Wheee! The heatwave went poof! :3 And all it took was a ginormous thunderstorm that knocked out my power last night.. right.. after.. I.. finished.. this.. chapter.

D:

Oh well! Chapter 4, take 2!

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The silence that fell like snow, softly and almost unnoticed, wasn't the awkward kind that you'd usually end up with when something like what'd just happened with somebody that you just met (and had a huge crush on) where you both really, really wanted to say something, but no words good enough could ever come to mind, and you'd sit there for what felt like hours, opening your mouth to say something, but then realizing that it was all coming out so wrong. No, the silence that had fallen into the room was more the type of silence where the both of us knew better than to say anything, because words can only show so much, and they're just useless sometimes.

Yes, I am overly analytical of silences.

I felt her gently twirling a strand of my short hair around her finger, and couldn't help but smile a bit, even as my cheeks burned bright red again (at least, that's what it felt like. For all I knew they could be purple and there could be an alien having sex with my ear.) And as I felt her leaning her head on my shoulder and her arms lazily draping over my stomach, I couldn't help but blush even more. God, this was the weirdest feeling in the world.. normally I would've known exactly what to do in this situation. Normally, I wouldn't be nearly paralyzed at the feeling of somebody else's touch, but I guess it wasn't just this girl's looks that were out of the ordinary.

The strangest thing of all was that, when I looked over at the green digital numbers on the cable box, they said that we'd been sitting here like this for a good 10 minutes. God damn, it feels like we just sat down.

Suddenly, she jerked up and shoved her hand into her skirt pocket, and then produced a Blackberry Pearl, which was currently vibrating it's ass off. I caught sight of the caller ID, which read "Fat People" Her face fell, and she sighed, picking up the call. "What?"

Through the earpiece, I could barely make out a distorted male voice barking, "Don't you talk to me like that young lady! Where the fuck are you?"

"Joe, it's only 4:23. On a Friday." She replied. Overprotective foster parents?

Again, that slightly obnoxious voice, "You're out getting drunk again, aren't you? For fuck's sake Juuachi!"

"Joe, I'm no--"

But he cut her off, snarling, "God fucking damnit. We paid for your fucking three months of rehab in Four fucking Winds and this is the thanks you give us?"

Her face froze for a moment, and she bit her lip, knuckles turning white as she gripped the phone, and for a moment I wondered if she was trying to break it. "Nobody ever asked you to send me there."

"Nobody asked? You ran in front of a FUCKING 16-WHEELER AND ENDED IN THE FUCKING HOSPITAL TWO DAYS AFTER YOU CAME HOME FROM PRESBRYTARIA--" His screams were cut off as she hit the end call button and sighed as she nervously turned towards me.

As she forced a smile, she asked weakly, her voice shaking just the tiniest bit, "That was Joe. Isn't he sweet?" I guess it went without saying that I'd heard every word of their conversation.

Before she'd gotten the chance to turn her phone off, it started vibrating again and she sighed, not even bothering to look at the caller ID as she answered, voice a depressing monotone, "Hello? ..Now? Why? Oh.. come on. Half an hour.. please? Oh, come on. This is important, besides, you're the younger one, who ever said that you could boss me around?" She giggled a little bit, and I couldn't help but instantly think, Oh god, boyfriend. Or girlfriend.

Hey wait. 'This is important.' She thinks I'm important!

I can't help but stare at her jawline, just barely visible, but still obviously strong. The bump in the bridge of her nose that gave away the fact that it'd been broken before, but somehow that made her look all the more perfect, in that amazingly imperfect kind of way. Oh, god I'm not making sense at all anymore, am I? The shape of her soft looking lips, with just a hint of pink lipgloss, and her smallish chin, half covered by stray strands of golden blonde hair. Fuck, Videl, stop. You're obsessing. You're being creepy and weird and oh my god her eyes are the most beautiful shade of blue.

Fuck. Stop it. Stop it now. What if she catches you staring, huh? What happens then?

Oh shit. I'm talking to myself again.

"Oh, fine jerk. I'm not going at all then. I have.." Her voice brought me spiraling back to reality, and as her voice trailed off, she turned to me and grinned, "much, much better things to do tonight."

Oh, the things that went through my head as she said that. All the hot, hot, hot images that flashed before my mind's-eye. Her, pinned up against a wall, both her wrists held in a single hand, the other pushing her v-neck shirt up, lips locked together as our tongues--"So.. Videl. You, me, a bottle of vodka and that park your showed me? The one by the water?"

Two drunk lesbian (bisexual? straight and just a flirt?) girls. Together. All night. Drunk. Alone. Did I mention drunk?

"Should you really be.."

"Please?" Puppy eyes. Goddamnit, why does everybody give me puppy eyes and the cute little pouty lips? Do I walk around with a neon sign that says that I'm a sucker for puppy eyes or something? Actually, with my luck I probably do. Not that I really mind.. after all, it is adorable. I can't deny that, no matter how hard I try to. Adorable. Adorable adorable adorable. In fact, I think my heart just melted from the sheer adorableness.

"..You go start your car, I'll get the booze." So much for trying not to drink.. ick. Oh well, she'll be fine. At least, I hope she will. Oh, shut up Videl, of course she'll be fine, because you won't let anything happen to her.

Yes, I am protective.

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"So.. Videlll.." She slurred, taking another gulp of vodka, her head in my lap and my fingers in her hair, my own neck craned slightly upward, looking up at the open sky. Next to me, I heard the empty sloshing that told me that the bottle was nearly empty when she sloppily put it back down next to us. I picked it up and squinted, trying to see just how much she'd had. Oh. There's enough for at least ten more shots.

