[Just as Bruce promised, the bouncer at the main entrance hardly batted an eyelash at her presence. Neither surprised by her name, nor the time she arrived. For whatever reasons those might be. If nothing else, it did mean Bruce kept his word about making sure she would be invited in.]
[Later would see the young billionaire already deep into his partying. Sitting at a far corner table, surrounded by several faces. Most of them unfamiliar, and names he could just barely remember through his tipsy haze. He was holding up a glass of...something...and lightly clicking glasses with a girl around his age beside him before they both held their respective drinks up to their lips.]
[Almost immediately, the group around them began chanting the word 'chug!' over and over again. Gulping faster and faster, it was Bruce who slammed his glass on the table first, beating his companion by less than a second, to the thunderous cheers and applause of those around him.]
[He was smiling, sure, and seemed to revel in all the attention...but the smile never quite reached his ears. And his eyes, even behind the glassiness, looked empty.]
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[Later would see the young billionaire already deep into his partying. Sitting at a far corner table, surrounded by several faces. Most of them unfamiliar, and names he could just barely remember through his tipsy haze. He was holding up a glass of...something...and lightly clicking glasses with a girl around his age beside him before they both held their respective drinks up to their lips.]
[Almost immediately, the group around them began chanting the word 'chug!' over and over again. Gulping faster and faster, it was Bruce who slammed his glass on the table first, beating his companion by less than a second, to the thunderous cheers and applause of those around him.]
[He was smiling, sure, and seemed to revel in all the attention...but the smile never quite reached his ears. And his eyes, even behind the glassiness, looked empty.]