A/N: And here is part 2! Enjoy

Cat's POV

I knew that this dinner could go badly. In fact I had prepared myself mentally for it to but this. This was a tragic shitstorm of bullshittery.

I felt so bad for Leila and Phil which is why I had opened my big mouth and got all sassy with Rick. He was being ridiculous and it was pissing me off really bad.

But now I was staring at Phil and Rick in the kitchen and they were talking. Like, really talking and- wait- were they laughing? Holy shit, they were.

HALLELUJAH.

They walked around the table giving us our drinks and sat back down. All of us were staring at them like they were aliens. Especially Leila. Phil leaned over and kissed her cheek. She looked at her Dad and he just gave her a smile and nodded like he was telling her everything was alright.

Could this Thanksgiving actually be salvaged? It was looking like it.

"Girls, this food is just amazing," my Mom told Leila and I as she pointed at her plate with her fork. "Everything is so good. I'm so proud."

"Thanks Mama," I smiled at her. "I learned from the best."

"Damn skippy," my Dad added. "I have to walk two miles a day to keep from having one of those guts that covers your junk."

I facepalmed myself and cracked up laughing. "Daddy, please don't talk about your junk!"

He laughed. "Sweetie, I hate to tell you but I do have junk. That's why you're alive."

"He has nice junk too," my mother added. I suddenly realized that I truly was a product of these two people. I wonder if Dan and Phil were now figuring out why I was a totally perverted spaz.

"That's wonderful, Mama. Thank you for sharing," I laughed, shaking my head.

"Our girls act like we weren't young once," Leila's mom cleared her throat after she took a gulp of her wine. "I mean, Jude's right, ya'll had to get here somehow. Leila is proof that practice makes perfect," she flashed a grin over at Lele, who was shaking her head, and actually laughing despite her blow up earlier.

"That's true," my Mom nodded. "Though it didn't take too much practice to create Cat. It took 2 bottles of champagne and a whole lot of not caring about anything except for practice on the night of our wedding, actually," she laughed.

"I so enjoy hearing about my parents sexual adventures," I said before taking a long sip of my drink. "How about you, Lele?" I asked her, laughing. Honestly, it didn't really bother me but it was amusing to pick on them for openly discussing it.

"Oh, I love it," she nodded. "Do you guys want to swap stories next or?" Leila proposed, pointing between them.

"I don't think that's necessary, honey," her father spoke up, his face turning red.

"Me either," Phil spoke up.

"Oh, don't be such prudes! We're all adults here. These kids make me feel young again," my Mom sighed, smiling at me. "Oh! Speaking of stories. I have one," she took a sip of her drink and moved around on her chair, sitting up straighter to prepare to tell the story. I was a little scared. "So, before I met Jude I was dating this guy. He was very sweet but boring as a stump," she rolled her eyes. "And I just wanted to have sex. I was a virgin and I wanted to get that out of the way. I guess I wasn't like those girls who cared about that sort of thing? But I was almost 18 and I was sick of being one so, anyway. Me and this guy decide to go for it and holy hell. It was horrible!" she laughed.

"Why was it horrible?" Phil leaned forward and asked, seeming genuinely interested in the story. In fact, as I looked around the table I noticed everyone did.

Thanks, alcohol.

"Well, he wasn't a virgin so he knew what he was doing but his dick!" she yelled the word 'dick' and her eyes got big. "It was crooked! I mean, crooked, crooked. Like Captain Hook's hook crooked." She started laughing hard and I realized for the first time that I sounded just like my Mom when I laughed. "I felt like my uterus was getting harpooned! I was scarred mentally for a long time. Poor Jude. It took him forever to get anything out of me."

"No Captain Hook dick over here," Dad pointed at himself looking quite proud.

"Captain Hook dick," I repeated as I started laughing really hard. "Holy shit. That is amazing."

Everyone around the table was laughing, but Leila's mom definitely the loudest out of all of us. "Oh honey, that sounds horrible! I don't think I could ever bounce back from that," she shook her head. "Although, the first time Rick and I... got together it was so bad."

