2.2: Alice’s POV

We had finally settled in only days before we'd be leaving for the book tour and to be honest I was truly enjoying the pattern we'd fallen into. We've had more free time since the last boxes had been taken care of and we'd spent most of it escaping the summer heat in the pool. Since we'd be gone the rest of the summer we decided to throw a party tonight with all of our friends for the fourth at our place. I could tell by the crease in her forehead and the gray clouding her eyes that Blair was stressed as she went through the checklist for the hundredth time today. Everyone would be showing up any minute and she was determined not to forget a single detail of what she had planned.

There were four coolers in a line, the red one contained jello-shots, the blue one held the beer, the green one had wine coolers and the yellow one had water and soda. I had helped her fill each one to the brim with ice to keep everything col