If You Do It, Do It Right

Taylor put an arm around Akashi's neck and squeezed her back. "It's been pretty awesome, but I think I had too much to drink..." She groaned and put a hand to her forehead.

"Awwwwwwwwwwwww, I love you too, Oatmeal." Taylor said. She did a double take at the next part. "You WHAT?!" She burst out laughing uncontrollably. "Does she KNOW? Can I tell her? Ohhh, Kashi, you can have sex with ANYTHING!"

She crowed with laughter so hard she nearly lost her balance on Akashi's lap, and put a foot down to steady herself. "Oh, hey, how did you like Heather's sloppy seconds? Wait, no, more like sloppy five hundred million billion..."

She quieted when she saw Akashi's face, and heard the tension in her voice. What did she say? She put her hand against the side of Akashi's face and gently pushed her back and off her shoulder so she could look her in the eyes.

"What?" Was all she could think to say.

Akashi chuckled with Taylor. Her sluttiness was pretty funny because someone else was laughing at it. Even if they were laughing AT her. She had too much to drink as well which was rare for her.

"T-terr-or-chan..." Akashi said and brought her hands up to cup Taylor's cheeks lightly. "I... let myself get gooaded into cashing in my contract... With... some ... bitch I can't sstand against those Bunny jerks."

Akashi blinked and lowered her head resting it against Taylor's and looking down. "I ... I didn't know when you were coming back and, and everything happened so fast. I... I know how much it hurt when I did it before and, I don't want you to think that I did it because of... T... Terror-chaaannnn.... Akashi whined. "If T-That... b-b-CUNT, Lukretia would let me change it... I would in a heartbeat! P-Please don't hate me forever, Terro-chaan. Pleeeese!" Akashi said lowering her head in penitence. "I want to be the tag champs with yooooooou."

"Oh," Taylor said. "Okay." What else could she say? She knew that as far as Akashi knew, Taylor wasn't coming back. Still... It stung.

"Well, that's okay. I can always team up with Bear," she said, trying to salvage the mood. "But I guess I'm gonna try to focus on singles, sooooooo... I don't hate you." She booped Akashi's nose with her finger. "But I might kick your ass."

She closed her eyes and leaned her head on Akashi's shoulder to cover the tears that welled up in her eyes. She felt like the world was always conspiring to keep her away from Akashi, and it was so unfair. But she wasn't going to make a big deal out of it. She wasn't even angry. Just sad.

Akashi sniffled. Her heart sank a bit when Taylor mentioned Bear. "If we win... I'llll Q-Quit. And... You and I... We'll fight.. We'll fight that ... bakasensei! We'lll fight herrrrr and anyone else she picksss and we'll win and, and we'll be champssss and haaaaiii..." Akashi hugged Taylor. "I want you to get that belt... Terrrorr-chan... You... dessserve it." She meant that. "And I want to take it from yooooouuu." Akashi grinned and licked Taylor's cheek. 'Eheheh..."

Akashi then sighed. "Hey... Terror-chan..." She slurred. "You're stayying at m place right? You ... and Johnny-kun can... sleeep in my bed... I promissse that I won't do anything gross, I jussst... wouldn't mind cuddling with someone tonight and... Cassie-chan's all prickly pantsss lately. Not that she would cuddle anyway." Akashi said and frowned.

"I'm... I'm ssso drunk that I'm not even horny anymore, Terr-channn... H-How are we going to make it h-home?'

"Yeah, me too Kashi." Taylor idly played with Akashi's curly-wavy hair. "I'll get it, and I promise I won't hand it over to Dog the Bounty Hunter like you did." She stuck her tongue out and poked Akashi's nose. "You can come get it, but I don't think you want to. You can't just hug your way to a win anymore."

