There were several other students I did not recognize sprawled unconscious around the courtyard. I attempted to do a quick count, but the action of Da...ryl stalking towards me caused me to stop. At that moment I remembered Wendy, Tina and Angela and glanced around looking for them.Tina and Angela were standing a short distance from the bench where Tristan remained pinned down. Tina obviously wanted to rush to him, but the presence of a bat- wielding thug caused her to stay away. I was unable to. Kathy accepted, but she told me her bother couldn't make it. Eddie asked a few of his friends and by the time of the party, we had six girls and eight boys, including my brother and I.The party was typical of kids our ages. The boys hung around in a group and so did the girls. We swam in the pool, ate pizza and drank sodas. Mom had bought a cake with both mine, and my brother's names on it as well as ice cream.By the time the party broke up, there were only four of us left, my brother, his. He turns to see smoke rising from the port where the flash drive used to be. The monitor is no longer working and the computer is eerily silent. Fuck. That’s one bad ass device. He turns back just in time to see a man in front of him.“Who the hell are you?” the man roars.Grines doesn’t waste time with idle chit chat. With a quick movement, he grabs the man, yanking him forward and slams his head into the door frame. The force exerted from the blow is enough to knock the man unconscious. Grines. With obvious reluctance Linda let me lead her back inside, I felt I'd be safer in a crowd, less likely to succumb to the thoughts running through my head, thoughts that I had earlier been thinking about Joyce. Then again they weren't the same, there was something more than the purely physical in what I was thinking and feeling, yet none of it was brotherly. As we entered the hall Linda took my hand in hers and smiled happily at the Rotarian president as he looked our way, he smiled and nodded.