Anna

She was blonde, sitting outside at the party with a circle of others i didn't know.
The theme of the party was 'Turning Japanese', but she hadn't dressed up at all. 
I was dressed as a Cheery Blossom tree, with a dress I had adorned with painstakingly handmade flowers. Anna, wine glass in hand, the hour getting fast towards midnight, pointed at me with a spare finger.
"You're costume is great!"
"Thanks," I replied.
"What are you supposed to be?"
"A Cherry Blossom tree, it's peak flowering season over there at the moment." I volunteered.
Anna made various noises of understanding. 
"Cool."
She took a sip of wine and the silence between us began to open up again. This is the moment where a conversation can be left hanging as a fragment never to be realised, or it can be built upon - that initial ice-breaking and become something else, for good or ill.
"So how do you fit in here?" I asked.
"I know Alistair."
"Ok,"
"Yeah. You?"
"I know Thea and Simonne."
"Oh yeah, I don't know them."
I was beginning to realise that I was staring down a dead end.
"What do you do with yourself," I tried one more time.
"Aw, I study like radiology - so like Xrays and stuff."
"Ok, that's interesting."
"It's alright."
I looked around, then I excused myself.
"Sorry I just need to go to the loo."