"Aw darling, I really don't see why they don't just fly back home." Android 18 was speaking about Krillin's long time friend Goku and his wife, Chi-Chi.

Android 18 was the very much the stay at home kind. She loved nothing more than a warm fragranced bath and a peaceful glass of wine with Krllin, her husband. However, she wanted to enjoy life, and the Christmas party at Bulma's place was the one time of the year they got to put their finest clothes on.

Why Krillin had offered to drive tonight was beyond her. He was taking some antibiotics for an ear infection, but a few drinks would not have harmed him. Still, it had meant they did not have to hire a cab which had seemed a good idea at the time – right up until Goku and Chi-Chi had become totally intoxicated with alcohol and were now very drunk. It was just midnight. The drinks had been running and the party was continuing in full swing, at least for everybody else. For them, it seemed very much on the wind-down.

"I know honey...but they do live quite close and the party is going to end in about an hour anyway." He drew her to him and pecked her lips. "Besides, you've been looking so great tonight, I've been wanting to take you home for hours..."

She pouted, half sulkily – half seductively.

He did make a point. It was improbable that the party would continue on for more than an hour and she was in the mood for some after-party naughtiness. She nestled against him, and he reached behind her, cupping her butt cheeks in his hands, and compressing them tenderly through the narrow material of her evening dress.

"You know, you have the most awesome butt in the world," he remarked, gliding his hands up as he said it, over the bend of her hips, onto her waist and then up onto her breasts, "and the best boobs too!" he grinned. She glanced up at him, and kissed him,

"Alright," she yielded "I guess so. Tell you what...You go to the bar and grab me one final drink, and I'll search for Chi-Chi and Goku and inform them that we're going."

She began to pull away to proceed back into the hall, but Krillin gripped her hand and tugged her back to him, a guilty expression quickly traveled across his face.

"Um...honey, you'd better search for Tien and Yamcha too. They got very drunk too and I told them that they could have a lift since we are going that direction." He looked apologetic, and so he should – She knew precisely what that meant. Tien and Yamcha were another two of his long time pals. There had not been one single time since she had known Krillin when giving them a lift had not ended in a "quick coffee", which ended with a quick joint, which ended with a stoned Krillin and her going home in a cab, many hours after getting there.

"Oh no...come on darling, what about going home early so you can have your naughty way with me?" She drew away from him a bit, pouting for real this time.

"Yeah, I still intend on doing that!" He said, by way of reassurance, only she had heard it numerous times before. Stoned Krillin equaled sleeping Krillin and that was not going to be on her cards this time! Not after he got her hopes up.

"No way Krillin, tell them all to get a cab together - it'll cost almost nothing between them all." To be truthful, she did not know why she was even trying. She knew for sure that they would end up giving everybody a lift home. And she also knew for sure that the night was going to end precisely as she thought it would.

"Ok." She said, after his bullshit about 'havin' given his word blah blah blah.' "But you can damn well go to that bar and get me a large bottle of something nice. I'm not sitting there like an idiot with nothing to drink while you lot smoke your heads off!" She turned on her heel and stomped off to get the others.

To be continued...