Hey everyone! Back with the next chapter! I apologize for any mistakes I've missed in my editing, I'm kinda tired :(
There was a club party on Friday, and it had been almost three weeks since Hanna had gone along to one of them. They had been a big thing when she was still new to this world, and she had gone with Caleb every week, sometimes twice a week. But now, she had her spot, the club slags who hung around knew that Caleb was off limits and a lot of time, he came home early to her and they spent the rest of the night together anyway. Sometimes she would babysit Angie so that Miranda could go out and relax, other times she would just stay with Miranda and Melissa and they would have girl time. More recently, Olivia Matheson, had also been joining them. She was a new addition to the club, had begun dating Jake Mitchell. They had had a bumpy start, but it seemed to be working out now.
Tonight, though, Hanna needed to get drunk.
She needed to get out-of-her-mind-plastered.
Or at least, drunk to the point where she could still stay on the back of Caleb's bike. Then again, if that failed, Caleb had a room at the clubhouse where he sometimes crashed if the boys had church that ran into the middle of the morning, or he got too drunk to drive home and Hanna had already gone to bed.
"Looking fucking hot, babe," Caleb said as he came up behind Hanna, who was just finishing applying her mascara. She looked back at him in his reflection in the mirror, aching an eyebrow at him.
"Any news about Mona?" She asked as she picked up a tube of lipstick and brushed it over her mouth. She rubbed them together, spreading it evenly between both lips before turning around to look up at her man.
"Lucas and Jonny had a look into her," Caleb tilted his head to the side. "After she quit working for us, she got a job as a legal aide in town. She's a smart girl, finished top of all of her classes in school, and was doing well at University before she dropped out. They didn't find out the reason behind her dropping out, but around the same time that she quit, she got the job with us, so maybe she just got so wrapped up in Noel's 'charms'. What we couldn't find was any connection directly between her and someone in the police station."
"Well if she's a legal aide, that gives her a connection, right?"
"But usually legal aide's don't get as dirty as the actual lawyers themselves," Caleb replied, making a face. "You're right, though. They're keeping an eye on her, seeing what she does. But, uh, with what you said yesterday? If she hasn't said anything so far, we don't think she'll say anything now. I talked to Eric yesterday, and he thinks that a visit might be in order, just to ensure that she knows how important it is that she keeps her mouth shut."
"So you're going to threaten her?" Hanna raised an eyebrow.
"Speak to her," Caleb corrected.
"Threaten her," Hanna repeated with a knowing curl of her lip. Caleb stared at her for a second before giving her a slightly guilty smile.
"Maybe," he admitted. She rolled her eyes and turned back to the mirror, checking her make up was on point one more time before nodding at him. "You know," there was still a smirk on Caleb's face, but this time it was heated. "We could just skip the party all together." He ran a hand down her side, slipping it underneath the hem of the button down shirt that she was wearing. "And stay here." Hanna laughed and stopped his hand from going further under her shirt.
"Come on," she grinned and spun around to give him a quick kiss on the mouth. "Take me out for the night, get me drunk, and then we can have our own private party," one of her hands went between his legs, over his cock, and gave it a gentle squeeze before shooting him a saucy wink and skipping away. Caleb looked after her, readjusting his pants, before picking up his Phantoms vest off the bed and slipping it on, following after his fiancée.
Miranda was already halfway drunk by the time Caleb and Hanna showed up at the clubhouse. It was almost ten, and that was well past Miranda's usual bed time, and so she was making the best of it. Caleb laughed as he saw the dark haired girl stumble over to Hanna and throw her arms around her.
"Hanny! I'm so glad you're here! I feel as though I'm outnumbered—look at all these skanks," Miranda hissed out the last word and shook her head, as though disapprovingly, but really, she didn't care. She had been a part of this life for longer than Hanna, at Wren's side, and she knew that the girls in the tiny skirts and no shirt or bra just came with the territory.
"Where's Melissa? Shouldn't she be here by now?"
"You know Melissa," Miranda grinned. "Always likes to make an entrance. Oh and Olivia and Jake are off seeing her friends back in Ravenswood, so they won't be here tonight." Caleb chose to step in there, giving Miranda a kiss on the cheek and then glanced over at Hanna.
"I'm going to go and find Eric, okay? Find me later."
"Bye, babe," Hanna smiled at him before turning back to Miranda.
"I think you need a drink," Miranda stated, tightening her arm around Hanna's shoulders. "Oh, and Sydney is here." She scrunched up her nose and made a face. "She's made friends with one of the slags."
"Play nice, Miranda," Hanna reminded her as she helped Miranda back to the bar, where Sydney Driscoll was making drinks. There was a ginger haired girl behind the counter with Sydney. Her hair was cut short and she was wearing a pair of glasses, and she had a pretty smile. She was wearing a green dress that was cut just above her knees, and just that alone set her aside from all the other woman in the club house at the moment, minus the old ladies. Hanna wondered what she was doing here, because it seemed quite clear that she wasn't here to get it on with any of the brothers, or else she would be drunk and dancing with barely any clothes on by now.
"Hanna!" Sydney greeted her with a smile. "It feels like forever!" She came around to the other side of the counter and gave her a tight hug. "This is Lesli, she's a—" Sydney cut off for a moment and Hanna almost let out a snort of laughter as she realized that Sydney wasn't too sure what terminology to use. "She's cool," she finished lamely, and this time Miranda couldn't hold back her own laugh. Hanna glanced over at her in amusement and then back at Sydney, who shot them both a dirty look. Hanna smoothed it over, smiling over at Lesli and nodding at her.
"Hi, Lesli. I'm Hanna," she introduced herself.
