Alone in the corner is where I was sitting, while the music got louder and everyone sang. The air thick with smoke, and smelt like a gym. People rubbed up each other, kissed in the darkness, and a fight had broken out on the wet backyard lawn. Few had passed out, scattered like sticks as I watched their friends drag them out the front door. But as the night grew on not many were standing, but crawling like worms across the lounge room floor.
I still wonder how she came to see me, even talk to me for that matter, because I\'m sure I didn\'t look appealing at the time she approached me. She smiled and sat down beside me, telling me how her fri