"You need another drink there, friend?" asked Tapper, walking stiffly over to the spot where Ralph and Felix were sitting.
Felix glanced down towards his empty glass of chocolate milk, maybe it wasn't exactly the best choice of beverage for the night, considering it brought back floods of memories of how him and his now ex-wife met. He sighed, "Sure, but would it be too much to ask for you to switch it up to some strawberry milk instead?"
Tapper rolled his eyes "I've gotta say Felix, I think you're the only person whose ever walked into my bar and asked for milk." He turned his attention to Ralph, "How about you big guy?"
Felix glanced over to Ralph's side of the bar table, he had already gone through 3 mugs of the good stuff. He really wasn't sure what he had expected, he knew his friend was frequently passing out in places like these. Sometimes Felix would honestly worry about him, sure, he may have had Vanellope, but at the end of the day when everyone had to go back to their own games, he bet he still got pretty lonely, all alone in his shack.
"Yeah, fill me up Tapper!" said Ralph, already beginning to slur his speech. He turned to his smaller friend and raised his eyebrows at him "are you sure you don't want any? I mean, it might make you feel better... or at least help you get some sleep tonight" he said, chuckling in between phrases.
Felix eyed the alcoholic beverage timidly, he had never once had a sip of liquor. "Well... I guess I might as well compromise my morals, especially on a night like this" he turned towards the tapper and cleared his throat "excuse me sir.. but would you mind spiking my milk?"
Tapper squinted at him. "how about I just get you a glass of your milk and a small glass of the beer too?" he said, not exactly wanting to whip up the sultry spiked milk.
"Yeah, he'll take it!" chimed in Ralph, and withing seconds the Tapper once again appeared bearing their drinks.
Felix looked over to his left, his friend was already sipping from his mug. He looked down at his own cup of the brew, giving it a sniff and scrunching up his nose. "Jiminy jaminy! This smells mighty terrible!" he said, turning his gaze over to his friend, who he could hear laughing.
"yeah, no one's arguing with ya there." he said, still chuckling to himself. "if you want you can just take a sip and leave the rest up to me if you don't like it."
"w-well... I suppose..." Said Felix, feeling flustered, so he pressed the rim of the glass to his lips and took the tiniest sip. Moments later he was spitting it out, reaching for his glass of milk to chase that terrible bitter taste away.
Ralph held back laughter "I take it you weren't that into it?"
"I will never understand how you can drink this stuff!" Felix stated, still shivering a little from the unpleasant beverage. He rested his chin on a gloved hand "besides, I thought you were going to help me with my situation..."
Ralph straightened up and sighed "Listen I'm sorry, I was just trying to maybe take some edge off of the whole thing." He looked worried, almost disheartened that his plan to cheer up Felix hadn't worked out too well.
"Oh, no! I really do appreciate this just... I guess I'm worried! What will I tell the nicelanders?! What will people think of me!?... I'll never be able to show my face in game central station again." Felix was getting frantic at this point, beginning to get dewy in the eyes. "Oh Ralph, what will I do?"
Ralph rotated in his stool to face Felix directly, bending over a bit to get as close to eye level with him as possible. "Listen to me; ignore what they say! It's none of their business anyways." He said, breaking to take a short sip of his drink. "You're no bad guy Felix, you're really great! No matter what happened, that's not going to change who you are. And if other people start to say bad stuff about you, well,, forget them! They're not worth it. You're fantastic, and if anyone disagrees, I'll wreck 'em!" He said, doing his little wrecking pose, although a bit sloppily do to the liquor.
Felix could feel his face flushing up, and he pulled down his hat again slightly "Well golly... I must admit- I never thought you'd have thought of me so highly..." Then again, to be honest, Felix had never really given Ralph the time of day either. Sure they were friends, but between him visiting Vanellope and felix going off to see his wife, they never had really any communication beyond work.
He was shocked to feel an arm wrap around his shoulders, even if it was mostly just hand. "Of course I do Felix, how could I not?"
"well...We never really see eachother much these days..." he replied sheepishly
Ralph smiled "Well, now that you're not doing anything... Oh, I dunno... Maybe you could come hang out with me and Vanellope? I mean I'm sure the three of us would have fun. and heck, if the nicelanders ever get you too down, you're always welcome at my place." He said, pulling felix a little closer.
Felix wrapped his arms around his large friend, crying a little "Oh Ralph... Thank you so much, for all of this..." He buried his face into Ralph's stomach, hoping he wouldn't notice the wetness of his tears. "I'm not the one whose great, its you."
"hmmmhmmm" Replied Ralph, starting to tilt slightly towards the counter.
Felix panicked, quickly sitting back up right "Oh my land... I'm so sorry if i offended you! I really didn't mean to make it sound that way... I mean... I don't know how I wanted it to sound really but.." He stammered, a hot honeyglow covering hsi face when he felt a tap on his shoulder.
"hey, he's out cold, I think its time to take him home" Said the tapper, wiping a glass
Felix pulled down his hat's bill to hide his embarrassment as he heard a snore leave ralph. "T-Thank you sir!" He stammered. He looked up at Ralph and sighed, Getting him up and home could take a while. He caught himself smiling to himself a little, he couldn't take his eyes off the wrecker's face. Something about it was so much more appealing than before.
Ralph squirmed a little, then opened his eyes locking his with Felix and making him blush. "Sorry I passed out on you there...Would you mind taking me home?"he asked, getting to his feet ad he wrapped an arm around Felix for support.
"It would be my pleasure" Replied Felix, smiling to himself.
"Believe me, getting to see you has been completely MY pleasure" Said Ralph, as the two started towards the exit of tappers.