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what a night...*phew* I had a little dinner party last night at the place I'm housesitting in Morgan Hill. It was my friends Liss, Andy, and Eric. Andy's sister randomly shows up at the house and asks to talk to him alone. After she leaves he tells us that she accused him of taking some necklace that some guy had given her LAST YEAR.. I was like : | okaaaaaaaay. After dinner we started a game of monopoly (don't laugh!) everything was going fine and then we found that one of our after dinner cigarettes had started a slow burning fire on the deck outside.... we all ran out there with whatever water we could find, luckily there was a hot tub, waterfountain, and hose within 5 ft of the deck. We got the fire out and i put my heart back in my chest, and we went back inside....We finished up the game, (Liss and I called it a draw) and decided that we'd get in the hot tub. While I'm in the back finding my swimsuit Liss comes to the door all worried and tells me that Eric is upset and is leaving (and we had all been drinking). Of course at this point I'm seriously confused...I go up front and find him putting on his jacket and nearly in tears... I still don't know the whole story...but I know he got home safe, though the hour in between him leaving and the email he sent to let me know he didn't die was painful. Alchohol + motorcycle + emotion=not good.