The next week passed by relatively well. Velvet had got along with the other faunus there, Gaston made sure everyone was well fed, and Sun, when he wasn't out 'working', kept everyone entertained. The only problem were the nights, every night Velvet woke up around two o'clock having nightmares about Torchwick. She'd relive that night, but when he was stabbed he didn't stay down. He'd get back up covered in blood and do something terrible to her. Each night it was different, ranging from continuing what he had started, to trying to kill her. These nightmares ruined her sleep schedule and each day she just looked more and more tired. At this point she had trouble staying awake, and the bags under her eyes had gotten so bad it looked like she had a black eye.

Velvet sat on the couch with the two children beside her, and Sun, Blake, and Neon across the table from them. The three of them were sitting on the ground, and on the table was a copy of 'Remnant the game'. Everybody was split into teams of two with the kids being on one, Velvet and Sun being on another, and Neon and Blake being on the last. Much to the other teams' embarrassment the kids' team was winning, by a lot. It wasn't that they were bad, it was that the kids' were good at this game. The only reason they didn't win the game was because it was interrupted when someone climbed up the ladder and entered the room. She was 6' tall, if you included her heels, and wore a fashionable outfit consisting of: a brown shirt that showed off her breasts, a black cincher on top of it, black trousers kept up by a leather belt with a crosshair belt buckle, black leather heels, a black scarf, and to top it all off, sunglasses and a beret.

As soon as the kids noticed she was there they leapt over the table calling out, "Coco! You're back!" Running towards her to give her a hug.

The rest of the players stood up and waited for the children to finish their greeting before they started theirs. Velvet though was stunned by the woman in front of her. She ended up staring at her, lost in her beauty, and as soon as Coco noticed a deep blush covered Velvet's face and she quickly moved behind Sun. It was a funny sight, because when she ducked behind Sun her ears poked up over his head.

"So, I see you guys found another friend." Coco commented while stepping forward and lowering her sunglasses.

"Yeah, she got here a week ago, but she's generally not this shy..." Sun told her stepping to the side leaving Velvet out in the open.

"H-Hi... I-I'm Velvet!" Velvet exclaimed nervously, doing a very bad job concealing what she thought about Coco.

"Hi there Velvet." Coco told her with a laugh, "So, other than Vel over there, anything exciting happen since I left for school?"

Sun thought for a moment, but couldn't think of anything interesting that had happened. Things had been going pretty smoothly, he had started mugging people since she left, but that was a secret. Only Velvet and he knew about it, and he planned on keeping it that way.

He shrugged and told her, "Things have been quiet since you left."

"Well, why don't we change that tonight? I say we celebrate me finishing this year of school with a little party!" Coco suggested smiling. Sun, Blake, and Neon were people she considered friends, and since she'd been away from them so long a party would be a nice reconnection.

"A party would be nice." Blake commented

"Whoo! Party!" Neon exclaimed a lot more excited than Blake

"Looks like we have a plan for tonight." Sun said with a smile.

Gaston had let them have the bar to themselves for the night allowing the kids to be upstairs and the rest of them able to party without being caught. He normally wouldn't have let her do this, but he figured it'd help Velvet relax some more and Coco had been gone for a while.

Sun and Coco spent a lot of the day coming up with entertainment for the night all of which involved drinking. Now that everyone was downstairs they could begin. Coco hopped behind the bar and pulled out five shot glasses and a bottle of vodka, meanwhile Sun grabbed an empty glass and a quarter.

"Everyone have a seat at the table!" He announced walking over to the table in the centre of the room. Once everyone gathered around the table Sun set the glass in the centre of the table and had a seat between Neon and Blake.

"So, we are going to play a game called Quarters. The rules are simple, you get this quarter and you must bounce it off of the table and into the cup. If you miss you take a shot, and if you get it in you choose someone to take a shot. After your turn you pass the quarter to your right. Those are all of the rules." Sun announced slamming the quarter down with his thumb onto the table.

"If you don't want to play we aren't forcing you, and if you want a chaser we can get you one." Coco told everyone. Nobody quit, but everyone excluding Sun and Coco asked for a chaser. Since she offered Coco got up, hopped behind the bar and poured two pints of bear and a coke. While she did this Sun picked up the vodka and poured everyone a shot. By the time she got back everyone had a shot in front of them and Sun started the game.

Sun decided to get fancy and tossed the quarter with some backspin, it passed the cup and it bounce back towards it and got it in. "Boom! Velvet you get the honour of the first shot of night!" He exclaimed. Velvet gulped and stared at the shot for a couple seconds before she took it. She had never had alcohol before, her owners never gave her anything more than water, but the others had since they had lived here for a while. Velvet scrunched up her face not liking the taste and quickly drank some of her coke, another new taste for her. This one she found she liked though.

The game went fast with Sun and Coco never missing a throw, and Velvet never getting one. On top of that Sun passed a couple of his shots to her. They played three rounds, but she was six shots in and felt like the world was spinning. Despite this she had a dumb grin on her face and her ears flopped down onto either side of her head. In terms of shots, Velvet was winning with six, Blake was after her at four, Sun was next at three, Neon came in at two, and Coco had gotten through without a single one.

The whole point of starting with the drinking game was Sun wanted to get them to agree to playing strip poker later. Velvet and Blake would never agree if they were in a normal frame of mind.

Now that Quarters was done Velvet got up and stumbled her way to the bar and was about to pour herself a beer. Coco stopped her saying, "Velvet you should sit back down and wait for a while before we get you a beer. I'll fill your coke though."

"Okay." Velvet said with her eyes closed, holding the o for a while. She stumbled back to her seat and dropped down onto it. The rest of the group was enjoying seeing Velvet like this, half because it was funny seeing her stumble around, half because she looked like she was having fun. This week she looked like she always had something on her mind that stopped her from doing that.

