#bergen_county

Emerald and Maya come in..enchanted. The first girls to arrive.

"Hey!" He walks over. "Hi."

Maya inclines her head "Hello, Adam. Sorry about some of the weirdness when I wasn't enchanted."

"Hell no, Maya. We're good. It was an honor to help." Seriously.

A smile "Wow, uhm.. beer here? I can't ah take that"

"You don't have to ,we got sodas" Zane says

" Zane is always looking out for people."

"That's sweet of him" Maya says

"Thank you, Zane" She says

Zane shoots Adam a grateful look, then says to Maya "Happy to help you know?"

Emerald smiles 'oh ho, flattering lads. "

" he put this whole thing together. Zane why don't you stay here with ladies, and I'll get everyone drink?"

Zane moves over "Thanks, Adam. Emerald, you like Sprite right?"

"Yeah you remembered?" She raised a brow

"Of course I did" he grins "And Maya likes Dr. Pepper?"

"Diet Dr. Pepper if you have it?" Maya says

"Sure thing! I'll see what we have." He flashes a charming grin and steps away towards the drinks.

They do have some Diet Dr. Pepper ,tho it may go fast.

Adam snags a couple, hides them, and brings the cold sodas back.

He serves without comment.

Soon enough a few more guys and gals show up. Some he's never seen before.... with them comes more soda or drinks of one kind or another. A few DeBukes actually enter.

"Hey, Bix, come on, how's the mountain training going? SPencer, dude.. just what we need a musical troll from THIS Century"

Adam withdraws to a corner, and nurses his soda.

Spencer laughs, then sees Adam, "Who's that guy?" The troll asks Zane.

"That's Adam, he's a good friend, and he's the one who held the rath while the others were out. Killed a monster" Zane says

Betty the NOcker enters in "Okay what the ..."

"You usurped the Christmas Warehouse?"

"Says the girl who builds siege engines" he responds

"Yeah yeah..." The nocker snorts

Apparently it's a good soda. No need for add-ins.

Zane says " Scuse me ladies.. .join you for a dance in a second?" He tells both as the music starts and he moves to Adam "Dude? All well?"

"Yeah, Dude, get some dance on!"

"Dude, come on.. you're nursing that soda like a guy waiting for his wife to get back from over seas combat duty. You're allowed fun here too you know?"

A grin. "Yeah, well. Waiting on Piper for a bit. And you know, not fair to get into that before you get the chance, right? I'm your wingman. Tonight......"

"You're a good guy" He pats his shoulder "And a GREAT Wingman"

Piper responds to Zane’s text. Awesome! Who all is gonna be there? All the bluebirds?

"Dude, maybe... but if you hang out here much longer, they're going to think we're a couple. GET OUT THERE."

"You wish you could have all this" Zane grins "Sorry man, I'm too good for you" a grin, but thank GOD he kept his voice low and he moves back. Sees he's been texted and texts back

Text: Well, if you wanna dance with Adam, now's your chance. A few DeBukes, but no RV gang ..yet.

Colton enters the gloaming , his arm is copper and that catches some eyes.

Meanwhile, Piper texts group Siv, Sylvi, and Dagmar- or whomever of the three she has numbers for.

hey girls! Party over at (place!) im swinging by, hope to see yall so it’s not a total 🍆 fest!

TXT: Nadeen here. Right of rescue demands I come? Fine.

TXT: Nah, have fun.

(Gerd's response) TXT: I don't know... life kinda sucks

(Yes! All the grrrrls got a group text! )

Gerd come ooooooon it’ll be fun!

Siv types Siv here. Maybe late but will try

TXT: Fine! But I refuse to be happy

Siv writes TXT: That'll teach em, Gerd