THE START OF SOMETHING NEW.

Abi Mason is a teacher from England. She is attending her long time, no see best friend, Tracy's wedding as the maid of honour.

"Tracy! I'd love to talk but I really must go! My flight is in half an hour! I'll see you in around 11 hours at LAX!" Abi exclaimed into the phone.

"But..." Tracy was about to respond when Abi hung up.. After the 11 hour flight, she stepped off, taking in the heat of LA.
"Ah. I've missed this." She ran through the airport and saw her bestfriend's face. Abi pushed through the crowd and hugged Tracy. "Oh my god! Abi! I've missed you so much!" "Ditto! Now where's Alan? I've missed the bearded child!" "He's in the ca-" Abi ran to the parking lot and spotted Tracy's prius and ran up to the man stood by it. "ALAN!" "ABI!" They hugged, almost as much as Tracy and her did and they got in the car and drove home.


"Abi, could I ask you a huge favour?" Tracy said. "Uh, sure. Anything." I smiled. "Well, would you mind going on Doug's bachelor party? He loves you and so does Alan, please? For me?" "Fine but who else is going?" "Well, there's Stu and uh, um, well.." "Who is it Trace?" "Ph-Ph-Phil." No wa- Umm, sure. I can put up with him for one night, I guess." I was about to say no to seeing my high school boyfriend but I could do a lot of winding up on this trip. A lot. Alan was cheering in the back and smiling like a clown. "YAY! ABI'S COMING ON THE TRIP! WOOOO!" "I know Alan! It's exciting!" We pulled up at the Garner's mansion, it was huge. I rushed inside and saw Tracy's parents, Sid and Linda. "ABI!" Linda shouted, pulling me into a hug. I pulled away and turned to Sid. "Abi! There's a face, I've missed." We hugged and I noticed a familiar figure to the far end of the room. I ran up to the man. "DOUGIE!" "ABI!" We hugged and he showed me to my room. I got changed into my pyjamas as it was late and fell asleep on top of the bed, 11 hours on a plane, does you in.

Next Day..

I woke up to someone shaking me. "Alan? What time is it?" "ELEVEN ABI! EE-LEVV-AN. YOU NEED TO PACK FOR VEGAS BEFORE WE PICK THE OTHERS UP!" He fled the room and I got changed into some black skinny jeans, a pale blue blouse, some brown boots and my aviators. I brushed my hair and made it wavy before packing a green hem dress, some heels, a spare pink dress, my clutch, some underwear, some lingerie and some other essentials. I was ready to go. It was 2 o'clock so I went downstairs, and looked for Doug. I found him in the garage with Sid, looking at the Mercedes. "Hey Guys." "Hey Abi!" Doug said happily, pulling me into a hug. "Wow. Nice car Sid." I said as I inspected the vehicle. "It's gorgeous. Why can't we go to Vegas in this instead Doug?" I whimpered. "We are Abs." "Oh my god! REALLY? Shit. Thanks Sid!" I hugged Sid and dumped my bag in the vehicle. "You're welcome. Just don't let Alan drive, there's something wrong with him." I looked over to Alan where he was kissing Tucker, the dog. "Oh and Phil. I don't like him." "See! I knew I wasn't the only one." Sid laughed at me. "Well, you kids have a good time. You best be off now." We hugged and called Alan over, then set off to get Phil.

We were waiting outside the school that Phil worked at. "He's still a teacher? Jesus, how?" "He's good at it Abi! Please don't fight too much on this trip." I put my hands up. "No promises sorry Doug." "Fine." I looked over to the school and saw him. Phil walked out and was approached by a young boy. "Mr Wenne-" "It's the weekend Budnick. I do not know you. You do not exist." He stressed. "Ha. Great teacher." I scoffed sarcastically. Suddenly, a black bag hit me in the head and I yelped, it was really heavy. "THANKS PHIL!" I yelled. "You're welcome gorgeous." He sat down next to me and put his arm around me but I knocked it off my shoulder and glared at him. "What?" He asked. I just looked away as we were on the road to Stu's.

I stood up to go and get him but I felt a hand around my waist that pulled my down. "No. You can't go." Phil explained. "And why would that be Wenneck?" "His girlfriend, Melissa is a total bitch. She doesn't even know we're going to Vegas, nevermind taking you with us." "Fine. You can let go of my waist now Phillip." "Don't call me that." Phil cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted, PAGING DOCTOR FAGGOT! Stu still hadn't come out. DOCTOR FAGGOT! I giggled and Phil smirked.