Which isn't really a lot, considering that it was a 40oz bottle. "Uhm.. yeah.?" I asked, taking a gulp and not even coughing this time. Jesus, this stuff was absolutely vile. Thank god it wasn't really all that hard for me to get drunk.

"Truth or.. truth?" Juuachi mumbled, eyes only half open as she reached up and made a grab for the bottle, which I pulled out of her reach. Amazingly enough, she let her hand settle back on my thigh as she rolled over and curled up a bit.

"Uhm.. wow, this is so hard.." I mumbled, acting as though this were a truly impossible, life changing question. "I guess.. truth."

Her head rolled over and wobbled a bit as she looked up at me, blue eyes slightly foggy and glassy. Not that it was really that surprising.. she just went through god knows how many shots worth of vodka. "Are.. you.. a uhm.. a.. what's it called.. a virgin.?"

I couldn't help but giggle just a little bit. "Dude, it's 2008 and I'm a girl in high school. ..Oh god, I'm supposed to be a virgin, aren't I?"

We both burst out in drunken laughter, and she pulled herself up, only to fall back into my lap. "Oh, whatever, I'm not any better. I lost it when I was even younger than you are."

"Well who'd you lose it to..?" I asked, knowing that no matter what she said next, mine was worse.

"My best friend." She said, giggling and taking another swig of vodka, the bottle of which had somehow found it's way back into her hands. "She was straight.. and drunk. Well.. let's just say that we're.. not really best.. se-friends.. friends that's what they're called."

"I lost it to a gay guy." I admitted sheepishly. "And it wasn't even real sex, it was up the butt."

More drunken laughter. "Oh my godsh, are you sherious? Was he drunk or something?" She asked between giggles.

"That's the worst part. I was the drunk one."

We both grinned at each other, and then I took another huge gulp of vodka. God, I've only had five or six shots worth, and my head's already spinning and my body's feeling all tingly and I swear to god somebody's got a bunch of wires hooked up to my ass and they're shocking me every few seconds.

Oh. That's just because Juuachi's touching me.

"So.. guys or girls?" She asked, grabbing for the vodka but grabbing hold of a handful of grass and stuffing that in her mouth instead. "Uhm.. This is some pretty weird tasting vodka Videl.."

I figured it was better if I didn't say anything. "Girls. Definitely girls. Guys are only good for sex, and even then most of them're horrible in bed. ..You..?" I asked shyly, hoping that if worst came to worst at least she wouldn't remember anything.

"Girls. Just girls." She said, more surely than anything else she'd said since she'd started drinking. "Anything a guy can do, it seems like a girl can do it better." And as she said this she started picking pieces of grass out of her mouth, and then mumbled, "Whoaaa mann.. how'd doseee get in there?"

Another one of those moments where it was really better if I didn't say anything at all, and instead I just sat there chugging vodka and looking out at the river, stars twinkling against the dark blue night's sky, a single, lone ship floating in the middle of the river, a lone light shining on it's tip. Somehow, in all the time that I'd lived in Melborne, I'd never realized how pretty this park was at night. The grassy part and the playground are both pretty crappy, but right up by the water, on the giant rocks that they put to keep the water from flooding everything is so fucking gorgeous. Just, holy shit. Especially that awesome spinny, blurry thing that the sky keeps doing.

Oh. That's me getting drunk, isn't it?

I love it. With that in mind, I chugged the last of the vodka and threw it into the river, somehow incredibly amused by the ripples in the water around where it landed. "Hey.. you know.. what I HATE.. abouttt.. drunk..?" Juuachi stammered, her head still in my lap.

"What..?" I mumbled, looking down at her and absently playing with a few strands of her golden hair.

"It makes me.. do.. things.." She trailed off for a moment, her eyes fluttering shut for a moment, before she pulled herself up and sat cross legged, her head literally spinning around slightly, the rest of her body following. "that.. I mean.. I would normally wantt to.. but.. I would normally know.. not to.."

For a moment, we just looked at each other through drunken, glassy eyes, trying to make sense of.. anything at all really, but nothing could get past the alcohol, and we just sat there shaking, rolling ourselves back and forth just to keep our heads steady.

Out of nowhere, I felt the softest hands on my cheek, turning me towards her, and her lips pressed against mine, drunkenly clumsy, but oh so endearing.

Strangely enough, even though she was drunk out of her mind, and I was horny as fucking christ, it was barely more than a quick peck. Just enough to give me a taste and leave me craving her even more than I had before anything had happened at all.

I looked at her, and she looked right back, nervous in the most adorable way. "Like that.." She mumbled, blushing (was that from the alcohol, or had her cheeks just turned that soft pink a moment ago?) We stayed like that a moment longer, our lips just barely touching, eyes half open, before we burst into drunken laughter and laid back on the grass, hands just barely held in each other's, playing with our fingers almost like it meant anything to more than one of us.

Who knows, maybe it did.

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Rawr! :D They finally kissed! Uhm.. I didn't really wanna make it really cheesy and long and.. blargle. I mean, they did just meet like, at the beginning of the week and everything. . ehg.. I'm never any good at writing kiss scenes XD

Uhm.. I hope that this chappy was worth the wait! I spent the last 2 days rewriting it.

Originally, I was kind of thinking of having them hook up while they were drunk and then wake up next to each other naked, but.. eh. This seemed better D:

err.. Rawr? I hope you liked it! -runs off to start the next chapter-