Chapter 16-3

"One things for sure," Kleo was struggling to breathe. "I am never-ever..." she gasped out, "letting you live this one down." Marley hadn't been able to understand several conversations that had been happening the last couple of hours, so she was practiced at tuning out the current one between Kleo and Jonas. Instead of tossing the beach ball back, Marley waded towards her best friend. It was now eleven, and since it was getting colder the pool had begun to empty. The jacuzzi, seats by the fire, and the house were at full capacity though, and the things Marley has seen had only become more and more crazy the drunker she became and the later it got. Marley was feeling a good drunk though, a floating kind of intoxicated, the lights and the pool and the sounds the people intermingling like gooey slime in her brain. She couldn't focus on anything but every present moment, which made her feel free. Happy. Brave. She mirrored her best friends' position, bending an elbow over the