The keyboard on 26-year old Dora's laptop clicked away as she busily worked on a project her boss had assigned her. It was due the next day, and she was only half-way done. If only she hadn't procrastinated so much! Her boss would fire her for sure! A voice then said "Good morning Dora. You're here early."

"Good morning Boots." she replied without even looking up. Usually, she looked at Boots while saying good morning, but today she couldn't stop if she didn't want to be fired. The air conditioning suddenly turned on and after a minute or two, the room got much colder. Dora shivered, and took another sip of her coffee.

"Darn, it's cold." she thought. If only she could look up from the computer screen to re-brew it! (AN: Does this make sense? My family doesn't drink coffee too often, so I wouldn't know.)

"Hey Dora, have you become a workaholic, or is it just your project?" Boots asked as he went to re-brew his coffee. How Dora envied him for that!

"Good question. I hope it's the latter." she replied.

"Good morning Boots and Dora!" another voice said.

"Good morning Benny." Dora and Boots replied.

"Dora, have you become a workaholic?" Benny asked.

"I asked her that same question. She says she hopes she's not." Boots replied. The two of them walked of to work on their laptops.

All the rest of the day, Dora didn't look up once from her computer. Boots brought her lunch, and Dora inhaled it as she typed. It turned out to be a bit messy, and she had to brush off some food bits from her keyboard. At the end of the day, Benny had to drag her from her chair in order to get her to leave.

It was only after she stopped working that she realized how tired her fingers and eyes were. She drove her way home drowsily, and when she arrived in her apartment, she plopped down on her couch and fell asleep.

Suddenly, the phone ran. Dora sprang up, and looked at the time. She had been asleep for two hours. The phone ran again, and Dora hurriedly picked it up. It was Boots.

"Dora, why aren't you at the party yet?" he asked.

"Party? What party?" Dora asked.

"The party at my house!" Boots replied. "How could you forget?"

"Oh, that party!" Dora exclaimed. "I'll get there as soon as I can!" She quickly hung up and ran out the door.

When she got there, everyone else was there except her. There was Tico, Boots with Isa(married), Benny with Bianca(dating)… Dora suddenly felt a pang of depression. Everyone else had some special person in their life except her. This party was a size-10 reminder of that.

"Hey Dora!" they all said at different times.

"Where were you?" Benny asked.

"I kind of forgot there was a party…" Dora said sheepishly.

"¿Cómo podría usted olvidar?(How could you forget?)" Tico asked. All of them had learned Spanish in high school, so understanding Tico was no problem. Tico had also learned English in high school, but he couldn't speak it very well.

"It doesn't matter." said Isa. "The important thing is that she came. Now, we shall start dinner." She led them to the dining room, and each of them sat down to plates of food and champagne.

"To our friendship!" Boots said as he held up his glass.

"To our friendship!" everyone else said as they clanked their glasses together.

"¡A nuestra amistad!(To our friendship!)" Tico said. Everyone laughed.

"I remember back when I was 15 at the mall with Bianca, and we forgot to 'check our appearances before we went out', and we freaked out. Such apathetic teen memories." remarked Dora with a chuckle.

"We also saw Benny that day, and he was like 'Here Dora' like you were going to bite him or something." replied Bianca with a smile.

"Hey! It wasn't my fault! Dora was acting really evil!" Benny countered. Everyone laughed at his choice of words.

"It's not funny! Dora's attitude back then was a serious issue!" said Isa.

"Sí." Tico agreed.

"Isa, why must you be so serious all the time?" Benny asked.

"I'm not serious all the time, I'm just practical." Isa countered.

"Yeah right." Benny muttered.

As the dinner progressed on, more old memories were told, and they began to get drunk. Benny, Bianca, and Tico were the most drunk. Boots drank a medium amount and Dora and Isa drank less than Boots.

"Hey, where's Bianca and Benny?" Isa asked.

"Benny went to the bathroom and I have no idea where Bianca is." Boots replied, his speech slightly slurred.

"Dora, will you go and get some more napkins from the laundry room downstairs?" Isa asked.

"Sure." Dora replied. She went downstairs, and when she opened the laundry room door, she found…

(Cliffie! MUAHAH!!!!)

…Benny and Bianca on the floor making out and getting heavy. Dora ran out of there as fast as she could, and started crying, for a reason she was yet to find out.