Everyone is drinking and singing along — badly — to karaoke classics in the parents’ bedroom. There’s an old Nintendo 64 in the corner. Red Solo cups litter the beer pong table and you can hear the bass of someone’s terrible AUX cord song choice in the soles of your feet. You know next to nobody here. You lost your friend in the queue for the toilets and now you’re frantically texting them from a corner of the kitchen while trying to ignore the strangers snogging each other next to you. Several people are vaping in what they think is a surreptitious way, so they don’t get told off. This is, for all intents and purposes, a house party. In a sense. It’s just not a real one.
每個人都在父母的臥室裏喝酒，跟著卡拉OK的經典曲目唱著跑調的歌。角落裏有一臺舊任天堂64。紅色塑膠杯散落在啤酒乒乓球桌上，你能聽到某人糟糕的AUX線歌曲選擇通過腳底傳來的低音。你幾乎不認識這裏的任何人。你在排隊上廁所時把朋友弄丟了，現在你正在廚房的一個角落裏拼命給他們發短信，同時試圖忽略旁邊陌生人親吻的情景。有幾個人在偷偷吸電子煙，以免被責備。從某種意義上說，這是一個住宅派對（house party），但它並不是真正的聚會。