Author note:
I wrote this as one big one-shot, but it was 20 pages when I finished it. I'll upload it in three parts.
Characters might seem slightly OOC, but that's because I wanted to portray them in a not-so-innocent light.
TK held back a gag as he felt the heat of his fourth shot take over the back of his throat. He slammed the glass down, throwing his head back to get the last bit of vodka out of his mouth. "Ahh," he let out a drunk sigh, looking over at his drinking partner, Kari.
Since most of the group had reached the legal drinking age, they all learned how much they truly loved alcohol and being able to purchase it themselves. Their love for drunken stupors and challenges led to the establishment of what they affectionately called Digi-Drinking.
Last week, his brother Matt barely finished nine shots against Davis before puking in his apartment's sink. The week previous to that, Sora almost had beat Mimi, but decided to cut herself off instead of risking alcohol poisoning.
This week's contestants, as drawn from slips of paper in an old beer carton, were TK and Kari.
The rest of the DigiDestined cheers them on as they both took their fifth shot. TK felt the burn again, but coughed halfway through, sending it back up. He started choking, reaching for Cody's mixed drink as a chaser.
"Aww, does TK need a chaser?" Kari taunted, pouting her lips.
TK rolled his eyes, giving Cody back his drink. "TK needed to not choke if he's going to outdrink you," he smirked, watching Kari give the same challenging face back.
This was a night TK was actually looking forward to. While there was always some kind of alcoholic function going on with the gang, TK made a habit of never getting as drunk as he normally would with them. He was pretty sure they had no idea about how hard he could go with his liquor.
This time was different, because he was competing against his girlfriend. Kari was the only person in the room who had seen TK at his drunkest, and he with her. When they were with the older DigiDestined, they skipped the shots and stuck with the fruity mixed drinks Mimi would always prepare. Knowing how drunk their brothers and the rest of the older kids would get by the end of the night, the younger DigiDestined took it upon themselves to watch over their blackout drunk shenanigans as much as their regular drunk selves could.
But tonight was different. When their names were drawn from the carton, they ended their partly-sober pact in favor of the possibly of alcohol poisoning. If their brothers were going to find out what hard partiers they were, they might as well have some fun with it.
"Game time!" a drunk Tai exclaimed, leading everyone back to the living room of his college apartment. He and his roommate Matt had set up their trusty beer-pong table once the party started.
TK and Kari took their places at the ends of the table. Izzy and Joe, the two soberest of the group, leaned themselves on the table while Sora and Yolei grabbed the plastics cups to fill up.
"Okay, as Digi-Drinking regulation goes," Izzy began the official speech of their challenge, "the first five shots are the warm-up shots. You both can handle five before getting a buzz." As Sora and Yolei set up the cups into pyramid shapes, Izzy pointed towards the cups, tracing their outline in the air. "These cups are filled with water. You aren't drinking the water." He handed Kari the ping-pong ball first. "Every time your opponent lands a cup, you must take the shot you are given by one of the non-competing members of this room."
Joe cut him off, feeling responsible for their safety as the eldest and a medical school student. "We've modified the game from ten cups to six, for safety reasons. If you feel like you are too drunk to continue, do not continue the game. This is not worth a trip to the hospital." He looked at the two competitors, reminding himself that they were both seventeen. "Or legal trouble."
TK could feel his head starting to get lighter as the five shots hit him. This wouldn't phase him, however. He was just getting started. He cocked his head slightly to the side, giving his girlfriend another smirk. "I'm good for one more warmup shot, if you're up for it," he teased.
Kari folded her arms, giving TK the same cocky look he was giving her. "You just want another shot because you know you suck at this unless you're already drunk," she called him out. Matt, Tai, and Davis went up in drunken yells at Kari's completely true statement.
Sora and Yolei had finished setting up the pyramids. Quickly unfolding her arms, Kari lined up her shot and threw the ball. It sunk into a cup on the third row. "But if you're so desperate to take a shot…" she quipped, winking from across the table.
While the rest of the group was amazed by the start Kari had, TK just chuckled as he removed the cup. Ken came up to him with a shot in his hand. The DigiDestined of Hope could smell the shot from a mile away; it was Fireball, one of his best friends and worst enemies. TK could drink Fireball straight from the bottle, and did a few times. He took the glass from Ken and nursed the top before downing it.
