Adam entered the club and made his way through the people to a back corner. His friends had commandeered an area, posting the same "Happy Birthday, Adam" banner from the community centre party on the wall.
"About time you showed up!" Trevor announced over the pulsating music beats in the air with a stiff punch against Adam's shoulder. He held up a digital video camera and trained it on Adam from head-to-toe. "Took you long enough to change into this gay-loser clothing!"
Adam fixed his shirt and slacks mockingly. "Takes a bit of time to look this good," he joked, "Told you I had to help out a bit after hours at the centre!"
"Yeah, yeah, whatever!" Trevor said dismissively, "Just sucking up to the supervisors."
Adam shrugged. "Well you know, anything to get in good with them, right?"
"Don't you mean anything to get into Lynn?" Trevor bellowed over the music. He turned the camera on himself, "Ho! Booyah baby!"
Adam looked calmly at his over-stimulated comrade. He wondered how much it would just wreck the crazed Trevor to know how close he had come to fulfilling his shower-room fantasy a little earlier that evening.
Yet he felt no inclination to do so. He didn't have the slightest urge to brag to anyone about what happened.
"Get into what?" Cassie asked as she snuck up from behind and rested her hands on Adam's shoulders. She propped herself on her toes, pressing her soft bosom against his arm as she planted a kiss on his cheek. Her lips left a glossy red mark on his skin.
"Into your panties!" Trevor laughed. He zoomed the camera lens into her robust cleavage surging against her champagne party dress.
Cassie rolled her eyes as she swatted away the camera. She swept back her soft brunette hair. "He's supposed to be older than us, isn't he?" she asked Adam.
"C'est vrai. Some people develop more slowly than others," Adam said as he wrapped his arm around her waist and gave her a peck on the lips. He pointed to Trevor, "And some prove the theory of regression."
"Hey! Hey! I'm fully developed where it counts, bub!" Trevor said, grabbing his crotch.
The rest of the group swept around them and pulled them into their area of the club. The drinks were quickly passed into Adam's hands but he just as quickly and deftly managed to pawn most of them off to someone else. He just didn't feel like getting smashed this evening. Cassie, however, had no reservations about tossing back a few shots.
While most of the group, including Cassie, went out onto the dance floor, Adam, Trevor, and Juan lingered in a booth. They gathered themselves around Trevor's digital video camera, watching the display screen.
"That's not you, is it?" Adam asked, squinting as he watched the movie on the little screen.
"No man," Trevor said, waving his hand, "Cousin's friend and a chick they met on campus."
"Thank God. I wouldn't want to be caught looking at your pale dick," Juan snickered, "The girl's hot, though."
The trio sat quietly, crooked grins on Juan and Trevor's faces.
"They let you film that?" Juan asked.
"Hell yeah," Trevor replied, "They told me to!"
Adam shook his head and leaned back in his seat. "This isn't going to just stay in this camera. These people...they never heard of the internet thing?"
Trevor laughed, "That's the idea, yo! My cousin wants to start streaming this stuff and make some shitload of coin."
Adam grimaced and looked away. He was feeling more and more detached from the proceedings as the minutes ticked by.
"The girl is really damn hot!" Juan repeated, leaning in a little closer.
Adam shrugged.
Trevor, glaring out the women dancing on the floor, snorted, "Meh. Seen better."
Juan leaned in front of Trevor. "You mean Cassie?" he asked, "Do you think she would?"
Adam winced. "I don't know. Maybe we can just drop this talk already, yeah? I don't like the way this conversation is going. I know I wouldn't want to be involved with any crap like this."
"It's the girls that they'll pay for, stupid," Trevor prodded, "Cassie would be 'bank', no doubt. Mediterranean chicks are in demand. You know who else at the centre I'd pay major bills to see get her tight little ass screwed on camera?"
Pausing for a moment to think, Adam frowned then said, "No way. Never. Don't go there."
In unison, Trevor and Juan laughed, "Lynn!"
Adam rubbed his palm against his forehead then dragged his fingers back through his hair, shaking his head side-to-side. He didn't feel like joining in his co-workers' revelry about Lynn.
"Those Asian whore websites are just racking up the hits," Trevor grinned as he went on, "Lynn would be a hot item, you could be damn sure!"
Adam shook his head, his annoyance clear by the harsh frown over his eyes. "Look. Can we just stop talking about Lynn for today, for fuck's sake?"
"What about that bitch, Lynn?" Cassie asked, sneaking into the conversation again as she slid into the booth and leaned up against Adam. She looked hot and bothered, her face red and glowing from a light sheen of perspiration. A distinct scent of alcohol fluttered from her lips.
Still chuckling, Trevor said, "Nothing...except we may be coming down with a little bit of 'Yellow Fever' in this booth!"
"Are you for real? She's so old!" Cassie scoffed.
"No she isn't!" Juan insisted, "Thirty ain't old and, whatever, the woman is still smokin' as hell!"
"Amen, brother," Trevor chuckled.