Foolin'

Part 7

Robin swiftly got into Kat's car, buckling her seatbelt. "Hey Kat!" She said enthusiastically.

"Hey Robin! Under the seat there's a bunch of tapes, pick whatever you want." Kat smiled. It had been a bit since she had been able to talk to Robin. She shuffled through tapes before saying "Ah-ha! Now this is music," as she popped it into the tape deck. "Well, this first track isn't my favorite, but this album is great." Robin gushed as the first track of David Bowie's Scary Monsters and Super Creeps album started.

"Yeah I definitely would have guessed you'd be a Bowie fan." Kat said with a light laugh.

"I was surprised to see it actually."

"I just love music in general. I don't let anything like how I dress or people I'm around dictate that, you know? Nonconformist and all that."

"Totally."

"Hey never know, I bet I could make a Metallica fan outta you. Just gotta give it a try."

"Well, I don't know about that. I mean, there's just so much going on in those songs. It kinda just makes my brain go funny?"

Kat laughed. "Alright, that's understandable."

"Hey speaking of that, I see you're sitting with Dustin's club there. The one that's led by that Eddie Munson guy. Thought you were the loner type."

"You know Dustin?" Kat asked curiously.

"Yeah he's like best friends with Steve and this past summer, we worked at this place in the mall called Scoops. Dustin would come in all the time and I helped them crack this code and we just bonded, really. That was before the, uh, mall burned down and stuff. But, uh, anyway, w-what made you decide to sit with those guys?"

"Oh, no, no. They all sat around me at my table. I made no effort whatsoever to go sit with them. Let me just get that clear. Eddie is just...persistent. It was getting tiring trying to keep him away, so I thought it would be easier to humor him."

Robin nodded her head, but had a pensive look on her face. "Well, for what it's worth, Dustin does speak highly of him. It's kinda funny though, whenever he talks about him, Steve gets this slight twitch in his eye, like he's jealous or something."

"He's just so annoying though! No matter how many times I say it, he just will not leave me alone. I've never seen anyone so hellbent on being friends with me."

"Can't say I blame him. I mean, I don't know him, like, at all. Not to judge some books by their covers, but it does seem like you two would have a lot in common."

"Ugh. The bright side is at least I know where to go for weed. I'm almost out. Not that I want to go to him. Just seems like...he's the go-to guy for that."

Robin snorted. "Yeah he's the guy a lot of people go to. Might be the only guy, I don't know. Don't usually partake in that, but, yeah. He doesn't have the best reputation, but like I said, Dustin really looks up to him, so, take that for what it's worth." Before Kat could say anything about Eddie, she pulled onto the street of the party. Figuring out where it was by all the cars scattered around the street.

"So I guess this is it?"

"Yep. And there's Steve's car over there, so he's here. We can just mingle with his group." Kat's eyes scanned around the cars to try to find a rust colored van, but came up empty handed. She hoped getting a few drinks in her would ease her mind and let her relax for a night and simply have fun.

"Uh, is everyone from school here?" Kat asked, getting out of the car. Robin just shrugged. The music was blaring from inside the house. Kids strewn about on the front lawn, backyard, all in various groups, wherever they could congregate. Kat was starting to regret her decision to even come to this party.