It was the first weekend of the new school year. It was still warm and muggy as August seemed to drag on, and on, and on. But for college students, this was the best time of the year. Classes had just begun, but the work load hadn't. The first two weeks of school were always more "play hard" than "work hard." And this weekend was to be no exception.
The small group of friends gathered at a local pizza place for dinner. It was greasy, New York-style pizza, and it was some of the best in town. After the pizza joint, it was time to go back to campus where the pre-partying would begin. Thankfully, one of the members of the group was already 21, a result of a few too many parties and not enough homework submittals on time. So procuring the requisite alcoholic beverages was not a problem. They returned to one of the member's room and began to have a good time.
They played cards, watched some baseball on TV and mostly just hung out. Conversations were had on what the plan was tonight. Like most weekends in the past, there wasn't a set plan. The group would just kind of "go with the flow" of what was going on tonight. The frats were rushing again of course, so there was to be no shortage of parties. So the group decided to head down to the cul-de-sac of frat houses a few blocks from the dorms.
About 8:30p.m., the group headed out. A few of them had met some members of some of the frats and had become at least acquaintances, so they felt they should say hi to some of them. By 8:30, the parties were just in the very beginning stages of getting started. It was still slightly light outside, and some of the bands the frats had hired for the evening were setting up. So the group mostly just hung out on a couple of benches near the street and waited for more people to show up.
Around 10p.m., the partying officially got started. Bands were playing some sort of reggae-funk-rock music while in other houses DJs were spinning some house music. Soon, there were people everywhere.
There were two members of the group that an outsider could tell were getting more into each other as the night went on. They had a great time together at the pizza place earlier, and they laughed and goofed off together in the dorm drinking some cheap beer. This might be an exciting night for both of them.