Chapter 19. - Party Preparations -
As Lightning and Sally were talking: Sly drove over to Bane.
"I didn't know you were going to be here." he said "Is everything set for tonight?"
"Yep, I've told everyone the plan." Bane said "Everything is set."
Sly smiled hugely.
"Lightning… don't make any plans for tonight." Sly said "The boys and I have something special planned for you."
"You do?" Lightning said looking shocked "What about Sally?"
"Don't worry about Sally." Tawni said "The girls and I have something planned for her too."
"We're going to celebrate the end of your bachelor-hood." Bane commented "Sounds like the girls are planning the same thing."
"You kids and your parties." Lilly said looking directly at her son "Just don't get crazy or do something illegal."
Sly smiled hugely and gave her his best 'who me' looks.
"I'm not worried." Sly said "My sister and father are attorneys. *Lilly gave him one of those stern looks that only mothers can make.* Ok… I'll be a good boy."
"I need to talk to Lightning." Sally said, driving over to her parents "I'll see you at dinner."
"Ok, Sweetie." her parents said in unison "Go have fun."
Sally drove away from them with Lightning right beside her. The couple settled at a table for two a short distance away.
"Are you hungry?" Sally asked "I've already eaten."
"Yes I am." Lightning said as Sally waved her waitress over "Starving actually."
After placing his order, Lightning saw Sly smiling at him. It was one of those smiles that look like a cat who just swallowed a sparrow. It gave Lightning the chills.
"Your brother is creeping me out." Lightning said "Does he smile like that all the time?"
"That's probably because he has one hell of a bachelor party planned for you. I can only imagine what he has in store." Sally said "I recommend wearing a loose-fitting codpiece, you'll need it."
"Are you sure about this?" Lightning asked "You're not upset with me having a party?"
"No, because I know that Tawni is planning one as well." Sally said "Are you going to be ok with me having a party?"
"Absolutely, fair is fair." Lightning said "Did you hear about my brother?"
"Yeah, Doc told me last night after you went to bed." Sally said "I'm sorry Lightning. You must be really upset."
Lightning shrugged.
"Not really." He said "I mean I could have ended up like him."
"That would not have happened." Sally said "You're a smart car who makes good decisions."
"I do?" Lightning asked, raising an eye ridge "I mean seriously?"
"Well, you do most of the time." Sally giggled "You have a habit of putting your tire in your mouth."
"Yep, and sometimes all of them at once! I think that's why I have a big mouth." Lightning laughed "What are your plans for the day?"
"I don't know. I was waiting to see how you felt." Sally said "If you're not hurting, we can go sightseeing or something."
Lightning saw his parents and sister arrive at the restaurant. Bella and Riley looked tired and stressed out. Merida looked depressed.
"I hope you don't mind." Lightning said "But… can Merida come with us? It will cheer her up and you'll get to know my sister."
"Sure Stickers." Sally said noticing how unhappy his parents and sister looked "The more the merrier."
Lightning responded by giving her a kiss before rushing over to his family. After speaking to them for a few minutes, Sally saw Merida's face light up. Lightning and his family joined Sally at the table. Later: As Lightning, Merida, and Sally headed out of the hotel.
"Well, I'm looking forward to having some fun." Lightning said "How are you feeling Sally?"
"I feel great today." Sally said "Having you here, has made my stress levels go down. So what do you want to do first?"
"I don't know. This is your hometown." Lightning said "So surprise us."
Sally thought for a moment.
"Oh, I know." She said happily "Follow me."
They spent the rest of the morning driving along the Santa Monica Pier and Venice Beach.
"It's very annoying to be followed everywhere." Sally said "I can't even go to the bathroom without someone taking my picture."
"Well, you'll have to get used to it." Lightning said "You're marrying me. Try doing what I do, pretend everyone is naked and they want sex with you."
"Now I know why you're always smiling at them." Sally said "I always thought it was something perverted."
"It is when there's a certain blue Porsche in the crowd." Lightning laughed, winking at her "It's hard giving interviews with a boner."
"Stickers! We're in public!" Sally scolded "Merida, did Light always think about sex when he was growing up?"
"Yep, being horny runs in our family." Merida said "Some days our parents can't keep their tires off each other. I can't tell you how many times I've driven in on them screwing each other. Sometimes right there in the living room."
"I'm not surprised, they always been that way." Lightning said "I just can't imagine mom screaming-Give it up you potbellied stallion!"
"Would you stop, you're embarrassing me." Sally said as her entire front end turned pink "Merida, are you that way too?"
"Yep, but I perfected hiding it." Merida said proudly "I worked with a guy during my last photo shoot. He has a really nice body and what I could see underneath… it was huge. We haven't gone past the talking and flirting stage yet. He's a model too. So I'm hoping we can get together soon."
"Oh really!" Lightning said playfully "What is his make and model?"
"If you must know, he's a Lykin Super Sport." Merida said bashfully "I don't remember his model but I love his coloring…electric blue with black accents. I don't know if that's his natural color or not."
"Uh… ok." Lightning said "What's his name?"