Everyone's attention seemed to shift to Leila's dad, who looked even more embarrassed than before. "Hey now," he held his hands up. "Let her tell the story before you guys go thinkin' that I'm a horrible lay."

"Oh," Leila's mom covered her mouth just like Leila does as she laughed. "It's not a bad story about him! Oh no, he was amazing," she nodded. "We were in his bedroom at his momma's house and we were gettin' ready for it, you know, kissin' and carryin' on and we both kept hearing this strange noise.. I can't even explain the sound it was so.." she shook her head. "Anyways, we start to go at it and the noise just gets louder. Of course it didn't last that long, no offense honey but you're definitely in your prime now," she laughed. "So by the time that Ri- I mean we finished, we realized the sound was coming from his closet, so he gets up, naked as the day he was born and creeps over to the closet and opens one of the doors to see his little brother," she paused and glanced over at Liela, "Leila's uncle Preston... you know, rubbin' one off in there!" she shook her head, laughing. "He was only about 10 years old at the time, and he had just been watching us, and oh honey you can't ever tell him about this, he'll freak out," she said seriously because laughing again.

"Oh, don't worry," Leila saluted her. "I'll never be mentioning that story again."

"I swear I'll never forget that sound, or the look on his face. I wish I could describe it."

"Fap?" Dan laughed. "Fap fap fap fap?"

Her mother gasped and slammed her hands down on the table. "Yes! That is exactly what it sounded like!"

I don't think I have ever seen my boyfriend laugh as hard as he was laughing. His cute little dimple was showing and it made me want to just lean over and kiss it.

"That is the best story ever," Phil managed to say through his own laughter.

My Mom had completely lost her shit and Dad had too. There were tears streaming down his face he was laughing so hard.

I don't know what the hell made me do it. I guess since the ice had been broken I figured it would be fine to say whatever.

"Dan, why don't you tell them our interesting little story?" I grinned at him.

"About how we met?" Dan asked

"Well, that is an interesting story but I'm talking about the other story," I raised an eyebrow, knowing he had to remember.

"Ohhh," Dan instantly started laughing then shook his head. "Okay," he nodded, looking around at everyone. "So Cat and I had gone out on our first real date that night and it went really, really well. I wasn't really expecting anything to happen, you know, but she ended up staying at my place that night," he explained, pausing to take a sip of his Pimm's. "She ended up waking up at about five o'clock that morning, I have no idea why, but she ended up waking me up too and," he cleared his throat. "Well we, you know, got saucy, and it ended up being a little... loud. What I was unaware of though, was that Phil and Leila were both awake for this... So once we were finished, we heard this banging on the wall from Phil's room followed by complete insanity," Dan started laughing and had a take a second to collect himself before continuing. "Phil was screaming something but what really got me was Leila-" he shook his head and looked over at her before looking around the table again. "What was it? Oh! 'Phil! plunge my ass!'" he started cracking up again. "And of course something completely horrific about a cactus being inserted into her bum. I didn't know what to think until she said that. Then I knew that they had heard everything and were giving us a really hard time over it."

Everyone was laughing again, thankfully. I didn't really think until he got to the part where he said we had sex after the first date that maybe we shouldn't be sharing our adventures.

"Honey, you had sex with him after the first date?" my Mom asked as she wiped tears from the corners of her eyes. Oh wow. I feel like a whore. "How did you even last through the date? Look at him!" she motioned towards him with her hand.
Nevermind.

I looked over at him and laughed. "I really do not know, Mama. I must have some serious self control."

"I'm gettin' a little worried here," my Dad told my Mom. "I think I better watch you around my boy Daniel."

My boy.
It was so cute to hear Dad say that.
I wondered what Dan thought of it.

"Oh Jude. You know I'm just playin'. Well, I mean, he is extremely gorgeous. I'm not pickin' about that but you're the only one I want. I promise," she winked at him before taking a sip of my drink. "You're the only one that I'd let plunge my ass."

"Oh my God!" Phil cracked up quite loudly. "I now know how Cat became the way she is," he managed to say through his laughter.

