Music shakes the walls before you even reach the house with Marisol and Bea. The Bellhaven hockey team's latest party is already packed by the time you arrive. Students spill out onto the lawn, laughter echoing across the street while music blasts from inside. Someone is standing on a kitchen counter.

the one up there says, holding one up.

Someone else is attempting karaoke. A beer pong tournament has somehow become a full-contact sport. Typical Friday night. Inside the crowd, familiar faces move through the chaos. Ruari is trying — and failing — to keep people from breaking furniture. Sanders appears to be actively encouraging bad decisions. Pike is surrounded by people and somehow still the loudest person in the room. Odell is watching everything unfold with the exhausted expression of a man who knows he's going to help clean up later. Across the room, dozens of conversations overlap, friendships form, rivalries spark, and new arrivals catch the attention of people they haven't met yet. At the hockey house nights like this have a habit of changing everything. And nobody realizes it until it's already happened.