We were on the road to Vegas. Phil, Stu and I in the back, Doug and Alan in the front. Phil was whining about not being able to drive and Doug was telling him no every time. I sat back and started to fall asleep. Without realizing, I drifted off with my head on Phil's chest. I soon woke up as Phil mentioned something about his wife and kid. "W-what?" I muttered curiously. "Soon to be ex, Phil." Stu corrected. "What?" I said again. "It's no big deal. We're getting a divorce so yeah." "Oh. I'm sorry Phil. I didn't even know you'd gotten married." I apologized. "You were sent an invite Abi." Stu said. "What? I didn't get it?" "Yeah. Phil sent you one." I looked over at Phil and he was glaring. "I'm sure I was Stu. It's fine." Phil looked down and sighed. I put my hand on his thigh. "It's fine Phil." He smiled. I then, realized where my hand was and removed it from this thigh.

"Am I alright over there, Alan?" Doug asked. "Yeah, you're good." Doug pulled into the next lane and we almost hit a huge truck. I jumped onto Phil's lap and put my head on his chest whilst the car swerved. "That was awesome." Alan laughed. "That was not awesome! What's wrong with you?" Doug shouted back. "WE ALMOST DIED ALAN!" I yelled, still holding Phil."You shoulda seen your face!" "That's funny!" Phil said, chuckling. I smacked him over the head and glared at him. He brought his lips to my ear. "I knew you'd be sat in my lap sooner or later." He whispered. He smirked and I sat back down in between him and Stu.

We pulled over to get some gas (petrol) for the mercedes. I stayed in the car, Alan watched over it and the others went inside to pay and get snacks. An old man walked over and whistled. "Boy, you got a sweet ride there." He said about the car. "Don't touch it. Don't even look at it! Go on, get out." The man started walking away. "Don't look at me either." As the man got further away, Alan stood up against the pillar. "Yeah, you better walk on. I'll hit an old man in public." I hit his arm as he leant up against the car again. I glanced over to the shop where the guys were, arguing again. Stu, Doug and Phil got in the car and Doug started it up.

We were back on the road and Alan was deep into the book he was reading. "It says here, we should work in teams. Who wants to be my spotter?" "I don't think you should be doing too much gambling tonight Alan." "Gambling? Who said anything about Gambling? It's not gambling if you know you're going to win? Counting cards is a fool proof system." "It's also illegal." I added. "It's not illegal, It's just frowned upon like masturbating on an aeroplane." Me and Phil shared glances. "I'm pretty sure that's illegal too." Phil said. "Yeah maybe after nine eleven where everybody get's so sensitive. Thanks alot Bin Laden." We all just smirked. "Either way, you gotta be really smart to count cards buddy, it's not easy." "Oh really? Maybe we should tell that to Rain Man 'cause he practically bankrupt the casino and he was a ruhtard." I almost choked on my drink. "What?" "A ruh-tard." "Retard." Doug said. I'm not entirely sure if he was correcting him or calling him one.

Around 2 hours later, we arrived in Vegas. Bags in hand, we walked into Caesar's Palace and over to the check-in desk. I left the guys to it while I walked over to the fountain and answered my now ringing phone. "Hey Rae. What's up?" I asked my sister. "Abi. D-Don't freak." "What?" "Y'know Josh? Well, he's going to be in Vegas this weekend and he's staying at Caesar's-" I hung up and threw the phone into my bag. I couldn't believe my ex was in Vegas at the same time as me and the same hotel. "That's not a way to treat an expensive phone, now, is it?" A voice said behind me. I spun around and saw a very attractive man in a suit. I stumbled and he caught me. "Sorry ma'am. I'm Paul." He stuck his hand out for me to shake. I went to shake it but he lifted it up and kissed my knuckles causing me to blush. "I'm Abigai-" I felt a hand wrap around my waist. It was Phil. "C'mon sweetie, we've got a room to get to." Before, I could say anything, Phil pulled me to the elevator with him. I turned around to Paul. "Sorry." I mouthed to him, and he smiled and waved. I turned around when we got in the elevator. "What the hell Phil?!" I yelled at him. "I basically saved you!" "Uh no Phillip. You didn't save me, you prevented me from pulling an attractive man!" "You can always have me." I glared at him, and we got out of the elevator. Stu opened the door to the villa and I pushed past them all and ran around like a child in a sweet shop. "OH MY GOD! THIS IS AMAZING GUYS!" I ran into the biggest bedroom which had a huge king size bed and a jacuzzi. "MY ROOM!" I yelled, pointing at the room I'd come from. "Okay ladies. Pick a room, be ready in 30 minutes, thirty Abs." "That's fine, but can you manage?" I said strutting back into the room.