"Yep," my Dad nodded. "These two in the same house," he shook his head. "You better be prepared for hearing some crazy and funny shit. Never a dull moment."

Leila's mom cleared her throat after she finally recovered from hearing Dan's story. "Look at you two," she shook her head, and I noticed she was looking between Phil and Leila. "Sitting over there looking all innocent when you were the ones who had the pregnancy scare! Come on, share a story! Tell us about how we almost had a grandbaby!"

Leila suddenly looked a lot less amused as she shifted her eyes around the table to see everyone looking at her with the exception of her dad, who was looking awkwardly at his empty glass before he pushed his chair out. "Excuse me, I'm going to find the bathroom," he said, clearing his throat.

"I think Rick is permanently damaged and he didn't even hear anything," I laughed as I watched him walk down the hall towards the bathroom.

"I'm glad he left," Leila laughed as she picked up her glass and took a long drink from it before sitting it back down. "Because I don't think she's going to let this go," she said, looking from me to her Mom.

Olivia shook her head. "Nope," she smiled, then glanced over at Phil. "Come on, bedroom eyes, what are you two keeping from us?"

"Ummm," Phil looked like a deer in headlights and I swear he was blushing. It was so cute. "Well, uh," he laughed nervously and adjusted his hair a bit like he did when he was nervous. "We got sort of um, carried away one night and I forgot to use a condom. I know. It was stupid."

"Hey, it happens. We're not crucifying you for it," my Dad spoke up, smiling at him and Phil seemed to relax a bit.

"Well, then Leila went and got the um. What's it called?" he asked Leila. "Maybe you should finish the story, sweetheart."

"Oh my heavens!" my Mom threw her hands in the air and looked at me. "How do you two handle those accents?"

I laughed. "Not very well, obviously," I replied referring to the forgetting of a condom.

From the look on Leila's face, I didn't think she was too into telling the story so I rescued her. "Basically, Leila got the plan B pill then she flipped out because she realized she loved Phil. She came back here and they weren't speaking for a while. Then she realized she was late and she took a test which said she was pregnant and that happened to be the day I flew back here to surprise everyone," I laughed. "And Leila puked all over me. So we took her to the doctor, they did their tests, blah blah. Leila starts bleeding a few days later so we think she's like miscarrying so we go to the doctor and find out she's not pregnant and she had just started her period."

"Oh wow. I bet you shit yourself when you took that test though. I've heard of people getting false positives," my Mom told her.

"It came out of the other end," Leila laughed. "I puked so much that day and more or less had a nervous breakdown on Phil," she glanced over at him. "It's weird to say but that was one of the worst days ever, but one of the best too, because Cat came back and Phil and I made up. I wouldn't have gotten through any of that without them.. Or Dan," she leaned over the table and smiled at him.

I couldn't help but smile when she added Dan to that. "Yeah, along with getting boyfriends we both got new best friends too." I looked down the table at Phil and he nodded.

"Yes. I think we got awesome deals out of it," he replied.

"You're all like a little family away from your families!" Leila's Mom spoke up. "That's so good to have since you girls are so far from home."

"Hey Dan!" Rick called out and we all exchanged confused glances. "Someone named McKenzie is here for you."

What. The. Fuck?
"Tell me he did not just say that McKenzie is here for you," I told Dan as I was pushing my chair back to stand.

Leila was doing the same thing as I was, and Dan was looking between us with an expression of shock on his face.

"Who is McKenzie?" Leila's mom asked. "Is she another friend of yours, honey? Invite her in, Rick!"

"No!" Dan, Leila, Phil, and I all said at the same time.

My parents and Leila's Mom looked between us, appearing to be very, very confused.

"Cat..." Leila warned, shaking her head as she stood up. Dan was already walking around the table only to be met with Rick and McKenzie where the living room met with the dining room.

I heard Leila and she knew how livid I was. But in my head I vowed to remain calm. Even though the sight of her was making me want to pick up the turkey carving knife and chop off that perfect blonde hair of hers so I could ram it down her stupid little throat.

