Chapter 57

Most of the girls had switched from ball gowns to jeans or skirts.

There was a bonfire.

Pyrotechnic red-orange flames roared as its embers glowed bright orange, the smoke spiraling upwards into the atmosphere.

The smell of the fire was mellow, perhaps it was due to the delicious smell of rich, tangy, sweet, and spicy barbecue going around, or possibly, it was probably the smell of sweet seductive pheromones being released by some teenagers.

The emcee from earlier stood on a plastic chair and yelled over a megaphone.

"Can you people stop releasing unnecessary pheromones? It's fucking choking! If you like someone, just walk up to them and woo them. Stop being immature!"

He stepped down from the chair and then stepped back on it before yelling, "If you wanna fuck so badly, find someone and enter the woods! Don't ruin the party."

Heidi giggled as she sat in between Nikolai's legs, Ellis doing the same with Désire beside them.

They were sitting against a large tree that was connect