’ He said with a tone so cold and harsh, his breath was almost turning to fog in front of his face. When the voices in his mind didn’t reply, he t...ok a deep breath and stepped forward, making his way towards the house. A knock thumped from the front door, but it was barely heard over the garbled noise of the party. The drunken hostess staggered over to the front door and wrenched it open. Her open cleavage was soaked with beer, most of which from the plastic cup that she was swinging around.. Lars had never spoken to her before that night and had no reason to protect her. She wondered why he would do that. The concern about her elaborate prank theory returned.The next morning, she walked into the school and started to make her way to her first class. Somehow, the other students seemed somewhat friendlier. Even the Bimbo Squad walked past her without a single snide remark, which was unheard of. As she reached her AP Statistics class, she saw Lars standing in the doorway. She felt. Matt and Cora were taking shots and getting friendly with their own touches but nothing like what was going on in the water. A few more drinks and I bet they would be joining us. Seeing them enjoying each others company helped calm my nerves about what they might see between Mark and myself since they were only paying attention to each other.Even though they weren't watching, I reached down to hold Mark's hand and hopefully distract him. When I did he just slipped the other hand around me. Our home pod is already being turned into a home. We were set up on an island. It actually looks like it might have once been the rim of a shield volcano, because the island is shaped like a ring and has a large lagoon in the middle. Our island has the thirty pods belonging to members of third company. We have seven groups of three pods each, two of four, and then the single pod for Erica and me. There is one administrative pod that's on the far side of the ring from my home. It contains two.