Chapter 1: Party Preparations

Even though it meant missing a few classes, I took a couple of days off from school to attend my older cousin Ginny’s wedding. Admittedly I was a little disappointing having been only assigned a small part in the ceremony as greeter by the guest book. So much for hopes of finally being a bridesmaid. Even so, I was looking forward to meeting old friends and relatives and hopefully have a fun time. There WAS one thing I was looking forward to the most though, and it was the primary reason for me leaving a couple of days early with school almost over - the bachelorette party. Until now I’d never been to one and knowing Ginny and the crowd she hung out with, especially her maid of honor who was setting up the party, I knew this just had to be a wild event! I’d heard some pretty crazy stories from other girls about bachelorette parties that they had attended and I had high expectations that it was going to be a lot of fun.

At 23, Ginny was four years older than me, almost five as her birthday was coming up in June, so while we’d hung around together at family gatherings we weren’t nearly as close as I was with Kristen, my cousin on my mother’s side who had just turned seventeen. In fact, when she found out I was invited Kristen was a bit miffed. Apparently she hadn’t been invited so I asked Ginny’s best friend Audrey, her maid of honor in charge of the party, why Kristen wasn’t invited. Since both of us were under 21 it wasn’t like it was because of any alcohol restrictions.