The party at Joe's house was an absolute blast.
You didn't know him personally, but Gareth, your best friend, invited you over because he knew this popular guy from another school, and he was allowed to bring someone with her.
You were lost in the midst of a mass for some time, but when the party was at its peak, some where at one past midnight, you spotted your best friend running over to you, pushing some people away to reach you.
Gareth pulled you along by your arm, and the two of you came to stand in a corner a little further away from the stereo installation.
There were three chicks and two hot guys standing at the bar, talking, shouting? Your drunk friend introduced you to them.
"Yo, Check this out!" He shouted. Over the sound of the music blasting in your ears, he was barely audible. The girls were called Elly, Jay and Mary, the guys were called Roger and, guess what? Joe.
Joe the party animal.
"Joe, you got some more of that drug for us? It feels absolutely amazing." Gareth exclaimed. Joe and Roger glanced at each other. The former took a small plastic bag out of the right pocket of his pants. You immediately saw what it was, and grinned.
Party drugs.
Not the regular kind, like XTC, but rather, a completely new and experimental one in the party culture. People referred to these pills, red, with a small cube in the middle, as Chance drugs. The cube was supposed to represent a die. You had heard stories of these things. One thing everybody was certain about, was that the sensations you got a couple of minutes you took one of those, were absolutely amazing, even better than the party drugs that had circulated for ages already. The big risk you would be taking was the potential after effects. Weird sensations or physical mutations that could either take a few hours to disappear, or have lasting effects on your body for days, perhaps even weeks. Taking a pill while still under the influence of one you had taken before wouldn't remove its effects, but just override them. A change topped on another one.
Some people turned into real abominations of human nature, only with the reassurance turning normal eventually. But the whole ride was an adventure.
"You already took some Gary?" You asked him.
He nodded excitedly. "Never felt like this before."
You grinned.
This party could only get better.
You held out a hand, Joe took one of the pills out, and put it in her palm.
You threw your head back and swallowed the pill, quickly chugging down some booze with it.
The effects started to kick in a couple minutes later.