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As previously promised, here are my events of the evening

Humorously here are the notes I made about the evening to remind me of what to write:

· Who does Dan blame?
· Vaseline
· Stuck up for flick, bored Nano, "You coming?"
· Bouncer Talk
· Dan Had a shot with 2 blondes
· Nick shotted
· Palm play
· Blackmailed Naomi
· Blackmailed Flick
· Naomi and Sían blackmail me
· Dan kissed Ben
· Ben blonde convo
· Balloon fun (heart failure)
· Nick sets up Ben
· Nick feels Sían back
· Toilet tripping
· Flirting Flick, Stating facts, Hit Naomi
· Bondage
· More balloons, everyone goes awww
· Waiter harassment
· BT Phone Geoff
· Flick dancing
· Toilet Tripping
· Ice Ice baby, singing
· Hug Time, Nick Shakes
· Jan Waiting, Ben pleased
· Creep in the cover of darkness, bullet point palm


As I came home at about 3:30ish from school I logged into MSN & checked out my e-mails (a never ending stream of comments from people on ExpertsExchange) as I was doing that Ben logged in asking me if 8:40 was ok to pick me up... anyway to the point..

Ben rang me when he was outside my house, so I jumped into my shoes, flung my coat on my back and jumped into the car, Ben's Dad was in there (christened O2 after we learnt he offers an Oxygen Delivery Service) his Dad came across as really nice and talkative, I don't think there was a second of uncomfortable silence in the car. When we got to the UGC waiting there was Naomi, Sían and a girl who I’d heard so much about but hadn’t had the pleasure of meeting before, Flick. We tried to piece together who else we were waiting for and finalised our list with just Dan and then out of nowhere returns Nick, I tutted at myself for forgetting for the third time this week that he was going. Nick was wearing a shirt (I kinda liked his shirt actually, considering I’m not a shirt person) and turned up in his dad's car. When Nick was introduced to everyone and we'd hung about and talked for 5 minutes, Ben rang Dan, it was agreed we'd meet at "The Gatekeeper" and Dan would catch us up there (When Ben said Dan would be a little late, I grinned, "Dan" and On time" being oxymoron’s.)

At the gatekeeper, A pub (for my unknown friends), we rushed upstairs hoping to get away from the crowds of rugby/football supporters that had gathered in there to watch the game, however as luck would have it due to the match all of the chairs had to have been moved that evening, so we moved *back* downstairs again and then eventually found a few chairs and tables hidden away at the side/back of the pub. Ben, Jordan and Nick sat down at the available 3 seats when I noticed myself, Sían, Flick and Naomi had a slight problem and a quick glance around the room confirmed my suspicions that chairs were rather hard to come by. Naomi then in her fit of inspiration found a few empty chairs and tables in the no smoking section of the pub, so we (the chairless crew) sat over there and the 3 chairsitters followed. Now call me cynical, but I'm not a "Non smoking area" person, I don't smoke and frankly will never do, but my feelings are best summed up in this quote "Having a smoking area in a restaurant is a bit like having a peeing section in a pool" however when we were all settled I suddenly noticed the air, it seemed just well cleaner (more sort of purified), I asked Sían if she noticed it and after laughing at such an obscure statement she began to employ such an intrigued expression on her face "oh yeah, I see what you mean" then I put my finger on it "air-con!" I chimed. Nick made some comment that only a smoker going through cravings could possibly make, it was something like "Trust you lot to go in a *non smoking* area when I’m trying to forget about smoking" so we had a long discussion on it to which Nicks' tone of voice could best be playfully described as "You Bastard" when he informed me that perhaps if we were to stop talking about him thinking about smoking then he wouldn’t still be thinking about smoking.

Dan arrived after a while, the group seemed complete now Dan was there Dan went to grab a chair, as he did I grinned and said "Whose Dan going to go and blame this time then?" to my surprise he started to list some reasons, I said nothing (A)

