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"Don't start" Eddie ordered when he made it back to the table and the guy's immediately began to open their mouths.
"You might want to slow down, that burger's…" Nick started to say and Ronnie started shaking his head and pulling his finger across his neck and Lacey lit into Nick leaving the gang laughing again and distracted from Eddie and Janet.
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"Ladies, how are we doing" Sully flirted and they all replied good
"If any of you get tired of these pathetic excuses and need a real man, you know where to find me" he was quite charming when he wanted to be. The trick was he really had to want to and then add a bottle of boos.
"What are you up to " Eddie asked knowing his was being way to kind and in rare form
"I was going to see if these very beautiful ladies would be willing to let lose of all of you for a while" Sully said again flirtatiously towards the girls
"Why would we do that" Aubrey asked
"I don't know, better conversation, relaxation, and of course some of the other fellows might hang around a little longer if they think you're here alone"
"So this is about you making more money" Nick asked with a chuckle
"If you can get the ladies to sit at the bar I'll make it worth your effort" Sully answered conspicuously
"We'll go willingly, but there better not be any naked women involved" Darcy stated as they got up and headed towards Janet"
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"What's the old geezer up to" Janet asked her friends
"I don't know, but I have a feeling we're about to find out" Allison told her as the girls watched
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"You better have a good reason for running off the Lolly's" Ickey told Sully
"We're celebrating"
"What exactly are we celebrating" Owen asked amused by Sully's drunken state
"My wedding anniversaries, all of them I figured it would be easier to remember if I kept them on the same day" Sully chuckled already half lit his self, that was a rare occasion
"But we're going to tell the ladies it's a birthday, bachelor party, I finally moved out of your mommy's house celebration" Sully said about the time Pizza Girl and Karen delivered a tray full of shots and pitchers of beer and Sully took a seat with the guy's.
"How many times have you been married" Ronnie asked Sully
"Ask me in a hour, that way I want be able to remember" Sully turned up a shot
"Seriously, Lace is going to kill me if she has to take me home drunk" Ronnie told the group passing on a shot
"Loosen up, that girl aint going no where, not for the next five or six months anyway" Ickey picked at him
"Cut 'em some slack, he's already been neutered this week" Nick added and Ronnie turned up the shot
"At least I'm not scared of asking my girlfriend if I can move in with her because my daddy's kicking me out" Ronnie shot back
"Dude, the commander kicked you out, that's cold" Owen joked
"Hey, ain't no body busting his chops about living at home" Ickey asked
"What'd you do" Eddie asked
"He's just grouchy from the meds" Nick replied
"That or it could be that he's tired of knowing every time you take care of business" Ronnie laughed all of them steady taking shots
"You've got room to talk, what the hell were you and Lacey's doing the other night" Nick questioned
"Nothing I accidentally knocked my CD's on the floor" Ronnie answered with a grin plastered across his face
"Must be a lot of CD's if it took you over an hour to pick them back up"
"Unlike the way some people tend to just rush through their business, I prefer to do a thorough job" Ronnie dug at his older brother
"I don't rush, I'm efficient" Nick defended his self
"Twenty minutes isn't efficient it's otiose" Ronnie argued back and could see the look of confusion on Ickey's face "pointless, no purpose, useless, ineffective, no point of being..." Ronnie explained
"I think we get the just" Nick interupted
"Twenty minutes doesn't sound so bad to me...once you get into it" Ickey said to the group
"I've done faster" Owen chugged back his beer
"So, this is what I have to look forward to when I get old" Ronnie asked
"Who are you calling old, I do a rather thorough job myself and if you other morons learn to control yourselves a little better, you would find out exactly how much more appreciative a woman will be" Eddie interjected with a guilty grin across his face
"So how appreciative is Janet and Lacey " Nick asked
"NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS" Eddie and Ronnie blurted out at the same time
"I don't see anything wrong with taking your time" Ronnie said
"That I can believe that seeing how it took you seven years" Eddie reported to the group
"Sounds juicy, do tell" Owen commented
"Ronnie and Lacey crashed at my house, hell they spent so many nights in the spare room I started to charge them rent" Eddie laughed
"You use to take Lacey to Eddie's so you could….." Nick asked
"They had a room, a bed, usually already drunk when they got there but Ronnie just never could make use of it, I was beginning to think baby bro might be into the fella's"
"We didn't stay at Eddie's so we could have sex, I could have done that all the nights I stayed in her bed…..we just needed a place to crash sometimes" Ronnie explained and the guys were proud of him for his achievement of getting into her bed but less proud that he never did anything
"It's not like I could have anyway with Eddie and some bimbo going at it upstairs like a bunch of stampeding elephants"
"Nahh, Eddie sounds more like a water buffalo with a hyena hanging off it's ass end" Janet replied having overheard some of the conversation when she came to bring them a fresh round since everyone else was tied up. The guy's laughed and Janet appeared to be unfazed.