I gripped the top of my chair to keep myself from moving because I wasn't sure if I would charge at her like a psycho football player.
"McKenzie," I forced a smile and I know I sounded fake. She would be the only one in the room who didn't realize it though. "Did you need something?"

Other than medication and my foot up your ass.

She stepped forward into the dining room, glancing up at Dan as she rounded the corner. Her eyes got really big when she saw all of the people sitting around the table, specifically Leila, who she probably thought I had already murdered for 'loving to fuck around' with my boyfriend.

"I just wanted to stop by and wish my fellow Americans a happy Thanksgiving," she smiled, holding out a pie that was probably poisoned. "I had no idea you guys had family over. Are these Dan and Phil's parents?" she asked, obviously missing the fact that Rick had an American accent.

I made no move to take that pie. I didn't trust my hands yet. "No, actually. They're mine and Leila's parents. They flew in to celebrate with us," I told her as I looked behind me at my Mom who looked incredibly confused because I'm sure she could see the rage in my eyes. "Thanks for the pie." Another fake smile. I should be an actress.

"You're welcome," she grinned. "Well I don't to impose, since you guys are with your families," she said, sitting the pie down on the counter. "So I'll just go."

"Nonsense!" Leila's mom waved her hand in front of her face. "Come on honey, it's Thanksgiving, we're all family here," she told her, gesturing for her to join us at the table.

"Mom-" Leila began, and I knew she was about to say something about the fact that her mother had just invited the psycho to eat with us, but the look on her mother's face stepped her. "You're so kind," she forced a smile as she sat back down.

Dan walked over to me and brushed a kiss against my cheek before whispering against my ear. "Stay calm, please," he pulled away and looked into my eyes and he brushed his thumb over my cheek before taking his seat again.

Of course McKenzie didn't object any further, and took the only empty spot at the table, which happened to be right beside Dan.

Before I saw her sit there I had been a bit more calm. It was sort of like Dan had been my xanax for all of 2 seconds. Now I was even more pissed than before.

I took my seat again and pushed my plate away from myself before picking up my drink and chugging the rest of it.

"Cat," Phil spoke up and I looked down the table at him. "Do you need some more?"

"God, yes," I said as he stood up from his chair. I handed him my glass and smiled up at him. It was weird yet awesome that apparently Phil was starting to be able to read me and I think Dan could read Leila as well.

"So, McKenzie, where are you from?" my Mom asked. I had to concentrate really hard on not turning to tell my mother not to speak to the psychotic, manipulative bitch at the table. Just when I thought Thanksgiving was awesome she had to come along and piss me the fuck off.

"I'm from Chicago," she said happily as she started helping herself to the food that Leila and I had spent hours slaving over.

That only pissed me off more.

"What are you doing in London?" Leila's Mom asked curiously.

Trying to manipulate people.

"I'm studying abroad, fashion design," she answered before anyone could ask. "Speaking of," she turned her attention to Dan, "You never came by my apartment to look at the t-shirt designs I made for you!"

Dan didn't even look at her as he chewed up a piece of turkey, "Been busy, sex with Cat is time consuming," he glanced at me and winked.

I bit down on my bottom lip to keep from laughing but then my Dad choked on the sip of drink he'd just taken and I had to laugh. "Very time consuming," I added, grinning at him as Phil handed me my new drink. "Thanks," I smiled up at him.

"Plus the four of us have been hanging out a lot more," I had to add that since she tried to destroy the foursome. "We did a live show together earlier this week. It was awesome."

"It was amazing," Leila butted in before McKenzie could say anything. "We've been having a lot of fun together," she smiled, glancing over at her. "I mean, especially Dan and I. We've been fucking around so much! I don't know how we've had time to sleep!"

It was my turn to get choked on my drink. My Mom started smacking my back. "Damn, sweetheart!" she laughed. Obviously she thought Leila was joking. Well, she was but Mom didn't know why she said it.

My Dad was staring at Leila like she'd lost her mind though and Rick looked like he was ready to run away. Phil was covering his mouth with his hand to keep from laughing.
"Did you just say what I thought you said, sweetie?" Leila's Mom asked, sounding really, really confused.

