Chapter 28
"Aaahh! What the hell? Oh God, Jay, you scared me! What are you doing here?" Stacy bolted upright, clutching the sheets in terror. "What the hell am I doing ….uhh, where am I?" he sputtered in a morning-after fog, finding himself in round waterbed still undulating from Jay's jump.
"We're in Alex's little love shack, don't tell me you don't remember our night of passion," Jay lay next to him, hand supporting his chin, batting his eyelashes for all he was worth.
Stacy's eyes narrowed, looking first at Jay's reclining figure, and then searching the room till his gaze fell upon Alex standing next to the bed. "Oh, thank God, just a brief explanation, honey, clear and concise please," he said falling back on the pillow, forearm over his eyes, "why-where-what-are the three of us doing here?"
"Yeah, come on Alex, don't be a stranger, snuggle right in here and let's talk," Jay laughed, scooting over and patting the bed between him and Stacy.
Alex had her own 'what the hell' moment and decided to go with the flow; "cool, let's get this party back in gear!" she shouted with exaggerated enthusiasm and dove between the two boys. Looking back, this might have not been the best move in round water bed, cause when the sloshing subsided, Alex found herself wedged face to face atop a spasmodically laughing Jayboy, while being pinned by a rapidly awakening Stacy thrown on top of their human pile.
Alex tried to wiggle free of the human sandwich, but Jay deftly threw his legs up, wrapping around both her and Stacy. Stacy, in turn, wrapped his arms possessively around Alex attempting to peel her off Jay.
"Man, I can't tell you how often I've had dreams of us like this, Alex babe, but damn, you're a lot heavier than you look…ooh that'd be Stace up there too. Peralta, come on, you definitely weren't in the dream..." Jay managed to choke out between laughs.
"Dream on, Jay," Stacy huffed, rolling Alex and himself off Jay and onto the still rocking bed. "You know, you really are heavier than you look Alex," Stacy said easing her off him to the far side of the bed.
"Hey, that's uncalled for!" Alex pouted, before looking into Stacy's face, which was turning that shade of green that anyone who had ever spent time in any drinking establishment would recognize. "You OK honey?..."
"I don't feel so good……….." Stacy gagged and basically pushed Alex off the bed in his effort to make it out of the bedroom and hopefully to the bathroom, wherever that might be.
"Look at that, you brought out the rock and roll in our little Stacy," Jay smirked, turning towards Alex and propping his cheek up with his hand.
"I think it was the multiple Bud long necks that brought the rock and roll out in our poor Stacy." Alex opined.
"Yeah, and now he's bringing that beer back out even as we speak. One of us ought to go see how he's doing." Jay suggested, not looking up to the task.
"Um, I think we can hear how he's doing, let's give him a minute," Alex replied, not so good herself on the nursing sick friends routine.
"When my Mom's like this I usually just stand outside the door and say I'm here if you need anything …or you know, some shit like that." Jay shrugged as he did when he was afraid he'd shown too much of himself, as Alex was learning.
"Good idea, keep it up and you'll get me elected girlfriend of the year," Alex popped up and said just that to the closed bathroom door.
A mumbled 'thanks babe' was the reply.
Alex sauntered back towards the bed, feeling both like a good girlfriend to Stacy and a closer friend to Jay. She pushed some pillows behind her and sat up in the bed next to Jay. "He's gonna be OK, just needs some quality time praying to the porcelain god, and then maybe a Bloody Mary. Thanks for the advice."
Jay looked up at Alex's smile and felt a host of feelings wash over him. She was easy for him to talk to- maybe sometimes too easy-he said things to her that he didn't have any intention of expressing. Yet she responded in a way he could sooo relate to-she teased without seeming to mean to hurt his feelings. Drawing him in and keeping him away at the same time. And of course, she was so damn hot. She was his best friend's girl, but he couldn't help but think she really might be more like him. I mean, didn't she pretty much say Tony and the Mali-babes were wrong to make him feel low? Maybe there was something that could spark between Alex and him? No, she just said she's gonna be elected girlfriend of the year, Stacy's girlfriend. But then, true to the way he always operated, Jay instinctively began to look for ways to push her away. Stacy's girlfriend, huh?
"So, you and Robert Plant done the Sea Cruise thing on this waterbed?" Jay looked up at her, raising his eyebrows suggestively.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Alex gaped open mouthed at Jay. She absolutely couldn't believe that she had been looking into his eyes moments ago, thinking that they had been brought closer by Stacy's situation. Friends with Jay Adams, my ass!
"Don't get all bent outta shape, saw you in the movie yesterday, just wondered if you ever did Robert Plant in this bed, that's all." Jay saw he had hit his target and smirked all the more.
Alex took a deep breath and tried to get a handle on how to deal with this whole situation. Fuggetaboutit, I've had enough of these ZBoy's and their dramas she thought. "Ya know, Jay, you've got a lotta freakin' nerve asking me that, and here's the reasons why". She stuck her finger angrily into his chest and made him lie back and listen. "I came out here to Cali, all by myself, and thought, fool that I am; that maybe I had found friends in Dogtown. I don't know, or care at this point, how you feel, but I thought we got along pretty well; that maybe we could be friends. Then you come up with this giving Stacy and I shit about something you see in a movie. How do you think that makes your bro Stacy feel? You think you're making him feel any better than Tony made you feel in Malibu? I mean I'm not even trying to make you think about how I feel; even if that means forgetting about how the two of us have shared some good times. I can only guess that making Stacy and I squirm is more important to you than being friends with either Stacy or me. Pretty freaking sad commentary on your ability to be friends with anyone."
"So now you're gonna tell me how to be friends with Stacy?" Jay retorted. "A minute ago you couldn't even think of anything to say to him when he's busy getting sick. And by the way, he didn't spend a lot of time hung-over before he was with you. And for sure no time at all getting shit 'cause his girlfriend is in a movie doing some other guy."
"So you don't think I'm good for Stacy?" Alex shot back, both mad and bewildered.
"Good for, good enough for; whichever," Jay tossed back over his shoulder heading for the door, not sure once again what always caused him to lash out at the very people he liked.
A/N Thanks to all the authors who posted great stories lately. You're my inspiration to pick back up the threads of my story. Hope you enjoy.
