Talking with Gina and Melanie led to a conversation with Ben, which led to talking Roger out of the catwalk—drunk people should not be forty feet in the air—which led to a lengthy discussion with campus police and a promise to keep the noise down. And short the hundred-dollar bill that Vin kept tucked in his wallet for times like those. He wondered if parties on frat row were just as expensive, or if there was some discount that the Greeks had thought to work out ahead of time. Then he’d had to get the storeroom key from Shan to load more Cokes into the ice buckets, separate two girls whose Yin and Yang costumes were starting to look more like Fifty Shades of Gay, and remind Parker firmly that no costume was no costume, and to please go put on some pants. And after all that talking, he nee
