Chapter 3

Later that night at 9 PM, Amanda and Kim go to a bar and they go inside to celebrate Kim's acceptance letter to Queens College. As they go inside, the find a table to sit at and they start to talk about Kim going back to school since she was 16. Kim regrets dropping out of school because of her eating disorder but now she has her GED and she can get an education.

"Are you excited about going back to school?" Amanda asks.

"I am but I'm nervous about the first semester." Kim replies.

Kim tells Amanda that she doesn't know what to do when the first semester comes. Amanda tells her that she'll help her get over her nerves by helping her buy brand new clothes for school. Kim tells her that her boyfriend bought her new clothes before she moved in with him. The bartender comes to the table and the sister order raspberry lemonade. A few minutes later, the two raspberry lemonades come to the table.

"They didn't give us straws." Amanda says.

"I have straws. They have our names on them and we have different colors. Yours is pink and mine is blue." Kim replies.

Amanda asks Kim where she found krazy namesake straws and Kim tells her that she found them online and she ordered them. Amanda tells her that now they know whose drink is whose. The sisters talk about what they should do for Amanda's bachelorette party coming up in a few weeks. Kim suggests that all the girls go to a dance club and wear hot pink mini dresses. Amanda agrees and she tells her sister that it sounds fun.

"How do you like working at Daddy's restaurant?" Amanda asks.

"It's great. I'm a hostess and everyone there is so nice, even the customers too. The manager, Michelle who hired me is moving to Italy, so we're getting a new manager soon and it's a man. I'm nervous about that." Kim replies.

The sisters drink their raspberry lemonade and they look around trying to decide what to do. They talk more about Kim's new job at the restaurant and she hopes that she can work there until she gets some kind of a degree. They then talk about Amanda's upcoming wedding and Kim says that she's going to cry that day. They look and they see Nate at the bar and he's with his friends.

"Oh, my God. Is that Nate?" Kim asks.

"Yeah, and he's with his friends." Amanda replies.

Nate and his friends go over to Kim and Amanda and they say hello. Amanda and Kim decide to go dancing and Kim brings her raspberry lemonade with her but she turns her video camera on so that she knows what's going on with Amanda's drink. Nate asks for four tequila shots and he puts them in Amanda's drink. As Nate's spiking Amanda's drink, his friends are laughing and Kim keeps a close eye on Nate and his friends. Amanda and Kim return to the table after Nate and his friends leave as soon as they see that they're being recorded. Amanda drinks her lemonade not knowing that it was spiked. Kim tries to warn Amanda not to drink the lemonade, but she drinks half of the lemonade before realizing that she's drunk.

"Kim, I'm not feeling well." Amanda says, slurring her words.

"Let's get out of here." Kim replies.

Kim grabs her and Amanda's bags and they leave the bar. Amanda is holding on to Kim as she's drunk. Amanda starts to wonder where they are and where they're going. Kim gets to the side and she looks for a cab. She is very concerned about her sister.

"Amanda, are you drunk?" Kim asks.

"Amanda? Who's Amanda?" Amanda asks, confused.

"Let's get you to the hospital." Kim says.

Kim calls for a cab and she and Amanda get in the cab. Kim helps Amanda get into the cab and they sit close to each other. Amanda is still hanging on to Kim as they're riding in the cab. As the cab driver drives, Amanda starts to feel sick and she vomits on the floor in the cab. Kim holds Amanda's hair back as she continues throwing up.

"Is everything okay back there?" the cab driver asks.

"No, my sister's sick. Pull over." Kim replies.

The cab driver pulls over and Amanda stops vomiting for now. The cab driver helps Amanda out of the cab while Kim grabs her purse, but Amanda forgets hers in the cab. Kim apologizes to the cab driver and he gives her his business card telling her that if she needed anything to give him a call. The cab driver realizes that Amanda forgot her bag in the cab and as he tries to get it back to her, he realizes that they went somewhere else. He holds on to the bag and he drives back to the taxi garage and then he reports a missing purse that was left in his cab to his manager. He then grabs cleaning supplies and he cleans the vomit off of the floor of the cab. A few minutes later, the SVU team comes to the taxi garage to get Amanda's missing purse and they talk to the cab driver.

"I'm Lieutenant Benson and these are Detectives Tutuola, Carisi, Taymor and Dumas from Manhattan Special Victims Unit. You found a missing purse in your cab?" Olivia asks.

"Yeah. The poor girl vomited all over my cab. Her sister held her hair back and told me to pull over. I felt sorry for her, so I helped her out of the cab and when I realized that she forgot her purse, I tried to get it back to her but she was nowhere to be found. I went to the garage and told them about the purse. I had to clean up." The cab driver replies.

The cab driver gives Reese the purse and she looks inside of the bag. She looks inside and she sees Amanda's driver's license in the bag and she realizes that it's Amanda's purse and her cell phone shows one missed call from Declan.

"Oh, my God. This is Amanda's purse." Reese says, shocked.

The SVU team leaves the garage and they head back to the station with Amanda's purse. They realize that Amanda has vomited in the cab and they create a case. They talk to Chief Dodds and he helps the team with the case.