She eased herself back down to the floor and smoothed down her short skirt so as not to inform every person in the club what kind of underwear she was wearing. She took hold of Akashi's hands and backed up to tug her up to her feet. "That's okay! We've got it all covered. Johnny's gonna drive us all home and stuff. Him and Cassie can sit in the front seats and be all sober and stuff and we can sit in the back and be bitchesssss. Watch this." She closed her eyes and shouted in no particular direction. "JOHNNYYYY!"

"SHORTYYYYY!"

Johnny yelled, cupping a hand around his mouth to try and get better range on his yelling. He'd been circling, trying to find Cassie. The place was so big and there were so many people that he thought he might spend another hour just trying to locate her. He surveyed from the perimeter and slowly circled inward, fake dancing as he tried to get his way around. She probably wouldn't be too hard to spot because of her wild orange hair but her small stature could keep her hidden.

Johnny furrowed his brow until he thought he spotted something bright and orange moving through the sea of people. He weaved and shoved until he was close enough to make sure they heard him vocally. "Squirt?!" He called out.

Cassie emerged through a cluster of clubbers and came face to face with Johnny.

"Hi, Johnny."

She had done a little dancing, tried to anyway, at Taylor's insistence that she have some fun. It wasn't fun, she only felt stupid and out of place, and so she stopped, stood awkwardly in one place for a moment, and then began walking purposefully in no particular direction as if she had some place to be. When she got there, she stopped, stood awkwardly in one place, and repeated the process. She watched people dancing, grinding, bouncing, shaking their hips and getting handsy, and she decided that she'd had enough fun for one night. She'd catch Taylor and tell her she was leaving.

When she had found Taylor, the sight stopped her dead in her tracks. She hid in the crowd for a while, until she decided she really did need to get out.

"Are we leaving yet?" She asked.

Johnny nodded when Cassie spoke. "Yeah, dude." He said. "Taylor and Akashi ... it's not going to be very pretty getting them out to the car. Neither of them survived the night, man." Johnny started to laugh but then his smile faded into a frown. He looked down at Cassie and lifted his hand up. He placed it on her head and looked at her. "You didn't have a very good time, did ya, shorty?' He asked seriously.

"Taylor did though, man. And ... that's what counts for now. Thanks for coming out though. I'll make it up to you. One of these days we'll go out and do something that you enjoy." Johnny smiled and removed his hand. He then turned. to tow Cassie back to the pile of drunk girls that needed escorted out of the car.

"No." Cassie said bluntly. "But that's good. I'm glad... she..." She trailed off.

She followed Johnny through the crowd until Taylor came into view. Taylor, despite her state of remarkable inebriation, spotted them right away, and shouted to them at the top of her lungs.

"HEY! C'MERE! BEAR!" She waved with both hands for them to come. "HEY! HEY! C'MERE!"

Cassie stopped and snagged Johnny's wrist. She looked up at him, and leaned in closer so that she didn't have to yell. "Johnny..." She began, hesitant at first, but the question was pointedly undeniable when it came. "Why was Talia here?" She'd recognize her now with any color hair, now that she knew her without her face.

Johnny grinned when he heard Taylor yell and saw her wave. It didn't take long for Akashi to dip her head up and call out as well. But before Johnny could clear the last distance to the bar he felt Cassie's tight grip on his arm and stopped. Johnny frowned when she mentioned Talia and he looked at her. "Man..." He said. "I think she showed up to try and do my wife." He said in a serious tone. He then stroked his chin, still looking at Cassie. "But, I dunno man. She was as shit-faced as Taylor...."

Johnny turned his head. "Maybe she just happened to show up man. I'd hate to think she's wait around this long just to try and get back at me or somethin. I mean... I get that I sort of dumped her and junk but... That's pretty effed up if she's holding a grudge like that." Johnny said as he used his free hand to run through his hair. "I don't know though. Taylor and her seem cool now but it could be the booze. Maybe I'll talk to Taylor about it tomorrow when she's sober." Johnny shrugged. "Why, shorty?" He said. "Did run into her or somethin?"