"You! You did this!" Velvet exclaimed pointing at Sun. Her arm swayed as she was pointing.

"Yes I did Velvet"

"So, if anyone has any questions for Velvet now might be the time to ask." Neon announced to the group.

"Hey! Leave her alone for now, we can always do that later." Coco exclaimed from behind the bar.

"Fine. But I'm holding you to that later part." Neon told her.

Coco sat back down with a beer for herself and a coke for Velvet. As soon as she set down the beer Velvet grabbed it and took a sip. Coco looked at her and rolled her eyes before swapping the glass with the one filled with coke. Although drunk Velvet had been the centre of attention for a while Sun took the spotlight with some bets/bar tricks.

"Hey Blake, I bet you one shot that I can stay under water for five minutes." He told her with a cheeky smile.

"Fine. I'll take that bet, but where are we going to do it?" She asked

"Right here." Sun smiled walked to the bar, filled the glass with water, and set it on his head.

"You sneaky monkey..." Blake replied not impressed by his antics.

Coco grabbed the glass and poured the water down the drain, "Sun, now you have to drink, it hasn't been five minutes."

"Hey that's cheating!" Sun exclaimed

"If holding a glass of water isn't cheating, taking it off isn't either." Coco stated handing Sun a shot.

The next hour mostly consisted of Velvet fumbling her way around, and Sun doing stupid tricks. They did manage to keep a smile plastered on everyone's face though, which made the night enjoyable.

"So, we have alcohol and a deck of cards, why don't we play a little game of strip poker?" Sun suggested. Everyone except for Sun and Coco had never played it and Velvet hadn't even heard of it. After all they hadn't been free nearly as long as Sun.

"Sounds like fun!" Velvet exclaimed raising her glass into the air.

"Do you even know what strip poker is?" Blake inquired.

"No..."

"Sun do you want to explain it or do you want me to?" Coco asked. Sun gestured to her indicating that he'd rather her do it.

"So, Velvet do you know what poker is?"

"Yes." Velvet responded. She had seen Torchwick play at least once a week while she brought him and his friends drinks.

"So, it's just poker, but instead of money we bet an amount of clothing. If you lose the hand you have to remove those clothes. Do you still want to play?"

Velvets cheeks reddened, she didn't want to strip in front of them, but she did want to see a certain someone strip. "Sure." She stated. With that Sun dealt out the cards and they started playing. Unlike Quarters this game ended up being in Velvet's favour, six hands in she had only lost her shoes and socks. Meanwhile Sun was only wearing his pants, Black wore almost nothing from the waist down, Neon was completely topless, which was odd considering she only had lost two articles of clothing, and Coco sat there with her shirt and pants, but nothing else not even underneath it. Velvet put on Coco's beret and sunglasses about two or three hands in and has been wearing them since, after all Coco like how she looked with them on.

"How is she winning?" Sun asked, he was usually the king of cards through luck or cheating. Today he was unable to pull off either.

"Ever heard of a lucky rabbits foot?" Velvet teased throwing her foot on the table, but she found that this made her a little too off balance when she fell onto the floor.

"Ow..." She muttered to herself while everyone laughed.

"Why don't we let that be the end of strip poker for the night." Coco said, not because she was losing, but because she figured Velvet was going to have to head upstairs soon. That certainly would be a challenge...

"Sounds good to me." Blake said

"Fine." Sun told her

"Come on! I wanna play a couple more hands!" Neon exclaimed. Everyone else there thought she was just trying to find an excuse to get naked, but in all honesty Neon was just having fun.

"How about this, we stop now, but you get to put your bra back on." Coco bargained.

"Deal." Neon replied while picking it up off of the ground.

Sun collected the cards and put them away, making sure to come back with a pint. There was a couple seconds where nothing happened, but Neon came up with a plan, "Why don't we ask those questions we were promised?" She asked. That idea sounded good to everyone, so they decided who'd get the first one.

"Since it's your party why don't you go first?" Sun asked Coco.

"Fine. So, Velvet why were you hiding from me this morning?" She asked already knowing the answer. Velvet's face turned red again and she accidentally told her.

"Because you're beautiful!" She thought she thought to herself.

"Ooh Velvet, I didn't think you swung for that team." Coco responded smiling at the 'compliment'. She also found Velvet pretty good looking as well.

"I-I said that aloud!?" Velvet asked managing to turn even more red. Coco simply nodded which caused Velvet to run upstairs. She nimbly made it up the ladder which surpassed everyone's expectations.

"Well, Looks like that'll be the night. Do you guys mind cleaning up while I talk to her?" Coco asked.

"Sure, I don't think any of us mind, right?" Sun responded looking at his two companions who gave him a nod of confirmation.

"Thanks." Was the last thing Coco said before going after Velvet. When she got upstairs Velvet had wrapped herself up in her sleeping bag and was covering her face with her ears.

"Hey, Vel." She said announcing her presence.

Velvet slid one of her ears out of the way and looked at Coco before quickly moving it back. Coco realized she wouldn't really be able to have a conversation with her right now, but she figured she could at least talk to her. So, she sat right next to Velvet on the ground.

"You shouldn't be so embarrassed Vel, I found that very sweet." She told her while she slowly brought out her hand to pet her head. "You know when I walked in I saw you and all I could think of was how did someone let someone as beautiful as you escape? I'm very glad they did though."

Velvet removed one of her ears to look at her, "Really?"

"Yes." Coco replied giving her a warm smile. Coco wanted to make sure that Velvet had no doubt about whether or not she liked her, so she leaned in and planted a kiss right on Velvet's lips leaving her a blushing mess.

"Good night Vel." She said before she went downstairs and went up to her room.