Dan sat next to Ben and chat to him for a bit, I felt it best to let Dan and Ben to catch up, so I positioned myself next to Flick and Naomi and observed them. Naomi pulled out a tin of Vaseline from her bag (you know one of those shoe polish type tins but with Vaseline in) I made the first few obligatory jokes about what exactly she had planned with the Vaseline (I’m sorry but she was just asking for it) to which she replied "to put on my lips" in a matter of fact "I don't get it" sort of tone, I think I caught a smile from Flick. Naomi started to look really miserably bored and sat there playing with her Vaseline tin, I told her she was looking bored and didn't really see an change in her attitude, I grabbed the Vaseline tin off her and refused to give it back (to the cries of Sían calling me a flirt and reminding me I had a girl friend, *scoffs* like I would forget!), it might draw her attention to the rest of the group I thought, it did. Nick then said something to flick that seemed to instantly get her back up or scared her (I can't remember what) but I knew even 10 minutes in to the evening that what Flick thought of us was either make or break and if I left things how they were, we'd have all been labelled as the same, so I defended Flick over whatever it was he angered her over and joked to Nick something like "You've only known her for 10 minutes and got yourself into trouble! Do you have that effect on people?" Now I was expecting him to be quite offended because after I said it I realized what I'd just said made Flick seem more contempt with most of us and maybe not so much with him, it was like I’d improved communication with her by playing on his mishaps. Naomi had seemed rude fully bored earlier and I could see she was starting to go down that road again so I started thinking.. amongst my thinking I blurted out to Flick "you know your sad when all you can think of to keep things alive are board games" she laughed but shared her experience of twister, apparently it's better playing it with washing up liquid, I smiled, you can't really call me sad then if she's thinking of board games too so I mentioned "and scrabble" and got told enthusiastically that scrabble's really cool too. Naomi then said, "Your coming to my Birthday and Christmas party aren’t you?!?" I laughed loudly "Nano you always do this to me, you ask me if I’m going to things you have yet to invite me to”.. "Hannah told me something about you inviting everyone to some party when I wasn't at school a couple of days ago".. "Don’t worry I haven’t really invited anyone".. slight pause.. Flick seemed left out so I explained "Naomi never says *would you like to* or *I’m having a party wanna come* she always asks, "You coming" to stuff she's never told me about" Naomi said something about how it's "more exciting" that way.. "No it's just more confusing and off-putting to find out about things they weren’t invited to" Naomi seemed quite hurt "I only was asking if you were coming to my party" I didn't mean to make her feel bad, I said to her "All I'm saying is I never knew about the party and haven’t been asked about it”.. " Do you want to come to my party?" she said still downbeat but in a rather sweet way because I could see the logic behind it, Here was my chance to rectify things "Naomi I would love to go to your party" I said in the most sincerest way and smiled. She seemed contempt with that; to show her that I was taking it seriously I whipped out my Palm PDA from my pocket. Naomi started bellowing out the information in any old order, Having been a Palm user for well over 4 years now I kinda know the order it asks for information. "Date?" I ask, "17th December", we exchanged the time and the place "Done" I beamed in a "see now we get things done" tone.. Flick in the mean time was like "ooh a thingy" I take it she hadnt seen a Palm before

After about 10 minutes of Dans' arrival we got up and walked to "Old Orleans", on the way in the bouncer stopped Ben (the first to go in) Damn I thought, "What's going to happen now" the bouncer asked him if he had any ID, Ben explained that he had a table booked there and to our relief he let him through, after having stopped and moving slowly again I kept my eyes fixed on the person in fronts location as not to trip over them, the bouncer stopped me "You got any ID mate"? "erm i'm with them" I mumbled... he grabbed me and pulled me back "got any ID?" "I'm with them, Bens' booked a table" I said again (slightly annoyed at having been grabbed) "oh" he said, you never answered me, you just ignored me and looked down".. now i'm not proud of this bit but I can't just leave someone believing the wrong thing, "Sorry, but I did answer you" I said, he let us go in.. Sian looked at me "you did answer him the first time I heared you"..."I know".. She looked at me confused.. the general feeling was "hmm that was weired".. Prehaps he liked me I joked.

The guys all moved to the bottom of the table, leaving me to sit next to Jordan, flick and sitting opposite Naomi and Sian. 10 minutes after having been there we got approached by 2 blonde women carrying a load of shots, someone asked me what they were ( I think it was Flick) and I explained it to them what they were... "cmon it's a shot and a half here" the blondes were saying, I didn't feel up for making a fool out of myself but Nick (Wanting to boast about his drinking) bought one and Dan did.. I looked up, surprised Dan was going to drink a shot when he had to be doing a disco in about 30 minutes time. Dan shotted, took nearlly 5 minutes doing so and looked like he would drown in it... but eventually he managed to drink the well over 20% alchohol contained in the test tube like container. Nick then had his shot and drank it in like 6 seconds, Nicks' actions then were just funny, his actions basically were "Where's my shot gone?" Dan then not wanting to be outdone decided to pour vinegar into the container and drink it (To which I can't really comment about) Naomi looked bored again so I brought out my Palm and fired up "Smiling Bubbles" which kept Naomi silent for absolute minutes, I joked around with Flick, "this is usually what happens in school", "Keeps her amused for hours"

Dans' sobriety came under questioning, we started to wonder, I could see Sian observing him and so I commented to her about it and she said yeah she'd noticed it too...

