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Living Like A Dead Poet
Chapter 11: Partytime!
Jeffery Anderson's parties were legendary. Charlie had grown up hearing the whispered stories of the times had at the Anderson house while his parents were away. Ever since he had been a chubby cheeked 1st year he had dreamed of being invited to one of these legendary events. So when Todd mentioned offhandedly that his brother was having some friends over during the spring break Charlie simply invited himself and all of the other poets to stay at his house. This was a once in a lifetime event he was not going to miss out on. He had been planning it for weeks, what he would say, what he would do, what he would wear, hell he even had a plan for how he was going to artfully muss up his hair.
However when the day finally rolled around Charlie was shocked and disapointed to say the least. In hindsight he didn't know what he had expected, but whatever it was it wasn't a handful of college-aged preps sitting around discussing politics and drinking wine without the intention of getting drunk. At first he had shrugged it off, the girls were probably due to arrive any minute, this was probably just some sort of weird pre-party ritual he hadn't heard of. But as the night dragged on and the discussions got more and more boring Charlie had given up hope that an gaggle of strippers would burst through the doors (a rumor he had heard about an Jeffery Anderson party when he was 14). He couldn't even get drunk because when he asked for more wine the guy with the bottle laughed at him and then tried to engage him about the woodsy undertones and the fruit notes.
Neil on the other hand was having the time of his life, finally a party where nobody was trying to shove cup after cup of whatever they could find in their parents liquor cabinets down his throat. Where the discussions were about art, and literature, and politics, and not who would end up passed out in the bathtub. (It was usually Charlie anyways, so it's not like it was much of a discussion.) Jeffery's friend we smart, witty, and unbelievably charming and it had nothing to do with a female presence since there wasn't one. Not that Neil had anything against girls, but the kinds who tended to populate high school parties usually turned his friends into a mass of drooling idiots. Yes, these were the kinds of people he needed to be getting to know better.
On the other,other hand Todd was furious. Not that anyone would have been able to tell since he was a master at keeping his emotions at least somewhat hidden. Or at least he thought he was a master at keeping his emotions hidden until Meeks asked him why he was cletching his jaw like that and glaring at Jeffery. Todd didn't mind his brother, he really didn't, sure the whole valedictorian thing could be wearing at times but as a person Jeff was thoroughly likeable. Except at moments like this when he was reeling in Neil with his semi-intellectual drivel as Neil gazed at him with his big saucer eyes. And his friends were worse talking about the gap years they had taken in Europe pretending to be bohemian when really they were being sent money every two weeks and only going to museums and monuments so they could say they had. He hated them so much. Especially Spencer, that tool luring Neil in with musings on Shakespeare's thoughts on the human condition. Honestly nobody had anymore insight on the human condition than anybody else the only thing they could do was word it more eloquintly.
He fumed over this until all of Jeffery's pompous idiot friends, and his own decidely less pompous friends all cleared out. Even Neil who he was too angry wiith for falling for their crap to be lured by his dark teasing kisses. Okay, so he was lured but he was still angry, until panting softly Neil murmured "I don't see the point of Europe really, unless it was with you."
Maybe Jeffery's parties weren't so bad afterall.
A.N. I will give a billion Pitts Points to whomever picks up either of the references.
-C