"Oh, so we're starting off easy?" Kari commented, noticing the ease in which TK took that shot. "Your bloodstream is a constant fifty percent Fireball."
TK rolled his eyes, dropping the ball into a water cup to wet it thoroughly. "Then let's make this more…" he paused, throwing his first ball, "interesting." The ball landed in the third row as well.
The room stayed silent at TK's proposition, waiting for Kari to take Joe's shot of lemon Bacardi. Finishing it with ease, she gently set the glass on the table and took away the cup TK scored. "Okay, and how do we make this more… interesting?" she asked, teasing him for his phrasing.
TK shrugged, watching her line up her next throw. "How about a nice friendly wager between boyfriend and girlfriend?" he said with a wink, knowing Kari would catch on to what he meant without revealing themselves to their friends.
Kari's eyes widened in surprise at TK's wager. It wouldn't be the first time their drunken escapades led to a sexual encounter, but never one made this competitively nor this publicly. In fact, whenever the two went out to a non-DigiDestined party, they almost always made a plan on how and where they were going to hook up that night. But the rest of the DigiDestined didn't need to know that about them, especially not their brothers. As far as they were concerned, the extent of TK and Kari's sexual encounters was a goodbye kiss after a date.
Despite the group they were with, Kari was never one to turn down a sure thing. She already knew they would hook up that night back at TK's apartment. His mother was out for the weekend and it was just the apartment building the next block over. Since it was already settled, why wouldn't she try to get some more out of it?
Kari's eyes returned to their concentrated position, knowing she now had more on the line than her pride. She closed one of her eyes to get a better aim and fired the ball. The shot landed again. She smirked back up at her boyfriend. "Sounds like a fair bet to me."
Yolei noticed the tension between the two at TK's wager, but even a tad bit drunk, she realized how open ended that was. "Wait, what was the bet actually?"
TK nodded towards Kari to answer as he took Mimi's shot of cookie dough vodka, a flavor that surprised him, but not in a bad way. Clearing the cup she landed, he felt the seventh shot hit him and decided to test the waters of his friendships a little. "Yeah, babe, what are the terms of this bet?" he smirked, feeling a bit devious. "What do I get if I win?"
Kari pursed her lips, knowing she wasn't drunk enough to tell her sexual knowledge of TK's body with her oldest friends. Instead, she decided to try to get the game over faster. "You get the chance to try to land another cup," she stated, ignoring the actual comments made in hopes her innuendo hit him
The blonde DigiDestined held in a laugh at his girlfriend's skillful neglect and, at the same time, acknowledgment of the topic at hand. He knew that what they did behind closed doors was their business, but in his near-drunken state, he had to admit it was fun to test the waters with how much he could reveal in front of their friends.
Not forcing the topic, the game continued. The older DigiDestined watched in drunken amazement as TK and Kari slowly knocked out cups and knocked back shots. TK was up one cup, with two left on Kari's side: the center and the third row corner. With eight shots and some pre-game mixed drinks in him, TK was definitely drunk, which is exactly what he needed for this game.
"Give me a line," he asked, moving his hand into the position he wanted the cups. Kari did as he asked. The blonde lined up her shot, aiming for the back one. He knew if he called it, he would get both of the cups out.
Without much more evaluation, TK called his shot, "Back cup." The ball flew through the air, landing in the back cup like he predicted.
The DigiDestined went crazy at TK's shot, realizing how close the game was to being over. All of them had seen a side of the Crests of Hope and Light they had never seen before. The ones most shocked were Matt and Tai, who had sobered up from almost blackout drunk when they realized their little siblings were on their eighth and ninth shots. They both didn't realize how much liquor the two youngers one could actually hold, or how often they push their holding limit.
TK was just eager to finish and get out, knowing what comes after the party. He stuck his hand over the table palm up. "Ball back," he said.
Kari eyed him as best as her ninth shot would let her. Everything was a little out of focus and she knew she was the kind of drunk she liked to be.
"You'll get this ball back when you give me my virginity back," she quipped, missing her illegal throw.
