mike was on a need to know basis, and right now he did not need to know. All was set and all Grey had to do now was get Jill and Mike together in the same location with a little alcohol and let the cards fall where they may.

Chapter Six

    The party was on Saturday night and all day Grey and Mike were busy getting it together. They were fortunate that Grey lived with his father who went out of the country most of the time, being that Grey's father worked for some government agency that required him leaving all the time. And Grey's mother after she was committed went to live with nature in Montana when Grey was six. Grey never really thought about his mother much except for when he was alone. But I digress we will get to that latter. On the other had Mike's Father was a trucker and his mother didn't really like him and never let him in the house until after she had fifth or sixth bourbon.

    This is essence left the two boys to their own devices, and their particular device this time was getting this party planned and set up. Since neither one of them were twenty-one their biggest problem was getting the booze. But they had a way; Grey's father had always left him a credit card for him. All Grey had to do was call up a liquor store and order it over the phone by pretending to be his father and have some kegs delivered. Grey knew that his father would never even look at the bill from the credit card company, and even if he did he wouldn't care. His father's only concern was that Grey not drink and drive. They had to wait an hour or so before the kegs got there so they decided to plan what they were going to serve for food.
    They went back and forth with different ideas; the first one that Mike proposed was to cover the living room with plastic tarp and have two tons of chicken wings ordered and then just leave it in huge piles on the tarp. That way everyone would just throw the bones on the floor and when the party was over they could just roll up the tarp and throw it out. Surprisingly Grey did not go for this although he did like the idea of quantity over quality; they opted to go to one of those club members' only grocery stores. The ones where everything is sold on palettes and you can only buy army sized quantities of food or get a new tire.

    After the beer came they were on their way. They spent a good three hours in the store and were a little frantic being that they only had a couple of hours before they figured people would start coming.

    This is what they bought there for a very reasonable price: 2 gallons of salsa, 1 gallon of onion dip, 3 gallons of nacho cheese dip, 2 pounds of corn chips, 5 pounds of assorted potato chips, 8 flats various drinks (for designated drivers), 4 water melons (because Mike likes them), 4 oversized jars of pickles and 15 boxes of popsicles (only because Mike liked the grape ones) 144 plastic cups (the smallest package) a box of assorted plastic utensils and 300 party plates. When they got home and started unloading they realized something was missing. While Mike was setting up everything in the main room, Grey ordered 150 pizzas to be delivered by 10:30pm (Grey asked for every