"Yeah. Leila fucks Dan behind my back a lot. I'm not supposed to know about it though," I shrugged like that wasn't a big deal.

Her mother looked just as confused as my mother did.

"Oh guys, don't take that out of context," Leila laughed. "When I say I mess around with Dan, I just mean that he and I have a lot of S's and G's together, not that we're having sex! Oh gosh, I really hope Dan doesn't have a camera set up recording me right now. The Phandom would explode if they thought I was cheating on Phil," she shook her head.

Dan slapped his hand over his face but not even that could hide the fact that he was smiling and trying very hard not to explode with laughter over the fact that the two of us were calling McKenzie out in front of everyone.

Our mothers looked a bit more comfortable with her explanation, but still mildly confused as to why we were even saying all of this.

"Dan will you pass the pecker. I mean the pepper," Leila said out of nowhere.

"Leila!" Her mother gasped, her eyes wide.

Dan couldn't hold it back any longer and he burst out laughing, shaking his head as he handed Leila the pepper shaker.

I had been doing really well at holding my shit together but when I saw Dan laughing, I lost it. "Oh fuck," I said as I threw my head back and straight up cackle laughed.

"Oh my gosh, Dan!" I managed to straighten my face up somewhat as I looked over at him. "I can't believe you just passed your pecker to Leila in front of me!"

"Oh Cat, you know I'm horny for that pecker. It can be denied and I can't even try to hide it from you any longer." Leila sounded so serious when she said that.

"Leila Faust!" Her mother gasped. "What has gotten into you! That is your best friend's boyfriend!"

"In Leila's defense, she's my best friend's girlfriend, and my girlfriend's best friend," Dan managed to say as he continued to laugh.

My Dad cleared his throat. "Uh, Rick. You wanna go binge drink in the kitchen?"

Rick nodded quickly as he pushed his chair back but before he could stand -

"WHAT THE FUCK!" McKenzie screamed and my dad and Leila's froze in place and all of us looked at her like she'd just gone insane.

Well, she already was insane, but she was showing it now.

"Seriously! What the fuck is your guys' problem? And Dan-" she whipped her head to the side and looked up at him. "What do you even see in her?!" she yelled. "Seriously, you deserve SO much better than Cat. Do you hear the way she's making all of these joke about you and her best friend?! It's disgusting!" she shrieked. "It's SO obvious that she doesn't even care about you!"

Rage. So much rage. Like, murderous rage. I could feel my entire body go red but from how fucking livid I was.

"Excuse you?!" my Mom spoke up using her scary Mama bear voice.

I pushed my chair back so hard when I stood up it fell backwards. "You," I pointed towards her. "You just fucked up big time, little girl. Who the fuck do you think you are?" I was screaming very loud at this point and I know my finger was shaking as I pointed towards her. "You come in my house in front of my parents and say that shit to the man that I love? Do you think you're better? Because, honey, if you were it'd be your pussy he was eating at night and not mine."

That was vulgar but I had to rub it in.

"You know what? Fuck this," I said as I began walking around the side of the table but Leila's Dad pretty much closelined me before I could get to her and he wrapped his arms around me to keep me from moving.

"Catherine, go somewhere and calm down," my Mom said as she stood up and walked towards us.

"No!" I screamed. "I am going to-"

"You're better than this. She's not worth it." She spoke calmly as she walked up to me. "Go. We'll deal with her."

Before I could say anything else, Rick was pulling me down the hall but I was staring at that little bitch the whole way like somehow I could use my eyeballs to punch her in the face.

He opened the bathroom door and placed me inside. "Cat, just calm down. We'll take care of that little bitch. Alright?"

I took a deep breath and nodded. "Okay." He closed the door and I immediately pressed my ear against it so I could hear what was going down.

There was suddenly a lot of yelling from the dining room; I could hear Leila saying something that included the words 'common cunt' and 'basic bitch' followed by her father telling her to stop whatever it was that she was doing. My mom was yelling but I couldn't hear what she was saying.

