“Okay Dad, pull up over there,” Gwen said, pointing at the huge Spanish-style house with a red tile roof.
Gwen was torn about going to this party. She’d usually be spending her Saturday nights working out in Dad’s gym or practicing fakies at Skater’s Point with her buds. Instead, she was in the backseat of Dad’s Escalade next to her boyfriend, Jose Hamlin, heading for the biggest bash of the season.
Lacey Zamora’s birthday parties were legendary. Every year since elementary she’d thrown an epic event that kids talked about all year. And since her birthday happened to be September 6th, kids actually looked forward to the beginning of school. The first one had a survival theme complete with a climbing wall and an animal-peppered obstacle course. There’d even been a den of snakes to crawl t
