In Belfield, North Dakota, at around nine o'clock at night, an orange haze can be seen across the horizon; a globally known sign meaning the sun is setting. Coming down the street in a 1969 Chevelle Super Sport is a pair of young women. The driver is twenty four year old Coralyn Ackerson and the passenger is twenty five year old Kennedy Rola. As they turn a corner Welcome To The Jungle by Guns 'N Roses comes on and the two friends start to sing and head bang along to the music.
As they pull up to the motel they have been staying at for the past week, the song ends and the adrenaline starts to wear off. Once they are parked, Kennedy practically leaps out of the car and starts to head to room 211 with Coralyn only a few steps behind.
"That was such a rush Coral! I love taking out vamp. nests!" Kennedy says as she walks into their shared room, her clothes splattered with blood.
Coralyn nods in agreement as she walked past Kennedy to go to her bed-the furthest from the door and closest to the bathroom. "Yeah, but now I could use a burger. I worked up an appetite."
A grumble erupts from Kennedy's stomach and she laughs. "Apparently I did too." She went to her bag and started to pull out clean clothes preparing to take a shower, but she paused and said "I saw this bar in town. Maybe we can go there and celebrate."
Coral thought for a moment and replied. "'Long as they have burgers, I don't care where we go!" She looked over at her best friend, threw a shoe at her with only a brief warning of "heads up!", grabbed her own duffle bag full of clothes, and raced into the bathroom before Kennedy could get to it.
Kennedy didn't even know what was happening until she saw Coralyn racing to the bathroom. When she saw that, she ran towards the bathroom as well, but got a face full of wood as a result. Surprisingly keeping her balance, she could hear Coralyn laughing from inside of the bathroom. "That's no fair! You saw me about to go take a shower!" Kennedy yelled.
Coralyn began to take her clothes out of her duffle and was still laughing as she replied. "Yeah, well I didn't want another cold shower!"
Kennedy huffed and sat down on her bed. "I'm not the only one who takes long showers!"
"You always were a sore loser, Ken." Coralyn replied and began to take her shower.
Coralyn walks out of the bathroom in a pair of ripped blue skinny jeans and a loose grey tank top just in time to see her roommate dip a piece of raw broccoli into ranch and pop it into her mouth. "How can you eat that raw like that? It's like eating grass!" She says with a look of utter disgust on her face.
Kennedy just ignores her friend's remark. "Did you save any hot water for me?" she questioned.
"Probably not."
Kennedy just shrugged knowing that if she was the first to shower the situation at hand would be reversed. She set her snack down at the table, picked up her clothes she had taken out earlier, grabbed her iPod, and went to go take a shower.
Coralyn took this time to clean their blades and polish her guns. She sat down and began to take out her weapons and heard some country song playing from the bathroom and shook her head. How Kennedy could listen to that garbage was beyond her.
After taking a long, cold shower Kennedy reemerges from the bathroom blood-free. "That might have been as cold as the arctic, but I'd be damned if I didn't need it." She looks over at her now chuckling friend and slightly chuckles herself. "You know, if I had hair likes yours, maybe I wouldn't have dyed it red."
"Shut up, Ken. You had pretty hair before and you still do."
Kennedy mumbles something along the lines of yeah yeah and walks over to her bed, sits down, and slips on a pair of black heels. Even though she is a hunter, she has always liked to dress up. Tonight she decided to wear a plain black skirt that goes down to her mid-thigh and a white crop top with a yin-yang symbol on it. She turns around and asks "Are you ready to go?"
"Yeah, let me grab my jacket." was her reply.
At the bar
Coralyn and Kennedy walk into the bar and get seated at a table towards the far right side of the building. No more than five minutes pass when a waitress walks up to them and asks what they'll have.
"Just a beer for me, sweetheart." Kennedy says with a playful smirk.
The waitress blushes and turns. "What about you?"
Coralyn rolls her eyes at Kennedy. "I'll have a bacon cheeseburger and a beer, thank you."
"Comin' right up." The brunette replies to both of them, eyes lingering on Kennedy just a second longer than necessary. As she walks away Kennedy turns to check out her rear.
"Seriously Ken? You're going to try and pick up our waitress?" Coralyn says as she shakes her head.
"Hey, why not? We just offed a whole nest of Vampires. I think I deserve a little fun!" She says as she laughs.
Coralyn goes to say something, but is stopped as she see two gorgeous men walk into the bar. One is noticeably taller than the other with longer hair as well. His stance as they walk up to the bar seems like he's nice and maybe a bit shy, funny coming from a man that basically towers over everyone else in the room. As she is focused on the taller man, Kennedy is focused on the shorter one-although he is still pretty tall. He has short hair, but she notices that there's enough there to be able to weave your hands through, if need be. She can't see the exact color from this distance, but he has light colored eyes. His stance is different from his friend. It is very confident and he walks like he knows what he wants.
Their eyes are torn away from the men as their lovely brunette waitress appears with Coralyn's burger and their beers. As she is about to turn and leave she shoots Kennedy a playful wink in which Kennedy gives her a smile in return.
Both the women at the table share small bits of conversations for the next few minutes, but most of it contains information about a next hunt. That was, until the bar owner, some middle aged man with a cowboy hat on stepped onto a stage that neither of the women have noticed until now and spoke into a microphone. His voice laced with a southern twang as he said, "Good evening everyone! As usual Thursday nights are karaoke night! We are going to kick it off tonight with a regular! Give it up for Maria!" A few people clapped as a women, probably in her mid 30s came on the stage. She began to sing Something Like That by Tim McGraw in a semi out of tune voice.
Coralyn visibly brightened up by the announcement of karaoke night. She loves to sing at bars. Kennedy knew that her friend was going to ask her to go up there and sing with her, as she always des when they're at a bar on karaoke night, but Kennedy had a serious case of stage fright. She has always hated being the center of attention. She preferred to stick to the shadows.