"HEY!" Woah, that was Dan.

Silence.

"I am seriously one of the nicest guys that I bloody know, but you have pushed me far over the fucking edge here. First you try to ruin my relationship with the woman that I'm in love with and now you're here trying to tell me how I deserve better? There is no better. Do you understand that or do I need to write it down for you?" he asked.

Silence.

"If it hadn't been Thanksgiving, and her parents hadn't been here I honestly would have let her tear into you so maybe then you would step the fuck back. But since she couldn't, and it hasn't been said out loud yet, let me just say, I am not interested. At all. At this point I would rather have Phil plunge my ass while I deepthroat his cactus. No - no - I don't care what you have to say, I'm sorry, I'm not sorry, I do not have a single fuck to give you right now. I'm done. This conversation is over, now if you could please leave, so we can try to sal- go ahead and tell them that I'm an asshole! Maybe you're recording this too for proof of it, I don't give a fuck! Seriously Phil, shut up! I don't give a fuck what she says to anyone. Yeah, I said it, now leave!"

I was giggling like a fucking idiot. My boyfriend was amazing.
And hearing him yell like that made me want to pounce his ass.
Too much alcohol.
I wish I could've seen it all.

There was a knock on the door and I quickly stepped away from it just as it was swinging open. It was my hot fucking boyfriend, looking about 90 times hotter than usual because he was so fucking pissed off. "Are you okay?" He sounded very agitated but I knew that he didn't mean it towards me. "I can't believe she did that," he shook his head. "I took care of it. I don't think we'll be seeing much of her again."

I just stared up at him with my hands on my hips for a while. I heard everything he said and I cared, really, I did. But I was very sidetracked by how he looked and sounded and the fact that he had gotten so angry because he cared that much about me. The only other people who cared about me that much were in the dining room or wherever most likely wondering what the actual fuck had just happened.

He was staring down at me obviously expecting me to answer him. Instead I reached out and grabbed the front of his shirt to pull him towards me before I stood on my tip toes to kiss him. No, not a peck. I mean like a we're in the middle of having sex and this kiss is super intense kind of kiss. I couldn't stop myself. I'd already wanted to do that when I saw him wearing that damn sexy outfit.

He slipped his arms around my waist, pulling me against him roughly as he kissed me back with just as much intensity as I had given him.

I pulled back some time later to catch my breath and I looked up at him. "Sorry," I laughed. "I do not know why but I had to do that."

He smiled at me. "No need to apologize," he told me. "I think we both needed that."

"Actually," I spoked as I turned towards the mirror to make sure my make up and hair still looked decent. "I think I need a hard fuck with multiple orgasms but hey, I'll take what I can get," I turned back to face him and smiled. "I seriously cannot believe she said all
of that."

"You know, I could go for the same thing, but considering your parents are down the hall and we already discussed how loud you are, we should probably put that off, hmm?" he laughed. "I feel like that didn't even happen. Seriously, what the fuck," Dan shook his head, looking so very mind fucked. "She has some nerve and obviously some balls to come into your flat popping off with some shit like that."

I rubbed my temple because I was feeling a serious stress headache coming on. "And the things she said," I shook my head. It was stupid to let her get to me. Her opinions mattered about as much as a fart. "About me not being good enough for you and stuff. That was just a low blow."

"Hey," he tilted his head as he stepped towards me and brushed his thumb across my cheek. "She doesn't know what she's talking about. You're way too good for me on every level possible. You're beautiful, smart, hilarious, an amazing cook, an amazing lay.." he laughed. "I know you didn't want to hear anything she said, I didn't want to hear it, but none of it's actually true. I couldn't imagine finding anyone better than you, Cat."

Seriously? Could he get any more amazing?

I practically threw myself at him and hugged him tightly. "I love you so much," I whispered against his neck before kissing it. I pulled back to look up at him. "I heard everything you said to her, by the way," I laughed. "That was pretty fucking amazing."

"Catherine! Time to cheer up and have a good Thanksgiving! The crazy girl left," my Mom called out in a sing song voice which made me crack up laughing.

