Chris McKay's party

## *Euphoria*

**Chris McKay's party** was a party held by Chris McKay that occurred in "Pilot".

## History

### Season 1

#### "Pilot"

Not much is known how the party came to be but it can be interpreted as a send-off party for Christoper McKay, who had recently graduated from East Highland High School, and was recruited to play football for the state college nearby his house. Along with Nate Jacobs, Christopher threw the party late at night, where the majority of the main characters attended. Nate described it to McKay as he threw "the grimiest fucking banger of the summer".

At the party, many events unfold to reveal and set the precedent for the majority of the plot for Season 1. It is revealed that McKay talked to, hooked up and eventually began a relationship with Cassie Howard as a result of his party, despite knowing her history with her previous boyfriends as a result of her reputation by the guys at East Highland. He almost chokes her during sex in his room at the party, which prompts him to apologize and who defends himself thinking she liked that, with Cassie strongly denying, which causes McKay to apologize. This leads to a nice moment between the two with Cassie asking him to ask her next time.

After Rue get a ride and arrives to the party alongside Maddy, Kat, and BB, she heads into the bathroom where she proceeds to snort and do drugs, which causes her to feel like she's walking on the roof as the hallway around her rotates. This leads her to say the night was a catalyst for many events and it depends on who they asked, with her saying she's not the most reliable narrator. There she is shown going outside by the pool and sits down on the couch to talk to Fezco, who is also at the party, where they proceed to talk with Fez warning Rue about her drug use, and Rue sharing a bit of her backstory involving her dad Robert Bennett's cancer diagnosis and her monologue from the beginning of "Pilot" about the "2 seconds of nothing". She then proceeds to ask him if he's still going to be his dealer with Fez sighing and saying he's too high to be having this conversation, with Rue agreeing.

Since Nate had broken up with his on-off former girlfriend Maddy, she decided to get back at Nate who was seen visibly making out with another girl at the party in the living room, so she decides to grab on to the guy she's sitting and dancing with at the party, Tyler Clarkson. She then decides to go swimming so she asks him undress and to go along, with Tyler obliging.

They soon only have their underwear and who then proceed to make out, with Maddy trying to get back at her ex, whispering to Tyler and proceeding to ask him that she wanted him to fuck her "right here, right now", despite there being a crowd outside at the pool and party in general (this was before it's revealed Tyler was 22 and Maddy is 17, thus having him commit statutory rape in this circumstance). This, alongside many students and partygoers outside filming it, prompts Nate to go outside after a partygoer whispers in his ear about the situation and catches his attention, calling her a "whore", which in return Maddy replies to him "suck my dick", wooing the crowd and causing Nate to leave, furiously.

Meanwhile, in Roy and Troy's room and where the twins are at the moment, Kat Hernandez hangs out with them and another guy named Wes. Not long after the twins leave the room, they proceed to have sex and Kat finally loses her virginity to Wes, which she tells B.B afterwards leaving the room, and who missed the fight between Nate and Jules (although she would later find out that he recorded the act without her consent and that the twins went around saying it was her later on, and it would go onto PornHub).

Ultimately, the main altercation at the party and a plot point going forwards the rest of the first season would be the altercation and meeting of Nate Jacobs and Jules Vaughn. It remains clear to Rue's narration about what happened, and that after Jules had hooked up unbeknownst to her with Nate's dad Cal Jacobs at the motel, that she would make her way to McKay's party on her bike via Kat's invitation to her, afterwards.

She arrives and heads into the kitchen, where she is seen drinking shots and at the counter amongst the other partygoers. Nate, after finding about Maddy, heads back inside the house where he proceeds to go into the kitchen, and who pours a shot and angrily throws the glasses and drinks off the counter and shouts angrily for everyone to leave and get out of the kitchen.

Nate then catches Jules standing back and Nate proceeds to verbally hassle her in front of the crowd and ask them if they know her and who she's friends with. Jules claims she's just minding her own business and not trying to start anything. This causes Nate to corner Jules in the corner where she's at and approach her, with his face inches away from hers. He then proceeds to ask the crowd one more time if anyone is friends with Jules and if anybody knows who she is.

