A/N: Kay, so this is a very short opening for the story. Just wrote it a few minutes ago and I'm still not sure if I want to do anything with it...so since I haven't put anything on here in a while and there just aren't enough Paine/Rikku fics, I decided to put it up for shits and giggles if nothing else.
My eyes lolled as I slammed down the last drop of my fifth, that I can remember counting, jack and coke.
Today was just one of those days where you drink till you physically can't anymore.
I was debating between getting another one or going up to bed.
Yet I was in no condition to take a step, so I managed to get a finger up to signal one more concoction.
The ice jingled in the absence of liquid, tickling my earlobes in an almost painful way.
I could even hear the cubes sizzle slightly as the alcohol rushed down their slopes.
But what pulled me out of it all was something that could cause a hangover before it could ever cure it.
That voice, those thumping boots...there was just nothing alcoholic friendly about this girl.
She clomped over to the bar and took a spot at the stool next to me.
As my drink was being placed in front of me, she just smiled.
"Heya, Dr. P. Starting the day off right, eh?"
So what if it was only nine in the morning...I had been up all night anyways.
And I would have told her that too if I could have managed any words at the moment.
This lovely substance in the glass before me was absorbing all my attention rightfully.
I just took a swig and tried to get the glass back down without spilling it every where.
She just looked at me, with that little smirk of hers still there, and actually ordered a drink herself.
"Hmmm...how bout a tropical sunrise."
Kind of a bitch drink in my eyes, but not too bad considering who was getting it.
I studied her face as she took the first sip...and the next gulp...and finished the whole thing...
I might have been pretty damn drunk, but I could still comprehend that Rikku wasn't one to drink.
Not that much for sure.
Something was up.