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So I did nothing

Like a real invisible nerd, who’d suddenly been discovered by the captain of the football team, I froze

Reid placed his hands onmy ear "Let the music move you"

"Uh" I wanted to ask how I’d never been asked to a school dance and I’d never actually danced in public I wasn’t that girl, the woo girl who partied on the weekends and stuck her face out of liht air just because she could

"Co fluidly downfaster as he lifted my hands into the air and twirled o

We danced for a few songs while Reid continued torturingevery inch ofindecent By the ti ended I was ready to losehad to stop

"Drinks!" Max shouted, waving us over to the table, where he’d apparently ordered several rounds for everyone

Control was ht see in control I pulled one of the bottles of water and chugged, only to have it slapped out of my hand

"No!" Max scolded ed "Probably don’t eat either, but that’s not the point The point"--he shoved a drink into o and being awesome So be awesolass into the air

I sniffed the drink

"What was that?" Max frowned "Did you just shed "First, I would never drug one ofmy head no

"Second"--he elbowed Reid--"your innocence is showing It’s is in your drink unless you purposely pour NyQuil into the glass, but people who do weird shit like that end up in prison, and you don’t want to end up in prison, do you?"

I had no idea howto prison, but I ith it "Are you there?" I asked sweetly

Max seemed to think about this for a while, then slowly shook his head "No, not at the tiood, then I choose no NyQuil"

"Aren’t you glad I was present during DARE week?" He grinned "Even won the da-free for LIFE"

"Yet you’re drinking" I pointed at his glass

"This?" He lifted it into the air "Aas when I have to babysit you guys" He knocked his drink back "It’s ift, take it or leave it"