"Over here!"

I look towards the noise and grin, seeing my best friends Lily and Lucas under a giant, tacky neon sign flashing "The Bird". Affectionately nicknamed "Shifties" after all the oddities you normally meet here on a Friday night it has been my friends and I's favorite spot to drink ourselves to regret almost every Friday and sometimes Saturday night since I turned the legal age to drink. I had yet another birthday here last week so I've been here well over my fair share of times. Tonight we heard there is going to be a birthday party here, and those are usually a great time to get free booze from happy partygoers so the three of us made a last minute decision to go out when we originally were going to stay in after my birthday last week.

"Ready to go in?" Lily asked and I grinned, hooking my arm through hers with Lucas right behind us.

"Let's just hope it isn't like last weekend." Lily and I chuckled at Lucas' statement as we walked through the doorway, pushing through an unusual large crowd of people. Shifties wasn't normally this busy, even for a birthday party. I grimaced, having second thoughts for the second time tonight about coming. Maybe this was a bad idea....