Coralyn looked up at Kennedy with her mouth full of the burger she had just taken a bite out of. "Hey, Ken" she said "do you wanna-"
Kennedy cut her off. "Hell to the no."
"Aw, come on!" Coralyn said, still chewing. "You are a great singer and there are barely any people this time!"
"It's still a no." Kennedy takes a drink of her beer and continues. "We have this conversation every time."
"Whatever. Party pooper." Coralyn replies with a look of disdain clearly written over her features.
After a man is done singing Rockstar by Nickelback, Coralyn goes up to the bar owner and requests a song. Moments later, he is onstage introducing her. Kennedy claps a bit louder than the rest and even adds in a few shouts to cheer on her best friend. As she begins to sing Put Your Lights On by Santana and Everlast, Kennedy decides it's a good time to go up to the bar and get another beer.
She smiles as she saunters up to the bar, seeing that her waitress friend is the one bartending at the moment. As she gets to the bar she rests on it with her elbows on the top and her rear poking out just a bit, her eyes never leaving the bartender. When the bartender notices her, she walks over immediately. "What can I get ya?" she asks sweetly.
"Hmm. How about another beer right now and then when your shift is over you and me can go back to the place I'm staying at have a bit of fun?"
The waitress smiled and put a thoughtful finger to her chin. She waited a moment before she spoke. "I am paid to say yes to the beer, but to the other part? I say I get off in an hour."
Kennedy chuckles and does a little mental 'yes dance', as she likes to call it, in her head at the waitress' response. Then as she gives Kennedy her beer, Kennedy thinks for a brief moment and says "My name is Kennedy by the way."
The waitress smiles and simply replies with "Lila."
Kennedy turns around with her back leaning against the bar, watching Coralyn sing as Lila goes to help some other customers. She is so immersed in her thoughts of the events that will happen later that evening that she doesn't hear the man sitting in the bar stool next to her start to talk to her. She doesn't hear him repeat it either. She is still vividly imagining what the night has yet to unfold until she feels a hand press against her arm. She doesn't flinch, but she turns towards the man, who she realizes is the same man that she was fascinated with when he walked into the bar a while back. She looks around him to see that the taller man he was with is sitting to his right, looking at her as well.
"Excuse me?" she says, clearly dumbfounded.
The taller man chuckles slightly as the other one, who's eyes are clearly green now that she can see them up close, just smiles and repeats himself. "I said that you must be one lucky girl to have scored one with the bartender. I tried and she didn't even give me a second glance."
She smiled. "Well, you win some and lose some."
"Yeah, yeah. I just cant believe I lucked out because of some chick." he stated with a tone that held anger and hinted a bit of jealousy.
"Hey," the taller guy spoke up "at least the chick you lucked out to is cute."
Kennedy's eyebrows shot up. The man had called her cute. Cute. To her, being an adult women, that was an insult. She was about to say something snarky to the taller man when the man with the green eyes stopped her as he turned and spoke in a hushed whisper to his friend.
"Sammy, she's not cute. She's pretty damn hot."
He wasn't as good of a whisperer as he must've clearly thought because Kennedy heard every word that came from him. She raised one eyebrow at the man, but decided to ignore it. An idea forming in her mind. She said from the beginning that she wanted to celebrate a successful hunt. If things worked out the way she was hoping, this would be a splendid way to celebrate.
"Well boys, I'll see you around." She gave a small smile at the boy before she turned around and made her way back to her table, Coralyn already there, drinking her beer. She could feel the two men watching her as she sat down in front of her friend.
Coralyn looked over at Kennedy. "Where did you run off to?" By the way she asked the question, you could tell that the woman was used to her friend's antics, but didn't like it.
Kennedy heard the tone of voice that Coralyn used and replied with a cheery voice. "I'm going to have a bit of fun later with that gorgeous waitress of ours." she said as she turned to look at Lila.
Coralyn just shook her head and drank some more of her beer. She knew after Kennedy got something in her head, it was a waste of breath trying to stop her from doing whatever it was.
An hour later
Coralyn had decided to walk back to the motel about a ten minutes ago, leaving Kennedy with the car so she can have a ride. When she got to the motel she checked out another room, this one having only one bed, as requested from Kennedy, so that they had privacy.
Kennedy saw Lila walk over to her. When she approached she said "Are you ready?" to which Kennedy just nodded. She looked over to the bar where the two men were before, seeing them still there.
"Actually," Kennedy said, stopping Lila. "I have an idea as to how to make this night even better."
Interest peaked, Lila asked what she had in mind. Kennedy went over her idea to the other woman. Lila just listened until she was finished and then she said, "That's an excellent idea."
With that, Kennedy walked over to the two men and spoke. "Hey, remember me?"
The man with the green eyes turned. "Yeah" he said.
"Well, I'm Kennedy and I had this crazy idea." She paused and he just stared at her, waiting for her to finish. "Well, seeing as how you struck out with the bartender over there" she pointed to Lila and the man glanced over there "and how you seem in need of a bit of fun, I was thinking maybe you want to come join us at the motel I'm staying at in town." She ends her offer with a wink and the man just looks between her and Lila with thoughtful eyes.
He thinks for a moment, turns to his friend, mumbles something, then turns back to her and says, "I'm game!"
He then follows Kennedy over to Lila where she greets him and he smiles and responds, "Hey, I'm Dean." Then they leave the bar and head to Kennedy's car, to which Dean let's out an appreciative whistle. Kennedy smirks as they get into the cat with Lila siting shotgun and Dean in the backseat. They can barely contain themselves, Dean most of all, as they drive to the newly rented hotel room where they have a night full of adventure.