"Don't recall having heard you complain" Eddie said sheepishly. It was the first time he had ever said anything of the nature to or about Janet in front of the guy's.
"That's because I didn't, nor did I say my ass end" Janet commented as she felt a brush against her and looked dead at Eddie
"My hands were right here" Eddie retorted both hands having been on the table the whole time. Janet didn't believe him and just walked off, again unfazed.
The second Janet was out of hearing distance Sully spoke "Couldn't help myself" the guy's nearly hit the floor as the screamed out their "ooooooooooo's" and chugged more beer
"Hands off old man, just because we aren't together doesn't give you or anyone else the right…." Eddie informed him
"That girls got you wrapped tighter than Whisky Joe's grip on the bottle"
"You think you know everything just because you own a bar" Eddie asked sarcastically
"Tell you what I'll make you a deal, if one of your buddies can prove me wrong, your bar tabs on the house for the next month" Sully bet
"and if they can't"
"I get the pleasure of seeing your face when your realize it" he replied
"HOW"
"I get five questions no more no less and if they can give me an answer that isn't Janet, you win fare and square"
"Go ahead, ask away"
"Name every woman you've ever heard Latekka actually admit he loved" Sully asked pouring him self a shot
"Sorry man, Janet's the only one"
"Name every woman you can remember Latekka bringing as a date to homecoming instead of checking out his options first"
"Janet" Owen chuckled
"How about women he's taken shopping"
"Janet" Nick and Ronnie laughed out
"You two have some big mouths" Eddie fused at them
"Name just one other woman you've ever seen Eddie Latekka kiss" Sully asked
"Eddie's kissed almost every woman in knights Ridge, maybe you should take it easy on that whisky" Nick stated thinking Sully had passed drunk and was on his way to the loony bin
"Buy me a drink Buddy?" Owen joked at Eddie since he felt his tab would be free
Eddie stayed quite, no celebrating for him
"Janet's the only one" Ickey answered as he looked Eddie in the eye
"Okay, both of you need to lay off the boo's" Nick insisted
"Nahhh, Ickey's right, Janet is the only one….think about it" Ronnie said in his fleeting moment of clarity
"I've seen lots of women kiss you, but Janet's the only woman you've ever kissed or kissed back in public, ever and that includes in school" he added slowly and quietly
"Dude, you're more in love with her than even you know" Owen stated
"That's enough, do your little leprechaun dance, I told you so …get it over with" Eddie told him
"Not so fast I've still got another question, but this one's for you"
"Fine" Eddie gave in
"Ronnie's figured it out and he's only like what 16….the guy's laughed and Ronnie protested taking another shot…………you sure your old enough to drink?...oh yeah back to my question……………..who do you want to be the mother of your children" Sully asked but Ickey spoke before Eddie had a chance to refuse to answer
"Speaking of which what is it like having sex with a pregnant woman" Ickey asked Ronnie
"Ask me in a hour maybe I'll be drunk enough to remember" Ronnie mumbled out and Sully toasted him
"Hell, I'm the only one here who hasn't" he added and Eddie got up from the table.
"I got to go"
"Dude, I'm sorry I didn't mean anything by it, I wasn't thinking" Ickey felt horrible
"It's fine, stop apologizing like I'm dying , I just need to take care of something" Eddie explained picking his Jacket up
"Congratulations Baby Bro" Eddie said patting Ronnie on the back then headed out the door to his truck that was parked on the side because it was a crowded night and he got there late
Ronnie replied with his rendition of the Happy Birthday Song. "Call me when you get ready to move" Eddie told him and left
"Dude, what were you thinking" Nick asked with Ronnie still singing
"Ahh leave the boy alone, Latekka didn't leave because of him" Sully ordered
"Then why the sudden need to run" Owen asked
"It's almost nine o'clock" They had managed to get drunk really fast.
"So, what happens at nine, his carriage going to turn back into a pumpkin pulled by little white mice" a intoxicated Ronnie asked
"No, but his Cinderella is going to be beppity boppity booing right out that door for her break" Sully answered holding his own
"Well lets just hope his fairy godmother is hanging around tonight" Owen said with a burp
"More like the evil step sisters" Ickey added when the Lyon twins headed out right behind Eddie