I opened my bag and pulled out the hem dress, the green heels and my clutch. I lay them out on the bed and went to get a shower. Once I'd washed my hair and had a wash, I went back into the room, with only a small towel wrapped around my body. I yelped as I saw Phil led on the bed. "Get out!" I hissed. "Why? It's my room too." "What?!" "Oh yeah, um, we have to share. There's only four rooms and-" "Why me? Why not Doug or Stu or Alan?" "Because I'm not sharing with Alan and well, I wanted to share with you." "Ugh, fine. Just turn away while I get changed." "Fine." I let the towel slip off me and I put my underwear (lingerie) on, then I stepped into the dress and struggled to zip it up. I felt a hand on my dress and the zip was pulled up. I stumbled back in surprise and fell into Phil's arms. He spun me around and grabbed my waist, pulling me into him. I stared into his blue eyes and he smiled. Phil leaned forward and kissed me, as his lips brushed against mine I wrapped my hands around his neck and kissed him back, it was amazing. What am I doing?! I thought. I pulled away and he smirked. "Th-Thank you for um, zipping my dress up Phil." "No problem." He smirked. "That didn't mean anything!" I shouted as he walked to Stu's room. I put on my heels, dryed my hair and put my make up on. Grabbing my clutch, I walked to Stu's room.

The guys were arguing when I went into the room and sat down on a chair next to Doug. "Guys. What are you talking about?" I asked. "I'm proposing to Melissa after the ceremony!" "Congrats Stuey!" Phil glared at me. "What?" I mouthed. "He's in denial. Not to mention, she fucked a sailor." Phil said. "I withdraw my congratulations." I added. Phil smiled. "Hey. He wasn't a sailor, he was a bartender on a cruise ship. You know that." "Guys. I'm standing right here so I can here everything you say." Stu said frustrated. "Hey Guys. Ready to let the dogs out?" Alan said from behind. "What? Do what?" "Let the dogs out, you know like who let the dogs out? Who? Who? Who? Who?" Alan sung. I sighed and walked out of the room, joined by the guys short after. "Let's do this!" I exclaimed excitedly.

Phil pressed the button and turned to Alan, arguing about some purse situation while I checked my phone, a missed call from Alan? Weird. "Abi?" Stu said from the doors. "Coming." I ran (sort of - heels) to him and got in the elevator where I was stood in between Phil and some creep. The creep touched my leg. "How about you come with us? I can show you a good time." He said, gesturing to himself and the slut next to him. "I'm not sure how her boyfriend would feel about that." Phil said before grabbing my waist and kissing my forehead. "Woah. Sorry dude." They got off. I freed myself from Phil's grasp and thanked him. We got off the elevator at the roof and Phil lead us out.

After Stu had finished whining about not being aloud on the roof and Phil shutting him up, we climbed up to the roof. "Oh my god! Look at the view!" I exclaimed. "You like it?" Phil smirked. "Love it!"
"What've you got over there Alan?" He danced over with five shot glasses and a bottle of Jagermeister. "No, this is good. I'd like to propose a toast, to Doug and Tracy, may this be but a minor speedbump in a long and happy marriage." We did the shots followed by a lot of coughing. "Uh, it's like college." "Alright I wanna talk about something. I wanna talk about me and Em-" Phil started. "I-I'd like to say something. That I've prepared.." I was fuming that Alan interrupted Phil. Alan pulled out a piece of paper. "Hello. How about that ride in? I guess that's why they call it sin city. Ha ha ha. You guys might not know this but I consider myself a bit of a loner. I tend to think of myself as a one man wolf pack but when my sister and I met Abi and my sister brought Doug home, I knew they were my own. And my wolfpack, it grew by two. So there was 3 of, there was 3 of us in the wolf pack. I was alone first in the pack and then Doug and Abi joined in later. And six months ago when Doug introduced me to you guys, i thought 'Wait a second, could it be?' and now I know for sure, I just added two more guys to my wolf pack. Four of us wolves, and a she wolf running around the desert together in Las Vegas looking for strippers and cocaine. So tonight, I make a toast." He pulled out a pocket knife and struck it to his hand. Phil pulled me to his side quick to protect me and I could feel his grip tighten as Alan let out a horrible moan. "What is that?!" "Blood brothers." "Alan. No. We're not going to cut ourselves. Alan, give me the knife. Thank you." "You alright? You okay? You need a doctor?" Phil asked him. "He's fine!" Doug said. "Come here Alan!" I said, grabbing his other hand and pulling him towards us. "To a night, the five of us will never forget!" We put our glasses in the air and did another round of shots..