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.
每个人都在父母的卧室里喝酒，跟着卡拉OK的经典曲目唱着跑调的歌。角落里有一台旧任天堂64。红色塑料杯散落在啤酒乒乓球桌上，你能听到某人糟糕的AUX线歌曲选择通过脚底传来的低音。你几乎不认识这里的任何人。你在排队上厕所时把朋友弄丢了，现在你正在厨房的一个角落里拼命给他们发短信，同时试图忽略旁边陌生人亲吻的情景。有几个人在偷偷吸电子烟，以免被责备。从某种意义上说，这是一个住宅派对（house party），但它并不是真正的聚会。