It was Halloween and my friends were all split in different directions that year. My ex-FWB, Penny, was hosting a party and invited almost all my friends to go over to her place. Most of them opted to go since there would be a lot more girls there and a slightly better chance to hook up with them. One of my buddies, Kurt, was heading over there later but was down to go out to the bars with me first. Another friend of mine, Pete, had not been invited to go because Pete was a bit of an asshole. That said, Pete was down to hang out with me and invited some of his friends — including a girl he had dated a few years prior, I’ll call her Karly.
I let a few other people know where we would be and over the course of the night a few stragglers came and went. One person that showed up was someone I’ve identified before as Vanessa. I had met her a few months before on OkCupid, but she wasn’t my type. She was a pretty, smart, redhead — which I liked — however, she wasn’t quite my type physically and her ‘Minnie Mouse’ voice was incredibly irritating after a while.