All four Heartbreakers made their exit. Following Mindy's lead, they moved directly into the heart of the small crowd. They were hearing a lot of oohs and aahs, and a lot of compliments for their Action during the massive school wide strip-down. Hoping to still any tensions between the four of them and the handful of girls at the party, Mindy had her girls pose and get pictured with them first, before her crew started having their pictures taken with the guys.
"Who is in charge here?" Mindy called out.
A brother and sister stepped forward, one a senior and the other a junior.
"What is the status of your party?"
The young man shrugged. "A lot of people left when the cops came by and had us turn the music off."
"Do you have alcohol?"
"It was a pot-luck deal. Everybody brought their own food. The beer left when the rest of the crowd did. We've got plenty of chips and soda, though."
"Do you have adult supervision in case there's a problem?"
"No."
Mindy was taking all this into account, when she noticed Rochelle talking to a young man, whom she assumed was the band member she'd been texting earlier. She called out, "Rochelle, give me a report as soon as you're ready."
"I'm ready now. All of the band members are still here. Their instruments are in that blue van parked across the street."
"All we need is somewhere to set up and somewhere to plug our guitars into." Zack said. "Somewhere that the cops won't show up to hassle us, that is."
Heather turned to address Mindy. "I've got three places we can go and a Resource for alcohol."
Mindy turned to the residents of the house. "I'm not here to take over your party. I can make certain things happen and I'm in the mood to do it, without expecting anything from you in return. If you agree to this, all I really need to know is how big do you want this party to be?"
"She's not kidding." Heather reminded them all. "Remember how many people took their clothes off the other day."
"Just us Goths would be okay." The young man said.
"Nope, nope, nope." Heather shook her head. "You guys always party the same way, and you let yourselves become divided into a tiny faction when you exclude everyone else. Let us at least in bring in the Emos and Stoners. Then you guys can start respecting each other more at school and start bringing all of your reputations up at the same time. Like my good friend Mindy always says, you need to step out of your little box every once in a while and take in the broader picture."
"What are your names?" Mindy said.
Mark was the brother, and Marci was the sister.
"How cute." Mindy replied. "We can handle the crowd control and the venue, and we will take over the food and drink. The band will play whatever music it was brought in to play, and there will be no fights to mess everything up. We can guarantee that. All you two have to do is host. That means you'll go around and introduce yourselves to whoever is coming in. This way people will be talking about the two of you next week at school. If you feel that you're too shy for that, one of my Heartbreakers will assist you. Heather, give me an estimate of how many Stoners we can expect."
"Ten, maybe up to fifteen. I'm sure they're all still up, but I don't know how many of them have rides to get here."
"And I'm sure we can round up at least ten Emos without too much trouble, plus whoever they can bring with them." Mindy calculated. "So, if we include all the people already here, I estimate about fifty or so heads total."
"The jocks have the only other party still going on tonight." Heather told them. "That means everybody else isn't there and they could end up here, or wherever we end up. But wherever we do end up, it will still be a Goth party, and you, Mark and Marci, will be the hosts. Are you two ready to do this?"
Some of the other Goths were urging the two siblings to go for it, until the older of the two finally nodded.
"Okay, we can start making phone calls." Heather said, excited to get things in motion. "I'll call for the alcohol Resource and the Stoner crowd to start mobilizing. Mindy, did you want to hear my ideas for a venue or do you have one of your own?"
Mindy turned and looked up the street. "I might just have one." She addressed the crowd next. "This is what's going to happen. Heather and I need to go and check something out. Amy and Rochelle will go inside and take stock of what you already have, and calculate what we might need for fifty or so people."
Mindy motioned for Heather to get back in the car. Even before the buxom girl was in the driver's seat, two Goths had already jumped into the back.
"This is so cool!" One of the guys said. "We're in a car with two Heartbreakers!"
Heather ignored them and asked her front seat passenger, "Where to, bitch?"
"Back to the cul-de-sac at the end of the street." Mindy said.
"On my way." Heather said, as she turned the car on and made a three-point turn in the street. "What's up there, anyway?"
"I saw a house with a For Sale sign. And guess who's selling it?"
"Ah, I see what you're doing there."
As they neared the property, Mindy asked Heather to set the Honda's highlights on the gate blocking the driveway.
"There's a lock on the gate." One of the kids sitting in the back pointed out.
"Not for long." Mindy said, as she stepped out of the car.
"That bitch is going to get us in." Heather smirked.
"But how?" The same Goth kid asked.
"Just watch."
Mindy went up to the gate. Through the glare of the headlights, she studied the lock. It was a combination padlock, and of the type that her mother typically worked with. In fact, her mother had most probably set that lock in place, another one on the pedestrian gate to the property, and another one on the front door of the house. Since multiple real estate agents might take clients up to see the house, they ended using the same combinations on properties all over the area. Mindy just happened to have her mother's combinations jotted down in her phone, because a long time ago, she thought she might one day have a use for such information. As it turns out, this was the occasion she'd been waiting for.
"Whoa, she got the lock open!" The kid in the back seat cried out. "How nuts is that?"
"That's our Mindy." Heather spoke up in admiration.
Once Mindy slid the gate open, she motioned for Heather to pull forward and onto the driveway. She jumped into the front seat a moment later.
"Let's go see the house." Mindy motioned up the drive.
The house was a single story structure. It had ample space for a social gathering on all sides, and there were no other houses anywhere near it. It was just sitting there by itself, a little house on the hill waiting for the party to show up.
"Do you think it has electricity?" Heather wondered.
"Yes." Mindy answered. "My mom's real estate company keeps the light and water running for when they do a walk-through with prospective buyers. It's part of their routine."
Sure enough, the motion sensors mounted on the garage doors lit up at the Honda's approach.
"See if you can position the car to light up the front door." Mindy said, as she again left the front seat. She glanced at the occupants in the back seat. "You two can come with me."
The two teens jumped out of the car and followed Mindy across the front walk. As it turns out, they didn't need the car's headlights, as the front entryway also had motions sensors on it. Mindy went to work on the thick padlock, which was secured around the doorknob and had a small cavity inside it. Once the padlock was unlocked, she was able to open up the tiny door to the cavity. Sitting inside were a pair of house keys.
"Voila!" She held the little key ring up and shook it.
"You're amazing!" One of the teens said.
"I know." Mindy smiled at their exuberance. "I have a job for you. I want you to go inside and turn on all the lights, including those for the backyard. We're probably going to end up with the band in the living room, so we'll have less noise drifting down to the other houses on the street. I want you to help the band carry their stuff in when their van gets here, okay?"
Eagerly, both teens nodded back at her.
"Okay, good. I'll go and tell Heather we found our spot."
Mindy took the short stroll back to the car.
Heather saw the wide grin on the blonde's face. "It's a go?"
"It is a go." Mindy confirmed, as lights started springing up all over the house interior. "Let's start making phone calls."