Sian called my Palm a conversation killer because Naomi was now not talking (I wondered why on earth she was complaining joking) then Flick cleverly pointed out that it's not a conversation killer because we're discussing it now.. Naomi passed it over and told me to put it away, so now it was in my possession I started to play on Sonic and Flick wanted to watch, so I tried to get her to play on it. Naomi kept telling me to put it away, I told Naomi it would be unfavourable to keep on about my palm or a certain person she likes might recieve a text message But then they both ganged up against me and said how they'd tell Hannah i'd been flirting if I did that "ahh but who would she believe" I said then Sian said she'd tell her that I'd flirted with Naomi and that she'd believe it ... defeated I put my Palm away, not used to having been blackmailed myself

Dan had to go to the Disco he was DJing and on the way out he kissed Ben, Sian and Naomi asked if I saw him do that and I was like "no what happened"..."he just kissed Ben!" and Ben didnt deny it so I was like "hmm maybe those shots did have an effect on him".. "Is he going to be alright to do his gig?" I said, and ben said "I was just thinking the same thing" I asked Ben about those women selling shots, wondering whether legally employers were allowed to filter out interviewees on how pretty they were, although I didn't personally find them that gorgeous there was no denying why they might have got the job over any one else who might have applied. Ben said he also wondered that. Surely there are legal implications with picking employees over how attractive they are?

Nick then noticed the balloons on Bens' chair and decided to get them unknotted so he could inhale them, Before he did that I had to warn him about something i'd heared about potential heart failure from doing that, I couldn't be entirely sure of my facts but I knew there was something i'd heared suggesting I should warn the others. In the end everybody did it except myself and Sian, great I thought, I get ignored over potential heart failure so they get to do a 30 second squeaky voice.

Nick then started acting quite drunk from all the drinks and shots, he started to make sexual gestures behind Sians' back, then when she turned around he acted innocent, Sian became majorly paranoid and wanted to know exactly what's going on, Nick protested that he did nothing and tried to get me to agree, to keep him happy (and not have to explain to Sian) I just agreed there was nothing going on.

Nick told Flick to "just ask Ben out" whether she was or wasn't interested I do not know, she seemed irritated by him saying that. Using the balloon string I found I then asked Flick for her hands so I could tie them together (Hey it seemed a good idea at the time) she never let me but decided she wanted to tie my hands together too, I agreed, a male waiter walked past and gave us both a grin and asked if this was a new bondage technique. I then got told by Naomi that I was flirting with Flick, but then Sian jumped in and admitted that I generally am quite flirty and that I wasn't exactly giving Flick any special treatment, Naomi seemed disappointed by the lack of gossip. Then the girls suddenly decided they needed to go to the toilet, "Social Gathering" I joked. When they all returned I then proceeded to whip Naomi with a serviette (It had to be done) except this then meant Flick had to join in too because it was evident Naomi wouldnt be able to grab the serviette off me Women hey ?

Ben and Nick then harrassed the female waiter again if they could have some more balloons.. Nick then wanted to take a big long breath and do more donald duck voices, (my coinscience was saying "Hey, you did warn them, labour the point anymore and you'll be called a boring stiff") Nick when doing his funny voice said "Hello my name is Matthew and i'm a computer geek", Everyone then went aww and flick said "That's really mean" to which Nick backpeddaled and said he was only joking.

Nick blew up a few balloons and released them in to the middle of the resteraunt, it kept hitting the same female waiter (I'm surprised we never got chucked out) The evening drew to a close and everyone started ringing home and arranging lifts, I quoted my phone number for some reason or other, saying it quick enough for Nick not being able to take it in (or so I hoped) strangely he managed to remember it and proceeded to dial it to hoax call my parents (thankfully when I got back home I found out he'd dialed the wrong number) The Old Orleans was playing some music so I joked about that we should start dancing so me and Flick danced around a bit...

On the way home we heared the song "Ice Ice Baby" playing so I started singing it and dancing down the street and Flick joined in, saying how that song was going to get stuck in her head now

We left Sian, Naomi and Nick to go home because they were waiting for Nicks dad to drop them home and Bens' dad just turned up, I told Flick that i'd upload any pictures I get and put the entry on the website, she then asked if I had a website.. "I have many" I grinned thinking "woah what a chat up line that would make" Flick then totally took me by surprise and came to give me a hug.. I wasn't expecting it, Nick then surprised me by wanting to shake my hand.. Which was weired, I put it down to him wanting to make a good impression..

Jordan sat in Bens' car for a bit while we waited for his mum to pick him up, Bens' dad drove to the other side of the road by the CIA and parked there, Jan (Jordans' mum) then drove past even though Bens' dad flashed his lights as she drove past, he then (Bens' Dad) said he was just going to have a quick chat with Jan... When he came back Ben said he was quite pleased with his party and it went better than he expected.

At home I creeped upstairs and climbed into bed (1am) tried my hardest to tap up the entry on my Palm ready to post on here (after people made me promise to write an entry on it) so there I was 2am tapping away behind a little white glow.. I in the end decided to just stick down the bullet points for the evening (making them as interesting bullet points as possible) to help me jog my memory so I could put off writing the entry to another day

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