"I'm not going to tell you." Merida responded "I know you, you will hunt him down and harass him."
"Well, ya. I have to give him the 'if you hurt my sister' speech." Lightning said "Super sports are a rare breed, not to mention the flashy paint job, so he should be easy to find."
"I don't think so." Merida said "He changes his coloring as much as I do and there are a lot of Lykins in the world of modeling, so good luck with that."
Merida then stuck her tongue at him and continued driving down the boardwalk. Once they were done driving along the pier, it was almost lunch time.
"I'm getting hungry." Sally said "You guys want some lunch?"
"I would love that." Lightning said "I didn't have a lot for breakfast."
Lightning was happy when Sally led them to Pink's Hot Dogs stand. He ordered four hot dogs, chili fries and a coke.
"Are you that hungry?" Merida asked "That's almost a days' worth of food for me."
"Yes, I'm starving." Lightning said "It's the off season and I can eat what I want. Doc will work it off me in a few months anyway."
"It doesn't mean you have to make a pig out of yourself." Sally said "I hope you remember you have a wedding to look good for."
"Oh, that's right!" Lightning exclaimed "I forget whose wedding we are going to."
"You're such a goof ball." Sally said laughing "Just eat your wiener!"
"I would if I could reach it with my mouth." Lightning said playfully "Then you'll be out of a 'job'."
Merida nearly rolled down a hill because she was laughing so hard.
"You are such a pervert." Sally said, as she caught on to the joke "You and my brother are going to get along great."
After lunch: Lightning got up to throw way the trash. Suddenly, he was mobbed by a group of women. They started touching and groping him. Suddenly, one woman gets knocked away. Merida swung her nunchucks over her roof and in her mechanical hand, she had several Shuriken***. The other women started running away.
"If I see you again." Merida spat "You'll be sorry."
Terrified, the woman got to her tires and raced away too. Luckily, there was not a lot of cars around.
"Come on Light." Merida said "We need to get out of here. Those Bitches might be back."
Sally and Merida helped Lightning to his tires and they slowly drove away. A few miles down the road:
"Stickers, are you ok?" Sally asked "I can call Doc if you need him."
"I'm not in that much pain." Lightning said "We need to go back to the hotel, I forgot to bring my painkillers."
"I was just thinking that." Sally said "We need to rest too; I got a feeling that we are going to have a big night."
"Ok, whatever you say." Lightning commented "Do you really think the parties are going to be wild?"
"Yeah, I know how Sly and Tawni thinks, I don't know who's the bigger pervert." Sally said "What time does your party start? Mine starts at seven."
"I don't know." Lightning said "Nobody has told me."
"I'll call Sly." Sally said as she started dialing, moments later "Be ready at eight, the boys will pick you up."
Sally and Lightning reached his hotel suite. Lightning stretched out on the bed.
"Do you want me to set your alarm?" Sally asked "It'll be a shame if you missed your own bachelor party."
"If you want to, set the alarm for seven thirty." Lightning said as he yawned "I'm tired. I don't think I'll have problems falling asleep."
He reached for the painkillers.
"You should have told me you were in pain." Sally said when she saw him reaching for the medicine "And we forgot to hire bodyguards."
"Most of the time, I wasn't in pain." Lightning said "It was only after I was harassed my axle started bothering me."
Lightning cracked the seal and downed the painkiller all in one swallow. He gagged at the terrible taste.
"They can put cars on the moon." Lightning said "But they can't figure out how to make medicine taste good."
"Quit complaining." Sally said "Do you want it to work? Or do you want it to taste good, you can't have both."
"In my happy little world, I can." Lightning said as Sally fluffed his pillows "I love you."
"Awww, aren't you sweet!" Sally said as she snuggled next to him "Somebody should marry you."
"Yeah, do you know any young, sexy, baby blue Porsches, that own a hotel?" Lightning asked "I'm looking for one."
"How about the one lying next to you?" Sally said "She's crazy about you."
"And I'm crazy about her." Lightning said "Wow, that was easy."
"You wanna make a bet?" Sally asked "I bet you'll come back drunker than I will."
"Sure I'll make that bet with you." Lightning said "What are we going to bet?"
"Wedding night sex." Sally said "Whoever wins gets to be in control."
"Deal." Lightning said shaking her tire "I'm guessing you'll win. I have a drinking problem."
"You don't have a drinking problem." Sally said "You have a peer pressure problem. You can't say no when someone offers you a drink… Besides, I've never seen you abuse alcohol."
"Yeah, you're right." Lightning said "I get carried away sometimes."
Sally turned on the TV and they snuggled together. It wasn't long until Lightning was asleep. Sally quietly left and she headed to her parent's suite. Sally spent rest of the afternoon playing with Charlie.
"The Porsche jean runs strong in our family." Sly said as he watched Sally play with his son "Besides having Hunter's eyes, there's nothing of his mother in him."
"I agree." Sally said "Are you planning to have any more children?"
"Yeah, maybe one more." Sly said "I don't want Charlie growing up without having any little brothers or sisters to pick on. I mean look at all the fun I had."