Dan leaned in to kiss me, "I love you too," his lips curved into a smile against mine as he pecked them again. "Come on, let's go finish eating dinner and drink some more. Maybe your mom will share some more sex stories," he laughed, grabbing my hand and leading me back into the dining room.

Everyone was sitting around the table looking up at us as we made our way back to our seats. My dad and Rick were glancing from me and Dan back to eachother like they were exchanging words mentally and my Mom offered me a drink as soon as I sat down.

I took the drink from my Mom while eyeing my Dad and Rick. "What are y'all looking at us like that for?" I asked before taking a long sip of my drink.

They looked at us then looked at each other again before Rick cleared his throat. "Uh, well.. we were just trying to figure out what all of that was about," he said and I couldn't help but notice that he seemed a little hesitant to bring it up to me; which was funny, because Rick Faust is one of the most intimidating men I'd ever met in my life.

"Ah. Yes. Duh, Cat," I laughed as I sat my drink back down. "Long story short. Leila and I tried to be nice to someone who fooled us into thinking she was nice. She did some really fucked up things to try to destroy mine and Leila's friendship along with all of our relationships," I pointed all around us referring to me, Leila, Dan, and Phil. "All because she's obsessed with Dan. Like, scary obsessed, I think. So, that's what that was about."

"No wonder you almost whipped her ass," my Dad said as he shook his head in disbelief. "Sounds like one of those movies your Mama is always watchin'."

I started laughing. "Lifetime movies and yes, yes it does."

My Mom put her hand on my back and rubbed it. "Well shit. Maybe I should've let you slap her."

I looked over at her, still laughing. "It's okay. I think one trip to jail for the year is good for me."

"Jail?" Rick blurted out, his southern drawl more noticeable than ever. "What on earth did you go to jail for?" he asked, looking at me with his brows furrowed together.

Good God, Leila looked so much like him.

"Yeah honey," Olivia spoke up. "When did this happen?"

"Oh yes," my Mom spoke up as well and I looked over to see that scary look in her eyes that I always got when I fucked up real bad at home. "I'd love to hear this story."

"Jesus on a boat," I sighed, looking over at Dan and wishing we could like run away or something. I was tired of having to tell bad stories. "Our boss at the newspaper was a total cuntburger. She was really hateful to both of us. She fired me after I almost got hit by a car and she always treated Leila like a piece of dirt. Anyway, when we went back to LA with Dan and Phil we were at this Youtube gathering and there were tons of the guys' fans around talking to us. Out of nowhere Medusa, our boss, shows up wanting a picture and shit. I told her no. Well, I probably said it in a more colorful way. Words were exchanged and I think she called me trash or something. I can't remember. But I punched her in the face and got arrested."

"It was one of the most awesome things I've ever seen," Phil spoke up which made me laugh. "Seriously. The woman deserved it. Everyone thought so. All of the fans were cheering 'Free Whiskers' as the cops took her away."

I made a mental note to thank Phil later for trying to soften the blow so to speak.

"Yeah it was bound to happen," Leila nodded. "I'm actually surprised it took that long. She was horrible to Cat... I am so bloody glad we don't work there anymore," she shook her head, not realizing she said 'bloody' until a few seconds later, then she started laughing. "London is doing wonders for my vocabulary."

"I like it when you say British things," Phil laughed as he leaned in and kissed her temple. I still found myself wanting to say 'awwww' every time he did something like that. It was just so damn cute.

"So, you don't need a lawyer or anything?" Rick asked as he swirled the ice around in his glass.

"No sir," I shook my head. "The charges were dropped after they talked to so many witnesses who said I was provoked."

"Thank goodness," my Mom sighed. "Well! Now that all that seriousness is over with. Who is ready for some of my dessert?" she asked as she stood up.

"You brought dessert?" I looked up at her wondering what she brought. My mother was like the best cook ever.

"Of course I did, honey!" she grinned. "I brought brownies."

"Brownies?" Phil asked sounding super excited.

"Mmhm," she patted his back as she walked into the kitchen.