This, along with Jules's fear and anger, cause her to grab a cutting knife near the corner where she's at, after Nate turns around and points at her, threatening him with that. The crowd gasps, and Nate finally retorts back fearfully and is now being cornered by Jules, who screams if he wants to hurt her and telling him to back up and asks what his problem is. Nate pleads with her to put the knife down and that it was a joke, with Jules calmly taking the knife and slicing her arm, which begins to bleed much to the crowd's surprise. Nate calls her a psycho, as Jules proceeds to place her arm and cover Nate's shoulder with it, with Nate being shocked and calling her a freak.

She proceeds to call herself "fucking invincible". She then goes to back off and leave but not before reintroducing herself to the whispering crowd "By the way I'm Jules. I just moved here" and with Rue, who was in the crowd, follows her out.

It is implied soon after Rue and Jules left, as well as the pool fiasco with Maddy and Tyler, and the altercation between Nate and Jules, that the party died down and everyone goes home, whether or not McKay called everyone out.

### Aftermath

Following the end of "Pilot", McKay's party becomes an integral part of the season as the plot line follows all the way into Season 1:

* This includes Nate Jacobs blackmailing and ultimately forcing Tyler Clarkson to vouch for Nate's assault on Maddy in "Shook Ones Pt. II" and does so in "'03 Bonnie and Clyde", having broken into his home and beaten him up for what he did in "Stuntin' Like My Daddy".
* In the same episode, Kat reveals her losing her virginity to Maddy and Cassie while walking in the school hallway, having previously shared it with BB at the end of McKay's party. She then finds out that her having sex with Wes was recorded without her consent and with Troy and Roy having been involved in releasing and sharing the video and name-dropping Kat, people believing it to be her.
	+ This upsets her, and who threatens Troy at school that she'll go to the police and report it as child pornography, even though it was Roy who posted it, not him.
	+ Ultimately, they take their word and convince people they were confused and that Kat isn't on the video. At the end of the first school week, Jules texts her to ask if that was really her with Kat denying.
	+ As punishment it's shown later on in the episode that Kat took Roy out shopping at the mall and forced him to use his credit card and money to buy her things to pay up for what he did in order for her to be pleased and not report him.
	+ However, she is then called out of class and into the principal's office where she is allegedly accused again seeing as the rumor made it's way into the staff. She denies it and questions Principal Hayes, accusing him of body shaming because the girl in the video is fat. This prompts the principal to apologize and promise Kat to help out an end to the rumor.
* In "Made You Look", the video taken of Kat losing her virginity at the party makes her more confident which in turn would make her sign up as a cam girl the same episode.
* In "'03 Bonnie and Clyde" following Nate's chokehold on Maddy at the carnival away from the crowds, due to her having confronted his family as well as later question him on his sexuality due to the dick pics on his phone discovered in "Made You Look", Maddy goes home crying and whom on the next school day wakes up early to apply concealer.
	+ This leads to her having a drop in serotonin and having been depressed and on her period passes out in her first period class. The paramedics then find the bruise marks on her neck, which Principal Hayes tells Maddy he has to report to the law, and asks if it was Nate.
		- This leads to the police arriving and Principal Hayes questioning students who all talk about the events of the Carnival and McKay's party, leading to him questioning Jules, who denies that she has any idea what he's talking about after a student mentions her.

## Attendees

* Rue Bennett
* Barbara Brookes
* Tyler Clarkson
* Fezco
* Kat Hernandez
* Cassie Howard
* Nate Jacobs
* Chris McKay
* Roy McKay
* Troy McKay
* Maddy Perez
* Jules Vaughn
* Wes

## Trivia

* This was the first time everyone met Jules Vaughn, the new girl in town.
* Kat lost her virginity at this party.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Pilot"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Stuntin' Like My Daddy
3. ↑ Made You Look
4. ↑ '03 Bonnie and Clyde