When I turned eighteen my friend Cara had bought me a hypnosis pack. We had been fooling around with many magical and magician supplies like hypnosis, rune stones, faery dust and tarot cards ever since the Magicke Shoppe opened down the main street. It was actually located down a side street off the main one. So now by Cara's twenty-first I was pretty good at it, as I had been practicing for about three years. At every birthday party I had performed it as a party trick, always on the birthday boy or girl. Nothing more than clucking like a chicken or running around like a monkey. All harmless jokes and pranks. There was always someone there that recorded it to play back to the victim.
"So remind me again who will be there tonight?" I asked my friend already knowing the answer. I looked at her and smiled almost tripping over a broken bit of cement sticking into the air. Cara giggled as I gained my composure and pretended like nothing had happened.
"Only the four of us Cat, you know that. You can still bring your hypnotist act along if you wish. I'm sure Pat will have a camera on him." Cara said to me. "But I wish Jane could have been here. Work has flown her interstate for the whole weekend. It sucks." Jane was Cara's girlfriend. "You can always bring your boyfriend along." I shook my head.
"Nah, he doesn't know you that much and I don't think he likes Luke very much. Anyway, it'll be like old times. The four of us trooping around being idiots." Cara laughed at that. When we were younger we were always getting into trouble from one person or another. "Do you think the boys will be there by six? Or do you think it'll be more like seven or eight?" She laughed again.
"Probably one of the latter." We both cracked up. Pat and Luke were renowned for being late to everything that we organized no matter what is was or when it was. "Okay so we need chips, dips, drinks and, my personal favorite, ice cream." I nodded as she read the food list for the party. "We will also order a couple pizza's. Maybe we should message the guys and find out when they are coming and what pizza they'd like so its ready when they get there."