The next morning, Alex and his friends are still hanging out at the party, but Alex is worried that he's going to get wasted. He's just seen Niko the night before, and he thinks she's drunk. Alex asks if he can have a drink with her before she leaves for the summer vacation, and Alex says he'll stay with her until the end of the summer. He also asks if they're going to hang out with a "shooting star" , which is a reference to the fact that Alex's ex-wife, Niko, is a shooting star. He thinks it's a good idea that they hang out together, since he and Niko are both ex-lovers. He tells Alex to stop talking, and they all head off to get ready for the "first time" of hanging out with Niko. They're not supposed to be hanging out alone, but they do, and everyone is freaking out about it, especially Alex, who's worried about what will happen to himself if he doesn't step in front of the drunken idiots. He asks why they didn't say anything to each other when they first got there, and then he wonders why they haven't said anything to him when they've been hanging out together before. He wonders why he hasn't told anyone about the girl he just met, and wonders why she'd want to have sex with him now that she has a boyfriend. He wants to know how much he'd have to drink to get to the point of having sex with her, but he can't figure out how much she has had to drink. Finally, he asks if there's anything he can do to help, and she tells him that she'll call his dad, who can pick them up at any hour of the day or night. He says that his dad is the "best" person in the world, and that even if he had a crush on him, his family wouldn't be the happiest. And then he asks what Alex meant when he said his dad would