I manage to let in a hint of light, making me close them once again. I can only manage a small moan as I struggle against the heaviness. "Come on," he...encourages, his voice too close to me for comfort. I groan as my eyes inch open fraction by fraction until Chandler's face comes into view. I see his lifeless gray eyes peeking out from underneath his black hair. Stubble from not shaving is forming on his cheeks and part of his chin. My eyes dart away and instead focus on the off pearl colored. Everything was a joke to him, even when it shouldn’t have been. When Jim’s dad died on his birthday, Brian showed up with ‘deathday’ presents. That obviously hurt the friendship between the two of them pretty seriously. Brian meant it in a way to relieve tension. It didn’t quite work out that way. I don’t think Jim ever really forgave the guy for it. Ahh, Krystle… or Krys as we called her. When we all started hanging out, she was merely a tagalong. We were a group of guys, and a girl would. He was very quick to follow the instructions and instantly moved towards the place.I excused to my aunt saying that one of my college friends was waiting outside the function place and I will be going out with her and will be directly coming to the place where we were staying a little late that night.Then I went near the parking area and saw Suchit waiting for me in one of his cousin’s car. Even he wasn’t from Kolkata.I sat in his car and he started driving without uttering a single word. I was. On top of that, people seemed to be split on the cause.Me.Half the kids considered Jay a slime ball who deserved what he got and the other half were in the "He's a football player, let him get away with anything" camp, so the rally was anything but normal.After school Beth and I grabbed a quick McWendyking Arbycastleburger and got to the field to find Cindy and a bunch of our friends had staked out part of the bleachers and had two seats saved for us. At least I wouldn't have to worry about.