Kaytea sighed. "Stupid boyfriend.." and pushed the door to the cafe open. She went over to the bar and sat down, scanning the room. A waitress came over "So what'll it be?" Kayt thought for a moment, "A diet Coke, please." the waitress disappeared and Kayt continued checking out the rest of the patrons.
Her soda came and she stirred the straw around aimlessly, still not believing Chris would stand her up like this, again. After what happened last night at Ash's he should be counting his lucky stars she didn't just end it right there. She almost felt stupid for not breaking it off. Kayt looked at her watch again. Another 20 minutes had gone by.
Suddenly her attention turned to a familiar laugh floating through the cafe. She turned and instantly anger welled up in her throat.
Ash shrugged. "Yeah it was, I don't even know what all happened yet. I guess it'll all get back to me over the weekend. Now what colours do you think I should mix to make a good match to bourbon? Ben drank all of it." Sarah laughed. "Don't even bother, just throw it away and make one of the guys replace it! It's Ben's fault it's gone, so make him get more." she flopped down on the couch and stretched her legs. "I can't believe Ben was our model today in my art class. I never would have figured him for that type."
Ash laughed. "Ben? Ha! He loves to be naked. Clothing to him is purely optional most of the time. Besides, you know you enjoyed it." she filled a vodka bottle with water and studied it "I don't know how you can go to school on a Saturday though. Five days a week is enough for me."
Sarah blushed."Well ok, you're right. Hey, do you need help with any of those?" Ash was leaning down at bottle level scrunching her face up over the amount of "vodka" left in the bottle. "I'm just trying to make sure the it matches the line perfectly.. My dad's a real wanker when it comes to his liquor. Not all of it can be replaced."
A couple hours later, after all the cleaning was done Ash and Sarah were laying on the floor of the rec room both slightly drunk. "So you want to go see Everclear tomorrow with Nic, Kayt, and I?" Sarah took a sip of her beer. "Sure. How much are tickets?"
"They're sixteen bucks. Not too bad for Everclear and Offspring. We're doing a sort of girls' night out, it'd rock if you came along. Oh yeah, we're leaving around 7." she paused thoughtfully. "So are you and Ben doing something tonight?" Ash sat up. "You know, I need another beer." Sarah rolled over onto her stomach and rested her head on her hands. "Actually I don't know if Ben and I are gonna see each other tonight. I'm going to ring him later and see what he's up to. I'd like to see him again." She smiled.
"I think we're leaving at 7, maybe hit a pub first or something. I'm really not sure." Nic and Daniel made their way up to Dan's room. Nic collapsed on the bed. "God I feel like crap!"
Daniel jumped on top of her and Nic responded with a grunt. He looked down at her, "How do you think I feel? I don't even remember the half of my night. Did I really run around saying I was SpiderDan?" Nic kissed him and smiled, "Oh yeah, it was a sight to see. Especially you and Ben duking it out in the closet. Rumour has it you ran into little miss Acid Star. Might it be true?"
Daniel thought long and hard about who he remembered talking to, and couldn't recall anyone with that name. He shrugged. "I don't know. What does she look like?" then it clicked. "Ohhh yeah. I think I did talk to her. Real short, brunette girl?" Nic nodded. "She gave me a nice dose of Mr. Sid."
Nic laughed. "Mr. Sid? Nice name for it wankster. Anyway what do you have to eat downstairs, I'm suddenly starving."
Daniel gave her a tight squeeze. "Well I don't know, guess you're going to have to go look, aren't you?"
"I suppose so. Now get your bony arse off me!" Nic playfully shoved Daniel off the bed and headed downstairs to the kitchen.
"Hey! Do you want me to hire a movie tonight?" Daniel called after her, "I don't really feel like going anywhere."
"Sure! Let's watch it at my place though, Tiki still needs to be fed today and I need to do some wash!" Nic called back as she opened the fridge and peered inside. Not a whole lot to work with. Maybe she'd just wait until they went back to her place and make food there. She needed to get home soon anyway, her cat was waiting and no doubt hungrily.
Chris grinned, more at Rachel's breasts than at her, "If she was your girlfriend you'd be saying the same thing." Rachel smiled and thought, Damn right I would, but I'm not desperate enough to date someone like her. "Maybe you're right, I just don't know Kayt that well.. She really wrote you a poem after you fucked another girl?"
"I have that girl eating out of the palm of my hand. It's almost scary the devotion she's got. But enough about her, let's talk about something else." But before any real conversation could go on their waitress arrived with their food."Looks good." Chris murmured before biting into his burger.
Rachel looked at her salad. It didn't seem too appetizing after all. Being with Chris was making her so nervous the mere thoguht of trying to eat normally in his presence was enough to make her stomach twist into a knot. She pushed her fork around the plate a bit, then pushed the plate back. "I guess I'm not hungry after all."
Back at home she furiously dialed Lauren's number. No answer. Where the hell was Lauren? She never does anything!! Kayt thought as she punched in Nic's number next. Four rings, then the answering machine.."Hey it's Nic, I'm not here. After the beep you know what to do.." Kayt took a deep breath to compose herself. "Hey Nic, it's me.. I really need to talk to you, like right now. Please please please give me a ring when you get in. It's heaps important!"
After hanging up the phone Kayt burst into a fresh bout of tears and curled up on her bed clutching the phone, anxiously awaiting Nic's call. She wished she had taken the bottle of whiskey from Ash's. She could really use it now.