Everyone raise your glasses!

[thenormalsquint]

When; Evening of Tuesday, August 13th
Rating; PG-13, at best. Angela's on her best behavior tonight.
Characters; It's Ginny's birthday party and everybody Ginny knows was invited. Let's handwave that and just show up. BTW, IT'S BLACK TIE. PUT ON YOUR SUITS, BOYS.
Summary; There's no legal drinking age in the City, but who says we can't party like there was one anyway?
Log;

This party was four years coming. The restaurant has set aside a large room just for this event and on short notice too. The food is plentiful and of various cuisines, with even a large selection of vegetarian options for those who prefer that. But of course, there is more alcohol than one has ever seen because Angela knows the people she invited and knows quite a few of them have liquor in their veins instead of blood. Rule of thumb: more liquid than solids every time.

Everything's set and ready for the birthday girl to make her appearance, so for the time being, Angela's flitting around the place dressed in more subdued colors than usual, choosing black because no one gets to stand out more than Ginny tonight, and socializing with the few guests that have shown up already.

Sadly, there are no strippers. Ginny nixed that one hard.

Comments

[cupio]

Oh Mae, leading her astray.

"Well, they smell pretty awesome so I won't complain."

[brobeforehos]

"That's the spirit!" she replies, and serves Clary her glass. There is no shadow of sadness in the corner of Mae's eyes over the people missing from this party right now, because Clary's presence makes her forget.

"How are you enjoying yourself?"

[cupio]

She's giddy, there's no secret about that. A party like this is one Clary's always dreamed of attending. Magnus' don't count if only because she had been half out of her mind then, looking for her mother. So it's nice, she feels relaxed and the alcohol burns a little on its way down.

"I like it. Have you tried some of the cakes? Awesome."

[brobeforehos]

"No, but I should remedy that, shouldn't I?"

Good, she deserved to be giddy and relaxed and looking happy. Mae's caught her at some of Clary's darkest and saddest, and it doesn't even take being a close friend to wish nothing of it on the girl - but Mae does think of herself a close friend. Keeping up the good mood will be a goal to keep.

"Where are the cakes?"

[cupio]

She slides her arm through Mae's and leads her to the cakes. "This is nice. We should do a lot more enjoyable things."

[brobeforehos]

"We should have time for more enjoyable things, but yes. This is very nice."

[cupio]

She knows something is the matter with Mae, but she doesn't want to push right now. Not while they're at Ginny's birthday. So she just stops short of the rows and rows of deliciousness and smiles.

"That one's the best. It tastes like heaven," a beat, a teasing smile, "I have it on good authority."

[brobeforehos]

"Careful, angel, some might think that's blasphemy."

[cupio]

"My whole life is a blasphemy."

But there's no point concentrating on that, not right now.

[brobeforehos]

Yes, let's not. She'll smoothly jump over that angst with a wink and a dry, "That dress is a blasphemy. But in a good way."

[cupio]

"Do you like it?"

She practically beams. With Mae it's often easy to forget how she feels about things. So she smiles down at the dress and then back up and grins some more. "I could get used to wearing dresses."