"Of course, um, you're with the Caleb, right?" Lesli Stone's voice was quiet and a little breathy.
"I am," Hanna nodded, not particularly interested in talking about it. "So? A drink, Sydney?"
"Of course," Sydney grinned and bounced back around to the other side of the counter.
Miranda was on a mission tonight, that much was clear. She had organized a babysitter and had actually taken Angie over there, so when she and Wren got home that night, they were going to have the place completely to themselves. So Miranda's plan was to get completely plastered, and then get laid, well and hard by her man.
Which she kept telling Hanna, Sydney and Melissa over and over again.
After midnight, things were getting a little out of hand, as they usually did. Lucas was no longer a prospect, and over the past year, he had grown a lot from the gawky kid with patchy facial hair, and had broadened shoulders and cropped his hair a little shorter. This made things even easier with the slags who came to these club parties, even though it was easy before. And as he was no longer the prospect, it meant that he wasn't at the bottom of the food chain anymore and needing to give up a girl if one of the other brothers asked for her.
"Hanna!" Lucas cried out, stumbling over to Hanna and spilling half of his drink from the cup he was holding in his hand. "You look absolutely love tonight, Hanna," he told her with a sloppy grin.
"Oh, thanks, Lucas," Hanna laughed as she put an arm around his waist, letting him lean against her. "I see you've found a few admirers." Admidst the throngs of half naked girls in the club house, there were two who had their eyes glued on Lucas, giving him fuck-me eyes and pawing at each other to get his attention.
"Brittni and Tiffini—with an 'i'," he announced proudly and Hanna snorted.
"Because the 'i' adds all the class," she muttered, but Lucas didn't look offended at all.
"I just thought I would come over here and say goodnight," Lucas slurred, pressing a wet kiss to her cheek. "Because I'm going to take Brittni and Tiffini into one of the backrooms and I ain't coming back out for a long time." Hanna laughed and gave him a kiss on the cheek back before he walked back over to the girls and threw arms around both of their shoulders. They giggled and rubbed his back and one of them slipped their hands down the front of his shorts. Hanna watched them go, rolling her eyes at their antics before turning back to look over at where the other old ladies, plus Lesli, were standing.
Except Melissa wasn't there anymore.
Hanna searched out the club for her, past Gabriel making out with a topless girl who had her legs wide open while sitting on the pool table, past where the new prospect, Jonny Raymond, was being hazed for the umpteenth time with shots of whiskey, until she found her man and Eric, who were sitting on a couch, bottles of beer in their hands, and talking and laughing between themselves. She thought that maybe Melissa had gone over to speak with her baby daddy, but there was no sight of her; only a couple of slags who were sitting on the back of the couch, trying to get the mens attention. There had been a time when they had bothered Hanna, but that had all seemed to fade away the longer her and Caleb were together. Caleb was one of the most powerful men in the club, and as such, he attracted a lot of attention from the sluts and bimbos, but he barely gave them a second glance.
Hanna told Sydney and Miranda that she would be back in a few minutes, and started making her way toward the front door of the club house. A drunk girl who looked as though she was on the verge of throwing up stumbled in front of Hanna, and then jerked backwards when she saw Hanna, giving her the respect she deserved by moving out of her way. Hanna ignored her and pushed open the front door.
"Mel?" Hanna frowned when she saw the older woman standing on the front porch, her phone in her hand and her eyebrows furrowed. "Melissa, what are you doing?"
"Toby just rang me," Melissa said, looking up at the blonde and tapping her finger against the side of her phone. "He told me that he's been assigned to CeCe's case as the Rosewood liaison." Hanna felt her stomach twist uncomfortably at the mention of situation that she had been trying to push aside and ignore for the past few days.
"Rosewood? Rosewood is almost an hour away, why are they getting a liaison from there?"
"They're getting liaison's from all the neighboring towns, just to keep up to date with the case so that they can keep an eye out on things in their own places, see if anything comes up," Melissa replied. "It's pretty standard."
"So is Toby going to let us know what he knows?"
"He probably doesn't know anymore than what Talia is telling Caleb, but yes. He will," she nodded as she slid her phoe back into her pocket. Hanna licked her lips and swallowed hard, before forcing a smile.
"Come on," Hanna held out her hand to her friend. "We're both here tonight to get away from all of this shit." The music inside suddenly got turned up as the song changed, and there was a cheer that went up. Hanna's smile melted into a proper grin as Hey, Mama by Nicki Minaj started playing. "I love this song! Come dance with me!" Melissa hesitated, but with the way that Hanna started wiggling her eyebrows and sashaying her hips obviously got to her, because she let out a laugh and took Hanna's hand, letting the blonde lead her back into the club house.
Now! My music obsessions since my last update! Actually, heaps of old songs have resurfaced on my iTunes. There's Thinking It Over by Dana Glover, seriously this song makes my heart ache like every time I hear it. I think I obsessively listened to it when I was a teenager when I went through a break up, melodramatic child that I was. Then there's Pony by Ginuwine. LOL. Don't know what's got me so into that one all of a sudden. And the third one is Bring Me Back To Life by Extreme Music. Seriously, the Shadowhunters show has a pretty great soundtrack, I think I've fallen in love with every song I've discovered through there!
Oh gosh, aaaaaaaand there's this cover of a Jesse McCartney song, Beautiful Soul, by SoMo. I watched a Stydia fan video to the song, and I'm now just completely in love.
Oooooh, and in the post the other day, I got my Stilinski 24 hoodie. Can you tell I'm obsessed with Teen Wolf just a little bit? Yes? No? Maybe? LOL.
As usual, please feed my obsession with songs and reviews :) It'd make me very happy, and I'll send you a preview xxx