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The bar is foggy with smoke. Henry has the pleasant and familiar taste of liquor in his mouth as he passes through the crowds, stopping to say hello to nearly everyone he bumps elbows with. A girl in a scandalously short fringed dress hands off of his arm. He smiles down at her, but denies her advances. His eyes are already set on the two partygoers at the furthest end of the bar. The short haired girl takes a disdainful drag from her cigarette. She breathes out the smoke near to the boy's face, and he starts coughing. Henry is chuckling at their antics by the time he gets there. "Glad you could make it." He greets them. Gansey smiles and accepts his offered hand to shake. Henry lets it last a little longer than normal. Dragging his hand slowly against the other's as he pulls away. Blue nods toward the singer on stage. "She's good." The girl on stage's eyes glint as she sings her sad song. Henry is glad he got her. "She is." The rest in silence for a moment, nearly unheard of for one of Henry's parties. He offers Gansey a drink. "The prohibition-" At Blue's raised eyebrow, he accepts. It isn't like Gansey has been paying too much attention to laws these days. "You're in a speakeasy, Gansey. What do you expect?" Henry smiles at their bickering. The three of them will stumble home later tonight, he knows. They'll crash at Blue's place, and they'll share quiet kisses, stolen at slow moments of the morning. The ladies of Fox Way will put them to work, but their eyes will not watch in disgust as Blue kisses both of their cheeks. No one will turn a questioning eye to Gansey's flushed face and Henry's messy hair. Until then, the jazz music and steady buzz kept them busy.