==Los Angeles, California, United States==

Shane and Ryleigh made their way to the fraternity party that Ryleigh was talking about. Even though Ryleigh wasn't going to stay with him, she wanted to make sure that Shane didn't get too bored. He was a pretty social guy so she wasn't worried that he would run out of things to do.

"You know the drill, right?" Ryleigh asked him as they approached the house.

"Yes." Shane nodded. "Are you sure they'll let me in? You know how these frats are about random guys showing up."

"I talked to one of the brothers in my 'Intro to Education' class and he said he'd be more than happy to show you around as long as you're not a bore." Ryleigh assured him.

"I'm going to take your word for it." Shane sighed. "So I just go in or what?"

"Get right to it." Ryleigh pushed him towards the door before walking away slowly.

Shane shrugged and walked right up to the door of the house. While he was excited about the opportunity to party a bit, he was also nervous. He didn't know the kinds of people he would meet and how it would affect him in the future. Suddenly, the door creaked open.

"Who are you?" the student standing behind the door asked.

"Shane. Shane Johnson." Shane answered.

"Oh, you're the guy that Ryleigh was telling me about." the student said and opened the door just enough for Shane to talk in. "The name's Drexel Woods and I'm the president of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity here at UCLA."

"Nice to meet you." Shane nodded and shook Drexel's hand.

"Now what was the whole deal with you again?" Drexel asked.

"This is gonna sound embarrassing, but I'm not too good with the ladies." Shane admitted. "Ryleigh told he she'd get me into a party for the sole purpose of getting me to talk to some."

"Ah, I see the issue here." Drexel said. "You need some confidence building."

"I mean, if that's what you're insisting."

"How about we run through a few situations. Come on inside." Drexel invited Shane into the main room of the house.

Shane walked into the party room and saw kids dancing and throwing a rave everywhere. Girls were scrunched up on guys and loud music was blaring from the speakers. Drinks were being passed around and people were having conversations to the side. Shane had to agree that this was the ideal type of place to meet good looking girls.

"What do you think of the people here?" Drexel asked.

"They all seem like they're having a good time." Shane nodded.

"Now tell me which girl you find the most attractive." Drexel said.

"R-really?" Shane asked.

"Yeah, I'll call her over here." Drexel nodded.

"That brunette with curly hair over there hanging out with her friends is pretty cute." Shane pointed over to a corner where three girls were having fun.

"That's Julie Ward. Good choice." Drexel smiled and walked over to her. After about a minute of conversation, he brought her over to Shane. "Shane, I'd like you to meet Julie. Julie, this is my good friend Shane. Now I'll let you two get acquainted."

Shane felt the rush as he heard those words. Not only did he have a chance with an extremely attractive girl, she also seemed a bit eager to walk over to him. This could either go right or extremely right.

"What's up?" Shane asked her.

"Nothin' much." Julie smiled and handed Shane a cup. "This is my drink, but I'm not really in the mood to finish it."

"Oh, thank you." Shane nodded and took Julie's drink. "So what're you doing here?"

"My friends thought it would be cool to come hang out here tonight."

"On a Monday night?" Shane asked.

"Eh, I wasn't planning on getting really fucked up or something like that." Julie chuckled. "Besides, Drexel and I go pretty far back so he'd keep me level if I started to get belligerent."

"How did you first meet Drexel?"

"We went to high school together." Julie answered. "I never talked to him much until the later years but we became pretty good friends through that. Not to mention the fact that we hung around each other a bit since coming to college."

"Oh, that's pretty cool." Shane nodded.

"What about you? How did you first meet him?"

"Oh, I only met him first tonight. He's in a class with one of my friend's, Ryleigh, and she got us to know each other." Shane answered. He wasn't about to tell Julie that he knew Drexel for the sole reason of meeting her.

"Oh, that's cool. So you're new to this whole frat system, then?" she asked.

"Yeah, I'm not really familiar with the way this all works." Shane chuckled.

"Ah, I see." Julie nodded. "Well, do you want to move this conversation outside or something? It's kinda hard to hear with all the loud music booming around."

"Yeah, I'm fine with that." Shane said and the pair headed out the door. Once outside, Julie took a huge sigh of relief.

"It was way too loud in there. I don't do too well with loud noises." she told him.

"Really? How come?" Shane asked.

"I have really sensitive hearing and continuous loud noises just start to hurt after a while. I mean, I can deal with it for a short amount of time but hours and hours of it starts to kill me." Julie groaned. "I'm glad to be out here, though."

Shane realized that Julie really wanted to talk to him. Not to mention the fact that she was extremely attractive. This was his one chance to say something that could further their relationship into waters that he wanted to test. He had to ask her something right away to make sure that he had her locked up for the night.

"So, do you want to take this back to my room or something?" Shane asked.

"Uhmm..." Julie stammered.

"I mean, it's not too loud in there or anything..."

"Sure, I don't mind." Julie shrugged. "Lead the way!"

Shane couldn't believe his ears. Not only did Julie just accept his offer, she accepted his offer to go back to his room. There was only one way that this could go, and Shane was absolutely certain he had said the right words.

"Well, follow me then!"