Cassie actually didn't mind the party at all. The music was awesome (she totally loved the Chemical Brothers) and she'd spent a lot of the evening dancing (mostly with a lot of strangers who didn't know she was jailbait and found excuses to walk away whenever her age happened to come up in shouted conversation). Admittedly, the whole thing was pretty weird given that it was for Pepper and Happy- both of whom she'd already sympathized with- and during the planning process she'd done her best to steer Tony in a different direction, to no affect. For a seventeen year old girl though, it was still pretty cool.
A little exhausted from dancing and thirsty, Cassie got a water from the bar and then looked around for an open chair. There didn't seem to be any so she went for the next best thing- a mostly clear table. "Can I sit here?" she asked Sue, trying to be heard over the music.