Benji placed his forehead in his right palm and shook his head as the intro to “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” filled the room.
Vicki stood and cranked the volume knob higher. “I love his voice!”
Melissa grabbed Vicki’s hands, and they performed some kind of drunken and stumbling boogie that loosely resembled the Ring around the Rosy game from kindergarten times but to the beat of the song playing now. Benji leaned back on his elbows, glancing at the woman he had been in love with practically his whole life holding hands and awkwardly jitterbugging to Wham! with the girl he had unexpectedly fallen in love with just a few hours ago.
Melissa twirled Vicki like a ballroom dancer, losing her balance and falling over the couch into a bin of old magazines.
“I’m okay!” she yelled from her backs
