Right, I'm fairly drunk and coming from a very fun after-party which was interrupted by, of all people, cops (we were blasting eminem too loudly, apparently), but:
puzzlement!
hyena gets to dinner party (different from cop-ridden after-party, mind you) and makes acquaintance of spiteful rival for the night. spiteful rival is extremely formal with everyone, while party climate is not formal at all. hyena sits back, examines and wonders. spiteful rival is about 50 and hyena has youth and beauty (yeah, right). still, hyena drinks. favorite-guy-evah drinks too.
anxiety!
hyena has, like, feelings - or at least the consequences of feelings, which amount to unwillingness to speak, wanting to be in the other room yet not wanting to be in the other room... well, everyone knows the routine. favorite guy for some unfathomable reason comes closer (well, 'unfathomable reason' my bu: he asked me for a drink). then he comes closer. and closer. and closer. hyena cannot make any sense of it. hyena throws looks around, feeling lost. spiteful thingy is still there. hyena tries to go rampant with witticism, which favorite guy appreciated loads one aeon ago when hyena didn't really care, but they come out half-hearted: everyone knows that wanting to be funny and being funny are not in the same league.
honestly, i had a couple of good jokes in. only a couple
suspense!
lights go out. honestly. hyena believes it's a scheme, the couple hosting the party wanting to highlight someone's entrance with lights going out. then the male half of said couple shouts "honey, turn off the electricity in the bathroom" and everyone realizes it's not. in said surreal moment, favorite guy steps even closer and ends up bumping into hyena (it's always
that unromantic. men do bump into me). hyena tries to keep on cracking jokes in a very low voice that's meant to be sensual, but probably just sounds like someone with a sore throat. spiteful whatchamacallit is lost in the utter darkness.
fun!
hyena can't really spend time with favorite guy on purpose - not enough guts, not enough savoir faire, not enough anything and too much alcohol. oh, and also too much of a taste for proximity on his part (i KNEW he liked me back. heh). so hyena plays with several kids sired by a number of different colleagues. hyena has mad fun, and occasionally keeps on intruding on conversations favorite guy has with other people, looking utterly impolite and completely berserk. oh, and master rahvin will be happy to know this: one of the kids, a very cute two-year-old, was playing with a model of a dwarf house, complete with dwarves in front of it. the dwarves were apparently doing their laundry and there was real water in the dwarven laundry. hyena got most of that water on her left leg, when the two-year old grabbed the toy and decided it was hate-kill-destroy time (i couldn't stop laughing).
hostility!
at some point, everyone's gathered around the table. spiteful woman has a very, very sour look. hyena concludes that she's having a bad night/week/life or - rather probably - she didn't really want to go out tonight. anyway, favorite guy cracks good joke, looks at hyena with the 'you're the only one who understand' look... the stuff with smiles and raised eyebrows, practically an emoticon. hyena responds to the look with a thirty second delay, looking like the universal fool. anyway, time passes and one of the colleagues with the small kids decides to leave because the kids are restless. he makes to collect his Lego construction set, and hyena says 'Hey, I really do love those, can't we keep them?'. colleague says 'It's alright if you bring them back on monday'. hyena ponders and then concedes that no, the colleague can bring them home, but says something like 'i am totally in love with Lego'. spiteful i've-met-you-tonight-really-and-you-don't-know-me gives hyena a brutal, evil look and says 'I've never been remotely interested in Lego'. hyena adopts the wtf? look because the remark was really out of place.
drugs!
a break ensues - hyena goes out for a smoke with her boss, with whom she had a very angry spat a couple of days ago. he apologizes for having been stupid, she confirms friendship and appreciation, and they go on discussing the possibility of smoking hash. unfortunately, nobody has hash so they have to forego the option. it's funny how hyena's boss makes foolish comments on one of the women at the party. hyena laughs (that's what hyenas are for, after all).
cold, cold!
hyena and boss go back into the house. favorite guy is leaving with spiteful wtf. he doesn't say bye to hyena (woe!), but i guess that they were in a hurry. spiteful i'm-spiteful-anytime mentions sleeping children. hyena and spiteful eeeh? share a long inquisitive look, but hyena really was just hoping to get season's greetings. when it's obvious that they won't come, hyena goes back playing with a one-year-old and gets into a fight with him.
ace!
hyena then proceeds to after-party where the cops will be spotted in about two hours humming something akin to 'i win! i win!'. nothing happened, but i got way more attention than expected.