This was going to be the biggest party of the year, well the biggest in terms of what our group was comfortable in doing anyway. Drew and I got up early that morning to be able to start preparations, we needed alcohol, and all of the group had given us money for orders of what they wanted, there was a bottle of Jim Beam, a carton of Woodstock, a carton of beer, a couple bottles of Jack Daniels, a bottle of southern comfort, a bottle of Bundy Rum (red) and a bottle of Sour Monkey. Not to mention what else everyone was bringing that they could 'borrow' from their parents while they weren't looking.
After a trip uptown to Dan Murphy's then into the shopping centre next to it, we had almost everything that we needed to start the party. With over 3 hours left until everyone started arriving, Drew and I decided to go to one of the arcades close enough to walk to and from Drew's place. We sat in the arcade for just over an hour and after deciding that it was boring as we had already either played the games to death or already had the highest scores, we left the arcade for the lolly shack just around the corner. While we were in there, I noticed some Hershey's kisses and I thought they might come in handy at some point. So after buying red clouds, the kisses and some foreign soft drinks, we thought it a good time to head back to Drew's place and make sure everything was in order for the party.
As we arrived back at Drews we noticed that Iris and Cilan had already arrived, as their cars were parked out the front on the grass. Like a good host Drew was already in the door asking them if they wanted any drinks or were hungry and he was told they had already eaten and were not thirsty, we decided to finish up preparing for the party. There wasn't really that much to do because Drew and I had already finished most of the preparation so we decided to watch a movie while we waited for the others to show up.
Halfway through the movie was when everyone started showing up, starting with May and Max, then Misty, Brock, followed by Tracey and then Dawn, Paul and Zoey. They all arrived within ten minutes of each other and immediately made their way into the lounge room and sat down to watch the end of the movie not caring that it was over half way finished. We had all seen it before many times so we could quote the movie line by line and all knew who could impersonate the actors the best and we left them to quote the actors lines. Soon after the movie finished we all migrated out the back to have a smoke and Drew put a music playlist on that we all knew and we started pouring our drinks and that's when the night began.