"Excuse me." Sally said "Which one of us was born first?"
"I was being a gentleman." Sly said "Besides, you would have beaten the crap out of me if I tried to be first."
"That's why my labor and delivery was so painful." Lilly said coming through the door "You kids were slapping each other around."
"Mom." Sally said "You always wanted us to settle our disagreements, so we were."
"Yes, I know but couldn't you waited until after you had been born. I was sore enough without you picking a fight with your brother. Sylvester, where's Charlie?" Lilly asked changing the subject "Your father and I are going to watch him while you go out partying."
"You're not coming with us?" Sally asked "You can…"
"Someone has to watch Charlie." Lilly said "Besides, I'm too old."
"Mom, you're not old." Sly said "I've seen how some of your students look at you. They don't see Dr. Carrera, Professor of Astrophysics, they see a milf. Besides who wouldn't do a horizontal tango with a Porsche? It's usually at the top of every male's wish list."
"Sylvester… stop." Lilly said "Lance is the only man I'm interested in fucking."
"See… he's going balls deep into a Porsche, doesn't matter if he's the same breed, they all want to do it." Sly said "Me, on the other hand, I'm a BMW kinda guy. That's why I fell for Hunter."
"And I know you." Lilly said "You probably ended up in bed with her on the first date."
"Nope, it was the third." Sly said "And I think that she wanted me more than I wanted her. Girls want to shoot the meat rocket into the sausage wallet just as bad as guys to."
Sally mouth popped open in surprise; it was shocking to hear her mother and brother using that kind of language. Lilly saw Sally gaping at her.
"Sally, what's wrong?" Lilly asked "Are you surprised that I still find your father sexually appealing?"
"No…It's that I… haven't." Sally stammered "Heard you openly admit…"
"That I still ride his bologna pony on a regular basis." Lilly cut in "You and Lightning have sex, you should be used to that kind of language by now."
The harsh language didn't have any effect on Sly.
"See what happens when you move away." Sly said "You miss all the interesting conversations."
AN: Shuriken is a Japanese concealed weapon that was used as a hidden dagger or metsubushi to distract or misdirect. Shuriken came in a variety of forms; some were manufactured, while others were improvised from tools. The edges of shuriken were often sharpened, so they could be used to penetrate skin or open arteries.
They are also known as throwing stars or ninja stars, although they were originally designed in many different shapes. Contrary to this nomenclature, the shuriken were not in the arsenal of those who practiced ninjutsu. Modern movies and tales portray ninjas using shuriken, but they were mainly used by samurai and ashigaru soldiers. The major varieties of shuriken are the bō shuriken (棒手裏剣, stick shuriken) and the hira shuriken (平手裏剣, flat shuriken) or shaken (車剣, wheel shuriken, also read as kurumaken). Shuriken were supplementary weapons to the sword or various other weapons in a samurai's arsenal, although they often had an important tactical effect in battle. The art of wielding the shuriken is known as shurikenjutsu and was taught as a minor part of the martial arts curriculum of many famous schools, such as Yagyū Shinkage-ryū, Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū, Ittō-ryū, Kukishin-ryū, and Togakure-ryū.
OMMENTS:
Guest 2 -
Lightning's comedy side makes Sally purr with laughter. Even I feel like I'd wet myself laughing at that.- Sometimes I crack myself up.
At first it surprised me what Merida was drinking til I looked up that Shirley Temple cocktail. It's not alcoholic but it must taste good. Probably something you drink I'm guessing.- Yep. If I do drink, it's usually a strawberry daiquiri… or something like that.
Making Merida jump and spill her drink probably explains that playful punch is her revenge. Merida's looking a bit too low there especially at her brother's manhood!- well it's big and shiny… kinda hard to miss.
Funny when Riley and Lightning got kinky grossing Merida out.- Some men are like that, besides Lightning likes to tease his sister.
Sweet little Charlie's a little shy but he'll warm up to Uncle Lightning soon.- You'll see a lot more of Charlie in the upcoming chapters.
Fine bonding between the friends and family here. A very intense and anger rising mood over Brody's criminal activity there. I know undercover officers are used to seek out criminals better.- Brody could stat out of trouble even if his life depended on it.
I didn't think Merida would cry given how much she hates Brody but I'm guessing it's for what her parents have to deal with. Hope Lightning can cure Merida with brotherly love.- Merida is a sensitive soul, it doesn't take a lot to upset her.
Oh Lightning is cheeky with Doc. I can tell that cheekiness was pointed at Doc's age. Doc's growl though. Oh dear!- Lightning never misses a chance to harass Doc. Most of the time Doc deserves it.
Sounds like Lightning's on fiancee's orders here. That banter with Stuart was classy. Smoking killed my grandparents- I know what you mean. Smoking killed my dad.
I'm not nagging but don't forget to use the idea of Lightning's ocean sapphire eyes making Sally melt and cry.- I'm going to use it a little later in the story.
We know it irritates Doc seeing them make out as well- Yep.
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Please read and review! I need criticism and encouragements! Rated M for language and sex.