Although technically since he called the ball on the last two cups, he had a chance to make another shot to block her redemption shot, TK was too taken aback by her blunt comment to even challenge her on the game. He looked over at Tai, hoping he hadn't heard what she said. He couldn't decide whether he wasn't sober enough or drunk enough to have this conversation.
Tai and Matt stared stoically at TK. They both had a feeling their siblings' relationship wasn't strictly abstinent, but thinking it and hearing it from the source itself were two different things. Tai bit his lip, keeping him for saying anything about it for now. Matt placed a hand on his roommate's shoulder, a reminder that this wasn't the appropriate time to discuss TK's deflowering of Kari.
Everyone had been staring at TK and the brother's long enough for Kari to realize what she had said. She threw her hands over her mouth, trying with all of her drunken might not to laugh. The attention went back to her. "Whoops, did I say that?" she laughed, grabbing onto the edge of the table to keep herself from falling down.
TK rolled his eyes at her, amused by the spectacle. He would deal with the repercussions in the morning. Cody walked up to Kari with her tenth shot, but TK shook his head. Instead, he asked nudged his head at the cups Kari had left on the table, holding up one finger. She missed her illegal redemption shot, giving TK a chance to end the game right then. If he could sink this one last ball, he would win.
The room got quiet, with the exception of an occasional laugh from Kari, as TK stuck his tongue out, closed one year, and lined up the ball. He knew how to shoot a ball; he was on their school's basketball team. With the perfect beer-pong amount of alcohol flowing through him, TK let the ball fly.
It landed in the remaining up.
The room went up in a loud cheer as TK walked over to the remaining shots left in the game. There were two left for her and three left for him. He quickly knocked back the tequila shot on his side before picking up two more.
Both he and Kari were too drunk to care about who won. TK handed her one of the glasses, clinking it with his own. "Victory shot?" he asked.
Kari let out a giggle and nodded before raising her glass. With ease, the two teenagers twisted their arms together, hooking the other before taking their whiskey shot. No matter how wasted they got, they always knew how to link their arms for a shot.
Kari slammed her shot glass on the table, leaning on TK for support, even though he wasn't much better. She laughed into his chest. "We make a better tag-team than competitors," she commented, looking up at him.
TK wrapped his arms around her waist, holding both of them up. He leaned down and gave her a quick kiss. "You're just saying that because you lost," he teased.
"Okay, okay, break it up," Tai slurred, stumbling to tear the two apart.
"Don't think we didn't hear what she said," Matt said, pushing Tai's hand off of his brother.
Kari and TK felt their cheeks grow hotter than the drunken normal.
The party had restarted since their competition. Joe was making his signature rum and coke for a few people who wanted to calm down in the kitchen. Davis and Ken had started another game of beer-pong against Mimi and Yolei, with actual beer in the cups this time. Leaving their siblings alone, Tai and Matt rejoined the party in the kitchen, knowing they should start slowing down to take care of their guests.
TK turned his attention back to Kari. The two began to laugh. "I can't believe you said that in front of them," he chuckled, leaning against the wall for support.
"I can't believe I did either," Kari replied, leaning next to him. "'You'll get this back when you give me my virginity back.' What was that?" she mocked herself, grabbing onto TK's shoulder.
The two were clearly drunk now, a level of drunk they liked to be in other situations. It still felt weird to them that they had consumed that much alcohol in front of their brothers and friends instead of their normal crowd, but they called it even for the amount of times the others had been extremely drunk in front of them.
TK smirked over at his girlfriend, listening to the mumble of other people talking around them. "I remember a little bet we made," he teased, moving a part of her hair behind her ear.
Kari rolled her eyes, hanging onto his arm. "I was hoping you wouldn't remember anything," she murmured, biting her lip in thought. They were silent for a moment while she thought about TK's award for winning the bet. "Okay, I'll do that thing you like tonight," she sighed, smiling up at him.
TK's eyes widened and laugh began to form in his throat. "You mean that thing that you only occasionally like? With the-"
"Yeah, TK, that one," she interrupted, not wanting anyone to hear them. It was bad enough they knew he took her virginity. She didn't want them to hear about the details. She nodded her head towards the door. "If we sneak out of here now, we can probably stumble into your room before the final shot takes hold."
TK grabbed her cheeks, bringing her up to him for one more kiss. "I knew there was a reason I love you," he whispered before they stumbled out of the party.
