Come take my hand; come and dance with me; My sweet lips will make you stay

I'm in the lab at school, before chem class, and I'm going to see how much of my previous post I can recreate before I have to go to class.

So the barbacue really was a lot of fun. Most of the Sonic crew was there, except for the cooks and managers. Managers for obvious reasons (and by 'managers', I mean Javi, Dave, and Mark; Rudy, Ray, and I were there). The cooks have been going through a shift in demographical makeup. That, and our turnover rate is a lot higher with cooks, so they're not meeting the rest of the crew as much, *and* it takes them a lot longer since they're in the kitchen the whole time anyway. Freddie was the only cook there. Most of the front crew was there - Kenny (it was his place, after all), Tracy, Megan, Kristen, Erin, Katie, Emily, Erica, Allison, Sunny, and probably one or two more that I'm forgetting.

It was cool seeing Katie there; as usual, her and I were the only ones not drinking. Normally, under those circumstances, I'd be hanging out with her, but I had... other things to tend to. If you know what I mean. Which I don't.

It was kind of funny. Kenny has a little porch outside of his house; that's where the two kegs were. He also had some Rt 44 cups from work. For a while, it was kind of a 'VIP' lounge for Sonic employees, and even after that, that's where most of us hung out, except for the ones that went inside.

I hung out with Lilie all night. We mainly hung out on the porch and talked with the rest of the crew. It was a lot of fun. At one point, Erin's roommate asked her if I was her boyfriend. After a noticeable moment of silence, she said 'No. It's probably for the best. He's my boy.' and rubbed my on the back. Or something like that. I felt really sad. I almost left, but it's probably for the best that I didn't.

I didn't drink, as usual. I did have around 11 cups of water or so. Lilie tried to get me to drink, but she has no idea how stubborn I can be. She will, though. Possibly. She had a few beers, nothing too heavy. At one point, I did finally put my arm around her. It was weird - she responded. She kind of cuddled up next to me and reciprocated, for the most part. Later, she started tickling me. It wasn't really fair, 'cause she's not ticklish at all. So the only real way I could defend myself (as those who have known me for a long time know I'm *extremely* ticklish) was to hold both her hands. Which I did. And she held mine back. She did try once or twice to escape, but she seemed... content to do so. Be held and hold, I mean. She did like, it's hard to explain, lean in a little and just look at me. It was weird. A little bit after that, she started to get tired and left. Well, not quite that quickly. I walked her to her car (there were a *lot* of cars parked in Kenny's front yard; luckily, she had a clear path out), and we stood outside it for a bit, talking.

Did we kiss? You'll have to come back for part three of this enthralling post, as I have to go to Chem class now.