Brian shuffled into his room after his FPS try-outs were completed. Apparently since VGHS had defeated Napalm Energy Drink High School in last year's all for nothing game, the number of FPS candidates had almost tripled. Brian wasn't actually expecting so many great players and he was now tasked with putting together a Varsity team by tomorrow morning. It was important for Brian to get the list together as soon as possible so that Games Dean could assemble his JV team. Tiered from the day's events, he tossed his tablet down on his workstation and sighed. Brian sat down and pulled up his word program. Ted entered the room with a broad grin on his face.
"Man I love being Drift King!" He proclaimed to the room. "How'd FPA try-outs go?"
"Good." Brian said. "Almost too good. I must have fifty candidates on this list." Brian gestured to his tablet. "I've got to make my picks by tomorrow so Games can get his team together."
"That's rough." Ted empathized with his best friend. "I only had one candidate Zelda's roommate Kat. She's very...enthusiastic." Ted sprawled himself out on his bed and picked up his tablet. He wanted to give Ki's new rhythm game a try before bed. Brian swiped his tablet open again and scrolled through the list of candidates.
You can do this Brian. He encouraged himself before beginning to make his 'top twenty' list of candidates. An hour later Brian was pulled from his work when his cell phone started vibrating around the surface of his workstation. looking down at the caller ID, Brian didn't recognize the number. He decided to answer anyway since it could be an FPS candidate. "Hello?"
"Brian?" A distraught voice slurred into the phone. "Brain it's Zelda, I'm sorry but I didn't know who else to call."
"Zelda hey, it's alright, calm down." Brian tried to comfort the girl on the other end of the phone. "What's going on Z?" Ted peaked down at this roommate when he heard him mention Zelda's name.
"Kat and I, we went to a party and...hang on I'm sorry, Kat...no, no, no!...Anyway Kat and I we...khroggh..." There was a coughing noise from Zelda's end of the phone before her voice returned. "Kat and I went to an office campus party and..."
"What's going on?" Ted asked Brian.
"Zelda and Kat went to a party," Brian whispered back. "I think they're drunk."
"Tell them we'll pick them up." Ted remarked, jumping from his bed. "I'll drive."
"Hey Z? Z listen, where are you? Ted and I are going to pick you up."
"I-I don't know." Zelda slurred. Another coughing sound erupted through the phone speaker."We were at a party at the RPG house, but then we started walking..."
"Okay, Just stay where you are, we'll find you. We're coming Z." Brian promised.
"Okay, I've got to go...I'm trying to keep Kat from falling asleep." Zelda hung up the phone. Ted and Brian sprung into action.
"Where did they say they were?" Ted asked as he drove his car out of the school parking lot.
"She said she didn't know exactly." Brian explained as they traveled down the road. "She just knew that they went to a party at the RPG house and they started walking home."
"It's like six blocks from here!" Ted's eyes widened. "If they're walking they could be almost anywhere."
"Well just drive towards the party and we'll search from there, Dude." Brian suggested logically. "I mean they're fifteen year old girls, how far could they get on foot without someone noticing?"
Apparently not very far. Brian and Ted found Zelda and Kat seated on the sidewalk a block away from the RPG house. Kat was leaning her head on Zelda's shoulder and Z was clutching at her own head. The color was drained from both girls faces even before Ted and Brian parked their car.
"Zelda it's us!" Brian hollered as he jumped out of the car. Relief washed over Zelda's tear stained face as spotted Brian coming to her rescue.
"C'mon Kat, you have to get up." Zelda tugged her friend up on her feet. Ted slung one of Kats arms over his shoulders and guided her into the backseat of her car.
"Do you think you can walk?" Brian asked Zelda.
"I, uh..JustOneSecond." Zelda turned around and vomited into the bushes behind her and Brian. "I'mSoSorry." Zelda began to cry. Her words were running together and Brian tried his best to ease her to her feet.
"It's okay," Brian said rubbing circles on her back as they walked over to Ted's car. Zelda slid into the backseat next to Kat, and Brian sat next to her.
"I'm sorry Ted, I'm sorry Brian." Zelda wept.
"It's okay Zelda, let's just get you two back to school." Ted said as he pulled away from the curb.
"School!" Zelda repeated with a sudden panic. "We're going to be so dead when we get back to school! If we can get back in without any of the other students noticing...Ki's going to be so mad! What if she reports us to Dean Calhoun?"
"Ki wont report you." Ted assured her. "Brian and I are going to get you guys back to school safely, and without getting in trouble."
Ted parked his car in the same spot it had been in before he and Brian left to get the girls. Kat was asleep with her head resting on Zelda's shoulder. Zelda was awake with one hand hovering over her mouth to hold back the nausea and her other hand was gripping one Brian's tightly. Ted picked up his Jr Drifter out of the car.
"I'll get Kat to their room and I'll get the master key from Ki." Ted said before he carried Kat into the dorm building.
"Do you think you can walk?" Brian asked Zelda as the two got out of the car. Zelda was about to say she could walk when she felt her stomach churning." How about we get you to a bathroom, think you can make it till then?" Zelda nodded, unable to speak. Ted's parking spot was closer to the main building then it was to the parking lot, so Brian guided his friend towards a the closest bathroom on the first floor. Zelda barely made it before vomiting into the first toilet she reached. Brian paced awkwardly in the bathroom not sure what to do. He'd only been drunk once, last year at Prom. He didn't know the first thing about taking care of someone who'd drank too much. In movies guys always hold the girl's hair, right? He thought to himself.
"Hey Z, can I help you? Here, let me hold your hair." Brian crouched down and swept Zelda's hair up on his right hand. With his other hand, Brian rubbed circles around her back. All the while Zelda kept saying how sorry she was.
