That One Guy

"Alright, that sounds good." he said. “I mean the non-alcoholic drink. I don’t want to have you drive me home cause I was an idiot and got drunk." Lawrence mused out.

"Alright," Matthew got up and looked at the selection of drinks. 

"I bet." he said, rolling his eyes somewhat. “Let’s make sure Scott doesn’t die this time alright?" he said, half joking. Last time Gideon hosted a party that happened. Who knows, he might do it again.

"Well, I don't see that happening..." Matthew sat at the bar, looking a little guilty. After all, he was part of the group that had "tried" to "kill" Scott Pilgrim. That was quite a while ago, though, an they were past that, right?

Lawrence actually was debating on whether or not to arrive at the party. He wasn’t personally invited but felt obligated to go since Scott went and Matthew did too. He was struggling on what to wear, he didn’t want to appear too patriotic like them Americans after all.

Matthew sat up when he saw Lawrence enter. He put his phone away and got up to go meet him. "Hey, you made it," he said. "It's kind of dead right now, but knowing Gideon and his ... networking it's gonna get pretty crowded later."

Turned to face the theatre itself, Julie smiled when she saw Lynette walk into the space only moments after she had gotten her text. Not bothering to excuse herself from her current conversation with Matthew which she believed to be going nowhere, Julie got up from her seat at the bar and went over to hug Lynette and tell her hello. Although it probably didn’t work in her favor that her breath already smelled like alcohol, she could genuinely say she was far from being drunk if asked. 

Julie noticed Matthew walk in out of the corner of her eye, but chose not to acknowledge him until he sat and spoke to her. She noticed that his outfit wasn’t at all relevant to the theme, but she didn’t care for once - she wasn’t committed to the theme and in his defense she hadn’t decided on it until late in the planning process. 

"No thanks," he replied to her offer. "I think I'll wait a little bit before I start drinking... And, yeah, I think I get that. I come here often enough it's not weird anymore." He turned around to lean back on the bar, looking out to the rest of the theatre that would soon be populated. "I wonder who all is gonna show up," he said. If it were anything like the past few parties, it'd wind up not being anyone Matthew would hang out with. But maybe, since it was also Gideon's party, it'd be different. Probably not, but it couldn't hurt to hope. 

Matthew stood at the main entrance to the Chaos Theatre, as he'd done lots of times before for League meetings and things of that nature. With a grumble about how weird it was for Julie Powers and Gideon Graves to be planning parties together, he walked in. He was early, of course. Why did he always make a point to be punctual? There was nobody here, save Julie. It was really a dumb thing to do, but he did it every time. He noticed Julie's red-and-white outfit and wondered if there was really a theme for Canada Day. He was wearing a dark blue button-up shirt and black jeans. Not exactly patriotic, but then again, he wasn't exactly a Real Canadian. The Fourth of July was coming up, so... His excuses died out and he went to the bar and sat down, leaving a chair between himself and Julie. 

Lawrence never really got out much. If he did though it was because he was a complete dork who had some  movies he wanted to watch. Sure it was late, but unlike Scott he was responsible enough to get home and go to work later.

Upon hearing his name, Matthew turned and saw Lawrence coming up to him. "Hey, Lawrence... What are you doing here?"