Chapter 4 | House Party
When I heard Alessia Cara’s song Here, I saw Lana in the kitchen observing the mayhem at the house party in Oaklawn. And so when I edited this chapter, I allowed the song to inspire the scene. In this chapter, we witness how Lana interacts—or doesn’t—with others. But more so, how others see her – or at least how she feels she’s being perceived.
I personally love house parties. It’s a little more intimate and usually there’s someone you know by some degree of separation from the person who invited you to attend. So no one’s really a stranger…or at least, that’s what I convince myself. And I’d be one of the girls trying to make dancing happen, definitely! But when I first started attending parties in high school, I was the wallflower, people watching. Little did they know, they would inspire characters in my stories.