Crammed between Courtney, and this other girl named Sunshine—if that was indeed her real name—Xavier sat on the bed facing another double bed, on which Billy and Heather were seated and playing a game of quarters. The trick consisted in throwing quarters on the opponent’s beer bottle to knock off the quarter that lay flat on the top, forcing the opponent to take a gulp of beer every time you hit the mark. Heather was drunk on Jack Daniels and Billy was winning big time. She’d been taking gulp after gulp.
When Heather had mentioned having a room party, Xavier had imagined a room full of fraternity jocks tying people upside down and pouring beer into their throats from kegs, but there were only the three girls here. More people were supposed to show up, but he doubted they would. It was alm
