Chapter 2: Nicky's
"Are you sure you don't want to come with me?" Pogue asked his sister through the bathroom door.
"Me and Kate are going to pick up a few things and have a girl's day today." She called back through the door.
"Okay, well if you need anything just let me know."
The bathroom door flung open, Payton stood there dressed in a white tank top and jeans, her hair half up, and no make-up on her face. She threw herself around his neck, and pecked his cheek. "You are the best brother ever."
"Thanks?" Pogue asked confused, unsure of why his sister would suddenly make that comment. But before he could voice his confusion she had disappeared back into the sanctuary of the bathroom. Pogue just shook his head and headed out the door.
Payton pulled into the parking lot, blaring her music with the top of the convertible down. Pulling put her cell phone she dialed Kate's number "hey girl, are you ready?" she said as soon as she heard the call connect.
"Yea, we're on our way." And the phone disconnected.
Turning up the music Payton waited for her best friend and her new roommate to show up, fingering three new, plastic cards. Two minutes later two girls came out of the dorms and towards Payton's convertible.
"Hello ladies!" Payton shouted, pulling down her Coach sunglasses. "Are you ready for some fun?"
Kate laughed and launched herself over the car door and into the front seat. "I'm so glad you're out of your shitty mood! You're so much more fun when you're crazy!"
Sarah chuckled at her roommate's antics and opened the door and climbed in the backseat behind Kate.
"Well ladies, I have a present for y'all." Payton waved the three plastic cards at Kate, who promptly grabbed the cards from her hands.
"Where did you get these?" Kate exclaimed, giving one of the cards to Sarah.
Payton just smiled, "I know people."
"Is this?" Sarah couldn't even finish her question, staring at the piece of plastic.
"Fake I.D.'s?" Payton finished, putting the car in gear before beginning the drive away from the dorm. "Yes, yes they are."
"Why do we need fake I.D.'s?" Sarah asked, pulling her hair into a loose pony-tail.
"Well, friends, I thought we could go get tattoo's, my treat."
Kate looked at Payton, "Your brother will kill you!" To which Payton just shrugged.
"Do you want one or not?" She simply asked the other girl
"Uhmmm, yes!" Kate turned to the back seat "you in Sarah?"
Sarah shrugged, "sure why not? I'm all for some painful female bonding time."
Payton just laughed and continued driving.
Two hours later the three girls came out of the tattoo parlor with brand-new ink.
Sarah had a Celtic cross in between her shoulder blades, Kate had gotten the Deathly Hallows from Harry Potter on the inside of her left heel, and Payton had a neopaganism Pentacle on her right hip bone.
"What do you think Pogue will say when he finds out?" Kate asked Payton as the car pulled into a convenience store just inside Ipswich city limits.
Payton shrugged, throwing the car into park and pressing the button to close the top. "Half the reason why I do crazy stuff is to see his reaction."
Sarah got out of the car behind Kate, "what kind of stuff do you do?"
Kate laughed, shutting the car door, "one time she dyed her hair blonde, didn't he drag you back to the hair salon and insist you change it back?"
Payton chuckled and held the door open for the girls behind her. "Yea, until she told him how much it was going to cost him, cause I sure as hell wasn't paying for it."
The girls spent a few minutes wandering around the store, picking up various items for school that they had forgotten.
"Hey girls," Kate called through the isle, "look who I found all by himself."
Payton noticed her pulling the kid who had broken up her and Aaron's would be fight the previous night.
"Hi," he waved towards her, reaching his right arm forward "I'm Chase, didn't get a chance to introduce myself last night."
Payton nodded, grasping his hand in hers, giving it a slight squeeze. "Payton."
"Well, it's a pleasure to run into you lovely ladies, but I really do need to head back to the school."
"Okay," replied Payton "I'm sure we'll see you around school, good luck on your first day!"
Chase chuckled, "thanks, I'm not sure how one can have fun their first day of school, but I'll try."
"If you're not doing anything later on, a bunch of us are meeting at Nicky's if you'd like to join us." Kate interrupted, winking at Payton
"Sure I'll see you then." And Chase made his exit.
"Kate," Payton whined, "what'd you do that for?"
"Just trying to make things interesting, we've got to make sure Caleb knows what he's missing."
"What am I missing?" A deep voice called out, making Payton jump and turn around.
Payton just stared at him, unable to make a sound. Thankfully she was saved from looking like a complete idiot by the melodic voice of Sarah. "We were going to go see the Brad Pitt movie, and are trying to get a hold of everyone to see if they wanted to go."
Payton sent the blonde a grateful smile, and prayed silently that Caleb wouldn't ask to go with them.
"Oh, well, I have to run some errands for my mom. Pay, you want to come with?"
Payton met his gaze, surprised at the request. She shook her head, "no, I can't, I'm the one that drove."
Caleb nodded, looking disappointed, but not surprised by her answer. "Okay, well, I'll see you girls later then." And he turned and almost ran out of the store.
"What was that about?" Kate asked, nudging Payton's shoulder with her own.
