When Mao got Nadi's email about the party he couldn't help but think 'cute'. Bring a dish? A pool party with hamburgers and hot dogs? It was just so...innocent sounding! Not like the other parties he'd been to lately where everyone was drunk and high and crazy. Well...Seeing how he was going with James, there would still be highness and seeing how he was Mao there would still be craziness. So in the end, maybe it wouldn't be all that different.
Since the world seemed determined to piss him off lately, Mao was spending as much time as he could with James. His best friend was his best friend for a reason! Everyone else screwed him over (by screwing) and it was James who had his back when other so called friends went around trying to stab him in it. In an effort to keep from being a complete angry jerk at the party, Mao spent some time with his head in the clouds before heading over. Special clouds that changed his thoughts from wanting to beat people up to thinking how awesome hamburgers were and that he really, really wanted some all of a sudden.
"Oh my fucking God that smells so good!" He bounced towards Nadine's house, lured by the scent the barbeque. He grabbed James enthusiastically, "Do you smell that!?" Unable to wait any longer to eat something he ripped open the bag of Doritos he had brought as his 'dish' and munched away. He was doing okay for now, but it was going to hit him that Nadi just so happened to live like right next to Luke and that meant Luke's sorry ass would probably be at the party too. But for now, food was his top priority. And hanging all over James too.