Michael & Mandy
Mandy would have come to this party even if it hadn't been a good idea for the team. She liked Jamie and she liked BBQ and she basically liked anything that wasn't really having to deal with her grief over Jackson or the not completely untrue things the gossip rags had been printing about her. Okay, so she had been going out a lot, but she was young! This was the time she should be having fun, right? Of course she should. Life was just too short to not have a good time as much as you could.
Still, she'd only had a few beers and she wasn't exactly pissed right now. She just had enough of a buzz to feel nice and relaxed. Happy, even, so there was a smile on her face as she made her way over to where she'd seen Michael earlier.
"Hey!" she greeted him brightly. She knew the team had been doing poorly. She knew her playing was pretty lousy lately, but she and Michael had been friends a lot longer than he'd been her boss, so they could just ignore all that for today, right? Right.