Payton shrugged, "I have no idea."
Pogue walked into Nicky's, glancing towards the table his group normally sat at. Currently seated there was Kate, his sister, Sarah, and the guy that had intervened with Aaron the night before, Chase.
Walking over to them, he bent down and gave Kate a kiss on the forehead. "Hey babe."
"Hey Pogue," Kate's face lit up when she saw him, "you missed a great movie."
Pogue nodded, "yea I had to get my bike fixed."
"That's okay," Kate threw her arm over Payton's shoulder "Payton kept me company."
Pogue chuckled as Sarah added, "you better watch out Pogue, or you're sister's going to steal your girlfriend."
Caleb approached the table just as Pogue responded "Don't I know it! She's threatened to steal Kate from me on many occasions."
Caleb sat down next to Sarah across from Kate.
"Do you guys want anything to eat?" Pogue asked, pulling off his leather jacket and placing it on the back of the chair in-between Kate and Payton.
"I'll just have whatever you're eating." Payton said, picking at her napkin
"I'll just pick off Pay's meal." Kate voiced
Pogue nodded, and everyone else said that they were good. Payton stood up "I'll help you." And she followed Pogue towards the bar.
Pogue placed his arm over the shorter twins shoulder. "You doing alright? I know you haven't been out with the group for a while." The group, of course, meaning Caleb.
Payton nodded "You worry too much little brother."
"Little?" Pogue scoffed, "I'm like a foot taller than you."
Payton shrugged, "oh look, there's Reid and Tyler. I wonder how much trouble they're going to get into tonight."
Pogue finished placing the order with Nicky, "I dunno, let's go see, shall we?" Pogue offered the shorter girl his arm.
As the Parry's approached the two youngest of the group, they overheard a bet being placed "pink lace." Tyler said, throwing a twenty on the pool table.
"Blue cotton." Reid argued, placing his own twenty on the table.
Pogue shook his head and looked at his older sister. "I'm placing my own bet, you're on your own baby brother."
Pogue sighed "Black satin." Placing his own twenty on the table.
Payton just chuckled, pulling a twenty out of her pocket, "boys, she hasn't worn underwear since she was thirteen."
Reid's eyes went black, and a wind blew up the skirt of the female at the bar. The three boy's groaned at the sight of the bare bottom. Payton pulled the pile of twenties towards her, handing Pogue his back. "Pleasure doing business with you gentlemen." And she waltzed towards the bar to grab her an Pogue's food.
"How is she always right?" Reid complained
Tyler just shrugged, "it's probably because she's a girl."
Pogue just chuckled at the two of them. "Well, have fun boys, and don't get into too much trouble."
After thirty minutes of strained conversation between the six students at the small table in Nicky's the three boys got up and made their way towards the foosball tables.
"What just happened?" Sarah asked the other two girls
Payton looked up from the French fries she had been picking at "what do you mean?"
"I mean," Sarah emphasized "we were sitting here, have a great time, and now we're not."
Kate just shrugged, "well you know boys and their toys."
Sarah looked thoughtful for a moment, "give me a quarter." She said to Kate
Kate just looked confused, but Payton immediately perked up.
"What?" Kate questioned
"Come on! Just give me a quarter." Sarah laughed
"Oh hell yea, girlie!" Payton exclaimed, pulling a quarter out of her purse. "I like the way you think."
Sarah just smiled, taking the quarter from Payton's hand, "thank you m'dear."
A few seconds later 'I Love Rock n'Roll' filled the bar from the jukebox. "Come on Kate!" Payton laughed, pulling her best friend towards the middle of the bar.
Payton and Kate were too caught up in dancing together to notice Sarah had grabbed Caleb from the foosball table.
Halfway through the first chorus a loud crash came from the pool table, the Nicky's deep voice, "take it outside!"
Payton turned towards the noised and groaned, watching a blonde and a brunette head out the back door. "Damn." She whispered, watching Caleb and Pogue follow the angry boys.
Turning towards Kate, "I've got to go make sure they don't kill each other."
Kate just nodded, shoving Payton towards the rear exit. "Just don't forget about me. I don't want to walk back to the dorms."
Payton knew Kate was just trying to cheer her up a little, so she offered her best friend a tight smile, "I won't, I'm sure I'll need to vent after this." And she followed Nicky into the alleyway.
A/N: I hope you like it! So, yet again, you guys get to benefit from my procrastination. Well, that, and I'm just tired of school at the moment, so I'm taking a break. HUGS to everyone who reviewed, and put this story on their Alert list, and their Favorite list! I love getting the emails saying that someone added or reviewed this story. So Thank You!
I haven't started the next chapter yet, so it might be a couple of days (or a week) before the next one is posted. But if I get enough review (or enough homework) I might be convinced to post earlier. So keep the love coming.
I am so excited about some parts of the next chapter, like Pogue finding out about Payton's tattoo. Speaking of, the tattoo that Kate has I actually have the same tat, and I love it! So I had to include it if I could!
